Category Archives: Arrested

Marine gets 30 days in hazing case linked to suicide

By doris | Published: January 31, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii — A Marine accused of hazing a colleague who later committed suicide in Afghanistan was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail and a reduction in rank. Navy Capt. Carrie Stephens, the judge in Lance Cpl. Jacob Jacoby’s special court-martial, handed down the sentence after Jacoby pleaded guilty [...]

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Mom forces teen to wear sign: ‘I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow the law’

By doris | Published: January 12, 2012

Full Story at thegrio.com FORT WAYNE, INDIANA – A frustrated mom has given her wayward teenage son the ultimate punishment: public humiliation. The 14-year-old was forced to stand on a busy street for two hours with a massive sign hanging around his neck, which read, “I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow [...]

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Seattle welfare recipient lives in million-dollar home

By doris | Published: December 6, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com A Seattle woman who is receiving welfare assistance from Washington state also happens to live in a waterfront house on Lake Washington worth more than a million dollars. Federal agents raided the home this weekend but have not released the woman or her husband’s name because they have not officially been charged [...]

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13 more students surrender in SAT cheating scandal in NY

By doris | Published: November 22, 2011

Full Story at U.S.News.msn.com NEW YORK – Officials announced 13 arrests Tuesday in an SAT scandal in which test-takers allegedly accepted money to impersonate other students, two months after prosecutors first charged a 19-year-old man with forging identities, even posing as a female student to take the exam for her at one point. Thirteen former [...]

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London police authorize plastic bullets if riot erupts at protest

By doris | Published: November 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Some 4,000 officers will be on the streets during the march in central London, which authorities fear may be hijacked by anarchists and troublemakers. The extra measures come after student protests last year descended into chaos. Rampaging demonstrators smashed Conservative Party headquarters on Nov. 10, and on Dec. 9 Prince Charles’ [...]

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Occupy Chicago: At least 100 anti-Wall Street protesters arrested in Grant Park

By doris | Published: October 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com CHICAGO — At least 100 anti-Wall Street demonstrators were arrested early Sunday after defying police orders to clear out of a downtown Chicago park, authorities said. Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kaunert vowed after the arrests that the demonstrators would be coming back. “We’re not going anywhere. There are still plenty of [...]

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Pepper spray used on demonstrators at Air and Space Museum

By doris | Published: October 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Authorities used pepper spray on a group of protesters trying to enter the National Air and Space Museum on Saturday, forcing the building to close about two hours early. One person was arrested, according to Linda St. Thomas, a spokeswoman for the Smithsonian Institution, which runs that and [...]

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More than 100 arrested in massive NYC theft ring

By doris | Published: October 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Bank tellers, restaurant workers and other service employees in New York lifted credit card data from foreign tourists and residents as part of an identity theft ring that stretched to China, Europe and the Middle East and victimized thousands, authorities said Friday. In total, 111 people were arrested [...]

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1 dead in shooting as motorcycle club members brawl inside Nevada casino

By doris | Published: October 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles (CNN) — A brawl between motorcycle club members at a western Nevada casino devolved into a gunfight that left one person dead and two wounded, police said Saturday. Around 11:25 p.m. Friday, a fight broke out among members of the Hell’s Angels and Vagos clubs in front of the [...]

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Mass. man accused of plotting attack on Pentagon, Capitol

By doris | Published: September 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BOSTON — A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with plastic explosives, federal officials said.Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, of Ashland, was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al-Qaida in order to carry [...]

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Officials: Freed hikers heading for U.S.

By doris | Published: September 25, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Muscat, Oman (CNN) — Two American hikers freed this week from an Iranian prison will leave Oman for the United States late Saturday, American and Omani officials said. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were released by Iran on Wednesday and were flown to Muscat, Oman’s capital, where they enjoyed several days [...]

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U.S. hikers in Iran get 8 years in prison, state media reports

By doris | Published: August 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Tehran, Iran (CNN) — The two U.S. hikers detained for two grueling years in Iran on spying charges have been sentenced to eight years in prison, Iran’s state-run TV reported Saturday. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer each received five years for espionage — specifically “cooperating with the American intelligence service” — [...]

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Australian collar bomb suspect arrested in Kentucky

By doris | Published: August 16, 2011

Full Story at newsYahoo.com LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) – A man wanted in Australia for allegedly strapping a fake bomb to the neck of a teenage girl was arrested near Louisville on Monday, authorities said. Paul “Doug” Peters, an Australian national who police in New South Wales were seeking to apprehend in connection with last month’s [...]

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Forces in Afghanistan kill militants involved in downing of copter

By doris | Published: August 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for the downing of a helicopter that left 38 U.S. and Afghan personnel dead, the commander of U.S. forces there and NATO announced Wednesday. A precision airstrike killed Mullah Mohibullah — a Taliban leader — and the [...]

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Boy who was stuffed in oven: Don’t jail my dad

By doris | Published: August 5, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — A Staten Island boy, whose father burned his hands on the stove and then tossed him naked into an oven, begged a Staten Island judge on Friday to go easy on his father. The youngster’s emotional appeal worked. “He made a big mistake, but really somewhere in his [...]

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Dozens charged in international child porn ring bust

By doris | Published: August 3, 2011

Full Story at Dozens charged in child porn ring bust – US news – Crime & courts – msnbc.com WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities said Wednesday they have dismantled a worldwide child pornography ring that traded illicit images over the Internet using sophisticated encryption. Investigators said an estimated 600 people used a private, members-only Internet bulletin [...]

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Police Bust Lemonade Stands Nationwide

By doris | Published: July 22, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com July should be prime lemonade stand season, but it’s been a rough summer for the industry. Police busted three Georgia girls for selling glasses of icy lemonade outside their house last Friday. The trio was trying to raise money for tickets to a local waterpark, but they committed one infraction: operating a [...]

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More illegal immigrants from India crossing border

By doris | Published: July 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only [...]

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Casey Anthony not guilty of murder, other charges in daughter’s death

By doris | Published: July 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After less than 11 hours of deliberation, a jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter. But the jury convicted her on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law [...]

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FBI: Man took cab from home to rob bank, then rode to work

By doris | Published: June 24, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MIAMI — The FBI has arrested a man accused of putting on a suit and tie, robbing a South Florida bank and then leaving in a taxi. Jeffrey Harrington, 27, of North Miami, is accused of robbing the Bank of America branch in Hallandale Beach on Tuesday morning. He was arrested [...]

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