Taipei, June 16 (CNA) The Kaohsiung branch of the Taiwan High Court on Thursday reduced the jail sentence handed down by a lower court to a Chinese captain who worked on a Taiwanese fishing vessel, from 26 years to 13.
The Ciaotou District Court has sentenced a farmer to one year and four months in prison and fined him NT$30,000 (US$1,043) for modifying an airsoft gun to make it more dangerous.
The ruling can be appealed.
Police officers from the Cishan Precinct found the gun during a search at the farmer’s residence over his suspected involvement in a drug-dealing case, they said.
The farmer, surnamed Tseng (曾), told police that he had bought the weapon for NT$6,500 at an airsoft gun shop in Kaohsiung in June 2010 to use it to chase away monkeys that stole his crops.
Following an inspection, police concluded that
A district court in Taipei on Wednesday ruled not to hear a case involving a botched attempt by the son of television celebrities Sun Peng (孫鵬) and Di Ying (狄鶯) to produce a handgun in the US in early 2018.
Sun An-tso (孫安佐), now 22, was arrested in March 2018 at the age of 18 after threatening to shoot up his school in the US, and was later convicted of making terrorist threats.
In December of that year, the US deported him to Taiwan, where he was in 2020 indicted by prosecutors for his failed attempt at making a handgun in the
Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) A district court in Taipei on Wednesday ruled not to hear a case involving a botched attempt by the son of television celebrities Sun Peng (孫鵬) and Di Ying (狄鶯) to produce a handgun in the United States in early 2018.