Category Archives: Arrested

Kindergartner, 6, arrested and charged with battery for kicking principal

By doris | Published: April 29, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.comWhat is going on with this world?  There is to much fighting going on and there is no respect for anyone any more. Some of the parents just don’t care and others are to busy to see what the children are doing. Some parents better put a better example for their children. [...]

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Jailed for $280: The return of debtors’ prisons

By doris | Published: April 23, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (MoneyWatch) How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn’t owe. “She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn’t have to pay it,” The Associated Press reports. [...]

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Ex-California teacher who moved in with student arrested on 1998 molestation charge

By doris | Published: April 7, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Christopher James Hooker, the Modesto, Calif., ex-teacher whose romance with a student drew attention from around the world, was arrested Friday after being charged with one count of oral copulation with a minor in an incident that police said happened 14 years ago, the Modesto Bee reported. The charge stems from [...]

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Man arrested after alleged ‘fight’ in front of Disney ride

By doris | Published: February 22, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com A man was arrested over the weekend after allegedly attacking workers in front of the Tower of Terror ride at Disney’s California Adventure Park in Anaheim. In a YouTube video of the encounter, the man is seen flailing at a security employee and struggling to keep his balance outside the ride. [...]

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Nigerian underwear bomber to be sentenced in Detroit

By doris | Published: February 16, 2012

Full Story at Yahoo.com DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal judge is set to decide on Thursday if the Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit in 2009 will spend the rest of his life in prison. A bomb hidden in the underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, [...]

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Entire staff to be replaced at LA school where 2 teachers were arrested

By doris | Published: February 7, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 12:54 a.m. ET: The Los Angeles Unified School District is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary following the arrest of two teachers on lewd conduct charges last week, Superintendent John Deasy told parents at a meeting Monday night, the Los Angeles Times reported. Positions will be filled by [...]

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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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