MIAMI MOURNS SLAIN COPS AT HANDS OF 'EVIL' KILLER

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Miami is awash in blue tears today after two members of an elite police unit were murdered by an accused "evil" killer who also died in the shootout. Officers Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth were in the process of serving a warrant to Johnny Simms, 23, when the thug opened fire. Another officer was wounded and is expected to make a full recovery.

"It's shocking. It's hurtful," said an emotional Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez, adding that he knew both slain officers personally, having once been the police department's director. "Really, I can't put it into words."

The cops had been searching for a man involved in an earlier slaying. A family member said the suspect "would be right back", according to CNN. Minutes later gunfire erupted with Castillo--a father of three dying at the scene. Haworth--a 23-year-veteran died on the operating table.

BIKINI-CLAD BARISTA BATTLES LOW-RENT THUG

Courage. Portland's bikini-clad barista Molly Karvinen wasn't about to let a thief who tried to steal her tips get away with it. The Twin Perks employee tells the tale in the clip above.

PARIS HILTON'S VEGAS BEAU COULD BE JAILED

Paris beau

PARIS Hilton is beside herself with worry with beau Cy Waits facing drug felony charges. The celebutard’s, 35-year-old fella was arrested last summer on the Las Vegas Strip and now faces charges of being under the influence of marijuana, and misdemeanor driving under the influence and possession of marijuana.
The former nightclub mogul could face up to four years in prison on the felony charge. An offcer stopped his SUV in August after smelling the weed smoke coming from his car and promptly busted him.
With arraignment Feb. 17, his lawyer, David Chesnoff, said Waits is not guilty.
Hilton herself  is serving a year's probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor cocaine possession and obstruction charges in the case. But now she’s fearful of losing the man who’s brought stability into her life.
“She’s worried for Cy,” says a pal of the star. “She’s not sure how he’d cope with prison.”
Watts has been relieved of his managerial duties at the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore following the arrest.

MEXICAN MURDER MACHINE 'EL BOXER' BUSTED

MEXICO’S maddest mobster has been linked to more than 50 grisly slayings after being captured by the army. Juan ‘El Boxer’ Valle Beltran was busted Wednesday after a shootout in the Seadi city of Playas de Rosarito, along with 13 suspected underlings.
His Sinaloa cartel has been fighting a bloody war to take over drug running in Tijuana, the coveted border city across from San Diego.
Led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who some observers say has becoMEXICAN MURDER me the most powerful organized crime leader in Mexico, ‘El Boxer’ had become a major player.

“This is a big day for the army and the safety of Mexico,” said a spokesman for the country's Defense Department said in a statement Thursday. “He has been linked with more than 50 killings.”

PHONE SEX DEFENCE DISCONNECTED

'Ooooh baby'

FULL marks to Shaketa Jones for coming up with a novel excuse.
But the phone sex defence failed to convince a jury she wasn’t part of a botched gas station heist which ended in a hail of gunfire.
Jones 29, claimed she was having phone sex with her boyfriend, Jessie Cooper, not watching the station. She went as far to say that she was fondling herself in full view of the public. But cops and a jury thought differently. In the days leading up to the attack they’d monitored Jones as she followed the store manager on his bank run. So when the gruesome twosome went ahead with the robbery last May, they were waiting.
Cooper was gunned down during the heist, while Jones was arrested across the road from the gas station. Prosecutor John Guy called Jones’ story ridiculous albeit carefully crafted. And the jury saw through her lies too.
Now the only phone sex she’ll be getting will be with phone cards behind bars.

GANG'S ALL HERE! BIGGEST EVER U.S. MOB BUST

Not exactly as shown

G-MEN orchestrated one of the biggest mob takedowns of all time yesterday, busting 127 suspected gangsters and their wise guy associates in one day.
More than 800 Feds swooped in and made scores of arrests charging people with murder, extortion and other crimes spanning decades.
Unlike past investigations which have targeted individual families, this time they went in ‘mob handed’ busting people from New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Attorney General Eric Holder said a total of 127 people had been charged in newly unsealed indictments related to the sweep.

He bragged: “It was "one of the largest single-day operations against the mafia in the FBI's history. One person was arrested in Italy.”

He added that they were accused of numerous violent and illegal acts, including murder, extortion, illegal gambling, narcotics trafficking, loan-sharking and labor racketeering.

NO PAROLE FOR 'DEPRAVED' MANSON MONSTER

EVIL MANSON KILLER Patricia Krenwinkel was refused parole because she would be “present and unreasonable danger” if released.
Part of  a terror team which took out seven--including director Roman Polanski’s wife, starlet Sharon Tate along with seven other people-- the formerly devoted Manson follower claimed she has turned over a new leaf.
But The California Parole Board once again turned down her request, saying Petulant Patty failed to understand that the world remained affected by the horrific slaying.

MILTON 'NOT SO BRIGHT' BRADLEY BUSTED FOR THREATS

BAD BOY BASEBALL star Milton Bradley struck out big time Tuesday for allegedly threatening a woman in LA. It's just the latest incident in a series that have overshadowed his talent.
The Seattle Mariner outfielder was arrested on charges of making terrorist threats after the woman called the LAPD's West Valley station.
Officers arrested him that morning but the star came out swinging after posting $50,000 bail seven hours later. A rep said he denied all the charges. However the bust will no doubt lead to a few fiery words from Mariners general manager  Jack Zduriencik who confirmed that: "Milton had been arrested and subsequently released in Los Angeles. He added: "While we do not yet have full details on what occurred, we are aware of the situation and take it very seriously."

