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Charlotte gambling raid nets arrests, cash, firearms, and over hundred machines

Charlotte gambling raid nets arrests, cash, firearms, and over hundred machines

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A Charlotte police operation aimed at suspected illegal gambling activity ended with several arrests, the seizure of more than 100 machines, and the recovery of cash and firearms. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said officers from its Alcohol Beverage Control Unit, working alongside the SWAT team, served a search warrant at 999 Arcade in the 6400 block of East Independence Boulevard. Investigators said the action was tied to an ongoing case involving alleged illegal gambling at the business. CMPD’s Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Unit and the SWAT team recently executed a search warrant at 999 Arcade located in the 6400 block of East Independence Boulevard. As a result of the operation,… pic.twitter.com/JJZpaQs7P9 — CMPD News (@CMPD) June 6, 2026 According to police, officers confiscated 102 illegal gambling stations during the search. Investigators also recovered $37,983 in cash and two firearms. Four people were arrested or charged as a result of the operation, while another individual received a citation. Charlotte police investigation remains ongoing after gambling raid Police said Jianwang Zhu, 40, was arrested and charged with …

Indonesia arrests officials in crackdown on corruption | Corruption News

Indonesia arrests officials in crackdown on corruption | Corruption News

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Indonesia’s deputy minister for immigration affairs, Silmy Karim, has been arrested after about 10 hours of questioning. Published On 4 Jun 20264 Jun 2026 Amid a crackdown on corruption in Indonesia, the deputy minister for immigration affairs has been arrested over alleged irregularities in the administration of immigration documents. Budi Prasetyo, spokesperson for the anticorruption agency KPK, confirmed Silmy Karim’s arrest to the Reuters news agency on Thursday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The alleged corruption occurred from 2023 to 2024, said Budi, when Karim served as director general for immigration affairs under then-President Joko Widodo. Karim was questioned at the KPK office on Wednesday night, and about 10 hours later, he emerged in handcuffs and an orange jacket on Thursday morning to be transferred to detention. Budi added that the KPK has also identified seven other suspects in the case. More details about the case are expected to be released later on Thursday, he added. The action comes a day after the country’s Attorney General’s Office (AGO) arrested Dadan Hindayana, the …

France arrests Russian captain of Moscow-linked oil tanker

France arrests Russian captain of Moscow-linked oil tanker

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French authorities have taken into custody the Russian captain of a seized oil tanker believed to be part of Moscow’s shadow fleet, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. The French navy detained the Tagor on Sunday in international waters with the help of Britain on suspicion the ship was flying a false flag after its captain refused to comply with orders. The captain was arrested on Tuesday and faces up to one year in prison and a 150,000-euro ($174,000) fine, said the prosecutor in the northwestern city of Brest, Stéphane Kellenberger. The shipowner, currently being identified, may be subject to the same penalties, he added. Read moreFrance backed by Britain intercepts sanctioned oil tanker sailing from Russia The Tagor is suspected of carrying Russian or Iranian oil despite international sanctions, and is linked to petroleum shipping magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, according to open-source database Opensanctions.org. Shamkhani is the son of security official Ali Shamkhani, who was an adviser to the former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, both of whom were killed on February 28, the first …

‘They beat me until I lost consciousness’: growing reports of brutal arrests, torture and deaths in Iran’s prisons

‘They beat me until I lost consciousness’: growing reports of brutal arrests, torture and deaths in Iran’s prisons

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Iranian writer Hamid Asefi wasn’t home on the afternoon of 5 March when armed intelligence agents stormed his Tehran apartment, breaking down the door with a sledgehammer and axe. After going unit to unit looking for him, they finally encountered him as he returned to the building. One of the agents “drew his handgun, shouted at me to stop, and before I had time to respond, struck me forcefully on the back of the neck and spine with the butt of his weapon, dragging me into the apartment,” Asefi told the Guardian in a written interview. When he requested an arrest warrant, the beating intensified. “Heavy blows were directed at my ribs, kidneys, temples and the back of my head. The beating was so severe that I lost consciousness once. When I regained consciousness, the assault continued,” he says. The assault on the 63-year-old continued after he was brought blindfolded to a detention centre, where an interrogator accused him of signing a statement condemning the regime’s January crackdown on protesters and being in contact with …

