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Crime

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." -G. Gordon Liddy

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February 2008
- Huge Mob Bust Bags Dozens in NY, Sicily
  
  New York Times | Feb 7, 08 11:42 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Authorities in New York and Sicily unleashed a massive mob takedown today, indicting more than 60 suspects, including the entire Gambino family leadership, the New York Times reports; 52 have already been arrested, including underboss Domenico Cefalu and consigliere Joseph Corozzo. “I can't think of a larger single-day roundup,” a source told the New York Post. “It dismantles the infrastructure of the family.” More »
- Drug Cartels Aim to Master the Deep
  
  Washington Post | Feb 6, 08 7:41 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Colombian drug cartels are increasingly relying on homemade submersibles to transport cocaine, the Washington Post reports, with 13 such vessels seized last year—more than in the previous 14 combined. The vehicles skim just under the waves, nearly invisible to sonar and aircraft. And even enforcement officials have grudging respect for the ingenuity the traffickers show in constructing them. More »
- How Bad's Your Neighborhood? Find Out Online
  
  Associated Press | Feb 5, 08 5:43 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Neighborhood Watch just got a digital upgrade, reports the AP. CrimeReports.com, the brainchild of a suburban DC dweller who accidentally let a burglar into his apartment building, mines police logs for data on crimes and plots them all on Google maps. Users can set up email alerts to keep tabs on criminal happenings going on around them. More »
- Man Admits Sex With Slain Model
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Feb 5, 08 3:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A British man on trial for the murder of an 18-year-old model admits that he had sex with her corpse but denies killing her. Mark Dixie says he was high and drunk when he found Sally Anne Bowman’s body and took "advantage of the situation," the prosecutor said today at the Old Bailey, adding, “That, astonishingly, is his defense.” More »
- Scout Held in Family Massacre
  
  Baltimore Sun | Feb 4, 08 3:07 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A 15-year-old Baltimore area Boy Scout has been charged with murdering all four members of his family. High school sophmore Nicholas Browning shot his father, a prominent corporate lawyer, his mother, and brothers, ages 11 and 13, reports the Baltimore Sun . Police say he used his father's handgun during the rampage, triggered by an argument with his dad. The teen is being held without bail. More »
- Cops Closing Doors on Cold Cases
  
  USA Today | Feb 3, 08 11:15 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Amid shrinking budgets and shifts in focus, US police departments are downsizing their cold-case divisions, USA Today reports. Federal funding for the units dropped 40% in 2007, and departments are reducing the hours devoted to long-unsolved cases—and even eliminating the positions entirely. Experts in the field worry that such measures leave murderers to roam free. More »
- Chicago Cops Seek Killer of 5
  
  Chicago Sun-Times | Feb 2, 08 2:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Police are searching for a stocky black man who reportedly shot five women dead in a Chicago mall burglary this morning, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Police surrounded the Tinley Park mall after shots were reported at a Lane Bryant store just before 11 a.m. “There is no question it was a horrific scene,’’ said a police source. More »
- Aruba May Bust Holloway Suspect Again
  
  CNN | Feb 1, 08 11:04 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Aruban police may rearrest a Dutch teen after he admitted on camera to dumping the body of Natalee Holloway, CNN reports. Joran Van der Sloot claimed today that his confession was a lie, but Aruba's main public prosecutor has reopened his probe and awaits a judge's ruling on the arrest this weekend. Officials had closed the case for lack evidence until a Dutch reporter showed them the video. More »
- Drifter Gets Life in Hiker Murder
  
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Feb 1, 08 6:42 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A Georgia drifter who pleaded guilty to killing 24-year-old hiker Meredith Emerson was sentenced yesterday to life in prison, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Gary Michael Hilton, 61, led police to the victim's decapitated body on Blood Mountain days after her disappearance. Hilton had been charged with kidnapping and malicious murder and faced a possible death sentence. He is also a suspect in three other killings. More »
January 2008
- New DNA Found on Slain British Student's Bra
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jan 31, 08 5:45 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Mystery DNA found on the bra of Meredith Kercher could point to more players in the November murder of the British student in Italy, the Telegraph reports, though police maintain the traces indicate only that others handled it. "All we know for certain is that it does not match any of the suspects," a source says. More »
- Rogue Trader Says SocGen Looked the Other Way
  
  Der Spiegel | Jan 31, 08 11:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Jérôme Kerviel, the trader at the root of the $7.1 billion scandal roiling French banking giant Société Générale, says his bosses knew what he was up to, and they didn't stop him as long as he was generating huge profits—$2 billion by the end of 2007, he claims. "As long as my results were positive, my superiors closed their eyes to the methods and the sums involved," he tells authorities in an interrogation transcript excerpted by Der Spiegel . “It’s impossible to generate such profits by taking small positions.” More »
- System Vulnerable to 'Genius' Rogue Traders
  
  Reuters | Jan 30, 08 6:55 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Banks hoping to weed out potential rogue traders need to realize that they can strike anywhere, any time—and that their best traders could be the likeliest suspects, Reuters warns. "All of the things that make a great trader make a great fraudster, too," noted a consultant. Experts say that psychological tests don't work, as great moneymakers and rogues often share the same genius streak. More »
- Eli Lilly Could Pay $1B Settlement
  
  New York Times | Jan 30, 08 5:40 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Drug-maker Eli Lilly could pay more than $1 billion to state and federal authorities to settle an investigation into how the company marketed an antipsychotic drug, the New York Times reports. In 2000-03, Lilly pushed doctors to prescribe Zyprexa as a treatment for age-related dementia—though the drug is approved to treat only schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. More »
- Kidney-Theft Bust Has India Buzzing
  
  New York Times | Jan 30, 08 4:31 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Police exposure of a criminal ring that has illegally taken hundreds of kidneys over the past nine years has created scandal in India, reports the New York Times . Victims were mostly day laborers lured by offers of work or simply kidnapped at gunpoint. They were forcibly operated on, and their organs were sold to rich Indians and foreigners. More »
- Drew Peterson Wants to Lie Test on TV
  
  Fox News | Jan 30, 08 3:02 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - After repeatedly refusing requests from the family of his missing wife that he submi