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Now that Grey’s Anatomy has been spun off with the creation of the upcoming Private Practice, both medical series are getting beefed up with additional faces in their regular casts.

Grey’s Anatomy fans can expect to see Chyler Leigh, who played Meredith Grey’s (Ellen Pompeo’s character) half-sister, Lexie, in the final two episodes last season. Leigh has been added to the show’s regular cast when it resumes. She was initially reported to have been tapped for just thirteen episodes but has now been included in the entire fourth season. Her permanent inclusion should pose much tension and excitement judging from the sparks that flew between her character and Patrick Dempsey’s Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd. The chemistry between them had already generated some conflict between Derek and Meredith in Lexie’s brief turn last season so it would be interesting to see what kind of havoc she might wreck for an entire year.

Chyler Leigh had previously appeared in such popular television shows as 7th Heaven, That `80s Show, The Practice and Reunion as well as the film, Not Another Teen Movie, with Jamie Pressly, Lacey Chabert, Chris Evans and Mia Kirshner.

The Grey’s Anatomy cast and crew return to film their fourth season today.

In similar news, Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice, has also added KaDee Strickland to its regular ensemble cast of characters. Strickland will portray an administrator at the Oceanside Wellness Center. Prior to joining Private Practice, Strickland appeared in the films The Sixth Sense, Girl, Interrupted, Something’s Gotta Give, The Stepford Wives and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid. More recently, she was in The Grudge starring Bill Pullman and Sarah Michelle Gellar, as well as in Fever Pitch, featuring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon. On television, Strickland guest-starred in Law & Order: Criminal Intent and co-starred with Teri Polo in The Wedding Bells.

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Reaping Results With Efforts of the War on Drugs and Terror

 

BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER Oct 12, 2008 1:00 PM PDT

 

The war on drugs is a war on terror and the war on terror is a war on drugs. They are interwoven and law enforcement believes they are inseparable. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda  are growing poppies and producing heroin in Afghanistan and distributing those drugs via ships, aircraft and ground mules to Iraq, Turkey, Europe and Mexico to help raise cash.                                    

Countries in South America like Columbia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia are growing, producing and distributing cocaine to Mexican drug cartels that in turn have Mexican and American gangs distribute throughout the United States, Europe and other countries around the world.

According to Michael A. Braun, DEA Chief of Operations, says that the drug trafficking and middle eastern terrorist groups are a “Growing Nexus.”  He indicates that there is a growing nexus between international drug trafficking organizations and international terrorism.  Mr. Braun believes it is a new hybrid organization funded by international drug trafficking and dedicated to terrorism.

As reported in the Laguna Journal Mexican and American gangs are expanding their sphere of influence here and around the world. Many gangs are much more sophisticated now days and are run much like well trained military units and multi-national corporations and therefore are much more of a threat to law enforcement as well as many citizens around the world.
U.S. and Mexican gangs are forging illegal business connections with other gangs in the states as well as in Mexico and Afghanistan seeking more lucrative drug markets.
 
These alliances make them much more dangerous and this organization is much more threatening. Many of the American gangs buy or are fronted drugs from the new alliances from as far away as Afghanistan where drug trades and whole selling take place. This proliferation and gangs adoption of terrorist tactic’s is worldwide and is increasingly accompanied by beheadings, shootings, kidnappings and other extreme violence and is threatening society in general.

It is estimated that there are 25,000 or more gangs currently operating in the U.S. and more than 1,000.000 active gang members. Most current gang members in the U.S. are believed by authorities to possess automatic weapons such as AK 47’s, shot guns, hand guns, other weapons such as grenade loungers, and other powerful explosives. Police report confiscating more and more bullet proof vests.

Gangs conduct all sorts of criminal activity in all 50 states, U.S. territories, Mexico, South America, Afghanistan and else where. Although most gang activity is concentrated in major urban areas, gangs also are proliferating in rural and suburban areas of varies countries. 
 
Real headway on the war on drugs appear to be finally putting a dent in the global war on terror by cutting off the legs and arms of those organizations distributing the drugs which generates millions and some experts believe billions into the coffers of radical Muslim terrorist.

DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart and Michael Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that BASHIR NOORZAI, a former Mujahideen warlord and strong ally of the Taliban, was recently found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan of conspiring to import and distribute heroin in the United States.

“BASHIR NOORZAI’s illegal activities illustrate the volatile convergence of drugs and terrorism,” Leonhart said. “Citizens of America and Afghanistan can take great pride in the conviction of this dangerous and prolific drug lord.”

