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An amateur sleuth armed with determination and intuition helped cops crack the murder of Leiby Kletzky by tracking his path to doom. Yaakov German isn't a cop or a private detective. He's a property manager and father of 12 with a reputation as a do-gooder. By banging on doors and scrutinizing grainy video, he uncovered crucial clues that led cops to confessed killer Levi Aron. "At the end of the day, he should be given the credit for the cracking of the case," said Rabbi Jack Mayer of the NYPD's Clergy Liaison Program. His investigation into the disappearance of the...

SARASOTA - Last April, a veteran Sarasota Police homicide detective went to the courthouse and tried to secede from the United States of America. The detective, Tom Laughlin, filed a convoluted document declaring himself a "sovereign citizen." The filing included a thumb print on each page and a photocopy of 21 silver pieces — the price to become a "freeman." In doing so, Laughlin, 42, joined a small but growing group of U.S. citizens who claim they are not subject to federal law, that they no longer have to pay taxes and that their homes are their embassies. Last week,...

To many Asian-Americans, Charlie Chan is an offensive stereotype, another sort of Uncle Tom. Chan, the hero of six detective novels by Earl Derr Biggers and 47 Hollywood movies between 1926 and 1949, not to mention a 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, is pudgy, slant-eyed and inscrutable, and he speaks in singsong fortune-cookie English, saying things like, “If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked.” The California-born author and playwright Frank Chin, who has written essays denouncing Chan, would like to see him disappear altogether. But Yunte Huang, who was born and grew up in China, can’t get enough of Chan and...

Many of you remember The Radio Detective Show from KMJ radio in Fresno every Sunday night for years. Jerry now dows a daily 3 hour show from 12 AM to 3 AM. You won't find a more conservative voice anywhere. Jerry's over 70 and his show just started again. If his ratings improve, his time slot will improve. Pass this info around and check out his archive and download this morning's show. His guest is a real hero from Vietnam.

NEW YORK – The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire that left a cop dead last week. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly asked his inner circle to compile a list of department initiatives that would help prevent confrontations between fellow officers. Omar J. Edwards, 25, was killed May 28 as he chased a burglary suspect. Edwards had just left work and was dressed in street clothes and had his service weapon drawn. Three plainclothes detectives came upon the...

DONNY Deutsch shouldn't expect much from Santa Claus this Christmas, if St. Nick really knows who's been naughty or nice. The advertising mogul, whose CNBC show "The Big Idea" was put on hiatus last week, has allegedly been fooling around with a married woman - and they got caught. Sources say hedge-fund manager Andrew Sandler, whose father, Harvey, founded Sandler Capital Management in 1980, grew suspicious of his wife, Lisa, with whom he has two children, and hired a private detective a few weeks ago. The private eye shadowed the attractive blonde until he was able to take surveillance photos...

Former Fresno County sheriff's detective Ron Vaughn Jr. was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison on child pornography charges.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Actor Roy Scheider, the star of such films as "Jaws" and "All That Jazz," died Sunday at 75 in Little Rock, Ark., his wife told The New York Times. Scheider, who lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y., died of complications from a staph infection, Brenda Scheider told the newspaper. Scheider had suffered from multiple myeloma. Scheider came to prominence in such '70s films as "Klute" and "The French Connection" -- for which he earned an Oscar nomination as Buddy Russo, the partner of police Detective Popeye Doyle, played by Gene Hackman. Scheider may have...

NEW YORK — A police detective and a woman forced a 13-year-old runaway to work as a prostitute at parties around the city, telling her that if she tried to escape the officer would make her sell herself on the streets, prosecutors said. Wayne Taylor, 35, and Zelika Brown, 29, were arrested on charges of kidnapping, promoting prostitution, assault and endangering the welfare of a child, the Queens district attorney's office said Wednesday. Taylor, a 14-year New York Police Department member assigned to the housing bureau, was suspended without pay, the department said. Both he and Brown pleaded not guilty...

CBS-11 News The Investigators FORT WORTH -- At home and off duty, Fort Worth Police Detective Scott Campbell never lets two semi-automatic Glock .45s stray far from his shooting hand. He sleeps with one, and while awake, he eats and watches television with both weapons close by. Det. Campbell's wife keeps a loaded gun close at hand too, even though she is a stay-at-home mom who cares for the couple's two young children, ages 4 and 1. Det. Campbell and his wife go to these extraordinary lengths because they and their children have been marked for assassination. A ruthless criminal...

