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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Crime
- Suspect Leaps Off Bridge With Police Dog
- A man being chased by authorities grabbed a police dog and leaped off a bridge, taking the animal with him into the cold San Diego Bay 200 feet below.
- NYPD Detective Charged With Pimping Teen
- A 13-year-old runaway returned home with a horrific account of being forced into prostitution by the kind of person who should have instead come to her aid: a city detective.
- Wife killed by her pensioner husband and dumped among...
- A pensioner who was stabbed and bludgeoned to death by her mentally ill husband told police she feared for her safety days before the attack.
- New Evidence Emerges in Natalee Holloway Case - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
- New evidence has emerged in the Natalee Holloway case that could shed light on how the Alabama teen died and the method by which her body disappeared, the prosecutor in Aruba said Thursday.
- Marijuana ban failing just as Prohibition did
- The hearing on HB 1623, the bill to reduce penalties for marijuana possession, made for some interesting drama in the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.
- Report: 1 in every 99 Americans behind bars - USATODAY.com
- For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population and urging states to rein in corrections costs with alternative sentencing programs.
- Felonious Ramblings: 7 Disturbing Unsolved Crimes
- Reminders of 7 Disturbing Unsolved Crimes
- Miss Mug Shot Florida
- Is it wrong to say we look forward to her next arrest?
- Ga. cop accused of shootout with colleague
- Two off-duty officers from different police departments wounded each other in a gun fight in the middle of a road in an Atlanta suburb
- Cayman Islands Bank Gets Wikileaks Taken Offline in U.S....
- Wikileaks, the whistleblower site that recently leaked documents related to prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, was taken offline last week by its U.S. host after posting documents that implicate a Cayman Islands bank in money laundering and tax evasion activities.
- The night I saw a man get his head blown off
- It was the most bizarre and disgusting thing I'd ever witnessed and I was absolutely frozen.
- Fake Target Clerk Steals $17K In iPod Touches From Stores...
- ..a man who likes to pose as a Target employee while stealing pricey iPods and the man knows so much about the store, he's even helped customers who thought he was a real employee. ...It's believed he has stolen more than $17-thousand worth of iPods.
- Escaped Molester Sent Back To Prison
- Judge gives no leniency as Roy Kresel, 30, faces him after ditching work-release program.
- Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear...
- “it’s by far the most sophisticated counterfeiting operation in the world,” said James Kolbe, a former congressman from Arizona who oversaw funding for the Secret Service. “We are not certain as to how this is being done or how it’s happening.”
- Ex-Florida prison boss: Drunken orgies tainted system - CNN.com
- Softball, drunken orgies and a prison system run like the mafia. That's what Florida's former prison secretary says he inherited when he took over one of the nation's largest prison systems two years ago.
- Female inmates work with dogs for the disabled
- Female inmates will serve as full time trainers and will be paired with a puppy which they will work with 24 hours a day for at least a year.
- Bronze sculptures end up being sold for scrap in Vermont
- Thirty stolen bronze sculptures are valued at $1 million - not by the scrap yards where most of them ended up.