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Post by Bonobo on Apr 21, 2010 20:19:32 GMT 1
Gangster Dies, Mystery Remains
Artur Zirajewski, an ex-mobster and witness in a case involving the 1998 assassination of national police chief Gen. Marek Papała, died suddenly at a detention center in the northern city of Gdańsk Jan. 3.
Zirajewski had been rushed to the medical section of the jail Dec. 31 with symptoms of pneumonia and drug poisoning. He died despite attempts by doctors to save him. The media is rife with speculation that Zirajewski did not die of natural causes.
The Papała case is one of the most infamous assassinations of the past two decades in this country. Papała was shot and killed in his car June 25, 1998, in front of the Warsaw apartment building he lived in. The case has since been investigated by the State Protection Office (UOP), the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and a host of prosecutors in Poland, the United States, Sweden, Austria and Germany. Around 400 witnesses have been questioned, but it still remains a mystery who killed Papała and who masterminded the crime.
Zirajewski's testimony was an important part of the investigation. In 1998, a Gdańsk court sentenced the gangster to 15 years in prison for his involvement in the so-called hitman club, or an informal group of contract killers in Poland's Pomerania region who acted on orders from criminal organizations to terrorize or kill victims.
After prosecutors got Zirajewski to work with them on the Papała case, he revealed that, in April 1998, he had taken part in a meeting whose participants were searching for someone to take on a contract to kill Papała. Zirajewski also said that Edward Mazur, a Polish American businessman living in Chicago, incited him in 1998 to kill Papała, offering $40,000. Poland subsequently asked U.S. justice authorities to extradite Mazur, but in July 2007 the federal court in Chicago, Illinois, declined the request. Instead, the court ordered that Mazur be released from jail; he had been jailed since October 2006. The judge deemed Zirajewski's testimony unreliable.
The Polish investigators recently said Poland would again press for extradition and back the request with new legal arguments. The death of Zirajewski, however, puts a question mark over such an attempt.
Zirajewski's mysterious death will be subject to a special investigation, officials said. Preliminary autopsy findings point to pulmonary embolism as the direct cause of death, investigators say. Experts will try to establish what caused the embolism.
The investigators will also seek to clarify if Zirajewski was given appropriate medical aid. www.warsawvoice.pl/view/21584
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Post by Bonobo on May 15, 2010 21:41:42 GMT 1
Drug bust nets 40 speed dealers
11.05.2010 13:50
Agents from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBS) have arrested over 40 drug gang members in Warsaw.
The detained men formed the core of a well organized crime ring dealing in the illegal production of amphetamine in Poland and smuggling of heroine, cocaine and marijuana into the country. They all posed as businessmen running their own companies with warehouses and a distribution network in the capital and central regions of Poland.
More than 120 officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation worked on the case and participated in the operation of detaining the gang bosses and members.   ============================================== This drunk man attacked his wife with an axe. She survived.  =============================================== A man collected old ammunition and arms. In a few boxes and buckets:   =============================================== A homeless penniless man stayed at an expensive hotel for a few days.   Now he is going to miss his hotel room. 
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 17, 2010 14:52:17 GMT 1
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Post by valpomike on Jun 17, 2010 17:47:58 GMT 1
Soccer, not football. Real men play football, all others play soccer.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 26, 2010 21:23:31 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Jul 28, 2010 21:53:16 GMT 1
Swedes note increase in dog smuggling from Poland
27.07.2010 18:16
Swedish customs officers warn of an increasing number of pedigree dogs from Poland being smuggled into their ports from Poland.
The animals are hidden in boxes, pots or wrapped in blankets.
In 2009, the Customs Office in the region of Blekinge, where Polish ferries arrive, noted 18 attempts of smuggling dogs from Poland. The first half of this year saw 44 and the number is constantly growing.
This Monday nine puppies were found in a Polish car aboard a ferry which landed in Karlskrona, all of the animals were put to sleep. The same fate met 22 dogs brought from Poland illegally and found on the same ferry terminal.