DENVER -- More than 1,000 mourners paid tribute to slain police Detective Donald Young yesterday as Los Angeles and Denver officers continued a manhunt for the suspect in the killing.

Radio station leads fundraising drive for fallen officer Paola Farer Web Producer Created: 5/11/2005 6:21 PM MDT - Updated: 5/11/2005 8:59 PM MDT KHOW radio has been raising money to help Detective Donald Young's widows and daughters, pictured here during a family trip. Courtesy: Family Photo DENVER - There's been an incredible show of support for the family of Detective Donald Young, who was shot to death over the weekend while working security at a private event. The community has already donated tens of thousands of dollars to Young's widow and two daughters, ages 13 and 5. And the money...

Thousands gather for slain Denver police officer's funeral posted by: Dan Werner Web producer Created: 5/13/2005 10:11 AM MDT - Updated: 5/13/2005 12:22 PM MDT DENVER (AP) - More than 1,000 mourners gathered at a downtown cathedral Friday to pay tribute to police Detective Donald "Donnie" Young, who was shot to death last weekend while providing security outside a private baptismal party.

Reward now at $100,000 Authorities fear suspect may have fled into Mexico By Fernando Quintero, Charlie Brennan and Brian D. Crecente, Rocky Mountain News May 13, 2005 LOS ANGELES - The reward for suspected cop killer Raul Garcia-Gomez jumped to $100,000 Thursday as the national manhunt focused on the Los Angeles area and police began to fear that their suspect might already have slipped into Mexico. "I've got a message for Raul Garcia-Gomez and your friends," said Denver police Division Chief Dave Fisher, who is leading the investigation in California. "You can run, but you can't hide. We are going...

Ex-Lansing detective admits drug theft 3/31/2005, 12:14 p.m. ET The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former city police detective admitted in court that he stole prescription painkillers from an acquaintance's house last fall. Darren Duso, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking the OxyContin in return for a dismissal of more serious charges. He faces up to two years in prison when Ingham County Circuit Judge Paula Manderfield sentences him on May 4. The 15-year Lansing Police Department veteran resigned in November, one month after county sheriff's officials arrested him on charges of stealing drugs from the Dansville house....

MIAMI (AP) - A jury found a Miami city commissioner guilty Friday of threatening a police detective following a highway chase last August. The six-member Circuit Court jury convicted City Commissioner Arthur E. Teele Jr. of making threats to a public servant but acquitted him of aggravated assault. According to documents filed when he was arrested, Teele was under surveillance because of a corruption investigation at the time of the Aug. 24 incident. Police said Teele drove his car at Miami-Dade County Police Detective Mark Bullard and tried to ram him off the road. Once stopped, police said, Teele threatened...

The most storied bird in cinema history, Dashiell Hammett's ``The Maltese Falcon,'' is winging its way back home to San Francisco to star in the 75th anniversary celebration of a book that helped create the ``hard-boiled'' American mystery genre. Getting the black bird -- or rather, the 50-pound lead prop used in the 1941 screen version -- from Southern California to San Francisco, where Hammett lived and wrote from 1921 to 1929, could very well make a Hammett-style pot boiler all its own. Now valued at $2 million, the statue Sam Spade so doggedly pursued will arrive with armed security....

Is anyone watching the current episode of Law & Order on TNT? In one scene a clerk entered the squad leader's room and said a 25mm pistol had just been found. I might buy into a 25 caliber but a 25mm is a little too much to accept.

<p>FOR 30 years Anthony Pellicano, P.I., has figured into the lives of Stallone, Roseanne, Wacko Jacko, Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky, Mike Meyers, John DeLorean, etc.</p> <p>In November, a real-life Steven Seagal C-grade scenario led to extortion charges against someone else which led to whether this stare-down, arms-folded, in-your-face Hollywood detective threatened a reporter which led to the feds discovering weapons in Pellicano's office. He was arrested.</p>

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang Compiled by William Denton buff@pobox.com. Copyright © 1993 - 2003. Please send me corrections, additions, suggestions and comments. Edition 3.9.2. Version 4.0 is planned. Originally published as a pamphlet by Miskatonic University Press, 1993. This glossary may not be reproduced on the World Wide Web in any form. You can link to it using this URL: http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html. This glossary may be reproduced for public consumption as long as it is copied as is and in its entirety and no extra charge beyond copying or printing costs is made. Other arrangements may...