NOORZAI, the leader of his namesake tribe, one of Afghanistan’s largest and most influential tribes, owned opium fields in the southern province of Kandahar, Afghanistan, and had subordinates convert the opium into heroin at laboratories in Afghanistan’s border regions. The heroin was later imported into the United States, hidden in suitcases and on ships. As early as 1990, NOORZAI had a network of distributors in New York City who sold his heroin.

“BASHIR NOORZAI supported an extremist Taliban regime with the proceeds of his worldwide heroin trade. NOORZAI’s decades-long criminal career has finally ended, and one of Afghanistan’s most prolific heroin exporters now faces a life sentence to be served in a U.S. prison. “We owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women of the DEA and FBI who made countless sacrifices to bring him to justice,” Garcia said.

Recently other massive investigations and large numbers of drug arrests such as “Project Reckoning” delivered a huge blow to Mexican drug cartels and gang members worldwide.

Both international and state side clandestine law enforcement task force operations are now starting to produce real results. The U.S. government claims that “Project Reckoning” alone has resulted in the arrest of more than 500 individuals in the United States, Mexico and Italy with many more expected. “Project Reckoning,” a multi-agency law enforcement effort led by the DEA, targeted the largest Mexican Drug Cartel and its U.S. and international distribution networks.

175 of the 500 arrested are believed members of the Mexican Drug Gulf Cartel.  Among those indicted are three of the alleged leaders of the Gulf Cartel: Ezequiel Cardenas-Guillen, Heriberto Lazcano-Lazcano, and Jorge Eduardo Costilla-Sanchez. These individuals, each designated as Consolidated Priority Organization Targets (CPOTs) by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), have been indicted in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on charges that they conspired to import drugs into the United States from Mexico. A CPOT designation is reserved for significant narcotics traffickers who are believed to be the leaders of drug trafficking organizations responsible for the importation of large quantities of narcotics into the United States.

During the arrests the law enforcement officers reported they Seized over $60 million USD and more than 40 tons of illegal drugs from just the Mexican Drug Cartel. 

The investigative efforts in Project Reckoning were coordinated by the Justice Department’s Special Operations Division, the DEA, FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Marshals Service, and attorneys from the Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section. More than 200 federal, state, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies contributed investigative and prosecutorial resources to Project Reckoning through the OCDETF. Significant assistance was also provided by a coalition of international investigative agencies spearheaded by DEA offices located in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, and Italy, with assistance from foreign counterparts in each of those countries.

The Gulf Cartel is responsible for the transportation of multi-ton quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana from Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, and Mexico to the United States, as well as the distribution of those narcotics within the United States. The Gulf Cartel is also believed to be responsible for laundering multiple millions of dollars in criminal proceeds. Individuals indicted in the cases are charged with a variety of crimes, including: drug trafficking charges related to cocaine and marijuana; solicitation and conspiracy to kidnap; attempted murder; conspiracy to use a firearm in a violent crime; conspiracy to kill and kidnap in a foreign country; interstate and foreign travel in aid of racketeering; money laundering; and other related crimes.

“By spreading dangerous drugs and resorting to brutal violence, international drug cartels pose an extraordinary threat both here and abroad,” said Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey. “The scope of the threat demands a deliberate and sustained response and the success we have had, such as the takedowns announced today, is due to the combined efforts of federal, state, local, and international law enforcement. Although I am pleased with the efforts so far, we cannot and will not rest on these successes. The threat posed by international drug cartels is too great. It will take all of us working together to prevail.”

“We successfully completed a hard-hitting, coordinated, and massive assault on the powerful and extremely violent Gulf Cartel,” said DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. “We have arrested U.S. cell heads, stripped the cartel of $60 million in cash, imprisoned their brutal assassins, and significantly disrupted their U.S. infrastructure. DEA will continue our relentless attack against this cartel, aiming to dismantle them and stop the violence they inflict on Southwest Border communities.”

According to the indictments to date, Project Reckoning has resulted in the arrest of 507 individuals and the seizure of approximately $60.1 million in U.S. currency, 16,711 kilograms of cocaine, 1,039 pounds of methamphetamine, 19 pounds of heroin, 51,258 pounds of marijuana, 176 vehicles, and 167 weapons.

Project Reckoning, a 15-month investigation, combined into one centrally coordinated effort several multi-district enforcement operations that all involved individuals with close ties to the Gulf Cartel. Operation Dos Equis, Operation Vertigo, Operation Stinger, and Operation The Family, as well as numerous local operations combined to form the secret operation “Project Reckoning.”

Operation Community Shield that was begun in February 2005 to dismantle street gangs seems of late to be bearing some real fruit too. The Department of Homeland Security says there have been real up-ticks in the program that has led to more than 10,000 arrests involving violent gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, whose members are from El Salvador, Honduras and other Central American countries.

