Crime
Romania: Former journalist and baby murdered at their home
A former journalist together with her five-month-old daughter was killed at their home in Romania’s Northern city of Iasi. The husband of the woman discovered the bodies yesterday while returning home. The kid was stabbed, while the 29-year-old...
Shocking Emmy winner, "America's Most Wanted" host, caught 1500 criminals
Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- "America's Most Wanted" host and creator John Walsh named this Tuesday as the 2011 recipient of the Governors Award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. His TV crime show has helped...
America's Most Wanted Gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger is captured
Elena Vnorovscaia/ Chişinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- James 'Whitey' Bulger is a former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, local criminals based in South Boston, Massachusetts, group. He served as a top-level informant for the FBI on his gang's main rival, the...
"Barefoot Bandit" refused enriching by means of his own history
Mariana Puzderi/ Chișinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Twenty year old American, Colton Harris-Moore, known as the"Barefoot Bandit", pleaded guilty in seven charges and has agreed to deal with the justice, according to The Seattle Times. Earlier, Harris...
Hi-tech crime and sexual partner surveys 'biased'
Surveys of cyber crime and numbers of sexual partners have a lot in common, researchers have suggested. Both are self-reporting, uncorroborated surveys that are subject to "catastrophic errors", according to analysis by a Microsoft research...
"Russian mafia" band arrested in Western Europe turned to be of ethnic Georgians
By Michael Hirshman With mafia arrests, Spain turns suspicious eye on post-Soviet immigrants Maria Shkurnytska immigrated to Spain 12 years ago from Ukraine. Resolving to work hard, she quickly adapted to her new home. She found steady employment...
Pharmacies obliged to stop selling food supplements
The Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime discovered a fraudulent scheme used by Moldovan economic entities to import and sell food supplements on the market without certificates issued by the Preventive Medicine Center. During a month...
LA gang members charged with race crimes
Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged members of Los Angeles' Latino Florencia 13 street gang with racially motivated attempted killings of blacks. Authorities said the gang -- one of Los Angeles' most dangerous and notorious -- specifically tried to...
South Africa investigates top police chief
South Africa's national police commissioner will be formally investigated for alleged links to organized crime. Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi continues to have the support of South African President Thabo Mbeki, who earlier this year said he wasn...
Crime-stopping cardboard cop stolen
The police officer at a British shop didn't move a muscle when thieves carted him away -- he couldn't because he was a cardboard cutout. Just days after police officials heralded the cutout's effectiveness in deterring shoplifting, the cutout itself...
