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Image copyright Colombian police Image caption Her handler says Sombra is friendly to children but unforgiving in her search for drugs

 A dog in Colombia which has sniffed out a record amount of drugs in her career with the counter-narcotics police force has been moved to ensure her safety.

 Intelligence sources said the Urabeños drugs gang had put a 200m-peso ($70,000; £53,000) price on the German shepherd's head after she found almost 10 tonnes of the gang's cocaine.

 The Urabeños is considered Colombia's most powerful criminal organisation.

 Sombra (Shadow) was moved from the gang's heartland to Bogotá airport.

 The international airport is considered safer for her as it is outside the gang's main area of influence, but the counter-narcotics force is taking no risks.

 Police said that apart from her usual handler she was now also accompanied by extra officers to improve her safety during her deployments.

 Drug traffickers' scourge

 Six-year-old Sombra had been deployed in ports on the Atlantic coast including Turbo, a town from which tonnes of cocaine are shipped by speedboat and sometimes by submarine to Central America and on to the United States.

 Sombra sniffed out 5.3 tonnes of cocaine in Turbo and recently found another four tonnes stashed in car parts meant for export.

 Image copyright Colombian police Image caption Sombra has taken part in more than 300 operations with the counter-narcotics police

 Much of the drug trafficking is controlled by the Urabeños, a gang which is also known as the Úsuga clan or Gulf clan.

 The gang's boss, Dairo Antonio Úsuga also known as Otoniel, is one of Colombia's most wanted men.

 It is not unusual for the Urabeños to offer money to get rid of those standing in their way.

 In 2012, police found leaflets signed by the gang offering $500 to anyone who killed a police officer.

 The vastly bigger sum the Urabeños are offering for the killing of Shadow is indicative of the financial losses her sensitive nose has caused them.

 Sombra has been with the counter-narcotics police force since she was a puppy and is credited with sniffing out drugs leading to the arrest of 245 suspects. |||||

 Sombra, Colombia’s famous drug-sniffing dog, has a bounty on her head from the country’s most powerful drug lord. (YouTube/El Tiempo)

 Like a cocaine-fueled Homeric epic, Colombia’s long tragic battle with drug cartels has produced countless heroes and villains. But one figure cutting across the country’s current narco battlefield, a name drawing praise and hate alike, is actually a 6-year-old German shepherd you can find trotting through the country’s airports.

 Sombra — “shadow” in English — is a drug-detection dog with the Colombian National Police. Over the past few years, her radar nose has led to more than 200 arrests and the seizure of at least nine tons of illicit drugs. That success has turned the dog into something of a folk hero in a country consumed by ongoing bloodshed piled on top of a long legacy of drug violence. The Colombian press has even dubbed Sombra “the terror” of drug traffickers.

 But Sombra is so good at her job that Colombia’s dominant drug crew is retaliating. They’ve put a price on the dog’s head.

 According to Colombia’s RCN Radio, police intelligence recently learned about the bounty set by the Urabeños, also known as the Gulf Clan. Reports vary on the price tag for killing the dog, between 20 and 200 million Colombian pesos — or about $7,000 and $70,000 in U.S. currency. But the threat is serious enough for the National Police to take extra precautions for Sombra’s security.

 “The fact they want to hurt Sombra and offer such a high reward for her capture or death shows the impact she’s had on their profits,” a police representative told the Telegraph.

 Sombra came to Colombian law enforcement from a kennel in Antioquia, the region of the country that’s home to the city of Medellin, the springboard for Colombia’s fearsome cartels of the 1980s and 1990s. Outfitted in a neon-yellow vest, the dog is tasked with thrusting her trained snout into luggage and packages in Colombia’s ports and airports along the country’s Gulf Coast.

 RCN Radio reports her first major bust was in March 2016, when Sombra nosed her way toward a container of banana boxes that secretly held 2,958 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. The shipment was on its way to Belgium.

