Category Archives: Crime

Safer Sex for All after Counterfeit Condom Crook is Sentenced

August 11, 2010 – 8:17 pm

HIV is the health problem with the largest racial disparity; 80% of new AIDS diagnoses and deaths are among African Americans and Hispanics. Jimmy Wang didn’t help the situation by distributing more than a million COUNTERFEIT CONDOMS in the New York City area!
Wang, a U.S. immigrant from China was sentenced today to 37 months in [...]

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Video: Children and Immigration with Michelle Obama

May 20, 2010 – 11:44 pm

Whether this was staged or not, it’s sad. At what age do children know that a parent or loved one “doesn’t have papers.” What happened to the girl’s mother?

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“The hunting season is over, at least for now,” – Joselo Lucero

April 20, 2010 – 9:35 am

The story made national headlines and Law & Order aired an episode focused on the topic, but the real story does not fit into a 60-minute episode and had stretched on over the past 17 months, but the family of Ecuadorian immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, finally received justice in a Long Island New York courtroom on [...]

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Mexicans asking: What happened to Paulette?

April 9, 2010 – 9:46 pm

The murder case of the little girl Paulette in Mexico has, without any question, caught the attention around the world and as a Mexican I’m ashamed of the reasons why it has become so important.
The four-year-old handicapped little girl went missing from her house, an exclusive area of Mexico City called Interlomas, on the 21st [...]

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White LAPD Officer wins Discrimination Suit

March 15, 2010 – 11:12 pm

An LAPD officer has won a discrimination suit against the department after he claimed a Latino supervisor treated him differently because of his race. What was his race? White.
Paul Waymire (on the left in the picture) was awarded $125,000 by a jury for his pain and suffering related to the treatment, according to several media [...]

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What if Sotomayor had not been Confirmed?

October 4, 2009 – 7:37 pm

Many in the Bronx were excited when Judge Sonia Sotomayor was first nominated and again when she was confirmed to be a Supreme Court Justice. She hears her first case in the morning!
When she was first nominated, Dos Lives took to the calle and found other potential Supreme Court  nominees outside the Bronx Court House [...]

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Drug possesion now LEGAL in Mexico

August 22, 2009 – 10:25 pm

This is something to really talk about. It is and always will be a very controversial issue, many support it and approve it, and many do not.
Mexican law now allows people to possess a limited amount of drugs for “personal use” (read the Spanish version from Univision here) without arresting them.  For many Mexicans, this [...]

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Latino and Black Prisoners get Shanked during CA Prison Riot

August 10, 2009 – 1:42 am

Prisoners rioted for 11 hours over the weekend at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles. The fighting broken down along racial lines with black prison gangs fighting Latino gangs.
The riot injured 250 prisoners and hospitalized 55. No prison employees were injured, no deaths were reported, and no [...]

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Deadly Combination Possibly Leads Jiverly to Kill

April 5, 2009 – 12:30 pm

You’ve most like hear about Jiverly Wong the guy who killed 13 people on Friday at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York. He had stopped taking English classes at the center a few weeks ago.
1) First off, no surprise that Jivery is single, 41-year-old and lived at home with his parents.
2) On top [...]

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Should Rihanna stay with Chris? Mariela Weighs In…

March 11, 2009 – 8:42 pm

As many of you know, Rihanna, the pop star has been a victim of physical abuse by her boyfriend who brutally beat her. This is not the first assault of course. An abusive relationship is progressive meaning it gets worse over time. Many victims who suffer secretly in this type of relationship tend [...]

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How the country of Chile Responds to Hate Crime Murders

March 1, 2009 – 6:08 pm

Solange Canales, Dos Lives’ Chilean correspondent and Santiago resident, responds to the hate crime murders that happened in Florida and how her country is coping with the tragedy. Click “More” to read her response in Spanish.
Two dead and three injured are young Chileans who came to the United States to improve their English and gain [...]

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Help for People Affected by Anti-Immigrant Murders in FL

February 28, 2009 – 8:45 pm

By Mariela, Social Service Worker, and Dos Lives weekly contributor.
The horrifying news about the murder of my fellow Chileans in Florida leaves us wondering why a 60-year old man would shoot five students in their apartment. Will the world get any safer? The world’s economic crisis will increase crime and other social issues [...]

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Arrest in Case of Ecuadorian Murder Victim

February 26, 2009 – 10:28 am

It was in December when Dos Lives first reported that Ecuadorian José Sucuzhanay, 31, was viciously beaten in an apparent hate crime, and died six days later. Now, one of the suspected killers has been arrested, according to the NYPD during a press conference last night.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he had made a promise to [...]

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Another Hate Crime and Another Ecuadorian Victim

December 8, 2008 – 9:57 pm

It’s been less than three weeks since a group of white teenagers were charged with killing an Ecuadorian immigrant on Long Island and now another Ecuadorian immigrant is in critical condition after being beaten by four Black men in Brooklyn.
What’s going on???

Police say that the four attackers may have mistaken him and his brother for [...]

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