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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 5, 2010

Drug Couriers Using Disguises and 'Cloner' Vehicles

The traffickers have been caught hauling marijuana along the Texas border in fake versions of a Walmart truck or FedEx van. They've employed sham school buses, dummy dump trucks and bogus ambulances.

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Videosby Staff WriterSeptember 4, 2010

Pennsylvania SWAT Team's Chicken Dance

View the Greer (Pa.) PD's entry into the city's 2010 Oktoberfest Chicken Dance Competition.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 3, 2010

Mexican Man Guilty of Assaulting Two Border Patrol Agents

Jaime Martinez-Garcia, 26, of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, was found guilty of two counts of assault on a federal officer and one count of illegal re-entry after deportation by a federal jury in Tucson on Tuesday.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 2, 2010

Parents of Slain Kids To Chicago Gang Members: How Dare You?

The gang members said they and other gang members were disrespected by police during a surprise meeting with Chicago PD's Superintendent Jody Weis and that their constitutional rights were violated.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 2, 2010

Discovery Channel Gunman was Armed with Starter Pistol, Bombs

The 'gunman' in yesterday's Discovery Channel hostage standoff was only armed with starter pistols, which are incapable of firing bullets. He also had bombs.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2010

Discovery Channel Gunman Dead, Hostages Released

Numerous sources are reporting that police shot and killed a man who took three people hostage at the company's headquarters this afternoon.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2010

SWAT Called to Discovery Channel's Maryland HQ, Gunman Inside

Montgomery County police have confirmed the Discovery Communications headquarters on Georgia Avenue in downtown Silver Spring has been evacuated after the report of a man possibly with explosives inside the building.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2010

SRO Reported S.D. Teen's School Bomb Plot

Joseph Thomas Hansen, 18, was arrested Aug. 23, the day before he was scheduled to begin his senior year at Sisseton High School. Police arrested the teen after a school resource officer received a tip about Hansen's suspected plot.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 31, 2010

Mexican Cartel Leader Will Face Trafficking Charges In Atlanta

The Texas-born Valdez-Villareal, who is known as "the Barbie" because of his blond hair and blue eyes, brought thousands of kilograms of cocaine between 2004 and 2006. His cartel is thought to have brought 100 kilos a week into the Atlanta area using tractor trailer trucks that crossed the border in Laredo.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 31, 2010

Mexico Fires 3,200 Federal Officers In Corruption Probe

Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes. An additional 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams.

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