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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 23, 2010

El Paso Area Agencies Seek Federal Grant to Combat Border Crime

The El Paso Police Department is teaming up with a handful of other law enforcement agencies to seek a $5 million federal grant to fight crime along the border.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 16, 2010

Ancom Introduces Spill Proof Secure Pocket For Case File Storage

Ancom has introduced the SMEAD Spill Proof Secure Pocket that could be useful to law enforcement in evidence and case file storage.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 16, 2010

Ohio Officer Fatally Shot Responding to Disturbance Call

Elyria (Ohio) Police officer James Kerstetter was fatally shot during a neighborhood disturbance call after he located a suspect who may have exposed himself to a child, the agency announced.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 9, 2010

Michigan Officer, Suspect Killed in Shootout During Domestic Call

Jackson Officer James Bonneau was killed. Blackman Township Public Safety Officer Darrin McIntosh was shot in the lower body and taken to Allegiance Health. His wound is not believed to be life threatening.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 2, 2010

Mexican Drug Gangs Take Over National Parks and Forests

Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 1, 2010

Standoff in L.A. County Ends with Gunman Surrendering

A dramatic, nearly 10-hour standoff between the Los Angeles SWAT team and a gunman who shot and wounded a woman in a domestic dispute ended Sunday afternoon when the barricaded suspect surrendered.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 23, 2010

Supreme Court Validates Tampa PD's Miranda Warning

Kevin Dewayne Powell, who was arrested in August 2004 on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, informed officers he possessed a handgun, after police recited their standard Miranda warning to him.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 21, 2010

NYPD Will Videotape Interrogations

The initiative, which will begin in two of the department's 76 precincts, is opposed by the detectives' union and supported by city district attorneys.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 11, 2010

Agent Who Infiltrated Hells Angels Wins Key Ruling in Complaint Against ATF

Jay Dobyns, an ATF agent in Arizona for 22 years, contends in U.S. Court of Claims papers that his bosses failed to uphold an agreement to protect him after he received death threats from the Hells Angels.

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Articlesby David SpraggsFebruary 11, 2010

Firearms Forensics

I realized that even without the murder weapon, the prosecution still had an immense amount of significant ballistic physical evidence linking Abeyta to the murder. And thanks to good forensic work and the invaluable NIBIN database that tracks images of ballistics evidence, it was enough to convict him.

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