Brandon Shawn Bell,Gregory Meredith Sanders Jr,Jauran Ashleigh Farley, Fonte Pierr Todd,Sarah Christie Reyes

Brandon Shawn Bell, 20, of 13018 Chaddsford Terrace in Woodbridge was charged with possession of marijuana about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at U.S. 1 and Port Potomac Avenue, said Officer Erika Hernandez, police spokeswoman. An officer stopped Bell's vehicle and allegedly found the drug. He was released on a summons. His court hearing date was not available.
Gregory Meredith Sanders Jr., 23, of 13200 Bangor Place, Fort Washington, Md., was charged with possession of marijuana after a traffic stop at 12:22 a.m. on Tuesday, police said. Sanders' vehicle was stopped in the 4400 block of Evergreen Drive in Dale City. He was release on a summons. His court hearing date was not available.
Jauran Ashleigh Farley, 18, of 2139 Wessex Court in Woodbridge was charged with marijuana possession after a patrol car investigated a suspicious vehicle, police said.
An officer saw the suspicious vehicle near Adrift Court and Scuppers Lane in Woodbridge about 5:39 p.m. on Tuesday, police said. Farley was released on a summons. Her court hearing date was not available.
Fonte Pierr Todd, 24, of 2691 Penbury Court in Woodbridge, was charged with cocaine possession and driving under the influence about 1 a.m. on Monday, police said.An officer stopped Todd's vehicle at Antrim Circle and Cosgrove Way in Woodbridge. Todd was charged and held in lieu of a $15,000 bond. His court hearing date was not available.Sarah Christie Reyes, 30, of 6024 Oaklawn Lane in Woodbridge, was charged with possession of marijuana and driving under the influence about 2:50 a.m. on Saturday, police said

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Zayda Pena a classic gangland-style slaying

Peña was the vocalist for Zayda y Los Culpables a popular band that produced romantic ballads. Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.
An assassin put two bullets into Peña after she emerged from emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the back she received the day before in a motel where she was staying.Although police said they they had no suspects or motive for the killing, it seemed a classic gangland-style slaying that has killed hundreds of people in Mexico this year.
She was fatally shot while recovering from a gunshot wound she received Friday at a hotel in Matamoros. Two others that were with Peña Friday were killed in the attack,
Sheriff’s deputy Alvaro Guerra, the liaison between county lawmen and the Tamaulipas State Police, confirmed late Monday that Mexican investigators contacted him regarding the 28-year-old singer’s slaying.

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Sergio Gómez,Zayda Pena

Sergio Gómez was kidnapped. Police found his body the next day. He'd been strangled and beaten. the savage murder of Sergio Gómez, one of Mexico's hottest singers, a headliner whose band, K-Paz de la Sierra, commanded $100,000 a show, twice the rate of other top bands was different. It has set off an unprecedented chain reaction in which at least half a dozen bands have canceled concert tours. Popular bands, such as the Duranguense act Patrulla 81, which backed out of four major shows, are terrified of coming to Morelia and the surrounding state of Michoacan.Gomez was killed hours after another singer, Zayda Pena, was killed in the border city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state.
Pena, 28, was shot by an unknown assailant in hospital where she was recovering from a previous gunshot wound. The motive behind her murder is also unknown.Several of the murders of musicians over the past year are believed to be tied to organised crime and drug-trafficking. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Mexico this year as drug cartels battle for territory and drug routes.

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Charles Lynch

Charles Lynch of Arroyo Grande pleaded not guilty to charges in August. His trial is scheduled for the spring, he said.
In March, San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s officials and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided Charles Lynch’s dispensary, Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers, at 780 Monterey Ave.
The business was the county’s only medical marijuana dispensary when it was closed down permanently after federal authorities contacted his landlord, Bob Davis. They told Davis his property could be seized if he continued renting it for dispensary use.
At least one victory for medical marijuana was won over the past year when Grover Beach police returned 20 grams of marijuana to Ken Parson in January, Koory said.
Parson was arrested in Grover Beach for possession of marijuana. But Koory argued that Parson’s prescription was allowed under state law.
Grover Beach police were required to return the marijuana to Parsons or pay a $5,900 fee.

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Jack Fagin

Jack Fagin, 50, whose hometown was not released, was in court today to answer to charges of attempted trafficking in drugs.
Police accuse Fagin of trying to ship 15 pounds of marijuana here from Texas.
Assistant Hamilton County prosecutor Betsy Sundermann said Fagin already has a pending indictment for shipping 200 pounds of marijuana – worth $200,000 – when he was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Agency.

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Johnathan L. Byler,David S. Byler

Arrested after an undercover officer made a covert drug buy, were Johnathan L. Byler, 21, of 5086 Route 322, Windsor, and his brother, David S. Byler, 20, of 8369 Fortney Road in Windsor. Both men were transported to county jail.

Johnathan Byler was charged with trafficking in drugs (powder cocaine), and possession of drugs. David Byler was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia including digital scales. They were cited to appear in Western County Court on the charges.

