33-year-old Conor Guckian, who used $20,000 in cash to charter a private plane from Nashville to California, "was arrested on money laundering charges after an airport police dog smelled narcotics on $153,000 stuffed into his suitcase, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday," as reported by Reuters. Airport police were alerted to the "suspicious individual."
The trial began Wednesday of four men charged in connection with the deadly assault and three-day siege at Kenya's Westgate mall in September, in which Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked al Shabaab militants killed 67 people. The men on trial are not accused of actually carrying out the attack, but for serving as accomplices to the terrorists.
37-year-old Daniel Villegas, who had been jail for 20 years, has been released from the El Paso County Jail after posting a $50,000 bond.
The 'Octomom,' whose real name is Natalie Denise Suleman, was charged on Monday with welfare fraud after failing to report nearly $30,000 in earnings, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said
