Hong Kong police intercepted a Maserati on a busy street in Mong Kok on Wednesday and arrested two people in connection with a suspected money laundering case, the South China Morning Post has learned. A man and a woman in their twenties were seen handcuffed beside the luxury sports car as officers from the New…
Hong Kong customs has arrested four people and seized HK$140 million (US$18 million) worth of slimming and cosmetic injections, along with erectile dysfunction pills, in a crackdown on smuggled illicit medicines. The suspects, aged between 26 and 61, comprise two mainland Chinese men and two local women, the Customs and Excise Department said on Monday….
Hong Kong Police have arrested two people on suspicion of stealing a passenger’s backpack containing a watch worth HK$300,000 (US$38,379) on an inbound flight from Abu Dhabi on Thursday. The force said on Friday that a male passenger discovered a watch missing from his backpack in the overhead compartment and suspected it had been stolen….
A traveller bound for Singapore has been arrested at the Hong Kong airport for allegedly carrying a knuckleduster in her luggage, according to police. The force said on Sunday that airport security staff found the weapon, which is worn over the knuckles, in the local woman’s carry-on luggage during regular screening the day before. Police…
A Guatemalan man with a criminal background who is in the country illegally was sentenced to federal prison for assaulting ICE officers during an arrest in 2025, federal officials said Tuesday. Guido Andres Alexander Cuellar-Batres was sentenced to eight months in prison and one year of supervised release, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in…
Twenty-one people have been arrested in a crackdown by Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency on a triad-linked syndicate accused of manipulating renovation project tenders at two residential estates in Kwun Tong, with one contract valued at about HK$33 million (US$4.2 million). The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Friday that 15 men and six women,…
LONDON — British political commentator Sami Hamdi said, on his arrival back in the United Kingdom on Thursday, that he was considering suing U.S. authorities for his detention in an immigration detention center over what he claims were his views on Gaza and Israel. Two days after revealing he was leaving the U.S. voluntarily, Hamdi lauded federal…
Palghar: Palghar police have arrested a man from Nagpur for allegedly stealing mobile phones from train passengers and railway stations, and seized 35 devices from him, an official said on Tuesday.Government Railway Police (GRP) at Vasai had received multiple complaints of mobile phone theft from passengers aboard trains and at railway stations in Palghar district.Police…
Source: ReutTurkish media Istanbul police carried out an operation this morning, detaining several well-known public figures, News.Az reports, citing Turkish media. Those taken into custody include singers and actors such as Hadise, İrem Derici, Kubilay Aka, Kaan Yıldırım, Demet Evgar, and Berrak Tüzünataç. The operation is part of an investigation launched by the Istanbul Chief…
EDGEFIELD — Paige Durden, a Merriwether Elementary School mother, said her daughter was one of the young passengers on a school bus operated by Janice Waldorf, 62, when the driver was pulled over for a sobriety test and arrested Sept. 25. “I panicked, because she’s on the bus, they’re on the side of the freeway,…