FARC guerrilla dissidents deny being behind senator's attack
BOGOTA, June 13 (Reuters) - The main dissident faction of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla denied any responsibility for the attack against Colombian senator Miguel Uribe, on a statement Friday.
The senator and potential presidential candidate remains hospitalized in an intensive care unit after being shot in Bogota on Saturday.
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Four dangerous migrants ESCAPE from New Jersey ICE detention center after woke protesters spark chaos
Four migrants escaped a ICE detention center in New Jersey during a riot over conditions at the facility. All four men are on the run after they broke out of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility on Thursday, and federal authorities have offered up a $10,000 reward for information leading to their capture. The illegal immigrants were first identified by the New York Post as Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez, both of Honduras, and Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada and Andres Pineda-Mogollon, both of Colombia. Bautista-Reyes illegally entered the US in 2021 and was arrested in May on charges of aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes. Sandoval-Lopez came to the US illegally in 2019 when he was still a minor. He was first arrested in October 2024 for unlawful possession of a handgun and then again in February 2025 for aggravated assault. Castaneda-Lozada arrived in the US in 2022 and was taken into custody by a local state police department on suspicion of burglary, theft, and conspiracy to commit burglary. Pineda-Mogollon crossed the border in 2023 and overstayed a tourist visa. He was first arrested in April by New York City police for petit larceny. A month later, he was arrested in New Jersey for residential burglary, conspiracy residential burglary, and possession of burglary tools. The Department of Homeland Security contradicted reporting from multiple local outlets that claimed these men were able to slink away during revolt staged by 50 detainees. The above four men, all illegal migrants, broke out of Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday after detainees were able to push down a weak wall inside that let to an outdoor parking lot 'Contrary to current reporting, there has been no widespread unrest at the Delaney Hall Detention facility,' a DHS spokesperson said. A report from said that the detainees pushed down a wall of dormitory room inside the facility. They broke through a wall - described as 'drywall with a mesh interior - in a dorm unit that led to an exterior wall and into a parking lot, according to New Jersey Senator Andy Kim. The Democrat said he had been briefed by the detention center's administrators as well as ICE leadership, ABC7 reported. At a Friday press conference, Kim said the incident was an example of 'the incompetence and the recklessness of all this.' He also revealed that the facility is undergoing a security review and the breach itself will be investigated. There will be 'major detainee movements out of this facility,' Kim added. That process appeared to begin late Friday afternoon, when protestors were seen holding onto the buses transporting migrants away from the center. Eventually, these people were ripped from the buses by ICE agents. On Thursday night, the night of the jailbreak, dozens of protestors showed up to block any vehicles from entering or exiting the facility. They chanted slogans and criticized the alleged poor conditions inside the facility. Detainees reported there was a lack of food and that meals were being delivered hours behind schedule. One woman whose husband was detained inside the center told CBS New York that detainees hadn't been fed for about 20 hours, only to be given a small amount of food. This, according to reports, caused a fight between them and the guards, which led to the detainees pushing down a weak wall inside the facility. 'We are now going to try to get full confirmation from ICE headquarters about what is the future of this facility and whether or not they're going to shut it down,' Kim said. Immigration groups also claimed there has been 'insufficient or frozen food, boiling water coming from pipes, and multiple cancelled visitation hours.' Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group, one of the nation's largest private prison contractors. The facility, following a refurbishment, reopened in May after GEO Group inked a $60 million deal with the Trump administration, according to the Guardian. As part of that deal, the company is allowed to hold 1,000 people at a time at Delaney Hall. Delaney Hall's reopening was a subject of controversy for local politicians, who claimed it doesn't hold the correct work permits or a valid certificate of occupancy. GEO Group has denied this. LaMonica McIver, a New Jersey Democratic Representative, visited the center during its reopening last month and called for it to be shut down. She was arrested for trespassing and was later charged with assaulting an officer by acting New Jersey US Attorney Alina Habba's office. Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, was with McIver and other elected officials. He too was arrested but was released the same day. Charges against him were dropped. 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The Sun
14 hours ago
- The Sun
Girl, 9, attacked by flesh-eating PIRANHAS while paddling in scenic lake with mum as ferocious fish gnaw through bones
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The Sun
16 hours ago
- The Sun
‘Drug texts' to CCTV: Liam Payne cops lay out bombshell evidence against final suspects facing trial over star's death
