Tag: Sex Crimes: Page 10

Patrol

Garrido Search Turns Up Human Bone Fragment

Searchers picking through a pair of properties outside Antioch connected to alleged kidnapper and rapist Phillip Craig Garrido reported Monday that they had found a bone fragment, but it is not clear whether it is human, authorities said.

August 31, 2009

Patrol

UC Berkeley Officers' Alert Action Uncovers 18-Year Kidnap Victim

The timeline of the steps the two officers took came into sharper focus following Garrido's arrest, as university leaders, law enforcement officials and the media credited Lisa Campbell, the manager of special events, and Ally Jacobs, a campus police officer, with closing the 18-year-old case.

August 30, 2009

Training

Alabama Man Admitted Sex Crimes During Police Interview

A 21-year-old man who admitted to possessing child pornography and having sex with an underage girl during a job interview with Montgomery police has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, AL.com reports.

August 13, 2009

Technology

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.

July 15, 2009

Patrol

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 Los Angeles Times reports.

June 22, 2009

Patrol

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.

June 18, 2009

Patrol

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.

April 30, 2009

Patrol

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.

March 24, 2009

Patrol

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.

March 23, 2009

Patrol

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.

January 12, 2009

Patrol

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.

December 15, 2008

Special Units

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.

December 2, 2008