550 street Deals

South Australian police say they have seized the equivalent of 550 street deals of amphetamines in drug raids in the state's south-east.Four arrests have been made after a number of searches over the past two days.Police allege a total of $29,000 in cash was seized and 21 grams of amphetamin...

Adelaide airport

Customs Seized cocaine and methamphetamine, also known as ice, from a suitcase which arrived on a flight to Adelaide yesterday.Three people aboard the flight were arrested.A fourth man, allegedly carrying $24,000, was arrested later in Adelaide.A further three people were arrested in Sydney after overnight police raids netted more illegal drugs, guns and steroi...

Child Pornography Australia

Police have arrested 31 men on child pornography charges in a large-scale Australiawide investigation since August, an officer said Thursday.Police have arrested 24 men in the latest phase of their investigation -- 10 in New South Wales state, seven in Victoria state, three in Queensland state, three in Western Australia state and one in South Australia state, Australian Federal Police Acting National Manager of High Tech Crime Operations Kevin Zuccato...

Reference

The ALP's Shadow Attorney-General, Kelvin Thomson, has resigned after admitting he wrote a reference in 2000 for the fugitive crime figure, Tony Mokb...

Tony Mokbel (update)

Tony Mokbel, who was arrested in Athens in June and continues to fight his extradition, still has secret sources of income that fund his legal team in Greece.Fourteen people were arrested across Melbourne overnight following the capture of fugitive crime boss Tony Mokbel in Greece.Victoria...

Kurt.D.Elias

Kurt D. Elias, 35, of Wellsburg, West Virginia.According to the criminal complaint, Elias, using the screen name "lonelyman0707," initially approached the girl in an Internet chat room on January 23, 2007. The "girl" was actually an undercover agent from the Child Predator Unit who was using the online profile of a 13-year old child.Corbett said that during their initial chat, Elias allegedly confirmed the girl's age and identified himself as a...

3 billion Euros siezed

Police and Civil Guard authorities seized more than 3 billion euros in cash and properties in the more than 100 corruption and money laundering investigations that were underway last year, the Interior Ministry has reported. The total sum which is 50 times higher than property confiscated in 2005 would be able to finance the budgets of the municipalities of Barcelona, Valencia and Seville for one year, the Ministry said. In all, 589 people were arrested...

Michael Williams, David Fain and Anna Marie Patterson , Charles Furline, Kimberly Stone, Nyoka Hensley, Regina Turner and William Stone.

Hensley says she sold Turner's Oxycontin for nearly $3,000, and that's where the fake bills came from.The Limestone County Sheriff's Department traced the bills back to one household in Athens.They say they found around 900 in bogus 20's. Five people living in that home were arrested. During the investigation the sheriff's department served search warrants at two other Athens homes. That lead to three drug arrests.Michael Williams, David Fain and...

Open Air Drug Markets

The busts were part of a project called "Operation Christmas Cleanup," which included ABC detectives, High Point police, Alcohol Law Enforcement agents and Housing Authority units. During the bust, agents targeted 12 stores they called "open air drug markets" where residents had complained that people were buying and selling drugs while the property owners and clerks did nothing.Undercover ALE agents tried to buy drugs in each of the parking lots...

20 mini subs move 9,000 pounds of coke each

Eight people were arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs into Galicia, although their home made invention was quite different than all other methods used. A home made submarine was used to smuggle drugs from ships at sea into the Galician coast line. The submarine was found by a...

Dog Dogged

First Criminal Court in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico dismissed all criminal charges pending against Dog, Tim and Leland Chapman on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired. However, Dog and his Posse are not in the clear quite yet. Although the cancellation of the warrant...

Patricia Anthony Drug House

Police won the seizure of Patricia Anthony's house at 1102 Ave. G and rooming house at 1607 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Circuit Court and evicted Anthony on Dec. 21 with plans to tear down the two buildings where numerous drug arrests have been made over the years.A sign stating...

21 year old English Women

21-year-old English woman has been caught with a small amount of cocaine on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, police said tod...

Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle was charged with DUI in Moon Township, Pennsylvania after another driver complained to police that someone had been driving erratically and hit his vehicle in a restaurant parking lot. The driver reported Angle's license plate numbers. Angle's defense attorney Mike Santicola...

Michelle Rodriguez

Michelle Rodriguez has posted a response on Rodriguez' official MySpace page about violating probation in her DUI case. "She will be fine," said the entry. "Just hours after this ruling [that Rodriguez will get six months in jail], she is as positive as ever," said the MySpace entry. According to the Los Angeles City Attorney's office, Rodriguez was sentenced to six months in jail after she reportedly failed to complete her community service sentence...