According to the Swedish Customs authorities the most commonly smuggled are Chihuahuas and French Bulldogs, two of the most popular breeds in Sweden. One pedigree puppy may bring several times bigger profit than if sold in Poland.
When found by Swedish customs the dogs are put to sleep. Swedish veterinary services fear the spreading of diseases since the smuggled animals have no health certificates.
Swedish Customs suspect that the procedure is coordinated by a an organized group which controls the supplies of pedigree dogs from “dog factories” in Poland. Comments: robmin
28/07/2010 09:15:59
Better translation of “dog factories” is “puppy mills”. This is typical supply and demand situation. If Swedes prefer to purchase puppies from Polish purveyors the problem originates from Sweden with Poles fulfilling a need. The law needs to crack down on people who actually buy the dogs, otherwise “dog factories”, smuggling and putting down puppies will continue. The shame is on the Swedes as well as the Poles. www.thenews.pl/international/artykul136512_swedes-note-increase-in-dog-smuggling-from-poland.html--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Herr ‘Q’ smuggles Bond-like shooting pens in Poland
27.07.2010 14:34
Two Germans who tried to sell James Bond-like shooting pens, with real live bullets, have been detained by the Central Investigation Bureau in the western Pomerania region.
The men, 52-year-old Olaf S. and 61-year-old Wolfgang A. (surnames retained due to privacy law) were arrested on 21 July while trying to sell two shooting pens and thirty live 5.6 mm bullets at a local market in the border town of Krajnik Dolny.
Officers from the Central Investigation Bureau, informed by customs officers about two Germans who were allegedly smuggling weapons to Poland, were puzzled to discover that the men carried pens instead of guns.
Only after close inspection did it turn out that the James Bond-like gadgets were not fakes but real weapons.
Shooting pens can inflict serious injuries or even kill, depending on the sort of ammunition. According to police, this kind of weapon is usually used by professional hit men who are certainly not ‘licensed to kill’.
On 23 July, the District Court in the western city of Szczecin decided that Olaf S. will spend three months in custody and Wolfgang A. will remain under police supervision while charges are prepared by prosecutors.
The men may face up to ten years in prison for trading and possessing firearms.
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 10, 2010 21:22:14 GMT 1
Over 100 pedophiles detained in Poland
10.09.2010 14:29
Criminal investigators have broken up a pedophile ring in Poland consisting of 102 men, in a police operation code-named “Regina”.
The suspects are accused of possession and distribution of pornographic photos and videos of children in the internet - four of them have already been charged and one put in custody.
The police raid, under a code name “Regina”, was conducted nationwide under the supervision of the Human Trafficking Department from the Police HQ in Warsaw.
Police say they started investigating the case in 2008, after someone reported that photos of a naked girl were being distributed on a social networking website. Investigators later managed to establish who shared the photos.
During the raid police officers confiscated 133 computers, hard drives and laptops and 3,500 CDs and DVDs with child pornography. More people will probably be detained in relation to the case, officers believe.
The comment which I agree with:
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10/09/2010 19:23:41
its incredible how many pedophiles there are. i'm hearing of sting operations every few months, and each time the police net tens of dozens of people.
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Post by valpomike on Sept 11, 2010 0:07:28 GMT 1
They are a very sick person, and sometimes even women. They all need be sent to prison, for life. Or better yet, let the Dad's or Uncle's who they hurt, take care of them. This would stop them, I am sure.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 13, 2010 23:29:49 GMT 1
Polish university involved in piracy scandal
13th September 2010
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Police have found 20 illegal servers that might have served file-sharing site The Pirate Bay on the premises of the Silesian University of Technology.
The raid was part of a larger operation carried out simultaneously in 14 countries, in which officers entered those firms, higher education facilities and private homes where people suspected of piracy live and work. The 20 illegal servers found at the university were hidden in special rooms.
The police confiscated 120 hard disks containing over 100 terabytes of data. According to the police, they served the warez site The Scene, which in turn was used by The Pirate Bay.
