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Newsby Staff WriterApril 28, 2011

Fla. Traffic Violator Made Fake 911 Call to Avoid Arrest

A Florida man called 911 from his cell phone to report shots fired in an effort to divert a Collier County Sheriff's deputy from arresting him for driving with a suspended license.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 27, 2011

Feds Gave Local Agencies Conflicting Info on Fingerprint Program

Hundreds of e-mails led agencies to believe they could opt out of the mandatory program that provides fingerprints of arrestees to federal authorities. Inconsistent guidance was provided to agencies in e-mails that, at times, were sent from unknown senders.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 24, 2011

Texas Deputy Killed In Ambush

Johnson County (Texas) Sheriff's Deputy Clifton Taylor was killed Saturday afternoon, when a gunman opened fire from inside a shed.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 21, 2011

Suspected Prostitute Left Babies In Car While Working

The 25-year-old Stockton woman was seen loitering on 16th Avenue near a dirty Oldsmobile. She was arrested in an undercover sting.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 20, 2011

Ohio Sgt. Kills Self at Station

Sgt. Kevin Blakeley, 52, was notified at 7 a.m. Wednesday he would face disciplinary action as a result of an internal investigation. The 28-year veteran officer then took out his service weapon and killed himself.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 18, 2011

N.C. Man Urinated on Highway Patrol Cruiser

A Wilson man is expected in court in May on charges he urinated on a North Carolina Highway Patrol car parked in front of a county magistrate's office.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleApril 18, 2011

Chemical Suicides

When called to suicide scenes, emergency personnel don't always know what they're up against. With some 90 percent of chemical suicides posting warnings on the windows of the cars and rooms in which they kill themselves, one would hope that officers and firefighters would think twice before opening doors and breaching windows.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 15, 2011

16 Mexican Officers Accused of Aiding Cartels

Sixteen Mexican police officers have been arrested for allegedly protecting drug-cartel gangsters suspects in the grisly slaying of more than 120 people whose bodies were found in mass graves near Tamaulipas in northern Mexico.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2011

Suspect Found Dead In Charlotte Home, Following Standoff

Charlotte-Mecklenburg SWAT officers surrounded a home in the northern section of the city after receiving a call of shots fired at the location and, after attempting to contact the subject, entered the home to find him dead.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 11, 2011

Long Island Serial Killer May Be An Officer

Investigators are now considering the possibility that the serial killer who has dumped at least eight bodies of prostitutes at a Long Island beach could be a law enforcement officer. The killer may have a detailed knowledge of police techniques.

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