Topic: - on January 16, 2003 at 7:28:41 PM CET
Hitman Jailed for Shooting Target's Neighbor
Britain's High Court on Thursday jailed a bungling hitman who agreed to kill a businessman in return for $160 and an old car -- but confused the address and shot the wrong man.
Paul Jones, 41, ended up shooting and severely wounding his intended victim's next-door neighbor Ernest Broom.
Sentencing Jones to 17 years in prison, Judge Brian Barker said: "You shot him at point-blank range and it is a miracle he survived. You have ruined his life."
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 2:39:01 PM CET
Reports document other dog shootings by Cookeville police officer
Here's what they reveal. In 1998, officer Hall answered a neighbor's complaint about a so-called dangerous dog. Officer Hall fired twice at the animal, saying he was, in his words, in "grave fear of this animal", when he says it lunged toward him while he was investigating the case. Three years later, in 2001, officer Hall was ordered by a supervisor, to shoot another dog labled as "dangerous" in a Cookeville neighborhood.
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Topic: - on January 14, 2003 at 5:28:04 PM CET
Calgary cops find 69 duffle bags of pot, cocaine during random trailer search
Brazen drug dealers didn't even attempt to try to hide two tonnes of marijuana discovered during a random check of a semi-trailer on the weekend. Inside, police found 69 duffle bags crammed with dope bound for locales as far east as Boston and Philadelphia. Nine palettes of the bags were stacked from floor to ceiling. "This is a case where even the common man would think to put it in the back, put some boxes in front," Staff Sgt. Roger Chaffin said Monday. Police also seized 250 kilograms of cocaine. The drugs were discovered at a weigh-scale west of Calgary on Saturday.
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Topic: - on January 14, 2003 at 12:55:22 PM CET
56-year-old soccer hooligan jailed for five years
A 56-year-old Millwall fan became Britain's oldest convicted soccer hooligan Monday when he was jailed for five years for kicking a police horse.
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Topic: - on January 11, 2003 at 4:27:19 PM CET
Iranian teen faces death for drinking
A 19-year-old Iranian man has been sentenced to death by hanging for repeatedly drinking alcohol, local newspapers have reported. Under the country's strict Islamic laws, drinking is strictly forbidden, and those caught are usually whipped or heavily fined.
However if caught for a third time an offender can be sentenced to death.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 10:36:50 PM CET
Traffic Accident, Odor Leads To Drug Bust
A suspicious accident and a powerful odor coming from the car led to a major drug bust Thursday. It happened shortly after midnight on U.S. Highway 71 in Cass County after the driver of a green Ford fell asleep at the wheel and the car careened off the road. Deputies roused the sleeping driver, who they identified as Kermit Gibbs, 41, of Kentucky. Police said they found more than 100 pounds of pot stashed in his back hatch. The smell, they said, was overwhelming.
The marijuana was worth about $75,000.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 10:05:32 PM CET
Soldier In Trouble After Reporting Drug Theft
Police say Bennie Dunlap, 16, of Raleigh, N.C., entered the apartment of Linda Isabel Gonzalez, a Fort Bragg soldier, around midnight Thursday and allegedly stole 1 pound of marijuana.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 5:50:00 PM CET
Luggage bomb hoax lands couple in jail
A Maine couple's attempt to make a political statement by rigging up a fake bomb in their checked luggage led to their arrest, officials said Thursday.
Paul Kenneth Donahue, 50, and Teresa Marie Wood, 46, had been scheduled to fly from San Jose, California, to Atlanta, Georgia, on Delta Flight 576 Tuesday. When their bags were put through a bomb detection machine, federal screeners found what turned out to be a snow boot with batteries, wires and an electrical power strip arranged in a suspicious way.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 3:03:25 PM CET
90-year-old woman gives burglar a good caning
James Sharp may be a little embarrassed to tell his cellmates how he ended up behind bars.
He tried to rip off an old lady, who beat him with her cane.
Sharp was captured last March after his would-be victim, a 90-year-old woman, clobbered him with her cane. The woman escaped to a neighbor's house and called police. Sharp was arrested the following day.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 1:19:36 PM CET
Sun on Magnifying Glass Sets Fire to Man
An 88-year old Dutchman was seriously injured when bright sunlight shining through his magnifying glass set fire to his clothes or papers, newspapers reported Wednesday.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 12:52:38 PM CET
Women accused of running booming marijuana growing business out of their basements
Investigators learned of their activities last summer when a bank teller called police to say that the women's cash deposits smelled like marijuana.
Drug agents who searched the homes found more than 500 marijuana plants, $110,000 in cash and psychedelic mushrooms. Investigators said as many as 4,000 plants were grown.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 4:08:47 PM CET
Activist Cuts Dreadlocks as Moi Era Ends
A leading Kenyan activist shaved his dreadlocks to celebrate the retirement of President Daniel arap Moi, fulfilling a vow he made 13 years ago not to cut his hair until his old adversary left power.
Koigi wa Wamwere said he would offer his shoulder-length locks to Kenya's national museum as a monument to his long fight for democracy under Moi, who stepped down last week.
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