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Rev. Hugh King

Rev. Hugh King announced his resignation during Sunday services at the Guillemard Street church.Pensacola police arrested King on April 27 after stopping a Ford Explorer in which he was a passenger. Police reported finding a bag of cocaine in King?s pocket. The case is set for trial Jan. 14.

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Raymond A. Baisi

Raymond A. Baisi, wanted on a Yonkers drug possession warrant.
Baisi, of Eastchester, had just filled up his tank at a gas station when an officer saw the cracked windshield and pulled him over, Pelham Manor Detective Ken Campion said. His license was suspended, he was uninsured and his license plates didn't match his sport utility vehicle, which was unregistered, Campion said.
Baisi, 57, had crack cocaine on him and in the SUV, Campion said. He was charged with felony drug possession and several traffic and vehicle violations. He was being held Monday without bail at the Westchester County jail

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Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy

Domenyk Noonan is appealing against a jail sentence for having a gun in his car, claiming he was "set up" by the police.

Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, a member of the Noonans gangland family, was stopped in a Jaguar car by police near Darlington in May and found with a handgun and five .357 Magnum bullets.A jury at Teesside Crown Court found the 41-year-old guilty of possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm without a certificate and having a firearm and ammunition in his possession.Lattlay-Fottfoy, who ran a security business, is the brother of murdered Manchester hardman Desmond Noonan, who was stabbed to death earlier this year.Both brothers had appeared in a controversial television documentary about the Manchester criminal underworld in which Desmond hinted he was responsible for 27 murders.

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Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy nine-and-a-half years

December, Noonan, who has changed his surname to Lattlay-Fottfoy, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years after he was found to have a handgun and five bullets in his car when he was stopped in Darlington.
He claims a man had planted the gun and ammunition in his car.
He is appealing after a jury at Teesside Crown Court convicted him of three firearms offences.
Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, is the brother of murdered Manchester hardman Desmond Noonan, who was stabbed to death earlier this year also a member of the Noonans gangland family, was stopped in a Jaguar car by police near Darlington in May and found with a handgun and five .357 Magnum bullets.
A jury at Teesside Crown Court found the 41-year-old guilty of possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm without a certificate and having a firearm and ammunition in his possession.
Both brothers had appeared in a controversial television documentary about the Manchester criminal underworld in which Desmond hinted he was responsible for 27 murders.

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Dr Rudolf Peitel, HMP Holme House

Dr Rudolf Peitel, who worked at Holme House Prison, in Stockton, was convicted in 1993 of trying to bring firearms into Germany from Pakistan.
Peitel, 57, later came to the UK to practise and took on roles through an agency.
The hearing concluded yesterday that the convictions meant Peitel's fitness to practise in the UK was impaired.
He was suspended from the medical register after the hearing yesterday.
The court heard how Peitel arranged for the gadgets - a single-shot gun that looks like a pen used by spies and assassins - to be posted to the home of a friend in Germany.
But Peitel was arrested and five ball-point pen guns were intercepted after he was reported to police. Peitel escaped with a fine of DM12,000 (£3,800) in June 1993.
Three years later, the father-of-one received a six-month suspended sentence after attempting to con a business partner out of DM55,000 (£19,000).

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Paul Allan Firth , Debra James

Paul Allan Firth and his partner Debra James in Oliver Street, South Bank, in the raids.In the first, officers found 60g, worth £600, in a child’s jacket pocket, with smaller amounts in the kitchen, said prosecutor Shaun Dodds.While the couple were on bail, the house was searched again almost seven months later.Another £500 of the drug was found in a pillow case, as well as scales, bags and phones.Firth, 35, and James, 39, each admitted two charges of possessing a Class B drug with intent to supply.Firth alone admitted the same charge for the third raid.

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Jamie Dawson, 19

Dawson, of Gilpin Road, Thornaby, admitted possession of a Class A drug. 12-month conditional discharge

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Kevin Tymon

Kevin Tymon, 34, ran a “corner shop” with users sent to his home at Elm House Apartments in Stockton, said a Teesside Crown Court judge.
Prosecutor Sue Jacobs told how Tymon was involved in various exchanges of £5 wraps .

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Mark Raymond Scott

Police executed a search warrant at his home in Belle Vue Court, Stockton, and found 247g of the drug with a street value of nearly £10,000. Teesside Crown Court heard that Scott was on licence at the time.He was jailed for four-and-a-half years.

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Reginald “Shaggy” Johnson,Leanne McCaffery, Rhaul Warren

Crack cocaine dealer Reginald “Shaggy” Johnson has been arrested.
The drugs squad had been working to bring him to justice for five years and now knew he was going to prison for a long time.Middlesbrough drug dealer Reginald "Shaggy" Johnson and two more cogs in the town's supply chain have been jailed for a total of 12 years.
Johnson was a "prime mover" who employed and deployed runners in a crack cocaine "family business", Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday.
"I am satisfied that you were the leader of this enterprise," Judge David Bryant told him, jailing him for five years. "You had a flourishing retail business dealing in crack cocaine over a considerable period with a considerable number of customers."
He told Johnson's 33-year-old girlfriend and drug runner Leanne McCaffery: "Yours was a lesser role but you were an enthusiastic participant in this drug dealing business."
She was imprisoned for four years, and Rhaul Warren, 21, for three years. Johnson and McCaffery, both of Essex Street, and Warren, of Falmouth Street, all admitted conspiring to supply Class A drugs between August 15 and December 1 last year.