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 21, 2010 21:37:01 GMT 1
They are a very sick person, and sometimes even women. They all need be sent to prison, for life. Or better yet, let the Dad's or Uncle's who they hurt, take care of them. This would stop them, I am sure. Mike
Child pornography ring still awaits charges
21.09.010 10:00
A recent child pornography bust by police has yet to produce hard evidence, with only one person out of 102 being arrested and four hearing charges.
As part of Operation “Regina”, two weeks ago a few hundred police officers entered 114 homes, apartments and internet cafes, confiscating 133 computers, 81 portable hard drives, 3,300 CDs and DVDs, as well as over 200 floppy disks.
It has been reported that the reason no arrests have been made is that the Wielkopolska regional prosecution in Poznan wants hard evidence, and before any more arrests are made every single one of the computers and all the data has to be analysed.
“[Each] analysis takes at least a month to prepare,” spokeswoman for the prosecution, Magdalena Mazur-Prus admits to the Rzeczpospolita daily, which breaks the story.
“It’s a necessary move, however, as evidence provided by police is not always satisfactory to lead to an arrest,” Mazur-Prus adds.
Furthermore, costs are set to soar as each piece of equipment costs between a few hundred and up to 30,000 zloty (around 7,500 euro) to analyse. |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 1, 2010 20:31:38 GMT 1
Ooops.....
I thought that all Hollywood films about corrupt cops are fiction.
It seems they are true.
Cops steal guns to sell to other cops
01.10.2010 10:07
Four policemen from the southern region of Silesia have been charged with stealing 100 guns, ammunition and bullet-proof vests, allegedly to sell them on to other policemen.
“As many as 32 people in total have been charged for stealing or illegal possession of police property,” said Marta Zawada-Dybek from the Prosecutor’s Office in the southern city of Katowice.
Among the suspects are 19 policemen or former policemen from the industrial area of Silesia who were charged with trading weapons and corruption.
The investigation on the case was launched in 2007.
Four policemen who were in charge of two police warehouses in Katowice stole guns, ammunition, handcuffs, truncheons, bullet-proof vests and holsters. The stolen weapons, confiscated from criminals and meant to be destroyed, were bought by collectors or other policemen who wanted to exchange old guns for new ones. Ammunition cost 0.2 zloty (0,05 euro) per item.
The Prosecutor’s Office established that weapons stolen from police warehouses were not used to commit a criminal offence, however.
“We managed to recover most of the guns,” says Marta Zawada-Dybek. Those charged with arms trafficking may face up to 10 years in prison.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 6, 2010 22:25:07 GMT 1
In an English textbook released in early 1990s, there is a short text (a paper article) about hold-ups in Los Angeles. Shocking statistics was included- a few thousand bank robberies a year. It is sad that it has come to Poland too. This is the price we are paying for adopting the capitalist system. 
One heist too far: multiple bank thief caught
06.10.2010 12:24
Police have detained a 29-year-old man suspected of holding up fourteen banks across the country with a mock-up fire-arm.
The man, originally from the southern Malopolska province, was caught by Wroclaw police. He is thought to have held up seven banks in the south-western city, as well as being operative in Warsaw, Krakow, and Kalisz.
“Police have confiscated his car and the mock weapon which he used during the robberies,” Pawel Petrykowski from Wroclaw Police told media, adding that if the man is found guilty of the robberies, he may face 15 years in prison.
The suspect was earlier noted for property crimes, including bank robbery. He was caught at the end of September after a failed heist in Wroclaw.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 18, 2010 21:50:04 GMT 1
Search for body of murdered ex-transport minister continues
18.10.2010 17:08
Police search Rybnik reservoir; photo - PAP
As a police diving team searched a lake near the home of ex-transport minister Eugeniusz Wrobel, Monday, his son, Grzegorz W. has been detained for three months while prosecutors compile a case against him for murder.
Jacek Slawik, head prosecutor in Wrobel’s home town of Rybnik in Silesia, southern Poland, gave more details of the alleged confession of the politician's son to murdering his father last Friday.
