Category Archives: Crime & courts

Viet tries suicide-by-cop, fails

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Bolsavik

A Vietnamese-American man trying to get the police to kill him failed and was taken into custody and handed to a hospital for evaluation. The man, 22-year-old Norris Phuoc Nguyen of Westminster, dressed in jungle fatigues, was spotted walking around … Continue reading →

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Viet sentenced to 40-to-life for Tet murder

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Bolsavik

A Vietnamese-American man was sentenced Friday to 40 years to life for killing a man who wasn’t doing anything to him at all, after a Tet party in 2009, the OCDA announced in a press release. Thanh Van Tran, 29, … Continue reading →

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Viet man kills wife, family at son’s birthday party

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Bolsavik

In a massacre that has stunned Viets all over, a Texas Vietnamese-American man killed his estranged wife and her family right at his own son’s birthday party. The North Texas Vietnamese-American community is putting together a fund to help offset … Continue reading →

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Four accused of enslaving fellow Viets

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Bolsavik

A couple and their children are accused of faking marriages to bring slave labor from Vietnam into the U.S. and will face up to 20 years in prison and hundreds of thousands in fine if convicted, the U.S. Attorney’s office … Continue reading →

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Viet woman cuts off husband’s penis

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Bolsavik

What is it about Vietnamese women and their obsession with penises and the separation thereof? I mean, if you read Vietnamese, you can check out this Google search page and see the 1,120,000 results for “cắt của quý” – a … Continue reading →

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Viet accused of embezzling $160,000 from nonprofit

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Bolsavik

A Vietnamese-American official of a San Jose nonprofit has been accused of stealing more than $160,000 by billing supplies to a phony company and coercing employees to falsify overtime hours, reports the Mercury News here. Daryl Nguyen, 41, was arrested … Continue reading →

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Al Hoang in hot water: Sued, investigated, accused of forging signatures

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Bolsavik

The zealous Vietnamese-American on  the city council of Houston may – or may not – have been overzealous in petitioning to change the name of a small street to “Little Saigon Drive.” That remains to be seen, after a lawsuit … Continue reading →

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SJ ok’s $225,000 settlement with Viet beaten by cops

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Bolsavik

The City Council of San Jose on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a $225,000 settlement with Phuong Quang Ho, a Vietnamese exchange student who was repeatedly beaten by a policeman in videotaped incident that made the news from California all … Continue reading →

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