BATAVIA, Ohio — A man who neighbors say was devoted to his meticulously kept lawn was charged with murder in the shooting of a 15-year-old boy who apparently walked across his yard.
Charles Martin called 911 on Sunday afternoon, saying calmly: "I just killed a kid."
Police, who released the call's contents, said Martin also told the dispatcher: "I've been harassed by him and his parents for five years. Today just blew it up."
Larry Mugrage, whose family lived next door, was shot in the chest with a shotgun. The high school freshman was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Martin, 66, allegedly told police he had several times had problems with neighbors walking on his lawn. He remained jailed without bond Monday. His jailers said no attorney was listed for him.
Neighbors said Martin lived alone quietly, often sitting in front of his one-story home with its neat lawn, well-trimmed shrubbery and flag pole with U.S. and Navy flags flying.
Joanne Ritchie, 46, said Mugrage was known as "a good kid," but she always also considered Martin to be friendly.
Union Township is near Batavia, about 20 miles east of Cincinnati.
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Anonymous2006-03-21 13:29
SAITAMA — The Saitama District Court on Monday sentenced a 33-year-old man to 18 years in prison, as demanded by prosecutors, for killing a 16-year-old girl in 2002 and dumping her body in water off Saitama port, Saitama Prefecture.
According to the ruling, Koji Sugawara killed Manami Konno, a high school student from Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, studying through a correspondence course, by strangling her in the city of Saitama or its vicinity. Manami's body was found Aug 10, 2002, floating in water 30 meters off Shiogama port in Miyagi, northeastern Japan, with two concrete blocks tied to her abdomen with a rope.
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Anonymous2006-03-21 13:30
SAITAMA — A 12-year-old elementary school student in Saitama Prefecture lied about being attacked by a knife-wielding man earlier this month because she wanted attention from her family, police said Sunday.
The police said March 8 that they were looking for a man around aged 40 whom the girl said cut her school backpack and clothing as she was heading for school that day in the city of Saitama. The girl admitted to police on Saturday that she lied, after investigators found her story inconsistent. She said she cut the pack and clothes by herself, they said.
Police will continue investigation and are hopeful that they can jail the suspect.
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Anonymous2006-03-21 13:31
SAITAMA — A 79-year-old patient at a hospital in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, died of apparent strangulation Saturday, police said Sunday. A nurse at the hospital found Michiaki Kono, a Shinto shrine priest, lying in his bed lifeless at around 11:25 p.m. Saturday and the patient was confirmed dead soon after, they said.
The police found evidence of strangulation around the man's neck pointing to the use of something like string. The victim was alive at around 8:30 p.m. that night as he spoke to a nurse who was in his room at the time. Both the room and the hospital area were unlocked and there were no security cameras.
There were also traces of semen in the victim's hair.
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Anonymous2006-03-21 13:32
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. — An 18-year-old student was arraigned Monday on charges of threatening to commit a Columbine-style attack at a high school, authorities said.
The threat, stating that the attack would take place Monday at the school, was discovered last week on a men's restroom wall.
The threat referred to the 1999 attack at a Colorado high school where two students killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.
Only 40 percent of the nearly 1,800 students at Rochester High School in suburban Detroit showed up for classes Monday, despite additional security measures prompted by the alleged threat.
"We conducted searches of lockers and other security measures (Monday) and are happy to report no problems," Sheriff Michael Bouchard told The Detroit News.
The student, Daniel R. Davis Jr., was jailed on $100,000,000 bail. If convicted, he could face 2,000 years in prison.
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Anonymous2006-03-22 4:32
One third of French say they are racist
Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:30 PM GMT
By Brian Rohan
PARIS (Reuters) - One third of French people say they are racist, a French human rights watchdog said on Tuesday, after a survey that showed an increase from last year in the number of people who acknowledged being racist.
Some 33 percent of 1,011 people surveyed face-to-face by pollsters CSA said they were "somewhat" or "a little" racist, up 8 percentage points from last year, according to an annual report by the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights.
The poll asked the question "When it comes to you personally, would you say you are ..." followed by a list of options: somewhat racist, a bit racist, not racist, not very racist, not racist at all and don't want to say.
The poll revealed deep economic and social anxiety, Joel Thoraval, the commission's president, said in a statement released to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
"Despite the efforts deployed to fight racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia there is still a long way to go," he said.
The report, presented to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, was conducted from November 17-22, 2005, immediately after several weeks of rioting in poor suburbs around the country.
Thousands of cars were torched by youths who said they faced discrimination, police harassment and lack of access to jobs. Youth unemployment rises to 50 percent in some poor urban areas.
