NCRI - State Security Forces in Tehran have arrested 74 'thugs' in Tehran as part of the ongoing crackdown ahead of the June presidential election.
Greater Tehran's State Security Security commander Hossein Sajedinia told the state-run ISNA state-run news agency on May 16: "In a joint operation between Tehran's security forces and police the accused were first identified and then arrested. "Expert police agents have arrested 74 thugs in the past 24 hours and turned them in to the judicial system.
Sajedinia said that 'thugs' were arrested in a 12-stage plan last year, and so far 150 people had been arrested in two stages of the security plan.
Meanwhile, 26 youths have also been arrested in Ahvaz on May 14 during raids on private homes. It is not known where the accused are being held.
The arrests are all part of a pre-election clampdown by paranoid rulers who fear a mass public uprising during the election in June.
Fewer Immigrants Dying on Arizona Border From Oct. 1
through May 1, 64 migrants died while trying to sneak across the border into the
United States, down from 101 during the same period of fiscal 2012, according to
official figures
TUCSON, Arizona –
Deaths of undocumented immigrants in the Arizona desert are down 36 percent in
the 2013 fiscal year, the U.S. Border Patrol said.
From Oct. 1 through
May 1, 64 migrants died while trying to sneak across the border into the United
States, down from 101 during the same period of fiscal 2012, according to
official figures.
“The deaths have gone down, but as temperatures begin
to rise in the desert, the dangers increase,” Andres Adame, spokesman for the
Border Patrol Tucson Sector, told Efe.
The most recent fatality was last
Saturday.
Border Patrol agents responded to a call about someone’s being
lost in the desert near the village of Tres Puntos. When they reached the scene,
they found one migrant alive and another, dead.
The survivor told the
agents that the other man had fallen ill and been abandoned by the “coyote” they
paid to guide them across the desert.
Agents in the Tucson Sector, which
includes 90 percent of the Arizona-Mexico border, have carried out 203
successful rescues in the desert so far in fiscal 2013, 27 more than at the same
point in fiscal 2012, when the number of rescues reached a record
634.
“That tells us this summer could be terrible for the migrants,”
Adame said.
Daytime temperatures in the Arizona desert are already
hovering around 100 F.
Heat, however, is not the only danger.
“We
have seen an increase in the number of cases of robbery, of women raped,” Adame
said, attributing the phenomenon to a takeover of migrant smuggling by organized
crime.
Formerly, he said, most “coyotes” were men and women who lived in
the border region.
“The dad, the mom and the kids dedicated themselves to
the business of bringing immigrants across. Everybody was involved, it was a
family business. But later we see a change when the drug cartels got involved,”
Adame said.
For the cartels, migrants are merchandise, not human beings,
he said.
Instead of men “making a little money for their families,” the
coyotes are now “criminals who make a lot of money,” Adame said. EFE
Editor's note: the following is a release from Tucson Police. Three people were stung by bees this morning with one male patient being transported to a local hospital in stable condition. Of the three people involved, one was stung once and the other two were stung an estimated ten to twenty times. Tucson Fire crews responded after a worker at a local business called 911 to report that someone had been attacked by bees. Units arrived dressed in protective gear and found the swarm still in the area. Crews were notified that there was still someone hiding under a blanket near the swarm and made their way through the bees to remove the individual. Fire crews advised all businesses in the area to stay inside while they searched for the hive. Firefighters located the hive in an abandoned shed on an open lot. Due to the fact that life safety was an issue the bees were exterminated with foam. Tucson Fire recommends that citizens contact a professional bee service to remove all non-aggressive hives
KABUL – Six
NATO personnel were among at least a dozen people killed Thursday in a suicide
attack targeting a military convoy in the Afghan capital, officials
said.
Two uniformed military personnel and four civilian advisers died,
the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said.
ISAF did not
specify the nationalities of the dead, but the Pentagon and Virginia-based
DynCorp International independently identified the NATO fatalities as two U.S.
soldiers and four security contractors.
The attacker rammed an
explosives-laden car into the convoy, Kabul provincial police chief Mohammad
Ayub Salangi said.
He said the dead include two Afghan children, while
around 30 other people were injured and a dozen homes damaged by the powerful
explosion.
Hizb-e-Islami, a Muslim fundamentalist faction led by Afghan
warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said it was behind the blast.
“We are
responsible for this attack,” Hizb-e-Islam spokesman Zubai Seddiqi told
Efe.
The bulk of the ISAF troops are due to be withdrawn from Afghanistan
by the end of 2014. EFE
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HOUSTON – A citizen of the Dominican
Republic was arrested at the airport last Saturday for allegedly importing
cocaine by ingesting 53 pellets of the drug, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth
Magidson, Southern District of Texas.
The investigation leading to these
charges was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP).
Mikkail Antonio Nolasco Jimenez, 27, was arrested at Bush
Intercontinental Airport (IAH) after it was determined he had allegedly ingested
53 pellets containing cocaine.
The criminal complaint filed Tuesday
alleges that on May 11 Jimenez arrived aboard a flight from Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago bound for New York. HSI special agents became suspicious
when Jimenez provided inconsistent statements. Upon further investigation, they
discovered anomalies in his body resembling pellets believed to contain a
controlled substance. Jimenez was then transported and admitted to an area
hospital.
Jimenez allegedly expelled a total of 53 pellets, containing a
substance that field tested positive for cocaine, according to the
complaint.
Jimenez made his initial appearance on Tuesday before U.S
Magistrate Judge Stephen William Smith, at which time he was ordered into
custody pending a Thursday detention hearing.
Upon conviction, Jimenez
faces a mandatory minimum of five and up to 40 years in prison each for
importing cocaine, and conspiracy to import cocaine.
Assistant U.S.
Attorney Stuart A. Burns, Southern District of Texas, is prosecuting the
case.
A criminal complaint is a formal accusation of criminal conduct,
not evidence. A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted through due
process of law.