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Tegucigalpa (AFP) - Three Americans and a Honduran were ordered detained on Thursday in a sex trafficking case that shocked the country, following the disappearance of a university student in 2022 while jet-skiing in a popular tourist area. "The judge has issued a formal indictment and the precautionary measure of preventive detention for (US citizens) Harold Joseph Green and William James Murdock," spokeswoman Barbara Castillo of the court in Tegucigalpa told reporters. The hearing also ordered the prosecution and preventive imprisonment of Gary Lee Johnston and Ramon Trejo for "association ...
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Miami (AFP) - Disney reached a settlement with Florida tourism authorities Wednesday after a row over its pushback against Governor Ron DeSantis's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill, which aimed to outlaw teachings of certain LGBTQ issues in schools. The entertainment giant took legal action after Florida's lawmakers revoked a unique arrangement which allowed Disney -- the state's largest private employer -- to control development on a chunk of land home to its city-sized theme park. The cancellation was widely seen as retaliation by DeSantis, a former Republican presidential candidate, after Disn...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The trial of a rancher accused of killing a Mexican migrant on his property in Arizona began Friday, as tensions mount in the United States over an inflow of migrants across the southern border. George Alan Kelly, 75, is charged with second-degree murder for the death of Mexican Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, 48, on his property in the border town of Nogales in January 2023. During opening arguments Friday in a southern Arizona courtroom, the rancher's defense attorneys claimed that Kelly was eating lunch that day when he saw a group of men walking on his land with backpacks and ri...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - French-Polish director Roman Polanski, who fled the US more than four decades ago after being convicted of sexually assaulting a child, will face a civil trial over the alleged rape of another minor years earlier, the woman's lawyer said Tuesday. The case against the director of "The Pianist" will be heard in Los Angeles in August 2025, said Gloria Allred, a Hollywood lawyer who has represented victims of rapist Harvey Weinstein and others who emerged in the #MeToo era. While Polanski cannot be forced to attend the trial, said Allred, the civil hearing will be a chance for ...
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Miami (AFP) - A US court on Friday sentenced a Haitian-American man to life in prison for his role in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021. Joseph Vincent, 58, a former informant for the US drug enforcement agency, appeared in federal court in Miami, Florida for his sentencing, two months after pleading guilty to taking part in the assassination. Vincent had admitted to discussing the plot and then accompanying co-conspirators to Moise's private residence on July 7, 2021, where a commando of Colombian mercenaries shot the president dead while his guards failed to intervene. D...
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Miami (AFP) - A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday in a US federal court to conspiracy to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead in 2021 in Port-au-Prince. Mario Antonio Palacios, 45, pleaded guilty in a Miami federal court after entering into a cooperation agreement with prosecutors. Until agreeing to a plea deal, he had for months denied having had any role in the assassination of the former president. On July 7, 2021, Moise was shot and killed in his private residence at the age of 53 by a commando of more than 20 people, most of them Colombian mercena...
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Miami (AFP) - A US court on Tuesday sentenced a former Haitian senator to life in prison for his role in the assassination of the Caribbean country's president Jovenel Moise in 2021. Clad in a brown prison uniform, handcuffed and with shackles around his ankles, Joseph Joel John, 52, pleaded for mercy before the verdict was announced in federal court in Miami. John said he never intended to murder Moise but instead wanted him brought before Haitian courts for his alleged mismanagement of the country. The plot spiraled out of control when other conspirators decided to assassinate the president...
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New York (AFP) - Keith LaMar was supposed to die on Thursday -- the day prison wardens were to take him to the execution chamber -- but an unusual circumstance led to a reprieve, and the convict is honoring his additional time with the release of a song, "The Journey," composed with the help of a Spanish musician publicizing his story. The execution of LaMar, a Black man, has been delayed until 2027, and he intends to use the time to plead his innocence. In a phone call to AFP from Death Row, LaMar, a convicted murderer, voices "a sense of relief" that his death sentence handed down in 1995 ha...
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Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan officials on Wednesday opened an investigation into alleged "irregularities" during an opposition primary, which was won last weekend by a candidate banned from holding office by President Nicolas Maduro's government. Tarek William Saab, Maduro's attorney general, described the primary as "obviously a fraud" and told journalists in Caracas he had tasked two prosecutors with the probe. The wide-ranging charges include usurping the functions of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), criminal conspiracy, making up fictitious voters, and money laundering. The CNE ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Actress Bijou Phillips filed for divorce from Danny Masterson less than two weeks after the former "That '70s Show" star was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for raping two women, US media reported Tuesday. The model and singer cited "irreconcilable differences" in her petition in a California court, celebrity news website TMZ reported. Masterson, found guilty in May of raping the two women in 2001 and 2003 at his home in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, was sentenced on September 7 to 30 years to life in prison. The 47-year-old US actor, who has one child w...
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