Witnesses accuse the Israeli army of arbitrary arrests in Syria

Witnesses accuse the Israeli army of arbitrary arrests in Syria

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The place is Beit Jinn, in the countryside to the west of Damascus. It’s the night of November 28, 2025. Israeli soldiers launch a ground offensive. While bombs fall from the sky and artillery is fired at homes, clashes break out between Israeli soldiers and some villagers. A video posted online by the Israeli army shows soldiers arresting brothers Nidal Akasha Akasha and Muhammad Akasha Akasha in the fray. In a statement, the Israeli army claims that Nidal and Muhammad have ties to the Islamist group Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya. The FRANCE 24 Observers team interviewed a number of Syrians who had been arrested and then detained in an Israeli prison for months before being released. We also spoke to the families of those still detained. We also analysed rare images posted online by the Israeli army, which claims that they have been arresting “suspicious persons” or those “linked to armed groups”. Through our research, we identified three different arrest operations carried out by the Israeli army in 2025.  A total of 13 villagers died, and more …

Jonathan Andic, Eldest Son of Mango Fashion Chain Founder, Arrested In Father’s Death

Jonathan Andic, Eldest Son of Mango Fashion Chain Founder, Arrested In Father’s Death

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On Tuesday, Jonathan Andic, the eldest son of the late founder of global Spanish fashion brand Mango, was arrested by the Mossos d’Esquadra—the police force of Spain’s Catalonia region—in connection to the death of his father, Isak Andic. Prior to his arrest, Jonathan Andic, who currently serves as the vice chairman of Mango’s board, had been under investigation for months in the case which was initially assumed to be nothing more than an accident. The investigation into Isak Andic’s death has also focused on the relationships between Isak Andic’s children and heirs and Andic’s partner, the golfer Estefania Knuth, as well as on the management of the company. Here’s timeline of the case so far: December 14, 2024 Isak Andic died at the age of 71 when he fell to his death in the Collbató caves in Barcelona’s Montserrat mountain while on a hike with Jonathan. Jonathan called the emergency services, who certified Isak’s death. The Mossos d’Esquadra took Jonathan’s statement two days later, on the 16th, and treated the case as an accident. At …

London protests: Police make 11 hate crime arrests in crackdown on toxic speech at Unite the Kingdom and Nakba rallies

London protests: Police make 11 hate crime arrests in crackdown on toxic speech at Unite the Kingdom and Nakba rallies

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But 43 people were still arrested in the policing operation, with 20 of those detained affiliated with the Unite the Kingdom protest, and 12 with the Nakba protest. Eight further arrests were not affilliated with either rally, or it hasn’t been possible to confirm an affiliation, the Met said. Three arrests were the result of live facial recognition. Source link

AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions

AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions

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In Baltimore on Oct. 20, 2025, a 17-year-old student named Taki Allen was sitting outside his high school after football practice when an artificial intelligence-enhanced surveillance camera falsely identified the Doritos bag in his pocket as a gun. Within moments police cars arrived, officers drew their weapons and Allen was forced to his knees and handcuffed while they searched him. All they found was a crumpled bag of chips. The AI’s misidentification and the human decisions that followed turned a normal evening into a traumatic confrontation. On Dec. 24, 2025, Angela Lipps, a Tennessee grandmother, was released after spending five months in jail because facial recognition software had incorrectly connected her to fraud crimes in North Dakota, a state she had never visited. Police had arrested her at gunpoint while she was babysitting her four grandchildren. These are unfortunate examples of how AI can lead to mistreatment of people because of technical flaws as well as misplaced human faith in the technology’s supposed objectivity. These cases involve different tools, but the underlying issue is the …