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| Man arrested for courtside betting at Australian Open Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 08:26 PM PST A man has been arrested and charged at the Australian Open for "courtsiding", a form of gambling that involves placing bets on point outcomes during a match from the side of the court, police said on Wednesday. A 22-year-old Briton was observed by police during a game on Tuesday afternoon and arrested at Melbourne Park around 5:30 p.m. local time (0630 GMT), a statement posted on the Victoria state police website (vicpolicenews.com.au) on Wednesday said. "He was charged with one count of engaging in conduct that would corrupt a betting outcome," the statement said, and bailed to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Tennis-Man arrested for courtside betting at Australian Open Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 08:05 PM PST A man has been arrested and charged at the Australian Open for "courtsiding", a form of gambling that involves placing bets on point outcomes during a match from the side of the court, police said on Wednesday. A 22-year-old Briton was observed by police during a game on Tuesday afternoon and arrested at Melbourne Park around 5:30 p.m. local time (0630 GMT), a statement posted on the Victoria state police website (vicpolicenews.com.au) on Wednesday said. "He was charged with one count of engaging in conduct that would corrupt a betting outcome," the statement said, and bailed to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Man linked to N.Y. 'cannibal cop' case seen pleading guilty Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 05:46 PM PST By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Massachusetts hospital police official charged with conspiring to kidnap, torture and kill women as part of the so-called "cannibal cop" case is expected to plead guilty in New York this week, a court filing on Tuesday showed. Richard Meltz, 65, of Nashua, New Hampshire, is set to enter a plea on Thursday, just weeks before he and two other accused co-conspirators are scheduled to go on trial. The case grew out of an investigation into New York police officer Gilberto Valle, who was convicted last year of a plot to kidnap, cook and eat women, and earned the tabloid moniker "Cannibal Cop". "After considering his options, Mr. Meltz has decided to accept responsibility for his role in this case and with his plea to conspiracy charges hopes to put this massive error in judgment behind him and return to his wife and family," his lawyer Peter Brill said. Full Story | Top |
| Egg Bombing Gets Justin Bieber's Friend Arrested for Cocaine Possession Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 01:27 PM PST  Police descended on Justin Bieber's California mansion and arrested one person for drug possession today all because of a couple of bad eggs. The L.A. Times reports the Los Angeles Police Department arrested one person on drug charges Tuesday afternoon after searching Justin Bieber's house in Calabasas, California. TMZ reports the person was Justin Bieber's frequent partner-in-mischief Lil Za, nee Xavier Smith, and the drug was cocaine. The police were at Bieber's house over charges he egged a neighbor's house, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Eggs rained down from Bieber's mansion onto a neighbor's property last Thursday night. Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested with $153,000 at Nashville airport Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 12:49 PM PST By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A man who used $20,000 in cash to charter a private plane from Nashville to California was arrested on money laundering charges after an airport police dog smelled narcotics on $153,000 stuffed into his suitcase, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday. Conor Guckian, 33, was arrested in Nashville on Monday after airport police were alerted to a "suspicious individual" using the large sum of cash to charter the plane to California, according to the affidavit. A K-9 unit detected the drug odor on the bundles of money in Guckian's bag, the document said. Full Story | Top |
| Dozens arrested for being gay in north Nigeria Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 12:45 PM PST  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — First the police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said Tuesday, warning that such persecution will rise under a new Nigerian law. Full Story | Top |
| Man linked to N.Y. 'cannibal cop' case expected to plead guilty Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 11:49 AM PST By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Massachusetts hospital police official charged with conspiring to kidnap, torture and kill women as part of the so-called "cannibal cop" case is expected to plead guilty in New York this week, a court filing on Tuesday showed. Richard Meltz, 65, of Nashua, New Hampshire, is set to enter a plea on Thursday, just weeks before he and two other accused co-conspirators are scheduled to go on trial. The case grew out of an investigation into New York police officer Gilberto Valle, who was convicted last year of a plot to kidnap, cook and eat women and earned the tabloid moniker "Cannibal Cop." Meltz is charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping. His attorney, Peter Brill, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Full Story | Top |
