COKE MULE OLDSTER LEO SHARP PLEADS NOT GUILTY

FORCED?

THE coke mule oldster who was busted with more than 200 pounds of Bolivian marching powder has pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance.
The mutton chopped 87-year-old told the court he had been "forced to take it" by someone he met through an employee in Florida.
"He asked me if I was busy. I said 'Not as busy as I'd like to be,'" said Sharp, who was told to drive north to Raleigh, N.C., and pick up luggage containing cash.
Then, as we reported here, he drove cross-country to Arizona where he dropped off the luggage and picked up dozens of bricks of cocaine along with more money and a slip of paper with a freeway exit number in Detroit.

EDWARD SHIN POSED AS MURDERED BUSINESS PARTNER

A CALIFORNIA high-flier who didn't want to buy out his business partner instead murdered him and then posed as the dead man, telling his family he was e-mailing from Africa.
Cops say Christopher Smith and Edward Shin were business partners in an advertising company called 800xchange. A falling out between the two led to an agreement that Shin, 33, would buy out Smith's portion of the company for $1 million. Shin--a scam artist of the first order--didn't want to pay so he killed Smith instead. He even sent the dead man's