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A Lehigh Acres man was arrested in Collier County Monday on charges of Indecent Exposure in Public after he allegedly exposed himself to two women in a Walmart parking lot. The incident occurred at 5420 Juliet Blvd. in Naples. According to a Collier County Sheriff’s Office report: David Todd Napodano, 42, told investigators he was found naked in his van because he had “explosive diarrhea” and was using his underwear to clean himself. The victims told investigators they were looking for their vehicle in the parking lot when they saw Napodano naked in his van and exposing himself to them.

The Middlesex County Democratic Organization has fired a paid canvasser who falsely claimed to be the assistant deputy director of Governor Corzine’s re-election campaign when arrested by East Rutherford police Friday night. < snip > Silverstein also confirmed that the vehicle that Shih was driving when he was pulled over Friday night in East Rutherford was rented by the organization. He said he did not know whether Shih was in Bergen County on official MCDO business or on a personal errand.

The rabble-rousing Rev should give his daughter a sermon about road rage. The Rev. Al Sharpton's ex-wife and daughter were arrested last night after berating a pair of Harlem cops who pulled them over for running a red light in the wrong lane to get around their slow-moving, unmarked cruiser, sources told The Post. Kathy Jordan, 53, and her daughter, Dominique Sharpton, 23, were handcuffed and hauled to a precinct, where the raging reverend's daughter tried to no avail to get off the hook because of her family ties, the sources said. The road rage incident began around 7:30 p.m....

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2009 – Iraqi forces, with U.S. advisors, conducted a series of operations today resulting in the arrest of 11 suspects in vehicle-bomb networks operating between Baghdad and Mosul. Iraqi forces searched several buildings in western Baghdad for a suspect believed to be responsible for a truck bomb that struck government buildings in Baghdad and killed at least 150 people. The cell leader also is suspected of staging the deadly Aug. 19 attacks in the Iraqi capital. Based on evidence found in the buildings, Iraqi forces arrested eight people suspected of being linked to a bomb network in...

A northwestern Wyoming man received a citation for letting his horse wander in Worland, but not before he complained to town law enforcement officials about the absence of a hitching post in front of the local saloon. William Schellinger was cited by Washakie County law enforcement officers for allowing his horse to run at large in this city along the Big Horn River. Schellinger was apparently in a bar early Sunday when his horse wandered away, prompting police to follow it to make sure it didn't cause an accident with a car. After being confronted by officers, Schellinger contended the...

Now that the Bush administration is no longer there to actively lobby for Israel, the situation for the Jewish state at the hands of the assorted Israel bashers and anti-Semites of the world is growing more and more grave. Currently, the top-of-the-page headline on the home page of the influential left-wing British newspaper The Guardian is “Lawyers seek arrest of Israeli defence minister in UK for alleged war crimes.”

I must be missing something, why is everyone defending "poor Roman Polanski" the guy did not skip town over a traffic violation. In 1977, Roman Polanski, then aged 44, drugged and raped 13-year-old Samantha Gailey (now Samantha Geimer). On March 10, 1977 at the Mulholland area home of actor Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles. "We did photos with me drinking champagne," Geimer says. "Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realized he had other intentions and I knew I was not where I should be. I just didn't quite know how to get myself out of there."...

The United States military said Sunday that American and Iraqi troops had arrested a suspect in the murders of at least 13 members of the Iraqi national tae kwon do team in 2006, in a possible resolution of a case that was among the more vexing crimes at the height of Iraq’s sectarian warfare. The team and its coaches were traveling from Baghdad to Jordan in May 2006 to attend a training camp and try to get visas to the United States for a tournament in Las Vegas. All 15 people, and the two sport utility vehicles they were in,...

This is the right way to handle unwashed hippy left-wing moonbat anarchists. When guys in camo and with M-16s come to get you and toss your flea-bitten hippy anarchist a$$ into an unmarked Crown Victoria - you have a problem.VIDEO Trouble is, this is what the Obamunists want to do with all right wingers.

