Dave Butorac

Dave Butorac, 29, a resident of suburban Aldergrove, just east of Vancouver, is charged in the second-degree murder last year of two drug-addicted prostitutes - one in Abbotsford and the other in Langley, B.C.
The body of a third woman was found near his home two years ago but Butorac has not been charged with her death. Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said the evidence pointed to "what we considered possibly a serial killer.""We're looking at him strongly for other homicides, I can't get into the evidence we have gathered," Carr told reporters.
Police are also looking for a white Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 coupe linked to the accused.
there's been a lot of attention focused on the services available to prostitutes in the Downtown Eastside after serial-killer Robert Pickton was convicted last month of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women. But the needs of vulnerable women in other areas can't be ignored.
"Willy Pickton is gone but there's so many other women who are continuing on in the lifestyle of sex-trade work that's really risky that there's not enough support for them," she says.

Cesar Armando Laurean

Cesar Armando Lauren (photo), of Clark County, Nevada, is a marine who was trained as a personnel clerk but listed as Unauthorized Absence status, at the Marine Corps Base in Camp Lejeune, N.C.. He was accused of raping the missing pregnant marine Maria Lauterbach. The latest evidences from detectives indicated that Armando Laurean had possibly murdered Lauterbach and buried her burned body in a shallow grave at his house backyard.
Marine Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean was seen getting on or off a Greyhound bus in Shreveport, La., Saturday night, said Shreveport police Chief Henry Whitehorn Sr.Laurean, whom Lauterbach accused of rape, disappeared early Friday morning. He was last seen in a black Dodge pickup.Investigators have found blood spatters on the ceiling and a massive amount of blood on the wall of the home of Laurean, Sheriff Brown said. It appeared that someone had tried to wash and paint over the blood, he said."The blood splatters indicate a violent, violent attack," Brown said. "I do think this case is going to be a bizzare ending - when I say bizarre, more than a death and a burial."In a fire pit in the backyard of Laurean's home, authorities found burnt human remains roughly six inches to one foot underground, said Dr. Charles Garrett, the Onslow County medical examiner. Once fully recovered, he said, the remains will be sent to the state medical examiner's office in Chapel Hill for a positive identification using dental records.A nationwide search for Laurean continued Saturday, a day after Brown identified him as the key suspect in the death of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach. She disappeared in December, just days after meeting with military prosecutors to talk about her allegation that Laurean raped her.

Thailand Dark Side Britons tourist murder capital.

Anuchit Lumlert, 24, has been arrested for the murder of two Russian women at the Thai resort of Pattaya to watch the sun rise, police said on Friday.
“He said he wanted to rob them, but had to kill them because one of the two victims saw his face,” police chief Lieutenant General Aswin Kwanmuang, who led the investigation in a city notorious as an international criminals’ haven 90 miles (150 km) from Bangkok, told Reuters news agency.
Other investigators said Anuchit was suspected of 10 robberies in the Pattaya area and killed the Russian women when high on drugs because they screamed.

Tatiana Tsimfer, 30, and Lyubov Svirkova, 25, arrived in Thailand on holidays within a tourist group
As Pattaya Daily News informs, they received the information from a receptionist at Dragon Beach Hotel, where the girls were staying.
The victims were in their beach clothes slumped in their deck chairs.
Lyubov Svirkova was shot four bullets (one in her left arm, three in the abdomen) from a 9-mm gun.
Tatiana Tsimfer was hurt in her back. Both were shot with a 9mm pistol at a close range. A mobile phone, a pack of cigarettes, and two small bottles of Thai whisky were found on the table.

