San LUIS Arizona ( A man was busted with 10 pounds of Meth duct taped to his body )

 Posted: Jul 24, 2013 4:55 PM by Brian White  

 

 

SAN LUIS, AZ - A man and woman from Somerton are accused of trying to smuggle more than 10 pounds of methamphetamine into southern Arizona by strapping the drugs to their bodies.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Port of San Luis say 20-year-old Briayan Efrain B. Ramirez-Garcia and 20-year-old Melissa Lopez Delgado were arrested Tuesday.

Authorities say the two were trying to cross the border in a sedan when they were selected for additional inspection.

During a pat-down search, officers found them both to be concealing methamphetamine on their bodies.

They say Delgado had the meth packaged around her thighs while Ramirez-Garcia had it wrapped around his waist, thighs and calves.

The meth had an estimated value of $157,000.

The drugs and vehicle were seized, and Delgado and Ramirez-Garcia were arrested.

TUCSON Az ( Vehicle found in double homicide in Nevada - Suspects in it detained )

 Posted: Jul 24, 2013 8:49 PM by Associated Press
Updated: Jul 25, 2013 2:24 AM     

 

 

TUCSON (AP) - Authorities say the vehicle of an elderly married couple found dead in their Tucson home has been located in Nevada.

Tucson police say the sedan was found Wednesday in Tonopah and the occupants are detained and being interviewed, but there are no arrests at this time.
Police say the bodies of 87-year-old Erskin Fulgham and 84-year-old Mary Fulgham were discovered Tuesday in their midtown Tucson home and had "obvious signs of trauma."
Their white 2004 Buick sedan bearing an Arizona veterans license plate wasn't at the residence when officers responded to a 911 call made by a relative

CAIRO ( 3 Terrorists " Car Bomb " went off before they could drop it off at the spot ) They were killed

CAIRO – At least three alleged terrorists died Wednesday when the vehicle in which they were riding blew up near the city of Al Arish in the northern part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a security official told Efe.

The official said that the men were driving a car packed with explosives and that the blast occurred south of Al Arish.

Meanwhile, security sources cited by the state-run news agency Mena said that the car probably detonated before the presumed terrorists arrived at the site where they were going to stage an attack.

A few hours earlier, a member of the security forces was shot to death by a sniper at a border checkpoint south of Al Arish.

The incidents coincide with a speech by army chief Gen. Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, who asked Egyptians to hold a demonstration on Friday to show support for the armed forces and the police in eradicating violence and terrorism.

For months, the Sinai has been the scene of attacks and sabotage by armed men and Bedouins, and these incidents have increased after the July 3 military coup that deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The army and the police on June 30 began a series of operations against armed groups in the Sinai coinciding with the huge protests against the then-president. EFE

MEXICO ( Ex Mayor - of the State of Oaxaca - was arrested for faking his Death )

MEXICO CITY – A politician who was elected mayor of a city in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca earlier this month has been arrested for faking his death in 2010 to avoid prosecution, officials said Wednesday.

Raymundo Carballido was arrested Tuesday night at a house owned by his family in a city near Oaxaca city, the state capital, and faces numerous charges, the Oaxaca state Attorney General’s Office said.

Carballido faked his death three years ago to avoid being detained on an arrest warrant issued for a rape he allegedly committed in 2004.

A judge issued the arrest warrant on Oct. 12, 2010, but an AG’s office agent told the court a week later that the politician had died while in “a diabetic coma,” closing the case against him.

Carballido, however, filed to run in the mayoral race in the city of San Agustin Amatengo and his victory was covered by the media, alerting authorities that he was alive.

Investigators began tracking Carballido and a judge issued an arrest warrant on various charges, including making false statements and using a false document.

Carballido, who ran on the ticket of the coalition formed by the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, and the Workers Party, won nearly 50 percent of the vote in the July 7 elections. EFE

Mexico MORELIA ( Gun battle leaves 22 Dead - 20 cartel members and 2 cops dead )

Attacks on Police Leave 22 Dead in Mexico
Gunmen on the payroll of the Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel staged six attacks Tuesday on officers patrolling highways in the state, a high-level Federal Police commander said

MORELIA, Mexico – At least 20 suspected drug traffickers and two law enforcement agents were killed in a series of attacks on Federal Police officers in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, officials said.

Gunmen on the payroll of the Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel staged six attacks Tuesday on officers patrolling highways in the state, a high-level Federal Police commander told Efe.

“We are talking about attacks that were planned ahead of time, in which individuals armed with rifles hiding in the hills participated, as well as having roads blocked with buses and other vehicles,” the Mexican National Security Commission said.

Fifteen Federal Police officers were wounded in the attacks, officials said.

One of the attacks took place on the highway that links Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, to the Pacific coast, and two other attacks were staged on the road that connects the cities of Tumbiscatio and Arteaga.

Three attacks were carried out in the cities of Aguililla, Mugica and Aquila.

Vehicles were used to block the highway that links Morelia to the coast and the road that connects the coastal highway to the city of Apatzingan, the main base of the Caballeros Templarios, officials said.

Drug traffickers torched several vehicles.

At least five people were killed and eight others wounded when gunmen suspected of being on the Caballeros Templarios’s payroll opened fire Monday on about 200 members of a self-defense group protesting police corruption in Los Reyes, a city in Michoacan.

Residents of the cities of Coalcoman, Buenavista Tomatlan, Los Reyes, Tepalcapetec and Aquila took up arms on Feb. 24 against Los Caballeros Templarios.

The Caballeros Templarios, La Familia Michoacana and Jalisco Nueva Generacion drug cartels have been fighting for control of Michoacan.

The gangs have been battling each other, as well as new armed vigilante groups that call themselves “community police forces,” in different cities and towns.

The Caballeros Templarios gang was founded in March 2011 by former members of La Familia Michoacana 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 on the Pacific.

Michoacan’s forests and mountains are used by drug traffickers to grow marijuana and produce synthetic drugs.

Los Caballeros Templarios is suspected of carrying out murders, staging kidnappings and running extortion rackets that target business owners and transport companies in Michoacan’s 113 municipalities, officials said. EFE

CHINA ( Chinese Government try's to " Destroy one Man's Dream " ) Liu Jianfeng

Video: A Chinese journalist's inside view of censorship

Journalist Liu Jianfeng worked in China’s state-controlled media for nearly two decades. Eventually, frustration with the system and pressure from his colleagues prompted him to quit. He continues to report on public issues such as land grabs, and hopes to find a new model for investigative journalism in China. Jonah Kessel reports. (11:10)

YEMEN ( Abdulelah Shaea freed after three years in Yemeni jail ) Journalist

 

Abdulelah Hider Shaea smiles after being released from jail. (Reuters/Farouq al-Sharani)

New York, July 24, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release on Tuesday of Yemeni freelance journalist Abdulelah Hider Shaea, who had been imprisoned for almost three years on anti-state charges.
Shaea was released yesterday after President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi issued a pardon, which also stipulated that the journalist could not leave Sana'a, the capital, for two years, state news agency Saba and other news sources reported.

Shaea, who was arrested in August 2010, was sentenced in January 2011 to five years in prison for "belonging to an illegal armed organization" and "recruiting young people, including foreigners, to the organization by communicating with them via the Internet," according to news reports. CPJ and others said the charges appeared to have been lodged in retaliation for his coverage of extremist groups and the Yemeni government's security practices.
Shaea had been critical of Yemen's counterterrorism policies, according to CPJ research. Using his tribal affiliation to gain access, he conducted several interviews with senior members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In December 2009, Shaea interviewed the U.S.-born militant Anwar Awlaki for ABC News, according to news reports. Awlaki was killed in a September 2011 U.S. drone attack.
"We are relieved that Abdulelah Hider Shaea has been released, but it comes after three years of imprisonment," said CPJ's Middle East and North Africa Coordinator Sherif Mansour. "His reporting on Al-Qaeda was unjustly conflated with working for Al-Qaeda. Shaea should be allowed to continue working as a journalist without fear of harassment or imprisonment."
Hadi told U.N. officials in May that he planned to release Shaea, but it was unclear until Tuesday whether he would uphold that promise. In February 2011, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh pardoned Shaea, but withdrew the pardon after U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concern over his release, news reports said. The United States, through the National Security Council spokesman, expressed disappointment about Shaea's release on Tuesday.
CPJ had repeatedly called for the immediate release of Shaea, the only Yemeni journalist included in CPJ's annual prison census last year.