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Tue, 16 March 19:23
The final member of a gang of mortgage fraudsters that was on the verge of obtaining an illegal seven-figure loan when police stepped in has been sentenced today, Tuesday 16 March. Another four people who were involved with the network were sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison on Friday 26 February at Southwark Crown Court, following an investigation by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Fraud Squad.
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Tue, 16 March 14:51
Two men have been sentenced in connection with a fatal fail to stop collision in Hendon. Marios Kasparavicius, 23 from Barnet was sentenced to seven years in prison and disqualified from driving for five years having pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving on 4 September 2009. Shayan Khonsari, 22 from Barnet was sentenced to 15 months in prison and disqualified from driving for three years having pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on 18 January 2010.
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Tue, 16 March 11:30
Woman pleads guilty to federal mail fraud charge, stolen merchandise nets her $175,395 from eBay Sales. MONROE, LA—Stephanie R. Payne, 40, of Monroe, La., pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud relating to the sale of stolen merchandise on eBay, Acting United States Attorney William J. Flanagan announced today.
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Mon, 15 March 13:13
POLICE in Guatemala have arrested a 32-year-old man from Valencia, known online as Darzee, accused of producing and distributing child pornography. He was found working in an orphanage in Guatemala and will now be sent back to Spain to face justice. Meanwhile, police are investigating whether there are any charges against him in Guatemala.
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Fri, 12 March 18:20
It is thought that a teacher who was out jogging in Alaska may have been mauled to death by wolves. The autopsy on Candice Berner recorded "multiple injuries due to animal maulings" as the cause of death. Her body was found off the road about a mile from the small village of Chignik bay on the Alaskan peninsula.
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Fri, 12 March 16:05
Corey Feldman has been left devastated by the tragic death of pal Corey Haim. He is deeply upset that no one had reached out to Haim during his times of need, only now, publicly showing their grief.
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Fri, 12 March 15:16
TWO IT analysts have received a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years at Croydon Crown Court today for theft from a nationwide casino chain by abusing their insider knowledge of their employer's IT systems. Andrew Owen Ashley, 30, of Laleham Road, London SE6, employed as a problem analyst at the time of the offences, was found guilty of one count of theft contrary to the Theft Act 1968 committed between 1 July 2007 and 12 September 2007.
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Fri, 12 March 13:45
KOREA - Today is the official start of the Mr World two week festival and the contestants have been arriving at Incheon International Airport in their droves. The official Mr World buses have been going to and from the airport all day dropping off contestants who have just landed in Korea, and for many it is their first ever visit to the land of the morning calm.
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Thu, 11 March 17:50
A convicted foreign drug smuggler was stopped trying to enter the country after the UK Border Agency's hi-tech e-borders monitoring system flagged his impending arrival on a Gatwick bound flight.The UK Border Agency refused entry to the 40-year-old Lithuanian national on arrival from Vilnius because he was deported in April 2002 having been convicted in 1998 of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK.
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Wed, 10 March 17:37
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles coroner’s office has confirmed that actor Corey Haim has died aged 38. A spokeswoman said he passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at St Joseph Medical Centre in California.
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Wed, 10 March 15:27
A 20-year-old man has been jailed for a total of 18 weeks and banned from football matches for six years in connection with disorder following a West Ham v Tottenham fixture in August 2009.
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Wed, 10 March 13:18
WASHINGTON—David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Michael L. Levy, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, together with Janice K. Fedarcyk, Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI in Philadelphia, today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Colleen R. LaRose, aka “Fatima LaRose,” aka “Jihad Jane,” with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official, and attempted identity theft.
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Wed, 10 March 13:00
Cocaine worth £160,000 was found by officers from the UK Border Agency in the false bottom of a suitcase at Gatwick Airport. The four kilos of cocaine were discovered when officers searched the baggage off a flight from Bridgetown, Barbados, on Tuesday 9 March.
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Tue, 09 March 18:26
Maternity units and private firms in the UK which collect umbilical cord blood to preserve stem cells are being warned they could be acting outside the law. The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) has written to more than 150 organisations following concerns that parents, including new fathers, are collecting the blood themselves using kits delivered to their homes. Some midwives have said they are being put under pressure to collect the blood illegally and there are fears this could be compromising patient care.
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Tue, 09 March 18:21
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and GEORGE VENIZELOS, the Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York Field Division ("FBI"), announced that ANTHONY DIGATI was arrested on March 6, 2010, on charges of attempting to extort approximately $200,000 from a New York-based life insurance company by threatening to make false public statements and transmit computer spam in an effort to damage the reputation of the company and cost it millions of dollars in revenue.
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Mon, 08 March 19:49
A man who posed as a teenage boy on social networking platform Facebook to befriend and lure a young seventeen year old girl from her home before raping and killing her has been told he will spend a minimum of 35 years behind bars.
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Mon, 08 March 16:22
A MEMBER of the Capella Giulia, the Vatican Choir, has been sacked after it was discovered that he provided homosexual encounters for Angelo Balducci, a papal gentleman-in-waiting. The chorister, 29-year-old Nigerian, Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, was heard by police on a wiretap negotiating the details of the men he was to take to Balducci. Another man, a 33-year-old Italian named as Lorenzo Renzi, has also been implicated.
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Mon, 08 March 14:21
The travelling public could face potential disruption at UK ports due to strike action by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) on Monday 8 March and Tuesday 9 March, the UK Border Agency has warned. The Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency, Lin Homer, has confirmed that contingency plans are in place to minimise potential disruption, and that UK border security will not be compromised by the industrial action.
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Mon, 08 March 10:44
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 has struck in the eastern region of Turkey killing at least 41 it has been reported. According to the Turkish Government the towns and villages of Okcular, Yukari Kanatli and Kayali have been worst affected with stone and mud brick houses collapsing.
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Fri, 05 March 19:01
A man who was part of a gang believed to have been the UK's most prolific importers of skunk cannabis, has today (Friday 5 March) been convicted of possession with intent to supply controlled drugs at Southwark Crown Court.
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Fri, 05 March 11:22
An 18 -year -old man has been sentenced to an indefinite prison sentence for the public's protection after he was found on a London street with a firearm and ammunition.He is Rosca Onya, born 19 October 1991, of no fixed address. It follows an investigation by Trident officers in south London.
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Thu, 04 March 18:46
Fraud Squad arrest six people involved in an alleged £3million wine investment scam. Officers from the Fraud Squad carried out arrests in east London today (4 March) following an allegation of a large-scale, specialist wine investment fraud. Police believe that victims of the alleged fraud are being persuaded to invest large amounts of money in specialist wines from Australia that don’t actually exist.
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Thu, 04 March 16:07
A former MPS officer and five other people have been sentenced for the illegal supply of steroids across South Wales following a proactive investigation by the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS).
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Wed, 03 March 17:59
MP Michael Foot who lead the Labour Party for three years from 1980 to 1983 has died aged 96. Mr Foot died around 7am this morning at his Hampstead home, North London. Mr Foot succeeded James Callaghan in becoming leader of the Labour Party in 1980, which he led for three years until he suffered defeat to Margaret Thatcher in the general election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock took over at the helm.
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Wed, 03 March 15:52
Suspects from a major international drug dealing gang, dismantled by Europol and law enforcement officers from 15 nations, will come in front of Bonn’s District Court next month. The network was active in synthetic drug production in the Netherlands, the import of cocaine from South America, and large scale poly–drug trafficking within the European Union and beyond (e.g. to the Russian Federation).
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