Posts Tagged ‘police’

March 18 2010

Did bikers booby trap Calif. police building?

Authorities are investigating whether a motorcycle gang rigged a Southern California police building with booby traps after becoming angry when police monitored the funeral of a member.

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March 18 2010

Mexican marines raid town police force, nab 8 cops

VILLALDAMA, Mexico — Mexican marines detained more than half the police force of a northern rural town Wednesday for suspected ties to drug cartels.

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March 16 2010

Palestinians, Israeli police clash

Border policemen arrest a Palestinian protester during clashes at the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem on Tuesday.Dozens of Palestinian stone-throwers clash with Israeli police in East Jerusalem on a “day of rage” Hamas Islamists declare in protest at Israel’s consecration of an ancient synagogue.


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March 13 2010

Police: Suspect in poker heist released

A police car is parked next to Grand Hyatt hotel after a group of armed men stormed the hotel during a poker tournament in Berlin. Several participants at the European Poker tournament were slightly injured, police said. A suspect has been arrested in connection with a daring $331,000 raid on a poker tournament, according to German media reports.


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March 11 2010

Police departments seeking more bilingual cops

NYPD police officer Michael Belogorodsky, right, talks in Russian with Vladimir Traynin, owner of a Russian video store, in New York, on March 7. Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language.Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad.


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March 11 2010

NY man dies after police use stun gun on him

Police say they’re investigating the death of a 44-year-old New York man who died after a sheriff’s deputy used a stun gun to subdue him.

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March 11 2010

Drug arrests latest problem for R.I. police force

After three Providence police officers were arrested last week in a cocaine-peddling sting, Chief Dean Esserman called it a “hard day” for the department.

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March 9 2010

Retired NY police leader’s replacement now leaving

The replacement for the New York State Police superintendent who retired amid the scandal enveloping Gov. David Paterson announced his own retirement Tuesday after just a week in the top job.

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March 9 2010

Police search New Orleans for missing exec

Police scoured the French Quarter and checked with businesses for surveillance videotapes of a Texas energy executive who disappeared after walking out of a Bourbon Street bar.

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March 9 2010

Mexico police chief’s daughter, bodyguard killed

Gunmen opened fire on a police chief’s house in southern Mexico, killing his 23-year-old daughter and a bodyguard and wounding three others, police said Monday.

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