Price for loud music

A woman was given 20 months prison term in Japan recently for blasting music at her neighbor 24 hours a day.

The distance between the two houses was 20 ft. (Source: Time Magazine)

Tons of Marijuana

Texas police seized 502 Marijuana bales from a truck driver, Louis Mendez, 29, last month.

20,000 tons is the estimated weight of the seized narcotics, worth roughly $25 million. (Source: Time Magazine)

Home of Homicides

379 homicides were committed in Houston in 2006, a 12 year high and a 13.5% increase over 2005. (Source: Time Magazine)

FBI and prosecutions

There was a 25% drop in the number of prosecutions in which the FBI was the lead investigator, from 2001 to '05 (Source: Time)