Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

This image of an adult man was taken using a Rapiscan Secure 1000 backscatter X-ray scanner (Credit: John Wild (johnwild.info)) Q: What should I expect if I'm flying over the holidays? A: It depends on what airports you'll be visiting. Not all have the whole-body scanners. Thanks to the federal stimulus legislation, however, TSA has been able to buy nearly 400 of the units and install them in approximately 70 airports around the country. But because there are  around 2,100 security checkpoints  in total, that means 80 percent of them--by number, not by passenger volume--won't have them. Another twist: CNET is hearing that even airports like Washington Dulles and San Diego, which  already rolled out the full-body scanners , are not using them consistently. TSA appears to be permitting its airport supervisors to switch back to metal detectors, especially during high-traffic times. TSA generally refuses to discuss specifics, saying its procedures are "designed to be unp...

Australian man accused of smuggling drugs into Bali will face trial on charges that carry the death penalty, Indonesian prosecutors have confirmed. Michael Sacatides, 43, was arrested at Bali's international airport on October 1 when customs officers found 1.7kg of methamphetamine concealed in his luggage. The kickboxing trainer from Sydney's west has been in police custody ever since. After a two-month investigation police on Thursday finally handed the case to the Denpasar District Attorney's Office. Advertisement: Story continues below Prosecutor Ketut Sujaya confirmed Sacatides was charged under articles 112 and 113 of Indonesia's narcotics laws for possessing and importing drugs. The latter charge carries a maximum penalty of death where the volume of drugs exceeds five grams. "We will deliver this to the court in a week to 10 days at the latest," Mr Sujaya told reporters. Sacatides' lawyer Erwin Siregar said he expected the case to go to trial in th...

Major Drug Syndicate Smashed in Austria: "major drug syndicate was disclosed and 38 criminals involved have been sentenced by the law in Austria, police announced on Tuesday. The Police Department of Upper Austria, a state of Austria, held a press conference on Tuesday and announced that the head of this group is a 42-year-old female Dominican. The completed investigation confirmed that the group has smuggled and sold a total of 270 kilograms of cocaine to Austrians, with a market value of 6,000 million Euros. According to the police, the investigation against this drug cartel began in 2007, when the police discovered this female head. She married an Austrian, has the Austrian nationality and lived in the Upper Austria. After a joint surveillance and investigation by police station in Upper Austria, the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office, and a number of other police stations from Austria and other countries, the police finally confirmed that this woman is the 'boss...

Sky News: Drug smugglers to make final court plea: "Two Australians on death row for their role in the Bali Nine drug smuggling operation are expected to make a final bid to get their death sentences overturned at a hearing on Friday. Earlier this week, 29-year-old Myuran Sukumaran and 26-year-old Andrew Chan spoke to SBS about the bungled attempt to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin out of Bali five years ago. Sukumaran says he gets a lot of hate mail from Australians who tell him he deserves to die and joined the Bali Nine because he didn't want to work in a mailroom for the next 50 years of his life. Chan says he's thankful that every day he gets to wake up and he's a pastor in the prison church."

Dane Bowers is arrested over alleged drug dealing at cage-fighting events The Sun ShowbizBizarre: "BOYBAND star DANE BOWERS has been arrested by cops probing an alleged plot to deal the deadly party drug meow meow. The ANOTHER LEVEL singer, 30 - who once dated model JORDAN - was held after a five-month undercover operation into a gang of cage fighters. He was quizzed at a police station and bailed until January. Five other men aged 28 to 46, and a woman, 25, were arrested in 6am raids in Manchester, Somerset, Bolton and Staffordshire on Tuesday."

The Civil Guard have intercepted more than three tons of cannabis resin in two separate operations which took place on the western coast of Málaga province in recent days. The first haul was on Sunday evening at the marina in Marbella from a yacht which had been under surveillance since the previous day. Two people were taken into custody on that occasion, F.J.A.S. and A.G.M., neither of whose nationalities has been revealed in reports. The second was in the early hours of Tuesday when a 38 year old Spaniard, E.H.M., was arrested as he was trying to unload his cargo of cannabis onto a van waiting on shore. His boat is understood from the EFE news agency to have been followed to shore, to an area between the Playas del Padrón y de Velerín, by Civil Guard patrol boats.

