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• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Benin: Greg D. Andres, 37, a wiry former Peace Corps volunteer in Benin and one-time boxer at the University of Notre Dame, has prosecuted more than 100 organized crime figures in five years as an assistant United States attorney. 23 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; Peace Corps Benin; Directory of Benin RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Benin RPCVs; Law; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Benin: Greg Andres, assigned to the organized crime and racketeering section of the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin from 1989 to 1992 23 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; Peace Corps Benin; Directory of Benin RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Benin RPCVs; Law; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Bolivia: Life of intrigue leads to murder of volunteer 27 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Investigative Journalism; Peace Corps Bolivia; Directory of Bolivia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Bolivia RPCVs; Crime; Murder

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Bolivia: Pattern of violence - Crimes against volunteers in Bolivia in 2001 27 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Investigative Journalism; Peace Corps Bolivia; Directory of Bolivia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Bolivia RPCVs; Speaking Out; Crime

• 1991: Peace Corps: Crime: Bolivia: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Gloey Wiseman who died while serving in Bolivia in October, 1991 at Age 46 13 October 1991
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1991; Peace Corps Bolivia; Directory of Bolivia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Bolivia RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: William E. Hurwitz will Remain In Prison Until Retrial 12 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Staff; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: A federal judge ruled this week that Jerry Mark, a former Peace Corps volunteer and self-described hippie lawyer, was denied a fair trial because prosecutors and the trial judge withheld key evidence that could have proven Mark's innocence 2 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; Crime; Justice; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Iowa

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: A federal judge has ordered Iowa authorities to retry Brazil RPCV Jerry Mark convicted of one of the most notorious slayings in the state's history 1 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; Crime; Justice; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Iowa

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: Conviction of William E. Hurwitz overturned 23 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Staff; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: Maia Szalavitz writes: Associated Press account ignores support for Dr. William E. Hurwitz in medical community, national debate on pain treatment 23 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Staff; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: Some families will always consider Dr. William E. Hurwitz (Former Staff Brazil) a healer. Pain Doctor sentenced to 25 years in prison 21 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: Pain Doctor sentenced to 25 years in prison. Hurwitz was a former volunteer medical director for the Peace Corps in Brazil in the 1970's. Some families will always consider Dr. William E. Hurwitz a healer. 21 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Staff; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: DNA undercuts verdict against RPCV Jerry Mark in infamous Iowa murder case 11 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; Crime; Justice; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Iowa

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: U.S. District Judge Leonard D. Wexler yesterday refused to grant bail to Dr. William E. Hurwitz, who in December was convicted of 50 charges stemming from a three-year federal investigation into the illegal distribution of medications 24 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: Dr. William E. Hurwitz, who volunteered as the medical director for Peace Corps Brazil in the 1970s, convicted of drug charges 16 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: Jury begins deliberations on the 62-count indictment against McLean ‘pain doctor' Dr. William E. Hurwitz, who volunteered as the medical director for Peace Corps Brazil in the 1970s 9 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: Dr. William E. Hurwitz, who volunteered as the medical director for Peace Corps Brazil in the 1970s, took the stand at his trial to defend himself 9 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Medicine; Crime; Jurisprudence; Virginia

• 2001: Peace Corps: Crime: Brazil: William E. Hurwitz, M.D., J.D. - 1973-1975 Medical Director, U.S. Peace Corps, Brazil 23 June 2001
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 2001; Peace Corps Brazil; Directory of Brazil RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Brazil RPCVs; Medicine; Law; Crime; Virginia

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso RPCV Tim Cayton is prison chaplain 29 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Peace Corps Burkina Faso; Directory of Burkina Faso RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Burkina Faso RPCVs; Religion; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Cameroon: Cameroon RPCV Charlotte Utting helps solve string of burglaries targeting the elderly 23 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Crime; Peace Corps Cameroon; Directory of Cameroon RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Cameroon RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Cameroon: McClusky takes us from Fon Ndi's gift to the famous case of the Afo-a-Kom figurai sculpture in wood that was stolen from a local royal shrine in 1966, then sold to a New York gallery before its presence in a 1973 exhibition catalog was spotted by American Peace Corps volunteers, who notified a New York Times reporter, this leading eventually to the work being flown back to its home community. 1 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Peace Corps Cameroon; Directory of Cameroon RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Cameroon RPCVs; Crime; Art; Museums

