#witness-intimidation

#witness-intimidation

Rules in relation sex offenders will also be beefed up The Government is to significantly strengthen Ireland's bail laws in a move aimed at criminal gangs that intimidate witnesses and jurors. Planned legislative changes will also expand the powers of gardaí to argue against paedophiles and rapists receiving bail if they flout notification requirements of the sex offenders registry.

Gogic, 46, who remains held without bail at MDC Brooklyn, was set to stand trial on charges in November that he played a key role in an operation that trafficked more than 20 tons of cocaine through U.S. ports. A day before opening statements, though, the trial was thrown into chaos, when prosecutors said they'd learned of a plot to offer a $100,000 bribe to a juror.

Deepak Paradkar, 62, is accused of playing a role in Wedding's international drug-trafficking operation, including counseling Wedding to kill a witness. The alleged cocaine lawyer was arrested in November and is facing extradition to the U.S. where he could receive a life sentence if he is convicted of charges including conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to retaliate against a witness.

Darin McFarlin, 47, was arrested shortly after midnight Friday, Aug. 22, near Bridgeport. Three hours earlier, El Dorado County sheriff's deputies had been called to his Cameron Park home, where they found a woman and a child who had been shot. The woman, pronounced dead at the scene, was identified as McFarlin's girlfriend, Marissa Herzog, 29. The child, who died at a hospital, was her son, a second-grader. Nobody else was in the house, the sheriff's office said,