Spa owner sentenced to 5 years for killing woman with fake botox injections
A local spa owner accused of fatally injecting a women in 2012 with fake Botox was convicted and sentenced for murder this week.
Elva Mendoza Navarro, 39, of Hidalgo was sentenced to five years in prison after she pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of Zenyasent Cisneros.
Cisneros died from complications of the injections she received on Oct. 5, 2013, at Bella’s Face and Body Spa, 400 block of North 10th Street, which was owned by Navarro.
Fake designer goods: Woman fined $6285 for selling faux luxury labels
A DOUBLE Bay woman has been convicted of selling fake designer label luxuries ranging from handbags to underwear and pens. NSW Fair Trading says Elvira Anger told her customers her goods from Gucci, Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton and other top labels were genuine, and they came with appropriately expensive price tags. Fair Trading claims she has long been a queen of the faux luxury goods scam.
Details revealed on investigation into N.J. prison tobacco smuggling ring
TRENTON – The end to a large-scale tobacco smuggling operation that involved inmates, New Jersey State prison employees and outside civilians, came with a single payment, an investigator told jurors Thursday. Raphael Dolce, an investigator with the New Jersey Department of Corrections, recalled the beginnings of the investigation at the first day of a trial for Keith Harris, one of the two New Jersey State prison employees who was arrested in connection with the smuggling operation.
Harris, a trade technician at the prison, was indicted in the fall of 2014 on multiple counts of official misconduct.
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2016/03/details_revealed_on_investigation_into_nj_prison_t.html
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EU Protection to Help Curb Fake Kampot Pepper
Kampot Pepper, famed for its powerful fragrance, has become the first Cambodian product to be registered with a protected label in the E.U., according to a statement released this week, raising hopes that the production of imitation goods will slow.On February 18, the European Commission (E.C.) listed “MrechKampot/Poivre de Kampot” as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), a qualification expected to build the pepper’s reputation and reduce sales of counterfeit products, the statement said.
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-protection-to-help-curb-fake-kampot-pepper-109431/
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Authorities have confiscated about 72,000 packs of contraband cigarettes worth about $300,000 in the last two weeks, and four men now face felony charges.The cigarettes were illegally transported from out of state. Field Enforcement Division officers with the Maryland Comptroller’s Office assisted state police and the Maryland Transportation Authority with the arrests.
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Ejected SARS bosses start fighting back; illicit cigarette industry tagged
The genie is now well and truly out of the SARS bottle. Even herculean efforts from the highest office in the land to restore it are unlikely to be enough. There are simply too many people affected, too many working parts in this particular plunder of the public purse. Among them restored Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s two closest lieutenants from his decade at SARS, Ivan Pillay and Peter Richer. The duo, along with a large group of colleagues, were ejected from the tax collection service soon after Gordhan was moved away from Finance in 2014. Here’s what my sources say is going down. SARS has been waging a war against illicit cigarettes, a trade worth literally tens of billions of rand to the criminal underworld. As sin taxes escalated, so has the incentive – today roughly R13 of each packet of 20 cigarettes sold should go to the State.
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Organised crime could benefit from change in cigarette laws, says Bury North MP David Nuttall
GANGSTERS could benefit when branding is removed from cigarette packaging, Bury North’s MP believes.David Nuttall made the point during a question-and-answer session in Parliament on March 2.From this May, all cigarette packet makers must ensure the packaging is plain with no graphics, save for warnings about the damaging effects cigarettes can have.
The ‘standardised’ packaging will be gradually phased in and made compulsory in May 2017.
It follows the introduction of a Parliamentary Act aimed at dissuading young people from taking up smoking.
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Thai Police Seize Almost 900,000 Counterfeit Sunglasses
Police in Thailand announced Thursday they seized almost 900,000 counterfeit brand-name sunglasses at a warehouse where they also arrested two Chinese nationals accused of importing them from China.
Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation said the 895,897 sunglasses were purported to be famous brands such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior.
State nabs 4 people for smuggling 72,000 packs of contraband tobacco products
Authorities have confiscated about 72,000 packs of contraband cigarettes worth about $300,000 in the last two weeks, and four men now face felony charges.The cigarettes were illegally transported from out of state. Field Enforcement Division officers with the Maryland Comptroller’s Office assisted state police and the Maryland Transportation Authority with the arrests.
Three men arrested for smuggling cigarettes
HCM City’s BinhChanh District police have captured three cigarette smugglers, who were part of a large smuggling ring, and seized 23,000 cigarette packs. The three men who have been arrested are Le Thanh Tam, 36, a resident of the city’s District 6; Nguyen Hoang Viet Cuong, 31, from the city’s Tan Phu District; and Ho Long Hai, 23, a resident of the southern Long An Province.
Local police said several policemen caught the three men from a house in Tan Tao 2 resettlement zone, where they were packaging smuggled cigarettes to sell in the city market.
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/283127/three-men-arrested-for-smuggling-cigarettes.html
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