Guerrero Mexico ( 14 killed in bar - 5 federal police officers )

Gunmen Kill 5 Police Officers, 14 Civilians in Western Mexico
A group of Federal Police officers and soldiers were attacked while unarmed and off duty Friday night at the Las Vegas bar in Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, authorities said

MORELIA, Mexico – Five Federal Police officers and 14 other people died in attacks staged by suspected drug traffickers in the western Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan, a Federal Police spokesman said.

A group of Federal Police officers and soldiers were attacked while unarmed and off duty Friday night at the Las Vegas bar in Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, the police spokesman said.

Five officers and three other patrons died in the attack, and three officers were wounded.

Four people were gunned down in Coyuca de Catalan, a city in the mountains near Ciudad Altamirano.

Different drug cartels operate in Guerrero and Michoacan, using the mountains and rivers in the states to move illegal drugs.

The bodies of seven men who had been tortured and murdered were found Saturday in Uruapan, the second-largest city in Michoacan, state prosecutors said.

A message accusing the men of involvement in burglaries was left near the bodies.

The Caballeros Templarios cartel is among the gangs that operate in Michoacan.

The drug trafficking organization was founded in March 2011 by former members of the La Familia Michoacana organization 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 located on the Pacific.

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

Both La Familia Michoacana and Los Caballeros Templarios are known for hanging banners in the region proclaiming themselves to be crime fighters.

The two criminal organizations are involved in kidnappings, extortion rackets, contract murders and smuggling drugs into the United States, federal and state prosecutors said.

The war on drugs launched by former President Felipe Calderon, who was in office from 2006 to 2012, left about 70,000 people dead in Mexico, officials say.

Calderon deployed thousands of soldiers and Federal Police officers across the country to fight drug cartels, which infiltrated many state and municipal police departments.

Mexican press tallies estimated that about 12,000 people died in violent incidents linked to organized crime groups in 2012.

A total of 1,104 people died in violent incidents in Mexico in January, the government said.

Some 914 drug-related murders occurred in Mexico in February, the government said in a recent report.

More than 3,100 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office on Dec. 1.

India rape suspect ( Found dead hanging in jail cell- Mother said he was raped by police and killed in jail )

My son may have been guilty, admits mother of dead Delhi 'rapist'

The mother of the alleged ring leader of the notorious Delhi gang-rape has admitted he may have been guilty, as he told her he tried to hide evidence of the attack.

The mother of Ram Singh cries after speaking to journalists about her son's death. Photo: AP

By Dean Nelson, New Delhi

9:58PM GMT 24 Mar 2013

Ram Singh, who was found hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail where he and his brother Mukesh were in custody earlier this month, was on the bus where a 23-year-old student was gang-raped and mutilated.

His mother Kalyani Devi and her husband Mangelal Singh believe he was murdered after weeks of being raped and tortured by police and prison guards.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Ms Devi said her late son had confessed to being on the bus at the time of the gang-rape, to destroying the evidence the following day, and spoke of her anguish at the thought of him being guilty of one of India's most notorious recent crimes.

"As a mother I can't believe it, but it could be true," she said. "It's the worst thing a mother could ever imagine of her children. We always want them to prosper and grow in a positive way. It's shocking for us that they got involved in this. I do not know what they did, but we are in a terrible state because of the allegations."

Five adults and a 17-year-old juvenile were charged with the gang rape and murder, which provoked protests throughout India, demanding police and government action to halt a significant increase in sexual assaults on women, but the focus has been on the role played by Ms Devi's two sons Ram Singh and Mukesh.

Massachusetts ( Teen gets 2 yrs in prison for texting and killing someone in crash )

A Massachusetts teen faces prison time and other repercussions after killing someone while texting and driving.

Teen Sentenced to Prison for Texting-While-Driving Death

Harsh punishment is warning to others not to text and drive.

By: Jena Kehoe

Web2Carz Staff Writer

Published: June 11th, 2012

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Massachusetts teenager was sentenced this week to two years in prison and loss of his license for 15 years after being convicted of motor vehicle homicide. Aaron Deveau, 18, is the first driver in the state to face such charges. On February 20, 2011, Deveau was driving and his vehicle swerved across the center line, crashing head on into Daniel Bowley's truck, causing life-ending injuries.
Bowley, a 55-year-old father of three, sustained massive head trauma from the accident and spent 18 days in a Boston hospital before passing away. Deveau pleaded not guilty to texting while driving, and claimed in his testimony that he was distracted by the amount of homework he had and had sent his last text message in the parking lot of the grocery store where he worked. He said he had left the phone on the passenger's seat the whole time, but phone records showed that Devea sent a text message at 2:34 p.m. and received a response at 2:35 p.m.—the time of the crash.

Texting while driving is a crime in 38 states, but the illegality doesn't seem to deter many people, as watching rush-hour traffic can seem like watching bumper cars as people drift in and out of lane lines.

District Court Judge Stephen Abany said that the maximum sentence for motor vehicle homicide was doled out to send a message of deterrence to the state's drivers.
Deterrence "really seems to come to play in this case. People really want to be safe on the highways," he said. People need to "keep their eyes on the road."
David Teater, senior director of the transportation initiative at the National Safety Council, agreed with the ruling.
"People can violate these laws and there really isn't much of a deterrence without examples like this. Clearly, being distracted is an extremely deadly thing that's going on in this country and people need to understand they just can't do it," Teater said.
Texting while driving is a crime in 38 states, but the illegality doesn't seem to deter many people, as watching rush-hour traffic can seem like watching bumper cars as people drift in and out of lane lines.
"This is a threat that did not exist just a few years ago, and we've never had to understand how being connected to a mobile world was dangerous," Teater said. "Unfortunately, now the way we're beginning to understand the danger of it is by people getting hurt and dying. And that needs to change."