He told reporters that Eurgeniusz Wrobel, deputy transport minister in the Law and Justice government (2005-7) was killed at his home with a knife. His body was then allegedly thrown into a nearby reservoir by his son, Grzegorz.
The prosecutor said that though the suspected murderer, detained by police last Saturday, refused to go to the scene of the crime, or the reservoir suspected of being the watery grave of the dead politician, Grzegorz W. has given a detailed description of his father’s last moments.
The 30 year-old man has refused to say whether anyone else was involved in the murder, however.
A court sat this afternoon for 45 minutes as the prosecution laid out its case against the man and he will now be under detention for three months.
Police have said that though no clear motive has been uncovered for the murder, it is believed father and son had quarrelled over finances.
A team of divers, police officers and sniffer dogs are now at the reservoir trying to retrieve the body of the murdered politician.
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 12, 2010 21:39:21 GMT 1
Pawiak prison memorial wrecker faces ten years jail
12.11.2010 12:12
Damaged Pawiak elm tree; Photo - Grzegorz Jakubowski
Thirty one year-old Tomasz P. faces up to ten years in jail after being arrested early yesterday morning on charges of damaging a memorial tree at the infamous WW II Pawiak prison in Warsaw.
The man is accused of damaging wreathes, flowers and cards with the names of victims who died in the notorious Nazi German prison during the war.
Police spokesman Mariusz Mrozek said that “the monument is of special importance to Polish history. The man faces punishment of between one to ten years in prison.”
Psychiatric tests have determined that the man is not mentally ill and was sober at the time of the crime. He was caught at the prison around 2.30 am yesterday morning after a short chase by police.
Around 300,000 prisoners - many from the WW II Home Army resistance - passed through the prison on their way to Nazi death and concentration camps. Many tens of thousands were also killed at the prison itself.  
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Post by valpomike on Nov 12, 2010 23:20:40 GMT 1
Ten years may not be enough, they need to show others, this can't go on.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 2, 2010 18:49:07 GMT 1
Cops catch elderly Austrian murderer in Krakow
30.11.2010 18:33
Police in Krakow, southern Poland, have detained 83 year-old Bronislawa Jarosz, a Polish-born Austrian convicted for murder.
The elderly lady escaped from house arrest after being convicted of beating her neighbour, 78 year-old Maria P. to death in Korneuburg, Lower Austria.
After being sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of the elderly woman and stealing jewellery and wine, Bronislawa Jarosz was let out of prison to serve her time under house arrest once a judge decided she was too ill to serve her time behind bars.
Jarosz decided to flee four weeks ago and eventually made her way to Krakow.
She is expected to be put back in prison as soon as she is returned to Austria.
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Poland’s murder rate one of lowest in EU
02.12.2010 14:47
With 1.29 murders per 100,000 people Poland has one of the lowest homicide rate in the European Union, according to the Eurostat statistical office.
Lithuania is the murder centre of the EU, with nine homicides yearly for every 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Estonia and Luxembourg, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Finland.
Austria has the lowest homicide rate at 0.67.
Lithuanian and Estonian commentators say that most homicides are perpetrated at home and usually are the result of alcohol abuse, while generally the streets of cities are very safe.
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Baby killer prison verdicts upheld
02.12.2010 14:38
The Supreme Court has upheld a verdict of 25 years of imprisonment for a woman who killed five new-born babies, and eight years for her husband, for inciting her to the crime.
The bodies of the new-borns were discovered in 2003 in the locality of Czerniejów, Lublin province.
They were kept in a plastic barrel in the couple’s home. An earlier verdict convicted the husband to 12 years for incitement to five murders but the court decided there was evidence only in respect of one.
Between 1992 and 1998 the woman had given birth to four boys and one girl. She told investigators that she drowned the new-borns, then kept their bodies in the freezer. Later, when the family moved, she transferred them to a barrel where they were discovered by the couple’s small daughters.
The man denied in court that he was aware his wife had been pregnant.
