$100,000 reward offered to solve Chaouk murder

$100,000 reward offered to solve Chaouk murder: "FROM the day he died, the family of murdered crime patriarch Macchour Chaouk claimed to know the identity of his killer and vowed bloody vengeance.

Five months later, despite extensive investigations and widespread publicity, the shooting death of Chaouk remains unsolved.

Victoria Police is now hoping a $100,000 reward will entice someone to come forward with information that leads to the conviction of the person or persons responsible for gunning down the 65-year-old.

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Chaouk was reportedly shot in front of his wife and one-year-old grandson while he was painting a fence at his Brooklyn home, at the corner of Geelong Road and Cypress Avenue, about 10.55am on August 13.

The shooting was considered to be the last chapter in a bitter and violent feud with the rival Haddara family."

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Investigators eye 'drug link' in south Russia mass murder | Crime | RIA Novosti

Investigators eye 'drug link' in south Russia mass murder | Crime | RIA Novosti: "Russian investigators are looking into the possibility that the mass murder in the southern Russian city of Stavropol could be drug-related, an official investigations spokesman on Saturday.
The bodies of five men and three women with gunshot and stab wounds were found on Friday in a house, belonging to a local crime boss Vladimir Slizayev, known as 'Khan.'
Spokesman Vladimir Markin said the dead people were the house's owner Slizayev, a drug smuggler who had served a given jail sentence, his family members and a driver.
An eight-year-old boy and four-week-old girl, believed to be Slizayev's granddaughter, have survived the slaughter. The children were blocked in a room on the second floor, investigators said.
While leaving the house, the killers damaged a gas tank to provoke a gas explosion in an effort to kill the children. However, no blast occurred and the children have been unharmed."

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murder victim Joey Cummins survived previous attempt on life in street shotgun attack - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

Fazakerley murder victim Joey Cummins survived previous attempt on life in street shotgun attack - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo: "Convicted drug dealer and avid LFC fan Joseph “Joey” Cummins, 25, was fired at in 2009, just a few hundred yards from where he was murdered in Fazakerley on Thursday night.

A passing police patrol found the victim on Longmoor Lane at just before 9pm on Thursday.

It is thought he had been shot in the back several times as he got into the passenger seat of a car after being inside a nearby house.

Bleeding heavily, he then staggered to near the Fazakerley Car Sales garage before collapsing.

Police called for the ambulance which took him to the nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Scores of tearful friends and family descended on the hospital in the hours after his death.

It is thought the gunman could have been on foot and used the heavy fog that covered the area in a grey blanket to hide before springing the attack.

The driver of the car Cummins was getting into has been spoken to by police."

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Area man, woman charged in gun, drug and prostitution arrests | pal-item.com | Palladium-Item

Area man, woman charged in gun, drug and prostitution arrests | pal-item.com | Palladium-Item: "Terry E. Behnen, 47, of 8122 Ind. 227 N. in Richmond was arrested on preliminary charges of possession of cocaine (Class C felony), possession of a firearm with an altered serial number (unspecified felony), carrying a handgun without a permit (Class A misdemeanor) and patronizing a prostitute (unspecified misdemeanor).

Jessica L. Coe, 27, of 4763 Treaty Line Road in Hagerstown, was arrested on preliminary charges of possession of cocaine (Class D felony), reckless possession of paraphernalia (Class D felony), possession of a firearm with an altered serial number (unspecified felony), prostitution (Class A misdemeanor) and carrying a handgun without a permit (Class A misdemeanor).

“A call came in that an individual in a truck pulled a gun on a pedestrian, and an officer located a vehicle matching the description and stopped it,” Richmond Police Department Lt. Bryan Ervin said. “That is when they found the guns and the drugs inside the vehicle."

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Four arrests over armed robbery on Llangollen Co-op

BBC News - Four arrests over armed robbery on Llangollen Co-op: "Four more people have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at the Co-op store in Llangollen on Thursday.

Two were held on suspicion of robbery in a police operation on Friday night. Two more were held on suspicion of assisting offenders.

They were arrested in Denbigh and are being held at St Aspah.

A man from the Denbigh area was already in custody over the robbery at the Regent Street store at 1950 GMT during which a knife was recovered.

North Wales Police said the man was being questioned at St Asaph."

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