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| U.S. Army general in sex crimes case to plead to lesser charges Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 02:27 PM PDT  By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - The United States has agreed to drop charges of sexual assault brought against an Army general in exchange for him pleading guilty to lesser charges including "mistreatment" of his accuser, a junior officer, the general's lawyer said on Sunday. Under the terms of an agreement with military prosecutors, the government will drop sex assault charges against Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, as well as two other charges that would have forced him to register as a sex offender, lead defense attorney Richard Scheff said in an email. Sinclair, 51, had been charged with forcible sodomy based on allegations by a female U.S. Army captain that could have sent the 27-year Army veteran to prison for life. Full Story | Top |
| Sexual Assault Charges to Be Dropped After Army General Pleads Guilty to Lesser Charges Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 01:17 PM PDT  Jeffrey Sinclair, a U.S. Army general from the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division, will reportedly plead guilty to less serious offenses as his headline-grabbing sexual assault case hurtles toward a sentencing hearing. This article was originally published at http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/03/top-army-general-plead-guilty-lesser-sexual-assault-charges/359217/ Full Story | Top |
| Spain deports Madrid train bombing convict to Morocco Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 12:32 PM PDT  Spain on Sunday deported a Moroccan man after he completed a 10-year jail sentence for obtaining the explosives used in the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people, the government said. Spain's National Court in 2007 sentenced Rafa Zouhier, 34, to 10 years behind bars for collaborating with the Islamist cell that carried out the country's deadliest-ever terrorist attack. Spanish police escorted him to Tangiers in northern Morocco immediately after his release in the early hours of Sunday from the Puerto de Santamaria prison in Cadiz in southwestern Spain, an interior ministry spokesman said. Officers flanked Zouhier, who wore a black hooded sweatshirt and had his hands handcuffed behind his back, as they led him from a white police van into a small plane that took him to Morocco, a video released by the ministry showed. Full Story | Top |
| China police to increase armed patrols in crime crackdown Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 02:54 AM PDT  Chinese police will increase armed patrols, especially in densely populated areas like urban centers and transport hubs, in a drive to crack down on violent crime, state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. China's stability obsessed ruling Communist Party, always jittery about any threats to its rule, has been alarmed by a series of incidents in recent months, including a knife attack at a train station in the city of Kunming blamed on militants from the far western region of Xinjiang this month. "The ministry (of public security) said that it will carry out armed patrols and take timely measures to handle violent criminals," Xinhua said. "The ministry urged public security organs at all levels to increase work efficiency and further improve the emergency command mechanism in order to fight crime," it added. Full Story | Top |
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