An Indian businessman, Vyapak Nutal, has been taken into custody for interrogation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, over the smuggling of 134,700 bottles of Codeine syrup into the country through the land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic in Sokoto state.
A statement released by...
Three trans-border drug traffickers have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, while trying to smuggle 48,000 tablets of 225mg Tramadol through Mubi, Adamawa state to Cameroon Republic, just as over 1,500 kilograms of imported Loud and other illicit substances have been intercepted in...
bodies of kidnap victims are hidden there
A mortuary where bodies of kidnap victims are reportedly kept has been uncovered inside Elele-Alimini General Hospital in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The hospital, where the ‘illegal’ mortuary is located is said to have been abandoned for years.
The chairman of the local...
The suspects, Chukwujekwu Reuben who currently resides in Nalasopara, Thane district and his accomplice Mohammad Musavi,38, a resident of Padamji Park, New Nana Peth, were arrested by officials from Lashkar police station, Pune city police.
Musavi, a social media fitness influencer has a base of several thousand followers on social media platforms and...
Three teenagers including two brothers are facing charges in the death of a 42-year-old man accused of sexually abusing the sister of two of the teens in a Texas trailer park home.
Brothers Alexandro and Christian Trevino, 18 and 17 years old, have been arrested for beating their stepfather, Gabriel Quintanilla,...
A Nigerian man, Sunday Osemeahon, was sentenced to 32-year imprisonment by Jury after he was found guilty of the murder of another Nigerian, Obasanjo Adeola Owoyale.
The accused person, Osemeahon had allegedly killed the victim, a family friend who had given him a lift after withdrawing a high sum of...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have raided a relaxation centre, popularly called Garden in Abuja and arrested six persons for selling drug cookies and noodles.
Following credible intelligence, operatives raided the garden at Wuse Zone 5 behind Shoprite, where a lady Rachael Famiyesun, 29, who deals...
In a major breakthrough, the North Zone Task Force of Hyderabad City Police have arrested a Nigerian national, Chukwu Ogbonna David, the kingpin of one of the major international drug rackets.
Ogbonna, alias Tony Abia Marsha alias Tony, is one of the most wanted drug peddlers, police said.
Ogbonna, who has...
Italian police have arrested four suspected members of Nigerian mafia after a young sex trafficking victim spoke out against them.
The men, who allegedly belong to Black Axe, were arrested during operations conducted in the Sicilian regional capital Palermo and Puglian regional capital Taranto in the early hours of Tuesday, January 18.
“The...
A Nigerian national who was indicted in April 2021 in connection with a large fraud and money laundering scheme is facing 20 years imprisonment after pleading guilty before a United States jury on Tuesday, January 11, 2022.
According to court documents and statements made in connection with the plea hearing, Kenneth...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two fleeing suspects, Farouk Mohammed and Jamiu Kasali, who murdered Pastor Babatunde Dada of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG on 6th Avenue, Festac Town.
The suspects, who claimed to be upcoming musicians, stabbed the 46-year-old pastor to death on December 2, 2021, and...
A 47-year-old Nigerian national, Chukwueke Felix Chibueze, has been arrested in Cambodia over alleged romance scam.
Officers from the Anti-Technology Crime Department of the Phnom Penh Municipal Police with the coordination of the Prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, National Police Commissioner, Gen. Neth Savoeun, cracked down on the...
The police said the accused identified as Boega Habib Abubakar, was residing in Virar area of Mumbai.
On December 24, the team of Azad Maiden unit of ANC under the guidance of Rajendra Dahifale, senior police inspector, Azad Maidan Unit were patrolling in the South Mumbai area.
The team said it found...
Desperate bids by drug cartels to push out millions of illicit drug tablets across Lagos and other parts of the country for the festive season have been frustrated by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with the seizure of 8,381,600 capsules and tablets of Tramadol as well as...
A Nigerian man, Oluwaseyi Akinyemi, a/k/a “Paddy Linkin”, a/k/a “Joseph Kadin”, has pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud relating to a social media advanced fee fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims.
The 35-year-old who lives at Hyattsville, Maryland listed an At-Home care patient’s address to receive fraudulently obtained...
UK's worst necrophiliac double murderer, David Fuller will be dying in jail after being handed two life sentences.
The morgue monster reportedly assaulted and strangled Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce 20, to death before sexually assaulting them in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987. This became one of the UK's longest unsolved double...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested members of a syndicate that specialize in the production and sale of counterfeit foreign currencies, especially the dollar, to unsuspecting members of the public.
Spokesperson of the agency, Wilson Uwujaren, said the four suspects usually sold counterfeited foreign currencies to unsuspecting members of the...
A white garment church pastor has been arrested by the police in Ondo state for allegedly raping a pregnant woman.
The woman identified as Bukola, revealed that the alleged incident occurred after she visited the Pastor's church for deliverance.
According to Bukola, the pastor who claimed that her baby was in a vertical position...
A man who was convicted of killing his pregnant wife and their unborn baby has been resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her death in 2002.
