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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 1, 2011

N.C. to Take More DNA Samples

Sheriff's offices and police departments across North Carolina will begin gathering DNA from certain arrestees by collecting cells from inside their cheeks while they're in custody.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 27, 2011

Border Patrol Seizes Medieval Dope Catapult

The smugglers were observed by a remote video surveillance system, triggering a response by National Guard troops and Mexican authorities who disrupted the operation.

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Articlesby Joe Biela and Sam IzzarelliJanuary 26, 2011

Conn. Agencies Use Appriss to Track Sex Offenders

The public can now access the state's upgraded system to track the whereabouts of registered sex offenders by street location, city or town, or by a radial area, a registrant's name, or by compliance status. In addition, parents can print fliers on child safety from their own computers.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 22, 2011

Miami-Dade's Top Cop: Slain Officers Used Sound Tactics

Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus praised slain officers Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth and their unit, the career criminal squad, and said he wouldn't entertain doubts about their tactics.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 16, 2011

Arizona Man Shot After Pointing AK-47 at Deputy

After a fight with his wife, Felipe Ramirez Castellanos reportedly fired several rounds from the AK-47 at her while driving away. Deputies who stopped Castellanos as he drove away fired after he pointed the AK-47 at them from inside the vehicle. He was struck in the hip and head.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 13, 2011

NYPD Cops Should Have Ducked for Cover, Attorney Says

Officers Dawn Ortiz and India Archie were cleared of wrongdoing in 2008 by a police firearms review board soon after the shooting. However, Rita Bieniewicz, a prosecutor in the legal bureau, laid out the tougher disciplinary case against the cops in detail last week in an internal document.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 11, 2011

Seattle Detective Says Officer Followed Training In Woodcarver Shooting

Seattle PD's Det. Jeffery Mudd also testified that he would have dropped a knife if ordered to do so at gunpoint by a police officer - a reference to Williams' behavior just before he was shot.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 11, 2011

Toy AK-47 Triggers SWAT Standoff In California Town

A domestic disturbance call resulted in a tactical call-out Tuesday morning, after a woman told officers her boyfriend was barricaded in an apartment with an assault rifle.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 11, 2011

41 Shots Fired In Baltimore's Friendly Fire Death

Five Baltimore Police officers fired 41 rounds during a chaotic scene outside a nightclub on Sunday evening that led to the death of Officer William H. Torbit Jr. in a friendly fire incident.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 7, 2011

LASD Seeks Suspects In Video Assaults on Disabled Women

The assaults came to light, when a bundle of 11 DVDs were dropped off by an anonymous tipster at the sheriff's Monterey Park substation. Some of the footage is believed to have been taken from surveillance cameras, while other footage was likely shot with hand-held cameras of accomplices.

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