Kenneth Harman charged with murdering Michael Castle

Kenneth Harman, of Cannon Bridge, Tonbridge, Kent, will appear at Sevenoaks Magistrates Court charged with murdering Michael Castle.A 54-year-old man is appearing in court charged with the murder of a man found stabbed to death on his houseboat.The 61-year-old's body was discovered inside his boat, called Impulse, on the River Medway near Cannon Bridge at Tonbridge, last Friday. A post-mortem examination revealed he died from stab woun...

Morgan Michelle Hoke The ponytail bandit arrested in Bangkok

Hoke, 21, and her 26-year-old husband, Stuart Michael Romine, are accused of robbing banks in Texas, including one in Austin, and possibly in California and Washington. The couple arrived in Bangkok on Jan. 20, according to arrest warrants.Bank robbery suspect Morgan Michelle Hoke,...

Guyana's most-wanted man - alleged gang leader Rondell Rawlins - is responsible for the January killings in Lusignan.

Gunmen dressed in military uniforms and took weapons from a police station in Bartica, 80 miles (130km) south-west of the capital Georgetown. The attack is the second blamed on gangs in recent weeks. On 26 January, 11 people - including five children - were killed when gunmen attacked the village of Lusignan. At least six gunmen arrived in Bartica late on Sunday by a speedboat on the Essequibo River and attacked the town's police station, regional...

Seifert's extradition has been welcomed by groups campaigning for Nazi war criminals to be brought to justice

Michael Seifert arrived in Rome from Canada where he had been fighting a battle against extradition. An Italian military tribunal convicted him in absentia in 2000 of 11 murders at a prison camp in the northern city of Bolzano. Seifert admits to having been a guard at the camp but...

Illegal street race "There were just bodies everywhere; it was horrible," Crystal Gaines,

"It's probably one of the worst scenes I've seen," said Prince George's County Police Cpl Clinton Copeland.Eight people were killed when a car veered into a crowd at an illegal street race in the United States. The crash happened at about 0340 (0840 GMT) on Route 210 just outside Accokeek in Maryland - about 20 miles (32km) from Washington DC. At least six people were injured, police said. Their conditions were not immediately known. A white sedan...

Phillip Bennett pleading guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges

Refco's collapse was the fourth-biggest US bankruptcy case.Phillip Bennett was speaking in court after pleading guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges that could seem him given a prison sentence of up to 315 years. Refco went bust in 2005. It has since come out of bankruptcy protection. Prosecutors said Bennett had prevented auditors and investors discovering the losses the firm and customers suffered. The charges included conspiracy to commit securities...

Fawzi Falih faces imminent beheading for sorcery

Fawzi Falih faces imminent beheading for sorcery unless the King issues a rare pardon. But the influential rights group has stopped short of asking for intervention from foreign governments in the case, which has captured international attention and highlighted discriminatory aspects of the Saudi justice system, where courts often fail to follow due process. Such was the case in the trial of Ms Falih, Human Rights Watch argues. Religious police arrested...

Ashley Ervin, 18, was automatically sentenced to life

Ashley Ervin, 18, was automatically sentenced to life without parole for her part in the May 26, 2006 death of Brady Davis, 61. She was driving the getaway car for Dexter Johnson and Keithron Fields, also charged with capital murder.Investigators said Johnson, 19, and Fields,18, attacked Davis while he was cleaning a barbecue grill at a carwash in the 11300 block of Homestead near Little York. He was later found down beside his truck, dead from a...

Rakesh Gupta murdered

Police is yet to find out any motive behind the murder of Shrachi Group top official Rakesh Gupta. Forty eight hours have passed but no arrests have yet been made. Gupta was found murdered on Sunday beside a pond, stuffed in a sack. A CID team today visited the murder spot. Later, they also interrogated a staff of Shrachi Group who worked under Gupta. Some of his relatives were also questioned. An officer said that the CID team is also trying to...

Jerrold Redmond two counts of heroin charges

Jerrold Redmond, previously of Bellevue, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Harry Sargeant for two counts of heroin charges.43-year-old man was sentenced to 90 days in jail for trafficking in heroin charges stemming from two incidents in 2006.On May 9, 2006, in Bellevue, Redmond sold more than a gram of heroin in the vicinity of a juvenile — a third degree felony, according to Sandusky County Common Pleas Court records. On June 7, 2006, in Bellevue,...