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Cameroon: David Dubreuil in Cameroon 8 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Peace Corps Cameroon; Directory of Cameroon RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Cameroon RPCVs; PCVs in the Field - Cameroon; Blogs - Cameroon; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Cameroon: Cameroon RPCV Margaret Krome says Restorative Justice Offers Healing, Great Promise 24 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; RPCV Margaret Krome (Cameroon); Peace Corps Cameroon; Directory of Cameroon RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Cameroon RPCVs; Journalism; Speaking Out; Crime; Justice; Wisconsin

• 1989: Peace Corps: Crime: Chad: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Magaret E Schutzius who died while serving in Chad in September, 1989 at Age 27 19 September 1989
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1989; Peace Corps Chad; Directory of Chad RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Chad RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: Colombia RPCV Rev. James Mitchell sued for alleged sexual abuse 22 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: Interestingly, the movie "El Rey" mixes biographical fact with the urban legend that members of the Peace Corps opened the market for Colombia's cocaine three decades ago. In the film, a Peace Corps worker named Harry works with El Rey to move cocaine to New York and other US cities. 21 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: El Rey is one of the 50 movies in the running for this year's foreign-language Academy Award. An urban legend plays a key role in the movie -- American Peace Corps workers teamed up with El Rey and other early traffickers to bring cocaine to U.S. soil 12 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: Recreación del inicio del narcotráfic 8 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: Directors Notes on the Making of the Movie 8 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: Read more about the making of the movie "El Rey" 8 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: El Rey * * * * 7 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: While it may seem preposterous to many in the United States, it's a commonly held belief here that Peace Corps volunteers first taught Colombians how to process coca leaves into cocaine 6 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: El Rey, en primera persona 1 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: ‘El rey’ más difícil de coronar 26 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: El Rey, con la venia de la crítica 25 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: Entrevista con el director de 'El rey', Antonio Dorado 22 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: RPCV James Mitchell who has sponsored Colombian students accused of sex abuse 21 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Colombia: El Rey coronó en el cine 25 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Drugs; Crime; Movies

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Congo Kinsasha: The six, including Chesapeake Climate Action Network executive director Mike Tidwell, were arrested for "peacefully refusing to vacate the road leading to the plant," according to a statement from Tidwell 17 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; RPCV Mike Tidwell (Congo Kinshasa); Global Warming; Environment; Crime; Maryland

• 1997: Peace Corps: Crime: Congo Kinshasa: A Mother Continues the Mission of Her Son, Zaire RPCV Fred Stone 1 July 1997
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1997; Peace Corps Congo Kinshasa; Directory of Congo Kinshasa RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Congo Kinshasa RPCVs; Obituaries; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Ronald Obert admits to abuse while in Peace Corps 2 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; Crime; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Timothy Ronald Obert pleads guilty to sexually abusing a minor while serving as Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica 2 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Timothy Ronald Obert admits to sex abuse as Peace Corps volunteer 1 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; Crime; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: "The Peace Corps has a zero-tolerance policy for misconduct that violates the law" says Director Vasquez on Obert Child Abuse case 1 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; Gaddi Vasquez; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Costa Rica RPCV David C. Anderson, of The Times, Dies at 62 16 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Obituaries; Journalism; Crime; Law

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Exmiembro del Cuerpo de Paz Timothy Ronald Obert sospechoso de abusos 11 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Timothy Ronald Obert is alleged to have engaged in sexual relations with a minor in Costa Rica while serving there as a Peace Corps volunteer 24 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Suspected molester Timothy Ronald Obert appears in court 1 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Timothy Ronald Obert, age 36, was indicted yesterday for engaging in sexual relations with a minor in Costa Rica while serving there as a Peace Corps Volunteer 25 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: A federal grand jury indicted Timothy Ronald Obert, 36, on a charge of having sex with a 14-year-old boy while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer last year in Costa Rica 25 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; Crime; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Psychological Testing

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Timothy Ronald Obert, age 36, was indicted yesterday for engaging in sexual relations with a minor in Costa Rica while serving there as a Peace Corps Volunteer 25 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; Crime; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Psychological Testing

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Costa Rica: Timothy Obert has been arrested and charged for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old boy while in Costa Rica on a Peace Corps mission, authorities said 24 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; Crime; Peace Corps Costa Rica; Directory of Costa Rica RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Costa Rica RPCVs; Psychological Testing

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Dominican Republic: Chris Dodd says the recently passed terrorism bill wrongly gives President Bush the authority to detain people without charging them with a crime 10 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; RPCV Chris Dodd (Dominican Republic); Figures; Peace Corps Dominican Republic; Directory of Dominican Republic RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Dominican Republic RPCVs; Politics; Congress; Terrorism; Values; Connecticut

