JUSTICE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR
"The Columbian newspaper "Cambio" reports that the U.S. Justice Department received the last $1.3 million of an $83 million payment from the family of slain Colombian paramilitary boss and narco-trafficker Gonzalo "The Mexican" Rodriguez Gacha. In return for the massive payment, the family - Rodriguez' widow and seven of his "heirs" - received immunity from prosecution, which they were facing due to a federal indictment in Florida."
(NARCOSPHERE, unearthed by Skip Brutkiewicz)

HIGHWAY PATROL'S EVIDENCE GOES UP IN SMOKE
"Three 17-year-old boys, one of them the son of a Utah Highway Patrol trooper, have been arrested for investigation into the thefts of more than 23 pounds of marijuana from the UHP's evidence locker in Cedar City. The youth who was the son of a trooper purportedly filched his father's keys to get access to the building."
(KUTV, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)