Hong Kong police were investigating a traffic accident in which a 22-year-old motorcyclist rammed into the back of a stopped vehicle on the Lantau Link and died on Friday. The force said the motorcycle was travelling towards Kowloon when the accident happened at 12.48pm. “It reportedly rammed into a stationary light goods vehicle,” the force…
Hong Kong police have arrested three men on suspicion of drug trafficking, seizing seven kilograms of heroin with a street value of HK$4.3 million (US$553,000). The force revealed on Sunday that officers from the narcotics bureau had arrested the trio aged between 27 and 46 on the previous day in during a raid on a…
Body parts found in a freezer earlier this year after a Colorado home was sold have been identified as those of the 16-year-old daughter of the home’s previous owner, authorities said Friday. The death of Amanda Leariel Overstreet is being investigated as a homicide and an investigation is ongoing, the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office said….
Hong Kong authorities have sped up the investigation and prosecution of more than 200 serious child abuse cases over the past two years under efforts by an interdepartmental task force that made earlier intervention by government lawyers easier. Among the cases examined by the Vulnerable Victims and Child Protection Task Force was a high-profile one…
Hong Kong police are investigating a suspected hit-and-run incident that may be linked to the death of a cat in the New Territories. The force said a 43-year-old woman called the police in the early hours of Thursday, alerting them to the injured cat found on Kam Tin Road in the Shek Kong area of…
Hong Kong pharmacy chain Mannings has axed a security firm’s contract, with two undercover guards fired, after a customer complained the pair had grabbed her by the neck and backpack and dragged her back to the store claiming she had shoplifted. Manning said on its Facebook page on Wednesday that the two plain-clothes store detectives…
Hong Kong customs officers have seized HK$44 million (US$11.3 million) of Ice concealed in wooden pallets carrying painted ceramics from Kyrgyzstan, the first haul from the central Asian country and the largest for the drug entering the city by air cargo this year. Ivan Chow Wing-cheong, senior investigator of customs’ drug investigation bureau, said on…
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors on Saturday accused seven people and two sub-contractors of crimes including fraud and breaching airplane safety rules following an investigation into suspected flawed parts produced by an Italian company for Boeing. The prosecutors launched their investigation in late 2021 after Boeing said some parts for its 787 Dreamliner plane supplied…
A former police officer is under criminal investigation following the wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail over a rape he did not commit. The police watchdog has announced four retired officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are being investigated for gross misconduct. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said…
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) stock got crushed today following a report that the company is being investigated by the Department of Justice (DoJ). The server specialist’s share price closed out the day’s trading down 12.2%, and it had been down as much as 18.6% earlier in the session. The Wall Street Journal reported today…