'I KNEW SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENED TO HER'

Cops on Long Island have identified one of the victim's of a serial killer who dumped his victim's bodies on an isolated beach. Suffolk County cops revealed that Megan Waterman, an alleged craigslist prostitute from Maine was the victim of foul play but refused to offer more details.

"I knew since she first went missing that something terrible had happened to her,"  Waterman's mother Lorraine Ela of Portland, told the Daily News. "I had that motherly instinct. I knew once they found those bodies, it wasn't going to be a positive outcome, but I still held out hope."

Waterman's body was identified through a DNA match, and police said they were closing in on identifying the three other bodies. The Suffolk DA said "progress is being made" and hinted detectives were closing in and that the public has been cooperative in providing info on the missing women.

DON'T FART AROUND WITH ACCUSED CONN. KILLER

Don't call him 'Stinky'

THEY CALLED him 'Stinky.' Well, not really but Connecticut party goers might just as well have. Drunk and dropping stink bombs all over the place, Marc Higgins, 21, of Bristol became enraged and knifed four people who made fun of his free-flowing flatulence.
One of the victims was killed.
According to the Hartford Courant, Higgins was mercilessly mocked by party goer Stacy Buccheri.
That's when he left the party and came back 45 minutes later armed with three knives.
Cops say Higgins then revved up the bloodlust and began slashing away at partygoers, killing Matthew Walton, 21. More in the NY Daily News

KIDNAPPED BABY FOUND--23 YEARS LATER

AN ASTONISHING reunion has taken place this week when Carlina White – snatched from an emergency room as a tiny baby – was reunited with her mom.
Back in 1987, Joy White was frantic with worry, when she found her precious 19-day-old daughter gone from the hospital emergency room. Cops launched a huge manhunt, but despite their best efforts, failed to turn up the little girl. Joy however refused to give up hope.

‘I never gave up looking for her,” Joy told the New York Post. “I’ve been worried all these years. Her picture is still on my dresser."

A few years ago 23-year-old Carlina then going by the name Nejdra Nance began to suspect that she was not biologically related to her family. As a teenager she’d never been able to find her birth certificate.

SWINGING AIRMAN WHO SPREAD HIV LANDS IN JAIL

Soaring sex drive

A swinging Air force Sergeant who went to kinky wife-swapping parties has gone down for eight years because he didn’t tell people he had HIV.
Sgt David Gutierrez ‘Played Russian Roulette’ with numerous lives, sleeping with a large number of people.
Although he knew he had the deadly disease the philandering flyboy refused to use protection even though his commanding officer had ordered him to tell people and use condoms.
Astonishingly it seems that despite his irresponsible behaviour no one was infected, but one woman who had slept with him said she was: “Kind of mortified.” Gutierrez, 43, told the Court Martial that he was encouraged to continue going to the events by his wife, adding that no one would have had sex with him if they had known about this disease.
He was also dishonorably discharged from the Air Force.

BUFFALO BEHEADING TRIAL BEGINS FOR TV POOH BAH

Fighting stereotypes

A TV executive who started a network designed to combat Muslim stereotypes is now on trial for beheading his wife. Muzzammil Hassan had gone to cops in suburban Orchard Park February 2009 telling them his wife, Aasiya Hassan, was dead.
The broadcaster--who was chief executive officer of Bridges TV--took detectives to the network's offices where they found Aasiya decapitated, the victim of a sickening orgy of violence and hatred.
He has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and has fired three defence lawyers. His wife--who was general manager of the network had recently filed for divorce.

Today's opening arguments

KENSINGTON STRANGLER: 'MURDERS JUST HAPPENED'

UPDATE: ROUGH Sex was originally the plan for Philadelphia's notorious “Kensington Strangler” but then the “murders just happened.”
Antonio Rodriguez, showed little remorse when confessing to the killings of three women in three months.
The 22-year-old’s admitted to the crime after Cops described him as a “strong person of interest here: more here
Rodriguez picked up Elaine Goldberg, 21, Nicole Piacentini, 35, and Casey Mahoney, 27 at random, paid them for: ‘ rough sex’ and then killed them during the act.
He offered very little motive for the deaths other than the violent attacks "just happened."

PA. MOM OF THE YEAR GETS 15 FOR KILLING FBI AGENT

 Like many molls in the criminal sorority, Christina Korbe, 42, was gonna stand by her man. And when the feds raided a rural Pittsburgh area farm on a drug warrant for her hubby, Robert 'Bobby' Korbe, this dim-witted mama took exception. Even as the walls closed in, the pretty blonde she was full of blame for everyone--but herself.
On Tuesday she pleaded guilty to fatally shooting FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks on Nov. 19, 2008. She was sentenced to 15 years and 10 months in prison after she copped to manslaughter and weapons.

"Had Robert Korbe simply opened the door and surrendered that morning, none of us would be here today," U.S. District Judge Terrence McVerry said Tuesday.

Instead, Korbe cursed at agents trying to open his door with a battering ram, then ran to the basement to flush his stash of cocaine down the drain before fleeing out back where he was arrested.  That left Christina alone with their two children, then 10 and 5. More in the Pittsburgh Trib