six people were executed at Evin prison in Iran
Two of the people were identified by their first names Ghassem and Zahra.
Ghassem The names of the other four people were not provided, either were details of their alleged offences
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007
Three Australians death penalty
Indonesia upheld the death penalty for serious drug offences for three Australians facing execution for trying to smuggle heroin off the resort island of Bali. Lawyers for the three men had hoped a successful constitutional challenge would add weight to their final appeal to the Supreme Court, which had previously escalated their sentence from life imprisonment to death. Should that appeal fail, their last available avenue would be a direct plea to Indonesia's president. The Constitutional Court ruled 6 to 3 that a 2000 constitutional amendment upholding the right to life did not apply to capital punishment. The court added that the right to life had to be balanced against the rights of victims of drug trafficking. Three other Australians on death row here had hoped that a constitutional ruling might lead to a review of their case. Three other Australians are serving between 20 years and life for their involvement in the smuggling ring. The so-called Bali Nine were arrested in 2005 for trying to smuggle 8.2 kilograms, or 18 pounds, of heroin into Australia from Bali
Read more...Tony Manh reaffirmed the death sentence
Tony Manh, 40, the People's Court of Appeals in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reaffirmed the death sentence for Tony Manh, 40, after hearing no new evidence for a reduction in his sentence, a court official told the Associated Press. of NSW, was convicted of trafficking 0.948 kilograms of heroin at the one-day trial , Phan Tanh, deputy head of the People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City, said.
Manh was sentenced to death and ordered to pay a fine of 50 million dong ($3,755 Australian).
Manh was arrested in March after security officers at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City found the drugs hidden on his body as he was about to board a plane to Sydney.
The official Vietnam News Agency reported that Manh was paid $US10,000 ($A12,020) by a Vietnamese to smuggle the drug into Australia.The Australian Government plans to lobby Vietnam to commute Manh's death sentence to a jail term once the appeals process has been exhausted.Mr Downer today said the Government had played a part in achieving this outcome for four Australians originally sentenced to death in Vietnam."I've no idea what would happen in this particular case as I understand that Tony Manh has actually pleaded guilty - but in four previous cases, we have successfully appealed for clemency,'' he told Southern Cross Broadcasting."That's not to say we will be successful this time.''Mr Downe
Steven Booker, Johnny Olvera
Steven Booker, 29, and Johnny Olvera, 40, were booked into the Tulare County Main Jail on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance for sale, transporting a controlled substance and being under the influence of drugs.
The car they were riding in was pulled over near Avenue 308 and Camp Drive.
Deputies seized a container with 14 grams of methamphetamine, a plastic package with .4 grams of methamphetamine and several small plastic bags commonly used to package drugs, according to a Tulare County Sheriff’s report.
Michelle Leslie
Australian model, Michelle Leslie, 24, was charged in Bali for the illegal possession of two ecstasy tablets after her arrest. She was given a three-month sentence
Read more...Michael S. Rivera
Michael S. Rivera was placed under arrest on charges of felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and failure to stay within marked lanes.
Nguyen Kant.
The Vietnam Airlines plane had been flying for an hour after leaving Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday when an Australian man of Vietnamese descent took ill, airline officials told the state-run Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. A passenger on an Australian-bound plane vomited a nylon bag of white powder suspected to be heroin, causing the plane to return to Vietnam in the latest drug mule case between that country and Australia, officials said.The aircraft turned around and made an emergency landing atTan Son Nhat Airport, where the man coughed up two more bags of white powder. He was detained by police and taken to hospital doctors found 30 red nylon bags in the man's stomach. It identified him as 35-year-old Nguyen Kant.
In March, a man was arrested at the Ho Chi Minh City airport while checking in for a flight to Sydney. He was accused of trafficking 1.1 kg (2.4 pounds) of heroin.
At the same airport in February, an Australian woman was arrested after being caught with 1.5 kg of heroin in her luggage.
Several Australians of Vietnamese descent have been arrested for trafficking heroin to Australia from Vietnam in recent years and at least four were sentenced to death.
Ana María Ríos Bemposta
Ana María Ríos Bemposta was arrested for allegedly carrying illegal ammunition. she was later released.
Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Holly Deane-Johns
Holly Deane-Johns is expected to return home to Perth this week.
Deane-Johns has spent seven years of a 31-year sentence in a Thai prison for trying to send 10 grams of heroin in the mail to Australia.
The Thai government and authorities in Australia recently agreed to allow her to serve out the rest of her time in a Western Australia jail.
Clive Minshull, Garry Henderson,
Garry Henderson, 40, of Broughton, Flintshire, and Clive Minshull, 40, from near Mold, were arrested and were jailed at Mold Crown Court after admitting conspiracy to supply. Henderson also admitted supplying the drug and was jailed for eight years. Minshull was jailed for three-and-a-half years for supplying heroin.
