Japan ( 4,000 police hunt for rape suspect who escaped from prosecutors office )

 

A massive manhunt was underway in Japan on Wednesday with 4,000 police officers, 850 vehicles, sniffer dogs, helicopters and boats scouring Kawasaki for an escaped rape suspect.

Yuta Sugimoto, 20, was being questioned over claims he was part of a gang that raped and robbed a woman on the streets of Kawasaki on Jan 2.
According to police, Sugimoto was speaking to his lawyer on the sixth floor of the Yokohama District Prosecutors Office building. He asked to use the restroom on the 4th floor. A police officer removed his handcuffs but left a restraint attached to Sugimoto’s waist. In the few short moments when he was not being watched by the officer in charge, Sugimoto slipped from his bindings and escaped the building. The officer gave chase but lost him.
On Wednesday, police said that Sugimoto’s clothes were discovered in the garden of a nearby house.
Police in the area mounted the massive operation when the alarm was raised, flooding the streets with thousands of officers and a huge amount of equipment, the Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported.
Police say Sugimoto was arrested Monday along with another man. The case itself was not going to be made public, but that changed when the suspect vanished, the official said.
Local schools instructed students not to venture out alone. “It is frightening that he is still on the run,” one mother of an elementary school child told Fuji TV.

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Venezuela ( Monica Spear 29 " killed in Venezuela with her husband " )

Police sources reported that the actress Monica Spear , 29 years old , was killed in Venezuela with her husband , the British Thomas Henry Berry.
The assassination of former Miss Venezuela was perpetrated on the Puerto Cabello- Valencia motorway 's central Carabobo state after 10:00 pm on Monday in an apparent robbery attempt. Globovision and private broadcasters Radio Union argued that the couple allegedly resisted a robbery.According to reports , the actress , her husband, and their daughter were shot when the three were waiting to be helped into the Toyota, 2002, in which they were traveling and stopped apparently by a technical malfunction . Both died at the scene .Media reports indicate that his daughter was gunshot wound in the leg. The actress was in Venezuela on vacation.Spear was the mother of a girl named Maya, five years.Her last novel was " Forbidden Passion " , which premiered on Telemundo in January 2013 and in which she starred alongside actor Jencarlos Canela and Rebecca Jones. The novel, which was recorded in Miami, came to a head when Bianca, the character played Spear, takes her own life .Spear was born in 1984 in the city of Maracaibo, Zulia state capital ( northwest) , won the beauty pageant Miss Venezuela in 2004 and the following year took part in the Miss Universe in Bangkok , Thailand , staying as fourth among the finalists .After that was done and actress participated in several soap operas , including " My cousin Ciela ", " Calle Luna , Calle Sol ", " The Perfect Woman ", " Wild Flower " and " Forbidden Passion " .Venezuela is one of the most violent countries in the world with 39 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the said last week Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez figures to rebut the NGO Venezuelan Observatory of Violence ( SVO ) which increased the rate to 79 per 100,000 inhabitantsRead more: http://www.elblogdelnarco.net/2014/01/matan-la-ex-miss-venezuela-la-actriz.html # ixzz2ppPFDgfaFollow us : @ MundoNarco on Twitter

Mexico ( Cop killed in raid of " Knights Templar " ) Drug Wars

Pakistan ( Woman awaiting " Execution " on false accusations of blasphemy ) Sharia law

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Imprisoned Pakistani Catholic Asia Bibi writes to Pope Francis saying only God can free her

Asia Bibi is in prison awaiting execution on false accusations of blasphemy. Only God can free her because Christians in the West don't dare to speak out on her behalf: "Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims." -- Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013
So Asia Bibi and other Pakistani Christians accused of blasphemy have no friend, no protector, and no spokesman.
"Imprisoned Pakistani Catholic Asia Bibi Writes to Pope Francis Saying Only God Can Free Her," by Jeremy Reynalds for Assist News, January 4:

According to an article in the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines News Service (CBCP News) relying on a Dec. 31 report in the Italian daily Tempi, Asia Bibi said, "I also hope that every Christian has been able to celebrate the Christmas just past with joy. Like many other prisoners, I also celebrated the birth of the Lord in prison in Multan, here in Pakistan." She continued by saying that "only God will be able to free me" and made a point of thanking the 'Renaissance Education Foundation" that helped make her "dream come true" to live Christmas with her husband and children by bringing them to Multan.
"I would have liked to be in St. Peter's for Christmas to pray with you," she told Pope Francis, "but I trust in God's plan for me and hopefully it will be achieved next year."
Bibi is awaiting the conclusion of an appeals process after being incarcerated for four and a half years without trial.
Working as a farmhand in June 2009, she was asked to fetch water for some of her co-workers. She complied, but some of her Muslim colleagues refused to drink the water as they considered Christians to be "unclean."
CBCP News said arguments followed (there was already a running feud between Bibi and a neighbor over property damage), and witnesses maintain that Bibi verbally abused the two women, their religion, and the prophet Muhammad.
A few days later, complaints were made to a cleric about these alleged derogatory comments, resulting in a mob coming to her house and beating her and members of her family.
Bibi was rescued by the police but, under pressure from the crowd, they charged her under Section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code, the country's notorious anti-blasphemy law.
"I am very grateful to all the churches that are praying for me and fighting for my freedom," CBCP News said she continued in the letter.
Bibi added, "I do not know how long I can go on and on. If I am still alive, it is thanks to the strength that your prayers give me. I have met many people who speak and fight for me. Unfortunately still to no avail. At this time I just want to trust the mercy of God, who can do everything, that all is possible. Only He can liberate me."
Bibi was also grateful to all the people who work and raise funds for her cause. She then talked about her daily hardships.
"This winter I am facing many problems: my cell has no heating and no suitable door for shelter from the bitter cold," CBCP News said she told the Pope. "Also the security measures are not adequate, I do not have enough money for daily needs, and I am very far from Lahore so my family cannot help me."
She concluded by asking Pope Francis to accept her best wishes for the new year. "I know you pray for me with all your heart," she wrote. "And this gives me confidence that one day my freedom will be possible. Certain to be remembered in your prayers, I greet you with affection. Asia Bibi, your daughter in the faith."