Over 2,000 violent gang members who are in this country illegally were arrested in the last couple of years in U.S. Government crackdowns. “We’ve arrested quite a number of very serious criminals – individuals who frankly have worn out their welcome by coming into this country illegally and committing more crimes when they got here,” said Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security for immigration and customs enforcement.

In other related developments Vito S. Guarino, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Caribbean Division and Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, joined with members of the Caribbean Corridor Initiative (CCI) to announce the seizure of approximately 1,930 kilograms of cocaine with a street market value of $58 million onboard the Panamanian-flagged vessel Megan Star.

As a result of the joint investigative efforts of CCI participants, a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment onboard the U.S. Naval frigate USS FARRAGUT intercepted the Megan Star in international waters.

Just in the last few days Timothy J. Landrum, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division and Bernard K. Melekian, Chief of Police of the Pasadena Police Department announced the arrest of 89 people, and the seizure of 12 pounds of methamphetamine, 2,492 pills of ecstasy and almost 12 pounds of cocaine, in both powder and rock form, as well as dozens of guns in a multi-agency crackdown on gangs and drugs that stretched from Pasadena to the eastern United States.  

From July 2008 to October 2008, the DEA deployed their Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) to the Pasadena area to assist local law enforcement with the surge of drug and street gang violence. The investigation primarily targeted members of the Pasadena Denver Lane Bloods drug street gang.

A federal grand jury in San Diego California charged 35 more people with roles in groups that smuggled cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States and returned to Mexico with cash stashed in secret vehicle compartments.

Authorities called the sting another blow to Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, which allegedly supplied the drugs that were smuggled across the border from Mexicali, Mexico, to Calexico, Calif., about 120 miles east of San Diego.

Nineteen defendants have been arrested on drug and money-laundering charges, said U.S. Attorney Karen Hewitt. Nine others were believed to be at-large in Mexico and seven were believed to be at-large in the United States.

The 18-month investigation resulted in seizures of $9.5 million in cash, about 1,500 pounds of cocaine, 371 pounds of methamphetamine and about 1,600 pounds of marijuana, authorities said.

Six defendants were charged with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, which carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life. The others were charged with crimes that carry sentences between 10 years and life in prison.

The majority of arrests occurred in California’s Imperial Valley, said Eileen Zeidler, spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The U.S. will seek extradition for four who were arrested in Mexicali by Mexican authorities.

Special Agent David King with the Imperial County Law Enforcement Coordination Center, says, “It’s a culmination of an 18 month investigation looking into individuals, 6 group cells operating in Imperial County distributing drugs through California and the United States.”

The investigation is called Money Train. Over 150 federal, state, and local agents joined forces, looking for criminals and drugs.

“In some of the homes we found weapons, tech nines, uzi, controlled substances for sale and various other narcotic paraphernalia.”

Bundles of cash were discovered in some of the homes, along with minors.  Investigators have been working the money train for a year and a half, and today the train came to a screeching halt.

“We take everybody all at once and it has a massive effect that it completely dismantles the drug trafficking organization.”

The defendants include U.S. and Mexican citizens.

Just north of San Diego – Six people were also recently arrested and six others already in custody were named in federal complaints resulting from a three-year multi-agency investigation that targeted the Oceanside-based Varrio Posole Locos street gang, authorities said.

During the investigation, authorities seized 26 firearms and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the Oceanside area, U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt said in a prepared statement.

 

The investigation was conducted by the North County Regional Gang Task Force.

“Today’s operation is an example of bringing in multiple law-enforcement agency resources to greatly diminish the impacts of one of our local gangs,” Oceanside Police Chief Frank S. McCoy said in the statement.

Hewitt said the crimes alleged in the complaint include purchase, theft and possession of multiple firearms by convicted felons; robbery of a heroin dealer who was forced from a moving vehicle; conspiracies to distribute heroin in the Vista jail and in Ironwood State Prison in Blythe; and street sales of methamphetamine and heroin.

 

Large street gangs readily employ violence to control and expand drug, gun, prostitution and other illegal activities, targeting rival gangs and dealers who neglect or refuse to pay extortion fees. Members also use violence to ensure that members adhere to the gang’s code of conduct or to prevent a member from leaving. Authorities throughout the country report that gangs are responsible for most of the serious violent crime in the major cities of the U.S. Gangs engage in an array of criminal activities including torturing, assault, burglary, drive-by shooting, extortion, homicide, identification fraud, money laundering, prostitution operations, robbery, sale of stolen property, and weapons trafficking.
 
Street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs), and prison gangs are the primary distributors of illegal drugs on the streets of the United States. Gangs also smuggle drugs into the United States and produce and transport drugs within the country.
 
