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Multiple Shootings in Pingtung County may be Related: Police

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A man turned himself in and handed over an assault rifle, magazines, and ammunition today after 22 shots were fired at the gate of a house in Kanding Township, Pingtung County in the early hours of the morning, December 11. It is the third shooting incident in the area to be reported in the last three weeks. Police received a report that shots had been fired at around 2:00am this morning. Investigators found 17 bullet holes in the gate of

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KG-9 Sub-machine Gun Seized in Kaohsiung City

KG-9 submachine gun, magazines, and ammunition
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Police confiscated a sub-machine gun after a raid at the residence of a suspect last night. It was the second sub-machine gun seized in the city in consecutive days. The raid followed a month-long investigation launched after an arrest of a man in August on drugs and guns charges. Police swooped on the 49 year-old suspect named Liu as he arrived at the residence and got out of his car at around 10:00pm. A search of the residence uncovered 700

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Teenager Charged for Possession of Sub-machine Gun

submachine gun, handgun, and ammunition seized in Kaohsiung City
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A nineteen year-old man in Kaohsiung City was arrested yesterday, after a police raid of his home turned up a Colt 9mm sub-machine gun, a handgun, a homemade bomb, and 175 rounds of ammunition. According to reports in Apple Daily, and China Times, Kaohsiung Harbor Police Department received a tip-off that a man named Lu (盧) was in possession of firearms in the harbor district. After further investigations, police acquired a search warrant and raided Lu’s Xiaogang District residence at

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Taiwanese Man Sentenced in US for Attempting to Smuggle Firearms to Taiwan

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A Taiwanese man was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison by a court in Arizona after pleading guilty to purchasing guns and ammunition with the intent of smuggling them to Taiwan in June 2017. Yang, Fu-sheng (楊福勝), 39, from Taipei City, legally entered the United States on June 20, 2017. During the next two days, Yang purchased 10,000 rounds of ammunition, firearms components, and attempted to arrange the purchase of 100 firearms, with the intention of smuggling

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Crim’s Gun Collection found Stashed in Old TV

guns and drugs found in old tv set at recycling plant
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Guns and drugs suspected of belonging to a man currently serving time in prison for drugs offenses fell out of a television at a recycling plant in Taichung City the other day. Police traced the origin of the TV to the home of the suspect’s family in Changhua County. The broken television had sat in the family home for more than 10 years. The Tsai family recently had a new television installed, and asked the technician to take away the

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Smuggled Firearms Traced to Bamboo Union Gang: More Arrests Today

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[Picture: Criminal Investigation Bureau.] Two suspects involved in the smuggling of 109 guns and more than 12,000 rounds of ammunition intercepted at Keelung Harbor last month were arrested today in Chiayi City, after investigators traced the shipment to a branch of the Bamboo Union gang. Customs officers found the cache of weapons April 29, in a shipment of plastic extrusion machines shipped to the Port of Keelung from Hong Kong. Police and customs officers kept the shipment under surveillance until

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Sub-machine Gun Seized in Taoyuan City

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Police arrested a man in Taoyuan City after a search of the suspect’s car revealed a sub-machine gun and ammunition. Four police officers on patrol noticed a silver sedan moving suspiciously in Chaoyang Street. When the driver saw the police car, he turned into an alley and stopped. When police approached the vehicle, the driver attempted to flee on foot, but was immediately arrested. The 34 year-old man named Jiang (姜), begged police to let him go, saying that he

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Huge Firearms Cache Intercepted Ahead of Municipal Elections

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More than 100 guns were intercepted by customs police at the Port of Keelung, April 29, and 6 suspects were arrested last night in Sanxia District of New Taipei City, as police continue a crackdown on organized crime groups ahead of municipal elections to be held in November this year. The cache of 109 firearms was found in a shipping container of injection molding machines sent from Hong Kong. The cache included 102 handguns, 5 assault rifles, a sub-machine gun,

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Man Accidentally Shoots himself in the Thigh

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A young man was hospitalized with a bullet wound to his thigh, after a pistol he was carrying discharged as he was getting out of a cab in Sanxia District this morning, Monday, April 16. The nineteen year-old man named Su had traveled to Sanxia District in a taxi with a friend named Huang. Su had a modified Taurus pistol stuffed in the waistband of his pants. At around 8:00am, Su and Huang had just exited the vehicle at a

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Suspect Arrested After Cops Shoot at Tires

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Police detectives in Taichung City shot at the back tires of a suspect vehicle before arresting a suspect wanted on charges relating to trading in firearms and drugs. Detectives investigating the case observed that the 36 year-old man named Zhou, had a regular pattern of movement. Late yesterday afternoon, the detectives proceeded to Longjing District, where Zhou appeared on schedule, driving a stolen car. Zhou parked his car, and police waited until a large truck stopped at a red light,

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Suspects Who Fired Assault Rifles During Extortion Attempt Arrested

gangster with assault rifle intimidates proprietor and staff in extortion attempt
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Six members of a criminal gang who attempted to extort half a million Taiwan Dollars from a business in Pingtung County were arrested by a police task force Monday evening, January 8. Shortly after midnight, Friday, January 5, a gang of armed men stormed into a “health spa” in Hengchun Township. Two of the men were brandishing military assault rifles, which they pointed at management and staff members, ordering them to sit down before telling them they had come to

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