 In May 2017, Sombra discovered another shipment heading to Belgium containing 1.1 tons of cocaine. Last June, she led police to an even larger find — 5.3 tons of cocaine, the BBC reported. Later, she discovered four more tons secreted in an auto parts shipment.

 In total, her busts have resulted in 245 arrests, Colonel Carlos Fernando Villareal told RCN Radio. Sombra’s efforts for law enforcement have twice earned her the Wilson Quintero medal, an honor awarded for critical contributions to the fight against drug trafficking.

 Sombra’s accomplishments have made her the cuddly face of Colombia’s anti-drug effort.

 She’s been featured on local television. In airports, the dog is asked to pose for selfies with admirers. And the narcotics police regularly post about her accomplishments on Twitter. This month, police used Sombra to specifically call out the Urabeños’ alleged notorious chief, a former paramilitary guerrilla turned drug trafficker named Dairo Antonio Úsuga. In Colombia, he’s known as Otoniel.

 “In the last three years she’s become the torment of ‘Otoniel,’ ” a recent tweet stated.

 Nuestro can "Sombra" fue la mejor durante los entrenamientos en detección de drogas ilícitas, en los últimos tres años se convirtió en el tormento de "Otoniel" incautandole 9 toneladas de cocaína #ConozcaMás a "Sombra" en el desfile #20DeJulio #COLOMBIAunasolaFuerza pic.twitter.com/a6tWpjkdiQ — Policía Antinarcóticos (@PoliciaAntiNar) July 20, 2018

 The dog can handle the high profile, her owners have said.

 “Sombra is a very friendly, calm canine, and for that reason, she has no problem approaching children or people who want to say hello to her,” Oscar Favian Solarte, head of the anti-narcotics division, told El Tiempo. “She’s playful, and in fact that is part of the development of her job. Not only to look for caches of illicit drugs but also, after her work is done, to de-stress, so to speak.”

 But all that attention has put Sombra in the Urabeños’ crosshairs.

 Originally a paramilitary outfit, one of the many armed groups trading bullets in Colombia’s long national struggle, the Urabeños are now the country’s largest criminal organization and control much of the drug trade, according to InSight Crime. Consolidating power by taking on all rivals, the group’s power base spreads along Colombia’s northwest coast. According to InSight, the group pulls money from various criminal activities, such as extortion, illegal mining and smuggling.

 Otoniel remains at large and in control of the vast organization.

 In response to the bounty on Sombra’s life, General Jorge Nieto, head of the national police, has ordered the dog transferred to Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport, outside the Urabeños’ territory on the coast. According to the Telegraph, additional officers will now accompany Sombra on her rounds.

 Samantha Schmidt contributed to this report.

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 Sombra, which means Shadow in English, had been based in Turbo in the Urabá region of Colombia, a strategic point for traffickers with easy access to the sea.

 In the last few years, the German Shepherd's work has led directly to 245 arrests.

 Colombia’s biggest drugs gang, the Urabeños, put a price on Sombra’s head after she sniffed out 10 tonnes of their cocaine earlier this year.

 The gang is offering the equivalent of £53,000 for anyone who kills her, according to police intelligence.

 She was redeployed earlier this year from the Urabeños heartland to the country’s main airport. Bogotá’s El Dorado is considered safer because it is outside the area of the gang’s influence. |||||Summary:

– A drug-sniffing Colombian police dog with nearly 250 arrests under her collar recently tracked down more than 10 tons of coke from a major drug gang. The gang's reaction: a bounty on the pooch's head that may be up to $70,000. The Telegraph reports that Sombra (Spanish for "shadow") has had to be moved from the drug-trafficking hot spot of Turbo, in Colombia's Uraba region, to the relatively safer El Dorado International Airport in Bogota after what the BBC calls the country's "most powerful criminal organization" decided she should be killed. The 6-year-old German shepherd also now has a dedicated security detail, with extra officers keeping her and her handler safe from the Urabeños, aka the Gulf Clan. The Washington Post notes Sombra, who has been with the National Police of Colombia since she was a puppy, is "something of a folk hero" in the country due to her legendary drug busts, with local media dubbing her "the terror" of narcotics traffickers. The "friendly, calm canine" often shows up on TV and in pictures with fans, and the police boast about her on Twitter. Which is why Urabeños members were enraged enough to offer the bounty, which police intelligence reports note could range anywhere from $7,000 to $70,000. "The fact they want to hurt Sombra and offer such a high reward for her capture or death shows the impact she's had on their profits," a police rep tells the Telegraph. (Sometimes drug-sniffing dogs face danger from the drugs themselves.)


SILVERADO CANYON (CBSLA.com) — A 51-year-old Orange County woman, who needed to be rescued while trying to rescue her kitten Monday morning, said she has learned a lesson.

 Sara Beebe tried to climb up a 50-foot slope behind her Silverado Canyon home in the 14900 block of Kitterman Drive to get her adopted black cat down at about 8 a.m.

 When she tried to come down, she slid, injured her ankle and scraped her arms and legs. She said she was stuck in the middle of the cliff; she could not climb up or come down.

 Beebe said first she screamed for her young daughter and then yelled for her neighbors to call 911.

 A firefighter rappelled down from a helicopter and pulled Beebe onto the aircraft to safety.

 “I did ask her how she got to where she was. She had told me that she had gone up to rescue a cat,” said Jeff Shelton of the Orange County Fire Authority.

 Beebe said she will do things differently next time. “I am going have to start letting the cat be a little more independent when I get it out and just put my prayer into it that it get back home,” she said.

 “The kitty made its way back down by itself,” Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said. “That’s why we say if a cat gets stuck in a tree or a roof, just put some food down on the ground and when the cat is hungry, it will come back down.”

 (©2015 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.) ||||| A 51-year-old woman was rescued by helicopter after she got stuck on a Silverado Canyon cliff trying to find her kitten which had run off Monday morning..

 Firefighters responded to the 14900 block of Kitterman Drive around 8 a.m. after a neighbor heard her yell for help and called 911, said Capt. Steve Concialdi of the Orange County Fire Authority.

 The homeowner, who has not been identified, climbed up after the kitten -- also unnamed -- ran up a hill behind the woman’s house.

 “Because it’s so dry and steep, she started trying to climb down and she slipped and continued sliding down about 50 feet,” Concialdi said.

 She twisted her ankle and was scraped during her fall and couldn’t climb up or down.

 An urban search and rescue firefighter helped the woman on the hill while the Orange County Fire Authority helicopter lowered a safety harness.

 Both the firefighter and the woman were hoisted up together into the helicopter.

 The woman was flown to paramedics waiting on the ground and evaluated for her injuries. She declined hospitalization and authorities drove her home.

 During the rescue, the kitten made its way safely down the hill on its own.

 “This is typical,” Concialdi said. “Even if a cat goes in a tree or on a roof, they come down. Put some food out for the cat and it will come down.”

 Contact the writer: afausto@ocregister.com |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– A 51-year-old California woman who climbed up a steep slope behind her house to rescue one of her cats ended up needing to be airlifted off the cliff, CBS Los Angeles reports. The cat, meanwhile, made it down safely on its own. While attempting to retrieve the cat yesterday, Sara Beebe slid about 50 feet and twisted her ankle, according to the Orange County Register. Too hurt to climb the rest of the way down, Beebe started yelling for help, and eventually a neighbor called 911. Firefighters used a helicopter to airlift Beebe to safety, and she appeared to have learned her lesson. "I am going to have to start letting the cat be a little more independent," Beebe tells CBS.


Here is a news article: Greg Kelly promised a rapid return to his anchor chair.

 Manhattan prosecutors cleared the police commissioner's son of rape Tuesday in a case that gripped the city and threatened his career as host of Fox 5's "Good Day New York."