Henderson must produce an affidavit of all his means, savings and income, so that an investigation can be carried out under The Proceeds of Crime Act and a financial hearing will be held in March.
Barry Hess,50 executive from Melbourne could face the death penalty
Barry Hess,50 executive from Melbourne could face the death penalty in Bali after prosecutors decided to charge him with trafficking marijuana and hashish.
a former Ansett executive and general manager of Bali's collapsed airline Air Paradise, was arrested last month after police allegedly found 14.4 grams of hashish and 2.7 grams of marijuana in his Kuta home.
Initially police charged Hess with drug possession, which carries a 10-year sentence.
Fernando Carpio Cedeno
Fernando Carpio Cedeno, 23, of the Dominican Republic was arrested Monday evening on I-59, allegedly with 8.7 pounds of cocaine. Authorities say its street value is nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Read more...Two bakers, a husband and wife team arrested in the Sicilian city of Palermo
Two bakers, a husband and wife team, have been arrested in the Sicilian city of Palermo for baking cocaine-laced bread rolls, a police spokesman said Monday.
The spokesman said the couple added cocaine to the dough used for the 'special' rolls, which were sold to a stream of steady clients.
During a search of the bakers' apartment, another 40 grams of cocaine, intended for the same purpose, was discovered.
They were charged with drug dealing, and now face six to 20 years behind bars.
crystal meth in St. Petersburg
11 kilograms (24 pounds) of crystal meth and over 9,000 ecstasy pills have been seized in this year's largest haul in St. Petersburg, local drug police said Monday.
Police uncovered several drug stashes after detaining three people in possession of 2 kg (over 4 pounds) of crystal meth, and a large batch of ecstasy pills.
The haul also included cocaine and methadone, a strong prescription drug that has a similar effect to heroin.
An investigation is underway to find the dealers who supplied the drugs, and the delivery channels in Russia's second city.
Two people were arrested on suspicion of drug storage and trafficking.
Estonian police have discovered over $1 million worth of various drugs in an apartment in Tallinn, Estonia, the police press service said Monday.
Policemen found more than 70 kg (154lb) of hashish, 1.5 kg (3lb 50z) of cocaine, 0.3 kg (11oz) of heroin, and several packs of marijuana in the apartment.
Two people were detained on suspicion of drug storage and trafficking.
Joshua Blackburn accused Of Stealing $1m Of Cocaine
Joshua Blackburn, 32, is believed to have broken into the evidence locker room at highway patrol headquarters in Santa Ana.Deputy District Attorney Susan Schroeder said he was arrested in Riverside County and the cocaine was recovered.
Blackburn is being held on $4m bail at Orange County Jail.
William Shaun Powell,Calvin Andrew Holloway,Carlos Lee Russell,Clayton Clark Lowther,Laura Kristen Meador
Woodward:•William Shaun Powell, 24, of Ridgeland for possession of crack cocaine, marijuana and Oxycodone.•Calvin Andrew Holloway, 25, of New York for possession of Oxycodone and marijuana.•Carlos Lee Russell, 42, of Ridgeland for possession of Oxycodone and marijuana and two counts of unlawful possession of a handgun.•Clayton Clark Lowther, 29, of Ridgeland for possession of Valium and four outstanding magistrate court bench warrants for traffic violations.•Laura Kristen Meador, 42, of Bloomingdale, Ga., for possession of Valium.
Read more...Zeferi Hernandez-Gonzalez,
Zeferi Hernandez-Gonzalez, 40, has been charged with trafficking cocaine and sale and distribution of cocaine.
Read more...Felipe Candido-Anastcio,Jose Luis Jimenez-Rojas
Felipe Candido-Anastcio, 35, and Jose Luis Jimenez-Rojas, 25, have been charged with trafficking cocaine,
Read more...Port of St. Petersburg
Russian custom officers in the port of St. Petersburg discovered over 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of cocaine on a Liberian ship, local officials said Tuesday.
"The Baltic Melody sailing under a Liberian flag, which had arrived from Ecuador, was stopped in the course of an investigation," a spokesman said.
A criminal case has been opened. The offenders face up to seven years in prison and a million ruble fine ($40,000) if found guilty.
Renae Lawrence serving a 20-year jail term
Renae Lawrence, an inmate at Kerobokan Prison.
Djaja said Lawrence was one of 14 inmates whose sentence reduction suggestion had gone to the director general for consideration.
"For Renae Lawrence, we are still waiting for approval from (the) director general because for some convicted in cases of drugs ... they must get approval from director general," he said.
