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L.A. Sheriff's Deputy Gunned Down Outside Family Home, Investigators Suspect Mexican Mafia

August 4 2008 - Top News

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy gunned down Saturday outside his boyhood home in Cypress Park had been assigned to guard the most dangerous inmates in the county, including members of the notorious Mexican Mafia gang, authorities said Sunday.

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Bioweapons Scientist Reportedly Commits Suicide as Federal Grand Jury Prepared to Indict Him on Anthrax Terrorism Charges

August 1 2008 - Top News

A federal grand jury was preparing to indict a Maryland bioweapons expert for his role in the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and terrorized the country, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.

Prosecutors were considering whether to seek the death penalty against Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked at an elite U.S. Army bioweapons laboratory in Fort Detrick. Ivins died Tuesday in an apparent suicide.

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S.C. Copper Theft Suspect Trapped Under Dumpster for Hours

August 1 2008 - Top News

A man was rescued from under a trash bin Wednesday morning in Dillon County, S.C., after what deputies called an attempted copper theft gone wrong.

Gibson Cook, 56, became stuck and was unable to free himself from under the trash bin at the Dillon County landfill on S.C. 57 while he was trying to steal copper wiring, Dillon County Sheriff’s Office reports show.

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Harley-Davidson to Hold Charity Events for C.O.P.S.

August 1 2008 - Product News

Harley-Davidson Motor Company is planning some memorable events to celebrate 105 years of Harley-Davidson Police motorcycles August 26-31, including the first ever Harley-Davidson-sponsored Riding Skills Competition. Proceeds from the four-day event will benefit Concerns of Police Survivors.

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$2 Million Bias Settlement Between Officers, Minneapolis Derailed

August 1 2008 - Top News

A proposed $2 million settlement of a lawsuit by five black Minneapolis police officers alleging racial discrimination by the city and the Police Department is off the table.

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Illinois Tells "Meth Coffee": No sale

August 1 2008 - Top News

Meth Coffee isn't welcome in Illinois, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Wednesday. 

The coffee is the latest drink with a name that sounds like a drug but isn't.

Madigan is demanding that the manufacturer discontinue marketing and sales of the product in the state.

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Two Oregon Cops Named NLEOMF Officers of the Month

July 31 2008 - Top News

For their joint efforts in searching for a missing elderly woman, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) has announced the selection of Sgt. Travis Ash of the Baker County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office and Senior Trooper Christopher M. Hawkins of the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division as its Officers of the Month for May 2008.

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Deputies Entering N.J. Home Attacked by Swarm of Bedbugs

July 31 2008 - Top News

Blood-sucking bedbugs infesting a Jersey City multi-family home triggered a huge hazmat response after sheriff's officers making an arrest found the place crawling with the critters and came under the attack of their bites yesterday, officials said.

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San Diego Officer Charged with Felony for Officer-Involved Shooting

July 31 2008 - Top News

At his arraignment yesterday, San Diego officer Frank White pleaded not guilty to one felony count of grossly negligent discharge of a firearm and one misdemeanor count of exhibiting a firearm. The first charge carries two enhancements for causing great bodily injury to Silva and her son. He faces up to nine years in prison if convicted.

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N.J. Names New Camden Police Chief, Triples Street Officers

July 31 2008 - Top News

Camden Deputy Police Chief John Scott Thomson yesterday was promoted to chief of police, taking over a department struggling to control drug dealing, gang warfare, and a homicide rate on a record pace.

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Popularity of C.S.I. Shows Helping Crime Labs Gain Funding

July 31 2008 - Top News

The very shows that have inflated juries' expectations for swift justice have helped attract the resources needed to modernize crime scene units—they're getting more high-tech equipment and anchoring their staffs with career-oriented specialists. Dallas is about to hire a civilian scientist to head up its crime scene response section for the first time.

