Iran- Crackdown on Kurdish people in Iran

Fuziyeh and Avat Hosseinzadeh, a Kurdish sister and brother, were arrested on February 28 by agents of Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) plainclothes squad in Saghez, western Iran, and transferred to an unknown location.
The charges raised against these two Iranian Kurds were cooperation with a Kurdish groups opposing the Iranian regime.
Fuziyeh 25 and her brother, Avat, 28 were severely beaten during the arrest and the agents also confiscated their personal properties. 
To this day there are no information as to their whereabouts of this brother and sister.

Iran - Man in prison no charges or due process

Following the arrest of Mehran Amini, resident of a villages near the city of Sanandaj, western Iran, the authorities have been lip tight as to his condition or his exact whereabouts. Efforts in to establishing his charges or condition from Sanandaj security officials has fallen into deaf ears.
While no reasons have been provided for why this Kurdish citizen has been arrested, his relatives have cited “propaganda against the state” being the probable reason. Amini was at his father’s home when arrested by Sanandaj intelligence agents. He was beaten during the arrest.
The presence of these agents in the home of Amini’s father took place without any prior notice or judicial order.

Juarez ,Mexico - Baghdad across the border " 65 cop's killed in the last year".

 By early Sunday, 11 more residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, had been slain in a 20-hour period, including the sixth police officer killed this year in growing drug cartel violence. More than 65 police officers have been murdered in the border city of 1.4 million in the past year. Too often, U.S. and Mexican media have been AWOL from coverage.

As if by accident, I learned today that even the Juarez Mayor is living not in Mexico, but across the fence here in the United States and commuting to his office in Chihuahua State.

I hadn't intended in doing a follow up to my Juarez narco crime spree story of three days ago, since the killings, mutilated bodies, taunting death notes, and random street crime is not only ignored on the USA side of the border for the most part, but since my syndicated outrage here and my personal blog garnered a grand total of one reader response.

After reading a litany of new crimes, police helicopter assaults, city hall epithets, and carjackings in the local Spanish-language daily El Diario, and relating the stories - all buried inside the hefty Saturday edition (in contrast to dwindling U.S. dailies) - my wife egged me on. She said, "You have to tell it again. Maybe something written by an outsider to this area for whom these events are still shocking, will shake some sense into some authorities, somewhere." Since she was a darned good police reporter and feature writer in her day, I'll try again.

The overall decline in traditional journalistic coverage of Juarez events makes me wonder if the entire city, or the entire "Borderland" region is locked up by chamber of commerce interests. It's as if when you don't report it, it never happened.

$2.75M pot load seized at Mariposa port

Port officers in Nogales seized $2.75 million worth of marijuana from a tractor-trailer this week, their third bust of more than a million dollars worth of pot so far this year.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a 29-year-old male truck driver from Nogales, Sonora tried to the enter the United States though the Mariposa Port of Entry on Feb. 24 with a shipment identified as assorted electronic items.

Nogales -Verdict in child kidnapping case: guilty on all counts

A 12-member jury found a Nogales man guilty of 22 charges stemming from a child kidnapping incident in which he allegedly tried to ply two boys with drugs and pornography in exchange for sex.

Following a 10-day criminal trial at Santa Cruz County Superior Court, Vincent Simon Simpson, 27, was found guilty of two counts of kidnapping, eight counts of luring a minor for sexual exploitation, eight counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor, two counts for furnishing obscene materials to minors, and two counts for the transfer of drugs to a minor.

After deliberating all morning, the jury – eight women and four men – delivered its verdict Thursday afternoon.

Fetus found among sewage at plant in Rio Rico

An employee at the Nogales International Waste Water Treatment Plant in Rio Rico made a ghastly discovery on Friday afternoon when he spotted a fetus believed to have come through a sewer pipe.

“It was about the size of a hand,” said Sheriff Antonio Estrada. “One can’t help but wonder about the mother. What were her circumstances? What was her level of desperation? Could this have been a miscarriage?”

None of that may ever be known, Estrada said in a telephone interview on Sunday.

Store Owner Pulls Gun On Armed Robber