Thursday, 31 January 2008

Leon Johnson.'Young Gooch Crew'

Johnson was a known member of Manchester's 'Young Gooch Crew' who became a resident on Preston's Callon Estate. described by a judge as "a leading light in a gang of armed thugs" has today been jailed for firearms offences.The judge at Manchester Crown...
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Joshua Rocco ,Thomas Raywood :Possession of a handgun and a rifle

Two men were arrested last week after they were allegedly caught in possession of a handgun and a rifle, Mercer County Sheriff Kevin C. Larkin announced on Wednesday.Larkin said members of Shooting Response Team 2 - a group of detectives from the sheriff's office, Trenton police, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, and the state police - spotted Thomas Raywood of Hopewell Township and Joshua Rocco...
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Armed robbery in Ballarat

Police have arrested a woman accused of being a getaway driver in an armed robbery in Ballarat last night.Two women were approached by a man who allegedly produced a gun and stole their handbags in Doveton Street North about 12.20am.Police spotted the getaway car, described as a red Ford sedan, 10 minutes later and arrested the female driver.An imitation gun was found on the floor of the car.The woman...
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Kevin Morgan,James H. Thomas,Travis Woods, Willis J. Simmons

armed robbery investigation led to the arrests of five men Wednesday after police discovered drugs and guns in their vehicle.Just after midnight, police were dispatched to the 7900 block of Devoe Street about a robbery at Flash Foods, according to arrest reports. Police began searching for a gold sport utility vehicle seen leaving the store.Officers pulled over a Pontiac SUV matching the description...
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Shootout in Othello Drive

frightening shootout in Othello Drive on Tuesday night, which left two men hospitalised with gun shot injuries, has been confirmed as a gang-related dispute. Counties Manukau Police say officers were alerted by nearby residents to a shooting at properties near the Dawson Rd intersection of the Otara street at 8pm.Police say an unconfirmed number of persons arrived in vehicles and approached people...
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Randy Lake,Steven Murray

Steven Murray, 37, was taken to Sebasticook Valley Hospital where he was treated and released Wednesday morning.Randy Lake, 22, who shared a Raymond Avenue home with Murray, was arrested by Pittsfield police officer Greg Sides. Lake has been charged with aggravated assault, reckless conduct, and violation of the conditions of release.Several BB's were removed from Steven Murray's gums, cheeks and...
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Jeffrey Bass,Jeremiah Bass

Jeffrey Bass, 31, and Jeremiah Bass, 30, both of 198 Roy El Court, Wapello, have been charged with disorderly conduct in relation to the fight that occurred Friday, Jan. 18, in an apartment building in the 300 block of North Second Street.A man with a gun was reported at the scene of a fight involving eight people. Four people were initially arrested. Officials recovered a handgun at the scene.Crump...
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Latin Kings shooting death of a Miller Brewing executive

Two Latin Kings are under arrest in the shooting death of a Miller Brewing executive.“The Latin Kings are out there right now throwing their weight around a little bit, and we’re going to make sure they feel our attention in a very special way in the next several weeks,” said Chief Edward Flynn, adding that the effort will not be a sweep of Latino men, but arrests of specific gang members.Flynn’s...
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

High School student charged with bringing an unloaded handgun

Jackson Central-Merry High School student charged with bringing an unloaded handgun to school Monday has been placed on house arrest until he returns to court.According to court records, Madison County Juvenile Court Judge Christy Little released the 15-year-old male student into the custody of his mother today after a detention hearing. The student's next court date has not been set. His name has...
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Ugo Mendoza,Cesar Martinez, Jose Trinidad Martinez,Gilberto Cuevas

Ugo Mendoza, 16, and an unidentified 14-year old male were charged with burglary. Cesar Martinez, 17, is charged with being an accessory to a felony.The residents of the two homes where the guns were found are Armando Avila, 21, Jose Trinidad Martinez, 20, and Gilberto Cuevas, 28, show face charges for possession of stolen firearms.Investigators said it appears the suspects intended to sell the guns.Police...
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Shooting near the well-known Race Street Fish Market

San Jose police and Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies have closed West San Carlos Street near Race Street and are searching the area for suspects who fled on foot after an alleged drive-by shooting. A police helicopter is hovering overheard, aiding the search.No one was injured in the shooting near the well-known Race Street Fish Market, but bullets fired struck the window of a nearby business,...
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Jesus Flores

Jesus Flores, 25, was found by a corrections officer about 4 a.m. Tuesday at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department Crimnal Justice, home to the state's male death row.Agency spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said Flores was pronounced dead about an hour later."He had lacerations on his throat and forehead," she said.Flores apparently tried to use his own blood to scribble a message on the wall."It was...
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Malcolm Chalmers

