United States of Europe

Police in Milwauke said they've arrested a man in connection with a July 4 shooting incident in which four people were killed and two injured.Two alleged accomplices are still being sought.The arrested man Rosario C. Fuentez, told police that the and two other men were armed when they confronted a Milwaukee street crowd in retaliation for the assault and robbery of one of the other men by alleged gang members. The men hid behind houses before Fuentez walked into the crowd and opened fire, police said. Relatives of some of the victims say the slain people were not gang members.

$90,000 4WD under which the pipe bomb exploded was in the care of a former member of the Nomads motorcycle gang who had switched allegiance to rivals Notorious. He now controls security for a Kings Cross identity and drives the car for the businessman, who lives elsewhere in Sydney.Police said up to eight shots were fired near the car, parked in Walkers Dr, Lane Cove North, before the bomb exploded about 3.50am.Bomb squad called in ... Device explodes under car The blast damaged the undercarriage and interior and would have caused serious injury had anyone been inside.A second, unexploded device beside the 4WD, was removed and later detonated by police.The man linked to the car shares the townhouse with a woman and a young child, who were home when the pipe bomb exploded.Police said he was refusing to co-operate with investigations. The blast left residents of the 14ha estate in shock. Some revealed they feared the man and his associates, many of whom drove motorcycles and expensive ...

The most violent area was the north-western state of Sinaloa, where 43 deaths were reported. In Chihuahua, 40 people were killed over the past week, the daily La Jornada reported. In Sinaloa’s capital, Culiacan, teachers, students and university employees, dressed in white, protested the increasing violence yesterday. They placed white carnations on a symbolic tomb and held 10 minutes’ silencefor the more than 500 people who have been killed in the state this year. In the tourist town of Mazatlan on Saturday, a group of men fleeing the police after allegedly killing a senior police official, took 40 people hostage at a restaurant in a shopping mall. Mexico has recorded more than 2,000 slayings this year amid turf wars between narcotics trafficking cartels. The centre-right federal government in Mexico City hasdeclared war on the drugcartels, sending the federal law enforcement and the Mexican Army to bolster local police in some regions.

Two gang members will spend the rest of their lives in prison for their part in a 2005 gang retaliation shooting, in which Mynisha, 11, was killed and her older sister, Jaynita, 14, at the time, was wounded. Mynisha's family sat stoically Friday in San Bernardino County Superior Court as Judge Brian McCarville sentenced gunman Harold Lee Phillips, 26, and organizer Sidikiba Greenwood, 37, to more than 90 years to life each. Heavily guarded by plainclothes officers and San Bernardino sheriff's bailiffs, Mynisha's family declined comment after the sentencing and was quickly whisked away. Deputy District Attorney Ron Webster said the court remains vigilant in its concern for the family's safety. "The family is still very distraught. I'm just glad they could be here," Webster said. "This day will never bring back their 11-year-old daughter, but we will continue to fight this gang problem for the loved ones that continue to be lost." Greenwood, whose ...

fugitive Italian Mafia leader, Salvatore Parisi, was arrested on Friday by the Italian Carabinieri or paramilitary police on the outskirts of the Sicilian town of Monreale. Parisi, 54, has been accused by the anti-Mafia authorities in Catania of being part of a criminal organisation involved in drug trafficking. The authorities in the Sicilian capital Palermo also believe that he is a top member of the notorious Porta Nuova Sicilian Mafia family in Palermo. Reports say that the Mafia leader was hiding out in an apartment close to Monreale. When he saw the Carabinieri approach, he attempted to escape on a scooter but was arrested a few minutes later. Parisi has already escaped arrest twice before, first in October 2007 in an operation carried out by the authorities in Syracuse in eastern Sicily and in February this year in a separate operation jointly conducted by the Italian police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Italy's four main criminal organisations are the Sicilia...

Chilliwack RCMP busted three individuals associated with gang activity Wednesday evening, and, in the process, found a stash of drugs and drug paraphernalia as well as some unusual weapons at a local home.The Crime Reduction Unit noticed an apparent drug sale taking place near the intersection of Young Road and Hocking Avenue at 7:10 p.m. on July 9. They apprehended the three suspects on charges of trafficking in a controlled substance and also obtained a search warrant for a residence associated with the individuals.Police conducted a search of a home at the 46300 block of Chilliwack Central Road where they found various equipment likely being used to prepare drugs for sale on the street. That would be things like scales, baggies, materials to cut drugs," RCMP spokesperson Const. Lea-Anne Dunlop said.Investigators also found approximately 11 grams of heroin, equalling about 110 street buys, and approximately 30 grams of crack cocaine, which amounts to about 150 street buys, at th...

20-year-old man was charged with aggravated robbery with a gang penalty enhancement after robbing two men, beating them up and leaving them in the middle of a baseball field in their underwear. The two men met up in the baseball field at Bingham High School on June 26 when they were approached by a man carrying a handgun who told them to empty their pockets, according to court documents filed in the 3rd District Court on Thursday. The man with the gun pointed it toward the head of one of the victims and said, "I should just shoot you right now," the documents state. While they were being robbed, the victims also saw five more men coming toward them, including the 20-year-old facing charges. That man and the others then kicked and punched the two victims until one of them lost consciousness, according to court documents. At some point, the men ordered the two victims to undress, and left them on the field wearing only their underwear and socks. The attackers...