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Armed officers were called to this cash-crash scene in Wiltshire. The truck was carrying more than a million pounds in money.
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Armed officers were called to this cash-crash scene in Wiltshire. The truck was carrying more than a million pounds in money.
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The shape of an eight-year-old boy is seen inside a suitcase on a Spanish civil guard scanner screen on the border between Morocco and Spain's north african enclave Ceuta, Spain...
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...A 19-year-old woman was arrested for the attempted smuggling of the boy, who was checked by medics and handed over to juvenile prosecutors office, according to authorities.
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South African man drugged, sexually assaulted by group of women
The incident at gunpoint was one in a series in the country where women have been implicated, but that police are reluctant to investigate. In some cases the attackers are said to be seeking male sperm.
By: Stephanie Findlay Special to the Star, Published on Thu May 07 2015
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA—A South African man was raped by three women for his semen this week, the latest incident in a series of attacks that has seen groups of women sexually assaulting men in the country.
A 33-year-old man said he was held at gunpoint by the women on Tuesday. He alleges he was forced into a black BMW, given a drink that caused an erection, and then raped near the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. The women put his semen in a cooler box before leaving him in an open field and driving away.
“They pointed at him with a firearm directly, a shotgun,” said constable Mncedi Mbombo. “They gave him something to drink, then they left him after they got the sperm.”
Mbombo suspects the women could be working as part of a syndicate dealing in semen sales. “We are taking it serious,” he said of the investigation.
The incident comes at the same time local news organizations have reported women at the Zimbabwe border , traditional healers who then use the substance in their popular rituals.
There have been multiple cases of women raping men in 2015, though not all of them have been in pursuit of bodily fluids. Earlier this year, police confirmed that men in and , areas just outside of Johannesburg, were kidnapped by gangs of women and sexually assaulted.
Rape is shockingly common in South Africa, where more than 25 per cent of , and nearly half of those say they have raped more than one person, according to a 2009 study by the Medical Research Council, a government health organization.
The issue is compounded by a corrupt police force that lacks the resources — and will — to follow through on rape cases.
Men who are raped are taken even less seriously. When the Port Elizabeth man was describing the assault, police officers started laughing at him, reported local newspaper , whose reporter witnessed the exchange.
Martin Pelders, the Johannesburg-based founder of MatrixMen, a support group for men who have been sexually abused, said that when he heard the police were mocking the victim he thought, “Oh my God, not again.”
Pelders said police in South Africa don’t know how to effectively address men who are sexual assault victims.
“They often don’t open cases, or they are encouraged not to open cases,” he said, adding “we need to change the way that we see rape in the country, there are male victims.”
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The incident at gunpoint was one in a series in the country where women have been implicated, but that police are reluctant to investigate. In some cases the attackers are said to be seeking male sperm.
By: Stephanie Findlay Special to the Star, Published on Thu May 07 2015
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA—A South African man was raped by three women for his semen this week, the latest incident in a series of attacks that has seen groups of women sexually assaulting men in the country.
A 33-year-old man said he was held at gunpoint by the women on Tuesday. He alleges he was forced into a black BMW, given a drink that caused an erection, and then raped near the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. The women put his semen in a cooler box before leaving him in an open field and driving away.
“They pointed at him with a firearm directly, a shotgun,” said constable Mncedi Mbombo. “They gave him something to drink, then they left him after they got the sperm.”
Mbombo suspects the women could be working as part of a syndicate dealing in semen sales. “We are taking it serious,” he said of the investigation.
The incident comes at the same time local news organizations have reported women at the Zimbabwe border , traditional healers who then use the substance in their popular rituals.
There have been multiple cases of women raping men in 2015, though not all of them have been in pursuit of bodily fluids. Earlier this year, police confirmed that men in and , areas just outside of Johannesburg, were kidnapped by gangs of women and sexually assaulted.
