British nuclear physicist's daughter Shivaun Orton faces death for heroin haul in Malaysia | Mail Online

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British nuclear physicist's daughter Shivaun Orton faces death for heroin haul in Malaysia | Mail Online: "Dressed in orange prison robes and handcuffed to a fellow suspect, this is the daughter of a British nuclear scientist facing the death penalty in Malaysia for drugs trafficking.

Shivaun Orton, 41, and her husband were arrested after police found £16,000 of cannabis, amphetamine, ecstasy and heroin during a raid on their home.

If found guilty, she could become the first British woman to be hanged since Ruth Ellis in 1955. But yesterday she insisted she was innocent. She said that while her Malaysian husband Abdul Harris Badileh was a womanising drug user, she had been kept as a virtual prisoner at their home 12 miles from a beach resort they own."

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Number of Scots jailed for drugs soars in ten years - The Daily Record

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Number of Scots jailed for drugs soars in ten years - The Daily Record: "umber of prisoners jailed for drug offences has soared by 74 per cent in the last decade.
A report by Scotland's Chief Statistician found 1463 crooks were sent to jail for committing a drug related crime in 2009-10.
But in 2000-01, the equivalent figure was 839.
The increase in the last 12 months alone was 10 per cent. It comes after justice minister Kenny MacAskill brought in legislation to limit jail terms of three months or less.
Although the numbers jailed for drug related crime increased, the number jailed for handling offensive weapons, crimes of dishonesty, common assault and motor vehicle offences all decreased.
The Prison Statistics Scotland 2009/10 report found Scotland's imprisonment rate per 100,000 population was 158. That is higher than the rest of the UK, as well as Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Holland and Belgium.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: 'These statistics continue the trend of recent years that, despite the fact recorded crime is at a 32-year low, more people than ever before are being locked up in Scotland."

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Fighting drugs, addiction -with classical music

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Fighting drugs, addiction -with classical music: "In one of the world's deadliest cities, where drug gangs murder a dozen people a day, a former heroin addict is changing lives with violins and trumpets rather than assault rifles.
Alma Rosa Gonzalez is helping poor children learn classical music and give them an outlet that might stop them falling prey to the gangsters who are terrorizing this city of about 1.5 million on the Texas border.
'Just to see a gang member bringing his child to school carrying an instrument means the kid's life has changed, he won't be the same as his father,' said Gonzalez, a social worker who started the youth orchestra program in 2005."

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Mexico's drugs cartels increasingly recruiting women, study finds | World news | The Guardian

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 "Veronica Treviño stares straight at the camera as she answers questions from an unseen interrogator. She speaks loudly, without hesitation, and with little expression.
Who does she work for? 'The Zetas [a drugs cartel]' What is her group doing in the north-eastern city of Tampico? 'Heating up the turf of the Gulf cartel [a rival trafficking gang].' What actions does that include? 'Killing taxi drivers, police officers, innocent people and children.'
The video of Treviño's confession, presumably under pressure from the Gulf cartel, was posted on the internet at the end of November.
It was followed a couple of days later by uploaded photographs of her severed head in an icebox.
Organised crime in Mexico has traditionally been an almost exclusively male world, but there is growing evidence of a rapid increase in the number of women involved with the cartels and the violence surrounding them."

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Report shows cartel arrests didn't slow drug trade :: Lifestyles :: Post-Tribune

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Report shows cartel arrests didn't slow drug trade :: Lifestyles :: Post-Tribune: "On a sleepy boulevard of motels and fast-food joints near the Mexican border, police stopped a car with a broken tail light. In the trunk, an officer found a trash bag containing 48 pounds of narcotics, and in the driver's pocket, scraps of paper scrawled with phone numbers.
Almost four years later, a grave Eric Holder called his first news conference as attorney general and announced where those phone numbers had led — to a sweeping investigation called Operation Xcellerator, which produced the largest-ever federal crackdown on Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, with 761 people arrested and 23 tons of narcotics seized."

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Gunmen kill 4 in attack on 2 Mexico rehab centers

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The Associated Press: Gunmen kill 4 in attack on 2 Mexico rehab centers: "Mexican police say armed commandos attacked two drug rehabilitation centers in this border city across from El Paso, Texas, killing four people and wounding five.
Municipal police spokesman Adrian Sanchez says the attacks occurred Sunday afternoon. Three were killed in one center and one was killed in another.
Gangs have killed dozens in drug rehabilitation centers in the last two years across Mexico, including nine last summer in Durango in the north and 19 in Chihuahua city, capital of the border state Ciudad Juarez is located.
Cartels run the centers in some cases to recruit addicts, leaving them open to attacks from rivals.
Warring drug cartels have turned Ciudad Juarez into on of the world's most violent cities."

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