Police News Reports

Police News Reports
ATF, local police enforce fireworks laws - 07/05/2008
	The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) last week issued a press release encouraging the public across the nation to be safe and responsible during Fourth of July celebrations. Meanwhile, ... Full story
Fugitive hedge-fund swindler surrenders in Mass. - 07/03/2008
	NEW YORK � A hedge fund swindler who set off a national manhunt when he faked his suicide to avoid reporting to prison surrendered Wednesday to small-town police in Massachusetts. U.S. Marshals ... Full story
Ex-con suspected in deaths of 8 captured in Ill. - 07/02/2008
	GRANITE CITY, Ill. � An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings has ended with the man quietly arrested outside a bar known as a police hangout. Nicholas ... Full story
Jail guards investigated in Md. inmate death - 07/02/2008
	UPPER MARLBORO, Md. � A man arrested in the hit-and-run death of a police officer was found strangled in his cell, and investigators focused Tuesday on guards at the suburban Maryland jail, which has a ... Full story
2 hostages at Maine state prison released unharmed - 07/01/2008
	WARREN, Maine � Two hostages held by a knife-wielding prisoner were released Monday night without serious injury and the hostage taker was back in custody following an hours-long drama at the Maine State ... Full story
Santa Cruz officers become 'It guys' on ATVs - 07/01/2008
	SANTA CRUZ, Calif. � If that police officer riding past you seems better looking than before, stop and ask yourself: Is it the officer or the ATV? Santa Cruz police say they have become more ... Full story
Search continues for missing Vt. girl - 06/30/2008
	BETHEL, Vt. � Additional state troopers and FBI agents were brought Sunday onto the case of a 12-year-old girl who disappeared Wednesday, but authorities reported no major breaks in the investigation. Brooke ... Full story
Officers test laser speed guns to bolster cases - 06/27/2008
	BLACKSTONE, Va. � Police officers took aim this week at vehicles zipping down a runway in tests meant to convince judges that laser speed guns - increasingly popular among law enforcement - are as accurate ... Full story
345 arrested, kids rescued in FBI prostitution busts - 06/26/2008
	WASHINGTON, D.C. � Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution. The ... Full story
6 dead in Ky. plastics plant shooting - 06/25/2008
	HENDERSON, Ky. � An employee shot and killed a supervisor and four others after an argument at a western Kentucky plastics plant, then turned the gun on himself, police and a company official said Wednesday. The ... Full story
Texas cancer patient made honorary officer - 06/25/2008
	DALLAS � Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle made 8-year-old Kyle an honorary officer Monday, three months after Dallas officers befriended the Oklahoma boy. They met after Kyle's backpack was stolen during ... Full story
'Sophisticated' K-9 units help Mass. cops - 06/23/2008
	BILLERICA, Mass. � Before Lt. Gordon Clark leaves his Townsend home to go to work at the Middlesex Sheriff's Office, he gets his partner out of the dog house. Lox, a 6-year-old pure bred German shepherd, ... Full story
Ex-policewoman from Mexico now U.S. Border Patrol agent - 06/23/2008
	EL PASO � Death threats had become routine for Blanca Angelica Parra, a police officer in Ciudad Juarez until the summer of 1995. "In Juarez when you arrested someone they would threaten you, ... Full story
Guard to stay in New Orleans through 2008 - 06/20/2008
	NEW ORLEANS � At least 200 Louisiana National Guard troops will remain in New Orleans through 2008 for law enforcement duties as the city�s police department tries to rebuild ranks decimated by Hurricane ... Full story
Ill. jury convicts former officer of 4 rapes - 06/19/2008
	CHAMPAIGN, Ill. � A former Bloomington police sergeant was convicted Wednesday of raping four women and stalking a fifth, ending a trial in which prosecutors said he was driven by pornography-fueled fantasies. ... Full story
NYC cop helps bring down Colombian drug lord - 06/18/2008
	NEW YORK � For two decades Diego Murillo was among Colombia's most feared and untouchable drug lords, accused of hundreds of murders as an enforcer for the cocaine cartels and leader of a right-wing paramilitary ... Full story
D.C. police chief defends checkpoints - 06/18/2008
	WASHINGTON, D.C. � The District of Columbia's police chief on Monday defended vehicle checkpoints in a neighborhood struggling with violence, saying the measure was a success and that no shootings occurred ... Full story
Iowa police protect citizens from unsafe areas - 06/17/2008
	CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa � Thousands of people didn't know Monday when they would be able to return to their flooded eastern Iowa homes. In Cedar Rapids, residents had been allowed to return home ... Full story
Hartford officers partner with state police - 06/16/2008
	HARTFORD, Conn. � Earlier this week, Hartford Police Chief Daryl K. Roberts met with Connecticut State Police Colonel Thomas Davoren at Hartford Police Headquarters to discuss the role of the Connecticut ... Full story
La. police rescue baby during fatal shooting - 06/13/2008
	MONROE, La. � A man shot and killed his estranged wife and her mother before killing himself Wednesday, police said. Police officers rescued a 4-month-old boy from the home only moments before ... Full story