Lawrence was part of a nine-member ring that tried to smuggle 8.2kg of heroin from the Indonesian resort island to Australia.
Six of them are on death row. Lawrence is serving a 20-year jail term for her part in the plot.
The group was caught by Indonesian police in April 2005 following a tip-off from Australian Federal Police
Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas Day reduction
Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas Day reduction in her sentence because she had a mobile phone in her jail cell earlier this year.
The governor of Bali's Kerobokan Prison Ilham Djaja today said Corby was not among 81 prisoners recommended for a sentence reduction to mark today's religious holiday in Indonesia.
"We didn't suggest her (to have sentence reduction) because she is still under punishment over violation of hand phone usage inside the prison a few months ago," Djaja said.
"One violation means one year of no remission," Djaja said.
It is the second time Corby has been denied a sentence reduction this year because of the mobile phone indiscretion, with the Gold Coast beauty student also missing out on Indonesia's Independence Day in August.
Corby was arrested in October 2004 at Denpasar Airport with 4.2kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag after arriving on a flight from Australia.
She was jailed for 20 years but has maintained her innocence.
25-year-old man
Police have arrested a 25-year-old man and charged him with taking part in the manufacture of amphetamine and property damage.
It is alleged an explosion occurred while amphetamine was being "cooked" in the house.
Lauren Cullen
Lauren Cullen, 23, was arrested after collecting a bag from the luggage carousel. The bag contained 570g of crystal methamphetamine in a shampoo bottle and 560g of cocaine in a talcum powder bottle. when Cullen was stopped there was a raid by NSW police on premises associated with Singh, which found 1kg of methylamphetamine, half a kilogram of cocaine and two methylamphetamine labs.
Singh's jacket also was found to contain $23,800 in cash, Ms Matteo said.
Jeffery L. Hudson
Jeffery L. Hudson, 45, of Dry Branch Road, was charged with trafficking.
Read more...Vertrees Brown,
Vertrees Brown, 61, of Breezy Hill Drive, was charged with two counts of trafficking and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Read more...Pamela M. Jones
Pamela M. Jones, 29, of WTLO Road, Somerset, was cited for possession of marijuana, third-degree possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance not in a proper container and operating on a suspended driver’s license.
Read more...Joe Cantu
Joe Cantu, 47, of San Antonio, had been found dead with more than 13 stab wounds.
The authorities said they had not determined the motive for the killing. But one official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose information related to the case, said it appeared that the killing might have involved a drug-related dispute.
The killing followed the assassinations last week of four federal police officers and the killing two weeks ago of the chief of the state police unit in Nuevo Laredo and of the director of the city's emergency response system.
Jachike, Mayabma, foreign drug gangs are currently active in Thailand
West Africans, selling marijuana in Bangkok is a profitable business. One kilogramme bought for 10,000 baht in Nong Khai can be divided into small quantities and sold for up to 200 baht per gramme, depending on the perceived wealth of the customer.
The raid on November 30 was under the overall command of the NSB Commissioner, Pol Lt-Gen Wut Liptapallop and his deputy, Pol Maj-Gen Aditep Panjamanond. Pol Maj-Gen Amaresrit, who assigned Pol Col Ittipol Kitsuwan from Division 1 to put everything together, was in charge of planning, execution and coordination of the operations with other agencies, such as the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and the Food and Drug and Administration. The operation was observed by officers from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). They have been working with the Thai anti-narcotics agencies for decades and have collaborated in many large seizures and arrests of important drug traffickers.
According to Pol Maj-Gen Amaresrit, a number of a foreign drug gangs are currently active in Thailand, but the syndicates from West African nations are the most troublesome.
They are the most lethal and dangerous, because they are selling drugs locally. Amaresrit noted.
He added: "Several West African gangs are active now in Thailand and we are going after them. They smuggle drugs, especially heroin, from Thailand to other countries and import cocaine and other drugs to Thailand. Many live here illegally, without a passport, or possess a counterfeit or altered one. Some have overstayed their visas." Jachike was found to be in possession of a South African passport with his photo in it, but he told the police during a later interrogation that he is a Nigerian national. A Lesotho passport with a photo of another person was also found in his room. Another suspect who gave his name as Mayabma produced no passport and didn't give his nationality. There are several hundreds West Africans in Thai jails now.
"The heads of the syndicates are very clever," he continued. "They don't live in the areas where the gangs operate, but in suburbs like Phrakanong or Prawet where we have less control over them. Their people stay around Sukhumvit and sell drugs to the locals. More often than not but they are addicted themselves, usually to cocaine," Amaresrit said.
Monday, 24 December 2007
Jesse James Elliott
Jesse James Elliott is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, marijuana, and magic mushrooms, as well as possession of property obtained by crime and careless storage of a firearm.
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