Pakistan ( Taliban kill 6 men " While they pray at Holy place " ) Sharia Law ????

KARACHI: The bodies of six men with their throats slit have been found near a holy place on the outskirts of Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, police said Tuesday.
The corpses were lying near the grave of Ayub Shah Bukhari Three of the dead worked at the same place while the others were frequent visitors.


Police said a note reading “Stop visiting shrines — from the Pakistani Taliban” was found at the scene along with a bloodstained knife.
In one of the bloodiest episodes, at least 50 people were killed in April 2011 in a suicide attack on a shrine in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan.
But senior police officer Amir Farooqi voiced caution over the note, said that he would not draw any conclusions until further investigation.
Police have detained some suspects and sent the bloodstained knife for forensic tests.
Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub, has been plagued for years by ethnic, political, sectarian and criminal violence.

ISTANBUL ( Corruption investigation " 1700 cops fired " in Turkey )

ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government purged hundreds of police officers overnight, media said, as part of a crackdown on a rival he accuses of trying to usurp state power by tarring him with a specious corruption investigation.
Some of the officers, who included members of the financial and organized crime, smuggling and anti-terrorism units, were moved to traffic duties, according to the reports. Ankara police, chief focus of the action, declined to comment.

Despite the dismissals, among them senior commanders, police and prosecutors continued arrests, which on Tuesday targeted the state railway company and a western port.
Erdogan, facing the biggest challenge of an 11-year rule that has seen the army banished from politics, the economy booming and Ankara pressing its role in the Middle East, portrays the raids and arrests as a “dirty plot” by a cleric. The cleric backs no political party but exercises broad, if covert, influence in police and judiciary.
Details of accusations have not been made public, but are believed to relate to corruption in construction and real estate projects and Turkey’s gold trade with Iran, according to Turkish newspaper reports citing prosecutors’ documents. Prominent business people, the sons of three cabinet ministers and state officials are among those detained for questioning.
The government has hit back by sacking or reassigning hundreds of police across the country since the crisis broke with a day of raids and arrests on Dec. 17.
A second investigation into large infrastructure projects championed by Erdogan, including a rail tunnel beneath the Bosphorus strait linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, has been blocked by government.
Around 350 officers in Ankara, including members of the financial and organized crime, smuggling and anti-terrorism units, were dismissed or reassigned overnight to new roles including traffic or district duties, the media reports said.
According to the Hurriyet daily, some 1,700 police have been dismissed or reassigned in Istanbul and Ankara alone since the corruption investigations became public.
Some would have been directly linked to the inquiries, while others may have been removed because of links to the Hizmet (Service) movement of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen Erdogan now describes as an intolerable “state within a state.”
Prosecutors meanwhile deepened their investigations, with at least 25 more people including public officials detained as part of an investigation into the activities of a port in the Aegean province of Izmir, broadcaster CNN Turk said.
Eight officials from the state railway company TCDD were among those detained in the raids, the company said in a statement, denying reports its headquarters had been searched.

ARIZONA Justice ( Steven Seagal and Joe Arpaio Want to Make Arizona No. 1 for Vigilante Justice ) Wild West

Even Steven Seagal thought the idea of him running for governor of Arizona was "kind of a joke." At first. But now, the actor wants the world to know that he's inching towards taking the idea seriously, prompted by encouragement from his pal, the infamous Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Seagal, you see, is part of Arpaio's celebrity "posse" of tough guys who support the sheriff's tough (and probably unconstitutional!) ideas for targeting undocumented immigrants in the state. Since Arpaio is pretty busy running Maricopa County, Seagal could be just the thing the sheriff needs to take his policies state-wide. 

Maybe. Seagal's comment that he would "remotely consider" a run for governor come as the aging ponytail makes the rounds to promote his new reality show: Steven Seagal - Lawman: Maricopa County (The Lost Episodes). This combination of political teasing and reality show promotion (we'll call it "Trumping") could very well amount to nothing. But the reality series itself already documents the sort of encouragement Arpaio's thrown Seagal's way. With cameras following along, the actor "trained" the sheriff's deputies in martial arts and marksmanship, and tagged along to a number of the sheriff's media-friendly raids. Now the pair are friends, and Seagal has moved his base of operations to Arizona in order to help fight against "open borders." When discussing Arizona law enforcement, Seagal now speaks in the first person plural. Here's what he told ABC15 last week: