By Duc Hung  October 26, 2018 | 02:59 pm GMT+7 Police arrest two men and confiscate 35 kilograms of narcotics in Ha Tinh Province Thursday. Photo by VnExpress/Duc Hung Ha Tinh police caught two Vietnamese men Thursday as they were smuggling 32 kilos of methamphetamine and three kilos of heroin from Laos. The two men were traveling in a vehicle with a Laos license plate when the police stopped them. Tran Xuan Thanh, 30, and Vo Quoc Duong, 41, said they’d bought the drugs in Laos and were looking to sell them in Vietnam. Vietnam has some of the world’s toughest drug laws. The production or sale of 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal narcotics is punishable by death. Those founding possessing or smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine can also get the death penalty. Vietnam is a key trafficking hub for narcotics around the Golden Triangle, an intersection of China, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar … [Read more...] about 35 kilograms of meth, heroin seized from Laos vehicle in central Vietnam
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Immigrant who sued, won back pay – now in hiding for his life
McALLEN — Sandro Garcia Moreno feels trapped in the Rio Grande Valley. He hides in a small, linoleum-floored bedroom with the curtains drawn, his refuge from his former employers, who he says threatened to kill him. He wants to find work to the north but fears he’ll be caught and deported. At night he lies alone in bed, swiping through cellphone photos of his wife and daughter, who fled back to Mexico for their own safety. An undocumented, low-wage worker, Garcia Moreno won a federal labor complaint two years ago against Pollos Medina, a chain of three barbecue restaurants in Mission. Sandro Alejandro Garcia Moreno looks around his room in the Rio Grande Valley, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. He lives with two other Mexican immigrants. He works day jobs to pay rent and support his 11-year-old daughter and wife. (JERRY LARA, San Antonio Express-News | Express News)He and co-worker Jose Arciga Garcia won a $108,000 judgment when the restaurant was found in violation of the Fair … [Read more...] about Immigrant who sued, won back pay – now in hiding for his life
Port wine? Feta? Brexit may spell trouble for famed EU names
Barry Hatton, Associated Press Updated 5:19 am CDT, Wednesday, September 19, 2018 In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2018, workers pick grapes on the slopes above the Tavora river, in the background, where it meets the Douro river near Tabuaco, northern Portugal. The scorching late summer sun of northern Portugal is ripening the black, super-sweet grapes that will go to make what European Union rules say is the only wine in the world that can be called port. But port wine's second-largest export market is the United Kingdom, and the impending British exit from the EU is throwing port's almost 50 million euros' ($58 million) worth of annual business there into doubt. less In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2018, workers pick grapes on the slopes above the Tavora river, in the background, where it meets the Douro river near Tabuaco, northern Portugal. The scorching late summer sun of ... more Photo: Armando Franca, AP … [Read more...] about Port wine? Feta? Brexit may spell trouble for famed EU names
Ipswich car sales manager jailed for fraud ordered to repay £38,000
PUBLISHED: 09:54 05 September 2018 | UPDATED: 09:54 05 September 2018 Jane Hunt David Garrett and Patrick Burke Picture: SUFFOLK CONSTABULARY Archant A car sales manager at an Ipswich garage who was jailed earlier this year for his part in a £343,000 fraud involving trade-in cars which were sold privately has been ordered by a judge to repay £38,000. Patrick Burke and David Garrett have been jailed for fraud during their employment at Hammond Cars, Ipswich. Picture: GOOGLE MAPSDuring the ten month fraud 67 part-exchange vehicles were sold and false sales invoices created to cover what was going on, Ipswich Crown Court heard.Today (Tuesday) a proceeds of crime hearing heard that David Garrett, who was employed as a trade sales manager by Hammonds Car Sales in Ipswich had benefitted from his offending by £350,000.Marc Brown, prosecuting, said Garrett had assets of £38,225 and Judge Martyn Levett made a confiscation order in that sum to … [Read more...] about Ipswich car sales manager jailed for fraud ordered to repay £38,000
Rauner proposes reinstating Illinois death penalty in cases of mass killings, police slayings
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday proposed reinstating the death penalty in Illinois for mass killers and people who slay law enforcement officers as part of his rewrite of a gun control bill.The death penalty provision would create a new category of homicide called "death penalty murder,” which could apply to adult killers who kill police officers or more than one person. Guilt must be determined "beyond all doubt," rather than the standard "reasonable doubt" requirement, according to the governor's office. Rauner said at a Chicago news conference Monday that people in those cases “deserve to have their life taken.”The measure Rauner rewrote originally was designed to create a 72-hour “cooling off period to buy an assault weapon for those who may have intent to cause harm, and to allow additional time for sellers to complete a background check. Under current law, the waiting period to purchase assault weapons including AR-15s is 24-hours. It’s 72 … [Read more...] about Rauner proposes reinstating Illinois death penalty in cases of mass killings, police slayings