DENVER – An airport shuttle driver under arrest in Colorado may have been planning with others to detonate backpack bombs on New York City trains in a terrorism plot similar to past attacks on London's and Madrid's mass-transit systems, officials said. The investigation into the possible terror plot has prompted counterterrorism officials to warn mass-transit systems around the nation to step up patrols.

Federal agents Saturday reportedly took Najibullah Zazi, the man under investigation in a terrorism probe in New York, and his father into custody after swarming his Aurora, Colo., apartment. At 9:30 p.m., 15-20 law enforcement cars reportedly swarmed into the parking lot of Zazi's apartment. Both Najibullah's Zazi and his father, Muhommad, were removed from the apartment in handcuffs.

RACINE - Normally inside Mechanix Auto Shop, repair is done on cars. Saturday, it was done on a man's reputation. Hubert Hoffman, a member of www.opencarry.org, organized a gathering to support Frank Hannan-Rock. Most everyone there was openly carrying a firearm, which is legal in Wisconsin. "You stand by your friends," Hoffman said. "Frank was, in my opinion harassed and detained unlawfully." It all started Wednesday night when Racine Police were investigating a raccoon shooting in Hannan-Rock's neighborhood. They noticed he was wearing a gun on his hip and asked him questions. "I did nothing to provoke them," said Hannan-Rock....

MODESTO, Calif. — A man police believe has been deported to Mexico up to eight times was arrested Tuesday evening in Modesto after he allegedly pointed a gun at the house of his ex-girlfriend. Julian Virgen Lopez, 31, was arrested in the 100 block of La Loma Avenue after police found a loaded firearm in the car he was driving, according to Sgt. Brian Findlen of the Modesto Police Department. Lopez was stopped after police received a call at 7:30 p.m. that a man was pointing a gun at the woman’s home in the 100 block of Phoenix Avenue. He...

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LONDON (AP) - Authorities arrested 90 people after racially charged violence erupted between a group protesting Islamic extremism and counter-demonstrators in the central English city of Birmingham, police said Sunday. The clashes erupted Saturday when a rally by the English Defense League ran into counter-demonstrators including anti-fascists and youths of South Asian descent, West Midlands Police said. About 200 people were involved in the clashes in downtown Birmingham, police said. Television footage showed masked or hooded youths throwing projectiles and running from riot police through the diverse city's downtown area.

Japanese Pop Idol Recast as Junkie Earthquakes, tsunami tidal waves, typhoons, floods and landslides kept Japanese news gatherers busy over the Obon week when Japanese traditionally return home to pay respects to departed relatives who return briefly from the spirit world. It wasn't, however, any act of God that shocked the nation but alleged drug use by singer Noriko Sakai. Manufactured pop idols cranked out by Japan's powerful production companies have dominated Japan's music charts for decades. Sakai, who debuted at 15 in 1987 with squeaky voice, clean-cut image and cute nickname, Nori-P, was one of the most successful winning...

Excuse the vanity but you guys MUST hear this. As you know if you have read any of my posts, I use to be an attorney. Well, my friendly local police department just made a HUGE MISTAKE and I can assure you they will pay for it. I post it here, not for sympathy but to show just how eroded our rights have become.

A Bucks County woman who had been robbed and left bleeding outside the Tweeter Center in Camden just didn't behave well as a crime victim, or so police thought. Camden Detective Maurice Gibson, who alleges that Kimberly Halpin made racial slurs in describing her assailants, decided that she should be handcuffed, arrested, and jailed. Their he-said, she-said trial landed before U.S. District Judge Renee Bumb this week. And a jury of five women and three men unanimously decided yesterday that the detective fabricated information to justify the June 19, 2004, arrest. Halpin, 29, who is white and now works as...

The son of actor Michael Douglas was arrested in New York for possessing a massive amount of crystal meth with intent to distribute it, law enforcement sources said this evening. Cameron Douglas, 30, was busted on July 28 at the Gansevoort Hotel by a DEA task force, the sources said. The bust stemmed from an undercover operation that determined Douglas had allegedly had a half-a-pound of the drug.