Two Russian female tourists who were shot dead at a beach in Pattaya resort were not involved in sex industry, Russia’s Consul in Bangkok Vladimir Pronin announced today in an interview to RSN.
“The girls were common tourists and came to see the country for the first time ever. Various versions are being investigated, witnesses are questioned. Mass police forces are engaged in the investigation. Generally speaking, the whole Thai police are occupied with it.”
Thai police examined lists of passengers who arrived in Thailand on the same flight with the girls. They do not rule out, the murderer arrived on that flight too.
As Pattaya Daily News reported today, a tourist guide is named among key suspects on the case. Hу was reportedly fixed by CCTV cameras while running from the beach after the girls were shot dead. The man has since disappeared, the paper reports.
On any given day, tens of thousands of prostitutes can be seen working the brothels, bars, streets, hotel lobbies, beach fronts and even shopping malls of this gaudy city. Pattaya is also the focus for high levels of criminal activity involving international gangs from Russia, Germany, the UK and China. The number of deaths of British nationals' in Pattaya is hard to ascertain – though some sources claim that it is up to four every week, neither the FCO nor the Thai authorities have any data they are prepared to release. However, what can be speculated with some confidence is that of the 226 average annual deaths of British citizens in Thailand recorded by the FCO, a large percentage are in Pattaya. (The FCO refuse to list causes of deaths, so we must also speculate as to the reasons for this morbid hotspot. Anecdotal evidence suggests straightforward causes of death for some, such as road accidents and health problems; then there are the suspicious-sounding "suicides" – jumping from balconies seems to be a favoured method.)
Toby Charnaud, brutally slain by his Thai wife. Now, his family want to know why our Government is so reluctant to warn that Thialand is one of the most dangerous places on earth for its British residents 17 Britons have been murdered in Thailand since 2003
Toby Charnaud, an English expat living in the upmarket beach resort of Hua Hin, Thailand. On 27 March 2005, Charnaud was murdered in horrific circumstances. The 41-year-old was lured into the house near Hua Hin that he had bought for his Thai ex-wife, Panadda Laoruang, to live in. There, after a home-made gun failed to kill him, three men hired by Laoruang beat him to death with a heavy object. His body was partially cremated in a fire pit, cut into small pieces and scattered around a nearby forest Somsak Papai and Wisunt Samaksri were arrested in connection with Toby Charnaud's murder .On average, about 50 civilian UK nationals are murdered around the world each year This means that almost 10 per cent of all murders of Britons abroad are committed in Thailand , given that Thailand comprises only 0.6 per cent of all foreign travel from UK shores.
The murder rate is perhaps surprising; of the 420,000 annual British travellers to Thailand, a tiny percentage are the victims of crime.
Yet its dark side is quite visible. Hua Hin, where Charnaud lived and worked, is one of Thailand's most relaxed resorts, located 150 miles south of Bangkok. Long a getaway for Thai royalty, who have attracted a whole section of the Thai elite in their wake, it has a smattering of seedy bars, but the town is a picture of innocence compared with Pattaya, 150 miles north across the Gulf of Thailand. It is here that the country's less-welcome foreign visitors encounter the darker, more dangerous reaches of Thai culture; it is here that Thailand's huge sex industry has its epicentre.
At present FCO information regarding deaths in Thailand is limited. Andy Pearce, the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Bangkok, admits that the murder rate of Britons resident in Thailand is about the same as the domestic Thai rate – roughly five times higher than in the UK – but adds that this is only an estimate. (There are thought to be about 50,000 British resident in the country at present.) "To create the kind of advice needed on murder rates would require a greater statistical base and more research," he says.

In early 2006, just after the brutal rape and murder of the young British backpacker Katherine Horton on a deserted Koh Samui beach, and following an 18-month period in which nine Britons were murdered, the FCO had a revealing internal debate about what safety advice they should give to British nationals travelling to Thailand, as an email obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act testifies: "The trouble with [giving advice about the murder rate]... is that it would effectively highlight the number of murders over the past year or more here, which in the current circumstances could have a disproportionate impact on Thailand's reputation and legitimate commercial interests."
No amount of number-crunching by the officials at the British Embassy could have saved Charnaud. While his end was brutal, the reasons for it were never genuinely clear. "The only thing we know is that she killed him for financial reasons," says Hannah. "Som [who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder, along with three accomplices in a Thai courtroom in September 2006] thought she could get Toby's money through their son, Daniel. But she was never going to get a penny." "It has been an horrific time for us all," adds Martha, "but the family hasn't fallen apart." (Daniel is now living happily in the UK with family members.)
Yet Charnaud's family believe British officials in Thailand could have done a lot more to assist them, something that led to their local MP, James Gray, asking questions in Parliament in 2006. "In direct contrast to the Thais, who handled the whole thing very well, at every step our embassy was insensitive, ineffective and incompetent," says Hannah. "When Toby's remains were found they sent us a short email, complete with graphic details. This was done after they had spoken to the press. They offered help with DNA testing and then made that extremely difficult

British-registered sailboat 600 kilos (1 320 pounds) of cocaine

Spanish police have seized 600 kilos (1 320 pounds) of cocaine on a sailboat in the Atlantic bound for Spain in a drugs operation that netted seven suspects, including three Europeans, police said on Saturday.
The cocaine had been transferred to the British-registered sailboat off the coast of the island of Antigua in the Antilles, a police statement said.
Police, who had been following the sailboat since last month, intercepted it between the Portuguese islands of the Azores and Madeira and found on board 600 packets each containing a kilo of cocaine.
Three European crew members from France, Italy and Spain were arrested in the operation. Four others from Colombia, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, picked up by police in Madrid, are suspected of being responsible for the drugs network, police said.

