Archive for August, 2010
A Stone Mountain man was arrested last week in Bartow County after a traffic stop yielded 400 bundles of a drug known as khat.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story.
The Bartow-Cartersville Drug Task Force believes that the value of the drugs may exceed $250,000. Police found the drugs after pulling over Hussein Dahir Sheikaden’s vehicle on I-75 for failure to maintain lane. A K-9 unit discovered the drugs in two suitcases. Sheikaden was born in Somalia, ...
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Police have begun cracking down on individuals who use Facebook and MySpace to extort or blackmail others for explicit photos and sex. The practice, known as “sextortion”, has led to prison sentences in Georgia and throughout the US.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story.
Those involved in sextortion cases are usually teenagers and young adults. In the typical scenario, the alleged offender will obtain a nude photograph or video of an individual on Facebook, MySpace or a ...
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