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| Rapper Flavor Flav arrested on suspicion of assault Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:30 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Rap star Flavor Flav of the group Public Enemy was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and battery after his fiancée reported the pair had a fight, Las Vegas police said. The 53-year-old rap star, whose given name is William Drayton Jr, also threatened the woman's teenage son with a knife, police said in a statement. Police received a call before dawn from a residence in Las Vegas regarding the incident, police said. ... Full Story | Top |
| New app from Finland takes crime fighting to phone screen Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:01 PM PDT HELSINKI (Reuters) - Noisy neighbors and parking violators: beware. A new smartphone app being used in Finland allows reporting of nuisance crimes with a few clicks, and its developer has started to pitch its service to police services around Europe. The company, Grafetee, on Thursday globally launched its free location-based tagging application for Apple and Google Android devices. The app allows users to bookmark locations and link data from services like Foursquare, Yelp, Flickr and Instagram to the sites. ... Full Story | Top |
| Los Angeles County tax assessor arrested, charged with bribery Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:37 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles County's tax assessor was arrested on Wednesday and charged with accepting bribes from a consultant whose clients he allegedly aided by slashing their property values to save them millions of dollars in taxes, prosecutors said. Assessor John Noguez, who went on leave in June after it was revealed he was under investigation, was led out of his house in handcuffs by investigators with the local District Attorney's Office. ... Full Story | Top |
| Flavor Flav arrested in Las Vegas domestic case Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:03 PM PDT  Entertainer Flavor Flav threw his fiancee to the floor twice and grabbed two knives as he chased and threatened to kill her 17-year-old son during an argument Wednesday at their home in Las Vegas, a police report states. Full Story | Top |
| LA County assessor arrested in corruption case Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:01 PM PDT Los Angeles County assessor John Noguez, a top aide and a campaign contributor were arrested Wednesday as part of an investigation into influence peddling and slashing of property taxes for political allies. Full Story | Top |
| Feds: 1 arrested in plot to attack Federal Reserve Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:33 PM PDT  A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Florida man arrested for smuggling dinosaur bones from Mongolia Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:03 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A Florida man described as "a one-man black market in prehistoric fossils" was arrested on Wednesday on charges of smuggling dinosaur skeletons from Mongolia, authorities said. The arrest of Eric Prokopi, 38, of Gainesville, Florida, comes amid an international custody battle over a Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton seized by the U.S. government shortly after it was auctioned in Manhattan in May for $1.05 million. "Our recent seizure of the Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton from Eric Prokopi was merely the tip of the iceberg," Preet Bharara, the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Car 'Bomber' Arrested in Plot on New York Federal Reserve Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 01:27 PM PDT  Bangladeshi Man Arrested with Phony 1,000 LB Car Bomb in New York Full Story | Top |
| Israeli activist arrested at Western Wall Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 12:37 PM PDT Israeli police say they have arrested a female Jewish activist leader for wearing a traditionally male prayer shawl at a Jerusalem holy site, an act police prohibit because of Orthodox Jewish sensitivities. She was with an American Jewish women's group. Full Story | Top |
| Fossil Dealer in Disputed Dinosaur Case Arrested Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 10:36 AM PDT  Federal officials have arrested a Florida fossil dealer who is embroiled in an ownership dispute over a dinosaur skeleton, charging him with crimes related to a scheme to illegally import dinosaur fossils into the United States. Full Story | Top |
| In Rhode Island Campaign, Don’t Talk About the Mob Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 09:49 AM PDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. â€" One candidate rose to prominence as a cop, cutting his teeth in Rhode Island’s organized-crime unit. The other is the son of a famed mob lawyer who got his start as a criminal-defense attorney. Full Story | Top |
| Los Angeles Co. assessor arrested for corruption Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 09:26 AM PDT Los Angeles County assessor John Noguez has been arrested following a yearlong corruption investigation into influence peddling and slashing of property taxes for political allies. Full Story | Top |
| Tentative June trial set in Trayvon Martin case Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 09:04 AM PDT A judge has set a tentative trial date next year for a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer charged with fatally shooting an unarmed teenager. Full Story | Top |
| Attorney: Pittsburgh hostage-taker was off meds Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:29 AM PDT A defense attorney says his mentally ill client held a Pittsburgh businessman hostage last month because the suspect hadn't taken his medication and heard a crow and other voices telling him to do it. Full Story | Top |
| Ky. man sentenced to 8 years in investment scheme Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:04 AM PDT An Owensboro, Ky. man has been sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for a scheme to defraud investors in three states. Full Story | Top |
| Conn. man sentenced to 2 years for fraud Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:50 AM PDT A Madison, Conn. man has been sentenced to two years in prison for cheating investors out of $675,000. Full Story | Top |
| Crime-fighting ally a boon for France's Hollande Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 04:22 AM PDT  PARIS (Reuters) - While economic gloom drives President Francois Hollande's own poll ratings into the doldrums, his interior minister's tough line on crime is making him France's most popular politician. Images of the tough-talking Manuel Valls racing around the country to round up radical Islamist cells or nab corrupt cops contrast with the failing efforts of Hollande's government to halt a spate of industrial lay-offs. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. servicemen arrested in Okinawa for suspected rape Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:28 AM PDT  TOKYO (Reuters) - Two U.S. servicemen were arrested on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman, police said on Wednesday, a case that could again strain Tokyo's ties with its closest ally, Washington. The arrests come at a time when public opinion in Okinawa is at odds with Tokyo for allowing the U.S. deployment of Osprey hybrid aircraft on the island despite lingering concerns about their safety. ... Full Story | Top |
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