Malcolm Chalmers was already in custody in Durham Region on unrelated charges and was appearing in court when Toronto Police came calling. He's now been charged with attempted murder and will be in court on the new count February 11th. Police had displayed...
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Marcus Lequin Payne

Marcus Lequin Payne, 23, of 101-313 S. Seventh St. was arrested Monday and charged with one count each of aggravated assault and felony theft by receiving stolen property.The arrest came as the result of an investigation in the Friday night assault of a 28-year-old man who originally told police that he was beaten unconscious while he walked home through the alley near Second Street. Investigation...
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Ronald Petersen

Ronald Petersen of Bigfork was arrested last night at the Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina.He was arrested in connection with the death of 24-year-old Clyde Wilson, who was found dead in his home on New Year's Eve from multiple gun shot wounds.Petersen is currently awaiting extradition to Montana.Police also arrested 19-year-old Zachary Forkin. He's in the Lake County Jail.The Lake County Sheriff's...
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Monday, 28 January 2008

Keith J. Truesdale.

The Woodbridge man was shot during an attempted robbery at a Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits restaurant at 13860 Smoketown Road in Woodbridge, shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday.According to police, two men entered the restaurant through an unlocked back door.One of the robbers demanded money, but police said Truesdale, a manager for a Popeyes in Dale City who was filling in that night, was unable to "comply...
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Anthony D. Burgess

Anthony D. Burgess, 25, was listed in serious condition Friday night at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center.Sgt. Clinton Kellett said a man entered the MiniT Stop. As he was entering, another man was coming out.“Words were exchanged, and the man who was coming out was shot in the doorway,” Kellett said.A witness said the bleeding victim went inside the Happy Wok, and the gunman fled in a light blue mid-1980s...
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Fast Food, Fast Armed Robbery

Jan. 20, 8:20 p.m. at Subway, 121 Sherron Road – A man entered the business, implied he had a gun and demanded money. The robber wore a white hooded sweatshirt and a blue bandanna over his face. He was described as a black man, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall and 185 to 200 pounds.Jan. 20, 11:22 p.m. at McDonald’s, 102 W. Morgan St. – Two men armed with guns entered the restaurant and robbed...
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Kadeem Fox

Kadeem Fox, of Albany, .Police say when the officer approached him in the area of First and Quail Fox took off, throwing a .22 caliber pistol into a yard along First Street. The gun was later found to be stolen. Fox has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon and was being held in the Albany County Ja...
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Charlie McDonald

Charlie McDonald, 17, of the 9600 block of South Hoxie Avenue, Chicago, turned himself in to police Thursday and was charged with first-degree murder, prosecutors said.On Sunday, he appeared in Cook County Bond Court, where he was ordered held without bail.Tommy Brewer, McDonald's lawyer and a Democratic candidate for Cook County state's attorney, said no one knew where McDonald had been since Nov....
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Sunday, 27 January 2008

Massacre by gunmen of a dozen people

The head of the Guyana Defence Force, Commodore GaryBest, is treating as acts of "urban warfare" from a criminalnetwork, the slaughter of the 12 occurred two days after anarmy patrol was ambushed in the village of Buxton and asoldier killed during a...
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Two people are under arrest

Two people are under arrest and one person is recovering following a shooting early Sunday morning in Orlando.The incident happened around 2 a.m. in the east part of the city at San Juan Boulevard near Semoran.Orlando police said witnesses were able to give them a description of the car, which was later spotted on Goldenrod Road near Pershing Avenue.Officers tried to pull that car over, but the two...
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Christopher A. Ridley

Christopher A. Ridley, 23, was off duty and not in uniform when he witnessed a “violent, aggravated assault” shortly before 5 p.m. near Court Street and Martine Avenue in downtown White Plains, outside the district offices of the Westchester County Department...
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Man hit in a drive-by shooting Saturday night has died

Man hit in a drive-by shooting Saturday night has died. Grand Rapids Police are now looking for the suspect responsible. It happened around 5:30pm outside of a house on Grandville Avenue and “A” Street.Right now police don't have a description of the suspect, but they say the car used in the drive-by was a dark colored Pontiac Grand Am or Grand Prix. The car was last seen going northbound on Grandville...
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Saturday, 26 January 2008

Vincent L. McGrath Jr

Vincent L. McGrath Jr., 37, was arrested in Schenectady and charged with second-degree robbery, second-degree burglary, second-degree unlawful imprisonment, fourth-degree criminal weapon possession and petit larceny. In a media release, Cobleskill police said they received a complaint from a North Grand Street resident on Jan. 18 who said two men had forcibly entered his apartment. The suspects allegedly...
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John O'Keefe,Edward Paredes,Awet Zekarias

