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Friday, Jan. 15, 2016
Volume 123, Issue 43
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Security camera update project now reality Nevia Buford News Editor
The process of updating the camera system on campus continues and is set to be completed Jan. 31. Four-hundred and forty new cameras are being placed around campus to replace the old ones and promote security on campus. The project started in May 2015, but
the planning started years ago. “This project in theory actually started several years ago and came to a reality when the funding was approved late last year,” Assistant ISU Police Chief Michele Barrett said. “The groundwork started in May 2015.” The project has a budget of $2 million and is currently running under budget. Barrett said it is not yet known what the final cost will be.
The new cameras are being placed all around campus, including the parking lots. These cameras will be different from the old cameras in many ways. “The main difference is the old cameras were outdated PTZ — point, tilt, zoom — cameras that were constantly moving in a 360-degree radius, making it hard to capture an entire event from recording,” Barrett said. “The new cameras will
be stationary, high resolution cameras placed in carefully specified areas.” The new cameras should help create a safer environment on campus, as it will allow the ISU police to solve more crimes and hopefully prevent others. “Once we are able to solve some investigations as a result of them being recorded, we hope the word will get out that we now have this tool and help deter crime,” Barrett said.
Honoring Dr. King Students will spend Monday doing community service in remembrance of a Civil Rights Leader
See story on Page 3 Ellen Creager | Detroit Free Press | MCT
The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is one of its newest attractions. It is beautifully landscaped next to the Tidal Basin.
Momentum swings to Miami for trial of ‘El Chapo’ James Rosen and Jay Weaver
McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS)
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Mexican officials are engaged in high-level talks to determine whether Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will be tried in Miami or New York on drug-trafficking charges following his anticipated extradition to the United States from Mexico. Federal prosecutors in six states have filed indictments against Guzman, but the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of Florida have overlapping cases that could be combined, and the headquarter sites of Brooklyn and Miami have emerged as the leading contenders for the sensational trial. “The Southern District of Florida’s extraordinary record with respect to major narcotics trafficking cases could be an important factor,” Kendall Coffey, a former United States attorney in Miami, told McClatchy. In phone calls and personal meetings this week, Justice Department officials in Miami, New York and Washington have discussed with senior Mexican law enforcement officials which city Guzman would be sent to as part of broader extradition negotiations between the two countries. “Initially, the plan was New
York,” a law enforcement official familiar with the case told McClatchy. “After Guzman’s recent recapture, Miami is now under serious consideration as the (trial) venue.” The official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity, added that a decision would be made soon. Guzman, who heads the Sinaloa Cartel, was nabbed last week in the Pacific coastal town of Los Mochis, Mexico, seven months after he escaped from a high-security Mexican prison through a sophisticated tunnel that may have cost upward of $1 million to dig. Prosecutors in Miami, New York, Chicago and beyond accuse Guzman’s network of having pumped hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs into their cities over the last quarter century. “It’s a history-making case that, if successful, could deal a huge blow to today’s most violent drug trafficker,” Coffey said. “This case will define careers for prosecutors, (drug) agents and even the trial judge.” Mexican officials had long rejected U.S. extradition appeals, but have changed their stance in the wake of Guzman’s humiliating breakout, the second time he’d managed to flee a Mexican prison. While the two countries are
now negotiating the terms of extraditing Guzman, his lawyers have filed at least a half-dozen motions opposing any deal, and it could take months for Mexican courts to rule on them. The Brooklyn and Miami indictments both accuse Guzman of multiple counts of drug trafficking and money laundering. New York, however, had been viewed as holding the inside track for his trial because federal prosecutors there also accuse him of having ordered 13 murders, assassinations or attempted killings of Mexican police, soldiers and rival gang members. Miami, by contrast, hosted the last mega-trial of an internationally famous drug lord. In 1992, deposed Panama strongman Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami on eight counts of narcotics trafficking, racketeering and money laundering. Noriega, who had been seized by U.S. troops from the Vatican Embassy after the U.S. invasion of Panama in December 1989, was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in South Miami-Dade until 2010, when he was extradited to France. He was shipped the next year to Panama, where he remains imprisoned. Mexican law enforcement agents first captured Guzman in June 1993, transferring him two
Xinhua | Zuma Press | TNS
An image provided by an anonymous source on Jan. 8, 2016 shows Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias “El Chapo,” handcuffed after his detention in a place of Mexico not yet determined by authorities of the country. Fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured months after his prison escape, President Enrique Pena Nieto said.
years later to a maximum-security prison in Puente Grande near the city of Guadalajara in central Mexico.
There, Guzman bribed guards to help him escape under a pile
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