Operation Thaw: cocaine siezure

Cocaine worth more than 1.5 million euros has been seized in north Dublin.
Gardai discovered the drugs during a series of planned raids of a number of premises in Coolock this morning.
Firearms, ammunition and drugs paraphernalia were also seized.
The raids took place just after 8 o'clock this morning and involved the Coolock Drugs Unit and the Garda Divisional Search Team.
It was part of the ongoing Operation Thaw, which targets the sale and supply of drugs in the Coolock area.
The cocaine was found at two houses on Grove Lane.
A smaller amount of cocaine and heroin was seized from a nearby mobile home, along with ammunition and drugs paraphernalia.
It has led Gardai to believe that they may have uncovered a major cocaine factory.
No arrests have yet been made.

Armando Garcia $1 million bond

Armando Garcia was arrested Thursday for investigation of trafficking a controlled substance.
He is being held in Ada County Jail on a $1 million bond.
Boise police say detectives purchased or seized more than 14 ounces of brown heroin, valued at about $80,000, during the investigation.
Boise police Sgt. Mike Harrington says there was evidence that the man had been selling 6 to 8 ounces of heroin a week in the Boise area for as long as two years.

400 pounds of cocaine from a pickup truck on the banks of the Rio Grande

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than 400 pounds of cocaine from a pickup truck on the banks of the Rio Grande.
Agency officials estimate the street value of the drugs at more than $15 million, according to a news release from the U.S. Border Patrol.
Agents responded to a report of suspicious activity Friday south of Donna. They spotted several people loading bundles onto a green pickup truck parked on the riverbank. Agents tried to stop the truck as the driver headed for Military Highway. The driver sped away from agents toward the river.
Agents caught up to the truck, and they say several people swimming across the river into Mexico, agency officials said.
Authorities searched the truck and found the bulk of cocaine. No arrests were made in connection with the seizure.
The seizure marks one of several made in recent months. From Oct. 1, 2007 to New Year’s Eve, agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector seized 1,473.75 pounds of cocaine, which has an estimated street value of more than $47 million, agency officials said.

Don Miguel Pavy, David Callender, Romeo Jerome

Don Miguel Pavy, 33, David Callender, 26, Romeo Jerome, 22, all of Cumana, Toco, are charged with being in possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking in contravention of Section 5(4) of the Dangerous Drugs Act.
They were held by police with 336 kilogrammes of marijuana and were subsequently denied bail when they appeared before Senior Magistrate Cheril-Anne Blake in the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court on November 26 last year. On that occasion, they were advised of their right to apply to a judge in chambers for bail.
Four days later, the men’s attorney Maillard Howell, applied to Soo-Hon for bail, asking the judge to consider the fact that the men were first-time offenders. Bail totalling $15 million was granted, but more than a month later, the men have been unable to secure bail for such a large quantum.
Howell will ask Soo-Hon to vary her bail in an in-chambers hearing next week Friday.

Learie Patterson

Learie Patterson, 27, a tailor of Moriah in Tobago died at about 4.30 am in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after remaining unconscious following the December 31 incident, when he was struck on the head during a dispute with a jeweler.
The altercation in which the jeweler himself was stabbed repeatedly by Patterson, is said to have occurred at a building in Scarborough where the men’s respective businesses were located.
The police file on the matter will be forwarded to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Geoffrey Henderson who will advise investigators as to what course the investigation should take. Police sources said a criminal charge could be laid against the jeweler or the case could go the way of a Coroner’s Inquest. Detective Corporal Judith Leander of the Scarborough CID is spearheading investigations.