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Post by tufta on Dec 2, 2010 21:01:36 GMT 1
Cops catch elderly Austrian murderer in Krakow
30.11.2010 18:33
Police in Krakow, southern Poland, have detained 83 year-old Bronislawa Jarosz, a Polish-born Austrian convicted for murder.
The elderly lady escaped from house arrest after being convicted of beating her neighbour, 78 year-old Maria P. to death in Korneuburg, Lower Austria.
After being sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of the elderly woman and stealing jewellery and wine, Bronislawa Jarosz was let out of prison to serve her time under house arrest once a judge decided she was too ill to serve her time behind bars.
Jarosz decided to flee four weeks ago and eventually made her way to Krakow.
She is expected to be put back in prison as soon as she is returned to Austria.-------------------------------
Poland’s murder rate one of lowest in EU
02.12.2010 14:47
With 1.29 murders per 100,000 people Poland has one of the lowest homicide rate in the European Union, according to the Eurostat statistical office.
Lithuania is the murder centre of the EU, with nine homicides yearly for every 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Estonia and Luxembourg, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Finland.
Austria has the lowest homicide rate at 0.67.
Lithuanian and Estonian commentators say that most homicides are perpetrated at home and usually are the result of alcohol abuse, while generally the streets of cities are very safe.
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Baby killer prison verdicts upheld
02.12.2010 14:38
The Supreme Court has upheld a verdict of 25 years of imprisonment for a woman who killed five new-born babies, and eight years for her husband, for inciting her to the crime.
The bodies of the new-borns were discovered in 2003 in the locality of Czerniejów, Lublin province.
They were kept in a plastic barrel in the couple’s home. An earlier verdict convicted the husband to 12 years for incitement to five murders but the court decided there was evidence only in respect of one.
Between 1992 and 1998 the woman had given birth to four boys and one girl. She told investigators that she drowned the new-borns, then kept their bodies in the freezer. Later, when the family moved, she transferred them to a barrel where they were discovered by the couple’s small daughters.
The man denied in court that he was aware his wife had been pregnant. You are too shy, a typicall Krakovian intelligentsia guy!! Poland’s murder rate one of lowest in EUThats should glow like a neon in a new thread for everyone to see! ;D |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 4, 2010 22:04:42 GMT 1
You are too shy, Thats should glow like a neon in a new thread for everyone to see! ;D It won`t glow in a seperate thread, because it is still too high. I am not shy, I am a perfectionist, don`t you know? |
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Post by tufta on Dec 4, 2010 23:23:33 GMT 1
You are too shy, Thats should glow like a neon in a new thread for everyone to see! ;D It won`t glow in a seperate thread, because it is still too high. I am not shy, I am a perfectionist, don`t you know? I know I know. I just wonder why a perfectionist would fail to cite the most important part of my posting  |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 19, 2010 22:42:46 GMT 1
Pole in black man’s mask robs US banks
16.12.2010 18:09
Konrad Zdzierak, 30-year-old Polish immigrant from Ohio, held up a series of bank robberies wearing an extremely realistic mask of a black man.
The robber completely misled Ohio policemen who were looking for an Afro-American suspect for several months. The police even arrested a young black man who looked exactly like the Pole’s “alter ego.”
The innocent man spent several months in jail because bank employees and even his own mother identified him as the culprit.
Zdzierak bought the mask from SPFX Masks, a company which manufactures highly realistic silicon masks for Hollywood films, along with black-skinned hands to match.
The US police suspect that Zdzierak was not the only criminal who disguised himself using a SPFX mask and that the company supplied America’s most wanted robbers. Rusty Slusser, the company’s owner, told the Los Angeles Times that he was “proud” of how realistic the masks are but not proud of the way they were used.
Zdzierak was detained after his girlfriend found one of his masks and stolen money in a hotel room and called the police. Detectives who searched the Polish immigrant’s home found two of his masks – of a young black man and old white man – and videos featuring Zdzierak wearing “The Elder” mask and trying to speak like an elderly person. The Pole also wrote notes in which he talks about “killing cops”, Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and Virginia Tech massacre.
