Deputies in Virginia arrested a mother and her son in connection with the shooting deaths of four men outside a Mount Airy appliance store.On Tuesday, investigators with the Mount Airy Police Department issued warrants for the arrest of Kathy Young Barnette, 56, and her son, Gregory Brandon Holt, 34, charging them with accessory after the fact.Barnette and Holt both live in Claudeville, Va., so Mount Airy police asked the Patrick County Sheriff's Department to serve the warrants. The tw... Read Full Story

Paul Joseph Derry, now lives in an undisclosed location somewhere in North America under a new identity after he agreed to testify about a Hells Angels contract killing in 2000. His testimony secured four murder convictions against three Hells Angels associates and one full-patch member, all now serving terms in prison.An RCMP document obtained by the Citizen shows that the commissioner of the force now wants to kick their once-coveted agent out of the witness protection program because he “m... Read Full Story

Juan Crispin, 38, claimed the 20-year minimum term he must serve under a life sentence for the murder of Eleni Pachou was excessive.But judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh said the sentence was "entirely appropriate" even for a first offender. Lady Paton, hearing the appeal with Lord Carloway, said: "It was a truly appalling and despicable crime with many aggravating features, not least that an accomplished young woman lost her life in a nightmare attack."She said Crispin had ... Read Full Story

Mayor of Polop de la Marina, Alejandro Ponsoda, was killed in October 2007 because he opposed a real estate plan.The Guardia Civil on Thursday arrested a suspect in Albatera and reports are now that they are continuing to search for two foreign professional hit men, at least one of them thought to be Czech.Members of the local Town Hall are under investigation as part of the case.The movement in the case comes two years after the Mayor was shot outside his home. He died in hospital eight days... Read Full Story

Spain is the largest cocaine consumer in the European Union (EU), a report by the European drug monitoring authority showed on Thursday. While marijuana consumption slightly fell among the Spaniards, cocaine consumption has spread in the country. Over the past year, 3.1 percent of the Spaniards admitted having consumed cocaine, while 1.1 percent said they did it in the past month, according to the report presented by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction. During the last... Read Full Story

Spanish police have arrested a 44-year-old man who Danish police say is John Knudsen, the prime suspect sought in the murder of his girlfriend, Kirsten Bay Andersen.Danish man sought in connection with Jutland woman’s murder reportedly arrested in Spain Spanish police have arrested a 44-year-old man who Danish police say is John Knudsen, the prime suspect sought in the murder of his girlfriend, Kirsten Bay Andersen.The arrest was made late last night in the city of Zaragoza, said Bent Thuesen... Read Full Story

Danish man sought in connection with Jutland woman’s murder reportedly arrested in Spain Spanish police have arrested a 44-year-old man who Danish police say is John Knudsen, the prime suspect sought in the murder of his girlfriend, Kirsten Bay Andersen....Spanish police have arrested a 44-year-old man who Danish police say is John Knudsen, the prime suspect sought in the murder of his girlfriend, Kirsten Bay Andersen.The arrest was made late last night in the city of Zaragoza, said Bent Thue... Read Full Story

Jayson Ordinario, 22, later told police officer that 'he was forced to swallow 34 tubes of heroin and that at the time of his rescue, he was about to board a plane to Macau to transport the substances,' Soriano said. Police officers also seized six capsules of a 'yellowish powdered substance,' which laboratory tests found to be high-grade heroin, from the two suspects identified as Jhun Enummeng and Elpidio Gonzales. Soriano said Enummeng and Gonzales were 'drug couriers for a well-knit drug ... Read Full Story

Police from the violent crime squad of the National Police in Benidorm have arrested a 42 year old Romanian man in La Vila Joiosa in connection with several sexual aggressions carried out on a British holidaymaker in Benidorm. Another two men, aged 19 and 20 and also Romanian, who allegedly took part have also been arrested.The three are accused of holding the woman against her will in a rural house in the Galandú area of Villajoyosa, near the district hospital. She was raped and forced to ha... Read Full Story

Spanish police has raided what is being described as the largest cocaine manufacturing plant in the country, which has been located on a farm in Diamiel, Ciudad Real.The facilities were capable of producing as much as 50 kilos of cocaine a week.Those running the plant camouflaged the drug with cacao from Venezuela.Members of the GEO Special Operations Group impounded more than eight tons of chemical substances, 275 kilos of substances used to cut the drug, hydraulic presses and other items in... Read Full Story