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Al Bawaba
a day ago
- Health
- Al Bawaba
Deadly fire at Mexican drug rehab center claims 12 lives
Published June 1st, 2025 - 09:10 GMT ALBAWABA - A tragic fire erupted at a drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico on Sunday, killing 12 individuals and injuring three others, according to the Guanajuato State Prosecutor's Office. Also Read Video: 2 killed as Mexican Navy training ship hits Brooklyn Bridge Authorities are still investigating the cause of the blaze, which broke out in a facility located in one of Mexico's most violence-stricken regions. Organized crime groups, particularly drug cartels, have previously been linked to attacks on such centers, often targeting them to forcibly recruit recovering addicts. In an official statement, the prosecutor's office confirmed that forensic teams are collecting evidence and conducting witness interviews to determine the exact cause of the incident. This is not the first violent episode involving rehab centers in Mexico. In April, armed assailants attacked a rehabilitation clinic in Sinaloa state, killing at least nine people. Officials suspect that drug cartels have increasingly resorted to eliminating or coercing patients who refuse to join their ranks. 🇲🇽 Mexicali | Fuga de internos tras operativo fallido en centro de rehabilitación🚨 Fiscalía General del Estado y COEPRIS no logran controlar la situación, decenas de internos huyen durante operativo.¡Preocupación por la seguridad en la zona! 📰 #SeguridadMexicali — El Blog del Narco (@narcoblogger) January 26, 2025 Mexico has faced a wave of cartel-related violence since 2006. Government data indicates that nearly 480,000 people have been killed in criminal incidents since then, and around 120,000 remain missing, underscoring the deep crisis plaguing the country's security landscape. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
CNN
5 days ago
- General
- CNN
Costa Rican police say they busted crime ring trafficking Asian migrants to US
Costa Rican authorities said they arrested 19 people accused of trafficking hundreds of predominantly Asian migrants to the United States. The arrests Wednesday came during multi-city raids aimed at disrupting what Costa Rica's immigration police call 'a transnational organized crime structure' dedicated to human trafficking and money laundering. 'The operations were carried out in homes and hotels located in Corredores and Los Chiles — locations where the criminal network allegedly moved migrants of various nationalities, primarily Chinese and Vietnamese,' the Costa Rica Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. The Prosecutor's Office claims that migrants trafficked by the criminals were hidden in 'various hotels' in Costa Rica, adding that police found 'high-caliber weapons and cash' when executing their warrants. Police said they uncovered at least 437 people trafficked into Costa Rica via land, sea and air. Most were from China, but the victims included Vietnamese, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Peruvians, as well. 'Once these migrants were illegally introduced into Costa Rica,' the statement continues, the traffickers 'charged amounts ranging from $7,000, depending on their nationality, to $40,000 for these criminal services.' 'Once (migrants) were in the hands of this criminal group,' deputy attorney general Mauricio Boraschi told a press conference, 'They were also illegally moved to the border with Nicaragua … so that they could continue to their final destination in the United States.' A video posted by police on social media shows officers armed with battering rams, bolt cutters and rifles raiding two different buildings on residential streets, and appears to show at least one person being detained. In the same video, Commissioner Enrique Arguedas of the Costa Rican Immigration Police said that the investigation began over a year ago in collaboration with Panamanian authorities. The victims 'were being recruited by different criminal organizations that operated between Panama and Costa Rica and facilitated the movement of migrants … toward the northern part of the continent, specifically the United States,' Arguedas said. Asked whether those arrested have legal representation, the Costa Rican Prosecutor's Office told CNN that the detainees would likely appear in court later on Wednesday with lawyers present, but that the 'the searches are still ongoing.'
