Blog Posts in August, 2010
Posted on Aug 28, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently reported that the top reason for "removing" or deporting immigrants is based upon their being detained for crimes involving "dangerous drugs". these ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Prosecutors in New York just sent a Chinese born American citizen to federal prison for 37 months for importing and selling millions of dollars worth of counterfeit Trojan brand condoms. 4.3 million ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Two Los Angeles area car wash owners were just sentenced to a year in the Los Angeles County Jail and will have to pay hundreds of thousands in fines after they were convicted of multiple criminal ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Peter Paul Felix was just sentenced to four years in state prison for bringing drugs into the very jails that he was charged with protecting. He must have ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
On a more serious note, two who were previously sentenced to death by courts in Japan were hanged last week. The executions spurred serious animosity by citizens rights groups including Amnesty ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
I have been off for a while. This is because I have not seen many newsworthy articles to write about. Today I could not help myself. I read that a man in Israel was jailed for the crime of rape by ...
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