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Dominican Republic: Chris Dodd writes: What My Father Saw at Nuremberg 1 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; RPCV Chris Dodd (Dominican Republic); Figures; Peace Corps Dominican Republic; Directory of Dominican Republic RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Dominican Republic RPCVs; Politics; Congress; Values; Jurisprudence; Connecticut

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Ecuador: Drunk Driver Anne Wall Cheron gets 6 years for killing Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Philip E. Myers 16 November 2006
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2006; Peace Corps Ecuador; Directory of Ecuador RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Ecuador RPCVs; Obituaries; Crime; Alcoholism; Florida

• 1998: Peace Corps: Crime: Gabon: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Karen Phillips who died while serving in Gabon in December, 1998 at Age 37 17 December 1998
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1998; Peace Corps Gabon; Directory of Gabon RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Gabon RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2002: Peace Corps: Crime: Ghana: Ghana man gets prison in Peace Corps swindle 22 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; Peace Corps Ghana; Directory of Ghana RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Ghana RPCVs; Crime

• 1978: Peace Corps: Crime: Ghana: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Eugene Galgas who died while serving in Ghana in December, 1978 at Age 34 25 December 1978
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1978; Peace Corps Ghana; Directory of Ghana RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Ghana RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 1984: Peace Corps: Crime: Guatemala: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wolfe who died while serving in Guatemala in October, 1984 at Age 27 28 October 1984
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1984; Peace Corps Guatemala; Directory of Guatemala RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Guatemala RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2007: Peace Corps: Crime: Guinea: "The Death of Two Sons" screened on 8th Anniverary of Amadou Diallo shooting 3 February 2007
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2007; Peace Corps Guinea; Directory of Guinea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Guinea RPCVs; Fallen; Movies; Documentary Films; African American Issues; Police; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Guinea: The movie "Death of Two Sons," directed by Micah Schaffer and shown as part of the African Diaspora Film Festival, delves into Amadou Diallo's slaying and the car-crash death of Peace Corps volunteer Jesse Thyne 27 November 2006
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2006; Peace Corps Guinea; Directory of Guinea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Guinea RPCVs; Fallen; Movies; Documentary Films; African American Issues; Police; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Guinea: RPCV Micah Schaffer has produced a feature length documentary called Death of Two Sons about Amadou Diallo's slaying and the car-crash death of Peace Corps volunteer Jesse Thyne, an American who lived with Diallo's family in Guinea 2 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; Peace Corps Guinea; Directory of Guinea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Guinea RPCVs; Fallen; Movies; Documentary Films; African American Issues; Police; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Guinea: For Sierra Leone RPCV Alrick Brown, 28, one of the show's four students, going to film school wasn't just a shot at the big time but a way to save his life. Brown's film, "The Adventures of Supernigger," is an allegory about the 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo, the unarmed West African immigrant who was shot 41 times by New York Police Department officers. 8 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; Peace Corps Guinea; Directory of Guinea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Guinea RPCVs; Fallen; Movies; Documentary Films; African American Issues; Police; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Guinea: Judge Joan V. Churchill questioned RPCV Herbert Caudill, a Peace Corps volunteer who spent three years in Guinea and wrote a training manual for learning the Pular language spoken there 20 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Peace Corps Guinea; Directory of Guinea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Guinea RPCVs; Crime; Law

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: India: India RPCV Stephen Downs arrested in mall for wearing antiwar t-shirt 6 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Peace Corps India; Directory of India RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for India RPCVs; Speaking Out; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: India: Mall Wants to Drop Peace T-Shirt Charges against India RPCV Stephen Downs 6 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Peace Corps India; Directory of India RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for India RPCVs; Speaking Out; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: India: RPCV arrested for wearing antiwar t-shirt 6 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Peace Corps India; Directory of India RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for India RPCVs; Speaking Out; Crime

• 2002: Peace Corps: Crime: India: Jordan arrests two in murder of RPCV Laurence Foley 14 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; Peace Corps India; Directory of India RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for India RPCVs; Peace Corps Philippines; Directory of Philippines RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Philippines RPCVs; Peace Corps Jordan; Directory of Jordan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Jordan RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Crime; Murder

• 2002: Peace Corps: Crime: India: Diplomat Larry Foley murdered in Jordan was a Returned Volunteer 27 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Obituaries; Peace Corps India; Directory of India RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for India RPCVs; Peace Corps Philippines; Directory of Philippines RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Philippines RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Peace Corps Jordan; Directory of Jordan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Jordan RPCVs; Crime; Murder

