Speaks with a Jamaican accent

The victim, a 17-year old girl was in her car in the area of SW 161st Terrace and 145th Avenue when the suspect drove past her car and stopped directly in front of her. Police say he got out, walked to her car, forced her out of her car and into his vehicle, where the assault took place. "She was able to obtain a very good description of the subject and the vehicle that we can use and we can ask the community to help us in hopes of solving this case," Detective Juan Villalba of Miami-Dade Police told CBS4's Gary Nelson. Police have released a composite sketch of the suspect. He's between 30 to 35 years old. He's described as being about 5 feet 8 inches tall, between 185 -190 lbs. He has brown eyes, long, black dreadlocks with a black headband; muscular build; and speaks with a Jamaican accent....

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Kenneth Robinson

Kenneth Robinson, 54, of 163-11 Foch Blvd. in Jamaica, was previously convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced by Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter to 25 years to life in prison, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown saidIn March 2004, Robinson voluntarily allowed forensic experts to take a swab of his saliva for a DNA sample when he was being questioned by police on an unrelated matter, the DA said.According to trial testimony, Robinson went to the apartment of his grandmother, Pauline Henninghan, at 14-01 36th Ave. in Astoria sometime between 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 4, 1989, and 9:15 a.m. the next day, and manually strangled her, the DA said. Henninghan's body was later discovered in the hallway of the apartment with an electrical cord tied around her neck and fastened to a...

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Every Jamaican resident in Jamaica to be registered

"It will require every Jamaican resident in Jamaica to be registered, to have a unique number assigned to him or her from the date of birth, and a number around which will be built the identification data," he explained.The move, he said, will "ensure that this country becomes more manageable.more governable, and that the security of the country can be better ensured."The national identification system is among a raft of crime reduction measures, which came out of five-day Cabinet retreat held from January 17 to 21."There are a number of issues that are going to be tackled very vigorously this year," the Prime Minister told journalists, noting that focus will be placed on the management of the police force, and its effectiveness and accountability.He informed that certain legislative changes...

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Darwin man arrested for having Heroin

Bali police deputy spokeswoman Sri Harmiti said the 46-year-old would likely be charged with drug possession, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and a substantial fine. About 0.4 of a gram of heroin was allegedly found inside his motorcycle helmet when he was arrested in Kuta a week ago. "He was arrested while he was driving a rental motorbike," Ms Harmiti said. She said the man had admitted buying the drugs from a woman. Ms Harmiti said the man, identified only by his initials FBM, said he'd been a regular user of heroin."He said that as a fisherman he needed to consume heroin to increase his stamina and self-confidence," she said. Several Australians caught with drugs in Bali have used the defence that they were addicts in order to escape with more lenient jail terms. Ms...

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Jacqueline Tennant

Jacqueline Tennant sister, the British woman missing in Majorca since October 8, is back on the island leading another search of the Victoria Mountain in AlcudiaMonique Tennant, along with members of the Guardia Civil, the Civil Proteccion and local British volunteers, including those with hiking experience, is spending today and tomorrow searching four possible routes she believes her sister may have taken when she went missing while hiking on the mountain last October.The team of 10 or 12 members was due to begin searching at 10am.This latest search of the area where Monique was last seen is based on information provided by two British tourists who contacted the BBC after seeing an item on television about her disappearance.The couple said they had seen a black woman walking up the mountain...

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Two British men were arrested in Tenerife

Two British men were arrested in Tenerife this weekend, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 25 year old Moroccan man who died after a brawl in the Américas Shopping Centre in the Playa de Las Américas resort on the South of the island. It happened in the early hours of Saturday and was reported by a security guard.The victim was still alive when emergency services arrived on the scene and was admitted to hospital in a critical condition. Doctors at the Hospital Sur pronounced him dead shortly afterwards.It’s understood the two suspects were arrested some hours later and were taken to the National Police station for questioni...

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Irish suspects from Dublin

Police believe a British broker offered them money to intimidate a Norwegian man into dropping legal action, and were asked to kill him if they failedThere has been news of a number of arrests on Gran Canaria in police investigations into extortion and fraud which allegedly involve a British investment broker who lives on the island. The Irish Independent said two Irish suspects, who have now been released on bail with charges, were said to have been offered 28,000 € by the broker to get a Norwegian man to drop legal action taken out against him in relation to a 200,000 € investment. They were said to have been asked to kill the Norwegian and his partner if they failed in making him withdraw the charges.The only information on the Irish suspects is that the contact was made some months ago,...

