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Crime

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." -G. Gordon Liddy

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  • February 2008

    • Man Hacks Shrink to Death in NY Office

      New York Times  |  Feb 14, 08 10:15 AM CST

      Man Hacks Shrink to Death in NY Office

      (Newser) - Police are urgently hunting an unidentified man who walked into a New York psychologist's office Tuesday night and hacked her to death with a meat cleaver. Another doctor, who came to her rescue, was also slashed and left in critical condition, the New York Post reports. The killer pinned him to the wall with a chair, took his driver's license and $90 from his wallet, and warned him: "I know where you live." More »

    • Fla. Cop Throws Quadriplegic From Chair

      Sports News  |  Feb 13, 08 12:37 PM CST

      Fla. Cop Throws Quadriplegic From Chair

      (Newser) - Four Florida deputies have been suspended after one was taped dumping a quadriplegic man from his wheelchair and searching him on a jailhouse floor, Tampa Bay’s 10 News reports. The footage is silent, but Brian Sterner says deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones was irritated he refused to stand up. “It didn’t register that she was asking me to do something I can’t do.” More »

    • Women Report Sex Assaults by Contractors in Iraq

      New York Times  |  Feb 13, 08 11:03 AM CST

      Women Report Sex Assaults by Contractors in Iraq

      (Newser) - American women who report being sexually assaulted while working for contractors in Iraq are finding themselves stuck in a legal limbo, reports the New York Times . They are not covered by military laws, and the reach of American laws over US contractors abroad is still unclear. Contractors like KBR require workers to sign pacts saying disputes will be settled by private arbitration, leaving sexual assault victims unable to get justice. More »

    • Rebel Soldier Shoots East Timor Prez

      BBC  |  Feb 10, 08 7:54 PM CST

      Rebel Soldier Shoots East Timor Prez

      (Newser) - A rebel soldier shot East Timor's president today in an attack on his home, the BBC reports. President Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, underwent surgery at an Australian army hospital and is expected to live. The president’s guards shot and killed the assailant, Alfredo Reinado, who had vowed to use force against the government. More »

    • Notoriety Drives Mass Shooters

      ABC News  |  Feb 10, 08 3:19 PM CST

      Notoriety Drives Mass Shooters

      (Newser) - Gunfire ripped out across the country last week in a spate of deadly shootings that were unrelated but for one haunting thread: the shooters’ desire for attention, a forensic psychiatrist tells ABC News. “We have to take the Paris Hilton attention-seeking out of crime, or innocent people will be killed,” Dr. Michael Welner says. More »

    • Thieves Snag 2 Picassos

      Guardian (UK)  |  Feb 8, 08 2:28 PM CST

      Thieves Snag 2 Picassos

      (Newser) - Thieves stole two Picasso paintings that belong to a German museum from a Swiss art gallery where they had been on display, the Guardian reports. The pilfered works, Tete de Cheval and Verre et Pichet, were on loan from the Sprengel Museum. Combined, they're worth $4.5 million, AFP reports. More »

    • Bar Hopeful Planned Super Bowl Massacre

      Associated Press  |  Feb 8, 08 12:42 PM CST

      Bar Hopeful Planned Super Bowl Massacre

      (Newser) - A would-be bar owner was so angry over being denied a liquor license  that he nearly shot up the Super Bowl, the AP reports. Toting an assault rifle and 200 rounds of ammo, John Havelock got all the way to the the Super Bowl parking lot before he thought better of the blood-soaked “econopolitical confrontation” promised in an 8-page rant sent to local media. More »

    • Lawsuit: ORU Leaders Stole $1B a Year

      Associated Press  |  Feb 8, 08 9:06 AM CST

      Lawsuit: ORU Leaders Stole $1B a Year

      (Newser) - Oral Roberts University leaders funneled $1 billion a year from the books for their personal use, a former accountant alleges in a lawsuit. The charges are the latest accusations of financial misdeeds to hit the college, the AP reports. The suit names former president Richard Roberts and his wife as among the defendants. Board members also participated, says the suit, so "the foxes were watching the hen house." More »

    • Mo. Gunman Kills 5 at City Hall

      St. Louis Post-Dispatch  |  Feb 7, 08 9:23 PM CST

      Mo. Gunman Kills 5 at City Hall

      (Newser) - A gunman opened fire tonight at a city council meeting in suburban St. Louis, killing five people before being shot to death by police, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Two others were wounded, one of them critically. Police said the man killed an officer outside City Hall, then entered the building and council chambers, where he shot the others.  More »

    • 5 Dead After Calif. Shootout

      Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 7, 08 3:12 PM CST

      5 Dead After Calif. Shootout

      (Newser) - An overnight siege northwest of Los Angeles ended this morning when a police sniper killed a gunman responsible for wounding one SWAT officer and killing another, the Los Angeles Times reports. The man called 911 last night to report shooting three of his family members dead; SWAT officer Randal Simmons was killed when police stormed the San Fernando Valley house. More »