Interpol president on Corruption Charges:Jackie Selebi,

South Africa's national police commissioner, who faces charges of corruption and trying to protect a convicted drug smuggler, is to stand down temporarily but will not be sacked.
President Thabo Mbeki said Saturday that Jackie Selebi, who also holds the largely ceremonial post of Interpol president, had been given «extended
leave» with immediate effect.
The National Prosecuting Authority said Friday it would charge Selebi with corruption and defeating the administration of justice because of his «generally corrupt relationship» with Glen Agliotti, who was last year convicted of drug smuggling and stands accused of murder. It said charges would be filed imminently.
Mbeki sought to reassure a nervous public that the government would continue its fight against crime in a country which has more than 50 murders a day.
«Work will go on as normal. The police and all of its ranks will continue with its work as normal,» he told a press conference.
But the news came as a further blow to South Africa's international image. ANC President Jacob Zuma, who hopes to become national president in 2009, is due to go on trial in August on corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering charges.
Selebi tried unsuccessfully to block the indictment against him in Pretoria's High Court on Friday. The judge dismissed it, saying that the administration of justice would be brought into disrepute if Selebi were not prosecuted.
Mbeki said that Timothy Charles Williams, deputy national commissioner for crime intelligence and crime detection, would be acting police chief. He said it was up to Interpol, the world's largest police organization, to decide on Selebi's future. He was due to stand down later this year after his four-year term in office.
Interpol's General Secretariat said it was «carefully monitoring» the situation, and the matter involving Selebi would be discussed at its executive committee meeting in February.
«While it would be inappropriate for Interpol to comment on the ongoing investigation in South Africa, it should be stated that President Selebi has significantly helped the organization and its member countries to enhance security and police co-operation worldwide,» it said in a statement on its web site.
Mbeki's press conference came after a tumultuous week. On Tuesday, armed police arrested Johannesburg's top prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, who led the investigation of Selebi, and hauled him away in handcuffs. Nel is due in court Monday on charges of defeating the ends of justice _ charges that the prosecuting authority says are without foundation.
The turf war between the police and prosecutors also comes at a time when the prosecuting authority _ the equivalent of America's FBI _ is under criticism for its decision to press charges against Zuma.
The ANC congress that elected Zuma last month resolved to disband the prosecuting authority's elite anti-crime unit called the Scorpions _ a decision that risks further weakening the fight against crime.

Police statistics released in December said that there were 8,925 murders and 23,507 reported rapes between April and September last year nationwide _ both down slightly from the previous year. But other crimes like robbery and cash in transit heists have soared.
Prosecutors allege Agliotti gave Selebi cash handouts «as and when he requested,» bought clothes for him and his family and gave him 30,000 rands (US$4,400; ¤3,000) to pay for a dinner in Paris when he was elected head of Interpol. The payments totaled at least 1.2 million rands (US$175,000; ¤118,300) between 2000 and 2005, the prosecuting authority said.
The prosecuting authority also accused Selebi of turning a blind eye to Agliotti's involvement in transporting large quantities of illegal drugs. The prosecutors said Selebi also informed Agliotti that British intelligence authorities were investigating him.
Agliotti reached a plea bargain with prosecutors last year whereby he pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the country and received a suspended 10-year prison sentence and a fine. In return, he agreed to testify against drug gangs. There have been reports that he might be the star witness in a trial against Selebi, though prosecutors have not confirmed this.
Mbeki summarily suspended chief prosecutor Vusi Pikoli last September after he issued a warrant for the Selebi's arrest. Acting prosecuting chief Mokotedi Mpshe withdrew the warrant and ordered an independent investigation of the case against Selebi. That probe was conducted by outside legal experts who recommended Selebi be charged.

Kovelan Bangaru, AKA Kole Bugari

Australia's most wanted , former business high-flyer Kovelan Bangaru, is expected to be transported under high security from the US to a Sydney jail cell within days.
The US Marshals, the American government's primary fugitive hunting organisation, confirmed today it was holding Bangaru in the US ahead of extradition to Australia.
The 40-year-old father of two is accused of fleecing $A27 million from 70 investors, including "mum and dad investors", when his Sydney-based Streetwise property development company collapsed in 2005 and he fled to California.
"I can confirm he is still in our custody," a US Marshals spokesman told AAP today.
The US Marshals declined to give details of plans to transport Bangaru.
Bangaru was well-known in Australia before his demise, developing multi-million dollar Sydney harbourside penthouses, properties in Queensland, Victoria, Sydney and on the NSW south coast and featuring in news articles in publications such as The Australian Financial Review.
Australian authorities, in documents filed in the US courts, allege Bangaru would tell potential investors that sports stars, such as Australian cricketers Brett Lee and Michael Slater, were investors in his company.
"I have made many successful partnerships with Mr Slater and Mr Lee and I have made many people lots of money," Bangaru is accused of telling one victim who invested $A500,000 with Streetwise.
Bangaru was arrested by US authorities in an exclusive residential area in southern California's Orange County in April after upset Australian investors helped track him down.
He has been held in a jail in Santa Ana, south of Los Angeles, since the arrest and it was originally believed he would fight extradition.
However, on December 5 in the US District Court he entered into a "charge bargain agreement" with Australian prosecutors in which he agreed to plead guilty to 11 of the 16 serious fraud charges.



