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The family of Richard Cassels, a Durban advertising director, was expecting a sentencing on Friday after two men were convicted of his murder. However, the two remaining suspects wanted for the crime had been tracked down by police and arrested, bringing a measure of consolation to the family. Cassels, 51,
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The FBI's Newark Division, in conjunction with the South Jersey Violent Incident /Gang Task Force, announced the arrest of Nathaniel A. Brown, 28, on a Federal warrant charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution from the state of Missouri, where he faces state murder charges. Brown was
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Detectives investigating the murder of Pc Keith Blakelock during the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots have arrested a man, who was released on bail after four days of questioning. The suspect, a 40-year-old former Tottenham resident, is believed to have been 15 years old when the murder took place. The case
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In a case that highlights the darkness of human exploitation, Peruvian police have arrested a gang of "Pishtacos" who have been terrorizing the countryside, killing people to harvest their fat for sale on the European cosmetics market. The group, led by 56-year-old Hilario Cudena, has been killing victims
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Twenty alleged members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, also known as the Latin Kings, have been charged with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise. The indictment was returned under seal yesterday and unsealed today upon the arrests of the defendants. The alleged gang members are accused
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Police in British Columbia have identified the two men found shot to death in a Puerto Vallarta condo complex as Gordon Douglas Kendall and Jeffrey Ronald Ivans, both 37 and from British Columbia. According to the RCMP, the men were known to police in British Columbia and had been involved
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Mexico's border state with the US, particularly Chihuahua, has seen a surge in organized crime-related violence, with 28 deaths over the weekend, local media reported. The violence has been linked to a battle for control of lucrative drug-smuggling routes into the US. The country's most violent
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Richard Cassels, the 41-year-old managing director of TBWA Hunt Lascaris, Durban, was brutally murdered during a robbery at his home in April. Cassels, a well-known figure in the advertising industry, was stabbed multiple times in the chest by a gang of armed robbers. The incident shocked the industry and the
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A weekend party in Menomonie turned deadly when 23-year-old Geu Tou Vang, a member of the Hmong gang Purple Brothers, allegedly shot and killed three brothers and wounded another man. Vang, who had a history of violent attacks, including a 2004 conviction for beating a rival gang member, shot himself
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Fresno County Superior Court Judge John Vogt sentenced 17-year-old Bethany Clark to nine years in prison for her role in the carjacking-murder of her 20-year-old friend, Carlos Gonzalez. Clark was 15 years old when she lured Gonzalez to a central Fresno street corner, where two gang members shot and killed
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A suspect believed to be part of a gang involved in ritual murders in Kampala has been charged with simple robbery. Raphael Nsibirwa, a taxi driver, was arrested last month by Internal Security Organisation operatives and the Police, and has since confessed to being involved in the crimes. According to
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Santa Fe police arrested 16-year-old Jonothan Villesange, who has a history of violence, and charged him with murder and conspiracy in connection with the shooting death of 18-year-old Pedro Maldonado. Villesange, who was 14 when he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2006 for shooting a