Zdzierak pleaded guilty to using a mask to change his identity in order to perform six robberies in Ohio in April. The Pole will be sentenced next month. www.tvn24.pl/-1,1688066,0,1,czarny-polak-lepszy-niz-lord-vader-i-power-rangers,wiadomosc.html He was voted the best criminal disguise of 2010. bigw.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/best-criminal-disguises-of-2010-telegraph/
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Post by uncltim on Dec 20, 2010 2:58:17 GMT 1
Welcome to Ohio!
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 23, 2010 0:03:24 GMT 1
Polish man faces 10 years in jail for fudge bribery
A Polish man arrested by police on suspicion of drunk cycling faces up to 10 years in prison after allegedly attempting to bribe the police officers with two pieces of chocolate fudge
By Matthew Day, Warsaw 5:20PM GMT 22 Dec 2010
Prosecutors have charged the man, known only as Leszek, with being drunk in charge of a bicycle and attempting to pass on "material benefits" to the police.
The man apparently offered the fudge to the officers as he sat in their patrol car after being found asleep beside his bike by a road in the eastern town of Minsk Mazowiecki.
"I had only had two beers," Leszek told the TVN24 television news channel.
"Anyway they put me in the back of the car, and I said 'gentlemen would you like some fudge as an act of kindness, and can you let me go because I live right next door'?"
But police took a dim view of the suspect's claim of generosity.
"While it is easy to smile at this situation you have to remember that this is the police, and situations have to be interpreted on the basis of law," said Sergeant Rafal Jarocki, reflecting a desire by Polish authorities to crack down on the once common habit of bribing police officers to avoid petty charges.
Leszek's alleged bribery attempt means that he now faces a possible jail sentence 10 times longer than the one-year sentence he may have received for drunk cycling.
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Polish poachers use submarine to catch fish
Two enterprising Polish poachers used a home-made, radio controlled submarine to trawl for fish in a frozen lake.
By Matthew Day, Warsaw 3:40PM GMT 20 Dec 2010
Police in the small town of Zbaszyn in western Poland said they caught the two red handed with the submarine, although another man managed to escape when the officers approached the "three suspicious characters with nets on the lake".
A search of the suspects revealed a hand-held GPS device, which took the police the next day to a 40-kilogram stash of fish, and five 200-metre nets.
"They drilled a hole in the ice and then dropped the submarine in on a tether," said Romuald Piecuch, a local police spokesman. "They then manoeuvred it around under the ice with the net before bringing it back to the hole with the anything they had caught." Despite their prowess at harvesting fish in a manner that won them the grudging respect of the police, the spokesman added that the value of the torpedo-like submarine probably exceeded the value of the fish.
Fishing without a licence is illegal and the two men face either a hefty fine or up to two years in prison, if found guilty.
Police are still searching for the man who managed to escape.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 21, 2011 22:01:16 GMT 1
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Post by valpomike on Jan 22, 2011 2:06:26 GMT 1
25 years would not be enough, they need life, after all the took lifes.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 3, 2011 9:44:25 GMT 1
Paratroopers detained for illegal parachute jumps
02.02.2011 10:29
The Military Gendarmerie has arrested three soldiers from the elitist 6th Airborne Brigade who are suspected of organising illegal parachuting training sessions.
The Warsaw Military Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against a Captain, Ensign and Corporal who belonged to a so-called ‘red berets’ brigade.
One of the men is a well-known champion in parachute jumping. The men are suspected of organising illegal parachuting training for private individuals between 2006 and 2010. During the training the suspects used the unit’s equipment without their supervisor’s consent.
“It’s too early to disclose details,” says Dariusz Knapczynski, deputy Military Prosecutor, admitting that the Military Gendarmerie and the Prosecutor’s Office have already initiated an investigation in the unit.
