Category Archives: Criminal

Ariz. prison escapees believed to be in Yellowstone area

By doris | Published: August 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The search for two men who escaped from a private Arizona prison and their accomplice has turned to the vast Yellowstone National Park area after one of the inmates was linked to a double homicide in New Mexico. The U.S. Marshals Service said Sunday information developed within the past two days [...]

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Couple suspected in child’s kidnapping arrested in Arizona

By doris | Published: July 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A man and woman suspected of kidnapping a 5-year-old boy from Missouri were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, an FBI spokesman said. The boy — Devon Denman — was found unharmed Monday in the back seat of a stolen vehicle after a high-speed police pursuit in New Mexico [...]

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Abducted 4-year-old girl found in car wash

By doris | Published: July 7, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ST. LOUIS — A 4-year-old girl taken from her Louisiana, Mo., front yard has been found alive 80 miles away near St. Louis, NBC News reported late Tuesday. Alisa Maier was dropped off at a car wash, NBC said. She was being treated at a hospital but there was no word [...]

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N.J. man held at JFK: I’ll outdo Fort Hood killer

By doris | Published: June 8, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – The young men’s intentions were sinister, according to officials: to head to Somalia to seek terror training from al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists and unleash attacks against fellow Americans. But their preparations apparently were unsophisticated.

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NBC: Man held in Montreal is terror suspect

By doris | Published: June 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The man removed from an Aeromexico flight bound for Mexico City Sunday was the subject of a terror warning issued for the U.S.-Mexico border last week, senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News on Monday. Homeland Security had asked law enforcement in Houston to be on the lookout for [...]

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U.S. airports to adopt ‘tailored’ terror screening

By doris | Published: April 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The Obama administration is abandoning its policy of using nationality alone to determine which U.S.-bound international air travelers should be subject to additional screening and will instead select passengers based on possible matches to intelligence information, including physical descriptions or a particular travel pattern, senior officials said Thursday.

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BAE Systems to pay $400M fine

By doris | Published: March 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — British defense contractor BAE Systems has pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and was ordered to pay a $400 million criminal fine, authorities announced. A top Justice Department official said the fine is one of the largest criminal fines ever levied in the [...]

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Police, relative: California family’s disappearance doesn’t add up

By doris | Published: February 23, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A close relative of a missing Southern California family fears they may have been kidnapped. “My gut feeling is telling me that they are being held against their will in some way,” said Michael McStay, brother of Joseph McStay. “That’s my personal opinion. That’s what I think.” Joseph McStay, [...]

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Cops: Ariz. girl kept in bathroom for 2 months

By doris | Published: February 11, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PHOENIX – A malnourished Phoenix girl was locked in a bathroom without running water for two months, beaten with metal rods and forced to exercise until exhaustion because her father said she had stolen food and cheated on a home-school test, police say.

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Having lost her deputies, judge packs a gun

By doris | Published: January 11, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BOSTON – On many days, the metal detectors sit silent at the busiest courthouse in Maine. People arriving for everything from child custody hearings to murder trials walk through the machines without a beep. The detectors are off because the court can’t pay for officers to run them. With the recession [...]

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Thousands mourn slain teacher

By doris | Published: January 5, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Thousands stuffed the bleachers on both sides of a California high school football field Monday night to remember a beloved teacher who was slain in Mexico a few days ago. Grieving family members, friends and residents of El Monte, California, waved glowsticks in the air and listened to heartfelt stories about [...]

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Official: Dad warned U.S. of son but ‘no suggestion’ of terrorist act

By doris | Published: December 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — When the father of suspected terrorist Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab visited the U.S. embassy in Nigeria in November, he told officials he believed his son was under the influence of religious extremists and had traveled from London, England, to Yemen, a senior administration official said Monday. Revealing new details, [...]

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Failed Attack Signals New Threat?

By doris | Published: December 27, 2009

Full Story at CBS News.com (CBS/AP) U.S. counterterrorism officials are scrambling to assess a potential new threat from an explosive mixture that evaded detection aboard a Detroit-bound airliner but failed to bring down the plane. The suspect, identified by multiple law enforcement officials as a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, claimed to have ties [...]

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Cyber crime poses threat to e-commerce

By doris | Published: December 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce. “At current trends, in three or four years people will start to think twice about transacting on the Web, individuals and businesses,” said Michael Fraser, director [...]

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U.S.-born militant: Al-Qaida not behind killings

By doris | Published: December 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAIRO – Al-Qaida issued a new English-language video Saturday denying it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, calling such attacks un-Islamic. U.S.-born al-Qaida operative Adam Gadahn, who commonly delivers the organization’s English messages, said the extremist network was being framed for the bloodshed [...]

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Friday the 13th phobia? You have plenty of company

By doris | Published: November 13, 2009

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com CHICAGO – Henry Ford would have hated 2009, and not just because it’s been a tough year to sell cars. Ford, as the story goes, refused to do business on Friday the 13th, and this week marks the third time this year that the 13th will fall on a Friday — [...]

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Officers raid Texas home of suspect in Fort Hood shootings

By doris | Published: November 6, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) — Officers raided the apartment of the soldier suspected in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, early Friday, searching for clues as to what caused the military psychiatrist to allegedly gun down soldiers he had taken an oath to help, a police spokeswoman said. The alleged gunman, [...]

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First victim identified in Cleveland sex offender’s home

By doris | Published: November 5, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Cleveland, Ohio (CNN) — Authorities have identified the first of 11 bodies found at a Cleveland, Ohio, home as a 52-year-old woman who had been missing for about a year. Tonia Carmichael’s remains were found at the home of Anthony Sowell, but the news was no surprise to Carmichael’s family members. [...]

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Authorities search house in ‘balloon boy’ case

By doris | Published: October 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Heene is the storm-chasing father whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky late last week, sparking fears that his 6-year-old son Falcon was aboard. A dispatcher with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department declined to release any information about the search, but said the office will hold a news conference at [...]

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