Jerry Johnson flew to Phoenix hoping to buy a big rig for his growing trucking company, but the next day he went home without a truck and without his money. Jerry wasn’t a victim of a criminal or con artist; instead, law enforcement seized his cash at the airport out
U.S. weapons and military equipment left behind during the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan are now being sold by gun dealers in the country. The New York Times interviewed weapons dealers in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province who said Afghans have been selling an array of U.S. military gear that the Taliban seized from Afghan national
Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion has become notorious for its reportedly macabre interior decor, immense size and monetary value, and as the site of some of his lurid alleged crimes. But Epstein, the financier who has been charged with sex trafficking and accused of sexually abusing young girls, used
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have seized a container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Co. and owned by JPMorgan Asset Management., weeks after authorities found more than $1 billion worth of cocaine on the vessel in what was one of the largest drug busts in American history. US Customs and
Turkish police have taken five people in custody over the smuggling of a highly-radioactive substance used to build nuclear weapons and power nuclear reactors. The 18.1 gram haul was found in a car. Police discovered a vial of the valuable material after they pulled over a car in the northwestern
Israeli troops seized a foreign cargo ship off Haifa after an “unlisted passenger” began a rampage on board and attempted to set the vessel ablaze. The suspect has been arrested. The Panama-flagged container ship MSC Canberra had been anchored off a few kilometers away from Israel’s northern port of Haifa
US and international law enforcement agencies announced they have shut down Darkode, an international hacker forum used by cyber-criminals, and charged 12 of its members with crimes ranging from fraud and spamming to spreading malicious code. According to the indictments announced Wednesday, Darkode was a password-protected online forum where “hackers
Many Americans expecting to see their tax refunds in their bank accounts soon are waking up to a very different scenario: the government actively intercepting their checks in order to pay back debts they’re not responsible for. According to a new report in the Washington Post, the federal government is
A British High Court has agreed to an order allowing UK police to continue inspecting material seized from Guardian journalist’s partner David Miranda. On August 22 two judges gave London police until August 30 to sift through electronic documents seized from the Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, who
RIA Novosti Russia is facing a ‘real war’ aimed at hampering the country’s legal deliveries of weapons to Syria, the head of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation has said.