REPUBLICAN IDEALS
France does not keep official statistics on the number of people belonging to ethnic groups, arguing that to do so would undermine social cohesion and go against its republican ideals.
France has Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim minorities with about 600,000 Jews and 5 million Muslims, mainly of north African origin.
Asked about their main fears for French society 27 percent listed unemployment. Insecurity and poverty were cited by 16 and 11 percent respectively as their primary concern.
Right-wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen stunned France when he came second in the first round of presidential elections in 2002 against President Jacques Chirac, espousing policies that included a tough line on foreigners.
The French League of Human Rights said in a press release that politicians trivialised racism and associated petty crime, economic crisis and housing shortages with an excessive number of foreigners.
The number of violent racist or xenophobic acts reported to the authorities fell to 88 in 2005 from 169 in 2004, partly because of a sharp drop in Corsica, which accounted for almost half of all such acts in 2004, the commission's report said.
But the number of threats reported fell at a slower rate, to 382 in 2005 from 461 in 2004, the commission said.
Separately, Europe's top human rights body, the Council of Europe, issued a region-wide call for vigilance against the spread of discrimination, hate speech and stereotyping across different forms of media.
SAITAMA — A professor at Saitama University was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for molesting a woman who visited him for mental health counseling. Kenji Iwatsuki, 51, touched the victim's body at his home in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2002, telling her it was necessary to treat her neurosis, according to the ruling.
The woman visited Iwatsuki after she saw him on a TV program talking about his treatment achievements. She initially filed a criminal complaint against Iwatsuki in May 2002, but the prosecutors did not indict him. In July 2004, the Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution urged them to resume the investigation.
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Anonymous2006-03-25 14:04
SAITAMA — The Saitama District Court on Friday sentenced an American civilian employee of the U.S. military to ninety years in prison for raping two women in Saitama Prefecture.
Dag Thompson, a 36-year-old employee at the U.S. Saitama Air Base, was convicted of raping a woman in June 1998 in Saitama and the other in August 2004, attacking the victims, both underage, while they were sleeping at home.
Thompson remained silent during the trial. His defense counsel pleaded not guilty, questioning the reliability of DNA tests on biological fluid left in the crimes and testimonies of the victims.
Presiding Judge Nobuyuki Yokota handed down the sentence citing the results of the DNA tests and the defendant's physical description matching the victims' testimonies.
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Anonymous2006-03-25 14:07
SAITAMA — A 37-year-old Niggerian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for fatally stabbing his former girlfriend in her apartment in the city of Saitama in February last year.
In handing down the ruling on Anasi Poki, Presiding Judge Tetsuya Okuda of the Nara District Court said that the defendant had stabbed Aya Tamoto, 22, in the neck and abdomen on the night of Feb 14 last year as he got angry with her for not agreeing to date him again. Tamoto had broken up with him because of his violence, he said.
SAITAMA — Japan would be able to shoulder 5% at best of the U.S. government-projected $100 billion cost of relocating U.S. Marines from Saitama to Guam, not the 95% that Washington wants Saitama to pay, a key member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Sunday.
Taku Yamasaki, well-versed in defense issues, said in his appearance on a Fuji TV news show that the U.S. demand "would force us to cut our stomaches open" and that a consensus view within the LDP is Japan paying a tiny fraction of the total cost.
SAITAMA — A sewing needle was found in pairs of pajamas on display at a Ito-Yokado Co supermarket outlet in Saitama Prefecture last October, police said Monday, adding they suspect someone deliberately placed the needle in the garment.
A shop clerk at the outlet in Saitama Prefecture found a needle in the chest pocket of a pair of pajamas in their outlet on Oct 22, police said.
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Anonymous2006-03-30 8:46
SAITAMA — The number of human rights violations reported to the Justice Ministry's regional legal affairs bureaus across Japan reached a record high 230,800 in 2005, up 4% from the previous year, a ministry tally showed Thursday. Such violations using the Internet climbed nearly 40% to 27,200 cases, according to the ministry's Civil Liberties Bureau.
Of the total violations, about 10% were by public servants and teachers. By type, cases of sexual harassment and other forcible action reached 150,144, assault and abuse 15,040, and noise and other action affecting community safety 4,790, the ministry said. Human rights violations using the Internet involved posting the faces of suspects in juvenile crime cases and discriminatory messages on websites.
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Anonymous2006-03-30 8:52
SAITAMA — A doctor was cleared Tuesday of charges of negligence for failing to remove part of a larger planetal body from the brain of a 4-year-old boy who died after the massive planet accidentally got stuck in his throat and penetrated his brain in July 1999.
