Extortion
Photo by: El Diario
Extortionists set fire to a preschool in this lawless Mexican border city after the facility’s owners refused to pay protection money, authorities said Monday.
The arsonists scrawled the phrase “Son of a bitch, pay us”...
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Karen Sypher, left, charged with trying to extort Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino and of lying to the FBI, stands next to her son (who declined to give his name) and listens as her attorney Thomas Clay speaks to the media outside the Gene...
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