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Alabama Drug Suspect Dies After Being Hit by Patrol Car

July 31 2008 - Top News

A Satsuma, Ala., police officer behind the wheel of a patrol car fatally injured a drug suspect Tuesday night when he accidentally ran over the man following a chase initiated by Baldwin County deputies on Interstate 65, officials said.

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Off-duty LAPD Officer Shot by Long Beach Police

July 31 2008 - Top News

A Long Beach police officer on Wednesday shot and wounded an off-duty Los Angeles police officer who allegedly brandished a shotgun and ignored officers' orders to drop the weapon.

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St. Louis Chief Under Attack in Towing Scandal

July 27 2008 - Top News

Federal investigators are examining why a towing company that does business with the St. Louis Police Department allowed the chief's daughter Aimie Mokwa and an untold number of officers to take extended "test drives" of formerly impounded vehicles.

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S.C. Sheriff Proposes Tent Jail to Ease Overcrowding

July 26 2008 - Top News

A compound on county-owned property complete with razor wire, chain-link fencing, canvas tents and portable showers and toilets dubbed "Camp Beaufort" may be the county's best chance to alleviate crowding in the Beaufort County (S.C.) Detention Center, Sheriff P.J. Tanner said.

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Critics Ask Maricopa County Supervisors to Rein in Arpaio, End Immigration Sweeps

July 25 2008 - Top News

Hundreds of critics of Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio packed the county chambers Wednesday to try to persuade the Board of Supervisors to put an end to his controversial immigration sweeps, to better monitor lawsuits related to his office, and to more closely examine his emergency response times and jurisdictional reach.

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Dallas Detective who Apprehended Kennedy Assassin Dies

July 25 2008 - Top News

On Nov. 22, 1963, Det. Paul L. Bentley pulled a ligament in his ankle diving across rows of seats at the Texas Theatre to subdue Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Badges Issued by Former California Sheriff to Civilians Will be Collected

July 25 2008 - Top News

Orange County (Calif.) Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said Wednesday that she plans to recall all the badges that her indicted predecessor handed out to a group of more than 400 civilian volunteers, many the county's most wealthy and influential residents.

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Probe: San Diego Police Dog Died of Heatstroke

July 24 2008 - Top News

The San Diego police dog left in the back of his handler's patrol car last month died of heatstroke, county investigators said yesterday, and it will be up to the District Attorney's Office whether it will charge the officer.

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Suspected MS-13 Gang Member Pleads Not Guilty in San Francisco Triple Murder

July 24 2008 - Top News

Edwin Ramos, 21, is accused of the June 22 shooting deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, in the city's Excelsior district. In an appearance before Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe, Ramos, who is believed to be an illegal alien who benefited from the city's sanctuary policy, spoke softly and slowly in denying each of the allegations. His attorney says that he is a legal resident.

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Philadelphia Police Radios Fail, Leaving Officers Without Communications

July 24 2008 - Top News

The main system and three backup systems went down for almost an hour when dozens of cops tried to get on the air at the same time and respond to an assist call from Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, who was at the scene of a wild North Philly brawl.

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Man Suspected of Ambushing Maplewood, Mo., Officers Kills Himself with Shotgun

July 24 2008 - Top News

The man who killed a Maplewood, Mo., firefighter and shot two police officers in an ambush attack killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head, police said Wednesday.

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Charlotte Cops Agree to Plead Guilty On Drug Charges

July 24 2008 - Top News

Two former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers cut a deal with federal prosecutors that, if a judge approves, would let them serve the minimum sentence for conspiring with a suspected drug dealer and informant to sell crack cocaine.

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Premature Son of Slain N.C. State Trooper Struggles for Life

July 24 2008 - Top News

Neurological challenges that have increased in severity may rule out needed heart surgery for the prematurely born baby of a slain North Carolina state trooper.

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Bell Helicopter Donates Helicopter to National Law Enforcement Museum

July 23 2008 - Product News

Visitors to the planned National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC, will get a good look at what airborne law enforcement is all about, thanks to a generous donation from Bell Helicopter. Bell, a Textron Inc. company, is donating one of its 206B helicopters to the Museum.

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