Police
Australian police seek barrel body killer
October 08, 2007Australian police are looking for the killer of a victim found stashed in a self storage facility in a barrel of what appears to be acid. Detectives are using closed-circuit footage from the storage shed to see if suspect Rob Hoogland, a former employer...
Police question man in deadly robbery
October 06, 2007Philadelphia police were questioning a man described as a “person of interest” Friday in the killing of two retired officers in a money truck robbery. The man was arrested in Northeast Philadelphia, a few miles from the Wachovia Bank branch...
Police detain Russian author Prilepin
October 06, 2007Author and activist Zakhar Prilepin was detained by police at a train station as he returned home to Nizhny Novgorod from a trip to Moscow. Prilepin -- the editor of the Nizhny Novgorod bureau of Novaya Gazeta and a member of the opposition movement...
South Africa investigates top police chief
October 05, 2007South Africa's national police commissioner will be formally investigated for alleged links to organized crime. Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi continues to have the support of South African President Thabo Mbeki, who earlier this year said he wasn...
Gunman found dead after standoff
October 05, 2007A gunman suspected of killing two people and wounding three others was found dead Friday when police stormed a law office in Alexandria, La. John C. Ashley, 63, of Alexandria, was found dead in the office of lawyer Joey Giordano, whose body was found...
Driver turns tables, beats speeding ticket
October 04, 2007Washington state police say they won’t change a favorite tactic -- parking without lights to catch speeders -- even though it backfired on them in court. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said Tuesday that a motorist turned the tables on the State...
Crime-stopping cardboard cop stolen
October 04, 2007The police officer at a British shop didn't move a muscle when thieves carted him away -- he couldn't because he was a cardboard cutout. Just days after police officials heralded the cutout's effectiveness in deterring shoplifting, the cutout itself...
Handcuffs may have strangled irate flier
October 01, 2007A woman who died in an airport holding cell may have been strangled while trying to free herself from handcuffs, Phoenix police said. Carol Anne Gotbaum, a 45-year-old mother of three, was detained after she became irate when she missed her flight...
Man uses backhoe to steal ATM in Fla.
September 28, 2007Police in Homestead, Fla., are looking for a thief who stole a backhoe and used it to haul away an ATM from a Bank of America. The ATM, which was stolen Tuesday, was believed to contain about $100,000 cash, police said. "I've seen some crazy...
Phony vet racks up $4,000 bar tab
September 26, 2007Police arrested a man who, claiming to be a police officer who was wounded while serving in Iraq, racked up a $4,000 bar tab in Barnstable, Mass. The man wasn't a vet, never served in the military and wasn't a police officer. Instead, Christopher...
