Picture shows some of the pre-Hispanic Mayan pieces seized by police, undated. Stephanie Allison Jolluck, 49, and Giorgio Salvador Rossilli, 62, were arrested transporting 166 pieces Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. (@PNCdeGuatemala/Newsflash)

Central America / Crime / General News

Customs Police Seize More Than 150 Mayan Treasures From American Travellers

Two Americans have been arrested in Guatemala with 166 pre-Hispanic Mayan pieces in their vehicle and face artefact trafficking charges. The two suspects have been named as Stephanie Allison Jolluck, 49, and Giorgio Salvador Rossilli, 62. Picture shows some of the pre-Hispanic Mayan pieces seized by police. (@PNCdeGuatemala/Newsflash) They were…

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November 23, 2022

Image shows eight Kurdish migrants crammed in the backseat of a car, undated photo. The 48-year-old smuggler was temporary arrested in Bavaria, Germany on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (Bundespolizei/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / Immigration

Police Seize Car With Eight Migrants Crammed In Back

Baffled police arrested a driver in Germany after they stopped his car on an autobahn and found eight illegal migrants crammed into the back seat. The Kurdish migrants told police they were fleeing Turkey after paying people smugglers to get through to western Europe. The German-Turkish driver claimed to be…

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November 7, 2022

Iranian journalist, Niloofar Hamedi, poses in undated photo. She has been arrested in Tehran, Iran. (@Kamfirouzi/Newsflash)

General News / Middle East / Women's Rights

Iranian Women Journalists Arrested For Publishing Stories About Mahsa Amini And Covering Protests

Iranian police have arrested at least two women journalists involved in publishing the story of Mehsa Amini who died after being arrested and allegedly beaten for wearing a hijab incorrectly. Nilufar Hamidi, a journalist for Sharq newspaper and website, is one of those who have been arrested. She had published…

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September 30, 2022

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz poses, undated. His cleaner named Omri Goren Gorochowski, aged 38, was jailed for three years for offering to spy on his employer for an Iran-linked hacking group in Israel, on Tuesday, 6th September, 2022. (Newsflash)

General News / Middle East / Politics

Israeli Defence Minister’s Cleaner Jailed For Trying To Spy For Iranian Hackers

A former cleaner who worked at the private residence of Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has been jailed for three years for attempting to spy for Iranian hackers. Omri Goren, 38, was found guilty of trying to give information to an enemy entity. He was arrested in November 2021 and…

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September 18, 2022

Dog lying on the floor with three suspects arrested with marijuana in Hortolandia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, July 28, 2022. The animal was guarding the farm where the seizure took place. (Dise Americana/Newsflash)

Animals / General News / South America

Dope Dealers’ Guard Dog Surrenders To Police

This is the bizarre moment when a cannabis gang's guard dog gives itself up to police during a drugs bust. Narcotics cops arrested the three men on a ranch in Hortolandia, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on Thursday, 28th July. The officers seized 1,176 bricks containing 1.1 tonnes of marijuana from…

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August 9, 2022

Andres Mendoza , serial killer arrested in Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico, in 2021. (@FiscaliaEdomex/Newsflash)

Crime / General News / North America And Caribbean

Grim Find Of 300 More Bones In Basement Of Cannibal Serial Killer

Police have made a gruesome discovery of 300 more bones in the basement of a cannibal serial killer in Mexico. Andres Filomeno Mendoza, 73 - dubbed the ‘Cannibal of Atizapan’ - was arrested last year by police investigating the disappearance of one of his victims. Inside his home, astonished investigators…

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July 18, 2022

After months of investigations three men were arrested in Cologne on 2th of June 2022, and police seized 19 fake gold coins. (Polizeiprasidium Koln/Newsflash)

Crime / Europe / General News

Cops Bust EUR 80K Crooks Selling Fake QE II Gold Coins

Fraud police have busted scammers suspected of selling fake Canadian 'Maple Leaf' gold coins with the face of Queen Elizabeth on them. The fraudsters are said to have conned buyers out of EUR 80,000 by selling the fakes. Cologne police headquarters in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and…

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June 17, 2022

Ram has been sentenced to three years in jail for allegedly attacking and killing an old woman named Adhieu Chaping in South Sudan in May 2022. (CEN)

Africa / Animals / General News

Rampant Sheep Gets Three Years Jail For Butting Woman To Death

A ram has been sentenced to three years in jail after it was convicted of killing a woman. The baffling sentence was passed by a court in Rumbek, capital of the Lakes State in South Sudan. The ram, officials say, will serve its time in a tough military prison. Rumbek…

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June 2, 2022

Aiello del Sabato, Italy, where the daughter was kept by her parents for 3 years. (Google Maps/Newsflash)

Crime / Europe / General News

Daughter Starved And Kept In Chains For Years

A mother of eight has been arrested in Italy for keeping one of her daughters chained and locked up at home. The 47-year-old mum - not named in local media - lives in the small town of Aiello del Sabato in the southern Italian province of Avellino with her husband,…

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May 12, 2022

Recep Gezek (left) and his brother Emre Gezek (right), who live in Samsun, Turkey, carried out the biggest bank robbery in history. (@recepgx/Newsflash)

Crime / General News / Turkey

Robin Hood Brothers Who Took Almost GBP 1 Billion From Bank And Gave It To The Poor Caught By Traffic Cops

Two 'Robin Hood' brothers who allegedly stole almost a billion pounds after a software glitch left them with a bottomless bank account that never ran out of money have been arrested after buying an illegal gun to protect their vast wealth. Brothers Recep Gezek and Emre Gezek told their family,…

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April 1, 2022