It is also possible that the paratroopers wheedled money out of the unit’s budget by giving too high a number of parachute jumps they performed, which resulted in higher allowances.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 11, 2011 16:38:45 GMT 1
Last year in Warsaw, 2 lowlifes were demolishing a bus stop. Nobody reacted, except for a policeman who was off duty, unarmed, but tried to stop them anyway. They stabbed him to death. I hope they get 25. If I was there I would also react, and what? m.onet.pl/_m/059e83ed0e3ef403d91c8539afcd0667,14,1.jpg m.onet.pl/_m/c0b8da3bb2b29152439ab5a6cd324d0e,14,1.jpg m.onet.pl/_m/a9b38cc83116497be40cdc1fd68ba94d,14,1.jpg m.onet.pl/_m/e4aeb893b811a7b44504115d74269e6d,14,1.jpg The one who used the knife got 25. The other who held the victim -15.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 7, 2011 23:50:26 GMT 1
Polish Roma gang exploiting poor Poles in UK
07.03.2011 12:10
BBC’s 5 Live Investigates programme reports that Polish Roma criminal gangs are luring poor Poles to the UK, only to steal their identities in a welfare benefits scam.
Anna, who is featured in the programme, was a single mother in Poland who had been abandoned by her partner. In that vulnerable state she was approached by what was an old school friend, who promised her a job and accommodation in the UK.
When she got to the UK, however, she was taken into the hands of a criminal gang to stole her identity and used her details to claim welfare benefits.
“In some areas of Poland unemployment is 20 percent. So if they are promised to be paid all the expenses, accommodation and travel, then why not come [to the UK]?”, Polish researcher for the BBC, Kasia Kopacz said.
"At the time, when I came to the UK, I was not able to speak or read in English,” Anna told the BBC.
“I had no idea what she, as my interpreter, said on my behalf, and what kind of questions the Jobcentre officer asked her. I had no idea what is legal and what is not.
"The gang applied, on my behalf, for child benefit, working tax credit and child tax credit - and they registered me as self-employed."
A self-employed person can claim up to 7,000 pounds in benefits in the UK.
Anna has since escaped the clutches of the Polish Roma gang. But many other Poles from poor areas of Poland are thought to have been caught up in what Interpol believes is a mainly UK phenomenon.
Here the BBC 5 Live Investigates programme
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 20, 2011 22:08:45 GMT 1
Drunk passengers ground transatlantic LOT flight
20.04.2011 12:36
A scheduled LOT flight from Chicago to Warsaw was forced to land at an airport in Iceland due to aggressive behaviour from two passengers who started to run riot onboard the aircraft.
According to witness accounts quoted by the southern regional Tygodnik Podhalanski daily, two passengers from the highland town of Nowy Targ drank too much alcohol and started running amok in the cabin.
When a stewardess tried to calm the men down, one of the men retaliated by hitting her in the face. Other passengers were asked by the crew to overpower the men, after which the pilot of the aircraft decided to land immediately.
On landing, the two men were taken out of the aircraft and handed over to Icelandic police.
The flight, which was supposed to arrive in Warsaw yesterday at 14.15 CET, was delayed by two hours as a result. The men remained in the custody of local police.
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Post by valpomike on Apr 22, 2011 17:55:07 GMT 1
Why do the Polish people have to drink so much, and so often? Can't they be just happy with life? I am, and I don't drink. This does happen often on many air lines, and they can't all be Polish.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 24, 2011 6:48:45 GMT 1
Why do the Polish people have to drink so much, and so often? Can't they be just happy with life? I am, and I don't drink. This does happen often on many air lines, and they can't all be Polish. Mike But you certainly used to drink a lot when younger. You only stopped after doctor`s admonition.  Another case At last. In the past women who killed their aggressive drunk husbands were sentenced to 5-7 years no matter how much or long they had been battered and abused before. Now, the attitude has changed. This woman fatally wounded her husband when he returned home drunk as usual and tried to attack her and their baby. She got two years, suspended.   SO, DEAR HUSBANDS, BE GOOD TO YOUR WIVES! |
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