Iran news in brief, 24 June 2015

Colombian Navy Seizes Almost 3 Tons of Cocaine from Submarine

BOGOTA – The Colombian navy seized almost 3 tons of cocaine hidden aboard a small submarine with a four-man crew, which was detected in the Pacific Ocean heading for the border area between Guatemala and Mexico, officials said Tuesday.

Combined investigations by the navy, police and U.S. naval units spotted the drug-traffickers’ sub as it set sail from Sanquianga National Park in the southwestern Colombian province of Nariño, an official communique said.

With the aid of the United States Coast Guard, the 11-meter-long (36-foot-long) by 1-meter-wide (3¼-foot) wide submarine was intercepted in international waters and was found to be carrying 2.8 tons of cocaine.

The part of Nariño from where the small submarine sailed is a stronghold of the Daniel Aldana mobile column of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which according to the navy collects huge sums of money from drug-traffickers for permission to ship their narcotics through the region, from the inland jungles to the Pacific Ocean.

The four crew members of the sub detained in international waters were handed over to U.S. authorities, the report said

Mexico - man murdered inside restaurant ( drug wars )

A man was killed by at least four bullets, one in the head, inside the restaurant Miguelito's. 

Located next to the market Bodega Aurrera, in the area of ​​Santa Fe, the afternoon of Thursday, June 18. The victim approximately 35 years was carried out by subjects who left abandoned after the crime meters later a car Honda Civic white, to flee on foot. 

Unofficial data suggest that the deceased brought tucked 9 mm caliber gun and cash. These figures have not been confirmed by the authority. At present, members of the municipal police carried out an operation by land and air to give the suspects. 

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Mexico - Cartel hit on a " 9 yr old boy " ???

"Pantera" says the order had come from somewhere chief square. No one knows who, but how murdered.

A nine year old boy that he must have been commissioned. Nobody kills a little kid on their own, because that is punishable with the death of the gunman and any member of your family. That can almost swear it was a given in a moment of anger order.

He had touched him, but "Pantera" -23 years, thin, shaved head, then "donkey" [charge of moving drugs from one point to another] Los Zetas with aspirations vice sicario- was going to Morelos instead to be in his home in Tezontle, Hidalgo.

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DNA Found in Upstate New York Cabin Is from Escaped Murderers

NEW YORK – DNA tests performed on items found at an upstate New York hunting cabin came back positive for the two convicted murderers who escaped from prison two weeks ago, the local press reported Monday.

Forensic evidence found at the cabin – located 24 km (15 mi.) from the prison – indicates that the two convicts had been at the cabin within the last 48 hours. Authorities found prison-issue underwear belonging to one of the two men at the site, according to investigators cited by The New York Times.

David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the Clinton penitentiary near the Canadian border on the night of June 5-6, and since then hundreds of local, state and federal police have been searching for them.

The cabin is located in Mountain View, a forested and remote area, and the finding of items linked to the two men there brings the focus of the search back to the vicinity of the prison after on the weekend authorities had expanded the search area to more than 480 square kilometers (185 square miles).

New York State Police Maj. Charles Guess said Monday at a press conference that unspecified items were recovered at the hunting cabin and sent to a laboratory for DNA testing, but he did not confirm at the time whether or not the results came back positive.

Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole for killing a sheriff’s deputy in 2002, and Matt, 48, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for kidnapping and killing his former boss in 1997.

The pair fled the prison after breaching the walls of their cells and moving through a tunnel and internal passageways until they came to a sewage pipe that led outside the facility.

On June 12, a female prison staffer admitted to police that she had helped the two inmates with their escape whereupon she was arrested and is facing multiple charges and a maximum prison term of seven years.

Joyce Mitchell, 51, confessed to investigators that she offered the two prisoners access to a cell phone and smuggled tools to them, as well as making efforts to have a vehicle ready for them to use when they escaped.

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10 Bodies Found in Mexican Resort City

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Authorities found the bodies of seven men and three women in clandestine graves in this Pacific resort city, the attorney general of the southern state of Guerrero said Monday.

The remains were distributed among seven different graves on a single street in the Colonia Olimpica neighborhood, Miguel Angel Godinez told reporters.

Police, who were alerted to the presence of the bodies by an anonymous telephone tip, located the graves with the help of cadaver dogs, the attorney general said.

State, municipal and federal security forces cordoned off the street and barred media access.

Even as police were uncovering the bodies in Colonia Olimpica, five people died in separate violent incidents across the greater Acapulco area.

Before dawn, one man was found slain in the Miguel Aleman neighborhood and two other males were gunned down, while an incident during the afternoon left two people dead and another wounded.

Guerrero, which has long been plagued by organized crime, was rocked last September by the abduction and apparent murder of 43 students from a rural teachers college.