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Friday, July 26, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
MIAMI U.S Court ( “Queen of the Pacific” Sandra Avila Beltran free " Woman " )
MIAMI – A U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced a Mexican woman known as the “Queen of the Pacific” to time served after she pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to drug trafficking.Sandra Avila Beltran, 52, left Miami’s federal courthouse a free woman, at least technically, though her next destination is an immigration detention center where she will await deportation back to Mexico.
The sentence handed down by the judge – 70 months – is equal to the amount of time Avila has already spent behind bars since her September 2007 arrest in Mexico.
She was facing up to 15 years in prison.
The defendant, clad in a beige prison uniform and with shackles on her ankles, embraced her lawyer after the judge read the sentence.
While happy not to be prison-bound, Avila is sad about the entire experience because she “was never involved in drug trafficking,” defense attorney Stephen Ralls told reporters outside the courthouse.
Under an agreement with federal prosecutors, Avila pleaded guilty in April to having assisted her then-boyfriend, Colombian national Juan Diego Espinosa, between June 2002 and March 2004 as he attempted to evade arrest for drug trafficking.
Though acquitted in Mexico on drug and racketeering charges, Espinosa and Avila were both extradited to the United States.
Avila’s plans now are to return to her family in Guadalajara, Ralls said.
Avila is the niece of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, alias “El Padrino” (The Godfather), who is serving a long prison sentence in Mexico; and grand-niece of Juan Jose Quintero Payan, a co-founder of the Juarez cartel who was sentenced in the United States to 18 years in prison on drug trafficking charges.
The first public mention of the Queen of the Pacific came in a 2004 “narcocorrido,” or drug ballad, by Los Tucanes de Tijuana.
Mexican media have likened Avila to the main character in Spanish writer Arturo Perez-Reverte’s novel “La Reina del Sur” (The Queen of the South), which was subsequently turned into a hit television miniseries. EFE
TUCSON Az ( Grandson arrested in Double murder of elderly couple - 3 suspects in custody )
Posted: Jul 25, 2013 6:47 PM by Brian White
UPDATE (July 25): A grandson has been arrested on murder charges along with two other suspects, Tucson Police said.
Kyle Drattlo, 20, was arrested along with Christopher E. Terry, 23, and Brianna Harding, 21.
The three were arrested in Tonopah, NV driving the car registered under the Fulgham's name.
UPDATE (July 24, 5:27 p.m.): Law enforcement officers located the white Buick sedan that belonged to the Fulghams, who were murdered Monday night in their midtown home.
The 3 occupants of the vehicle were detained for questioning, Tucson Police spokeswoman Sgt. Maria Hawke said, but they were not arrested. The investigation is still ungoing, Hawke added.
UPDATE (July 24, 10 a.m.): Police say that the elderly couple who were found dead Monday night had trauma consistent with homicide and that their vehicle was missing from the scene.
The victims are identitfied as 84-year-old Mary Fulgham and 87-year-old Erskin Fulgham. The couple had a 2004 white Buick sedan with a Arizona Veteran's license plate, Tucson Police spokeswoman Sgt. Maria Hawke said in a release.
Erskin Fulgham was a World War II vet. Here he is on an Honor Flight to Washington.
TUCSON - A Tucson family is dealing with the violent deaths of two loved ones.
Their bodies were discovered Monday evening by a family member in the 46 hundred block of East North Street.
Homicide detectives are on-scene trying to piece together what happened.
The victims are a husband and wife in their eighties.
Police aren't being specific on how they were killed, but say the couple suffered obvious signs of trauma.
Neighbors describe North as a peaceful street. The red brick house, with the awning is now a crime scene.
Neighbor Malory McGurk says, "Well I'm shocked, and frankly scared."
"It's too close to home, I have two kids and a wife," said neighbor Eddie Cordova.
Those who live nearby were visibly upset.
"I could come home and walk into that," said Ken Kasborg, "It's sad, it's disturbing."
Police say for now, it's unclear when the violence occurred.
Sgt. Maria Hawke with the Tucson Police Department says, "It's very early. That is part of the investigation that's one of the things the detectives will be looking into, to determine who was the last person that saw this couple and how long they potentially would have been in the residence."
As for a possible suspect and motive, police are working to narrow down time frames.
"Anybody who may have had access to the home, anybody they may have had contact with and start narrowing down the list of possibilities from there," said Hawke.
Neighbors have a thoughtful message for the family of the deceased.
