The International Falcon

The bomb disposal unit was brought out after a package was found on the porch of a family home in Balzan , which turned out to contain leftover items from a five-figure robbery at a nearby house. The cash was not found and is still unaccounted for, even though the main suspect of the theft, an employee of the household, has been arrested.  They said the robbery took place on the evening of Friday 14 th December. Around 6pm a man noticed a package on his front porch and proceeded to call the police. Police came on site and closed off the area while the AFM’s Bomb Disposal Unit came   to investigate. They found that the package had no explosives. Instead, the package contained miscellaneous items including an envelope which had the figure “€60,000” written on it. The police checked the CCTV footage of a nearby residence. The only person seen on the video entering the premises was the same employee, who was shown entering and leaving the house three times in a short period of t

Last November the " unprecedented " trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman began in the federal courts of Brooklyn. The co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel faces a 17-count indictment on charges of shipping heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine to the US, to which he pleaded not guilty in January 2017. Being possibly the most notorious cartel kingpin to ever live, security was tightened for his trial, with law enforcement taking no chances. Bomb-sniffing dogs, metal detectors and a body of officers will decorate the courthouses of the famous jail-breaker. He had managed to escape out of two Mexican prisons before he was captured and extradited to the United States from Mexico on January 19, 2017. A close guard is also being kept on the jurors and witnesses, since 'El Chapo' is known to intimidate witnesses and order their murders. Judge Brian M. Cogan, who is in charge of picking out the jurors, is being extremely selective. He dismissed 27 ou