1,128 students begin long-awaited trip home

PUTRAJAYA: A total of 1,128 students from local higher education institutions have started their much anticipated journey back to their hometowns after being stuck in their hostels since the start of the movement control order (MCO).

A batch of 863 students hailing from the central region started their journey to the northern region on Monday night, said Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Another 265 students will be returning from the northern region to the central region tonight. Forty-nine buses, heading to 17 locations, were used to ferry the students from nine local universities.

Ismail Sabri said the buses and the students’ luggage would be sanitised three hours before the journey. He also assured the students would not be left hungry during the breaking of fast as Marrybrown and Gardenia were sponsoring food. “The government always welcomes sponsorship by the private sector. If any groups are interested, they can contact the Higher Education Ministry, ” he said during his daily briefing at Putrajaya yesterday. As for students from Sabah and Sarawak, they will head home beginning next month.

They will depart from four airports in their respective regions – Sultan Mahmud Airport (Terengganu), Penang International Airport, Senai International Airport (Johor) and KLIA.

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Woman pretending to be FBI agent on dating sites gets three years in prison

           

NORTH CAROLINA, US (ANN): A woman has finally been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for pretending to be a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent on dating sites.

Riane Brownlee, from North Carolina, United States, was caught in February last year and was finally convicted on Thursday, April 23. The US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina released a statement on her court hearing on the same day.

Brownlee also went by the names “Raine Leigh Webb” and “Alexandria Mancini” on the dating sites. According to court documents, she posted photos of her wearing a fake FBI badge and a firearm.

When she went on a date on Feb. 23,2019, Brownlee told the person she was seeing that she was an FBI agent “conducting a counter-drug operation.” She was later arrested after the date but remained consistent with her story. Brownlee insisted that she kept her identity from authorities since she was on an undercover operation.

In addition to her fake FBI badge, officers also found that Brownlee was driving a stolen vehicle. Law enforcement located a fake FBI ID, with Brownlee’s photo and the name “FBI Special Agent Alexandria Mancini”, and a stolen loaded firearm from the car.

Prior to receiving her 37-month sentence, she also had multiple prior felony convictions such as identity theft, felony worthless checks and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.

Brownlee is now in federal custody and is prohibited from owning a firearm or ammunition. 

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