Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 22, 2008 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Vodka pipeline smugglers arrested
A gang of smugglers who made a pipeline to import thousands of litres of vodka from Russia have been arrested.
The group had taped together plastic tubes to create a mile-long underwater pipeline to carry home-made moonshine into Estonia.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 18, 2008 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
Bayerntrojaner: Hausdurchsuchung bei Piratenpartei
Bayerische Polizeibeamte haben die Privaträume des Sprechers der "Piratenpartei Deutschland", Ralph Hunderlach, durchsucht. Sie fahndeten nach einem Informanten aus dem bayerischen Justizministerium, der den Datenschützern und Computerexperten Informationen über einen vermutlich illegal eingesetzten staatlichen Trojaner zum Abhören von Skype-Telefonaten zugespielt hatte.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 5, 2008 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Global Crime Report - Policing The Planet [BBC World Service Radio Series]
Organised crime is a major problem in our increasingly globalised world. Just as legitimate business has grown and benefited from better communications and information technology - so has criminal enterprise.
In a landmark BBC World Service radio series, Policing the Planet looks at how crime fighters across the world are struggling to cope with the new demands upon them.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 4, 2008 at 5:09:00 PM CEST
Brewer wins right to bottle 'legal weed'
The agency had believed the caps were an attempt to promote the use of marijuana but brewer Vaune Dillmann, 61, said it was just a reference to a brand name.
A triumphant Dillmann said: 'Weed fought the law and Weed won.'
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 28, 2008 at 1:23:00 PM CEST
Organized crime dumping weak US dollar for euro
The weakened US dollar has fallen out of favor with organized crime groups to pay for drug shipments or to settle scores, a Canadian government report said.
blacklistednews.com Criminal Intelligence Service Canada in its annual report [2mb pdf]
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 26, 2008 at 1:33:00 PM CEST
Crime Does Pay: 06 7 Criminals Who Lived Very, Very Well - error
Contrary to the old adage, crime really does pay - at least for a while. Here are the stories of 6 rich criminals who, while didn't know how to live good, they did know how to live very well.
1 Griselda Blanco
Griselda Blanco (b. February 15, 1943), also known as la Madrina, the Godmother, the Black Widow and the Cocaine Queen of Miami, was a drug lord and pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld. Blanco was known for her absolute ruthlessness and sociopathic behavior.
Griselda Blancoflorida-cracker.org6 Criminals Who Lived Very, Very Well
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 24, 2008 at 1:43:00 PM CEST
Woman Arrested For Failing To Return Library Books
Heidi Dalibor was arrested after she failed to return the books, "Angels and Demons" and "White Oleander", last year.
“I said, what could they possibly do? They can’t arrest me for this… I was wrong,” Dalibor said.
Dalibor did not respond to four notices from the library, two phone calls and two letters. The library forwarded the case to police, who issued a citation for Dalibor's failure to return the materials or pay the fine. The citation included a court date, which Dalibor admits she ignored.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 16, 2008 at 3:03:00 PM CEST
British Ministry Of Defense Plans To Start Using Bomb-Dropping UFOs Within The Year
Without any external blades and using a two stroke petrol engine, the unmanned aerial vehicle can enter a building either through a window or door and send back high-quality images on its video camera feed.
With efforts being made to make an electric engine that generates little noise, the Fenstar's inventors, hope it could be quiet enough to snoop into rooms and plant listening devices without being seen or heard. Similarly it could also plant explosive devices to kill the enemy.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 10, 2008 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Federal judge halts Defcon talk on subway card hacking
A federal judge on Saturday gagged three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from publicly presenting research at Defcon demonstrating gaping holes in the electronic payment systems of one of the nation's biggest transit agencies.
US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock issued the order at the request of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which sued the three students and MIT on Friday. It forbids Zack Anderson, 21, RJ Ryan, 22 and Alessandro Chiesa, 20, from "providing program, information, software code or command that would assist another in any material way to circumvent or otherwise attack the the security" of the MBTA's fare system.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 23, 2008 at 12:00:12 PM CEST
Baby photo helps jail fraudster
A fraudster has been jailed for five years after a photo of his baby surrounded by piles of money was used by police as evidence against him.
Adu Bunu, 34, was convicted at Hull Crown Court over a £40,000 scheme which saw more than 2,000 bank cards cloned
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 11, 2008 at 1:40:53 PM CEST
Rollstuhlfahrer entwischt der Polizei
Flucht per Taxi: Trotz seiner Behinderung ist ein mordverdächtiger Rollstuhlfahrer in Kolumbien den Behörden kurz vor seinem Gerichtsverfahren entkommen. Er nutzte die Unachtsamkeit eines Beamten und machte sich mit Hilfe von Passanten aus dem Staub.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 10, 2008 at 10:24:38 AM CEST
Thief buries 1.5 million euros in park
A Serbian bank clerk who stole nearly 1.5 million euros from his bank left a note reading "I'm sorry," buried the loot in a park and waited at a cafe for police to arrest him.
Aleksandar Spasic Saturday walked out of the Raiffeisen branch office in the central town of Kragujevac with the money stuffed in his briefcase, state news agency Tanjug reported.
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