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Shafiq Aziz, Liaquet Ali ,Damion Clenaghan

Shafiq Aziz, Liaquet Ali and Damion Clenaghan, all of Middlesbrough.
Aziz, 3839 on Nov 24, of Fountains Drive, Ali, 49, of Clifton Street, and Clenaghan, 22, of Cobham Street, are jointly charged with conspiring with three others to produce cannabis between December 1 last year and May 22 this year.
Aziz is also accused of possessing a Class B controlled drug, amphetamine, and having custody or control of counterfeit currency.
In May, police swooped on 11 properties in Middlesbrough.
They discovered an “industrial scale” cannabis farm in a property in Longlands Road.
Earlier this week police carried out more raids in the town, including two business premises in Parliament Road.

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Alan Horden

Alan Horden, 49, was caught at his home in Somerset Street, Middlesbrough with 2.14g of heroin, worth £214 on the street

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Jamie Scoon

Scoon, , of Myrtle Grove, Thornaby, admitted two charges of supplying a Class A drug and two of possession with intent to supply.

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Darren Elgey ,Lindsey Robson,Carl Steele ,Joanne Dowd

jailed Darren Elgey for four years.
Elgey, 37, of Yarm Road, was seen dealing heroin wraps in March and April this year.
Lindsey Robson and Carl Steele were not far behind him, said the judge, using various Stockton locations for dealing.
Some drugs and cash changed hands at 27-year-old Steele’s home in Shaftesbury Street and a nearby phone kiosk.
Robson, 26, of Waverley Street, took part in some of those deals in the “regular retail market”, and in more drops with her “on-off” boyfriend Elgey.
Elgey, Robson and Steele all admitted conspiracy to supply heroin.
Elgey and Robson also admitted possession of heroin with intent to supply from April 12, when they were caught at a home in Wellington Street with 10 wraps of the drug.
Judge Spittle jailed Robson and Steele for three years each.
Steele’s girlfriend Joanne Dowd, 27, also of Shaftesbury Street admitted being concerned in drugs supply. For her “lesser role”, the judge jailed her for 18 months.

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Noboru Ikemoto,Seiha Fujima,Hiroki Fukawa

Japanese death sentences: Noboru Ikemoto, 75, who was hanged in the western metropolis of Osaka, and Seiha Fujima, 47, and Hiroki Fukawa, 42, who were executed in Tokyo, a justice ministry statement said.

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Executed in public

four men were hanged for drug trafficking in the city of Bojnord in the Northern Khorasan Province in Iran.
The court order for one the convicts, who had criminal record of dealing drugs, adultery and smuggling alcohol, was executed in public. The three others were hanged in the prison area.

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Morocco has 11 crimes that carry the death penalty

Morocco's justice minister says his country is on the verge of abolishing capital punishment.
The country has 11 crimes that carry the death penalty. Since 1973, only two of 133 people sentenced to death have been executed, the last in 1993. Abolition of capital punishment would help Morocco acquire advanced status with the European community, Moroccan officials have said

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Son La , Hoa Binh provinces eight people sentenced to Death

Vietnamese court sentenced eight people to death for smuggling heroin, raising to 35 the number of people put on death row within two weeks for trafficking the drug.
A court clerk says a 10 day Hanoi trial found 26 drug smugglers guilty of trafficking or selling a total of more 50 kgs of heroin.
Eight defendants received life terms, and the others were jailed for between 15 and 20 years. The 35 year old female ringleader was among those sentenced to death by firing squad for trafficking more than 36 kgs of heroin between 1998 and February 2006.
The gang had brought the heroin from the northern mountainous Son La, Hoa Binh provinces, near the Lao border, to sell to users

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Hao Chen, Bai Yingna ,Han Tao

a gang of six people were given sentences ranging from death to 15 years in jail for trafficking drugs, according to a ruling handed down by a court in northeast China's Liaoning Province. According to the investigation of the Jinzhou Intermediate People's Court, Hao Chen, the ringleader, and Bai Yingna bought 330 grams of methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice", in southern Guangdong Province in December 2006 and then sold the drug in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province.
In March this year, Hao, together with Bai and her boy friend Han Tao, went to Guangzhou and bought 900 methamphetamine tablets, also known as "Yaba", from a person surnamed Duan. The next day, they bought more than 400 grams of "ice" and 400 Yaba tablets from a person nicknamed "Gan Hong", with the aid of another two accomplices Feng Zhiyong and Lao Guixin. The day after, they bought 497 more grams of Yaba tablets from Deng Jianlin.
The court sentenced Hao Chen and Han Tao to death and life imprisonment for trafficking 1,380 grams and 1,050 grams of ice

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