 Greg Kelly said he was grateful to be exonerated and promised a rapid return to his anchor chair.

 "I am thankful that the investigation established what I've known all along, that I am innocent of the allegations that were waged against me," Kelly said in a statement.

 'THANKFUL' KELLY SPEAKS OUT: READ THE FULL STATEMENT HERE

 Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.'s decision, first reported by NYDailyNews.com, came late Tuesday after both the accuser and Kelly's lawyer Andrew Lankler met separately with sex crimes unit chief Martha Bashford.

 "We have determined that the facts established during our investigation do not fit the definitions of sexual assault crimes," Bashford wrote Lankler, in a formal letter.

 Because Kelly's father, Raymond, runs the NYPD, the Police Department had no role in the probe.

 A co-worker of Greg Kelly's at Channel 5 called the news "a big relief."

 "Those who know Greg always felt he should be exonerated. Hopefully, the headlines will be as big for this part of the story," the co-worker said.

 ANALYSIS: KELLY STILL HAS A FUTURE IN TV

 The accuser's mother, visibly angry at what she called the media's "slander" of "an innocent woman," told a Daily News reporter seeking comment at her Port Washington, L.I., home that she would call the cops.

 "In this town (they) do what they're supposed to do," she said pointedly, slamming her door.

 The accuser, a 28-year-old paralegal, walked into Manhattan's 13th Precinct stationhouse on Jan. 24 with a bombshell statement. She told police she had gone drinking Oct. 8 at a South Street Seaport bar with Kelly, a 43-year-old former Marine Harrier jet pilot, and then took him to her law offices, where she says he raped her.

 She said she got pregnant from the encounter and had an abortion. The woman's boyfriend angrily confronted Raymond Kelly about his son at a public event before she made her statement to prosecutors.

 The NYPD immediately handed the case to Vance's office. Her accusation was problematic, not just because three months had passed, but because the woman had sent Kelly flirtatious and friendly messages both before and after the encounter.

 Investigators interviewed both Greg Kelly and his accuser, reviewed bar receipts, security logs, text messages and telephone records — and concluded no crime occurred, Bashford said. It was a significant legal step beyond saying the allegations could not be proved.

 Under state law, rape is defined as sexual intercourse without consent, either due to force, fear or impairment.

 Vance spokeswoman Joan Vollero said the DA will not bring a false reporting charge against the woman.

 Bashford's letter said both the woman and Kelly were interviewed early on and both were cooperative. Sources said the woman's story remained consistent throughout: She believed she was too drunk to consent to sex.

 Lawyer Paul Callan, who represented Channel 7 meteorologist Heidi Jones when she was charged with making false rape claims, said he thought Kelly's accuser had no standing to file a civil suit against Kelly — but suggested Kelly could sue her for defamation.

 However, he said, "the chances of him bringing a lawsuit are zero, unless he wants his entire sexual history with women discussed in the New York press."

 Commissioner Kelly declined to comment on his son being cleared.

 Greg Kelly, who had not been on the air or seen in public since the accusation became public on Jan. 25, is expected to discuss his return to TV with Channel 5 brass on Wednesday, sources said.

 In his statement, he thanked his family, his viewers and his co-host, Rosanna Scotto, for their support.

 "I will always remember her kindness, and I look forward to soon resuming my post on ‘Good Day New York' next to her," Kelly said. "I am so blessed to have a wonderful family and friends whose support for me never wavered," he said.

 Channel 5 insiders said that at a staff meeting last week, news director Dianne Doctor said she expected huge ratings when Kelly returned to the air.

 "I think there will be a ratings bump when or if he returns," one staffer said, "and then it will be back to business covering crime, politics and Snooki and JWoww's new show in Jersey."

 One insider wondered how Kelly's on-air chemistry with Scotto may change. Before the allegations, Scotto had been the family person in the relationship, often joking about trying to get Kelly dates.

