Juan Carlos Eguino Orduno
(Courtesy U.S. Border Patro)
U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped a
convicted murderer trying to illegally enter the United States on a snowy
Thursday in El Paso.
Officials said agents arrested Juan Carlos Eguino Orduno, 40, during a failed
attempt to cross the border near Downtown El Paso.
An identification system check found that Eguino had served time in prison
after being convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in Santa Fe,
officials said.
In a separate case Thursday, Border Patrol agents seized 25 pounds of
methamphetamine found hidden in a vehicle stopped at the Interstate 10
checkpoint near Las Cruces, officials said. The vehicle's driver was arrested.
The driver's name was not released.
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Authorities report that a group of gunmen attacked a rehabilitation center in the Coahuila city of Torreón, leaving one dead and three injured.
The Laguna delegation of the Attorney General of the State said that about 7:45 am on Monday, a group of armed men burst into “Oasis” the rehabilitation center for addiction, located on Rodríguez Triana Boulevard, in the colonia “las Julitetas”.
The gunmen opened fire on the patients, subsequently leaving one dead, an unidentified person, about 30 years old, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in his chest. The three injured were identified with names: Jose Mena Eleno Alvarado, 58, who is treated at a local hospital for gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest, Carlos Alvarado Mena, 39, injured by a bullet in the knee and Pedro Rivas Palacios, 31, who was wounded in the left side of the torso..
Just last June, gunmen killed eleven people in the Torreón center called "“Tu Vida Sobre La Roca AC”.
Kim Chang-geun holds a knife after he stabbed himself in the stomach during a rally at Gimpo Airport in Seoul on Friday.REUTERS
SEOUL —
A member of a South Korean anti-Japan civic group stabbed himself in the stomach during a rally at Gimpo Airport in Seoul on Friday. Kim Chang-geun, 57, bleeding from the stomach, was led away by police.
The rally was held to denounce Japan’s conservative new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and demand an official apology for Japan’s war crimes during World War II. The group was at the airport to protest the arrival of Abe’s special envoy, veteran lawmaker and former finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, who will meet South Korea’s President-elect Park Geun-hye later in the day.
“As both Japan and South Korea have new governments, I would like to play the role of mediator so that this year can be a good one for the two countries,” Nukaga told reporters at the airport.
“Prime Minister Abe believes that Japan-South Korea relations need to be solid for the stability of East Asia,” he said. “I want to convey that message.”
Abe, who took office late December, had planned to send the envoy earlier but the dispatch was delayed due to Park’s tight schedule, according to local media.
The territorial row flared last year following a surprise visit by South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to the Dokdo islands, known by Japan as Takeshima.
It quickly degenerated into a familiar confrontation over attitudes to shared history, with Seoul accusing its former colonial ruler Tokyo of not being contrite enough for its wartime behavior.
Tokyo hopes the dispatch will help lead to a fresh start under the countries’ new leaders, and as North Korea’s successful rocket launch last month renews regional security concerns.
In possession of 74,917 pills In possession of 20,050 ampullas of heroin
Iran Human Rights, January 3: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Yasouj (southern Iran) yesterday January 2.
According to the Iranian state media, the prisoner who was not identified by name, was convicted of possession and trafficking of 20050 ampullas containing heroin and 74917 psychotropic pills.
Last week five prisoners were hanged publiclyin the city of Yasouj.
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed a key Taliban commander, his deputy and eight others in northwest Pakistan, intelligence sources and tribal leaders said Thursday, deaths that could substantially alter the power balance in the Taliban heartland of Waziristan.
Maulvi Nazir Wazir, also known as Mullah Nazir, was killed on Wednesday night when missiles struck a mud house in South Waziristan, near the Afghan border, intelligence sources and residents said.
He had survived at least one previous drone attack and was wounded weeks earlier in a bomb attack believed to have been launched by Taliban rivals.
His key commanders and his deputy, Ratta Khan, were also killed in the attack at Angoor Adda, near the provincial capital of Wana, sources said.
Nazir had expelled foreign militants from his area, favored attacking American forces in Afghanistan and had signed non-aggression pacts with the Pakistani military in 2007 in 2009. That put him at odds with some other Pakistan Taliban commanders, but earned him a reputation as a "good" Taliban among some in the Pakistan military.
Lone wolf " Hits Mark "
Nazir's successor was announced in front of a crowd of thousands at his funeral, a witness said. People will be watching closely to see if fellow Wazir tribesman Salahud Din Ayubi continues with Nazir's policies.
The military has a large base in Wana, where Nazir and his men were based. Nazir presided over an uneasy peace between the militants and the army there, but the truce was endangered by the military's alliance with the United States and drone strikes, a military officer said recently.
"The (drone) program is making things very difficult for us. Nazir is the sole remaining major militant leader willing to be an ally," he said.
"If he decides to side with (Pakistan Taliban leader) Hakimullah, thousands of fighters will come to the frontlines against the Pakistani military. It is in our interest to keep him neutral, if not on our side, because then we can direct our resources against anti-state militants with much greater efficiency."
New Mexico politician Gary Smith behind bars for stalking after tire-slashing arrest
The accused serial slasher was spotted idling outside Janice Arnold-Jones' home on New Year's Day, two weeks after he was caught on tape vandalizing her car, police said. Others, including Smith's former campaign manager, also accuse the one-time Congress hopeful of slashing their tires.
Former candidate for Congress, Gary Smith, faces felony vandalism and stalking charges.
A one-time congressional candidate accused of slashing a former opponent’s tires has been arrested for stalking, police said.
Janice Arnold-Jones spotted Gary Smith idling in his car outside her home on New Year’s Day, two weeks after she’d caught him on video vandalizing her car, Detective Lorenzo Garcia of the Albuquerque Police Department told the Daily News.
“When he told me, ‘Oh, I have never been there before, and I just wanted to see what the residence looked like,’ I don’t buy that for a second,” Garcia said.
“His intentions couldn’t have been good.”
Smith was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault.
Last year, he faced Arnold-Jones in the Republican primary for New Mexico’s District 1 congressional seat. Arnold-Jones secured the nomination, but failed to win the general election.
›› FBI's Ten Most Wanted
A 37-year-old Mexican citizen who may be in the El Paso-Juarez border region
has joined the list of the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives - wanted in
connection with the sexual assault and murder of one woman and the sexual
assault of a second woman in Chicago.
"Fidel Urbina is wanted for allegedly beating and raping a woman in March of
1998," the FBI said in a statement. "While out on bond, he also allegedly beat,
raped and strangled a second woman to death in October of 1998. Her body was
later found in the trunk of a vehicle that had been burned. Both crimes occurred
in Chicago, Illinois."
Officials said Urbina, who has relatives in Chicago, could be in the state of
Durango, Mexico, or in Juárez, Chihuahua.
Telemundo in Chicago reported that U.S. authorities are concentrating their
search for Urbina in the Juárez area.
Urbina is wanted on suspicion of first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping,
unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, aggravated sexual assault and failure to
appear, the FBI said.
The law enforcement agency is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for
information leading to Urbina's arrest.
Officials said Urbina has scars on his right cheek, had used numerous
aliases, including the nickname "Tonorio."
He is between 5-feet-11 inches to 6-feet-1 inch tall, weighs 165to 175 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes.
Tips may be submitted online at https://tips.fbi.gov, or by telephone at
312-421-6700.
Diana Washington Valdez may be reached at dvaldez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6140.
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