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Jason Aquino, 23, of Manhattan, was arrested at roughly 4 p.m. Thursday at his home in Harlem on charges of first degree murder, accessory after the fact of murder, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm. He was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court Friday afternoon on a fugitive affidavit and has agreed to waive extradition and return to Massachusetts to face charges...
...second suspect, Blayn "Bliz" Jiggetts, 20, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was arrested on June 9 in connection with the shooting. Jiggetts, who refused to return voluntarily to Massachusetts to face charges and is currently jailed without bail in New York, was indicted Thursday by a Middlesex grand jury on the same charges as Aquino, allowing his case to be heard in Middlesex Superior Court. An arraignment date for Jiggetts has not yet been set, and Welford said that prosecutors are continuing to seek a governor's warrant, which requires the signatures of both the Massachusetts and New York governors...
...Despite Thursday's ostensibly being a day of mourning, the mood on the streets was almost jubilant. A 2-year-old flashed the peace sign from a car on the jammed Haqqani Expressway. Groups of women waved green banners above their heads near Vanak Square. Protesters near Motahari Street, once they realized that nearby riot forces had been recalled to the massive Imam Khomeini Mosalla (mosque) prayer complex, burned tires and chanted all sorts of seditious phrases, including "Die Mojtaba" (a reference to the second son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, thought by many to be groomed as his successor...
...underground network providing foreign media outlets with photos and footage of the post-election unrest has been identified and arrested in Iran." Despite such threats and the existence of undercover Basij within the crowds, witnesses said that protesters were defiantly snapping videos and pictures with cell-phone cameras during Thursday's demonstrations...
...time opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi arrived at the cemetery on Thursday afternoon, thousands of protesters were there, swarming around and chanting, "We support you." Another presidential candidate turned opposition head, Mehdi Karroubi, planned to join Mousavi, but it was not immediately clear whether he was in attendance. The crowd began chanting, "Neda is not dead; the regime is dead," and "Death to the dictators!" One witness said rocks were thrown by protesters as they defied orders by the security forces to disperse. Several were arrested, including the political activists Saeed Shariati and Shayesteh Amiri and filmmaker Jafar Panahi, according...