 "Will he change his demeanor?" asked a source. "They always tease him as being the single guy hanging out and having fun."

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 mgrace@nydailynews.com ||||| TV anchor Greg Kelly will not be charged in the case of a woman who accused him of rape. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

 By Shayna Jacobs and Tom Liddy

 DNAinfo Staff

 MANHATTAN — Greg Kelly, local television news anchor and the son of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, will not be charged with raping a woman in lower Manhattan last year, according to the District Attorney's office.

 The news comes just two weeks after it was revealed that the "Good Day New York" co-host was being investigated for allegedly attacking a Wall Street paralegal after a night of drinking at the South Street Seaport — a case that shocked the city.

 "After reviewing the evidence, we have determined that the facts established during our investigation do not fit the definitions of sexual assault crimes under New York criminal law," said Martha Bashford, the chief of the DA's sex crimes unit, in a letter to Kelly's lawyer, Andrew Lanker.

 "Therefore, no criminal charges are appropriate."

 The letter noted that the DA's office had "conducted a thorough investigation," reviewing "receipts, security logs, text messages and telephone records." They interviewing both Kelly and the victim, deeming them both "cooperative."

 Kelly, who has been off the air since the allegations surfaced, said in a statement that he was pleased with the outcome of the probe.

 “I am thankful that the investigation established what I've known all along, that I am innocent of the allegations that were waged against me," he said.

 "I am so blessed to have a wonderful family and friends whose support for me never wavered."

 The investigation, which was was turned over to the DA's office by the NYPD to avoid a conflict of interest, represented yet another rough patch for the NYPD commissioner, who was already under fire for an anti-Muslim video being shown to police recruits during training.

 The sexual assault complaint against Greg Kelly surfaced after the victim, a 29-year-old paralegal, walked into the 13th precinct stationhouse on Jan. 24 and made the accusations.

 According to sources, she told investigators that she and Kelly met on the street two days before going on a date at the South Street Seaport.

 They exchanged numbers and emails, and agreed to get together on Oct. 8. After drinking for a few hours that night, they decided to head to the Financial District law office where the victim worked.

 There, she claimed, Kelly sexually assaulted her while she was virtually passed out.

 But the pair later exchanged text messages, saying that they had a good time and discussing getting together again, according to sources.

 The alleged victim came forward after she told her boyfriend about the claims and he became enraged.

 He later confronted the police commissioner at a public event and said that his son had ruined his girlfriend's life.

 The victim also told investigators that she became pregnant as a result of the alleged attack and had an abortion, sources said.

 After the allegations surfaced, Greg Kelly vehemently maintained his innocence, but took a leave of absence from his show on Fox 5.

 His father refused to answer questions about the incident.

 The mayor's office declined to comment on the case Tuesday night.

 Fox 5 did not immediately respond to calls and emails for comment Tuesday.

 Additional reporting by Murray Weiss |||||
A summary of this is?

– The son of NYPD chief Raymond Kelly will not face rape charges over a high-profile accusation that emerged last month, reports DNAinfo. Both the Daily News and New York Times also say that Greg Kelly—TV host of Good Day New York and the son of police chief Raymond Kelly—won't be charged. His accuser, a paralegal in her late 20s, told police that Greg Kelly assaulted her last October after they returned to the Manhattan office where she worked after a night of drinking. “The facts established during our investigation do not fit the definition of sexual assault crimes,” said a letter provided to Kelly's lawyer from the office of Manhattan DA Cyrus R. Vance Jr.


Builders find a stash of gold bars (not the ones in the photo) and decide to keep them, until the police found out. File photo: Franck Rumpenhorst/AFP

 Published: 11 Aug 2014 08:54 GMT+02:00

 Updated: 11 Aug 2014 08:54 GMT+02:00

 It's perhaps every builder's dream or even nightmare. Three French workers find a secret booty worth almost one million euros whilst working on a house in Normandy. For them it was "finders keepers". But then the law caught up with them.