    • Huge Mob Bust Bags Dozens in NY, Sicily

      New York Times  |  Feb 7, 08 11:42 AM CST

      Huge Mob Bust Bags Dozens in NY, Sicily

      (Newser) - Authorities in New York and Sicily unleashed a massive mob takedown today, indicting more than 60 suspects, including the entire Gambino family leadership, the New York Times reports; 52 have already been arrested, including underboss Domenico Cefalu and consigliere Joseph Corozzo. “I can't think of a larger single-day roundup,” a source told the New York Post. “It dismantles the infrastructure of the family.” More »

    • Drug Cartels Aim to Master the Deep

      Washington Post  |  Feb 6, 08 7:41 PM CST

      Drug Cartels Aim to Master the Deep

      (Newser) - Colombian drug cartels are increasingly relying on homemade submersibles to transport cocaine, the Washington Post reports, with 13 such vessels seized last year—more than in the previous 14 combined. The vehicles skim just under the waves, nearly invisible to sonar and aircraft. And even enforcement officials have grudging respect for the ingenuity the traffickers show in constructing them. More »

    • How Bad's Your Neighborhood? Find Out Online

      Associated Press  |  Feb 5, 08 5:43 PM CST

      How Bad's Your Neighborhood? Find Out Online

      (Newser) - Neighborhood Watch just got a digital upgrade, reports the AP. CrimeReports.com, the brainchild of a suburban DC dweller who accidentally let a burglar into his apartment building, mines police logs for data on crimes and plots them all on Google maps. Users can set up email alerts to keep tabs on criminal happenings going on around them. More »

    • Man Admits Sex With Slain Model

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 5, 08 3:00 PM CST

      Man Admits Sex With Slain Model

      (Newser) - A British man on trial for the murder of an 18-year-old model admits that he had sex with her corpse but denies killing her. Mark Dixie says he was high and drunk when he found Sally Anne Bowman’s body and took "advantage of the situation," the prosecutor said today at the Old Bailey, adding, “That, astonishingly, is his defense.” More »

    • Scout Held in Family Massacre

      Baltimore Sun  |  Feb 4, 08 3:07 AM CST

      Scout Held in Family Massacre

      (Newser) - A 15-year-old Baltimore area Boy Scout has been charged with murdering all four members of his family. High school sophmore Nicholas Browning shot his father, a prominent corporate lawyer, his mother, and  brothers, ages 11 and 13, reports the Baltimore Sun . Police say he used his father's handgun during the rampage, triggered by an argument with his dad. The teen is being held without bail. More »

    • Cops Closing Doors on Cold Cases

      USA Today  |  Feb 3, 08 11:15 AM CST

      Cops Closing Doors on Cold Cases

      (Newser) - Amid shrinking budgets and shifts in focus, US police departments are downsizing their cold-case divisions, USA Today reports. Federal funding for the units dropped 40% in 2007, and departments are reducing the hours devoted to long-unsolved cases—and even eliminating the positions entirely. Experts in the field worry that such measures leave murderers to roam free. More »

    • Chicago Cops Seek Killer of 5

      Chicago Sun-Times  |  Feb 2, 08 2:00 PM CST

      Chicago Cops Seek Killer of 5

      (Newser) - Police are searching for a stocky black man who reportedly shot five women dead in a Chicago mall burglary this morning, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Police surrounded the Tinley Park mall after shots were reported at a Lane Bryant store just before 11 a.m. “There is no question it was a horrific scene,’’ said a police source. More »

    • Aruba May Bust Holloway Suspect Again

      CNN  |  Feb 1, 08 11:04 PM CST

      Aruba May Bust Holloway Suspect Again

      (Newser) - Aruban police may rearrest a Dutch teen after he admitted on camera to dumping the body of Natalee Holloway, CNN reports. Joran Van der Sloot claimed today that his confession was a lie, but Aruba's main public prosecutor has reopened his probe and awaits a judge's ruling on the arrest this weekend. Officials had closed the case for lack evidence until a Dutch reporter showed them the video. More »

    • Drifter Gets Life in Hiker Murder

      Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Feb 1, 08 6:42 AM CST

      Drifter Gets Life in Hiker Murder

      (Newser) - A Georgia drifter who pleaded guilty to killing 24-year-old hiker Meredith Emerson  was sentenced yesterday  to life in prison, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Gary Michael Hilton, 61, led police to the victim's decapitated body on Blood Mountain days after her disappearance. Hilton had been charged with kidnapping and malicious murder and faced a possible death sentence. He is also a suspect in three other killings. More »

  • January 2008

    • New DNA Found on Slain British Student's Bra

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jan 31, 08 5:45 PM CST

      New DNA Found on Slain British Student's Bra

      (Newser) - Mystery DNA found on the bra of Meredith Kercher could point to more players in the November murder of the British student in Italy, the Telegraph reports, though police maintain the traces indicate only that others handled it. "All we know for certain is that it does not match any of the suspects," a source says. More »

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at alleged drug trafficker Zhenli Ye Gon, who is tied to the largest seizure of drug cash in world history, has been arrested in Rockville, Maryland. He is wanted in Mexico on organized crime, drug trafficking...   (Associated Press)
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crime A crime is held to be an offence which goes beyond the personal and into the public sphere, breaking prohibitory rules or laws, to which legitimate punishments or sanctions are attached, and which requires the intervention of a public authority (the state or a local body). Ideally, the ...

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