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Fake “I am going to News? prison forever” Jamaican security minister rubbishes claims of organ harvesting by Karyl Walker Jamaica's National Security Minister, Robert Montague, has dismissed social media rumor that Jamaicans are being murdered as part of a macabre organ-stealing scheme. Recently, a number of posts on FaceBook and WattsApp have surfaced displaying mutilated bodies of persons alleged to have been slaughtered and their organs removed and sold. Montague is highly critical of the fantastic claims, which he described as entirely false, in a terse release from his ministry. “These messages are accompanied with pictures of victims. Investigations by the police have established that images of the deceased persons are not those of persons who were victims of the alleged crimes. Not a single case of any deceased person appearing with missing organs has been reported to the police or examined by the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine,” the release read. Montague added that the stories undermine the work of security forces and made their jobs even more challenging. He said investigations point to a small group of persons with ulterior motives, behind them. The matter is being investigated by the Police Cybercrimes Unit. “The public is being warned that under the new Cybercrimes legislation, a person who commits an offence by using a computer willfully with intent to send another person any data, whether in the form of a message or otherwise, that intends to cause, or is reckless, and as to whether the sending if the data causes annoyance, distress, anxiety, that person can be fined not exceeding four million dollars, or imprisoned for a term not exceeding four years, or both, by a parish judge if the person is a first offender. Persons are asked to exercise caution in the material they post online and transmit to others, as they may unwittingly be participating in criminal acts,” release further stated.
Killer of mother and daughter confesses to Broward cops Kevin Nelson, who confessed to slaughtering a mother and daughter inside a Sunrise, Florida apartment, told cops after his arrest that he was afraid to get hurt. A Sunrise Police Department report stated that Nelson had telephoned the cops and confessed to killing Karen Lyle and Shanice Smith, who is the daughter of Jamaican entertainer Anthony Cruz. “Shots were just fired. I am the person with the gun and there are two people dead,” the crazed man told the cops. Shortly after the police arrived at his home with a negotiator; He then told the cops that he was afraid of getting hurt, that he had hurt people, and that he was a failure. “I am going to prison forever,” he said during a five-hour-long standoff with the CNU team. Nelson surrendered after agreeing to place a semi-automatic pistol at the top of the stairs, the report said. After Nelson, who is a naturalized American citizen, surrendered to the police, a search of the house resulted in the discovery of Lyle's body in the master bedroom with a bullet wound to the head, and Shanice's body at the top of the stairs with a bullet wound to the cheek. Both bodies were covered up to the necks with blankets. Ironically the Police report revealed several questionable behaviors by Nelson leading up to the incident. Two days before he actually carried out the act, Nelson jokingly told his sister, Janice Smith, that he had killed both females and had called friends and relatives days before carrying out the act and complained that Lyle had been unfaithful to him. According to the police Nelson had gone to his sister's house with his son last Friday night and told her that he had got into an argument with Lyle and that he had killed her. “Janice asked the defendant if he was kidding with her, with the defendant replying in the continues on A7 – Killer confession
Broward proposes operations of medical marijuana shops Unlike some other South Florida authorities, the commissioners of Broward County could take a more liberal approach regarding the dispensation of medical marijuana. In recent weeks Florida's Department of Health have been holding public hearings statewide seeking the public's input into pending state regulations re the dispensation of medical marijuana effective July 1, in accordance with Amendment 2 approved by voters las November. It is against this background that Broward
County Commissioners met earlier this week to propose regulations related to medical marijuana shops. The proposals include enabling these shops being given permission to operate in the unincorporated areas of Broward County but under specific zoning regulations. These incorporated areas include areas south of I-595, and sections of Sunrise Boulevard, but not the main cities in the county. Based on the unanimous votes of the commission, residents of the county will be able to make their input on these proposals at a special public hearing to be held on March 14 at the commission offices. continues on A3 – Marijuana
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