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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 15, 2011

N.C. Cop Fired at Vehicle That Struck Him

The incident began at about 3 a.m. Sunday on the 600 block of South King Street, when Officer Jon Rickett, 30, spotted a vehicle down a gravel road. He went to investigate, and the vehicle backed into him. He fired at the car, stopping it.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 13, 2011

San Diego Mayor Blames 'Absolute Jerks' for Tarnishing PD

Jerry Sanders, San Diego's mayor and former police chief, is backing current Chief William Lansdowne's efforts to address a spate of officer misconduct cases.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 21, 2011

Suspected Prostitute Left Babies In Car While Working

The 25-year-old Stockton woman was seen loitering on 16th Avenue near a dirty Oldsmobile. She was arrested in an undercover sting.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 10, 2011

Obama Friend Arrested In Hawaii Sex Sting

Robert "Bobby" Titcomb, 49, was one of four men arrested in an undercover sting operation late Monday and later released on $500 bail, confirms the Honolulu Police Department.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 5, 2011

Three More Bodies Found at Long Island Beach

So far, eight women have been found in Suffolk County between Gilgo Beach and Oak Beach since last summer. At least four were Craigslist hookers. Police are still searching for escort Shannan Gilbert, who has been missing since December.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 10, 2011

California Courts: When Is Someone a Pimp?

Jomo Zambia's lawyers argued that only someone who recruits innocent victims rather than working prostitutes or someone posing as a prostitute can be guilty of pandering.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 2, 2011

Bankrupt Calif. City Becomes Prostitution Magnet

City officials have had to trim the police force from 155 to 90, leaving the remaining officers with little time to haul in hookers and johns. As a result, streetwalkers and pimps have come from as far away as Oregon and Mexico to work Vallejo.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 21, 2011

Arizona LE, Nonprofits Bring Awareness To Human Slavery

As differentiated from human smuggling, these crimes involve forcing people against their will to work for others' profit. It could be a prostitute walking the streets for a pimp. It could be a cowering immigrant toiling in a sweatshop in a state of indentured servitude.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 15, 2011

Arlington PD Made 59 Super Bowl Prostitution Arrests

Arlington undercover officers called escort services' phone numbers listed in local publications and scoured the Web for sex-trade advertisements to set up meetings with suspects to make the arrests from Jan. 27 to Feb. 6.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 7, 2010

California Sheriff Can Fire Deputy Who Married Prostitute

A district appellate court sided with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who fired Deputy Emir Bautista in 2004, after his relationship with Shawn Crook became known to the department.

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