CNN
5 days ago
- General
- CNN
Costa Rican police say they busted crime ring trafficking Asian migrants to US
Costa Rican authorities said they arrested 19 people accused of trafficking hundreds of predominantly Asian migrants to the United States. The arrests Wednesday came during multi-city raids aimed at disrupting what Costa Rica's immigration police call 'a transnational organized crime structure' dedicated to human trafficking and money laundering. 'The operations were carried out in homes and hotels located in Corredores and Los Chiles — locations where the criminal network allegedly moved migrants of various nationalities, primarily Chinese and Vietnamese,' the Costa Rica Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. The Prosecutor's Office claims that migrants trafficked by the criminals were hidden in 'various hotels' in Costa Rica, adding that police found 'high-caliber weapons and cash' when executing their warrants. Police said they uncovered at least 437 people trafficked into Costa Rica via land, sea and air. Most were from China, but the victims included Vietnamese, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Peruvians, as well. 'Once these migrants were illegally introduced into Costa Rica,' the statement continues, the traffickers 'charged amounts ranging from $7,000, depending on their nationality, to $40,000 for these criminal services.' 'Once (migrants) were in the hands of this criminal group,' deputy attorney general Mauricio Boraschi told a press conference, 'They were also illegally moved to the border with Nicaragua … so that they could continue to their final destination in the United States.' A video posted by police on social media shows officers armed with battering rams, bolt cutters and rifles raiding two different buildings on residential streets, and appears to show at least one person being detained. In the same video, Commissioner Enrique Arguedas of the Costa Rican Immigration Police said that the investigation began over a year ago in collaboration with Panamanian authorities. The victims 'were being recruited by different criminal organizations that operated between Panama and Costa Rica and facilitated the movement of migrants … toward the northern part of the continent, specifically the United States,' Arguedas said. Asked whether those arrested have legal representation, the Costa Rican Prosecutor's Office told CNN that the detainees would likely appear in court later on Wednesday with lawyers present, but that the 'the searches are still ongoing.'
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia attacks port infrastructure in Odesa Oblast overnight
The Russian armed forces attacked Odesa Oblast with attack drones on the night of 23-24 May. Source: Odesa Oblast Prosecutor's Office Details: It has been reported that the Russians managed to hit port infrastructure facilities. No injuries were mentioned, and information about the damage was not specified. Background: Explosions rocked Odesa on the night of 23-24 May. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
These ideas from Jackson County Prosecutor's Office blocked in county budget stalemate
Reality Check is a Star series holding those with power to account and shining a light on their decisions. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at RealityCheck@ Have the latest Reality Checks delivered to your inbox with our free newsletter. As the Jackson County Legislature continues to debate which county services should be funded in an emergency capacity without an approved 2025 budget, the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office says several of its proposals have been effectively disabled by the legislature's refusal to vote on their passage. The prosecutor's office helps administer COMBAT, a quarter-cent tax which has been funding law enforcement, violence prevention, substance-abuse treatment and recidivism organizations in Jackson County since the 1990s. With 2025 COMBAT funds and leftover 2024 funding out of reach, Prosecutor Melesa Johnson and her staffers have focused on trying to free up funding for three specific staffing and operations proposals. Johnson, who testified in depth on her office's budget freeze woes during a May 14th meeting of the Jackson County Legislature, has been vocal about the impact of the legislature's refusal to treat COMBAT and other programs as candidates for emergency funding. All three proposals have been through several legislative votes but remain in committee. Among them is a request to release $75,000 for the prosecutor's office to hire a community engagement specialist for COMBAT. The proposed new role, formally titled Community Organizer and Social Media Content Specialist, has been on the legislature's agenda since March 31, where legislators have delayed their final vote at least five times. COMBAT will be back on the ballot in Jackson County in 2027. Promoting COMBAT to future voters would be a main function of the community engagement specialist, Johnson said. A second COMBAT-related proposal before the legislature, which would allow the purchase of new grant management software for $100,000, has also been delayed at least six times since March 31. The seven full-time staffers who manage the COMBAT program currently organize all grant funding through Microsoft Excel, a process which Johnson described as slow and counterproductive. 'Frankly, given the delay of fiscal year 2025 with getting the funded agencies their dollars, that expedited payment system is all the more important,' Johnson said. 'We're going to be playing catch-up, and we can't play catch-up doing things manually.' At a May 14 meeting of the Jackson County Legislature, first district legislator Jalen Anderson referred to the $175,000 pair of proposals as 'overwhelmingly needed in COMBAT.' 'COMBAT is still very much so stuck in the '90s in a lot of ways,' Anderson said. At its May 19th meeting, the Jackson County Legislature also declined for the eighth time to make a decision on whether to enter into a $25,000 agreement with former prosecutor's office communications director Mike Mansur for ongoing work with crime prevention campaign SAVE KC. Mansur's position, which he has been filling on a voluntary basis since January, organizes one of SAVE KC's main events — 'call-in' meetings where police, religious leaders and victims' families connect with community members identified as likely to be involved in violent crimes. Johnson told legislators that SAVE KC is the backbone of the county's efforts against nonfatal shootings, which she said have been reduced by more than half in the past year. Johnson said that she worries that unfunded or underfunded violence prevention programs will lose out on their greatest potential for impact if COMBAT funding remains tied up into the summer, when violent crime tends to spike. 'Because we don't have a budget, that does not mean crime stops,' Johnson said.
