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Tucson-rampage warrants released

PHOENIX

Newly released court documents show that police found two shotguns, ammunition and drawings of weapons in the home of the suspect charged in a Tucson shooting rampage.

Search warrants made public Wednesday also say 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner once was found spray-painting “extremist-type symbols” on a wall.

A judge ruled that the warrants should be released. Loughner has pleaded not guilty to charges that include trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people.

The search warrants say police also seized a printout of the U.S. Constitution, a journal, a notebook with writing, poems, song lyrics and a handwritten note that read: “What is government if words don’t have a meaning?”

All the items were found in Loughner’s home.

‘Millionaire’ returns to face NZ court

WELLINGTON, New Zealand

A New Zealand woman who fled to China with her Chinese partner after a banking error deposited millions of dollars in their bank account has appeared in a New Zealand court to face multimillion dollar theft charges.

Kara Hurring and her then-partner, Hui “Leo” Gao, disappeared in 2009, two days after a bank mistakenly handed them a credit line of $6.1 million — 100 times their approved limit of $61,000.

At the time the pair left the country they were dubbed “The Accidental Millionaires.”

Hurring has returned to New Zealand voluntarily to fight the charges. Police are still searching for Gao.

12 indicted in alleged bank fraud

ST. PAUL, Minn.

A federal indictment unsealed in St. Paul charges 12 people in what authorities say was a $10 million identity fraud scheme featuring a network of bank employees.

The indictment says the 12 people live in Minnesota, California and New York. It says the participants bought and sold identification information and then used it to open fraudulent bank and credit card accounts, apply for loans and get cash.

Some of the banks allegedly victimized include Bank of America, Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, U.S. Bank and Wachovia Bank.

Associated Press