Posts Tagged Crime

NM youth’s trial delayed in dad’s fatal shooting

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — The trial of an Albuquerque youth charged with murder in the shooting death of his father on a southwestern New Mexico hunting trip is being delayed.

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Albuquerque police oversight system reformed eyed

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque will hold town hall meetings on overhauling its police oversight system as New Mexico’s largest city faces a federal investigation over police excessive force cases.

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Death in Zimbabwe results in unusual US charge

This image released by U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.,  shows the damage to the car that allegedly hit and killed Alois Pedzisai Matyoramhinga in Zimbawbe. Unusual circumstances have left federal prosecutors pursuing vandalism charges against Andrew Pastirik, a U.S. government worker accused of killing the Zimbabwe man in a drunken driving collision. Much of the case against Pastirik is shrouded in secrecy at a federal courthouse in northern Virginia. Court documents show the only charge filed against Pastirik in the 2008 death is one of “malicious mischief,” or vandalism, for wrecking a U.S. government-owned Toyota Land Cruiser he was driving. (AP Photo/Department of Justice)

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The facts laid out by prosecutors are plain: In 2008, a U.S. government employee on assignment in Zimbabwe drove through the capital of Harare in his government-issued Toyota Land Cruiser and struck and killed a 34-year-old Zimbabwe man.

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Police: NM man used fake name of wanted man

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Police say a Carlsbad man who tried to avoid arrest by giving police a fake name was arrested after making a key mistake.

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Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing Buddhist monk

Muslim men shout following their trial at a township court in Meikhtila, central Myanmar, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A court in Myanmar sentenced seven Muslims to terms ranging from life to two years in prison Tuesday for the killing of a Buddhist monk during sectarian violence that is posing a serious challenge to President Thein Sein's reformist government. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday — one of them to a life term — in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was overwhelmingly directed against minority Muslims but has not led to any criminal trials against members of the country’s Buddhist majority.

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