| 2 Serb ex-spy chiefs arrested over 1999 killing Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 11:11 AM PST  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Two former senior Serbian secret service officials were arrested on Tuesday over the killing of a prominent independent Serb journalist and publisher nearly 15 years ago during the hardline rule of former President Slobodan Milosevic. Full Story | Top |
| Kelly Thomas case: why police were acquitted in killing of homeless man Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 10:44 AM PST Two former California police officers seen in a video beating a mentally ill homeless man unconscious during an arrest were acquitted Monday of killing him. The Orange County jury's verdict, after two days of deliberations, brought a close to a case that set off an emotional debate on a police officer's right to use force and the special needs of people with psychiatric disorders. The case also fueled a nationwide conversation on how to train police to work with mentally ill suspects. The decision upheld the defense's argument that the two Fullerton police officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, had acted in line with their training and their professional right to use force when they beat Kelly Thomas, a homeless man diagnosed as a schizophrenic, during a police altercation on a summer night in 2011. It dealt a blow to the prosecution's contention that the incident sets a precedent for allowing police to deal brutally with the mentally ill, putting a vulnerable population – prone to erratic behavior during arrest – at risk of the same fate as Mr. Thomas. Full Story | Top |
| American extradited from Kosovo over death threats Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 10:37 AM PST  Washington (AFP) - A 33-year-old man from California has been extradited from Kosovo after making death threats against an employee at the US embassy in Pristina, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Emotions flow as Calif. police acquitted in death Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 10:02 AM PST  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — By the time all four verdicts were read clearing two California officers of killing a homeless man, people on both sides of the gallery were sobbing. Full Story | Top |
| Two Britons arrested for alleged terror offences in Syria Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 12:10 AM PST  Counter-terror police have arrested two men at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of terrorism offences linked to Syria, police said. The men, both aged 21 and from Birmingham, were held after arriving back in Britain on a flight from Istanbul in Turkey, West Midlands Police said. They are believed to have travelled to Syria in May 2013, police said. British police have over the past three years arrested a number of people who have travelled to Syria over concerns that they are fighting with jihadi groups. Full Story | Top |
| Beanie Babies billionaire to be sentenced Monday, Jan 13, 2014 11:15 PM PST  The billionaire creator of Beanie Babies steps before a federal judge Tuesday to learn if he'll have to spend up to five years behind bars for evading taxes on $25 million in income. H. Ty Warner's sentencing ... Full Story | Top |
| Officers acquitted in California homeless death Monday, Jan 13, 2014 10:23 PM PST  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two California police officers who were videotaped in a violent struggle with a homeless man during an arrest were acquitted Monday of killing him. Full Story | Top |
| US soldier who wanted to help al Shabaab sentenced to prison Monday, Jan 13, 2014 10:18 PM PST A former U.S. soldier who admitted to trying to help the al Shabaab militant group, an al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday, the Justice Department said. Craig Baxam, 24, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Baltimore after pleading guilty to destroying records that might be used in a terrorism investigation, the Justice Department said in a statement. Baxam, who had been trained in intelligence and cryptology while in the Army, was arrested by Kenyan police in December 2011 as he tried to cross the border into Somalia to join al Shabaab. Baxam told FBI agents in Kenya that he had destroyed his personal computer to keep U.S. authorities from tracking him and to leave no records behind, the statement said. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-California policemen acquitted in beating death of homeless man Monday, Jan 13, 2014 08:33 PM PST By Dana Feldman SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - Two former policemen were acquitted on Monday in the 2011 beating and stun-gun death of a mentally-ill California homeless man that touched off street protests and political upheaval in the Los Angeles suburb of Fullerton. Ex-Fullerton police officers Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli were found not guilty of all charges linked to the death of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas following a month-long trial, according to a spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney. The eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated for less than two days before returning the verdicts in a packed Santa Ana, California, courtroom. Orange County Sheriff's deputies cruised the streets surrounding the courthouse in Santa Ana in patrol cars and motorcycles as about 50 protesters gathered outside. Full Story | Top |
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