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L.A. County Sheriff's Officials Acknowledge that Genetic Evidence in 5,635 Rape Cases May be Untested

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under pressure from county supervisors and watchdog groups to account for its handling of DNA evidence from sexual assault cases, acknowledged Wednesday it did not know whether genetic evidence from more than 5,600 rape cases had been examined.

November 12, 2008

FBI Warns of Looming Mexican Drug Cartel Violence in South Texas

Frustrated by a crackdown on South Texas drug smuggling routes, the Mexican Gulf Cartel is stockpiling high-powered weapons and recruiting local gang members on both sides of the border to prepare for possible confrontations with U.S. law enforcement, according to an FBI intelligence report.

October 29, 2008

S.C. Governor, NAACP Oppose Collection of DNA from Felons

Reggie Lloyd, director of the State Law Enforcement Division, said he also was concerned with the new law and its potential to direct scarce resources away from core functions such as keeping officers on the streets.

October 29, 2008

61 Mongols Motorcycle Gang Members Arrested on Racketeering Charges

Dozens of burly, tattoo-covered Mongol motorcycle gang members were arrested today by federal agents in six states from the West Coast to the Midwest on warrants ranging from drug sales to murder after a three-year undercover investigation in which four agents successfully infiltrated the group.

October 22, 2008

Sex Offenders Challenge Mo. Law Banning Them from Halloween Activities

Four Missouri sex offenders are challenging a new state law that confines them to their darkened homes on Halloween and restricts them from contact with children that night.

October 7, 2008

New Book Details How to Retrieve Forensic Data from an iPhone

"Phone Forensics," Jonathan Zdziarsk supplies the knowledge necessary to conduct complete and highly specialized forensic analysis of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. Intended for lawful forensic examination of devices by corporate security officers, law enforcement personnel, and private forensic examiners.

October 7, 2008

Spillman Releases Jail Imaging Software

Spillman Technologies officially released Spillman Sentryx 6.0 to nearly 500 public safety personnel at the annual Spillman Users Conference held in Salt Lake City this week.

October 7, 2008

Gangs Blamed in Almost Half of San Diego Homicides in '07

Nearly half the homicides with known motives in San Diego County last year were at the hands of gangs, according to a study looking at victims and suspects of violent crime.

October 7, 2008

Authorities Break Up U.S.-Canada Drug Ring

Late last year, Nathanael Lineham got a panicked phone call, prosecutors say. An associate working with Lineham to bring the drug ecstasy to California from Canada told him a shipment of 85,000 pills had been seized. Lineham was calm. After all, the deals were struck using coded e-mails -- on encrypted BlackBerrys from Lineham's own company.

October 4, 2008

Undercover Denver Police Unit Praised by Brass

The small group has used their brains rather than their guns to outwit and arrest 933 fugitives, including 58 suspected of murder or attempted murder, 124 wanted on sex crimes, 155 gang members and 209 sought on domestic-violence charges.

September 25, 2008

DEA Arrests 175 Mexican Drug Trafficking Suspects

In what prosecutors said was a significant step in fighting the drug wars raging on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Justice Department said Wednesday that 175 people believed to be connected with one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels were arrested this week in a dozen states.

September 17, 2008

Brits Develop Method for Lifting Prints from Wiped Cartridge Casings

Authorities in Britain and the United States used the method to re-open three cold cases, including a U.S. double murder that police are now optimistic of solving, said John Bond, the physicist who developed the technique.

September 4, 2008

Detroit Mayor Pleads Guilty, Will Resign from Office

The mayor was charged with eight felony counts ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice after the Free Press revealed that the mayor lied on the witness stand during a police whistle-blower trial and gave misleading testimony about whether he intended to fire a deputy police chief.

September 3, 2008

NYPD Dispatcher Allegedly Arranged Sexual Tryst With 14-Year-Old Girl

When the 56-year-old man arrived at the Philadelphia-area mall last Friday morning, FBI agents arrested him and found nine condoms, bottles of flavored lubricant, and a high-definition video camcorder in a bag that he had in his car.

August 20, 2008

Popularity of CSI Shows Helping Crime Labs Gain Funding

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.

July 30, 2008

Texas Still Plans to Execute Killer Despite U.N. Order

Texas will go ahead with the scheduled Aug. 5 execution of Houston rapist-killer Jose Medellin despite Wednesday's United Nations world court order for a stay, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry said.

July 16, 2008

FBI Announces Contract Award for Next Generation Identification System

The FBI announced it has awarded Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions the contract for the design, development, documentation, integration, testing, and deployment of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) System.

March 2, 2008

Rotting Body Discovered During Filming for TV Show

Life imitated art for hit forensic investigation drama CSI: New York when a real mummified corpse was found in the building where an episode was being filmed.

August 31, 2006

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