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Video game pals admit to plot to firebomb Nebraska pharmacy
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A pharmacist and a drug abuser who met while playing online video games pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges after they plotted to firebomb a Nebraska pharmacy to benefit their own online black market drug dealing. William Burgamy, 32, of Hanover, Maryland, ran a website called...
Reputed mobster sentenced for plot to distribute cocaine
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A reputed mobster who admitted plotting to distribute cocaine has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison. Mario Galli III, 28, of Toms River, will also have to serve three years of supervised release once he's freed from prison under the sentence imposed Thursday. He...
Inmate who ran crack cocaine ring from behind bars sentenced
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man convicted of continuing to run a crack cocaine trafficking ring while an inmate at the state prison with the help of his mother has been sentenced to more than six years in a federal prison, prosecutors said Wednesday. Fellow inmates provided James Gomes, 33, of...
Shootout between bandanna-wearing suspects investigated
FOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) — Police in southern Colorado are investigating a shootout between people in two cars who were all reportedly wearing bandannas. There were no known injuries in the shooting that happened at around 7 p.m. Tuesday on a main thoroughfare in a residential area in Fountain, about 10 miles...
Missouri brothers charged in death during planned drug deal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two brothers have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the shooting death of a man in a south Kansas City park, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced Friday. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Tuesday near Ruskin Way Park, Kansas City police...
French police unit disbanded amid drug deals probes
PARIS (AP) — The Paris police chief is disbanding a special police unit in a poor suburb of the French capital after four officers were brought before a judge on Thursday for “particularly serious” accusations involving theft, drug possession and extorting money from drug dealers. Paris...
15 investigations into French police for abuse, drug deals
PARIS (AP) — French authorities came under mounting pressure Wednesday to disband a special police unit in one of the country's poorest regions because it is facing at least 15 investigations into officers suspected of drug trafficking, violence, theft or falsifying police reports. News of the...
Gang leader pleads guilty to racketeering, drug charges
A man described by authorities as the former second in command of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin Kings gang has pleaded guilty to racketeering and drug charges, federal prosecutors said. Jorge Rodriguez, 32, who pleaded guilty Tuesday, faces up to 25 years in prison at sentencing scheduled for Oct. 16,...
Nebraska man faces sentencing for drone delivery to prison
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man accused of using a drone to try to deliver marijuana and tobacco to Lincoln Correctional Center pleaded no contest Tuesday to the charges. Robert M. Kinser, 38, of Lincoln faces up to four years in prison at his August sentencing. He entered the pleas to charges of...
Dutch drug sellers get 5-year prison terms in Hungary
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Two Dutch men have been sentenced to five years in prison for selling drugs at a popular Budapest music festival last summer, a Hungarian court ruled Monday Prosecutors had recommended prison sentences of up to 10 years and appealed the court’s decision, seeking longer...
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