TUCSON - Six, 7-week-old puppies were abandoned in the Tucson desert with no food or water in a cardboard box, Humane Society officials said.
A person found the puppies while geocaching in the area, a release stated.
One of the puppies was dead, while the rest were dehydrated and lethargic. The geocaching man brought all six pups to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona, but another died shortly after arrival.
The remaining 4 dogs are recovering and will be ready for adoption after their health is restored.
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
Police have an arrest warrant for one of three suspects involved in a homicide earlier this month.
Cassandra Salaz, 36, is wanted for 1st Degree Murder.
Salaz and two others entered the victim's home in the 200 block of S. Campbell Avenue. They confronted the victim, who was then shot and killed, police say.
Anyone with information on the location of Cassandra Salaz is urged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.
A dog that belongs to a relative of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords attacked and killed a sea lion Saturday along the shoreline in Laguna Beach, police said.
The violent attack, which shows Giffords' stepdaughter and husband trying to remove the canine from the limp sea mammal as the surf rolls in, can be seen on a YouTube video sent to The Times. (Editor's note: The video features graphic images and curse words.)
Laguna Beach police received a call at 2 p.m. and arrived to find that the 65-pound American bulldog mix had broken free from its 18-year-old owner and attacked a beached sea lion on a public beach below the Montage Laguna Beach, a luxury hotel, Capt. Jason Kravetz said in an email.
The video taken by a local resident shows Giffords' daughter struggling to free the sea lion. Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, appears later in the video, running down and pulling the dog off the sea lion, both police and a senior advisor to Giffords confirmed.
Kelly and Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, are vacationing with family in Laguna Beach.
Kelly brought the dog back to the house where the family is staying and crated the dog in the basement before meeting with police, Jen Bluestein, senior advisor for Americans for Responsible Solutions, a political action committee started by Giffords and Kelly, said in an email.
Giffords was not present at the scene at Goff Island Beach and has no connection to the dog, she added.
The dog lives with the stepdaughter in Houston; Giffords and Kelly live in Tucson.
Police did not cite the owner "because it was legal for her to have the dog on the beach this time of year, and she did have it leashed. It was so strong that it pulled free of her when it saw the [sea lion]," Kravetz said.
It's illegal for an owner to knowingly sick a dog on marine life.
"That wasn't the case in this situation," Kravetz said.
The sea lion died from its injuries and has been removed from Aliso Creek, where it had beached itself and was possibly ill.
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Uruapan, Michoacan. - Early Saturday morning, motorists circulating about Paseo Lázaro Cárdenas, reported to police that on the roundabout, "Glorieta de la Pepsi, were sevendead, male bodies, hands tied, seated in white plastic chairs. The rotary (traffic circle) is nearest the corner of Calle Niza, between the neighborhoods of Joyita and Los Viveros, in the vicinity of the Pepsi bottling plant. They were executed with a final gunshot to their heads, cartulinas lay on their chests.Two of victims had messages nailed to their bodies with icepicks.
Cartulinas said, "Warning, this is going to happen to all muggers, pickpockets, thieves of cars, homes and pedestrians, kidnappers, rapists and extortionists."
The deceased are between the ages of 25 and 30 years, though one reportedly looked closer to 40. Some victims had tattoos and wore cholo type clothes, similar to what's worn by those who are often engaged in cleaning cars' windshields and asking for change from motorists according to reports.
MORELIA, Mexico –
Five Federal Police officers and 14 other people died in attacks staged by
suspected drug traffickers in the western Mexican states of Guerrero and
Michoacan, a Federal Police spokesman said.
A group of Federal Police
officers and soldiers were attacked while unarmed and off duty Friday night at
the Las Vegas bar in Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, the police spokesman
said.
Five officers and three other patrons died in the attack, and three
officers were wounded.
Four people were gunned down in Coyuca de Catalan,
a city in the mountains near Ciudad Altamirano.
Different drug cartels
operate in Guerrero and Michoacan, using the mountains and rivers in the states
to move illegal drugs.
The bodies of seven men who had been tortured and
murdered were found Saturday in Uruapan, the second-largest city in Michoacan,
state prosecutors said.
A message accusing the men of involvement in
burglaries was left near the bodies.
The Caballeros Templarios cartel is
among the gangs that operate in Michoacan.
The drug trafficking
organization was founded in March 2011 by former members of the La Familia
Michoacana organization and deals in both synthetic drugs and natural
drugs.
The cartel has been fighting rival gangs for control of turf and
smuggling routes in Guerrero and Michoacan states, both of which are located on
the Pacific.
Michoacan’s forests and mountains are used by drug
traffickers to grow marijuana and produce synthetic drugs.
Both La
Familia Michoacana and Los Caballeros Templarios are known for hanging banners
in the region proclaiming themselves to be crime fighters.
The two
criminal organizations are involved in kidnappings, extortion rackets, contract
murders and smuggling drugs into the United States, federal and state
prosecutors said.
The war on drugs launched by former President Felipe
Calderon, who was in office from 2006 to 2012, left about 70,000 people dead in
Mexico, officials say.
Calderon deployed thousands of soldiers and
Federal Police officers across the country to fight drug cartels, which
infiltrated many state and municipal police departments.
Mexican press
tallies estimated that about 12,000 people died in violent incidents linked to
organized crime groups in 2012.
A total of 1,104 people died in violent
incidents in Mexico in January, the government said.
Some 914
drug-related murders occurred in Mexico in February, the government said in a
recent report.
More than 3,100 people have been killed in drug-related
violence since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office on Dec. 1.
My son may have been guilty, admits mother of dead Delhi 'rapist'
The mother of the alleged ring leader of the notorious Delhi gang-rape has
admitted he may have been guilty, as he told her he tried to hide evidence of
the attack.
The mother of Ram Singh cries
after speaking to journalists about her son's death.Photo: AP
Ram Singh, who was found hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail where he and his
brother Mukesh were in custody earlier this month, was on the bus where a
23-year-old student was gang-raped and mutilated.
His mother Kalyani Devi and her husband Mangelal Singh believe he was
murdered after weeks of being raped and tortured by police and prison guards.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Ms Devi said her late son
had confessed to being on the bus at the time of the gang-rape, to destroying
the evidence the following day, and spoke of her anguish at the thought of him
being guilty of one of India's most notorious recent crimes.
"As a mother I can't believe it, but it could be true," she said. "It's the
worst thing a mother could ever imagine of her children. We always want them to
prosper and grow in a positive way. It's shocking for us that they got involved
in this. I do not know what they did, but we are in a terrible state because of
the allegations."
Five adults and a 17-year-old juvenile were charged with the gang rape and
murder, which provoked protests throughout India, demanding police and
government action to halt a significant increase in sexual assaults on women,
but the focus has been on the role played by Ms Devi's two sons Ram Singh and
Mukesh.
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MORELIA, Mexico –
Five Federal Police officers and 14 other people died in attacks staged by
suspected drug traffickers in the western Mexican states of Guerrero and
Michoacan, a Federal Police spokesman said.
