Steven Harrison was addicted when he allegedly solicited bribes of up to $250 from as many as 14 Hispanic motorists during illegal traffic stops

Steven Harrison, 26,was addicted when he allegedly solicited bribes of up to $250 from as many as 14 Hispanic motorists during illegal traffic stops last fall.Harrison -- already facing more than 20 counts of official misconduct, intimidation and theft -- was arrested while free on bail June 20 on the West Side with 10 wraps of heroin in his pocket. He's now also charged with possession of heroin.Chicago officers spotted him buying the dope on the platform at the Cicero Green Line L station about 7:40 p.m., police said.Harrison seemed close to tears as he appeared Friday before Cook County Circuit Court Judge Rosemary Higgins. At one point, Higgins barked at Harrison, "Stop with the puppy dog eyes," adding, "You held a position in the community, but you have chosen to flout the law."
Harrison, of the 3800 block of West 107th Place, has been in the County Jail, isolated for his own safety, since his latest arrest. He was fired by Oak Lawn in October after being charged with the shakedowns.His attorney, Brian Bennett, urged Higgins to release Harrison so he could receive treatment for his addiction, explaining that Harrison's health insurance benefits had expired following his firing and that there were no drug treatment programs that would accept him while he was jailed.Harrison's parents would keep a close watch on him once he was released, Bennett said.

Auguste Durand,Michael Santiago Rikers Island correction officers were fired on Wednesday after they were accused of smuggling marijuana, alcohol

Two Rikers Island correction officers were fired on Wednesday after they were accused of smuggling marijuana, alcohol and tobacco to an inmate who is awaiting trial in the death of a police officer last July, officials said.
Stephen J. Morello, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Correction, said it was not yet clear exactly when the two officers, Auguste Durand, 31, and , 24, smuggled the contraband to the inmate, Lee Woods. Mr. Woods is housed in the punitive segregation unit of the George R. Vierno Center at Rikers Island. On Tuesday, jail officials were tipped off about the smuggling, and they discovered the items during a search on Tuesday night, Mr. Morello said.
Officers Durand and Santiago had worked in the Correction Department since August, and they were still in a probationary period, Mr. Morello said. Their dismissal was reported on Wednesday by The New York Post. A representative from the correction officers’ union did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
On Wednesday, Mr. Woods was prevented from attending a court hearing while prison officials tried to determine whether he possessed other illegal items, including a weapon, Mr. Morello said. On Thursday morning, Mr. Woods failed a magnetometer test, a search for metal on or inside a person. Officers did not find any visible sign of metal on Mr. Woods, and he was allowed to attend a court hearing but was required to wear mitts and remain shackled, according to a spokesman for Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney.Mr. Woods, Dexter Bostic and Robert Ellis are charged with firing from a car at Officers Russel Timoshenko and Herman Yan on July 9 during a traffic stop in Brooklyn. Officer Timoshenko died five days later.
Also on Thursday, Mr. Bostic was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center after complaining that he had fallen in the shower at the jail. He was treated and returned to custody.

Patrick Yacubovich faces an array of charges after police said he sold heroin to two underage girls and also resisted arrest

Patrick Yacubovich, 21, of 160 Old Middletown Road, faces an array of charges after police said he sold heroin to two underage girls and also resisted arrest.Yacubovich was arrested last night after Orangetown police received a tip that drugs were being sold at his home, Detective Patrick Frawley said.Detectives and members of the Police Department's Special Enforcement Unit went to the home just before 9 p.m. and were greeted by a 16-year-old girl who appeared to be under the influence of narcotics, Frawley said.She told police that her friend was passed out in Yacubovich's bed, which is where officers found a 17-year-old girl, he said.Both girls told police they had ingested heroin that they bought from Yacubovich, who became combative with police, shoved one officer and resisted arrest.Police said that with the assistance of the Rockland County District Attorney's Office, they obtained a warrant that allowed them to search the home.Following the search and investigation, Yacubovich was charged with two felony counts each of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.He was also charged with 15 counts of possession of a hypodermic needle, one count of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of unlawfully dealing with a child, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest, all of which are misdemeanors.
Frawley said police found 15 used needles in Yacubovich's bedroom. The man's parents were out of town at the time of their son's arrest, police said.
Yacubovich was additionally charged with three counts of unlawful possession of marijuana and one count of second-degree harassment, all violations. The harassment charge was for shoving the police officer.
Yacubovich was arraigned in Orangetown town Justice Court and sent to the Rockland County jail on $10,000 bail. He is due back in court at a later date.Frawley said Yacubovich has been going to New Jersey to buy heroin for several people who live in Pearl River.Yesterday, Yacubovich took the girls to Patterson, N.J., to buy drugs, Frawley said.Police declined to release the girls' names due to their age.
They were taken to police headquarters in Orangeburg, where their parents were called. After medical permission was given, the girls were taken by ambulance to Nyack Hospital, where they were checked and released, police said.

