http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/crime/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:36:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050288/posts The suspect, who led police on a multi-state chase, was identified as 27-year-old Grayson Lee Clevenger. Burnsville police said Clevenger answered his cell phone at one point during the chase, telling a detective he couldn't talk because he was being chase by the police.(edit)Detectives followed the vehicle until marked patrol cars could meet up and attempt a stop. In an attempt to end the pursuit peacefully, detectives called the suspect on his cell phone. Clevenger answered the phone, saying, "Dude, I can't talk, I'm being chased by the police" and hung up. (edit)Clevenger eluded police and remains at-large Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050288/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:36:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049955/posts The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention has used the city's gas pumps to fill up and apparently avoided paying state and federal fuel taxes. The practice, which began four months ago, may have ended hours after its disclosure. An aide to Mayor John Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday evening saying that Denver 2008 Host Committee members would pay market prices for fuel and would also be liable for all applicable taxes. However, Public Works spokeswoman Christine Downs told City Council members just hours before that host committee members were fueling up at the city pumps. The city does not... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049955/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048574/posts From The TimesJuly 21, 2008 Baikal: the gangsters' gun James Andre Smartt-Ford, known as Dre, was standing by the steps to the ice at Streatham rink when a black-clad youth emerged from the crowd, gripping a gun. He fired two shots from close range into his victim's back. Dre fell forward dying, his blood spreading across the ice The revolver that killed Dre had the words “Made in Russia” imprinted close to the muzzle, and was fitted with a silencer to muffle the shots. But nothing could mask the tang of cordite in the air or silence the screams of... The Times (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048574/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048423/posts Refugees from Somalia probably are the least welcome foreign "visitors" to Scandinavia. Personally, I don't consider acts of violence like this as a solution to the various problems connected to mass non-European immigration to Europe, but without a doubt there will be more attacks resembling this one if European politicians don't change their minds concerning policies in the area of (non-European) immigration issues. The article: "A 16 year-old asylum seeker from Somalia, was shot and critically injured while sleeping in his bed at reception centre outside Oslo. He was hit in the stomach by a rifle round fired through the... http://www.aftenposten.no http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048423/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:27:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047596/posts Handcuffed and shackled, Randal Rushing blew the awaiting media a kiss as he was led from a Wilkes-Barre apartment Thursday afternoon. Handcuffed and shackled, Randal Rushing blew the awaiting media a kiss as he was led from a Wilkes-Barre apartment Thursday afternoon. “I had fun,” the man accused of a triple homicide in Scranton said when asked whether he had killed three people. Ten hours after a grizzly discovery at his residence on South Irving Avenue — three people so badly bludgeoned that the manner of death was difficult to determine — Rushing, 25, was taken into custody just after... Citizen's Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047596/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:53:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048008/posts Seventh-grade boys at Sunnyvale Middle School feared going to first-period PE class. They knew what might await them: Vicious sexual attacks by older eighth-grade students. Throughout much of last school year, a pack of eighth-graders repeatedly threatened to sexually attack the younger students before and after class... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048008/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:54:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047987/posts WASHINGTON -- A 13-year-old boy was killed, seven people shot and a person stabbed within minutes of each other in a spate of violence in the Trinidad section of NE shortly after midnight Saturday. Police said between midnight and four in the morning a person was also stabbed and another shot citywide. DC Police Inspector Rodney Parks says the shootings appear to have taken place in connection with three attempted robberies. Police are looking for a gold or metallic colored car, possibly a Dodge Intrepid, spotted at each crime scene. The police have no suspects in custody at this time.... WTOP.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047987/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:55:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047452/posts Despite pleas from the White House and the State Department, as well as an international court order to review their cases, Texas will execute five Mexicans on death row, a spokeswoman for the governor said Thursday. The first of the executions — that of José Ernesto Medellín, 33, convicted in the 1993 rape and murder of two teenage girls here — is scheduled for Aug. 5. The decision by Gov. Rick Perry to allow the executions is the latest twist in a long-running battle between Mexico, which has no death penalty, and the United States over the fate of 51... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047452/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:08:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047383/posts A Bainbridge man refused to be robbed when he was accosted around 5 a.m. Saturday morning. The complainant, a resident of Spruce Street, told BPS that he was sitting on his front porch smoking a cigar and drinking a cup of coffee. According to the resident, a man wearing a mask and carrying a large knife approached and demanded that he hand over his wallet. The citizen said he told the masked robber that he had to go inside the house to get the wallet. The homeowner returned, not with his wallet in hand, but instead wielding a pistol, which... The Post-Searchlight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047383/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:07:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047380/posts MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a Memphis store clerk shot a 17 year-old boy during a robbery. According investigators, it happened around 8:50 p.m., Monday, July 14, 2008, at the Margarita Market in the 6000 block of Knight Arnold Road. Police say the teen and three other men were shoplifting at the store when the clerk confronted them. The four suspects, ages 17, 19, 20, and 28, attacked the clerk during the confrontation, according to investigators. Police say that is when the clerk shot the 17 year-old in the leg. Police say the teen was taken to the hospital in... Eyewitness news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047380/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:03:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047365/posts I hadn’t gotten beaten by my mom that day, and we hadn’t had any significant arguments over anything. I thought that if I died, I wanted to die without being mad at my mom. So I thought, I might as well take the opportunity to do so before I got back to the house—at which point who knows whether there would be another fight or a beating. I put a bullet in the chamber and raised the rifle up. The closer it got to my head, the faster my heart beat. I was taught that whoever committed suicide would go... The Blog of Tim Feriss http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047365/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:10:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042305/posts The domestic violence industry operates under the cloak of secrecy and anonymity, maintaining such policies are necessary to shield victims from their abusers. But every now and then a crack appears in the façade, revealing a sordid panorama of corruption, fraud, and abuse. On February 28, 2007 the Naples, Fla. citizenry opened their morning newspapers to the jolting headline, "CEO Out at Women's Shelter: Investigation into Battery Complaint Prompts Departure." Over the next several months, details would spill out of a woman's rights activist who had evolved into a self-serving "tyrant," as one of her colleagues later described her. The... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042305/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:51:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046972/posts All Desiree Carpenter wanted was a chance to succeed. As a young woman Ms. Carpenter (not her real name) had been subjected to repeated physical and sexual assaults, losing her eyesight during one attack. Her assailant did hard time, but now he was back on the streets and vowing to track her down. Her only hope was to flee to another state, assume a new identity, and start over. Washington was the best place to begin anew, since the state had passed tough anti-stalking laws. So she packed her bags and hopped on the train with her two children in... Ifeminists.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046972/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:44:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046937/posts - A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported. The new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) handles city payroll files, jail bookings, law enforcement documents and official e-mail for San Francisco. The network is functioning but administrators have little or no access. PC World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046937/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:37:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046815/posts Federal authorities have launched an investigation into New Jersey's largest state worker union, and of Gov. John Corzine's ex-girlfriend, Carla Katz, who until recently was its head, ABC News has learned. As first reported by the Star-Ledger, investigators served document and record subpoenas yesterday on the Communications Workers of America in Washington, D.C. The investigators are looking into allegations that Katz misappropriated union funds, sources confirmed for ABC News. These allegations were first raised in the union's own probe into Katz' management of Local 1034, sources confirmed to ABC News. They were made public last week when the organization's governing... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046815/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:05:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046549/posts Thinking about a life of crime? You may want to hit the gym first. A new study that looked at the physical characteristics of about 5,000 Arkansas inmates found that most were athletically fit when they entered prison. The researchers referred to them as mesomorphs. Oh, there were also endomorphs and ectomorphs — fatties and skinnies to the lay people. But the study found that they were less likely to have been imprisoned for violent crimes. The researchers, whose study appears in The Social Science Journal, used body mass index, a measure of height and weight, to assess fitness. Scientists... The NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046549/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:43:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046477/posts Neurologist disputes state’s attorney’s office description. A neurologist who treated Zach Sowers following his brutal attack in a street robbery last summer has challenged statements by a high-ranking official in the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office regarding Sowers’ medical condition. Dr. Marek Mirski, director of the Neuroscience Critical Care Division and vice chairman of