Three Guardia Civil and two lawyers have been arrested and imprisoned in an anti-drug operation which started with raids in Marbella. A total of ten people are being held in prison on remand. The case comes as a result of a 1,400 kilo hashish haul found on a Marbella beach back on September 21, and reports indicate that the police operation remains open this (Tuesday) morning.  The Guardia Civil Internal Affairs Unit, based in Madrid has been directing the operation with a court in Málaga province, and Diario Sur reports that there are at least 12 arrest in total since September. One of the arrested Guardia Civil is reported to be based with the Judicial Police in Málaga, while another is reported to be based in Córdoba.

The Associated Press: US: Gangs buy jets for trans-Atlantic coke flights: "U.S. prosecutors in a series of court cases say they are beginning to unravel the latest innovation in drug smuggling: South American gangs that are buying old jets and other planes, filling them with cocaine and flying them more than 3,000 miles across the ocean to Africa. At least three gangs have struck deals to fly drugs to West Africa and from there to Europe, according to U.S. indictments. 'The sky's the limit,' one Sierra Leone trafficker boasted to a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, according to court documents. Most of the cocaine flown to Africa is bound for Europe, where demand has been rising over the last decade. South American gangs are turning to airplanes because European navies have been intercepting more boat shipments along the African coast, trafficking experts say. 'We started stopping the maritime traffic, basically, so then they started going to air traff...

The Canadian Press: Italy police seize €250 million worth of pure cocaine from shipping container from Brazil: "Italian police have seized 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of pure cocaine worth as much as €250 million ($340 million) from a shipping container carrying farm equipment from Brazil. Police in the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro discovered the haul acting on a tip from British officials dealing with organized crime. Calabria is home to the 'ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, which has been expanding its grip on drug trafficking in Europe. Officials told reporters Monday it wasn't clear what if any role the 'ndrangheta had, but the use of a Calabrian port was significant since such huge shipments of drugs destined for the European market usually arrive in the Netherlands. A statement from Rome's carabinieri said it was the largest such seizure in Italy in 15 years."

Hakan Ayik flees to Cyprus Hakan Ayik and Facebook: "ONE of Australia's most wanted men - the alleged drug lord Hakan Ayik - has fled custody in Cyprus after being briefly detained by border police. Mr Ayik has been on the run since August when NSW Police issued a warrant for his arrest after a two-year organised crime investigation, called Operation Hoffman. Despite the setback, the Australian Federal Police have landed a blow against the Ayik syndicate. Advertisement: Story continues below His Chinese business partner, Man Kong ''Mark'' Ho, was arrested in September by Hong Kong organised-crime detectives while he was visiting a relative in hospital. The arrest came after a request from the AFP and the federal Attorney-General's Department, which wants to extradite Mr Ho to Australia to face charges over the alleged importation of 50 kilograms of ice. Police have said that Mr Ho and Mr Ayik have been linked to multiple drug importations into Sydney a...

Meth bust behind jail among drug arrests The Journal Gazette Fort Wayne, IN: "Kosciusko County officers reported arresting six people over the weekend on drug charges. The string of drug task force arrests began Friday morning at a residence behind the county jail, according to a written statement from the sheriff’s department. It said Roger James Coleman, 37, of Syracuse, and Angela Kaye Tjernagel, 30, of Warsaw, were arrested at 10 a.m. in the 100 block of North Washington Street. Each was preliminarily charged with possession of methamphetamine, with bond set at $2,000. The next drug arrest occurred at 3:49 p.m. Friday when task force and Warsaw officers stopped Leisa Anne Bowling, 44, of Warsaw, near the intersection of Indiana 25 and County Road 250 South. Bowling was preliminarily charged with possession of methamphetamine, with bond set at $2,000, the statement said. On Saturday night, an 18-year-old Warsaw man and a 29-year-old Silver Lake man were arrested in the 320...

Woman pleads guilty to ice smuggling | guampdn.com | Pacific Daily News : "Gina Medina, 38, has offered to plead guilty to selling methamphetamines, or 'ice,' smuggling the drugs from the Philippines and laundering profits, according to her proposed plea agreement.The proposed agreement was submitted to the U.S. District Court of Guam yesterday, but won't be official until approved by a federal judge. Medina is scheduled to appear in court Friday.If the plea agreement is accepted, Medina will be required to tell federal investigators everything she knows about the drug trade on Guam, and will be required to testify whenever prosecutors tell her to do so."