Carlton Vines

Carlton Vines has been arrested for DUI after he reportedly left the scene of a crash. Vines's vehicle reportedly hit a pickup truck and then sped away. A witness called 911 to report the crash and identified Vines' plate numbers. Vines refused a blood test, but was arrested in his Trion, Georgia home later that day. He was released on $4,000 bail. This is Vines' second offense; in 2003, he pleaded no contest to DUI charges al...

Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke was arrested for DUI in Miami Beach. Rourke was driving his little green Vespa scooter and apparently did an illegal U-turn in front of a cop. Before Rourke's arrest, he and a female friend had been seen going into a bar at around 2 am and coming out about two hours...

Robert Glen Carpenter

Robert Glen Carpenter, 37, pleaded not guilty to DUI after he was stopped and arrested at 12:30 a.m. for suspicion of DUI. Police found a beer can in his vehicle after stopping him for speeding. According to police reports, his blood alcohol content was reportedly .21, which is more than twice the legal limit of .08 in the state of Washington. He was released and stopped again at 2:44 a.m., when his blood alcohol content was reportedly ....

John Ford

Tamara Mitchell-Ford, is currently locked up for repeat DUI offenses. John Ford was set to begin a 5 ½ year jail term for bribery on December 12, but a U.S. District Court judge recently granted a motion to postpone his incarceration until his ex-wife, Tamara Mitchell Ford, completes her one year DUI jail sentence. John Ford currently has custody of the couple's four children, who range in age from 2 to 15. Ford's next hearing is set for February...

Kirsten Storms

Kirsten Storms of the soap opera General Hospital has pleaded no contest to DUI as part of a plea deal. Storms was arrested in September for DUI after she was stopped for littering. Storms was not present in the Los Angeles-area courtroom when her attorney entered the plea. Storms...

Kumar Barve

Kumar Barve. Gaithersburg police arrested Barve after he exited a parking lot through a gate marked "entrance only." The lawmaker admitted to having two drinks and was reportedly found to have a blood alcohol content of .10, which is above the legal limit in Maryland of .08. He was charged with DUI, driving while impaired, failure to obey a traffic device, and failure to drive right of the center line. Barve sponsored the DUI bill that changed the...

Vivica A. Fox

Vivica A. Fox has taken a DUI plea deal and pleaded no contest in a Van Nuys, California courtroom for her March DUI arrest. Fox was arrested for speeding on a Los Angeles, California freeway when a state police officer noticed that the actress was reportedly intoxicated. Fox has been ordered to enter an alcohol education program for 90 days and was sentenced to three years probat...

Ray Liotta

The Boston Herald and other news sources have reported that actor Ray Liotta has taken a DUI plea deal in a Los Angeles Superior Court. Liotta was arrested for DUI last February in Los Angeles after he plowed his SUV into several parked cars. Although preliminary police reports indicated...

Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver was charged this week with driving under the influence of drugs after a car crash in late November. He reportedly refused blood and urine tests. Weiland, who was charged with a DUI in 2004, could be jailed for up to eight days if he is convicted of a second offense. He was released on $40,000 bond. Weiland has had many drug-related legal run-ins and served five months in jail in 1999 for...

April Nieto, Carol Lee. Crack Driving

April Nieto, 36, of Lemoore, was pulled over at 12:45 a.m. Friday near the intersection of 5-1/2 Avenue.She and her passenger, Carol Lee, 53, of Porterville, were found to be under the influence of a controlled substance and arrested at the scene.Nieto was found in possession of 1.3 grams of crack cocaine, police allege. She was transported to the Kings County Jail and charged with possession, transportation and being under the influence of a controlled...

James W Chapman

James W. Chapman, 47, 3913 Saratoga Ave., Downers Grove, was stopped by an officer about 10 a.m. while driving near 26th Street and Morgan Avenue after a vehicle registration check found he was wanted for burglary in Cook County and was driving on a suspended licen...

Jonathan Ricardo Henry

Jonathan Ricardo Henry, 20, is wanted for six charges including assault with a weapon and threatening death. He’s described as black, six-foot-one, about 220 pounds with a muscular build and short hair.Two people got on an elevator in a building near Birchmount Rd. and Eglinton Ave., and a fight broke out Thursday morning, Toronto police said. A man then pulled out a gun during the fight, and threatened to kill the other pers...

Airat Ashake Ada

Ibadan, Nigeria, A man was arrested with 166 grammes of cocaine in his anus at lagos Airport. The other, a 35-year-old woman, whose name was given as Airat Ashake Alade, was also arrested. A Lebanese and four Nigerians with over $10m were also arrested as they attempted to board the Emirates aircraft at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lag...