"Kovelan Bangaru and the Australian prosecutors have entered into a 'charge bargain' agreement to resolve the pending criminal charges against the fugitive," Bangaru's US lawyer, Charles Pereyra-Suarez, wrote in a document submitted to US District Court judge Oswald Parada on December

Darin Richardson

Darin Richardson, was shot twice after he pointed a pistol at two detectives and a plainclothes officer who tried to stop him in the street.
Investigators believe the revolver Richardson brandished may have been the same one used in 2005 to wound an officer in Austell, Ga.
That shooting earned Richardson a prominent place on the FBI's "most wanted'' list, but it was a chance meetingthat led to Tuesday night's violence.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said a group of drug investigators on a routine patrol decided to stop Richardson after spotting him emerging from a shop at around 9 p.m., fiddling with something tucked in his belt.
Thinking the bulge was a weapon, they circled around the block, then flashed their badges and ordered Richardson to halt. Two of the officers fired when Richardson pulled a gun and ignored orders to drop it, Browne said.
Several witnesses at the scene confirmed that one or more of the police officers shouted "Put it down! Put it down!'' before opening fire, Browne said.
It wasn't until later that authorities learned that Richardson was wanted in connection with the shooting of a police officer in Georgia's Cobb County.
Cobb County Police said in a news release that Richardson was charged with shooting an officer twice on Aug. 20, 2005, after police tried to question him at a gas station.
The officer was wounded, but survived. Richardson escaped on foot.
Police suspect that the weapon used in that shooting was a revolver reported stolen by one of Richardson's acquaintances on the day of the crime. That same gun was found lying in the street after Richardson was shot in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

Raji Mann,Sanjeev Mann

Two brothers are facing over a dozen charges as the result of an eight-month investigation into an alleged "dial-a-doper" drug trafficking network.
Project Image saw the recent arrests of Raji Mann, 24, and his brother Sanjeev Mann, 21, who were arrested quietly outside of a relative's home.
They are in custody and will appear in court Monday.
Both accused are known to the Southern Alberta Gang Enforcement Team.
"It puts a dent into the market for cocaine trafficking, which is big in Alberta, and also the manufacture of crack," said Insp. Joan McCallum of the Integrated Response to Organized Crime Unit.
"They have to know that we're watching them."

David Ragsdale

David Ragsdale, accused of fatally shooting his wife in Lehi on Sunday, before an initial court hearing on Jan. 14.
If prosecutors are not ready to file charges by then, Buhman said they will ask 4th District Judge Lynn Davis to postpone Ragsdale's first court appearance.
Ragsdale, 35, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated murder, a potential capital offense, for allegedly shooting to death his 30-year-old wife Kristy Ragsdale in the parking lot of a Lehi LDS church, in front of her mother and several witnesses. He is being held in the Utah County jail without bail.
Kristy Ragsdale was planning to file for divorce, her attorney has said.
Greg Skordas, David Ragsdale's lawyer, said Tuesday that he met with his client Sunday and Monday, and they will not seek a court hearing before next week. He declined further comment.
A funeral for Kristy Ragsdale is in the planning stages, but it is expected to be held Saturday at the Lehi stake center where she attended church, an LDS Church spokesman said.

Monica Thomas-Harris ,Curtis "Keno" Harris

Monica Thomas-Harris and Curtis "Keno" Harris, who were reported missing Thursday night, when relatives asked for the public's help in finding the 37-year-old woman who reportedly disappeared.
One employee said he knew it was them because he checked Harris' identification before renting him the $55-a-night room.
Another employee, Lawrence Parra, said he recognized the couple from photos in the newspaper.
"She was standing outside as he was getting the room," Parra said.
Police received a call about 11:20 a.m. of a person down in the motel room. When they arrived, they discovered the man and woman were dead.
"It does appear to be a murder-suicide," said public information officer Diana Salazar. "We are not looking for any outstanding suspects."
Salazar would confirm only that a black man from Chino and a black woman from Upland, both in their 30s, were found dead in Room 208 in the motel at 11435 Whittier Blvd.
Police said the man used a handgun to kill the woman before killing himself.
Neighbors said they did not hear any noises from the motel room Friday night.
"I know gunshots, and there were no gunshots," said Juan Montiel, a Petaluma resident who was staying at the motel with his wife.
The missing couple were reportedly traveling in a 2001 Ford Expedition, with the license-plate number of 4UGR263. The same vehicle was seen parked at the motel and being towed by police for evidence on Saturday.
One employee, who did not want to be identified, said he became suspicious when the couple did not check out at 11 a.m. Saturday. After repeated calls to the room, he sent a maid to check up on the couple.

