MEXICO (Prosecutor along with 6 others killed in Guatemala )

Prosecutor killed in Guatemala along with 6 others

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Posted: 12/24/2012 12:24:22 PM MST

GUATEMALA CITY—Guatemala's attorney general dispatched a special team Monday to investigate the slaying of a federal prosecutor and six other people in an attack near the Mexican border. Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz said she was sending prosecutors and investigators to the area of northern Guatemala where Irma Yolanda Olivares, who worked in one of the prosecutor's regional officers, was slain along with an official working for a government social service agency and five others on Sunday night. President Otto Perez Molina blamed the attack on drug traffickers, who have taken over swathes of territory along the border with Mexico. The Interior Ministry said that a group of armed, masked men had intercepted the sport-utility vehicle carrying Olivares and three other passengers, who were returning from the inauguration of a hotel in the city of La Mesilla. The attackers opened fire, then burned the victims' bodies, officials said. Three other people were found fatally shot and burned in another vehicle nearby, official said. Officials were not immediately able to determine the identities of the three or whether they were killed by the same attackers, said Ricardo Guzman, sub-secretary general in the prosecutor's office. "The death of a member of the attorney general's team is a serious attack against the institution and against the work done by each prosecutor's office to fight impunity in this country," Paz said.

NEW YORK ( Man steals 7 yr old girls puppy dog- Christmas eve ) See photo

Video: Christmas Shopping Rush Dognapper

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A dognapper snatched a pet pooch from a New York City street as a little girl and her family were finishing up their holiday shopping.
The Christmas Eve crime happened in daylight and was captured on surveillance video. A man can be seen in the video approaching Marley, a King Charles Spaniel, who was waiting patiently for his owners outside a Manhattan shop.
The man brazenly unhooked Marley’s leash, scooped the dog into his arms and walked away.
“Who would do this? It’s Christmas Eve! Tomorrow’s Christmas morning.” Mia Bendrat told WABC-TV on Monday.
The family is hoping for a Christmas miracle. Police have taken a copy of the surveillance video and the Bendrats have canvassed their Washington Heights neighborhood with flyers.
“He’s really fluffy and he’s so adorable that I can’t even trim my tree without him,” Bendrat said. “It’s like so hard to be without him.”

MEXICO ( Juarez police officer killed christmas eve dinner - Fight with wife )

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CIUDAD JUAREZ — A Juárez police officer was killed Monday night, shot dead during Christmas Eve dinner. Authorities say it all started when Agent Ricardo Escobar Haro got into an argument with his wife. He allegedly went and grabbed his gun, and the two started fighting over it. That's when the weapon allegedly went off and hit Haro, killing the 30 year-old officer. Meanwhile, police are also investigating a murder in South Juarez. A badly burned body was found in an old city dump in the Colonia Panfilo Natera. Police are still trying to identify the victim, but believe he is a male.

MEXICO ( Juarez police officers arrested for torture and making man swallow bullets )

Juárez police officers allegedly force man to swallow bullets

By Marisela Ortega Lozano / El Paso Timeselpasotimes.com

Posted: 12/24/2012 10:40:43 AM MST

Three Juárez police officers were arrested last week on charges of torture, aggravated sexual abuse and misuse of authority, all in connection to the alleged mistreatment of two men in their custody, Chihuahua General's Office in Juárez said. One of the police officers allegedly forced one of the men to swallow several bullets, according to state officials. While the men were arrested on Friday, the alleged incident took place March 6 in north Juárez after the officers stopped two men were riding a motorcycle around Norzagary Ave. and Arroyo del Mimbre Street, just a few yards from El Paso. According to state prosecutors, the three police officers stopped the men on a routine check and then they called the two men names and beat them. The police officers, prosecutors said, took both men to the former Juvenile Detention Center nearby. Once there, the alleged victims were gagged and blindfolded while being beaten up by the officers, state officials said. One of the police officers reportedly forced one of the victims to swallow several bullets after the man allegedly refused to kill his friend. Both detainees were severely beaten in order to get them to confess that they were in possession of several drugs, prosecutors said. The police officers went on beating their victims and covered them with alcohol. The officers eventually took the victims to jail on public disturbance charges, state officials said. Once in jail, one of the victims suffered several seizures and when he was taken to the hospital doctors discovered several bullets inside his stomach.
The officers were taken to Cereso prison and are awaiting an arraignment. Marisela Ortega Lozano maybe reached at mortega@elpasotimes.com; 542-6077.

KABUL afghanistan ( police women - of the middle east ) See photo's

KABUL, Afghanistan  — The policewoman who killed an American contractor in Kabul is a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but no known links to militants, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

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The policewoman, identified as Sgt. Nargas, shot 49-year-old Joseph Griffin, of Mansfield, Georgia, on Monday, in the first such shooting by a woman in a spate of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies.

Nargas walked into a heavily-guarded compound in the heart of Kabul, confronted Griffin and gunned him down with a single pistol bullet.

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The U.S-based security firm DynCorp International said on its website that Griffin was a U.S. military veteran who earlier worked with law enforcement agencies in the United States. In Kabul, he was under contract to the NATO military command to advise the Afghan police force.

DETROIT ( Black truck pulls up to dump body - No he dumps 5 foot alligator ) Flee's area

It was kind of a big deal last June when Detroit Police found two alligators living in an apartment. Apparently, gators as pets is kind of trend because eastside resident Shontez Gibson witnessed someone dumping a five-foot alligator in a vacant lot Thursday night.
They're always so cute when they're little. Then they grow up and become ferocious man-eating animals.
According to WDIV, Gibson and his uncle rescued the gator--pretty brave considering gators aren't exactly the friendliest of animals. They cared for the gator until the Humane Society could pick it up.

WDIV: "A black truck pulled up, they got out and I thought they was dumping a body," said Shontez Gibson, who helped rescue the exotic animal. "So, I told my uncle. My uncle said, 'Come on, let's go see.' My uncle chased the truck up the street and they stopped, so my uncle ran back. And when we got back in the field I said, 'No, it's an alligator.'"
Gibson placed the alligator in its own room with a space heater to help warm it up. He said he fed it fish.

Seriously, people, next time you want to get an alligator as a pet, consider a kitten instead. -- JTW

Rebecca Zahau Case ( Rebecca told Coronado police she thought Dina Shacknai was going to kill her) Cover up

Coronado Patch (comment) hints to corruption with the Coronado Police Chief and San Diego County Sheriff ?

Ann

4:07 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012

When there is a death and a possiblity of it being a homicide, all the people around that person is interrogated and given a poly. SO, why wasn't Nina or Dina given the same since they were spotted in front of the mansion that night by a witness? Was Adam interrogated?

Rebecca told Coronado police she thought Dina was going to kill her?

Lipp

6:20 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012

Several people told investigators that Rebecca had told them months before her death that she thought Dina Shacknai was crazy and she was afraid what Dina was capable of. Then there is also the statement from CPD that Rebecca stated she thought Dina was going to kill her. Yet to the bought investigators this was not relevant information. Neither Dina or Nina took a polygraph, give DNA samples, were positively alibied at the time of Rebecca's murder.
Though Jonah Shacknai does not openly support Dina's mud slinging he has also done nothing in support of finding truth in either case. That is most likely because he was well aware what Dina had planned but did nothing to stop it.