Police arrested Vladislav Horohorin, 27, at Nice airport in France on a US arrest warrant as he prepared to board a flight for Moscow.
The Ukranian-born fugitive, described by the US Secret Service as “one of its five most wanted cyber-criminals.
In the world”, is wanted for the trafficking of stolen credit card information on a “global scale”. Michael Merritt.
Concrete performance will be the main criteria determining the posting of crime branch officers of the state police department in the future, said state home minister R R Patil here on Tuesday. "Being in the good books of superiors will not be enough, capability and performance will henceforth be the deciding factors for important profiles in the crime branch," said Patil.
He advised crime branch officers to focus only on solving cases and ensuring conviction of the guilty. "From here on, they will not be involved in regular law-and-order maintenance, except during general elections and festivals, like Ganeshotsav."
POLICE have confirmed that there was a massive reduction in crime at this year’s Big Chill. Around 30,000 people attended the event, but only 33 arrests were made, mostly for drugs, criminal damage and theft. This was a reduction of 60% compared to last year’s festival. The police used social websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to send their crime prevention tips.
“The festival goers appear to have had an excellent time and were very well behaved,” said Chief Inspector Jim McLaughlin. The police and the new organisers had a very good partnership which they hope to build on for future Big Chill events.”
THE hot, muggy weekend was marred by a large number of crimes in Winnipeg. As well as a homicide Saturday morning at a Manitoba Housing unit in the 1400 block of Winnipeg Avenue, there was a spree of violence on Saturday and Sunday.
Simultaneous attacks ON Saturday about 4:45 a.m., a report of a stabbing in the West End led police to a shooting in a Sherbrook Street apartment block. Officers were responding to a stabbing in the 400 block of Maryland Street when a gunshot was heard near Ellice Avenue and Sherbrook Street, police spokesman Const. Rob Carver said.
An armed man came out of the apartment building on the southwest corner of the intersection, and police drew their weapons to convince him to drop his own. After he dropped the weapon, police realized the man had a gunshot wound, Carver said. The man, in his early 20s, was in stable condition in hospital.
CrimeStoppersis appealing for the public's help in the high-profile case of a missing elderly couple from Alberta. Lyle McCann, 78, and his wife, Marie, 77, were last spotted July 3 in St. Albert as they set out to meet their daughter in Abbotsford. Their burning motorhome was discovered two days later near a campground, southeast of Edson, Alta.
"We request the public to provide any piece of information, regardless of how seemingly inconsequential it appears, as it might be the piece of the puzzle needed to help solve the investigation. And more importantly, help the McCann family," Crime Stoppers said.
If you ask the authors appearing at the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime-Writing Festival in Harrogate for their definition of a crime writer, most of them don’t come up with much more than ”I’m here, so I must be one.” Most writers are crime writers, if you look at them the right way. When asked by one audience member to nominate a crime writer whose works he’d take to a desert island, Jeffery Deaver chose Shakespeare.
But many of those writers attending felt united by a belief that crime fiction is tackling subjects that matter to readers. Val McDermid suggested that where literary fiction has become lost to “theory and the academy”, crime fiction was “shining a light on society”.
When Jason Goodwin, the creator of the sleuthing eunuch Yashim, suggested that the pleasure of being a writer was that you could make things up, the Glasgow-based novelist Caro Ramsay retorted: “You might do”, and emphasised how important it was to her that she write about the unsalubrious goings-on she could see out of her own window.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Friday to crack down on foreign-born criminals, pushing his "war on crime" amid fear of violence between police and immigrant minorities.
Sarkozy vowed to strip foreign-born individuals of their French nationality if they attack police or public officials, in the wake of deadly shootings and other violence between police and suspects in largely immigrant districts.
His declaration coincided with evidence of violent behaviour by the authorities themselves: a video of French police violently evicting Africans from a squat in a suburb of Paris. The video, published on the website DailyMotion and broadcast by CNN news, shows police dragging screaming African women along the ground, including one with a baby in a sling on her back beneath her and another apparently pregnant.
A measure designed to ease stubbornly high rates of violent crime, including rape and sexual assault, within Indian reservations will be signed into law by President Obama on Thursday. Advocates of the Tribal Law and Order Act, which took three years to put together and passed the Senate last week, say it will ensure that more crimes, including murders and serious assaults, are reported and prosecuted amid worries that many cases go unpunished.
The measure gives tribal courts tougher sentencing powers and sets stricter rules to gather and collect more data on crimes. Special U.S. prosecutors will be appointed to tackle what advocates of the law describe as an epidemic of violence.
The president is due to sign the bill into law during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday afternoon. Supporters said the current congressional session was the most active in decades in improving conditions for Indian reservations. Earlier this year, Obama signed a law that boosted health-care provisions for Indian communities.
Crime has plunged to its lowest level since 1981, with the number of thefts, burglaries and fraud cases tumbling. The British Crime Survey yesterday revealed that the number of offences fell from 10.5 to 9.6 million - the first time the total has dropped below 10 million since records began.
Shadow Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the figures showed Labour had delivered on their promise to be "tough on crime" during the party's 13 years in power. Warwickshire Chief Constable Keith Bristow, a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers, called the results "a strong indication of our commitment to cutting crime".
He added: "Like many sectors, policing will be expected to deliver more for less. We recognise the challenge and remain resolutely committed to protecting the public." Across England and Wales, crimes recorded by police in 2009/10 fell by eight per cent, from 4.7 million to 4.3 million.
While social networking and micro-blogging sites are great tools to stay connected, they are also easy to misuse. And mostly, it’s women who are the victims, say the cyber crime police. An increasing number of women are approaching the cyber crime cell with complaints that fake profiles of them with obscene content have been posted on sites such.
In 2009, the police received was 268 applications of fake profiles, obscene content and defamation, but only nine cases were registered. They have received 160 applications till June 30 this year, but only six cases have been registered so far. Though such incidents are on the rise, few victims are willing to register a case.
Explaining this, cyber security consultant Vijay Mukhi, who often works with the police in such cases, said victims are afraid to proceed with complaints as that could lead to exposure and social humiliation. “Most victims want the obscene profiles deleted after which they are not interested in proceeding with complaints.”
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