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Mexican navy nabs suspected cartel money man

Mexico City, May 10 (EFE).- Navy personnel arrested a man suspected of managing financial operations for the fearsome Los Zetas drug cartel, the Mexican government said. Alfonso Zamudio Quijada was nabbed Wednesday as he left a house in Monclova, a city in the northern state of Coahuila, Government Secretariat official Eduardo Sanchez Hernandez said. Zamudio offered no resistance, Sanchez said, crediting an anonymous tip for the arrest.

Ex-Enron CEO Skilling's sentence could be reduced by a decade; restitution to start being paid

HOUSTON - Convicted ex-Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling's more than 24-year prison sentence for his role in the once mighty energy giant's collapse could be reduced by as many as 10 years if a federal judge approves an agreement reached Wednesday between prosecutors and defence attorneys. Under the agreement, which Justice Department officials say includes a previous court-ordered reduction of as much as nine years, Skilling's original sentence will be reduced to somewhere between 14 and 17.5 years.

Calgary woman accused of killing 2 newborns granted bail until her trial resumes

CALGARY - A Calgary judge has granted bail to a woman accused of killing two of her newborns. Meredith Borowiec (BOHR'-oh-wick) has been in custody since her arrest 18 months ago. She is charged with second-degree murder after two infants were place in garbage bags and thrown away — one in 2008 and the other in 2009. Borowiec's trial was scheduled to last six weeks but because of its length had to be adjourned until November.

US kidnap victim Amanda Berry arrives at family home

US kidnap victim Amanda Berry arrived at her sister's house on Wednesday for an emotional reunion with her family a decade after she was kidnapped and held against her will. Television images of the rear of the home showed someone carrying a small child, thought to be the six-year-old daughter Berry bore during her time as a prisoner of three suspected kidnappers in a house in Cleveland, Ohio. mso-dc/jm

Police arrest a suspected Sinaloa cartel member in Ecuador

Quito, May 8 (EFE).- A suspected member of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel and eight other people were arrested during an anti-drug operation in Ecuador, the National Police said. Four of the nine suspects detained in the operation are Mexican nationals. The suspects belong to a transnational criminal organization that smuggles drugs by sea from Ecuador to Mexico, the National Police said.

Factbox: Some notorious abductions which victims survived

(Reuters) - Three women abducted about a decade ago were found alive on Monday at a Cleveland house and police said a school bus driver was arrested in connection with their disappearance. Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight were found to be in good health. Local media reported that Berry vanished in 2003 and DeJesus in 2004 when they were teenagers. CNN reported that Knight disappeared in 2000 at the age of 20.

Treasury sanctions 8 drug bosses working for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, calls them 'kingpins'

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has levied financial sanctions against eight drug gang bosses accused of working for Mexico's powerful and violent Sinaloa Cartel. The government accused the eight regional bosses of managing drug smuggling operations for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the purported head of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday. By declaring the men specially designated narcotics traffickers under the Kingpin Act, Washington has made it illegal for U.S. citizens to do business with them and freezes any assets they may have inside the U.S.

Natascha Kampusch, a scarred child kidnap survivor

The first words of the young Austrian woman who emerged in 2006 after eight years held captive in an underground bunker were eerily similar to those of Amanda Berry when she called police in Ohio on Monday. "My name is Natascha Kampusch. You must have heard of my case," she told incredulous police more than 3,000 days since disappearing on her way to school. "I'm Amanda Berry. I've been kidnapped. I've been missing for 10 years," said Berry, found on Monday with two others missing for years, according to a recording of her frantic 911 call.

US Air Force officer in charge of rape prevention arrested

A US Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual attacks has been arrested for assaulting a woman, police said Monday, in the latest setback for a force struggling to stem a pervasive rape problem. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel "expressed outrage and disgust over the troubling allegations and emphasized that this matter will be dealt with swiftly and decisively," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.

US Air Force officer in charge of rape prevention arrested

A US Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual attacks has been arrested for assaulting a woman, police said Monday, in the latest setback for a force struggling to stem a pervasive rape problem. Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, head of the Air Force's sexual assault prevention and response program, was drunk when he "approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks," according to a police report from Arlington, Virginia, just outside the US capital.
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