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5 arrested for scrap theft in Gerdec

TIRANA, May 5 – Police reported that five persons were arrested for stealing metal objects from the area affected from March 15 blast near capital Tirana. The five were arrested while stealing
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Minister asks police to better manage roads

TIRANA, May 3 – Interior Minister Bujar Nishani met with top police road officials to request that they pay better attention to the management of the roads following a large number of
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Police arrest drunk man

LEZHE, May 5 – Police managed to arrest a drunken man who had begun shooting a rifle after a disagreement with a neighbor in a northern village. Gjin Pervathi barricaded himself in
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Albanian extradited from Italy

TIRANA, May 2 – Saimir Xhebexhiu, 22, was extradited from Rome to Albania to serve a 16-year prison term for murder. He was sentenced to prison in 2006 after killing a person
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2 arrested for selling pistols

TIRANA, May 2 – Two men were arrested after being found with a large number of pistols they hoped to sell. Mehmet Zharku, 33, and his brother Halit Zharku, 37, were arrested
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Heroin smugglers caught from police

FIER, May 5 – Two brothers were arrested by police when found with some 1.2 kilograms of heroin in the western city of Fier. Mirel and Ilir ȥlo had likely got the
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US help Albania cleanup G쳤ec munitions

TIRANA, May 3 – The United States and Albania signed an agreement last week to allow U.S. Department of State contractor, ArmorGroup North America (AGNA), to begin the slow and dangerous process
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