Christopher McCuin

Christopher McCuin, age 25, "would stand in the roadway and wouldn't let people pass and he would talk to himself." McCuin, according to his neighbor, "acted crazy."
Eccentric, yes. Troubling, sure. But blocking the road and talking to himself were comically benign behaviors compared to what McCuin is now accused of doing.
Police in Texas say that McCuin began the first weekend of the new year by kidnapping and killing his ex-girlfriend Jana Shearer, age 21.
After he allegedly bludgeoned her to death, McCuin took Shearer's body to his mom's garage.
A short time later, McCuin led his mother and her boyfriend to the scene, which had become an abbatoir.
They fled in horror.
McCuin called 911. He told the operator that he'd killed Shearer. He told the operator what he was doing to Jana Shearer's remains

Maria Frances Lauterbach

Maria Frances Lauterbach, 20, was reported missing Dec. 19 by her mother, who was the last person to speak with her, on Dec. 13. It is not clear why the disappearance wasn't made public earlier.
Her cell phone was found Dec. 20 near the main gate at Camp Lejeune. Lauterbach is with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group.
Investigators are calling her disappearance suspicious, saying her mother reported that Lauterbach was going to testify about an incident she witnessed on base.
"There are several findings and pieces of evidence that have been discovered that cause law

James Patrick

James Patrick: Police in Delaware County, Pa. are searching for an accused child rapist with a tricky disappearing act. James Patrick was standing trial on charges that he raped an 11-year-old girl in 1998, when cops say he asked to leave court to call his elderly mother. Cops say Patrick took off, and hasn’t been seen since.

Unknown Helen Hill Killer

Unknown Helen Hill Killer: In New Orleans, young filmmaker Helen Hill and her physician husband Paul were awakened by an intruder — cops say the next thing they knew, he opened fire. Now, a year later, police have new information that may help find her killer.

Leonard Ray Harper

Leonard Ray Harper: Police thought accused murderer Leonard Ray Harper was hiding out in Spain or South America, but now they have confirmation Harper could be back in his old digs — San Antonio, Texas. A convicted murderer called cops from jail and told them what they needed to know to place Harper back in town.

Donald Farrell Killer

Donald Farrell Killer: Saturday, October 27, 2007 was Rowan University’s homecoming, a night that brings thousands of people to the campus to celebrate and watch the football game. It was on this night that a group of four to five men brutally beat a 19-year-old student to death as a group of his friends stood by helplessly.

Nancy and Joey Bochicchio’s killer

Boca Raton, Fla. police are still looking for Nancy and Joey Bochicchio’s killer. Cops say their best lead is a composite sketch of a man wanted in another violent attack in Boca Raton. The similarities between that case and the Bochicchios’ murders are eerily similar, and police believe the man in the sketch could be involved with the vicious double homicide of mom Nancy and 8-year-old daughter Joey.

shooting

Dothan police are investigating a shooting into an occupied home Thursday night in the 700 block of Arlington Avenue, according to a statement released by police spokesman Officer Thomas Davis.
Someone drove by a home on Arlington Avenue around 10:51 p.m. and fired a gun several times, police say. The gunmen fled the area driving an early 1990s silver four-door model Ford Crown Victoria.
No one suffered any injuries in the shooting.

Chief James Ibori,Kema Chikwe

The hearing of the bail application of former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, on Friday was stalled when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it needed time to respond to issues raised in the accused person’s fresh affidavit.
Also, the former governor did not exhibit signs of ill-health on Friday when he appeared before Justice Mohammed Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Kaduna. Rather, he looked hale and hearty. He was flown to the National Hospital, Abuja from Kaduna on Wednesday and discharged on Thursday.
THE London Metropolitan Police say the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, used British banks to stash £20 million public funds to finance his flamboyant lifestyle, The Sunday Times of London reported yesterday.
However, efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute Chief Ibori for alleged corruption may have run into a fresh hitch after Britain returned investigation documents to the anti-graft agency asking for the authorisation of the Attorney-General of the Federation to use them in the London court process.
EFCC recovers N15m from Kema Chikwe
The same EFCC has recovered N15 million from one-time Aviation Minister, Dr. Kema Chikwe, being her alleged share of business deal with one Samuel Iheanacho, Managing Director of an engineering company.
Chief Ibori is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for allegedly laundering the money during 2005-06, using a web of high-street banks in London and an international array of front companies.
The London Sunday Times citing a witness statement made by a financial investigator working for the Met, said Ibori used accounts at branches of HSBC, Barclays and Abbey to buy luxury cars and homes.
These include a £4 million mansion in Hampstead, North London, a nearby flat for a mistress and a country retreat in Dorset. Ibori owned a Bentley Continental GT, a Jaguar and an armoured Mercedes-Benz Maybach