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Daniel Hastelow

The two British men arrested for the murder of a countryman in the Mallorca resort of Magaluf on Sunday appeared in court on Tuesday and have been remanded to custody by the judge. It’s understood they are both from Merseyside, and they’ve been named by the Liverpool Daily Post as Richard Roberts, aged 35, and Anthony Griffiths, 22. The paper gives the victim’s name as Daniel Hastelow.The Diario de Mallorca reports this morning that the suspects could face a possible 20 years in prison for breaking and entering and murder. They are to be tried by jury.26 year old Daniel Hastelow was stabbed as he was sleeping in his apartment in Magaluf in the early hours of Sunday. The Mallorca newspaper reports that Mr Roberts declined to declare in court on Tuesday, but admitted to the Civil Guard on Monday...

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Corey Worthington for Big Brother contract

Police have taken Melbourne's party boy and global media star Corey Worthington into custody.A police spokeswoman said the 16-year-old had been taken to the Narre Warren police station in relation to the wild party at his parents house on Saturday night. The latest development comes after Corey fled the studios of an FM radio station this morning during a sometimes hostile interview on live radio.The 16-year-old from Narre Warren bolted out of the studio and fled down a fire escape after Fox FM's radio host Matt Tilley tried to remove his plastic yellow sunglasses, which he had kept on throughout the interview.He was chased by several news camera...

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Ian Pieter van Wieringen

Ian Pieter van Wieringen appeared in Gianyar District Court today charged with possession of hashish. Mr. van Wieringen is a painter who has lived in Ubud for 35 years. Ubud is in Gianyar district hence that court being used.The maximum penalty is 10 years, but if he can prove he is an addict it can be just 3 months. Kind of sad when you see someone who is probably pretty cool get into hot water. According to The Age, the hash was found amongst orchids in his garden. Mr. van Wieringen was arrested after police raided his hou...

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Piracy

Last year, there were 269 attacks on ships, up from 239 in 2006 and reversing a downtrend seen since 2003, the International Maritime Bureau said in its annual report released by its piracy reporting center in Malaysia."The significant increase in the (2007) numbers can be directly attributed to the increase in the incidents in Nigeria and Somalia," IMB director Pottengal Mukundan said in a statement.Global pirate attacks rose by 10 percent in 2007, marking the first increase in three years as sea robbers made a strong comeback in Nigeria and Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said Wednesday.Attacks in Nigeria surged to 42 from 12 cases in 2006, he said. Somalia reported a threefold increase of 31 cases, from 10 in 2006.The IMB report said pirates were better armed and more violent...

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Bay of Islands Canterbury Trust

The Bay of Islands Canterbury Trust has admitted that the frigate is sitting 6m deeper than planned. Julia Riddle, trust secretary and director of Northland Dive, said that was because delays during the scuttling ceremony had caused the ship to move from its original mark. She said the trust was ordered to sink it by the harbour master before they were able to move it back. Phil Andrews, manager of Paihia's Dive HQ, said it was important to appreciate the dangers of any dive site and the Canterbury was no different. Anyone who wanted to dive the wreck was encouraged to do so as part of an organised dive where there were supervisors in the water at all times. "It's not a dive that many people would try to do off their own bat unless they were very experienced," Mr Andrews said. He said divers...

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Norman's Cay

Norman's Cay is a small Bahamian island (a few hundred acres) in the Exumas, a chain of islands south and east of Nassau, that served as the headquarters for Carlos Lehder's drug-smuggling operation from 1978 to around 1982.When Lehder arrived in Norman's Cay in 1978 he started purchasing large pieces of property, including a home for himself, a hotel and an airstrip. Shortly after Lehder began pushing the native population and vacationers off of Norman's Cay and gained full control of the island. Following Lehder's arrival air traffic over the small island began to increase and armed guards began patrolling the beaches. In July 1980 a yacht...

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79 Sub Saharan immigrants were rescued

A total of 79 Sub Saharan immigrants were rescued in the Waters off the Canary Islands on Friday evening after being spotted adrift by a coastguard plane. All the travellers were adult males and all are in good health. They were escorted into the port of Arguineguín on the SE of Gran Canaria after being picked up by the Coastguard vessel ‘Menkalinan’ supported by the naval vessel ‘Vencedora’. The hospital ship ‘Esperanza del Mar’ docked in Arguineguín, on the South of Gran Canaria, shortly after 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, with 117 migrants rescued from a cayuco 200 miles off the island’s southern shore in the early hours of Sunday. They were...

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William P. Archer III

William P. Archer III, 32, was plucked from his life raft in choppy seas on Thursday, 42 days after he set sail from Spain's Canary Islands on a solo voyage to the Caribbean island of Antigua.His 39-foot (12-meter) vessel, the Alchemy, listed Newport, Rhode Island, as its home port, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Archer could not immediately be reached for comment.The tanker, the Omega Lady Sarah, had been carrying oil products from New Orleans to Gibraltar when crew members spotted Archer's red parachute distress signal, and then saw him waving for help from a life raft tethered to the sinking yacht."His boat sank 25 minutes after our crew dragged him up to the ship," Gregory McGrath, chief financial officer for Athens-based Omega Navigation Enterprises, said in a telephone interview....