Hema and Pius Onwaso Okolonta arrested

The arrests of Hema and Pius Onwaso Okolonta, the Nigerian,on Saturday came following a tip off that the woman would handover a drug consignment to him which she had brought from Jammu and Kashmir.
Police had prior information that Hema had gone to Jammu to take a delivery of heroin on June 27 and will come back the next day and she will handover the consignment to Okolonta near Metro station in Nawada here.
As the duo reached the spot, both of them were apprehended by a waiting police team and 3.05 kg of heroin were allegedly recovered from them, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said. Interrogation revealed that the entire network was led by one Zorawar based in Lahore and his alleged main conduit was one Rummy, who was receiving these consignments at Jammu.
Rummy was further supplying these drugs to different Nigerians in Delhi and surroundings areas, Kumar said. Hema has worked in Bhojpuri films and is aspiring actress and model, Kumar said adding she came into contact with Okolonta through a friend of his whom she had met in the bar. Okolonta, who came on tourist VISA in 2006 for six months and now overstaying, allegedly lured her into this drug trade, he said. A case has been registered and further investigations are on.

Benjamin Arellano Felix known as "El Min", to be extradited

Mexico agreed on Tuesday to extradite drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix to the United States as suspected drug hitmen killed another six people in a border city in the latest round of a killing spree.Arellano Felix, known as "El Min", was head of the powerful Tijuana cartel that operates across the U.S. border from San Diego, California until his capture in early 2002.Mexico's Attorney General's office said Arellano Felix will be tried in a Southern California court on charges of smuggling tonnes of cocaine into California between 1990 and 2000.The decision overturns a decision in May by a Mexican federal judge to block the extradition.Arellano Felix, whose cartel is now run by sister Enedina and brother Eduardo, is the latest high profile Mexican drug lord to be extradited by the government of President Felipe Calderon, who took office in 2006.Calderon extradited former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas to Texas in January 2007, marking increased U.S.-Mexico cooperation in the drug fight.Mexican drug violence is spiraling as cartels fight each other for control of smuggling routes.The latest six to die in Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico brought the death toll in the city bordering El Paso, Texas, to 41 since the start of the weekend, police said. Gunmen killed 17 people on Sunday alone.Over 500 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez since the start of the year, making it the most deadly city in Mexico's drug war, despite a large deployment of well-armed troops and federal police.Calderon said on Tuesday the surge in killings in places like Ciudad Juarez was due to local gangs battling over ever smaller smuggling turf.
More than 4,000 people have been killed in drug violence since December 2006, when Calderon took office. More than 1,600 people have been killed this year, a faster rate than in 2007.

Shanu Krawiec appeared in Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Friday and was charged with two counts of importing illegal drugs into Australia

Shanu Krawiec appeared in Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Friday and was charged with two counts of importing illegal drugs into Australia. He was remanded in custody to appear again on October 3. Mr Krawiec, 32, is one of several Australians charged during a three-year Australian Federal Police investigation. AFP agents claim the probe smashed the global smuggling syndicate allegedly run by the supergrass from Amsterdam. An extradition request to get the supergrass back to Melbourne was approved in April but he is still in an Amsterdam jail pending an appeal. Before he left he provided police with the names of his celebrity cocaine customers. Those he dobbed in included top models, entertainers and other members of Melbourne's A list. The AFP claims the arrest of Mr Krawiec in Thailand allegedly shut down the Bangkok end of the supergrass's worldwide operation.
Thai police played a major role in tracking down and arresting Mr Krawiec for the AFP on January 24 and AFP agents flew into Melbourne with him last week.
The syndicate was allegedly operating out of the Netherlands sending drugs to Australia, Canada, Thailand and other countries. AFP intelligence suggests the gang specialised in getting couriers to hide cocaine in their bodies. The supergrass, who is the only alleged syndicate member whose name remains suppressed, secretly taped Tony Mokbel for police. He was also instrumental in getting Victoria's drug squad scrapped in 2001. Evidence gathered by him was crucial to the convictions of two corrupt members of the squad. The supergrass fled overseas in May 2004 when underworld figures put a $1 million bounty on his head after discovering he was an informer. A Melbourne man who played a minor role in the syndicate was jailed this month. Alexander Leigh Neil Pugh, 32, was given a three-month sentence.
Melbourne Magistrates' Court was told Pugh's job was to help Mr Krawiec organise money for the operation's cocaine imports.