It said since 2005, funds from Nigeria, intended for education and engineering projects, “(were) allegedly stolen by James Ibori (and) have been laundered through the UK banking system.”
One payment of £275,873 was made to a Mayfair car dealership for an armour-plated Maybach limousine in 2005.
Ibori, who denies the accusations, has not been charged with any wrongdoing. His lawyers declined to comment.
The investigation is looking at payments by Shell and Chevron-Texaco to his businesses in Delta State. Over three years, Shell, Chevron and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company allegedly paid £3.6 million into a Barclays account controlled by Ibori for renting out houseboats to foreign employees.
Last Thursday, the Court of Appeal confirmed a freeze on Ibori’s UK assets, worth £17.1 million.
According to an affidavit, the Met intervened at an unspecified date to block his purchase of a private jet from Bombardier, the manufacturers, for $20 million (£9.8 million) while he was still in office and receiving an official salary of just £12,000 a year.
An associate who met Ibori in New York in September told The Sunday Times that he was “desperate to prove that his hands are clean.”
The Met has recently launched a crackdown on foreigners using Britain as a haven for corruptly acquired assets. Ibori is the third Nigerian governor to be investigated under the Proceeds of Crime Act introduced in 2002.
The two others charged with money laundering in London jumped bail. One has since been convicted of corruption by a Nigerian court, while the other is on trial.
HSBC, Abbey and Barclays declined to comment but said they would cooperate fully with any police investigation.
AGF-EFCC feud creates fresh hitches in Ibori’s case
Efforts by the EFCC to prosecute Chief Ibori for alleged corruption while in office has run into a fresh hitch as Britain returned investigation documents to the anti-graft agency asking for the Attorney-General of the Federation’s authorisation to use them in the London court process.
The British authorities had earlier asked the EFCC to furnish it with details of its findings on the allegation of corruption against Chief Ibori while in office which it did without recourse to the AGF, Chief Michael Aondoakaa.
It was gathered that the documents were returned because they were not signed by the AGF and, therefore, could not be used.
“The honourable Attorney-General may, therefore, authorise the Metropolitan Police through the appropriate channels to use the materials enumerated above for their legal processes,” he said in the letter dated September 28, 2007.
It was, however, learnt that the AGF who had requested the same documents without being given by the EFCC, rejected it, as he was said to have noted that the request by the Metropolitan Police should have been sent to him, in the first instance.
Sources said the AGF reported the development to the President who gave him a backing.
Also listed were accounts of various companies said to have been traced to Chief Ibori or his relations.
The included Bainexnox Ltd account with UBA, MER Engineering Ltd account with UBA, Global Little Drops Nig. Ltd account with Zenith and Oceanic Banks, Silhouette Travels and Tours account with Zenith and Prime Chambers account with Zenith.
Also contained in the document is the copy of a letter from the Corporate Affairs Commission confirming that about three companies used in siphoning fund from Delta State were registered with it.

Three migrants died

Three migrants among dozens trying to reach Spain from Northwest Africa in a wooden boat died and two others were in serious condition, officials said Saturday.
A Spanish patrol ship spotted the boat, which was carrying 88 people, in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife early Saturday, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said. The survivors were rescued, she said.
Four of the migrants, whose precise point of origin was unknown, were rushed to a hospital, the spokeswoman said.
Of 70 survivors in good health, nine were thought to be minors among them was a baby girl believed to be around 2 years old the spokeswoman said.