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Indonesia: Sierra Leone RPCV Patsy Spier's long quest for justice in Indonesia 28 January 2006
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2006; Peace Corps Indonesia; Directory of Indonesia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Indonesia RPCVs; Peace Corps Sierra Leone; Directory of Sierra Leone RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Sierra Leone RPCVs; Crime; Murder

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Indonesia: Sierra Leone RPCV Patsy Spier, a survivor of a brutal attack on schoolteachers in Indonesia in 2002, is lobbying hard against renewing U.S. aid to the Indonesian military 28 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Peace Corps Indonesia; Directory of Indonesia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Indonesia RPCVs; Peace Corps Sierra Leone; Directory of Sierra Leone RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Sierra Leone RPCVs; Crime; Murder

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Indonesia: An ambush in Indonesia killed Sierra Leone RPCV Patsy Spier's husband–and landed her in the middle of a foreign-policy minefield 1 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; Peace Corps Indonesia; Directory of Indonesia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Indonesia RPCVs; Peace Corps Sierra Leone; Directory of Sierra Leone RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Sierra Leone RPCVs; Crime; Murder

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Indonesia: U.S. officials believe local army commanders in Indonesia ordered an ambush that killed Sierra Leone RPCV Rick Spier 3 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; Peace Corps Indonesia; Directory of Indonesia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Indonesia RPCVs; Peace Corps Sierra Leone; Directory of Sierra Leone RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Sierra Leone RPCVs; Crime; Murder

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Indonesia: Sierra Leone RPCV Patsy Spier seeks justice in husband's murder in Indonesia 5 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Peace Corps Indonesia; Directory of Indonesia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Indonesia RPCVs; Peace Corps Sierra Leone; Directory of Sierra Leone RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Sierra Leone RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Crime; Murder

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Indonesia: Sierra Leone RPCV Patsy Spier seeks justice in husband's murder in Indonesia 5 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Peace Corps Indonesia; Directory of Indonesia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Indonesia RPCVs; Peace Corps Sierra Leone; Directory of Sierra Leone RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Sierra Leone RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Crime; Murder

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Iran: Iran RPCV Tom Nelson helps wage a quiet jihad against the Bush administration 21 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Civil Rights; Speaking Out; Muslim Issues; Law; Justice; Crime

• 1966: Peace Corps: Crime: Iran: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Thomas Ashton who died while serving in Iran in August, 1966 at Age 22 1 August 1966
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1966; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 1998: Peace Corps: Crime: Ivory Coast: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Kevin Leveille who died while serving in Cote D'Ivoire in February, 1998 at Age 26 5 February 1998
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1998; Peace Corps Ivory Coast; Directory of Ivory Coast RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Ivory Coast RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Korea: Korea RPCV Kyle Kopitke guilty of respassing in a former Korean War museum he had operated in Oxford, Nebraska 15 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; Peace Corps Korea; Directory of Korea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Korea RPCVs; Museums; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Korea: Police arrest Korea RPCV Kyle Kopitke 13 June 2006
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2006; Peace Corps Korea; Directory of Korea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Korea RPCVs; Museums; Crime; Police; Nebraska

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Korea: Korea RPCV Kyle Kopitke arrested for allegedly going into the Korean War Museum in Oxford, allegedly planning to take some things from the building 12 June 2006
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2006; Peace Corps Korea; Directory of Korea RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Korea RPCVs; Museums; Crime

• 1984: Peace Corps: Crime: Lesotho: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Lesa Sanftleben who died while serving in Lesotho in October, 1984 at Age 29 30 October 1984
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1984; Peace Corps Lesotho; Directory of Lesotho RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Lesotho RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 1997: Peace Corps: Crime: Liberia: Liberia RPCV Dick Haws writes on the Elusive Numbers on False Rape 1 November 1997
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1997; Peace Corps Liberia; Directory of Liberia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Liberia RPCVs; Journalism; Crime; Iowa

• 1971: Peace Corps: Crime: Liberia: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Marsha Ragno who died while serving in Liberia in August, 1971 at Age 23 24 August 1971
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1971; Peace Corps Liberia; Directory of Liberia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Liberia RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Madagascar: Murder victim Nancy Coutu speaks through diary 30 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Investigative Journalism; Peace Corps Madagascar; Directory of Madagascar RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Madagascar RPCVs; Crime; Murder