Rape is shockingly common in South Africa, where more than 25 per cent of , and nearly half of those say they have raped more than one person, according to a 2009 study by the Medical Research Council, a government health organization.
The issue is compounded by a corrupt police force that lacks the resources — and will — to follow through on rape cases.
Men who are raped are taken even less seriously. When the Port Elizabeth man was describing the assault, police officers started laughing at him, reported local newspaper , whose reporter witnessed the exchange.
Martin Pelders, the Johannesburg-based founder of MatrixMen, a support group for men who have been sexually abused, said that when he heard the police were mocking the victim he thought, “Oh my God, not again.”
Pelders said police in South Africa don’t know how to effectively address men who are sexual assault victims.
“They often don’t open cases, or they are encouraged not to open cases,” he said, adding “we need to change the way that we see rape in the country, there are male victims.”
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Man Robs Subway Then Crosses Street To Buy Sandwich at Potbelly, Police Say
By | May 5, 2015 5:33am
ROGERS PARK — Police say a Chicago man robbed a Subway sandwich shop with a knife, and then crossed the street and bought a sandwich at Subway's competitor, Potbelly, where he was arrested.
Fredrick Warren, 43, was still eating his Potbelly sandwich when police arrived just before 5 p.m. on April 26, police said.
About 20 minutes earlier, Warren had walked into the Subway at 6449 N. Sheridan Road and held up the cashier with a folding knife, police said.
A customer who walked in mid-robbery told investigators she saw Warren leaning over the counter and grabbing cash from the register, police said.
Investigators caught Warren's trail by watching Loyola University Police surveillance video, according to Chicago and Loyola police departments.
It showed Warren walking south down Sheridan Road, crossing the street and then walking back north to Potbelly at 6464 N. Sheridan Road, police said.
There was no sign of him leaving the Potbelly, so they went inside and found him eating near the back of the shop, his gold coat draped over his seat, police said.
He was arrested — and police found $186 in cash and a silver-bladed folding knife with a black handle on him, police said.
Warren, of the 2300 block of East 75th Street, was charged with armed robbery.
By | May 5, 2015 5:33am
ROGERS PARK — Police say a Chicago man robbed a Subway sandwich shop with a knife, and then crossed the street and bought a sandwich at Subway's competitor, Potbelly, where he was arrested.
Fredrick Warren, 43, was still eating his Potbelly sandwich when police arrived just before 5 p.m. on April 26, police said.
About 20 minutes earlier, Warren had walked into the Subway at 6449 N. Sheridan Road and held up the cashier with a folding knife, police said.
A customer who walked in mid-robbery told investigators she saw Warren leaning over the counter and grabbing cash from the register, police said.
Investigators caught Warren's trail by watching Loyola University Police surveillance video, according to Chicago and Loyola police departments.
It showed Warren walking south down Sheridan Road, crossing the street and then walking back north to Potbelly at 6464 N. Sheridan Road, police said.
There was no sign of him leaving the Potbelly, so they went inside and found him eating near the back of the shop, his gold coat draped over his seat, police said.
He was arrested — and police found $186 in cash and a silver-bladed folding knife with a black handle on him, police said.
Warren, of the 2300 block of East 75th Street, was charged with armed robbery.
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It’s my last night in Ecuador and I’m leaving a bar with some friends when one of the bartenders runs out after us.
“Are you the guy who exchanges $2 bills?”
“Yeah”
He pulls out a ten. “I’ll take five.”
Fifteen years after Ecuador adopted the U.S. dollar as its official currency, the issue still stirs debate. Dollarization was so unpopular when it was first announced that protesters took over the capital and the government collapsed. The replacement government stuck with the plan—there wasn’t much choice. The Sucre, Ecuador’s native currency, was in the midst of a decade of hyper-inflation which was destroying the economy.
In 1990 $1 would have bought you 900 Sucres. At the final official exchange rate in 2000 every citizen was forced to trade 25,000 Sucres for each dollar. Whatever savings anyone had was mostly wiped out.