PROSECUTORS have revealed bombshell evidence against two men due to face trial over Liam Payne's death. Waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz and former hotel worker Ezequiel David Pereyra have been held in prison since the start of January after being charged with selling the former One Direction singer cocaine. 7 7 7 Liam, 31, took the cocaine before his fatal third-storey balcony plunge in Buenos Aires on October 16 last year. Argentinian prosecutors obtained phone messages and hotel CCTV footage which included images of Liam standing by the open door of a lift at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel. It showed him chatting with a man identified as Pereyra shortly before the singer died. During the brief encounter, the British star is said to have asked him for 'seven grams of the same drug he had handed him earlier.' Prosecutors have now gone public with more details of their dossiers, revealing they had 'incriminating' witness statements from five hotel employees against 24-year-old Pereyra. He and Paiz have been warned they face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. CCTV footage allegedly shows him handing Liam cocaine outside the artist's room around an hour and ten minutes before he died. Pereyra has been accused of selling Liam cocaine twice, the second time "between 3.30 and 4pm on October 16." Argentina's public prosecution service said in a statement referencing Pereyra: 'One of the witnesses that compromised him the most was the hotel's head of general maintenance. 'He testified that around 9pm on 14 October he met Pereyra in a lift, saw that he had a 100 note in his hand and when he asked him if it was a tip and who had given it to him, said Pereyra replied that he had to 'run an errand for a guest' which he later explained was 'to bring drugs'. Liam Payne's girlfriend Kate Cassidy fights back tears in emotional new video as she sends heartfelt message to late star 'At 2:30a.m. on 15 October, Payne asked the hotel receptionist for a taxi to an address - Pereyra's home at 2800 Homero Street in the Lomas de Zamora district of Buenos Aires - because 'someone had to bring him something'. 'Prosecutors determined, from the statement of the driver of the Cabify app car that made the trip, and from the images of the security cameras outside the hotel, that Pereyra arrived at the door of the hotel at 3.25am, met Liam Payne in the street outside and walked with towards the corner of Costa Rica and Dorrego Avenue, where a camera captured the accused man with 'some kind of wrapper in one of his hands'." Lead prosecutor Andres Madrea revealed a computer technician who works for the CasaSur Hotel has also incriminated Pereyra. He said: 'The employee, who speaks English, shared a lift with Payne the afternoon of his death. 'He has testified that when they reached a hotel basement Liam began to talk while still inside the lift with Pereyra, who was arranging some chairs outside the lift, and he heard the musician say: 'Hey man I will need another seven grams more for today.'' Public prosecutors added in their statement: 'Mr Madrea detailed in his trial request that the drug transaction took place around 3.45pm on October 16, in a third-floor corridor where cameras captured Pereyra's arrival in the lift and the exchange.' They said the indictment against Paiz, also accused of selling Liam cocaine on two separate occasions before his death, was based partly on messages the two men had exchanged. The messages were discovered on the singer's phone after he plunged to his death. 7 7 Prosecutors revealed more detail about the conversations between the pair, who met at a restaurant the musician dined at in the upmarket Buenos Aires neighbourhood where Paiz was working as a waiter. They said: 'Lead prosecutor Andres Madrea reproduced in his trial request an exchange of messages in the early hours of October 14, where the singer asks the accused for five or five grams and the waiter replies an hour later that he had obtained three grams with the phrase in English: 'I think I got to three.' 'Paiz then sent the musician several photographs related to narcotics, including one of a transparent plastic bag with a white powder, after which they agreed that the waiter would go to the CasaSur Hotel where the accused arrived at 3:24am according to the security camera records. 'This shows that the accused Paiz, at Payne's request, went to the hotel in question, stayed in his room, where he gave cocaine to Payne, until he left at around 8:15 am.' They went on to detail the second "drug deal" later the same day when Liam Payne took a taxi to Paiz's flat to pick up cocaine - and reference another subsequent message exchange about a third "possible deal' which they said ended with the singer writing: 'I have DOLLARS US 100. Party.' Three other men initially charged over Liam's death were told in February the case against them had been dropped. Liam's close friend Rogelio Nores, hotel receptionist Esteban Grassi and hotel head of security Gilda Martin were accused of his manslaughter by a female lower court judge before reversing her decision on appeal. No date has yet been set for the Paiz and Pereyra trial although it is expected to kick off shortly. Paiz, who has previously protested his innocence, spoke again from prison this week to repeat an earlier claim that he had shared drugs with the artist but hadn't committed the serious offence of selling him narcotics. The 25-year-old whined in an interview with Argentinian media outlet Infobae from his jail cell at a Buenos Aires police station: 'I don't know what I'm doing here, I'm a good person. 'I shared drugs with Liam but I didn't sell them.' Describing himself as a drug user who started smoking marijuana as a youngster, he added: 'All I want to do is start studying again and leave jail to work, like I was doing before. 'I regret now giving Liam my Instagram because it all spiralled from there. 'If I hadn't I'd probably be working today, I'd be studying, I'd be doing videos because before meeting Liam I'd participated in the filming of a video-clip for YouTube for a singer and other videos for TV. 'I miss the freedom I had, I miss work, I miss my family, my mum and my sisters.' Pereyra handed himself in on January 6 after making himself a fugitive the previous week following failed police attempts to locate and arrest him so he could be remanded in pre-trial custody on the orders of an investigating judge. He has yet to make any public comment. 7
