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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 12, 2009

Man Arrested In RV After 8-Hour Standoff

The wife of the suspect told police their two children (ages 9 and 12) may be with the man. Police were not able to convince the man to surrender, despite phone calls, public-address messages and flash-bang grenades.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 12, 2009

Dallas Police Find 2,000 Case Files in Detective's Garage

The Dallas Police Department is now sorting through sheaves of paperwork from the files of about 2,000 family violence cases that were found in a detective's garage, DallasNews.com reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 8, 2009

Families Show Solidarity For Ambushed Winston-Salem Officers

Families and the police chief of the two Winston-Salem police officers who were ambushed at a Bojangles restaurant on Wednesday by an armed gunman kept a vigil for the men, one of whom was gravely injured when he was shot in the face, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 7, 2009

Birmingham Chief Says Officers Made Proper Decision Not To Arrest Tigers' Cabrera

Birmingham police officers who released drunken Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, following a domestic violence call, followed department policy by not arresting the ballplayer, according to Chief Richard Patterson, the Detroit Free Press reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 5, 2009

LAPD Cuts DNA Evidence Backlog

A year ago, amid increasing community pressure, the department acknowledged that nearly 7,500 evidence kits from victims of those sex crimes were languishing in storage freezers without having been analyzed.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 30, 2009

Panasonic Introduces Toughbook Arbitrator 360° In-Car Video System

Panasonic Computer Solutions Company has announced the launch of the Toughbook Arbitrator 360° in-car digital video system, which can support up to six cameras in one law enforcement vehicle for comprehensive evidence capture.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 24, 2009

Phoenix Crime Scene Unit Now Accredited

Phoenix became the only municipal police department in the country - and one of nine agencies in the world - to have its mobile crime-scene specialists accredited by the same agency that lends credibility to crime labs. The hope is that the designation will help the department maintain consistent investigative standards in an era of rising public interest.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2009

U.S. Agent Takes Down Sex Tourists

Agent Megan DiPatri took the stand and described how millionaire Bucks County businessman Andrew Mogilyansky traveled to Russia and sexually assaulted three young teenagers brought to him from an orphanage.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2009

Prosecutor Calls for Investigation into Detroit PD's Handling of Rape Kits

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy wants an independent investigation into what she says may be thousands of kits holding evidence of possible sexual assaults that were found in a Detroit Police Department evidence storage facility.

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