• 1996: Peace Corps: Crime: Madagascar: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Nancy Coutu who died while serving in Madagascar in April, 1996 at Age 29 9 April 1996
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1996; Peace Corps Madagascar; Directory of Madagascar RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Madagascar RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Rape Victim Student Gets $1 Million From City College 26 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: City College sued by Kafatia rape victim 5 November 2005
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Former UCSB student Kent Kafatia was found guilty of a felony in July for forcible rape 22 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kafatia gets eight years 14 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kent Kafatia sentenced to eight years in prison 30 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kafatia guilty of rape 7 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kent Kafatia faces a mandatory eight years in prison on the rape conviction 6 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kafatia jury selection begins. Kafatia was originally from Malawi, Africa, was a UCSB transfer from City College at the time of his arrest. He lived at the Salvation Army until former Peace Corps volunteers calling themselves the "Friends of Kent," took him into their homes and also raised $17,000 for his education, adopted him. 27 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Trial of Alleged Student Rapist Kent Kafatia Delayed 14 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kent Kafatia, the former City College security officer charged with rape, will begin his trial today. 16 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kent Kafatia, the City College security officer originally accused of attacking four different women, returns to court. Friends of Kent, a charity formed by Santa Barbara residents who were former Peace Corps volunteers in Africa, was financing Kafatia’s education. 9 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kent Kafatia, a UCSB student accused of rape, faces seven new charges after two additional women came forward to identify him as their attacker. Friends of Kent, a charity formed by Santa Barbara residents who were former Peace Corps volunteers in Africa, was financing Kafatia’s education. 2 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Malawi: Kent Kafatia faces two counts of rape and one count of burglary. Friends of Kent, a charity formed by Santa Barbara residents who were former Peace Corps volunteers in Africa, was financing Kafatia’s education. 23 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Malawi; Directory of Malawi RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malawi RPCVs; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Malaysia: Kinky Friedman appeared to violate the state's open container law by drinking from a can of Guinness while seated in a convertible during a St. Patrick's Day parade. 12 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; RPCV Kinky Friedman (Malaysia); Figures; Peace Corps Malaysia; Directory of Malaysia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malaysia RPCVs; Writing - Malaysia; Humor; Crime; Texas

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• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Marshall Islands: RPCV Bob Cress helped get Jimmy Mote released after almost one year in custody 19 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; Peace Corps Marshall Islands; Directory of Marshall Islands RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Marshall Islands RPCVs; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Marshall Islands: Jimmy Mote spent that time under house arrest at the home of Robert Cress, a Peace Corps volunteer in the Marshall Islands some 30 years ago, and his Marshalese wife, Margina 18 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; Peace Corps Marshall Islands; Directory of Marshall Islands RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Marshall Islands RPCVs; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Marshall Islands: Jimmy Mote found help and hope in a new friendship with Marshall Islands RPCV Bob Cress's family of Minneapolis 4 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; Peace Corps Marshall Islands; Directory of Marshall Islands RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Marshall Islands RPCVs; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Marshall Islands: Bob Cress was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Marshall Islands and has been helping a Marshallese man who was recently released on home-monitoring following seven months of detention at a Minnesota lock-up 1 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Peace Corps Marshall Islands; Directory of Marshall Islands RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Marshall Islands RPCVs; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration; Minnesota

• 2004: Peace Corps: Crime: Mauritania: A 14-year-old male was arrested and convicted for the arson of the house of Mauritania RPCV Cindy Hunter and her family 1 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; Peace Corps Mauritania; Directory of Mauritania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mauritania RPCVs; Speaking Out; Iraq; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Mauritania: Student Government Association collecting Aid for Arson victim Mauritania RPCV Cindy Hunter and her family 10 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; Peace Corps Mauritania; Directory of Mauritania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mauritania RPCVs; Speaking Out; Iraq; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Mauritania: Spurred by arson at the home of JMU social work Professor Cindy Hunter and her family, a rally in support of the First Amendment and of respect for the plurality of views in America is planned on campus, sponsored by the JMU department of social work 26 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Peace Corps Mauritania; Directory of Mauritania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mauritania RPCVs; Speaking Out; Iraq; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Mauritania: Arson Assault on Mauritania RPCV Cindy Hunter and her family 22 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Peace Corps Mauritania; Directory of Mauritania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mauritania RPCVs; Speaking Out; Iraq; Crime

• 2003: Peace Corps: Crime: Mauritania: Arsonist Burns Home of Peace Activist and Mauritania RPCV Cindy Hunter 20 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Peace Corps Mauritania; Directory of Mauritania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mauritania RPCVs; Speaking Out; Iraq; Crime

• 2006: Peace Corps: Crime: Micronesia: Micronesia RPCV Howard Hills accused of acting as 'conduit' for payments to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff 22 December 2006
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2006; Peace Corps Micronesia; Directory of Micronesia RPCVs; Me