 Three French workers are to appear before a court on charges of theft after they stole a treasure trove of gold bars and coins from a house they were working on, a local newspaper reported on Monday.

 The men had been working on a house in Normandy for several days when they discovered the loot, estimated to be worth more than €900,000 ($1.2 million), hidden in jars.

 According to the report in regional daily Paris Normandie, the jars contained six gold bars weighing a kilogramme (2.2 lbs) each, and 600 gold $20 coins from 1924 and 1927.

 Rather than alert the owner of the house to their discovery, the workers, aged 20, 33 and 40, decided to steal the treasure and sell it to a coin collector in the area.

 But tax officials were alerted when one of the men began depositing high-value cheques.

 When investigators caught up with them, the men confessed to their crime, the newspaper said.

 Police seized several vehicles, motorcycles and hundreds of thousands of euros from the workers as part of the investigation.

 The three will appear at a court in Evreux, northwest of Paris, at an unspecified date. The coin collector will also appear before the court on charges of trying to conceal the theft, which he denies.

 Interviewed by Paris Normandie, the owner of the house where the gold was found recounted telling the workers jokingly: "If you find any treasure, you tell me!" ||||| Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption The buried loot is estimated to be worth 900,000 euros (£720,000)

 Three French workers are to appear in court on charges of stealing gold worth 900,000 euros ($1.2m; £720,000) from a property they worked on, a local French newspaper reports.

 They are said to have been levelling land at a house in Normandy for several days when they discovered the 16 gold bars and 600 US $20-gold coins.

 The treasure, which was found in glass jars, may have been hidden on the property during World War Two.

 A coin collector has also been charged.

 Rather than alert the owners of the house to their discovery, the workers, aged 20, 33 and 40, decided to steal the gold and sell it to a local coin collector, it is alleged.

 But tax officials were alerted when one of the workers deposited two high-value cheques in his bank account.

 When investigators caught up with them, they confessed to their crime, according to the report in regional daily Paris Normandie (in French).

 The three are soon to appear at court in Evreux, north-west of Paris.

 The collector will also appear in court, charged with handling stolen goods, which he denies.

 Each gold bar weighs a kilogramme (2.2lb), while the 600 gold coins, dating from 1924 to 1927, weigh 33g (1.2oz) each, the newspaper said.

 According to local police, the three workers "had fun" with their new-found fortune, buying cars or motorcycles, but also investing in life insurance or in their homes.

 The house owners, who wish to remain anonymous, live in a small village in the Eure department in north-western France and had asked for their details and that of the crime, which happened some time ago, not to be revealed.

 "You know, nobody knows about this story, even my children do not know... Since the police called me to tell me what happened, I have found it hard to sleep," the owner is quoted as saying by the newspaper.

 She is also reported as having told the workers jokingly as they started the work: "If you find any treasure, be sure to tell me!" |||||

Write a summary.

– A secret stash of gold coins and bars is the stuff of fantasies. And when three construction workers found $1.2 million worth on the job in Normandy, police say stealing it from the landowner proved too tempting to resist. Several days into their work leveling land, the laborers found 16 gold bars and 600 gold coins from the 1920s buried in glass jars, perhaps during World War II, the BBC reports. Police say the men—ages 20, 33, and 40—sold the loot to a local coin collector, then bought cars and motorcycles and invested the money in their homes or life insurance policies. But when one of the men deposited suspicious checks—one for $360,000 and the other for $40,000—into his bank account, tax officials perked up, Connexion reports. They contacted authorities, and the men reportedly 'fessed up. Their new toys have been seized, and they now face theft charges, while the coin collector is charged with trying to conceal the theft, reports the Local. The homeowner isn't saying much, telling local paper Paris Normandie: "Since the police called me to tell me what happened, I have found it hard to sleep." (Speaking of secret stashes, someone hid coins in a cave 2,000 years ago.)