Sydney - Australian police promised more arrests Wednesday as a squad dedicated to breaking up motorcycle gangs rolled through major cities picking up suspects in a show of force.
The crackdown follows Sunday's outrage when a Hells Angels member was bludgeoned to death in front of horrified passengers at Sydney airport.
Fears of outright war between rival gangs were stoked by a double murder in Canberra on Tuesday. But police warned against immediately linking the killings to gang rivalry.
Sydney - An Australian beekeeper found shot dead at his isolated property where he lived alone was killed for his honey, a Brisbane court was told Wednesday.
Donald Alcock, 34, was found guilty of murdering 41-year-old Tony Knight by shooting him in the back while he slept.
"If Tony was home I was going to have to maim him or hurt him bad if I was going to knock off the honey," Alcock told police. "I was only out to hurt him, I wasn't out to kill him."
Manila - Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada is facing an investigation for allegedly displaying in public a toy machine gun, police said Wednesday.
Police Director General Jesus Versoza said Estrada might be charged for violation of a 1982 edict of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, which prohibits civilians from displaying real or fake high-powered firearms.
"I think there are some executive orders that are prohibiting the use of toy guns and displaying them in public," Versoza said.
Johannesburg - A fourth police official was arrested for charges related to drug trafficking, local media reported Tuesday.
Earlier, police said the head of an organized crime unit and two of his subordinates were arrested on charges of theft, fraud and racketeering.
"They would take some of the consignment [of seized drugs] from the scene of the crime and sell it to drug lords," SAPA news agency quoted a spokeswoman for crime intelligence, Senior Superintendent Tummi Golding, as saying.
London - A 17-year-old boy was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on a murder charge in the slaying of a police officer earlier this month in County Armagh, a Police Service of Northern Ireland spokeswoman said.
The youth was charged late Monday in the killing of Constable Stephen Carroll. He faces additional charges of membership in the banned Continuity IRA, possession of a firearm with intent and collecting information likely to be of use to terrorists.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police have detained four Taiwan men and seized more than 430 kilograms of drugs worth 61.3 million ringgit (16.5 million dollars) in the country's biggest seizure of the hypnotic drug Nimetazepam, a news report said Tuesday.
Police also detained six locals in Sunday's pre-dawn raid on a factory in the southern Johor state, said federal narcotics chief Zulhasnan Najib Baharuddin.
Sydney - Australian police promised more arrests Wednesday as a squad dedicated to breaking up motorcycle gangs rolled through major cities picking up suspects in a show of force.
Sydney - An Australian beekeeper found shot dead at his isolated property where he lived alone was killed for his honey, a Brisbane court was told Wednesday.
Manila - Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada is facing an investigation for allegedly displaying in public a toy machine gun, police said Wednesday.
Johannesburg - A fourth police official was arrested for charges related to drug trafficking, local media reported Tuesday.
London - A 17-year-old boy was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on a murder charge in the slaying of a police officer earlier this month in County Armagh, a Police Service of Northern Ireland spokeswoman said.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police have detained four Taiwan men and seized more than 430 kilograms of drugs worth 61.3 million ringgit (16.5 million dollars) in the country's biggest seizure of the hypnotic drug Nimetazepam, a news report said Tuesday.
