Crime
Playas de Tijuana (Mexico) (AFP) - The FBI said on Friday that three bodies were found in Mexico's Baja California state, where two Australians and an American went missing last week during a surfing trip in an area hit by cartel violence. "We confirm there were three individuals found deceased in Santo Tomas, Baja California," a statement from the FBI's office in San Diego, California said without providing identities of the victims. Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter have not been seen since April 27. They were on vacation near the coastal cit...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Federal prosecutors indicted a US congressman Friday on bribery and money laundering charges connected to a bank in Mexico and an energy company owned by Azerbaijan. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, accepted around $600,000 in exchange for advancing the interests of the bank and the former Soviet Republic over seven years through at least November 2021, according to the indictment. "In exchange for the bribes paid by the Azerbaijani oil and gas company, Congressman Cuellar allegedly agreed to use his office to influence US foreign policy in favor of Azerbaijan" the Depa...
AFP
A city councilman in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge for using his chain of vape stores to sell products labeled as containing CBD, a non-psychoactive component of marijuana, though they in fact contained illegal synthetic cannabinoids, authorities said. Knewz.com has learned that Robert Leon Deming III, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. As part of the plea agreement, Deming, a former Biloxi city councilman, agreed t...
Knewz
A city councilman in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge for using his chain of vape stores to sell products labeled as containing CBD, a non-psychoactive component of marijuana, though they in fact contained illegal synthetic cannabinoids, authorities said. Knewz.com has learned that Robert Leon Deming III, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. As part of the plea agreement, Deming, a former Biloxi city councilman, agreed t...
Knewz (CA)
A city councilman in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge for using his chain of vape stores to sell products labeled as containing CBD, a non-psychoactive component of marijuana, though they in fact contained illegal synthetic cannabinoids, authorities said. Knewz.com has learned that Robert Leon Deming III, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. As part of the plea agreement, Deming, a former Biloxi city councilman, agreed t...
Knewz (UK)
One springtime night a decade ago, bearded men wearing flip-flops kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school dormitories in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. They forced the teenagers onto lorries and drove them deep into a vast forest in the savannah. "My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls," says Glory Mainta, who was abducted that day. "We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force us to marry them, what they did to us was worse. We were just managing till God saved us." It was a full two years before one of her fellow stu...
DPA
One springtime night a decade ago, bearded men wearing flip-flops kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school dormitories in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. They forced the teenagers onto lorries and drove them deep into a vast forest in the savannah. "My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls," says Glory Mainta, who was abducted that day. "We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force us to marry them, what they did to us was worse. We were just managing till God saved us." It was a full two years before one of her fellow stu...
DPA International
An internal Finnish Party committee has recommended that MP Timo Vornanen be kicked out of the party's parliamentary group, after he was arrested for his suspected involvement in a shooting incident outside a Helsinki karaoke bar last Friday morning. The suspected shooting incident began around 4am on Friday at the Ihku nightclub in downtown Helsinki, according to the police. The incident occurred as Vornanen and another group of people got into an altercation which culminated in Vornanen producing a small-calibre firearm and firing a shot into the ground outside the venue. Vornanen has argued...
Euronews (English)
A New York woman was arrested on Wednesday, May 1, for allegedly smuggling misbranded weight loss drugs including Ozempic into the U.S. and selling them to her followers on social media. Knewz.com has learned that Isis Navarro Reyes, a.k.a. Beraly Navarro, was arrested Wednesday and charged with receipt of misbranded drugs in interstate commerce, dispensing misbranded drugs while held for sale, conspiracy to introduce and deliver for introduction misbranded drugs in interstate commerce, dispensing of misbranded drugs while held for sale, and smuggling, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office f...
Knewz
A New York woman was arrested on Wednesday, May 1, for allegedly smuggling misbranded weight loss drugs including Ozempic into the U.S. and selling them to her followers on social media. Knewz.com has learned that Isis Navarro Reyes, a.k.a. Beraly Navarro, was arrested Wednesday and charged with receipt of misbranded drugs in interstate commerce, dispensing misbranded drugs while held for sale, conspiracy to introduce and deliver for introduction misbranded drugs in interstate commerce, dispensing of misbranded drugs while held for sale, and smuggling, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office f...
Knewz (UK)
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