A report issued Wednesday by Boise Community Ombudsman Pierce Murphy found that a Boise police officer who used a Taser on a suspect's buttocks violated the police department's use-of-force policy. The Boise Police Department did an internal investigation, and both employees were disciplined; details on the discipline were not released. It is considered an internal personnel matter, said police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower. Murphy transcribed some of it in his report: Officer #3: Do you feel this? Complainant: Yes, sir. Officer #3: Do you feel that? That’s my - Complainant: Okay Officer #3: -Taser up your ass. Complainant: Okay Officer #3:...

New York/Toronto, July 24 (DPA) For Canadian Barry Shell, the $4 million was worth a night in jail. Shell showed up at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp delighted to claim his win earlier this week, only to be pulled aside by detective Kevin Finley and informed he was under arrest. “I hate to wreck your happy dance,” Finley told Shell, according to the Toronto Star Thursday. Shell had several out-standing warrants from 2003 for theft of cameras, global positioning systems, memory cards and watches. His name came up in a routine check of lottery winners, according to the report....

BOSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plunged his presidency into a charged racial debate and set off a firestorm in one of America's most liberal bastions by siding with a black Harvard scholar who accuses police of racism. Saying he was unaware of "all the facts" but that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in their arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Obama whipped up emotions on both sides of an issue that threatens to open old wounds in Massachusetts. His comments marked his biggest foray into the hot-button issue of race since taking office in January, and underline how racial...

A "senior Klansman", who has been on the fugitive list in the USA, was arrested in Israel as an illegal entrant.

Authorities said a Stark County sheriff's deputy was arrested with his mother after the deputy vomited on people at a Kenny Chesney concert in Fargo and refused to leave. Police Sgt. Mark Lykken said 26-year-old Justin Krohmer and his mother, Susan, whose husband is the Ada, Minn., police chief, were jailed on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing an officer. Lykken said Justin Krohmer was asked to leave the Fargodome about 11 p.m. Saturday after vomiting on people in front of him, but he refused to do so. Lykken said 47-year-old Susan Krohmer pushed police officers. Susan Krohmer...

I've been puzzling over a seemingly incongruous report. That Ayatollah Yazdi, whom I have always heard was a hardcore attack dog/enforcer for the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, had been arrested! Thios does not seem to correlate. I take all these uncorroborated reports with several grains of salt..( at one point I heard that Rafsanjani had been arrested, and taken to the residence of the Supreme leader...But now we hear he has been hiding out in Qom...) But he (Yazdi) like Rafsanjani, has been conspiuous in their absence from the scenes. Anyone know anything more than I do?

(IsraelNN.com) United Nations Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) may have been involved in arresting Lebanese citizens suspected of spying for Israel. The story was reported Thursday by Spanish media and by Israel's Channel 10 news. Channel 10 obtained video footage in which a Spanish UNIFIL commander states that his troops worked with Lebanese troops to arrest alleged spies for Israel in primarily Shiite Muslim areas. The taped conversation allegedly took place two days ago

What do you do whan you think McDonald's forgot to pack your orange juice with your order? Call 911. In the Age of Obama, it seems no problem is too minute for government involvement

A pensioner and his daughter said they were victims of a “police state” after an anti-terror unit pulled over their car because it had been spotted at a political protest.... They say surveillance coupled with anti-terror powers mean innocent people are criminalised merely for appearing on police databases. John Catt, 84, and his daughter Linda, 49, are appearing tonight in “Who’s Watching You?” the first of three BBC2 documentaries about surveillance. They had a marker placed against their car on the Police National Computer by Sussex Police after attending three anti-arms demonstrations against EDO MBM Technology in Moulsecoomb. Months later...

Authorities sought to arrest the mother of a 13-year-old boy with cancer who refuses chemotherapy after she fled with her son and missed a court hearing Tuesday on his welfare. A judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered that Daniel Hauser be placed in a foster home and be sent for an immediate examination by a pediatric oncologist so he can get treated for Hodgkins lymphoma.