U.S. gangs are now working hand in hand with Mexican cartel gangs, according to a DEA official who wants to remain anonymous. 
Street gang members convert powdered cocaine into crack cocaine and produce most of the PCP available in the United States. Gangs, primarily produce marijuana and methamphetamine. In addition, gangs increasingly are involved in smuggling large quantities of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and MDMA (also known as ecstasy a sex drug) into the United States from foreign sources of supply.
 
Gangs primarily transport and distribute powdered cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA, and PCP in the United States. And that illegal activity generates millions of dollars for the gangs and their members.
Gangs collect millions of dollars per month selling illegal drugs, trafficking weapons, operating prostitution rings, producing porno films and selling stolen property. Gangs launder proceeds by investing in real estate, recording studios, motorcycle shops, car washes and construction companies. They also operate various cash-based businesses, such as porno shops, porno movie houses, barbershops, music stores, restaurants, catering services, tattoo parlors, launder mats, donut shops, and strip clubs, in order to commingle drug proceeds with funds generated through legitimate commerce.
 

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A San Diego, Palm Springs and Orange County Internet Lawyer Analysis of Recent Internet Hackings and the Law

It doesn’t matter where you log onto your computer. Whether it is in Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, San Diego, Orange County, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Riverside, Chula Vista, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Fontana, Oceanside, Garden Grove, Corona, Escondido, Orange, Fullerton, Costa Mesa, Carlsbad, Temecula, Murrieta, Mission Viejo, Westminster, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Buena Park, Indio or anywhere else in Southern California, we all rely on the internet and on our data and e-mails to be protected from others (even though people in the know say that every search you make is recorded permanently on your computers and on others). 

 

But recently not only the Vice Presidential running mate of John McCain, Sarah Palin’s e-mail account was hacked, so was the website of Bill O’Reilly. Is there a pattern here, besides the obvious one, that Republicans and Republican news anchors are being hacked? Does this mean that the hackers are Democrats? Or that democrat hackers are more internet savvy than Republicans. Or does it mean that Republicans don’t take internet safety seriously?

 

And what is the punishment for internet hackers? If they are Democrats, will they be forced to attend Republican political rallies and have to watch Fox News 24 hours a day while in prison, or is the punishment even more diabolical?

 

In all seriousness, what these two instances show once again is the ease with which a person’s e-mail account, data and websites can be hacked.

 

Most, if not all states have criminal statutes which make it illegal to participate in such hacking. Hacking also usually runs afoul of other statutes which prohibit theft by deception.

 

The punishment for such crimes varies with the state. In Alaska, for instance, the state of Sarah Palin, the crime is a Class-C felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

 

Such crimes, however, can be difficult to prosecute. First the hacker must be caught and if he or she does not boast about his crime and uses public computers to perform his thievery where the hacker himself is not under surveillance, it may be difficult to catch the culprit.

 

Second, most state statutes require that the person committing the crime be present in the state when the crime was committed. Computer hacking is one of those crimes however, where the criminal is often in a different state.

 

To go after the culprit in civil court can pose similar problems, including determining who performed the hacking, obtaining jurisdiction over that person in your state, and finding a defendant with any assets to pursue.

 

If you are worried about internet security, you should be. Features on many accounts that allow you to simply tell the site you forgot your password are magic to computer hackers such as the one that apparently hacked Sarah Palin’s e-mail account.

 

To be a little safer, you shouldn’t use the same password for all of your internet accounts and websites. Otherwise what you use at one account can be used to enter all of your other accounts if someone unscrupulous obtains your password. If you use a forget your password feature, answer the question with something ridiculous. Tell them that your favorite dog’s name was Thomas Edison instead of Fido and that your mother’s maiden name was Rothschild (or, if you want to be more ridiculous, that your dog is named Rothschild and that your mother was Thomas Edison).

 

And if you must use an internet connection at an airport, hotel or other public location, keep in mind that any geek with a small device can intercept all your data, all your communications and all your photos.

 

If you want to stay up at night worried about internet security, just think how much information was obtained by hackers from visiting CEOs during the Olympics in China.

 

If you have an internet legal issue in Irvine, Orange County, La Jolla, San Diego, in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Palm Springs or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your California Internet Lawyer and your Anaheim and Irvine Internet Attorney on your case. Be sure to hire a California law firm with internet lawyers who can serve areas such as Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach, Carlsbad, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fullerton, Del Mar, San Diego, Orange County, San Luis Obispo, Buena Park, La Jolla, Oxnard, Ventura, La Quinta, and Santa Barbara so you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you have an internet legal issue of any kind, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  and learn how we can assist you. You can also call us to speak directly to Sebastian Gibson on the phone about your legal matter.

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