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The first three defendants to be charged under an international law enforcement initiative known as Operation “Twisted Traveler,” which targets Americans who travel to Cambodia to sexually exploit children, have been removed from that Southeast Asian nation and are expected to arrive in Los Angeles today to face prosecution in federal court.

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Songwoo Shim, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for conspiring to encourage and induce aliens to reside unlawfully in the United States and for manufacturing fraudulent visa documents.

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A homeless man rummaging through garbage on a seedy Brooklyn block made a grisly discovery on Sunday – apparent human bones packed into two large plastic bags.

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Paula Jimenez was excited to return to Queens over the weekend for her 15-year high school reunion – a chance to tell old friends about her darling husband and two young daughters.

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Hiluterio Chavez, of Chicago, Illinois; Guerrero Olivas, of Big Spring, Texas; and Eliseo Perez, of Mission, Texas, all of whom are members of the violent gang known as the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, were each sentenced in Lubbock, Texas for their participation in narcotics and weapons trafficking.

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A livery cab driver was gunned down in Yonkers early Sunday, the third cabbie murdered on the job in just two weeks, officials said.

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When cops rolled over the body of celebrity spinner DJ AM Friday night, they discovered a near-empty bag of crack stuck to his chest, a police source said Saturday.

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Nathaniel James Nicholson, of Eugene, Oregon, pled guilty to the crimes of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Nicholson’s father, Harold J. Nicholson, a former CIA employee, is serving a 283-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon, for a 1997 conviction of conspiracy to commit espionage.

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Victor John Walker, Allen C. Butler, Katy Rae Radney, and Jeremy Ryan Nedrick were charged in Ocala, Florida for their involvement in a series of armed robberies in Ohio and Florida.

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Albert S. Martinez, formerly the field engineering manager at the Tulsa Public Works Department, pled guilty in Tulsa, Oklahoma to bribery conspiracy, mail fraud conspiracy and procurement fraud.

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