Pvt.Byron Fouty, Spc.Alex Jimenez

Two men suspected in an attack that killed five U.S. soldiers and left two missing more than seven months ago have been arrested.The men were arrested in Ramadi, a former insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.Unknown still are the whereabouts of Pvt. Byron Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich., and Spc. Alex Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., who have been missing since May 12, when they were captured while conducting...

Deportation

24-year-old man from Mexico who is a permanent U.S. resident faces deportation because of a felony conviction for menacing and misdemeanor convictions for child abuse and third-degree assault. Greeley authorities have documented his membership in a "violent street gang," ICE said in a release.The other two, a 67-year-old man and his 33-year-old son, have convictions for sexual assault on minors and are suspected illegal immigrants. The father was...

John J. Romano

John J. RomanoPolice said Cortes was going at least 60 mph in a 30 mph zone early Oct. 8, 2006, when his black 1989 Chevy Camaro crashed into a brick-retaining wall on North Avenue and Walnut Street in Elmhurst.He survived his injuries, but his two passengers died. Miguel Berrios-Hurtado,...

Lee Costi

Lee Costi, a media student, had already enticed and had sex with two girls aged 13 and 14.Costi, 21, from Haslemere, Surrey, was the first person in the UK to be caught through the Virtual Global Taskforce website, which allows children targeted by sex offenders to report their abusers. He was arrested after arranging to meet his third victim, a 14-year-old, at Nottingham railway station for sexThe court was told earlier that the schoolgirl had been...

Robert Coleshill

Robert Coleshill, 53, was jailed for six months at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday. A groundbreaking two-year Internet ban was also imposed, after he pleaded guilty to four charges of gross indecency and a further six counts of being in possession of indecent images of children. Coleshill was sentenced under the Criminal Attempts Act, for attempting to take part in an act of gross indecency. Digital evidence was presented of the defendant committing...

150 Computers siezed

Portuguese detectives are trawling through a mountain of child pornography after raiding the homes of 80 suspected paedophiles.The raid on 75 homes - which involved 80 suspects - was the country's biggest police operation against child exploitation. 150 computers had been seized in the raids, which were carried out across Portug...

Internet Chartrooms targeted

INTERNET chatrooms run by Skype, the online telephone giant, have become a magnet for paedophiles and sexual predators who want to groom children as young as 10 for sex, an investigation has found.The software, which enables users to make free phone calls and also “chat” by typing messages while online, has become the preferred method for many paedophiles to find their victims.Other internet chat facilities have strengthened their child protection...

Sex Offenders

website has published the details of five missing offenders, giving their names, ages, photograph and where they have gone missing from, but not the details of their convictions.The five men named on the website are Alexander Colin Dalgleish, aged 30-35, Gordon Stewart, 25-30, Paul...

Roy.E.Gerritsen

Roy E. Gerritsen of Shreveport, Louisiana who works as the manager of Red River Radio Network was arrested and charged with one count each of computer aided solicitation of a minor and attempted carnal knowledge of a juvenile, when Roy E. Gerritsen was caught by an undercover officer from Northwest Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in an internet sti...

Daniel Trader

Daniel Charles Trader of Pocomoke City, Maryland was charged with attempting to exploit a minor and distribution and possession of pornographic material depicting minors when he was caught in an internet sting with an undercover police officer from the Wheaton, Ill., police departme...

Andrew Lubrano caught in cybersting

Andrew Lubrano of Centereach, NY has been arrested and charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration when he was caught in an internet sti...

Kurt Elias

Kurt Elias, 35, pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful contact with a minor and one count of using the Internet to try to contact a person who was a minor.Elias sent nude photos of himself to someone who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. The Pennsylvania Attorney General said the person Elias sent the photos to was actually an undercover agent from the state's Child Predator Unit.Elias was sentenced to six to 12 months in prison and five years...

Stephen Marshall

Stephen Marshall aged 20, is alleged to have used the internet and a computer to track his sex offender victims. was being sought in connection with the slayings. He fatally shot himself after Boston police cornered him on a bus, Maine authorities said. The shootings of Joseph Gray,...

Anthony Scott Waterman Internet Sex Crime

Anthony Scott Waterman spent a year in jail before reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors.He will be required to register as a sex offender.Waterman claimed the victim, 15, told him she was 25 years old and looking for a husband.Waterman was arrested last November at Honolulu...

Prostitutes On-line

Everett Police arrested several more suspected prostitutes by using the on-line marketplace craigslist.com.Earlier this year, responding to citizen complaints, police discovered that the site most often used as portal for anyone to sell anything on-line has become a popular selling...

