MEXICO ( A woman was arrested while trying to smuggle eight undocumented minors into U.S )

Mexican Authorities Arrest Migrant-Trafficker

MEXICO CITY – A woman was arrested while trying to smuggle eight undocumented Honduran minors into the United States, Mexico’s INM immigration agency said Wednesday.

The suspect, Cristela Angelina Garcia Murillo, 45, was detained by INM agents as a result of spot-checks on buses in the northern border state of Chihuahua, the agency said in a statement.

Agents detected the minors as they traveled on two different buses headed toward the U.S. border.

The minors, ranging in age from 8 to 17, initially claimed to be traveling alone, but later identified Garcia Murillo as their guide and said relatives in Honduras had commissioned her to take them to the United States, the INM said.

Garcia Murillo took away their Honduran identifications and provided them with Mexican IDs, the minors told the agents.

The children said their parents were waiting for them in the United States.

Testimony from Honduran minors intercepted in previous operations indicates Garcia Murillo has been in the migrant-trafficking business since at least 2011, the INM said.

Steps are being taken to safely return the eight minors to Honduras, the agency said.

Every year, tens of thousands of Central Americans undertake the journey across Mexico to reach the United States. The trek is a dangerous one, with criminals and corrupt Mexican officials preying on the migrants.

Gangs kidnap, exploit and murder migrants, who are often targeted in extortion schemes, Mexican officials say. EFE

Shark Attack ( Honeymooner killed by shark with wife on beach )

Close EncountersAn Outdoor // Nature Blog

Honeymooner killed by shark with wife on beach

Victim is third surfer fatally attacked in past two years at Reunion Island

May 08, 2013 by Pete Thomas

 

A French surfer on his honeymoon was fatally attacked by a shark Wednesday at Reunion Island, while his wife was nearby on the beach.

Generic image shows surfer riding a wave at Reunion Island. Tiger shark image below, courtesy of Wikipedia, also is generic

The attack occurred at Brisants de Saint-Gilles, a popular surf spot on the west shore of the French-owned island. This marks the first fatal shark attack of the year on Reunion Island, but the third during the past two years.
Lifeguards pulled the 36-year-old surfer to shore after he was charged at least twice by the shark, but he had lost lots of blood and had gone into cardiac and respiratory arrest. He could not be revived.
Agence France-Presse is reporting that the unidentified surfer was bitten on the arm and thigh, and that his wife was being treated for shock.
Last summer two shark attacks, one of them resulting in a fatality, occurred just days apart at Reunion Island, which is located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar.
Sky News reports that after those attacks, surfers called for the closure of a vast marine reserve, which they blamed for an increase in shark encounters. Surfers were critical of the local government for not doing enough to protect swimmers and surfers.
Several studies are underway involving sharks in the area.
The honeymooning couple is from Morteau in eastern France. The species of shark implicated in Wednesday’s attack is not known

COLOMBIA News ( Fake Nuns arrested with- 35 thousand in cocaine- See photos ) Nuns taken to jail

 

San Andres police arrest fake nuns smuggling cocaine

posted by Adriaan Alsema

 

The arrested drug traffickers dressed as nuns (L) and as non-religious narcos

Police on the Colombian Caribbean island of San Andres arrested three fake nuns carrying $35 thousand worth of cocaine under their clothes.
The three suspects, Colombians aged 20, 32 and 37 were arrested at the airport of San Andres as they were trying to enter the island.
All three had hidden two kilos of cocaine under their religious habit.
“They weren’t really religious, they weren’t nuns. On the contrary, they were taking advantage of this situation,” San Andres police commissioner Jorge Gomez told RCN TV.
According to the police official, the drugs — 60,000 doses — had a street value of $35,470 and was likely to be distributed locally.
The fake nuns were taken to the local prison to await trial.

Iran News ( 24 yr old man gets 110 lashes in public - By state security Forces )

Iran: Young man lashed in public

 

Published on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 20:40

Share

File photo

NCRI - The Iranian regime's henchmen have lashed publicly a 24-years-old man at midday Tuesday, in a small town in northern province of Qazvin after being paraded in humiliating manner in a nearby city.

