Tag: crime
Terror suspects jailed for a month
Prosecutors from Norway's police intelligence agency PST (Politietssikkerhetstjeneste) got only half the time they requested for custody of two men suspected of plotting a...
‘Terrorists’ target was in Norway,’ Uzbek suspect was an informant
Norway's biggest terrorist case ever took a dramatic turn on Monday, when prosecutors claimed that suspects arrested last week planned to carry out a terrorist...
Speculation swirls over terror target
Norwegian media, fueled by disputed leaks from those probing the country's biggest case of suspected terrorism ever, suggested over the weekend that Norway itself...
Terror arrests made under pressure
The arrests of two terror suspects in Oslo and a third in Germany on Thursday were made under pressure, admit Norwegian police. They wanted...
Illegal aliens burn down their shelter
More than 20 illegal aliens, all of them asylum seekers whose applications had been rejected, were in police custody on Wednesday after they allegedly...
More vandalism at asylum centers
Disgruntled asylum seekers ran amok at two holding facilities outside Oslo, smashing windows, destroying furnishings and setting fires. It's the latest incident of violence...
Police charge 12 in huge jewelry heist
Oslo police have charged 12 men, mostly from Albania, for last winter's brazen break-in at a jewelry store that led to the biggest theft...
Couple charged with drug smuggling
A couple from Lithuania, operating from a rural home in the small community of Våler southeast of Oslo, have been indicted for organized smuggling...
New proposals to decriminalize drugs
Justice Minister Knut Storberget is joining the chorus of state officials urging new, perhaps radical means of tackling Norway's drug problem. Storberget called Friday...
Court convicts last of NOKAS robbers
A city court in Stavanger sentenced the last of those arrested in Norway's biggest robbery ever to nine years in prison on Wednesday. Defendant...
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