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1. Andres Correa of Elizabeth pleads guilty to credit card fraud and identity theft
(N.J./State)

... has pleaded to second-degree trafficking in personal identifying information of another and second-degree identity theft before state Superior Court Judge John S. Triarsi in Elizabeth, state Acting Insurance ...

2. Camden Bloods gang member Juan Vargas going to prison
(N.J./State)

Leader of Nine Trey Headbustas sentenced to 14 years for murder conspiracy The gangster who led drug trafficking operations for the Nine Trey Headbustas set of the Bloods in Camden was sentenced to 14 ...

3. Colombian drug kingpin Alejandro Cleves sentenced to 32 years in N.J. state prison
(N.J./State)

... heroin into the United States annually, was sentenced to 32 years in state prison Friday after he pled guilty charge of 1st Degree leader of a narcotics trafficking network. Cleves, 30, was born in Medellin, ...

4. Snow leopard cubs in Cape May zoo greet their public
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the same classification given the panda and the tiger, the snow leopard is protected by various international and national treaties and laws, according to the Snow Leopard Trust. As a result, trafficking ...

5. 14 Trenton Bloods charged
(N.J./State)

... gang's activities, including drug trafficking and violence involving assault rifles and semi-automatic handguns, which were used to defend the gang's turf and settle scores with other gangs. The defendants ...

6. Dr. Magdy Elamir, Jersey City neurologist, indicted for Medicaid fraud, and dispensing drugs
(Health/Healthquest)

Physician, 57, lives in Saddle River A North Jersey neurologist has been indicted for his alleged role in a pharmaceutical narcotics trafficking and Medicaid fraud scam. Dr. Magdy Elamir, 57, of Saddle ...

7. 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' offers viewers sex, murder and intrigue
(Entertainment/Movies)

... to find herself accused of the murder of two journalists. The writers were about to break a story in Mikael's magazine about the involvement of government officials in a sex trafficking ring, and Lisbeth's ...

8. post is killing itself
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... of tobacco, but rulings like those in the PACT act (Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking) will only slightly reduce chances for teen abuse while killing a lot of business by internet tobacco sellers. It just ...

9. N.J. State Police seize more than $3M from California truckers on I-95
(N.J./State)

Members of the New Jersey State Police Drug Trafficking Central Unit along with the Mobile Safe Freight Unit arrested two men and seized a tractor trailer in which they had hidden more than $3 million ...

10. China’s strict gun control laws not enough to stop violence
(World/International)

... illegal gun use," Li said. In fact, Chongqing has become a hotbed of illegal gun trafficking. In January 2009, police netted 470 suspects and 183 firearms following a 40-day campaign. In 2008, Chongqing ...

11. Drugs and football connected in Colombia
(World/International)

BY HELDA MARTÍNEZ IPS NEWS AGENCY BOGOTÁ — Football, the most popular sport in Colombia, has been subject to heavy pressures from drug trafficking since the mid-1970s. A new study shows that the illicit ...

12. Gov. Bill Richardson says New Mexico has a sensible immigration policy
(U.S./Nation)

... my last batch was 35, National Guardsmen, right on the border ... where we had the problem, where there seemed to be an increase in trafficking. What the National Guard does is, one, their physical presence ...

13. 40 accused of drug dealing in Newark, smuggling at Northern State Prison
(N.J./State)

... disrupt its drug trafficking activities and make these neighborhoods safer." "This is another great example of an intelligence-led investigation involving cooperation among state and local law enforcement ...

14. N.Y. mob sting: Sixteen organized crime members are charged
(U.S./Nation)

BY JIM KOURI, CPP Sixteen defendants were charged with various counts of kidnapping in aid of a racketeering enterprise, narcotics trafficking, robbery and firearms possession, according to a report ...

15. Headbustas' Dionicio Adams of Camden and another gang leader plead guilty to murder plot
(N.J./State)

... 12 other alleged gang members. The indictment resulted from a joint investigation conducted by the state Division of Criminal Justice and the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Joint Camden Task Force. ...

16. Russia says Afghan drug trade threatens world peace
(World/International)

BY BRIAN PADDEN VOA NEWS SINGAPORE — Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday Afghan drug trafficking should be classified as a threat to international peace and security. The Russian ...

17. N.J. ranked No. 21 in corruption
(N.J./State)

... because a retired small town police captain was picked with 22 other characters by the FBI and charged with racketeering and drug trafficking. FBI agents in New Jersey do that on their way back from lunch! ...

18. 2010 World Cup in South Africa feared could fuel sex trade
(World/International)

BY MIRIAM MANNAK IPS NEWS AGENCY CAPE TOWN — A fierce debate has erupted over claims that the 2010 Soccer World Cup will fuel the trafficking of women from African and other countries to South Africa ...

19. N.J. indicts 9 on gun trafficking and weapons charges
(N.J./State)

... of Criminal Justice and other agencies to trace crime guns and investigate those illicitly trafficking guns in New Jersey. Dow announced the indictments in Trenton with Special Agent in Charge Matthew ...

20. Annie ‘China' Cooper of Jersey City sentenced to 6 years in prison for role in major prostitution ring
(N.J./State)

A woman was sentenced to state prison Friday for acting as a boss over the prostitutes in a human trafficking ring in Jersey City in which women were induced to use heroin and cocaine and were beaten if ...