Carly Reisig,John Leo del Pinto shot another bullet into his heart

Carly Reisig, 24, said the policeman had no grounds at all for the attack - and that after he shot fellow Canadian John Leo del Pinto, the officer turned his gun on her and shot her in the chest.A young Canadian woman told how a Thai policeman shot dead her best friend in Pai in...

Jack Burch III According to police, they found a note demanding money that was signed with Burch’s full name and complete address

Jack Burch III was in the custody of federal pre-trial service employees when he disappeared Monday.He had been taken to a health care facility in downtown Portland to receive a medical evaluation, but he walked away from the facility at about 12:30 p.m.Burch is suspected of a robbery at the Bank of America in Gresham on Jan. 17. He was apprehended one block away from the bank they believed he robbed. If they hadn’t apprehended him, police said a...

Jonathan Lamar Davis to its list of fugitives wanted for violent crimes

FBI has added Jonathan Lamar Davis to its list of fugitives wanted for violent crimes. Davis is wanted for his alleged involvement in the armed robbery of a bank in Raleigh, North Carolina in January 2008 and fleeing to avoid prosecut...

Biggera Waters man has been charged with multiple fraud offences and police are searching for two more persons of interest

A 29-year-old Biggera Waters man has been charged with multiple fraud offences and police are searching for two more persons of interest.shut down an alleged identity theft ring in Queensland which is suspected of generating more than $1million through fraud.Superintendent Brian Hay, of Queensland police's fraud and corporate crimes group, said a bank in Oxley alerted police on Thursday after a man tried to apply for a loan with suspicious documents.Investigations...

Jim Hayes was convicted by the federal jury

Jim Hayes, a former three-term mayor, was convicted by the federal jury of 16 of the 27 counts he was charged with, including conspiracy, theft, fraud, misapplication of federal funds, money laundering and failing to file tax returns.Hayes was accused of helping funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to himself and to help finish a $2 million home for the Lily of the Valley Church of God in Christ, where he serves as pastor.The indictment accused...

Doyle simply crossed the people you don't cross on the Costa, the Russians.'

Russian mafia hitmen shot dead Dublin gangland member Paddy Doyle on the Costa del Sol, senior gardai claimed this weekend. Doyle, the survivor of a vicious criminal turf war in south Dublin which has claimed at least 10 lives, was gunned down in Estepona last Monday. Veteran detectives with the Garda Siochana's 'Operation Anvil', the drive against Dublin's crime gangs, said the 27-year-old had beaten up a close relative of a Russian mafia leader...

Escaped from a prison in France with two other inmates in a hijacked helicopter

Escaped from prison in France with two other inmates in a hijacked helicopter was arrested in Calpe on Monday morning, in an operation run in collaboration with police in France.fugitive who escaped from a prison in France with two other inmates in a hijacked helicopter was arrested...

Guardia Civil’s organised crime unit mounted a anti-drugs operation in Palma.

Guardia Civil’s organised crime unit mounted a anti-drugs operation in Palma.A series of raids were mounted simultaneously with a number of drugs swoops carried out across Spain as part of a nationwide operation.Yesterday morning, armed officers wearing ski masks and with air support...

Paddy Doyle had been riddled with a total of 15 bullets.

Spanish press reports that Detectives are now trying to establish a link between the murder of Paddy Doyle and Tuesday’s haul of 115 kilos of cocaine, also in Estepona. Following a series of clues found after Monday’s shooting the Costa del Sol Drugs and Organised Crime Unit (Udyco)...

David Francis Giles :Hells Angels chapter was expanding operations in Kelowna

A judge determining the fate of a senior member of Vancouver's East End Hells Angels and two alleged associates accused of cocaine possession and trafficking asked some blunt questions today of the federal prosecutor."Where's the direct evidence of money going to the Hells Angels?"...

David Francis Giles "power of the patch," East End chapter of the Hells Angels

$10-million police investigation targeting the East End chapter of the Hells Angels, police secretly listened to the conversations of a longtime member David Francis Giles.When on the phone, Giles referred to himself as "Gyrator" and would often tell people not to discuss things over the phone. Instead, he'd arrange to meet his associates in parking lots and restaurants.prosecutor Martha Devlin, in her final arguments Wednesday at the trial of Giles...

child prostitution network

Italian police have made scores of arrests and rolled up a child prostitution network. Fifty-one people were arrested in Italy and 15 in other countries, mainly the Netherlands. They are accused of human trafficking, exploitation and kidnapping. In Nigeria, Nigerian women took very young children from orphanages to work in the drug trade and as prostitutes. The children are also believed to have been taken from asylum centres in the Netherlands....