Today the country’s economy is doing much better. GDP is growing, poverty is down and inflation has dropped significantly. A curious thing happened on the way to economic stability: a growing devotion to the $2 bill.
In February I spent two weeks traveling in Ecuador, visiting friends and writing about the nation’s new digital dollar for .
I had lived in the small Andean nation from 2005 to 2009 so I was familiar with the place already. Part of Ecuador must have rubbed off on me; I’ve been a $2 dollar bill aficionado for years, so before I set off I ordered $400 worth of them from the bank.
I always get a kick out of using them in New York, and sometimes the cashier or waiter or whoever is receiving them takes notice. In Ecuador they will always notice. They are in such demand that there is a black market where you can buy and sell them for double or triple their face value depending on the bill’s condition. Everyone wants them. Some stores have them on display underneath glass and discretely operate exchanges.
“They bring us good luck. If you keep a $2 bill with you it will bring more money,” my friend Ana explained to me.
Ecuador, like much of South America, has a strong Catholic majority and long tradition of superstition that pre-dates the arrival of the Europeans. Most cities have giant statues of various virgins perched on hills that watch over the city.
On my last trip, in 2012, I had brought a handful of $2 bills to give to friends. Three years later each of them showed me the now worn bills they carried around with them.
“A girl stole my wallet at a party and took the bill out,” my friend Rene told me. “I was showing it off earlier and she must have been looking for it. Things were rough for a few weeks there and I had a lot of bad luck with money. But I kept looking for the girl who stole my luck. Finally, after three months I tracked her down and got it back. The next week I got a raise at work and have saved a lot of money since.”
When Ecuador dollarized, the U.S. Federal Reserve flew them plane loads of cash. They did not send any $2 bills though, which makes them very rare. The country mints its own coins and mixes them in with U.S. coins that have the same size and value, but since 2000 Ecuador has been dependent on getting its cash flown down from the Federal Reserve every few years. During years when cash isn’t being delivered, tourists add small amounts of new bills while visiting the country. I added $2 bills.
The first day I returned to my old city, Latacunga, I went to the market to buy some mangos. When I took out a $2 bill the vendor crossed herself and called over her neighbor. “My God! Look! Look! A two dollar bill.”
I told her I had more and was willing to exchange them.
“How much do you want for each one?”
She thought me foolish to be selling them at face value but gladly bought some more. A few people that had overheard our conversation came over forming a small crowd around us. I only had about $30 worth on me and exchanged it all with the first handful of people that had rushed in.
Variations of that scene were repeated whenever I paid for something in a crowded place. Another day, at a restaurant with friends, a stranger saw the bills in my hand and told the cashier he would pay for everyone’s meal. I gave what we should have owed in $2 bills, though he refused to accept the full amount.
Latacunga is a small enough place that word of an influx of twos became news. I didn’t realize it until we were in the taxi pulling away from the bar that last night, but I wasn’t the one paying the bill. Sure, I had a wad of twos in my pocket, but I never took them out while we were inside. The bartender must have heard there was a gringo in town exchanging twos.
Throughout the trip I was also asking people about the nation’s new digital dollar. The current president, Rafael Correa, is an economist and has been a critic of dollarization. In theory, each digital dollar that the government creates is backed by a physical one they will store in a vault. Critics suspect that Correa won’t stick to that and that the government will begin “printing” more digital money than they hold in reserve, the first step to the nation creating it’s own currency again.
“I don’t care if we stop using the dollar,” a woman selling bananas told me. “I’m going to hold on to this bill right here.” She held up her new $2 and smiled. “This will bring me more money no matter what currency we use.”
grew up in New York but moved out of the country when President Bush was re-elected. For five years he lived in Latin America, returning to the United States in 2010. He is writing a book titled Illegal, about his deportation from Ecuador. He blogs at
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