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About a month ago I got a call from a reporter for the Arkansas Times inquiring about my research into paramilitary drug raids. He'd been reporting on a raid in North Little Rock involving a 40-year-old man named Tracy Ingle. When he told me the story over the phone, I was floored, even given all the abuses and mistakes I've reported and read about over the last few years. What makes the case especially egregious is not that the police may have gotten the wrong home, that they shot a man, or that they were covering it up or going...

Fake ID Ring Busted in Maumelle ( Air Date: 8/30/2006 ) Federal agents say they`ve arrested 6 people in connection with an ID card fraud ring in Maumelle. Agents say they saw a group of 6 undocumented workers drive up to the revenue office in Maumelle. They say three went in and got state ID cards from the only worker in the office. They believe the worker was in on the plan to provide false documents to undocumented workers from Mexico. The mayor watched the raid, but had no idea what was going on. "I`d gone home for lunch and...

Officers hot as a pistol over arena’s gun ban BY AUSTIN GELDER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE A policy banning off-duty police from carrying handguns inside Alltel Arena is under fire from local officers who say they’ll boycott arena events rather than part with their weapons. Ten deputies with the Pulaski County sheriff ’s office resigned from their part-time security jobs at the arena this week in protest of the gun ban. Their decision to quit was also driven by disappointment that they have not been called to work very many arena events. "Most policemen I’ve talked to are highly offended about this"...