Spreading Trojans

Telecoms watchdog OPTA has fined three Dutch firms and their two directors a total of €1m for the illegal distribution of spyware.It is the first time OPTA has imposed fines for spreading malicious Trojans, and has been called "one of the biggest cases of illegal software crime", by the regulator.In 2005, the two unnamed businessmen distributed software called DollarRevenue among millions of internet users. Approximately 450 million software files...

Alicia Kozakiewicz says she was just a normal 13-year-old girl. That all changed on New Year's Day 2002. Today, she recounted for Congress how an online sexual predator befriended her in an Internet chat room, then kidnapped her, drove her across state lines and locked her in a cage...

French Download Trouble

Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing Web access under a new anti-piracy system unveiled on Friday.The three-way pact between Internet service providers, the government and owners of film and music rights is a boon to the music industry,...

New Zealand Hacker

New Zealand police were questioning an 18-year-old Hamilton teenager believed to be the mastermind of a worldwide computer hacking gang on Friday, after a joint FBI investigation tracked the kingpin who allegedly helped crack 1.3 million computers and stole millions of dollars from victims' bank accoun...

Corruption site collapse

Chinese government Web site encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits.China's National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, formed in September after a string of high-profile scandals involving government officials, launched its official Web site (yfj.mos.gov.cn) on Tuesday.By the afternoon, the Web site could not be opened, the Beijing Youth Daily said. It quoted an official as saying that the...

Cyber Lover

CyberLover, the piece of software developed in Russia masquerades as a real man or woman who is seeking love online.It is capable of conducting flirtatious conversations with people in chat-rooms and on dating sites as a means of luring vital information from its unwitting victims.According...

Illegal Gaming

The United States made it illegal in October 2006 for credit card companies to accept charges for online gambling, effectively closing the market to foreign companies. Many are based in Europe, such as 888 Holdings, PartyGaming and Sportingbet P...

Internet Fraud

Internet fraud is increasing so quickly that some overwhelmed police forces are refusing to investigate incidents where less than £1,000 has been lost.The existence of a threshold for such crimes has been exposed by online auction house Ebay, after reports from victims who complained that police failed to act.The failure to investigate and prosecute offenders was causing the public real harm, Ebay sa...

UK lottery scam

Half of all spam involves lottery scams making them one of the fastest growing areas of cyber-crime, according to research commissioned by Microsoft across Germany, Italy, Denmark, the UK and The Netherlands.The problem is worse in the UK where around 62 per cent of spam emails are lottery scams.Disturbingly, 16 per cent of those who received 'lottery spam' opened at least some of them, and 10 per cent have replied to one of these emails and 20 per...

fake websites

40,000 Web sites have been created and populated with fake search terms for the sole purpose of increasing their page ranking when Google users searched for any of the words listed in the bogus pages -- words that included a number of popular holiday gadget gifts. All of the sites tried to silently install invasive programs on any visitor's machi...

Consumer Records

In just one incident last year, data collector ChoicePoint says organized criminals accessed 144,778 consumer records, including credit reports and Social Security numbers. ChoicePoint says it has notified more than 700 people that identity information was compromis...

Shadowcrews 4.000 members

Shadowcrew's 4,000 members, according to the U.S. Secret Service, ran a worldwide marketplace in which 1.5 million credit card numbers, 18 million e-mail accounts, and scores of identification documents—everything from passports to driver's licenses to student IDs—were offered to the highest bidd...

Shadowcrew.com

Agents from the Secret Service, operating in tandem with law enforcement officials in Canada, Brazil, Poland, Sweden and several other countries, had been investigating the ShadowCrew crime syndicate for months. The agents couldn't risk giving the cybermobsters time to alert their comrades or delete incriminating data.The group's Web site, shadowcrew.com, functioned as a sort of identity-theft eBay, a one-stop shop where criminals could buy and sell...

Synthetic Identity Theft

victim of synthetic identity theft. Unlike traditional ID theft, crooks steal your social security number…But tie it to a different name…Creating a new, fictional person.“It is actually more insidious and more frightening for a victim.”The thieves open bank accounts and credit cards…Even get jobs …Yet it can take years to uncove...

Database of Actual Cases

The actual FTC database for its identity theft clearinghouse, where actual cases of someone stealing another person’s identity are reported, recorded 214,905 cases in 2003 and 161,00 in 20...

odds of becoming I.D.theft victim

The calculated odds of your becoming an identity theft victim are 1 in ...

I.D. theft

Identity theft is Britain's fastest-growing white-collar crime, increasing at nearly 500% a year.It's a terrible feeling. It's a feeling just like your house has been burgledJohn SeaterCar dealerAt that rate, says the banks' fraud avoidance bureau "this type of fraud will become the most serious, with significant financial losses".Most victims of identity theft are reimbursed by banks for money stolen from them, but they suffer nonethele...