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New York (AFP) - Two alleged leaders of the Mexican drug cartel La Nueva Familia Michoacana have been indicted on heroin trafficking charges in the United States, officials said Thursday. Rodolfo Maldonado-Bustos, 59, also known as "Don Jose," and Euclides Camacho-Goicochea, 51, aka "El Quilles," were indicted by a federal grand jury in Georgia, the Justice Department said in a statement. "These cartel members allegedly imported massive amounts of heroin from Mexico to the Atlanta area and elsewhere in the United States," said US Attorney Ryan Buchanan of the Northern District of Georgia. The ...
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Miami (AFP) - US rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Miami Beach overnight Thursday for trespassing and disorderly intoxication, records showed. The music star, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was arrested just after 1:00 am after a verbal altercation with people on a yacht at the Miami Beach Marina, according to the arrest report. After being called about a fight on a yacht, police asked the 33-year-old to leave, which he did. He later returned, "disturbing the peace of the occupants of the marina" and "causing a public disturbance." After his arrest, the singer told police he had ...
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New York (AFP) - Pop star Justin Timberlake was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated in a chic town east of New York City, and spent the night in jail before being arraigned and released, local officials said Tuesday. The 43-year-old Timberlake, known for such hits as "SexyBack" and "Cry Me a River," was taken into custody in Sag Harbor, part of the affluent Hamptons community, in the early hours of Tuesday. "Justin Timberlake was arrested in Sag Harbor for driving while intoxicated," the prosecutor's office in Suffolk County said in a statement emailed to AFP. "He was arraigned ...
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Washington (AFP) - The governor of the US state of Maryland issued a mass pardon of drug offenses on Monday, in a far-reaching move forgiving 175,000 low-level marijuana convictions across multiple decades. Democrat Wes Moore said his act -- "the most sweeping state-level pardon" in American history -- was aimed at addressing social and economic injustices disproportionately impacting tens of thousands of Black people. Moore, the eastern state's first Black governor, said he intended to right the "decades of harm" wrought by drug policy that had disproportionately targeted African Americans, d...
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Beijing (AFP) - Chinese police said on Tuesday they have arrested a suspect over the stabbing of four American college teachers at a public park in the country's northeast. Beijing described the attack that took place on Monday as an "isolated" incident, while the White House said it was "deeply concerned" by the stabbing. The four victims were on an academic exchange and worked as instructors at Iowa's Cornell College, which said they were wounded in a "serious incident". Police said they had arrested a 55-year-old man after the attack at a public park in Jilin province. Chinese state-media ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Every parent knows how to find a piece of LEGO -- walk around barefoot. But police in California found a whole lot more of the plastic bricks -- 2,800 boxes. The kits, which reports said included "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" themed builds, were discovered at the home of a man believed to be part of a theft ring targeting the popular toy. Detectives in Los Angeles said they began tracking LEGO thefts in December. They built their case over the following months and, after watching 39-year-old Blanca Gudino allegedly help herself to boxes of LEGO at a local store, they spran...
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New York (AFP) - US authorities have charged three individuals with conspiring with an NBA player to rig basketball games, New York prosecutors said Thursday. In April, the NBA banned Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter for life after a bombshell probe found he bet on league matches. Porter's name is redacted in the indictment by Brooklyn federal prosecutors, but game dates and other details in the document match up with Porter. According to the indictment, Timothy McCormack, Mahmud Mollah and Long Phi Pham, also known as Bruce, "did knowingly and intentionally conspire to devise a scheme an...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A YouTuber who allegedly directed a helicopter to shoot fireworks at a speeding Lamborghini for a "crazy stupid" video has been arrested in California, US prosecutors said Thursday. Suk Min Choi, better known as Alex Choi, boasts nearly one million subscribers to his YouTube channel, which promises its viewers "the greatest car shenanigans!" But the 24-year-old's fireworks stunt, shot in a dry California lakebed last summer, resulted in Choi being charged with "causing the placement of an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft." If convicted, Choi could face up to 1...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump faced Republican voters for the first time as a convicted felon on Tuesday during the final state primaries for the 2024 presidential nomination, where he continued to sweep up votes. The ex-president has already locked up the Republican nomination to run against President Joe Biden, making the votes in Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota formalities. However, some political observers had wondered if Republican voters might sour on Trump's divisive candidacy after he was found guilty last week of falsifying business records in a conspiracy to unlawf...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump appealed for support from the fringe Libertarian Party on Saturday, telling a rowdy crowd that if elected he would free from prison an American man who ran a website that sold millions of dollars in drugs. The announcement came at a contentious speech -- where the crowd often jeered and booed the ex-president -- at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, as he seeks support in the November US election against incumbent Joe Biden. "If you vote for me, on day one, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht," Trump said, in a line that brought the rowd...
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