A man who says he desperately needed to use an airplane bathroom after eating something bad in Honduras faces a federal charge after being accused of twisting a flight attendant's arm to get to the lavatory, the FBI said Wednesday.

IRAN is facing an "international conspiracy" to over throw the Khomeinist re gime with a "velvet revolution," the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) claimed yesterday. The latest mascot of the plotters is supposed to be Roxana Saberi, a former Miss North Dakota now charged with espionage in Tehran. A US citizen with an Iranian father and a Japanese mother, the 31-year-old Roxana has worked in Iran on and off for years as a freelance reporter. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for Saberi's immediate release and safe return to the US. IRNA claims that the plot was first...

Posted: Friday, 10 April 2009 6:37AM Islam 'insulted' by alleged child killer's mug shot, says husband ORLAND PARK, Ill. (STNG) - The police booking photo of alleged child killer Nour Hadid released Tuesday is an "insult against our religion," says Hadid's husband, Alaeddin. Orland Park police detectives say the 26-year-old Muslim woman was treated as any other suspect in a murder probe would be, and they did not intend to humiliate her when they photographed her Sunday without her headscarf and wearing only a skimpy top. Nour Hadid is accused of beating her 2-year-old niece Bhia Hadid to death over...

LONDON — British police arrested 12 men Wednesday in a series of anti-terrorist raids involving hundreds of officers across northwest England. ... Police would not give any details of the alleged plot. The BBC reported that most of those arrested were Pakistani nationals. Police said the suspects ranged in age from a youth in his mid-teens to a 41-year-old man.

<p>Arenda Troutman is scheduled to be sentenced today in federal court following her guilty plea in August to mail and tax fraud. Troutman admitted that for several years she had solicited cash from developers to back their projects in her South Side ward.</p>

Two Fresno police officers have been moved to desk duty after a video showed one of them repeatedly punching a suspect in the head.

Police scrambled eight patrol cars filled with armed officers after a man in his 50s pointed a toy ray-gun at a baby and said 'Pow, Pow'. The man, who has not yet been named, was arrested earlier today after he approached the baby and its mother with a 'silver ray-gun' which lights up and makes a buzzing noise when the trigger is pulled.

WHITE ROCK, B.C. — A B.C. man probably wishes he had given his 11-month-old son a set of keys to play with instead of a phone, after the infant accidentally dialled 911 and brought police to dad's marijuana grow operation. Mounties say a 911 call came in from a White Rock, B.C., residence Friday morning but whoever was on the other end of the line hung up. Officers arrived at the residence and after numerous knocks on the door went unanswered, they entered the home. “The gentleman was quite surprised,” said White Rock RCMP Const. Janelle Canning. She said the...

On the 36th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, a man smashed his SUV into the entrance of the Planned Parenthood office in St. Paul this morning. Although staff members have gotten used to protests, particularly on the anniversary of the ruling, "we certainly don't expect this sort of thing," said Sarah Stoesz, the president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. ""It's never happened before and we don't expect it to happen again." The 32-year-old man, who has refused to identify himself, was arrested and charged...

Chicago Alderman Arrested, Charged With DUI 24th Ward Ald. Sharon Dixon Is Apologetic & Defiant CHICAGO (CBS) ― A Chicago alderman is speaking out Wednesday night about her arrest on drunken driving charges. Sharon Dixon said she will be vindicated in court, but police say they acted appropriately. "Obviously I am embarrassed that this happened," Dixon said. "I apologize for any embarrassment or disappointment that this may have brought to my constituents or to the city of Chicago." CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports that Alderman Dixon's been in office for just shy of two years and she's made headlines before....

