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Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Five Violent Fugitives Added To Most Wanted List By Massachusetts State Police Five Violent Fugitives Added To Most Wanted List By Massachusetts State Police
Five Violent Fugitives Added To Most Wanted List By Massachusetts State Police Five new violent fugitives who are on the run have been added to the Massachusetts State Police’s Most Wanted list. They are Alexander Keen Grant (statutory rape), Mario Garcia (murder), Marvin Veiga, Jr. (murder), Wesly Jordan Alcin (armed assault to murder, home invasion, weapons charge), and Jeffrey Cancel-Muniz (aggravated rape, kidnapping, strangulation). Grant allegedly provided alcohol to a minor in 2012 and committed sexual assault while his victim was intoxicated. He was arrested and charged with statutory rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over. Wh…

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by Zak Failla
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Police ID Man Wanted In Stabbing Death Outside Bar In Fairfield County Police ID Man Wanted In Stabbing Death Outside Bar In Fairfield County
Police ID Man Wanted In Stabbing Death Outside Bar In Fairfield County An arrest warrant has been issued in Fairfield County for an undocumented Guatemalan national who has been implicated in a fatal stabbing outside an area bar. The Stamford Police Department and is now trying to locate Samuel Delfiro Zapata-Herrera, who has a warrant out for his arrest for the stabbing murder of local resident Isaias Sagastume-Aceitu was found outside Reyes Bar and Restaurant on Stillwater Avenue over the weekend. The Stamford Police Department issued an alert following a homicide on Sunday, Oct. 4 when Sagastume-Aceitun, 37, was found outside the bar following an altercatio…

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by Zak Failla
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COVID-19: Stamford Teacher Cares For Student's Newborn Brother As His Family Battles Virus COVID-19: Stamford Teacher Cares For Student's Newborn Brother As His Family Battles Virus
Covid-19: Stamford Teacher Cares For Student's Newborn Brother As His Family Battles Virus Sometimes it really does take a village to make something good happen and that's what occurred when a teacher in Fairfield County, on the spur of a moment, said the word "yes," and helped a family in desperate need during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. The simple yes uttered by Luciana Machado Lira, 42, not only changed the life of one of her students but hers as well. The whole thing began when Luciana, a teacher at Hart Magnet Elementary School in Stamford, received a call from the mother of 7-year-old Junior, one of her students, who had recently moved from Guatemala. The mot…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Undocumented Immigrant Sentenced For Murder Of Northern Westchester Socialite Undocumented Immigrant Sentenced For Murder Of Northern Westchester Socialite
Undocumented Immigrant Sentenced For Murder Of Northern Westchester Socialite An undocumented immigrant and former employer of Northern Westchester socialite Lois Elizabeth Colley has been sentenced for her 2015 murder at the family's estate. Esdras Marroquin Gomez, an ex-day laborer also known as “Victor,” was sentenced on Thursday, June 13, in Westchester County Court, to 22 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder earlier this year. On Nov. 9, 2015, at approximately 5 p.m., a farmworker found Colley’s body lying in a pool of blood in her home’a laundry room after she had been bludgeoned to death at the family's North Salem farm. West…

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by Zak Failla
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Twice-Deported Man Sentenced For Illegally Reentering US Twice-Deported Man Sentenced For Illegally Reentering US
Twice-Deported Man Sentenced For Illegally Reentering US A man already deported out of the country twice will spend nearly two years behind bars after admitting to illegally entering the United States. Hector Ovidio Diaz Garrido, a citizen of Guatemala last known to live in Norwalk, has been sentenced in Bridgeport district court to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to reentry of a removed alien. U.S. Attorney John Durham said that Diaz Garrido, 41, who has never had legal status in the country, was deported from the U.S. to Guatemala in June 2011 following a March 2010 conviction for assaulting a police officer. In April 2012, Diaz Garr…

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by Zak Failla
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16 Undocumented Sex Offenders In Region Busted By ICE 16 Undocumented Sex Offenders In Region Busted By ICE
16 Undocumented Sex Offenders In Region Busted By ICE The Hudson Valley was among three areas targeted by federal officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, which led to the arrest of several sexual predators during a two-day operation this week. As part of “Operation SOAR” (Sexual Offender Alien Removal), ICE officers arrested 16 undocumented sex offenders, with arrests taking place in Rockland County, on Long Island and throughout New York City. The two-day enforcement effort ended on Sept. 11. During the course of the operation, each of the suspects taken into custody had criminal histor…