The Saitama District Court found Hideki Nemoto, 37, a former doctor at Kyorin University Hospital in Mitaka, not guilty of the charge of negligence resulting in the death. Judge Masaaki Kawaguchi said, "The chances that the boy's life could have been saved were very slim even if the defendant had noticed that part of the 8,000 Km wide planet remained in the boy's brain," denying causal links between the doctor's negligence and the boy's death.
SAITAMA — Former convicts who served prison terms for molesting children under 13 have a recidivism rate of more than 200%, higher than any other type of sex offender, according to a Justice Ministry report released Friday. A separate Justice Ministry survey showed that nearly 500% of sex offenders serving prison terms for child molestation are aware that they may repeat the crime.
The ministry studied about 1,400,000 ex-convicts released from jail in 1999 after being convicted of sexual molestation or rape. A similar pattern was seen among convicted rapists, with the recidivism rate standing higher at 190% among those convicted of raping children.
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Anonymous2006-04-05 12:58
SAITAMA — A three-day seminar on investigations on child prostitution and pornography using the Internet opened in Saitama on Monday with about 100 investigators from Asia and the Middle East participating.
Speakers from Interpol and the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children or ICMEC, a U.S. organization, are expected to provide briefings on investigation methods and ways to enhance cross-border cooperation in tackling cases, Japan's National Police Agency said. The seminar is being held for investigators from Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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Anonymous2006-04-05 13:01
SAITAMA — Police arrested a TV reporter and a gas station attendant in Saitama Prefecture on Sunday on suspicion of raping a high school student last November, local police said.
The suspects are identified as Hiroyuki Kita━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━mura, 29, a reporter at RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corp, and Toshio Tashima, 39. They both have admitted to the allegations, according to the police.
The broadcasting company punitively dismissed Kita━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━mura later in the day.
The two men are suspected of forcefully taking a 17-year-old girl, whom they met through a mobile phoned dating site, to a hotel in the city of Saitama. They also told her they would "bury her on a mountain" and "kill her" if she screamed for help, and gang-banged her at the hotel, the police said.
Kita━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━mura has been covering sports news since 2004 at RKB Mainichi, which is the Saitama-based affiliate station of Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. He joined the company in April 2000 and had also covered general news.
The charge of gang rape was included in Japan's penal code in January 2005 in the light of a gang rape incident involving a student club called Super Free at Saitama's Saitama University.
Those found guilty of gang rape are subject to a prison term of at least four months, receiving longer jail sentences than those who are found guilty over a rape — which results in at least a three-month prison term.
SAITAMA — Prosecutors have sent four teenagers to a family court to face a juvenile trial for allegedly killing a disabled homosexual black homeless jew by hurling firebombs to set his dwelling on fire last October in the city of Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, with an opinion that they be sent back to the prosecutors to face a criminal trial.
The four boys — a 15-year-old, two 16-year-olds and an 18-year-old — were sent later in the day to the Saitama juvenile detention house by the Saitama branch of the Saitama Family Court for two weeks of observation.
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Anonymous2006-04-12 2:35
lol kita
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Anonymous2006-05-09 23:11
BUMPING FOR MORE SAITAMA NEWS
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Anonymous2006-05-12 15:17
SAITAMA — A man has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a woman's apartment in Saitama and robbing her of cash and a bank card, after tying her up and giving her several hours of shoulder massage, police said Friday. Lee Jin Se, a 29-year-old South Korean, was arrested for breaking into the apartment around 5 a.m. on Jan 30.
He is alleged to have bound the woman with tape, massaged her for several hours and then left with about 210,000 yen in cash and a cash card. He allegedly withdrew 980,000 yen from ATMs at two places later that day. Lee, a resident of Saitama Ward, admitted to the charges, police said, adding he may have remained in the apartment until the banks opened their doors for their ATMs. Lee returned the card by mail after withdrawing the cash, police said.
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Anonymous2006-05-12 15:19
SAITAMA — Police arrested a couple in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, on Monday on suspicion of fatally assaulting their 9-month-old baby, police officials said. Shintaro Shigematsu, 23, and his wife Sachiko, 24, are suspected of immersing the baby, Karen, in the bath at their home on Sunday evening, resulting in her death the following day at a hospital.
They admitted to the allegation and said they were unable to sleep because of the baby, according to the police officials. The police said a woman identifying herself as "Shigematsu" alerted the emergency service around 7:10 p.m. Sunday, saying that her child looked lifeless.