Scott Peterson, 49, was convicted in 2004 for the murders of his wife Laci and their unborn son Conner....
A 44-year-old father of three, Gabriel Anthony Patrick has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 96 pellets of cocaine, which he excreted in the custody of the Agency.
Director, Media & Advocacy of the...
Four persons, including a Nigerian national and his girlfriend, have been arrested in India for allegedly duping people after befriending them on social networking sites, Faridabad police said on Monday, November 29.
Police said that the suspects who were arrested on Saturday, have been active in Delhi-NCR for the last one year...
Operatives of the Lagos Command of the EFCC have arrested 60 suspected internet fraudsters during an awards ceremony at the Conference Hotel in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Investigations by the EFCC revealed that the event tagged “Peer Youths Awards”, was organized to reward high-level internet fraudsters.
Items recovered from the suspects at the...
A businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine.
A statement released by NDLEA spokesperson, Babafemi Femi, says the 46-year-old Mrs....
Police in Vietnam’s southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province have arrested a Nigerian man, Uzor Emmanuel and four other alleged members of a transnational scam ring accused of duping a local firm of US$110,000.
Provincial police on Friday, November 19, announced the arrest of 37-year-old Uzor and four Vietnamese, including two women,...
A 32-year-old drug trafficker based in Liberia, Maduabuchi Chinedu, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with 9.30 kilograms of cocaine worth over N2.7billion in street value.
The suspect who hails from Obaha Okigwe village, Okigwe...
Delhi Police has arrested a 40-year-old Nigerian national involved in hacking people's WhatsApp accounts and defrauding them.
The accused, Okwudiri Paschal, is a part of a group operating from Nigeria that hunts individuals through social media, the police said on Saturday, November 20.
The accused was arrested outside an ATM in...
A Nigerian national, Uche Raymond Okoye has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for defrauding a 65-year-old woman of $6 million (approximately N2.5 billion) in Guyana.
Okoye, also known as Uche Parker who is currently facing several other fraud charges before the Magistrate’s Court was sentenced on ten of those...
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A man wanted for fatally stabbing his father 46 times and leaving the corpse in a plastic bag on a Brooklyn street has been arrested in Louisiana.
The suspect, Joseph Adams, 26, was arrested in Gretna and brought back to the Big Apple in connection to the gruesome Oct. 16 murder of...
At least seven men have been arrested in western India after a 16-year-old girl claimed she was raped hundreds of times by hundreds of men in the last six months
In a statement to India's Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on November 11, the girl, who was homeless, said she was...
A student has been convicted of the murder of his 94-year-old step-grandmother three years after an inquest ruled she was the victim of an accidental house fire.
Mary Gregory was discovered under a table in the conservatory of her smoke-logged bungalow in Heysham, Lancashire in the early hours of May 28 2018...
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a pastor identified as Chris Onyebuchi Amadi who allegedly strangled his wife to death during an argument in Aluu, Ikwere Local Government Area of the state.
Amadi, the pastor of a new generation church, Shalom Mercy Ministry located in Aluu, attempted to flee after he...
A notorious drug dealer, Okoli Collins Ikenna, who is the mastermind of recent multiple attempts to export illicit drugs to London in the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, and some courier companies in Lagos has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement...
A Nigerian man, allegedly part of an international criminal network in which women are befriended on social media and promised lavish gifts and jewellery, for which they are made to pay money, has been found guilty on 10 counts of obtaining money by false pretense.
Uche Raymond Okoye, also known...
Anonymous persons behind a Squid Game cryptocurrency have officially made away off with an estimated $3.38 million.
The cryptocurrency inspired by Squid Game peaked at a price of $2,861 before plummeting to $0 around 5:40 a.m. ET., according to the website CoinMarketCap.
After jumping more than 310,000% in value as of Sunday night, Squid lost all...
A 44-year-old Nigerian man, Felix Jideofor Mmadubueze and his alleged girlfriend have been arrested for cyber fraud by police in Meghalaya, India.
A team of police from the East Garo Hills district arrested Madubueze and Khegholi Awomi, 37, from Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area with the help of Delhi Police on Sunday, October...
Colombia's most-wanted drug trafficker has finally been captured after evading arrest for more than a decade.
Dairo Antonio Usuga David, known by his alias Otoniel, is accused of sending dozens of shipments of cocaine to the United States and orchestrating a ruthless drugs empire, killing police officers, recruiting minors, and...
A Nigerian national has been arrested by the Crime Branch of Goa Police, India and party drugs worth Rs 7.4 lakh (N4,072,965.90) were seized from him.
The accused identified as Amaechi Ekene was nabbed by the police along the north Goa coastal belt in Mapusa, Panaji on Thursday, October 21,...
A suspect linked to the murder of Reverend Father Michael Maingi Kyengo from Machakos county in Kenya, has said that he killed the Catholic Priest because he sodomized him.
Michael Muthini said he got to know the Catholic Priest who was killed and buried in a shallow grave in Makima in 2017, during a mass session...
