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#drug-trafficking

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A member of Brooklyn's 5-9 Brims gang is facing life in prison after being found guilty of murdering a member of a rival gang, prosecutors with the Eastern District of New York announced Monday.Marvin Pippins, also known as "Mukk," was convicted by a federal jury on April 24 for the murder of Sean Peart, a Real Ryte gang member, by shooting at him six times while he sat in a car in Bedford Stuyvesant on December 19, 2015.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) last week introduced a bill that would vacate and expunge non-violent criminal convictions for crimes committed by human trafficking survivors while they were in captivity.Gillibrand introduced the bill  dubbed the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act  along with her Republican colleague U.S. Senator Robert Portman (R-Ohio), according to a release shared first with amNewYork Metro.

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly subsided, but another deadly plague continues to rage across America: drug overdoses.They caused more than 106,000 deaths in 2021 - greater than the toll from guns and auto accidents combined - and preliminary government health data indicate that last year was nearly as bad.

An American citizen was arrested in Russia and was being detained in Moscow, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.The man was accused of drug trafficking, according to Russian state media.The press service for a court in Moscow's Khamovniki district told the Interfax news agency that the man was an ex-paratrooper and musician and accused him of organizing a drug-dealing business involving young people.

LUSAKA, Zambia  The body of a 23-year-old Zambian student who died while fighting for the Russian army in the war in Ukraine has been returned home.The body of Lemekani Nyirenda who was studying nuclear engineering in Russia before joining the military arrived at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka on Sunday.

1. The European Union is increasing its support for the Moldovan government by attending a summit in Chisinau and offering financial assistance.
2. The summit aims to strengthen Moldova's ties with the EU and promote economic and democratic reforms.
3. The Moldovan government has implemented a series

Although Breed did not specifically comment on a new emergency order, she highlighted the San Francisco Police Department's new partnership with the California Highway Patrol and CalGuard - announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom at the end of April -targeting drug trafficking and drug dealing in the city."We can't force the state and the feds to come to the table, but finally they are coming to the table in a way that's not necessarily traditional," Breed said.

Her desperation vanishes, briefly, in stolen moments of play with Tori (Pablo Schils) that remind us that these are children.Everything else in the movie is a dramatic argument against the injustice of children being compelled to solve grown-up problems without parents or other adults to help.A worthy subject for a film, no question.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Metropolitan Police say they made more than 200 arrests and seized over one million pounds worth of drugs during a week-long crackdown on county lines gangs in London.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is branding President Joe Biden as the best thing that has ever happened for the human traffickers and drug traffickers in Mexico.During the Friday edition of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Cruz blamed Biden for being responsible for modern day slavery, because of his open border policies.

Source: Screenshot President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he will visit the Southern Border after months of pressure over not doing so from Republicans and media like Fox News, as well as from Democrats and MSNBC.That's my intention, Biden told reporters during his trip to Kentucky.We're working out the details now.

WASHINGTON A Russian citizen who ran a cryptocurrency exchange that federal prosecutors say transmitted at least $700 million in illicit funds has been arrested in Miami and charged with evading U.S. money-laundering safeguards, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday.The Russian citizen, Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, oversaw the exchange based in Hong Kong, Bitzlato, which knowingly enabled criminals to profit from their wrongdoing, including ransomware and drug trafficking, Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's criminal division, said during a news conference on Wednesday.

The number of journalists killed in 2022 up to December 1 was 20% higher than in the same period last year, reversing a two-year downward trend, according to media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).Russia's war against Ukraine played a "major role" in the increase, RSF researcher Christopher Resch told DW.