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Ibiza end of an Era

Last summer's season in Ibiza saw 720 arrests for drugs-related offences.drug dealers swamped the major clubs, authorities took the unprecedented decision last summer to close three of the biggest venues. Amnesia, which attracts clubbers from across Europe, was shut for a month and fined ¿6,000 (£4,000) for its "lax attitude" towards the problem. Bora Bora and DC-10 were forced to close their doors for one and two months respectively. Both operate after-hours clubs.In 2006, police launched a crackdown after becoming worried that a new, more violent, breed of British gangster was operating on the island. It followed a shooting in which two holidaymakers...

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39 year old Gibraltarian, E.J.S

The Spanish National Police made several arrests last week on the Gibraltar border. One of these was a 37 year old Portuguese citizen, L.F.D.O., who was wanted by a court in Estella. Another, 44 year old J. L.C., was wanted by an Algeciras court, as was a 39 year old Gibraltarian, E.J.S. These arrests were a result of the documentation controls carried out by police at the bord...

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125,000 weapons were destroyed

More than 125,000 weapons were destroyed in a smelting operation at the Caribbean Cement Company Ltd. yesterday, as the Government intensified its efforts to rid the country of illegal weapons. The weapons, weighing half a tonne, comprised an assortment of pistols, rifles and high-powered guns.According to Deputy Commis-sioner of Police Jevene Bent, the weapons included those that have been in storage from as far back as the 1950s, illegal guns seized by the police and defective police firearms that cannot be repaired."We've seized guns and we would have taken these before the courts. We also have guns that belonged to citizens but were left...

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Second Lieutenant D.M.S.K. Dissanayake

Slave Island bomb blast on January 02 has risen to five as an army personnel succumbed to injuries while being treated at the National Hospital Colombo this morning, January 04. Second Lieutenant D.M.S.K. Dissanayake of Sri Lanka National Guard (SLNG), one of the victims who received severe injuries due to the explosion, was admitted to the National Hospital and being treated at Intensive Care Unit. Hospital sources said the victim succumbed to his injuries around 3.05 a.m this morning, January 04. Earlier, Four people including two schoolchildren, a 15 year old student of Ananda College and a 16 year old student of Asoka Vidyalaya-Colombo, and a mother were killed when LTTE terrorists carried out a cowardly bomb blast targeting civilians and an army bus in Colombo on January 2. The targeted...

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Alex.& Jumpa swim to Nevis

“Alex” and “Jumpa”, were reportedly fishing and diving for conchs off the coast of Nevis. However, the two men could not be found by their boat pilot because of heavy rains at sea. The boat pilot journeyed to Nevis in the vessel and contacted the St. Kitts Nevis Coast Guard Base and informed them of what had transpired. A search team was deployed to look for the men but was later called off as night had fallen making it virtually impossible to locate the men in the water. The men, as SKNVibes understands, escaped the ordeal unharmed as they managed to swim to Nev...

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Basseterre, St. Kitts:

The Security Forces were able to end 2007 on a positive note in relation to the recovery of illegal firearms as officers from the Defence Force recovered two guns- a 9mm pistol and a .380 pistol- and some ammunition on December 31st, on Princes Street, Basseterre.The 9mm pistol had 10 rounds of ammunition while the .380 had two rounds.According to a Police Press release, the soldiers were making a routine patrol along the above mentioned street, when they came upon some unidentified men who threw an object under a car and fled the scene once they sighted the soldiers.A thorough search under the car revealed the two pistols and ammunition.The...

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identified a suspect for the gruesome killing of the mother of five

homicide detectives are in the Philippines as the hunt for the killer of a woman found dead in the front yard of a Springvale house intensifies.They have been talking to the family of Luvina Dayang as they search for clues as to why she was found bashed and wrapped in two garbage bags on December 12 in View Rd.Officers have also travelled to Sydney.It is believed investigators have identified a suspect for the gruesome killing of the mother of five, who had been badly beaten.Ms Dayang, 50, was last seen alive by friends in Sydney after telling them she was travelling to Melbourne.She journeyed south by bus after saying she wanted to find work here.Ms Dayang has since been informally identified as the murder victim found by the owners of a property under renovation.Detectives who have travelled...

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11,000 illegals landed

11,000 illegals landed in the Canaries during 2007, a significant reduction compared to the previous year thanks to the effectiveness of sea patrols off the coast of Africa, which have prevented many would-be migrants from departing. However, the drop has been accompanied by an increase in the number of deaths at sea of Africans who have failed to survive the crossings.Latest news: The migrants, who include a small number of under-18s, were spotted in difficulty in their large wooden boat 200 miles off the coast of Gran Canaria and the ship was sent out to assist them. They were met in harbour by the local Red Cross, who provided food and medical...

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