The man received 110 lashes in the main square of the town of Ziaran in the province. The town has around 7,000 inhabitants.
The victim who was only identified with his initials M.S. also was paraded in a nearby city of Abyek before being lashed in public.
Degrading punishments are systematically used in Iran by the State Security Forces in order to embarrass and humiliate the youth in their neighborhood.

BOGOTA Colombia ( Nuns busted with cocaine strapped to their legs ) Fallen from grace

BOGOTA, Colombia -- The nuns' habits didn't seem to be habitual garb for three young women so Colombian police asked them to step aside when they arrived on the Caribbean island of San Andres on a flight from Bogota.

Police Capt. Oscar Davila says the three women appeared nervous, and the fabric didn't look right.
The chief of the island's judicial police says more than four pounds of cocaine (two kilos) was strapped to the legs of each woman. Davila says all three broke into tears and launched into tales of financial hardship.
None of the three is a nun, and all were arrested early Saturday and jailed on drug trafficking charges

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/06/3383783/colombia-cops-fake-nuns-hid-cocaine.html#storylink=cpy

ARIZONA Cop ( Man loses ear after fight with Az deputy sheriff ) Cheating wife

Victim loses ear after AZ deputy assault

Posted: May 7, 2013 8:34 AM
Updated: May 7, 2013 8:36 AM

Rating:

FARGO, N.D. - An Arizona sheriff's deputy accused of driving to North Dakota and assaulting a man who had an affair with his wife has pleaded guilty to felony aggravated assault.

A sentencing date was not immediately set for 41-year-old Timothy Abrahamson, of Glendale, Ariz. He faces up to five years in prison.

Abrahamson was accused of driving to West Fargo last September and confronting Jason Swart in Swart's driveway. Court documents state Swart lost part of an ear in the assault.

The Forum newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/13f8fdo) that Swart was a high school classmate of Abrahamson's wife.

Abrahamson no longer works for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in Arizona.

MEXICO Sinaloa ( Violence spirals out of control in Northern Sinaloa as a new group asserts control )

Violence Spirals Out of Control in Northern Sinaloa

Sunday, May 5, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterBuggs

Posted in Borderland Beat Forum by Siskiyou_Kid

Violence spirals out of control in Northern Sinaloa as a new group asserts control


This narcomanta was left in a Jeep Cherokee with the bodies of 6 victims who were kidnapped on April 8

Written by Adán German for Borderland Beat

La Mochomera, lead by "los Dos Letras", claims Northern Sinaloa
Violence, which is already commonplace in Sinaloa, is reaching new levels of barbarity in Northern Sinaloa as an apparently new group asserts ownership of the plaza.

The horror became apparent with the kidnapping of 6 men from El Fuerte and Juan Jose Rios on April 8. Their bodies were dumped in a Jeep Cherokee SUV on the shoulder of the Mexico highway 15 on April 20. Five of the victims have been identified as Sergio Roberto Valenzuela Aqui, el Checo, Leonard Alberto Romero Aguilar, el Leonard, Luis Rey Ramirez Guerrero, el Pili, Luis Alberto Osorio Valenzuela, el Chuy Poros, and Arturo Andalon Miranda, el Wico.

One of the victims is believed to be a municipal police officer, and they are from Juan Jose Rios, Constancia, Tehueco, and Mochicahui. The narcomanta left with the victims was directed at Ahome police commander Jesus Carrasco Ruiz and his officers.


The 6 men dumped with a Jeep Cherokee on April, 20 were kidnapped on April 8

Former Ahome police commander murdered
The 6 bodies in the Jeep Cherokee were dumped a few days after the murder of former Ahome police commander Nicolas Galaviz Vasquez on April 18. Galaviz was gunned down less than 200 meters from the municipal palace in Los Mochis. He had been accused of complicity in drug dealing and murder during his tenure as one of the police commanders in Ahome.