anesthesia and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, said in a July 7 letter to Margaret T. Burns, chief of communications and governmental affairs in the state’s attorney’s office, that Burns’ comments reported in the June issue of Exhibit A, contained “gross inaccuracies.” In... http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=5960&type=UTTM&fuseaction=print http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046477/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:16:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046157/posts A 21-year-old Staten Island man from a family of convicts was shot and killed Tuesday, apparently with his own gun while trying to rob someone, police sources said. Grant Fleming was shot on the fifth floor of a building in the Richmond Terrace Houses on Jersey St. but was able to stumble to the lobby, where he collapsed about 2 a.m., cops said. Fleming, whose brother Rudy Fleming, 23, is serving a life sentence for gunning down actress Nicole duFresne in 2005 on the lower East Side, was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he died from the gunshot... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046157/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:03:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2045561/posts In an unusually long and detailed ruling, the Ohio 6th District Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the 2006 conviction of Toledo Catholic priest Gerald Robinson for the 1980 murder of a nun. -snip- Robinson, 70, was arrested by Lucas County cold case investigators on April 23, 2004, and convicted on May 11, 2006, for the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. The 71-year-old nun had been choked nearly to death and then stabbed 31 times in the chest, neck, and face with a saber-shaped letter opener. Her partly naked body was found by another nun on the morning of April... Toledo Blade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2045561/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:59:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045277/posts Pie-in-the-sky plans to rob a Texas pizza shop reportedly came crashing to earth after a clerk decided to fight back. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045277/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:42:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045238/posts Almost exactly one year ago, a carload of assailants took to the streets of Calgary and randomly slashed at five pedestrians, killing one of them. A few months later, a crazed man in New York violently attacked an elderly dog-walker and a restaurant worker, “chopping” at them “like a sword” before being killed by police. Only days later, a Salt Lake City man also went on a stabbing spree. On March 23, 2008, a Japanese man carrying two knives stabbed eight people in the city of Tsuchiura, simply because he “just wanted to kill anyone.” And he did. At around... North Star Writers Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045238/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045234/posts Just about the time you thought extreme liberals couldn’t get any more screwy or out of touch with reality than they already are, along comes another example that tops the last one you heard. It turns out that up until last month, San Francisco’s Juvenile Probation Department had been transporting illegal alien juvenile drug dealers to their home countries to avoid their being arrested and deported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Once that practice stopped, the city then began to transport these felons south to a group home in San Bernardino County, California, much to the surprise... North Star Writers Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045234/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:22:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044798/posts Before Army Sgt. 1st Class Randal Ruby was accused in Iraq of beating prisoners and of conspiring to plant rifles on dead civilians, he amassed a 10-year criminal record documenting assaults on his wife in Colorado and Washington state and a drunken high-speed police chase in Maine for which he remains wanted. Before Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes stabbed an Iraqi private to death with a bayonet, he was hospitalized after threatening suicide in high school, was accused of assault, disorderly conduct and trespassing, and, in the months leading up to deployment, was twice linked to drug use. Before Army Spec.... Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044798/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:40:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044658/posts   Jack Straw ... law will back heroes            New law to back 'have-a-go-heroes'     By CLODAGH HARTLEY Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 12 Jul 2008     NEW legislation will protect “have-a-go heroes” who intervene in crimes or use force to defend themselves, Justice Secretary Jack Straw vowed last night. From Monday a person’s actions will be judged on the situation “as they saw it at the time” — even if in hindsight the force could be classed as unreasonable, according to insiders. Mr Straw told The Sun: “We’re not going to have a... The Sun (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044658/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:38:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044528/posts An Ocoee police sergeant was arrested today after allegations that he pulled down a Seminole County woman's pants and spanked her with a belt at a party Monday night. Sgt. Thomas Maroney, an eight-year veteran, was charged with sexual battery, false imprisonment and battery, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. He is being held at the Orange County Jail. . . The woman told deputies she was attending a party in an apartment with Maroney and other police officers when she left the apartment to speak with Maroney, said Sam Filler, the woman's attorney. At some point, Maroney threw... Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044528/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:19:05 GMT