Actor Sam Shepard arrested in Ill. NORMAL, ILL. -- Police in Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested on preliminary charges of speeding and drunken driving. Police Lt. Mark Kotte says officers stopped Shepard early Saturday in the central Illinois town of Normal. Kotte says the 65-year-old Shepard was driving 16 mph over the 30 mph speed limit. Kotte says a breath test indicated Shepard's blood-alcohol level was double the legal limit.

The Belleville police officer being sued after arresting a man wearing a T-shirt printed with the word "Police" has faced three prior federal civil rights lawsuits since 1999 -- two since he's worked for the Belleville Police Department. Both of those suits resulted in settlements for the plaintiffs. Last week, Adam Weinstein, of Missouri sued Belleville police Officer Jeff Vernatti, who is president of the police officer's union, after Weinstein's arrest at a Christmas party on Dec. 23, 2006, at Crehan's Bar in Belleville. Weinstein's lawsuit accuses Vernatti of abusing and falsely arresting Weinstein. Vernatti could not be reached for...

The arrests of Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, made for an unusual event in federal law enforcement. Not that they were arrested for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and solicit bribes from those interested in being named as President-elect Barack Obama’s replacement in the U.S. Senate, but rather they were arrested prior to being indicted by a federal grand jury. Having worked many long-term federal criminal investigations as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, I know from experience that a U.S. Attorney’s preferred method of operation is to indict someone first, then...

ATLANTA (Reuters) – U.S. conservatives rubbed their hands with glee on Wednesday over news that the Democratic governor of Illinois has been accused of attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama. Federal prosecutors said Obama was not connected to charges on Tuesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell the seat Obama vacated shortly after winning the presidency on November 4 for financial and other benefits for himself and his wife. But news of his arrest came at a perfect time for conservatives reeling from big losses in November's congressional and presidential elections that put Obama...

CHICAGO -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama's election as president. According to a federal criminal complaint, Mr. Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field. In return for state assistance, Mr. Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired. The affidavit said Mr. Blagojevich discussed getting a substantial...

<p>A source said today that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was taken into federal custody at his North Side home this morning. The U.S. attorney's office would not confirm the information, and a spokesman for the governor did not immediately return a phone call for comment.</p>

SRINAGAR, India – One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday, demanding his release. The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were the first since the bloody siege ended.

(CNN) -- Two men have been arrested in connection with an effigy of Sen. Barack Obama that was hung outside a building at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, police said Thursday. Joe Fischer, left, and Hunter Bush were arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, police said. Authorities found a life-size effigy of the Democratic presidential candidate hanging from a tree outside the school's Mines and Minerals building on Wednesday morning, police said. Police said they arrested Joe Fischer, 22, a senior at the university, and Hunter Bush, 21, a former student at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. "This...

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Two men have been arrested for hanging a Barack Obama effigy from a tree on the University of Kentucky campus. University police say 22-year-old student Joe Fischer and 21-year-old Hunter Bush turned themselves in Thursday afternoon. Both men were jailed Thursday on charges of disorderly conduct, burglary and theft. Jail officials did not know who the men's attorneys were. UK Police Interim Chief Joe Monroe says university police interviewed the men, who described the incident as a "stunt that had gotten out of hand." The effigy was found hanging from a tree with a noose around its...

From Democracy Now! website: ST. PAUL--Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday afternoon. All three were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers. Abdel Kouddous was slammed against a wall and the ground, leaving his arms scraped and bloodied. He sustained other injuries to his chest and back. Salazar’s violent arrest by baton-wielding officers, during which she was slammed to the ground while yelling, “I’m Press! Press!,” resulted in her nose bleeding, as well as causing...

More than six years after they arrested the wrong man for beating and raping a 94-year-old woman, Palo Alto police believe they have now arrested the right one. Roberto Cruz Recendes, 40, of Mexico is expected to be arraigned this afternoon in a Palo Alto courthouse, the Mercury News has learned. Recendes, who was extradited from his native country back to Palo Alto, will be charged with sexual penetration against a victim's will by force and causing great bodily harm to an elderly person. Palo Alto police took custody of him in Los Angeles. --snip-- It was possibly the culmination...