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| Teenager arrested over pizza delivery murder Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 09:15 PM PDT  Sheffield (United Kingdom) (AFP) - A 17-year-old male was arrested on Thursday over the murder of a Sri Lankan graduate who was stabbed while carrying out his final job as a pizza delivery driver in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Police said. Colleagues from Domino's Pizza found Thavisha Lakindu Peiris, 25, dead in his car in the Southey area of the city near the site of his final delivery. Peiris, who graduated from Hallam University in 2011, had been stabbed in the chest. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive eco activist lands in US, vows to pursue fight Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:06 PM PDT  Fugitive eco-warrior Paul Watson vowed Thursday to pursue campaigning "undaunted" by legal threats, after landing back in the United States after 15 months at sea on the run. The Canadian said he was heading for Seattle after arriving in Los Angeles earlier this week, to defend himself from legal action there. "I have returned to the United States," he said in a statement on his Facebook page, adding that an Interpol "Red Notice" from Costa Rica "has been dropped." Watson is wanted by Interpol after skipping bail last July in Germany, where he was arrested on Costa Rican charges relating to a high-seas confrontation over shark finning in 2002. Full Story | Top |
| Student admits 'sextortion' involving Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:31 PM PDT  A US student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking online accounts of Miss Teen USA and other women and threatening to publish nude photos of them, prosecutors said. Jared James Abrahams surrendered in September to FBI agents probing so-called "sextortion" cases, in which he made demands in return for agreeing not to release the pictures. Abrahams is due in court next Monday, when a judge is expected to set a date for him to formally enter a guilty plea, according to spokesman Thom Mrozek of the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. A plea agreement filed last week detailed how, starting last year and continuing until June, the computer science student hacked into computers, email and social media accounts. Full Story | Top |
| California man agrees to plead guilty to extortion of Miss Teen USA Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:55 PM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 19-year-old California man has agreed to plead guilty to charges he hacked into the webcams of Miss Teen USA and other young women to take nude pictures in an extortion scheme, court papers revealed on Thursday. Jared Abrahams agreed to plead guilty to charges of unauthorized access of protected computers and extortion linked to the case, the documents said. Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf, also 19, came forward to media organizations in September identifying herself as one of the targets of the hacking, which ensnared at least 12 young women between 2012 and June 2013. Wolf told NBC's "Today" program she had gone to high school with Abrahams in the Southern California city of Temecula. Full Story | Top |
| Bikini-clad baristas arrested for serving more than coffee Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:51 PM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Two female workers at a bikini-themed coffee stand near Seattle have been charged with providing customers nude, striptease-style dances in full view of passersby, authorities said on Thursday. The women, aged 20 and 21, both employees at the Hillbilly Hotties coffee stand in Everett, were arrested on Wednesday and charged with violating the city's adult entertainment laws, said Everett police spokesman officer Aaron Snell. A third woman worker at the stand, age 33, was arrested and charged with lewd conduct in connection with a case from June at a separate nearby coffee stand in which police said workers were alleged to have performed sex acts on customers. Police began investigating the coffee stand after receiving complaints that the women working there were exposing themselves for customers as they sat in their cars, Snell said. Full Story | Top |
| Woman arrested with drug-filled Halloween pumpkins Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 01:34 PM PDT  A woman arriving at Montreal's airport was handed over to Canadian federal police on Thursday after a search of her luggage found cocaine stashed inside Halloween pumpkins. "The pumpkins seemed heavy, so we decided to run them through an X-ray machine and the drugs were found in bags inside the pumpkins," Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman Jacqueline Roby told AFP. "Instead of being filled with candies, three pumpkins carried by a female traveller at Montreal-Trudeau Airport contained nearly two kilograms of suspected cocaine." The drugs and the suspect were handed over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is expected to lay charges. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. crime rate rising, but fewer Americans believe it: Gallup poll Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:03 AM PDT By Curtis Skinner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fewer Americans are aware that violent crime has been on the rise in the United States for the past few years, according to a Gallup poll published on Thursday. That decline came despite the fact that the rate of violent crimes including rape, robbery and assault, rose by more than one-third from 2010 to 2012, according to federal data. But for now, this worrisome trend doesn't seem to have caught Americans' attention," Gallup researchers wrote in the report." Crime not reported to the police and simple assault accounted for the majority of the increase in crime rates between 2011 and 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, which publish the victimization data used by Gallup. The bureau also said that violent crimes rates increased slightly among blacks in 2012, but remained stable for whites and Hispanics. Full Story | Top |
| 3 bikini baristas arrested at Wash. coffee stand Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:45 AM PDT Police say the service at a bikini espresso stand in Washington state was too hot. Officers arrested three baristas Wednesday at the Hillbilly Hotties coffee stand in Everett. Spokesman Aaron Snell tells ... Full Story | Top |
| Former produce company CEO sentenced to prison Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:36 AM PDT Federal prosecutors in Birmingham say the former CEO of a produce company will serve more than a year in prison on tax and fraud charges. Prosecutors say a judge on Tuesday sentenced former Adams Produce ... Full Story | Top |
| St. Louis man arrested for online Boston threats Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:00 AM PDT St. Louis police have arrested a social media manager for allegedly making online threats invoking the Boston Marathon bombings as the Red Sox prepared to play the Cardinals at Busch Stadium in the World ... Full Story | Top |
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