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Inside the Badge by Paul ClintonJuly 15, 2009

Improve Your Cybercrime Expertise

Learn more about how to stop people who hang out in chat rooms waiting for unsuspecting victims or send fraudulent e-mails about money scams this summer at the National Forensics Training Center.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 23, 2009

L.A. County Sheriff Suspends DNA Testing in Sexual Assault Cases

Out of cash and understaffed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has suspended its faltering effort to analyze DNA evidence from thousands of rape and sexual assault cases, the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 19, 2009

Child Sex Tourism Growing in Border Cities Like Juárez, Report Says

Child sex tourism continues to grow in Mexican northern border cities like Tijuana and Juárez, according to a U.S. State Department report.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2009

LAPD Ties 72-year-old Man to Two Waves of Serial Killings

DNA leads detectives to John Thomas Jr., 72. He is held in two slayings, but police suspect he may have killed up to 30 elderly Westside and Claremont women a decade apart.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 25, 2009

Oakland Cop Killer Suspected of Raping 12-year-old

Lovelle Mixon was linked by DNA to the February rape of a 12-year-old girl who was dragged off the street at gunpoint in the East Oakland neighborhood where Mixon's sister lived, police said Tuesday.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 24, 2009

Oakland Cop Killer Linked to Rape

The day before Lovelle Mixon unleashed a barrage of gunfire that killed four Oakland police officers, the department's investigators learned that DNA evidence had linked the fugitive parolee to an unsolved rape this year, authorities said Monday.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 13, 2009

A Hero's Fall: Honored for Trolley Square Bravery, Hammond Now an Ex-Cop

Ogden, Utah, police officer Ken Hammond, called a hero for confronting Trolley Square gunman Sulejman Talovic in February 2007, resigned from the force Friday following accusations of having sex with a minor.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 16, 2008

Texas Man Charged with Molestation After Police Read Girl's Letter to Santa

A 55-year-old Pharr resident was arrested after a young relative wrote a letter to Santa Claus wishing that the man would stop molesting her.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 3, 2008

North Carolina Toughens Gang, Hate Crime Laws

Adults and young people involved in gang activity as well as people who burn crosses or sexually assault children now face tougher punishments as 25 new laws took effect Monday in North Carolina.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 13, 2008

L.A. County Sheriff's Officials Acknowledge that Genetic Evidence in 5,635 Rape Cases May be Untested

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under pressure from county supervisors and watchdog groups to account for its handling of DNA evidence from sexual assault cases, acknowledged Wednesday it did not know whether genetic evidence from more than 5,600 rape cases had been examined.

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