Toronto residents Edward Paredes, 22, and Awet Zekarias, 23, are each charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder. They were to appear via video link to set a date for a bail hearing. A group of John O'Keefe's friends made the plea outside...
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Basil Oates,Quandre McGhee

Basil Oates, 20, of Dorchester and Quandre McGhee, 17, also of Dorchester and charged both with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm. Suspect McGhee was additionally charged with Possession of Class D, and Possession of Class D with Intent to Distribute.Officers were on patrol in the area of Codman Square in Dorchester when they observed a motor vehicle fail to stop...
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Darryl D. McClure

Darryl D. McClure, 38, of Boston and charged him with Armed Robbery in relation to a robbery incident that had taken place on 1/23/08 around 9:20pm. (Refer to Daily Incidents from 1/24/08.)Officers responded to 705 Huntington Avenue yesterday around 9:45am pursuant to ongoing investigation when they learned that the other suspect from the robbery that had taken place the day before was back at 705...
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Dany Velez

Dany Velez, 41, whose last known address was 282 Main St., Auburn, was arrested on a warrant for robbery and additionally was charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person (a felon), Waterville Deputy Chief Charles Rumsey said Friday.Velez' brother, Juan Serrano Velez, 22, of Winslow, was arrested Jan. 4 by Waterville police for his role in the armed robbery, which occurred in February...
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Matthew Lambeth

Matthew Lambeth told one of his friends he had shot up a trailer that resulted in the death of 16-year-old James Holderness.Lambeth is facing murder charges as well as four other counts of attempted murder after he drove a green Dodge Durango through the 6300 block of 14th Street West and shot at a trailer in Wilhelm Mobile Home Park around 11:30 p.m. Jan 15, according to authorities.Inside near a...
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Gustavo Fausto Tellez Jr.

A convicted felon who killed his girlfriend Monday and then turned the gun on himself had been deported to Mexico three times since 2004. Gustavo Fausto Tellez Jr., whose record includes felony assault and spousal abuse, appealed his first deportation order in 2001. He lost the appeal and was deported to Mexico in 2004, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Tuesday. In...
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Brenden Brown

Brenden Brown, is on probation for selling a handgun to Trolley Square gunman Sulejman Talovic. Brown was to be sentenced Friday on three drug-related misdemeanor charges in an unrelated case, but the 21-year-old failed to show up in court. Judge Judith Atherton issued a $10,000 cash-only warrant for Brown's arrest. Brown had pleaded guilty to two class A misdemeanor charges of attempted...
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Thursday, 24 January 2008

Christopher Blank

Blank, 29, is charged with shooting two Egg Harbor Township officers and shooting at a third. But, according to Blank, he was blinded by pepper spray, gasping for breath, handcuffed to a fence and being beaten when he felt Officer Clear Costantino's gun on the ground and, "I just fired."Christopher Blank thought it was a routine traffic stop. Then he saw the spotlight - and the officer with his gun...
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Anuchit Lamlert

Anuchit Lamlert, 24, an unemployed man who has been arrested many times for robbing foreign tourists, The Nation reported. The suspect has confessed to the killing. However, he would not give the reason. After committing the crime, he escaped from the...
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Tatyana Tsimfer,Lyubov Svirkova

Tatyana Tsimfer, born 1977, and Lyubov Svirkova, born 1982, who had come from the Siberian city of Kemerovo, fell victims of the crime. Their bodies were found on a beach on Saturday morning. In the opinion of experts, the killings took place on February...
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Mrs Aparna Bose

72-year-old woman, Mrs Aparna Bose, was tied up and robbed at gunpoint in the wee hours this morning at her AH-325 residence in Salt Lake. The burglars decamped with cash and ransacked her two-storeyed house. No arrests have been made till reports last came in. The incident took place around 2.00 a.m. when the septuagenarian lady found that four people had entered into the ground floor of her house....
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Chet Powell

Chet Powell have missed the deadline to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that said Powell did not use excessive force when he shot and killed their son on Dec. 1, 2005.Devin Orland, attorney with the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, said the 11th Circuit Court has dismissed the matter for “failure to prosecute.”“While I am hopeful that they will let this go, they can file a motion with the court...
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Lil Wayne,Dwayne Carter, Jr,Harold Johnson, Jr, Curtis Stewart

