Briton faces Malaysia death penalty

Shivaun Orton, 41, from Bangor, North Wales, and her Malaysian husband Abdul Harris Fadilah, 46, were arrested on the border of Pahang and Terengganu states after the raid on December 13.
Police are said to have found drugs including cannabis, ecstasy and amphetamines after searching the Ranting Resort, in Cherating, which is popular with backpackers. More than 225 grams of heroin was allegedly found nearby."

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Rodney “Red” Morgan, 41, Former Norwich bar owner to serve four years for role in drug conspiracy | News from southeastern Connecticut

The Day - Former Norwich bar owner to serve four years for role in drug conspiracy | News from southeastern Connecticut: "owner of the former Red’s Cafe at 287 Central Ave. has been sentenced to four years in prison and six years of supervised release for conspiring to possess and sell oxycodone and cocaine.Rodney “Red” Morgan, 41, of Groton, was arrested following a nine-month, multi-agency investigation into the large-scale distribution of cocaine, oycodone and marijuana. According to court documents, he conspired with conspiracy leader Lamont Muller, who referred to Morgan as “his man” in Norwich. In September 2009, Morgan arranged to purchase 200 pills from Muller, who obtained them from a third party and resold them to Muller. The two were seen together on surveillance video and were recorded discussing the purchase of “CDs” via telephone.
Morgan, who was arrested in October 2009 and released on bond within a week, was charged a month later with selling crack cocaine at his bar. His bond was revoked and he has been held in federal custody since that date. The cocaine case is pending in state court"

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Grand jury indicts 22 in 10-year cocaine ring

Grand jury indicts 22 in 10-year cocaine ring: "Montel Staples, 41, of West Mifflin, the former coach; 55-year-old Dennis Haenze and 36-year-old Earl Lamar of Pittsburgh; and Urian R. Jones, 34, of Duquesne. All four are charged with conspiring to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine.
In addition to coaching, Mr. Staples was a paraprofessional in the elementary school in the district until he resigned last fall. He was hired as part of a team that focused on students who are struggling in the classroom because of emotional, behavioral or disciplinary issues.
The 22 are accused of being a part of 'a 10-year-long conspiracy to distribute cocaine and launder monetary instruments,' according to a news release from the Department of Justice. The grand jury handed up the indictment June 15.
All of those indicted except one could face life in prison, an $8 million fine, or both, if convicted."

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Pa. man whose wife FBI shot agent given 25 years

Pa. man whose wife FBI shot agent given 25 years: "judge assured Robert Korbe, 41, of Indiana Township, that he was not being sentenced for the shooting, but Korbe's defense attorney said afterward that his client might have spent as little as 10 years in prison had his wife not shot FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks that day.
'Take away this tragedy,' defense attorney William Difenderfer said, 'and he'd be looking at a different sentence.'
Korbe's wife is awaiting trial in March on charges including murdering a federal agent.
Hicks was the first of several officers to burst through the Korbes' front door at 6 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2008, with a warrant to arrest Robert Korbe on drug-trafficking charges"

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Christopher Walters, 41, of Ferndale, Wash., received the load of illegal MDMA, or ecstasy, last July from a co-conspirator who drove a jet ski

Christopher Walters, 41, of Ferndale, Wash., received the load of illegal MDMA, or ecstasy, last July from a co-conspirator who drove a jet ski from B.C. to an isolated cove in the San Juan Islands, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release.

At Walters’s sentencing hearing, prosecutor Lisca Borichewski introduced evidence of a conversation Walters had with a fellow inmate at a Seattle-area jail in March.

Walters told the man, identified in court documents as “confidential source,” he needed to kill the witnesses against him at his upcoming trial.

“Walters said the product came from Canada and belonged to the HA’s (Hells Angels),” said a court document obtained by The Province.

The confidential source began co-operating with the authorities, who urged him to suggest he knew someone who could kill the witnesses Walters wanted eliminated.

“Walters said that it would be OK, however, and he didn’t need a guy because the Hells Angels knew where one of the witnesses was living,” said the document.

Walters, who has a lengthy criminal record including crimes of violence, drew suspicions from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after he was stopped by U.S. Coast Guard officers in Bellingham Bay in his 19-foot Larsen vessel on July 10, 2009 for a safety inspection.

The Coast Guard found a small amount of marijuana, $1,000 in U.S. bills, numerous cell phones, a global positioning system and a pair of walkie-talkie radios.

On July 17, agents followed Walters and two other co-conspirators to a Ferndale storage facility. A drug dog was called in, and the agents obtained a search warrant for the locker, where they found 100,000 ecstasy pills.

Walters went into hiding, but was arrested Sept. 12 at his girlfriend’s apartment.

“Walters made statements to other co-conspirators that he was being paid $30,000 per load to smuggle drugs for the Hells Angels organized crime group in Canada,” said the press release.



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Michael Calleja, 51 of Kew, Nicola Ciconte, 54, Vincenzo Medici, 45 and Carmelo Loprete, 41, are to be tried next month in Vibo Valentia in Calabria.

Michael Calleja, 51 of Kew, Nicola Ciconte, 54, Vincenzo Medici, 45 and Carmelo Loprete, 41, are to be tried next month in Vibo Valentia in Calabria.The Age reported that the four allegedly conspired with the Calabrian mafia to ship up to 500kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of $50 million from South America to Melbourne through Italy between 2002 and 2004.The alleged plot was discovered by the Italian police in an operation code names Operation Decollo thanks to infiltrators of the international drug networkCalleja, Medici and Loprete allegedly made several trips to Italy to work out the details of their shipments.Malta-born Calleja is said to have inspected the drugs and later was recorded telling Ciconte that the furniture was beautiful.Australia refused Italian requests for the extradition of the four men.

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Adrian Mosley, 39, and Anissa Mosley, 41, appeared on Thursday in a Beaumont federal courtroom, where they were formally charged with drug possession

Adrian Mosley, 39, and Anissa Mosley, 41, appeared on Thursday in a Beaumont federal courtroom, where they were formally charged with drug possession and intent to distribute cocaine.The case began July 29 when Beaumont police stopped their car for a routine traffic violation. A search of the vehicle netted 28 kilograms of cocaine, officials said.They were arrested Oct. 22 after a federal grand jury indicted them on the drug trafficking charges. A later search of their home in Pearland uncovered a cocaine processing lab, weapons, ledgers used in the drug trafficking and a money counting machine.Investigating the couple are the Drug Enforcement Administration's Galveston office, the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office and the Beaumont Police Department.

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