Amy Fitzpatrick new photo

Audrey Fitzpatrick: PRESS Conference (updated text)

Audrey Fitzpatrick The mother of Amy, Irish girl 15 years of age who had disappeared on January 1 in Mijas (Malaga), today gave a press conference at the Ocean Hotel to publicize her missing daughter and help with information for the search.
The mother, Audrey Fitzpatrick, read a statement in English, "If anyone has seen Amy to contact with the Civil Guard or phone: 062 or 112," Audrey asked.
"Someone must know something," said the mother, while he called "especially in the British Community, on the Costa del Sol which is extensive having lived for five years in the town. Amy is a popular girl ".
The family of the child reported that the night of 31 and day 1, Amy was with a friend, Ashley,they were babysitting in a house on the Calypso urbanisation . "She was wearing a faded black mini skirt, a black 'Diesel'shirt and also some high black boots," according to her mother .
"She is a very thin girl with brown hair, a very pale color," she continued. In addition, during the press conference leaflets were distributed with a photo and description of the girl to help the search.
"A girl can not disappear from the face of the earth, which is why I ask the people to try to recall whether they had seen anything. Any little information is useful," asked the mother.

Amy Fitzpatrick: UPDATED: Another Mystery Disappearance (like the Mcanns) on Spanish Costas

Spanish police have begun an investigation after an expatriate teenager disappeared on her way home from a nearby friend’s house.
Amy Fitzpatrick, 15, has not been seen since the evening of New Year’s Day, when she left the friend’s home on the Costa Del Sol.
Officers from the Spanish Civil Guard searched waste ground yesterday in the tourist resort of Riviera Del Sol, near Fuengirola, as part of their hunt for the Irish teenager. The land is close to the route that Amy would have taken on her ten-minute walk back to the home she shares with her mother, brother and stepfather.
She spent New Year’s Eve at her friend’s house, babysitting for the girl’s younger brother, and stayed the night before the pair headed to a local shopping centre on January 1. Amy then returned to the friend’s house before heading home at about 10pm.
Her mother, Audrey, 39, said last night that she had not heard anything from her daughter since a telephone call early on the day she vanished.
“The last time we spoke was on New Year’s Day morning when she rang to wish me happy new year.”
Mrs Fitzpatrick, from Dublin, said that she was starting to fear the worst. “I’ve racked my brains for a reason as to why Amy might want to go off on her own and I can’t think of one. She’s never done anything like this before. We’ve traced the route we think she would have taken but found no clues as to what might have happened to her. It’s a route she knows well and involves a walk of about two minutes down a dirt track.
“All I want is for Amy to pick up a phone and ring me or a friend and say she’s OK but at the back of my mind is that horrible fear that something’s happened to her and she can’t.”
The disappearance has shocked Riviera del Sol’s expatriate community. Police have spoken to the couple that Amy had been babysitting for on New Year’s Eve, an English woman and her Spanish husband. They have also questioned the teenager’s schoolfriends, including a dozen British expatriate families who live in the area.
Mrs Fitzpatrick was preparing last night to distribute hundreds of appeal posters showing her daughter’s face. The teenager’s brother, Dean, 17, had spent the day taking police officers to see friends in the hope that someone had heard from her.
Ritchie Harris, a family friend, said: “Amy is a very pretty girl and although she’s mature for her age and likes to mix with an older crowd, she’s only 15 and still very much of a youngster.” Mr Harris, originally from London, said that he had been helping in the search for Amy, and had spent Thursday night scouring her e-mails and speaking to her friends via the online MSN Messenger service for clues as to her whereabouts.
A police helicopter spent part of yesterday flying over waste ground close to Amy’s home. The land, sandwiched between a motorway running along the Costa del Sol and houses leading down to the Mediterranean, is popular with dog walkers. Amy, who has dark, shoulder-length hair, was wearing a black jacket, dark tracksuit bottoms, a black Diesel T-shirt and black furry boots when she was last seen.
She moved to the Costa del Sol with her mother 3½ years ago. Her step-father, Dave McMahon, is an estate agent in the Spanish resort. It is understood that her natural father lives in the Irish Republic.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Málaga was unable to comment on local reports that a stranger driving a white van had been spotted targeting children in the area.
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Michelle Rodriguez

Michelle Rodriguez went to jail in Lynwood, California, Sunday to begin serving her 180-day sentence for violating her probation in a DUI case.
In October, the former Lost star, 29, was sentenced after she admitted she had violated her probation by failing to provide proof of completion of community service and for drinking three times while wearing her alcohol-monitoring anklet.

Bianca N. Washington

Bianca N. Washington, of East Avenue, after officers found her, dressed in pink pajamas, with a baggie that held 4.5 grams of crack. She is charged with drug trafficking and drug abuse.
A caller told officers Dec. 31 that there were two women wearing pink pajamas at Cairo Place, going door to door trying to sell crack.
When patrol officers arrived, they saw Washington in a parking lot. She was indeed wearing pink pajamas and tried to run, Lt. Rick Edwards said.