McGurk says, "I just wish their family the best, and our thoughts and prayers are with them."
Anyone with information, that could help police should call 911 or 88-crime.
Kyle Drattlo, 20, was arrested along with Christopher E. Terry, 23, and Brianna Harding, 21.
The three were arrested in Tonopah, NV driving the car registered under the Fulgham's name.
UPDATE (July 24, 5:27 p.m.): Law enforcement officers located the white Buick sedan that belonged to the Fulghams, who were murdered Monday night in their midtown home.
The 3 occupants of the vehicle were detained for questioning, Tucson Police spokeswoman Sgt. Maria Hawke said, but they were not arrested. The investigation is still ungoing, Hawke added.
UPDATE (July 24, 10 a.m.): Police say that the elderly couple who were found dead Monday night had trauma consistent with homicide and that their vehicle was missing from the scene.
The victims are identitfied as 84-year-old Mary Fulgham and 87-year-old Erskin Fulgham. The couple had a 2004 white Buick sedan with a Arizona Veteran's license plate, Tucson Police spokeswoman Sgt. Maria Hawke said in a release.
Erskin Fulgham was a World War II vet. Here he is on an Honor Flight to Washington.
TUCSON - A Tucson family is dealing with the violent deaths of two loved ones.
Their bodies were discovered Monday evening by a family member in the 46 hundred block of East North Street.
Homicide detectives are on-scene trying to piece together what happened.
The victims are a husband and wife in their eighties.
Police aren't being specific on how they were killed, but say the couple suffered obvious signs of trauma.
Neighbors describe North as a peaceful street. The red brick house, with the awning is now a crime scene.
Neighbor Malory McGurk says, "Well I'm shocked, and frankly scared."
"It's too close to home, I have two kids and a wife," said neighbor Eddie Cordova.
Those who live nearby were visibly upset.
"I could come home and walk into that," said Ken Kasborg, "It's sad, it's disturbing."
Police say for now, it's unclear when the violence occurred.
Sgt. Maria Hawke with the Tucson Police Department says, "It's very early. That is part of the investigation that's one of the things the detectives will be looking into, to determine who was the last person that saw this couple and how long they potentially would have been in the residence."
As for a possible suspect and motive, police are working to narrow down time frames.
"Anybody who may have had access to the home, anybody they may have had contact with and start narrowing down the list of possibilities from there," said Hawke.
Neighbors have a thoughtful message for the family of the deceased.
McGurk says, "I just wish their family the best, and our thoughts and prayers are with them."
Anyone with information, that could help police should call 911 or 88-crime.
Iran ( A musician has been sentenced to 6 months in prison - teaching music without permission ) Omg ?
Posted on: 25th July, 2013
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the third branch of the revolutionary court of Tabriz has sentenced maestro Hassan Damirchi (Mohammad Hassan Har Goli) to 6 months in prison.
Naghi Mahmoudi, the human rights activists said to HRANA: “Judge Hamid Bagherpour has issued this verdict on the basis of proofs like participating in ethnic gatherings in and outside Iran, gathering donations without legal permission, teaching music without permission, communication with separatists in and outside Iran and visiting ethnic prisoners with the aim of appreciating them for their separatist thoughts.”
“None of the evidences the judge mentions in the verdict is a reason for the charge of propaganda against the regime which is stated in article 500 of Islamic punishment laws.” He said.
Hassan Damirchi had been arrested on the same charges several times before.
He had been sentenced to 1 year in prison during the demonstrations in Tabriz in 2006 which were against the insulting cartoon of “Iran” newspaper
Pakistan ( 8 people killed -35 injured - during an attack on the Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency )
ISLAMABAD – Eight people were killed and 35 others wounded in an attack on the regional office of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency in the southern city of Sukkur, media outlets said Thursday.At least four heavily armed attackers fired shots and launched grenades at the complex Wednesday night before detonating an explosives-laden car, the Express Tribune said, citing unnamed officials.
Three ISI personnel and a civilian were killed along with all four assailants, police told the newspaper.
The ISI’s deputy regional director, identified only as Maj. Zeehan, was among the dead, several media outlets said.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif energetically condemned the assault.
Though it plays an important role in Pakistan’s struggle with armed insurgents, Wednesday night’s attack was the most significant mounted against the ISI since 2009, when 34 of its officers died in assaults on the spy agency’s offices in Lahore and Peshawar. EFE
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