All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 24 2018 // Louisiana State Police detectives with the Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit have arrested five people for violations of Louisiana insurance fraud laws in relation to an alleged staged crash in Evangeline Parish.The LSP...
Jul 18 2018 // Police say they’ll soon decide whether to recommend prosecutors file charges in connection with a natural gas explosion that killed a Wisconsin firefighter. Authorities say a construction crew struck a gas main in...
Jul 16 2018 // A former Honolulu, Hawaii, police officer suspected of staging a home burglary pleaded guilty to two charges of insurance fraud related to the incident.Travis E. Copeland faces up to five years in prison for each count. He...
Jul 13 2018 // A man wrongly identified by Dallas, Texas police as a suspect in the 2016 fatal shooting of five officers has sued the city and its police department.The federal lawsuit filed Monday alleges Dallas police detained Mark...
Jul 12 2018 // An official from the National Transportation Safety Board says emergency responders have recovered the body of the pilot of a small helicopter that crashed into a Virginia condominium. NTSB Air Safety Investigator Doug...
Jul 9 2018 // Twice in a week this month in unrelated collisions, cars barreled into pedestrians on East Colfax Avenue, in Aurora, Colorado, killing one man and seriously hurting another.And investigators say those two crashes are far...
Jul 5 2018 // After a Florida radio station’s general manager told hosts they didn’t have to put an obnoxious repeat caller on the air a couple of months ago, the man stood on the sidewalk outside and vented his irritation...
Jul 2 2018 // A former Honolulu, Hawaii police officer suspected of staging a home burglary pleaded guilty to two charges of insurance fraud related to the incident.Travis E. Copeland pleaded guilty last week and faces up to five years...
Jun 27 2018 // Hackers from Russia are infecting Ukrainian companies with malicious software to create “back doors” for a large, coordinated attack, Ukraine’s cyber police chief told Reuters on Tuesday. The hackers are...
Jun 26 2018 // Ten days ago, a Banksy print valued at about $40,000 was stolen from a Canadian exhibit of the artist’s work. It was a seemingly effortless crime—a man walked in, took the work off the wall, and walked out—but...
Jun 22 2018 // Officials in Oakland, Calif. have agreed to pay $12 million to a motorcyclist who lost a leg and was badly hurt when struck by a police vehicle that allegedly ran a red light.The East Bay Times reported that the proposed...
Jun 22 2018 // Police in Tempe, Arizona said evidence showed the “safety” driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber was distracted and streaming a television show on her phone right up until about the time of a fatal...
Jun 18 2018 // He wouldn’t call himself a hero, but the 83-year-old woman Dennis P. Neyland rescued from a carjack/kidnapping and robbery on the streets of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, probably would.Neyland, an insurance...
Jun 12 2018 // Federal law enforcement officials announced a significant coordinated effort to disrupt Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes used to intercept and hijack wire transfers from businesses and individuals, including senior...
Jun 11 2018 // Almost two years after a massacre at an Orlando nightclub left 49 people dead and 53 injured, some of the surviving victims were filing a lawsuit in federal court Thursday saying the city and police didn’t do enough...
Jun 5 2018 // He wouldn’t call himself a hero, but the 83-year-old woman Dennis P. Neyland rescued from a carjack/kidnapping and robbery on the streets of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, probably would.Neyland, an insurance...
May 30 2018 // The driver of a Tesla Inc. Model S crashed into an unoccupied, parked police vehicle in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Tuesday and the driver told investigators the Tesla was in “Autopilot” mode at the time, police...
May 22 2018 // A Santa Fe County, N.M. jury has awarded an 80-year-old woman more than $1.2 million after she was injured in a crash involving a stolen car chased by Santa Fe police.The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the jury decided that...
May 15 2018 // Police are investigating whether a Tesla sedan’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature was engaged when it rear-ended a fire department truck in Utah.The Tesla Model S crashed into the truck at 60 mph apparently without...
May 14 2018 // A Tesla sedan with a semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has rear-ended a fire department truck at 60 mph apparently without braking before impact, but police say it’s unknown if the Autopilot feature was engaged.The...