Johnston Fayiah was sentenced to four and a half years by Antrim Crown Court

Johnston Fayiah, 26, who has an address in the Netherlands but a family in Nigeria, was sentenced to four and a half years by Antrim Crown Court.
Judge Patrick Lynch told Fayiah if the bags had burst he would have ended up as "a corpse rather than a prisoner". The drugs, with an estimated value of £100,000, were discovered in an X-ray. The judge added that while Fayiah had acted out of his "own personal greed - for narrow financial gain", he was prepared to accept he was a drug courier, rather than a major player. Fayiah, with an address at Honzelean, Kemper, was stopped by customs because "he fitted the profile of a potential courier" after coming off an Amsterdam flight at Belfast's International Airport on 5 January, 2008. When initially questioned he denied having any drugs, but agreed to have an X-ray, which showed up the 300 grams of the Class A drug contained in the packets.
Despite this however, he claimed to know nothing about them, before admitting that he had been approached "by a man called Dan" who'd paid him 500 euro, with the promise of a further 1,000 euro upon his return to Holland. Defence said Fayiah, who has a wife and child in Nigeria, had escaped the west Africian country when he was 17 during a civil war which claimed the lives of his parents. He added that Fayiah agreed to take the drugs because "he was in extreme financial difficulties at the time".

Bakhos Jalalaty The founder of DJ's Fine Foods had offered his marital home near Windsor and $100,000 from his wife's aunt's retirement fund

Bakhos Jalalaty, 45, of Maroota, had offered his marital home near Windsor and $100,000 from his wife's aunt's retirement fund to try to secure his freedom.The founder of DJ's Fine Foods of Blacktown was appearing via a videolink from Parklea jail before magistrate Allan Moore in Central Local Court this afternoon.
Jalalaty was charged earlier this month by federal police with allegedly conspiring with the deputy head of investigations for the NSW Crime Commission, Mark Standen, to import 600 kilograms of pseudoephedrine that was to be used in the manufacture of $30 million worth of the drug ice.The alleged chemicals were to have been hidden in bags of rice in a container shipment from Pakistan that were to be sent to Jalalaty's business.But in refusing bail today, Mr Moore said that "any security being offered is minimal'' to the alleged financial gain that the product was to be sold for. He ordered Jalalaty to reappear before the court on August 6.
Earlier in court, Jalalaty's barrister Greg Jones disputed the clarity of secretly recorded telephone intercepts by federal police, which allegedly reveal a plot by Standen to import the chemicals.Mr Jones told Sydney Central Local court that at least half of the conversations contained on 14 CDs of phone intercepts were "unclear" when he listened to them.
Both Jalalaty and Standen, 51, were also charged with conspiring to supply a prohibited drug and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Twelve others have also been arrested in the Netherlands. The alleged go-between in the conspiracy with Standen and Jalalaty, British national James Kinch, 49, was arrested in Thailand.Mr Jones told Mr Moore today that a 24-page statement of alleged facts relied upon by federal police to charge his client was based on extracts from listening device recordings of telephone conversations between September 2007 and May of this year.
Mr Jones said he listened to copies of the alleged recorded conversations contained on 14 CDs."Thirty per cent are clear, 50 per cent are unclear and the remaining 20 per cent (of the recordings) fall within a grey area (of interpretation)," he said.
Mr Jones said that in 1996, the High Court ruled that telephone intercepts had to be accurately recorded to be relied upon in evidence.