Two Kenyan women have been arrested for stealing a newborn baby boy from a teenage mother and altering the birth notification details.
The two suspects, Judith Ingahitzu, 47 and her aunt, Florence Musimbi Abulu, 62, were on Monday morning, October 18, arraigned at Webuye Law Courts, where they initially pleaded guilty of two...
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths on Sunday, October 17, arrested two Nigerian women in connection with seizure of 530 grams of cocaine in Kochi, Kerala, India.
The value of the seized cocaine is estimated to be around Rs 5.5 crore in the international market, a DRI official said.
The...
A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to the maximum nine years to life in prison after he was convicted in the stabbing to death of college student, Tessa Majors.
Luchiano Lewis, who was one of three teens charged in the 2019 murder, was sentenced in Manhattan criminal court on Thursday. He pleaded guilty...
The Nigerian Navy has arrested 22 Thai nationals for allegedly trafficking 32.9kg of cocaine from Brazil to Nigeria.
The seafarers were arrested on-board MV CHAYANEE NAREE, by the joint team following an intelligence report it got from the UK Border Force.
It was gathered that the cargo ship left Santos in Brazil on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Command have arrested 22 suspected ”Yahoo Boys” for alleged involvement in internet fraud in Ogbomoso.
The suspect were arrested on Tuesday, October 12.
The suspects are Akintunde Ibrahim Olajide, Yusuf Taiye Afeez, Jimoh Idris Okikiola, Adeyemo Wariz Adegoke, Ademola Olalekan Saheed, Anif...
A 33-year-old Nigerian national identified as Lebechi Charles Kelechi, has been arrested in connection with a drug trafficking case in Cambodia.
Police from the Anti-Drug Department of the Ministry of Interior, on Tuesday, October 12, said that the Nigerian allegedly trafficked nearly half a kg of drugs into the country.
According to local...
A pregnant Miami teacher has been arrested for having an affair with a 15-year-old student and making a sex tape with the student.
Teacher Heiry Calvi, 41, was arrested on Thursday, October 7. She was released from jail on Saturday, October 9, after posting bail.
She is accused of having sex with the...
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Sunday, October 10, arrested 11 suspected internet fraudsters in Benin.
The suspects were arrested in separate locations in the City based on actionable intelligence on their alleged involvement in cybercrime.
Those arrested are Osahon Bright, Aigbe...
A 28-year-old Nigerian national identified simply as George has been arrested for peddling drugs in Bangkok, Thailand.
Speaking during a press briefing at immigration HQ in Suan Phlu, Bangkok on Friday, October 8, the immigration chief said that Region 1 officers were told by an informant that a black man was...
A missing woman has been found buried inside a wall that was smoothed over with concrete.
Joice Maria da Gloria Rodrigue, 25, a student who lived with her husband and two daughters in Sao Vicente, Brazil was reported missing on 27 September after visiting her grandfather.
Her body was found on Tuesday, October 5, at a...
A drama teacher at a middle school allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old student in her car multiple times.
Brittany Lopez-Murray, 31, who works at Hialeah Middle, reportedly slept with the male student for two months after she confessed her "feelings toward" him over the phone in August.
She was arrested on...
A drug dealer of Nigerian origin, Abu Henry, alias Kevin was sentenced to 10-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) for heroin smuggling by a court in Mohali, Punjab on Friday, October 1.
The court of additional district and sessions judge Harpeet Kaur Kaleka also imposed a fine of L1 lakh on the convict.
His local...
The Indian police have arrested a Nigerian actor, Chekwume Malvin, on charges of drug peddling and seized hashish oil worth Rs 7.5 lakh.
Chekwume, 45, who hails from Delta state in Nigeria, was arrested near the HBR Layout BDA Complex, where he had allegedly gone to sell drugs.
According to Indian newspapers,...
Some Nigerian women who became the first people in Ireland to be convicted of human trafficking for the prostitution ring they ran, have received jail sentences of five years and eight months and five years and one month.
Alicia Edosa (45) and Edith Enoghaghase (31) were each found guilty of two...
Operatives of the Enugu Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested 16 suspected internet fraudsters in three separate sting operations in the Monarch area, New Haven Extension and Castle Majestic Hotel, Ogui Road, Enugu.
The suspects were arrested following verified intelligence on their alleged involvement in...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested an Italy-bound female passenger and a 38-year-old pregnant woman for drug trafficking.
Director, Media & Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, September 19, said operatives continued their nationwide offensive action against...
A former assistant to R. Kelly has testified against the singer that she once saw him engage in sexual activity with one of the women he is charged with abusing.
On the 18th day of testimony at Kelly's trial in federal court in Brooklyn, Cheryl Mack, the mother of music...
A 31-year-old Nigerian woman, Amenze Rita, has allegedly been shot dead by her husband in Italy after she reportedly filed for divorce.
Amenze was killed in front of her colleagues in the parking lot of Mf Mushroom, a company where she worked on Friday morning, September 10, in Noventa Vicentina.
It...
