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The Streets Don't Love You Back's Blog – May 2010 Archive (10)

detroit ex mayor gets 1-5 years in prison

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appears during his restitution hearing in Detroit. Circuit Judge David Groner must decide Tuesday, May 25, 2010 what's next after ruling in April that Kilpatrick violated probation from a 2008 criminal case by failing to report all assets and failing to meet other conditions. Kilpatrick has been on probation since his release from jail in 2009 for obstruction of justice and assault, all related to a text-message scandal that revealed an affair with his chief of staff and destroyed his political career. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to up to five years in prison Tuesday for violating the terms of his probation on an obstruction of justice conviction.

Kilpatrick, 39, asked Judge David Groner to show him compassion during the hearing, but Groner said "that ship has sailed."

Groner said Kilpatrick would have to serve at least 1 1/2 years in prison, but that he would be credited for 120 days of time served from his…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 25, 2010 at 2:04pm — No Comments

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 23, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

70-Year-Old Wife Accused Of Stabbing Husband

A 70-year-old woman was in the Hamilton County jail Wednesday morning accused of stabbing her husband.

Police say Leona Stephenson stabbed her husband Willie in the chest. It happened at their Colerain Township home on Aquarius Drive.

"She brandished the knife trying to keep him away from her. He apparently didn't think that she had it in her, he kept coming at her," Stephenson's attorney said.

Willie Stephenson called 911 and said, "My wife done stabbed me." Then… Continue

Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 21, 2010 at 9:53pm — No Comments

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A worry for many citizens, after sex offenders return to the public, is that they will engage in their activity once again after being released.

In an attempt to solve this particular issue, Gubernatorial Candidate Douglas Hughes, one of the Orange County's Republicans, is running a campaign that promises to create a “Pedophile Island” where

convicted molesters would be the population.

The location being considered is Santa Rosa Island off Santa Barbara.

Creating…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 21, 2010 at 3:28pm — No Comments

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 9, 2010 at 9:37am — No Comments

Getting inside the gang mentality

In a suburban high school cafeteria, a kid with an oversized white T-shirt and an easy smile is getting a lot of attention. It's readily apparent that the other students at the lunch table defer to him. As the school counselor, you ask around and find out this student is newly entrenched in gang life.

He was just talking to an honor roll student, attempting to recruit him and asking him to bring another friend along to meet after school. Near them is a girl who hangs out with the…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 5, 2010 at 9:56pm — No Comments

'Seeds Of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling The Taliban And Al Qaeda'

The Taliban may earn as much as $500 million every year from the drug trade. Yet the US does not classify the Taliban as a drug–trafficking organization. Should the US make a bigger effort to disrupt the opium trade in Afghanistan? Will destroying poppy fields only hurt small farmers but not the larger organization? Is it even possible to dismantle the opium trade without tearing apart Afghanistan's fragile economy? Journalist Gretchen Peters joins us to get to the bottom of the connection… Continue

Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 4, 2010 at 5:58pm — No Comments

1 Detroit officer killed, 4 others wounded in shooting

Fallen Detroit officer ID'd in shooting that wounded 4 others

One officer was killed and four others were wounded while responding to a 911 call early this…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 3, 2010 at 6:59pm — No Comments

fallen detroit police

Detroit -- One officer was killed and four others were wounded while responding to call early this morning at a vacant home in northeast Detroit occupied by a felon known for resisting arrest and carrying weapons.

Officer Brian Huff, 42, a…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 3, 2010 at 6:52pm — No Comments

Criminals use nurseries to launder cash

CRIME gangs are muscling in on children’s nurseries as a money-laundering front for their illegal activities, police chiefs have warned.

Detectives are investigating up to a dozen nurseries in the west of Scotland believed to be linked with gangsters, Scotland on Sunday has learned.

Sources said they believed the businesses were laundering funds from drugs and extortion rackets by creating “ghost children”, youngsters shown on their books to be in their care but…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 2, 2010 at 8:32pm — No Comments