Six bored pals launched crime spree: cops
New York Post Jun 27, 08 2:50 AM CDT
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Six bored Long Island teenagers have been busted for acting out the violent themes of the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto IV with a real life spree of break-ins, a mugging, a beating and a carjacking, police charge. "These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality," a detective told the New York Post . "It was quite alarming."
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Six adults charged, two convicted in case that shook small town
Associated Press Jun 23, 08 7:10 AM CDT
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Four children, the youngest just 5 years old, were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for crowds in a small Texas town, AP reports. Locals had believed the site of the shows was just a swinger’s club. Six adults have been charged in the case, including a parent of children involved; two were convicted and another will be tried today. All three face life in prison.
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Macedonian nailed after revealing
secret details
Associated Press Jun 23, 08 4:35 AM CDT
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Getting the scoop proved costly for a Macedonian journalist who has been charged with the murder of two elderly women after reporting on their deaths in his newspaper. Police began to suspect Vlado Tanevski after realizing his articles about the murders contained details that hadn't been revealed to the public. His DNA was later found on the bodies, AP reports.
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Diva faces community work, fine for kicking cops on flight
Times (UK) Jun 21, 08 2:09 PM CDT
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Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and about $5,600 in fines yesterday for her tantrum on a British Airways flight, the London Times reports. She pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers and berating the pilot after the airline lost her luggage. "You are not leaving until you find my f***ing bags," she allegedly told the captain.
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Famous face may draw 6 months for kicking, spitting
Associated Press Jun 20, 08 11:10 AM CDT
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Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty today to kicking and spitting at two police officers during an April "air rage" incident at Heathrow Airport. The short-tempered supermodel went ballistic when a bag was misplaced during the epic delays surrounding the opening of a new terminal. She faces 6 months in prison or a $10,000 fine for each of six assault charges and will be sentenced later.
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Younger woman assaults 71-year-old
CBS13 Jun 19, 08 6:23 PM CDT
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A woman in Stockton, Calif., is facing elder-abuse charges after she allegedly attacked a 71-year-old woman who caught her parking in a handicap spot without a permit, CBS reports. The victim says her 26-year-old assailant “put her baby down and came at me with both hands” when she saw the older woman taking a photo of her license plate. The victim was knocked down but not seriously hurt.
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Hookers, bookers await website founder's fate
New York Times Jun 17, 08 5:45 PM CDT
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Hookers and pimps are watching closely as “the most influential man” in US prostitution awaits trial. David Elms founded TheEroticReview.com, a site where users rate prostitutes and leave comments along the lines of Amazon book reviews. Sex traders fear his jailing and the subsequent closing of his site could hurt business, reports the New York Times .
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Broadcom honcho said to spike drinks with ecstasy, commit bribery
Associated Press Jun 17, 08 10:36 AM CDT
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Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas pleaded not guilty yesterday to securities fraud and drug charges, the AP reports. The former microchip king was accused of false accounting as well as dropping ecstasy into associates’ drinks, running a drug warehouse, and using bribery and death threats to keep it all quiet. The company’s former CFO also pleaded not guilty to fraud.
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California dad cut down by cops as he stomps son before horrified witnesses
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 17, 08 4:21 AM CDT
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A California grocery clerk shot dead by cops as he fatally beat his baby son did so to oust "demons" in the boy, he told witnesses. He removed his son from his car on a rural road and viciously beat him in front of horrified onlookers who tried in vain to stop him. "Good shot," said one witness after a cop downed him. "That guy needed to die."
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Murder of fellow troops, 'fragging,' is rare in Iraq
New York Times Jun 16, 08 8:24 AM CDT
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A soldier may soon face court-martial in the deaths of two US officers in Iraq, whom army prosecutors say he killed in a rare instance of “fragging”—the murder of a fellow soldier. The New York Times examines the case of Sgt. Alberto Martinez, who prosecutors say detonated a mine in Captain Phillip Esposito’s quarters in 2005, killing him and another officer. “I’m convinced this was 100% preventable,” said Esposito’s widow.
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Shante Broadus booked early Saturday in LA
Los Angeles Times Jun 15, 08 11:13 AM CDT
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Snoop Dogg’s wife was arrested early yesterday on suspicion of drunk driving, the Los Angeles Times reports. Shante Broadus, 32, was issued a citation and is scheduled to appear in court next month. Police would not comment on whether other people were in the vehicle. Broadus and Snoop Dogg have been married since 1997 and have three children.
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2 guns used may mean 2 killers, police say
CNN Jun 15, 08 8:51 AM CDT
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Police have released a sketch of a “person of interest” being sought for questioning in the mysterious shooting deaths of two young schoolgirls that have stunned a small rural community in Oklahoma. The man was seen on the same isolated dirt road where the bullet-riddled bodies of two friends who had spent the night together at a sleepover were found in a ditch last week.
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Tricky maneuvers help slake thirst for fuel
Newsweek Jun 14, 08 11:50 AM CDT
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With gas prices soaring above $4 a gallon, gas thefts are up across the country, and thieves are devising ever-more-creative means of snatching the stuff, Newsweek reports. Some manage to keep the gas flowing after paying for only a few gallons; others siphon fuel from unsuspecting drivers’ SUVs. Some even use life-threatening maneuvers to gather hundreds of gallons.
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Federal report describes system in crisis
Washington Post Jun 12, 08 5:46 AM CDT
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A record 7.2 million criminals were behind bars, on parole, or being supervised on probation in 2006—a figure that cost taxpayers $45 billion and has states rethinking sentencing laws and shipping inmates elsewhere, the Washington Post reports. Of that number, 2.3 million people were in jail or prison, the highest of any nation.
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