World Series poker news ( " Fossilman " busted in prostitution sting )

Former World Series of Poker winner busted in prostitution sting

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A former winner of the World Series of Poker was arrested in a male prostitution sting at a North Carolina hotel earlier this week, reports WTVD, a Raleigh-Durham, N.C. television station.
A Wake Forest Police Department spokesperson said Greg Raymer was one of six men who went to the hotel when they responded to an advertisement posted by undercover police on a website often used by prostitutes.
Raymer, 48, who is nicknamed “Fossilman” and known for wearing lizard-eye hologram glasses during poker events, won the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.

“The locations prostitutes choose for this type of criminal activity vary and seldom remain the same for more than a couple of days at a time, which makes enforcement difficult,” Police Chief Jeffrey Leonard said in a statement. “In this instance, we conducted the operation at a local hotel with its full cooperation. We are not aware of this type of criminal activity ever occurring at the hotel. Our officers selected the hotel for the undercover operation at random.”

Bond for the men was set at $1,000 and they due to appear in court on April 18.

Human Rights Iraq - ( Woman in prison tells story of being raped over and over -punishment )

Maliki's Iraq: Rape, executions and torture

Iraq is wracked by detentions, torture, and executions, and fingers are pointing at Prime Minister Maliki. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 19 Mar 2013 14:41 inShare3 Email Print Share Feedback

Untold numbers of Iraqis have been detained by the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which is also accused by human rights organisations of ongoing torture [GALLO/GETTY]

Baghdad - Heba al-Shamary (name changed for security reasons) was released last week from an Iraqi prison where she spent the last four years. "I was tortured and raped repeatedly by the Iraqi security forces," she told Al Jazeera. "I want to tell the world what I and other Iraqi women in prison have had to go through these last years. It has been a hell." Heba was charged with terrorism, a fate faced by many Iraqis who are detained by security forces. "I now want to explain to people what is occurring in the prisons that [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki and his gangs are running," Heba added. "I was raped over and over again, I was kicked and beaten and insulted and spit upon." Heba's story, horrific as it is, unfortunately is but one example of what a recent report from Amnesty International refers to as "a grim cycle of human rights abuses" in Iraq today. The report, "Iraq: Still paying a high price after a decade of abuses", exposes a long chronology of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees committed by Iraqi security forces, as well as by foreign troops, in the wake of the US-led 2003 invasion. One Iraqi woman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said her nephew was first detained when he was just 18. Held under the infamous Article Four which gives the government the ability to arrest anyone "suspected" of terrorism, he was charged with terrorism. She told, in detail, of how her nephew was treated: "They beat him with metal pipes, used harsh curse words and swore against his sect and his Allah (because he is Sunni) and why God was not helping him, and that they would bring up the prisoners' mothers and sisters to rape them," she explained to Al Jazeera. "Then they used electricity to burn different places of his body. They took all his cloths off in winter and left them naked out in the yard to freeze." Her nephew, who was released after four years imprisonment after the Iraqi appeals court deemed him innocent, was then arrested 10 days after his release, again under Article 4. This law gives the government of Prime Minister Maliki broad license to detain Iraqis. Article four and other laws provide the government the ability to impose the death penalty for nearly 50 crimes, including terrorism, kidnapping, and murder, but also for offenses such as damage to public property. While her nephew was free, he informed his aunt of how he and other detainees were tortured.

CAIRO ( Egyptians drag Muslim brotherhood supporter through street )

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's political groups blamed one another on Saturday for one of the year's worst bouts of violence between supporters and opponents of the president's Muslim Brotherhood group.

The powerful Brotherhood said it holds the opposition partly responsible for giving "political cover" to "thugs" who attacked and beat hundreds of the group's members outside its Cairo headquarters.

Opposition groups said President Mohammed Morsi is to blame. They accuse Morsi of polarizing the country and of failing to provide stability nine months after being elected in the country's first free presidential race.

Egypt is reeling from a number of crises, including a diesel shortage that has crippled life for millions, an economic downturn, widespread poverty and a lack of security. The interior ministry, which oversees police, has lost much of its powers since the uprising and many policemen are striking for better pay and protesting what they say is the politicization of the force under Morsi.

Leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on Twitter that the violence is due to the regime's failure to address root causes of anger.

Protesters vented their frustrations Friday at the doorstep of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails. He is a member of the group's political party. Since the fall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, the Brotherhood has emerged as the most organized political group, winning all elections at the ballot box.

The violence outside of the Brotherhood's headquarters in the sprawling Cairo neighborhood of Muqattam led to around 175 hospitalizations, including around two dozen serious injuries.

Six Brotherhood offices were also ransacked Friday in different governorates. At least one of the offices was torched, while others were broken into and had computers stolen. Ten of the group's buses were torched after protesters suspected Brotherhood members had been ferried to the site of the clashes.

Mexico City ( 18 women rescued from Sex traffickers in Mexico )

18 Women Rescued from Sex Traffickers in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Authorities rescued 18 women who were being forced to work as prostitutes in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico’s interior ministry said Friday.

Eight people, including two women, were arrested in connection with the forced prostitution scheme and three vehicles were seized.

The trafficking victims, five of them Central American migrants, told authorities they were abducted, held incommunicado and forced to render sexual services.

Once rescued, the 18 women were taken to a shelter where they received medical and psychological attention in accord with the protocol for treatment of sex-trafficking victims, the interior ministry said.

In a separate operation, Chiapas police and the federal INM migration agency detained 41 undocumented migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

The migrants were discovered inside a vehicle during a police stop in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital. EFE