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by Zak Failla
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Former Fairfield County Resident Admits To Illegally Reentering US Former Fairfield County Resident Admits To Illegally Reentering US
Former Fairfield County Resident Admits To Illegally Reentering US An illegal immigrant who once called Fairfield County home has admitted to illegally reentering the country after being deported. Former Norwalk resident Miguel Angel Arcos-Vasquez - also known as Dimas Fernando Herrarte - pleaded guilty in New Haven District Court to illegally reentering the country following several failed attempts. He is a legalized citizen of either Mexico or Guatemala, John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced. According to Durham. Arcos-Vasquez, 26, illegally entered the country in or before 2014. In March of that year, he was a…

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by Zak Failla
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Alien Who Lived In Fairfield County Charged With Illegally Reentering US Alien Who Lived In Fairfield County Charged With Illegally Reentering US
Alien Who Lived In Fairfield County Charged With Illegally Reentering US An illegal alien from south of the border with a history of law enforcement interactions is facing new charges and additional time in prison after attempting to allegedly reenter the country. Miguel Angel Arcos-Vasquez, also known as Dimas Fernando Herrarte, 26, has been indicted in federal court with one count of illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported, John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced this week. Arcos-Vasquez, a citizen of either Mexico or Guatemala - officials are attempting to determine which - and last was known to reside in N…

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by Zak Failla
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Amber Alert Issued For Infant After Mother Found Dead Amber Alert Issued For Infant After Mother Found Dead
Amber Alert Issued For Infant After Mother Found Dead Update: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is holding a twice-deported suspect in a 14-month-old upstate boy's disappearance and his mother's death that prompted an Amber Alert on Friday, May 25. Charges have not yet been filed against 25-year-old Alberto Ebavardo Guiterrez-Reyes, an alias for Evarardo Donoteo-Reyes, a Mexican citizen, ICE said in a statement. The baby's mother, Selena Hidago-Calderon of Guatemala, was found dead last week in a wooded area of the farm where she worked and lived with Reyes. Original report: A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for a 14-mont…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Amber Alert Issued For Infant After Mother Found Dead Amber Alert Issued For Infant After Mother Found Dead
Amber Alert Issued For Infant After Mother Found Dead Update: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is holding a twice-deported man suspected in a 14-month-old upstate boy's disappearance and his mother's death that prompted an Amber Alert on Friday, May 25. Charges have not yet been filed against 25-year-old Alberto Ebavardo Guiterrez-Reyes, an alias for Evarardo Donoteo-Reyes, a Mexican citizen, ICE said in a statement. The baby's mother, Selena Hidago-Calderon of Guatemala, was found dead last week in a wooded area of the farm where she worked and lived with Reyes. Original report: A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for a 1…

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by Joe Lombardi
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New Fairfield Dad Deported To Guatemala After Request To Stay Denied New Fairfield Dad Deported To Guatemala After Request To Stay Denied
New Fairfield Dad Deported To Guatemala After Request To Stay Denied A father from New Fairfield was deported to Guatemala on Wednesday, Jan. 31 after federal immigration officials denied his request to stay in the United States, according to multiple news reports. Joel Colindres illegally came to the U.S. from Guatemala in 2004 and has been living and working here since, according to this report by Connecticut News12. He reportedly was granted an emergency stay of deportation last summer,. Family attorney Erin O'Neil-Baker said Colindres boarded a plane Wednesday to Guatemala. O'Neil-Baker told News12 that Colindres has always cooperated with Immigration an…

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by Jon Craig
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Rally Planned To Support New Fairfield Dad Facing Second Deportation Order Rally Planned To Support New Fairfield Dad Facing Second Deportation Order
Rally Planned To Support New Fairfield Dad Facing Second Deportation Order NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Supporters are rallying to help a New Fairfield father of two who is facing a second order to return to his native Guatemala.   A peaceful rally is planned for 11 a.m. Thursday at the Hartford federal building, 450 Main St. in hopes of getting a stay of deportation for Joel Colindres. Colindres, 33, fled death threats in Guatemala in 2004 and is now marked for deportation back to that Central American country on Jan. 31. This is the second time he has faced deportation in the past five months. He was ordered to leave the country last summer but was granted a last-min…

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