Rapper Lil Wayne and two others are still in custody at this hour, after appearing in court and being initialed on pending felony charges.Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter, Jr., along with 23-year-old Harold Johnson, Jr and 24-year-old Curtis Stewart, were arrested at approximately 11:20 pm MT, at a Border Patrol Checkpoint along Interstate 8 near Dateland, AZ, about one hour east of Yuma.According to...
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Gregory Scott Hinkle,14 guns were discovered at checkpoints around the country last week. On average, screeners find two guns a day

Gregory Scott Hinkle, 53, of Davis, West Virginia, went through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, an airport spokeswoman said.After the traveler evidently recalled having the gun, he returned to the checkpoint and disclosed the weapon, authorities said. The TSA contacted airport police, who charged the man with...
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Mustafa Ali,Jason Lighty

Mustafa Ali, 36, is charged with killing armored car guards William Widmaier, 65, and Joseph Alullo, 54, on Oct. 4 as they were servicing an ATM outside a Wachovia bank in Northeast Philadelphia.Police found the 9 mm semiautomatic pistol where Ali told them he had buried it, investigators said.Authorities arrested Jason Lighty, 26, who they said legally bought the pistol in a gun shop in 2003. He...
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Lawrence Brinley Wilson ,Scarpino Killing Hells Angels, the Independent Soldiers and the United Nations gang connection

47-year old Lawrence Brinley Wilson of Vancouver, was charged Monday with three weapons offences and possession of cocaine after police arrested him at Gotham's.Vancouver investigators continue to pore over surveillance tapes of the shooting scene in the 600 block of Seymour, trying to find clear images of the two shooters, who fled on foot after killing Scarpino and a friend sitting behind him in...
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Edward Garcia

Edward Garcia, of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia, 41, faces a maximum statutory sentence of life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge McBryde on May 2, 2008The government presented evidence at trial that on April 15, 2007, Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) officers responded to a report of a shooting on West Hammond Street in Fort Wort Worth. When officers arrived...
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William Widmaier, Mustafa Ali

Mustafa Ali, 36, is charged with killing armored car guards William Widmaier, 65, and Joseph Alullo, 54, on Oct. 4 as they were servicing an ATM outside a Wachovia bank in Northeast Philadelphia. Police found the 9 mm semiautomatic pistol where Ali told them he had buried it, investigators said.Authorities arrested Jason Lighty, 26, who they said legally bought the pistol in a gun shop in 2003....
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Monday, 21 January 2008

Bank, Nakhon Kwaenkhetgun, Mongkol Yatra,

Police denied killing the three and suspect their deaths resulted from "silence killing" among criminals.The discovery of three dead bodies on Ban HipUthai Road in Ayutthaya's Uthai district at 4.20am yesterday brought an end to the police manhunt for Akkharapol "Bank" Sampaoyoung, accused of killing three policemen on duty in Ayutthaya on New Year's EveBank, 22, was found dead with multiple bulletwounds...
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John 'Leo' Del Pinto,Carly Reisig

Autopsy shows both shots would have been fatalAn autopsy carried out in Canada on the body of John 'Leo' Del Pinto, who was gunned down by a policeman in Pai earlier this month has revealed both shots would have been fatal. The Medical Examiner's office in Calgary, Alberta, has completed a report which says he was killed instantly by the bullet to his head. But the second shot pierced both his liver...
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Hou Chang Mao

Hou Chang Mao, 47, was working at Fu Yao Supermarket, at 643 Gerrard St. East, near Broadview Avenue, when he was hit in the chest by a stray bullet shortly after 6 p.m. He was taken to hospital but could not be revived. Homicide investigators said Hou, who has a 23-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter, was an innocent bystander. "He didn't walk in the way. He was working," Det. Sgt. Pauline Grey...
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Tony T. Hill

Tony T. Hill of Bartlett was arrested for having an unregistered 9 mm fully automatic grease gun.In addition to the fully automatic, Hill had a Colt .45 handgun which was stolen from a Hocking County home in April 2006.Hill allegedly purchased the weapons...
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Richard Lee Beall

Richard Lee Beall, 42, of 425 Oak Ridge Drive was charged with assault by pointing a gun, resisting arrest and three counts of assault on a law-enforcement officer with a gun.Surry County sheriff’s dispatchers got a call at 8:11 p.m. reporting a domestic assault at Beall’s home.The caller said that everyone but Beall was out of the house.When officers got to the house about 9:20 p.m. to serve arrest...
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Ricardo Francis Scarpino

Bodies lie on the pavement beside a Range Rover outside a popular restaurant on Seymour Street in Vancouver early Sunday.The victims had been on their way to a private party at the Gotham Steakhouse and Cocktail Bar when two assailants gunned them down...
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