All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 23 2010 // Northwest Indiana authorities say a nine-month sting targeting car thieves attracted 20 men and women who sold undercover police 70 vehicles valued at more than $510,000.Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez said that...
Jul 21 2010 // A weekend enforcement effort by the Virginia State Police on Interstates 81 and 95 resulted in more than 6,000 summonses and arrests. More than half of the tickets were for speeding. State police also reported stopping 628...
Jul 14 2010 // A Belfast, Maine, man is facing charges he set a Mercedes-Benz on fire and then posted photos of the burning vehicle on Facebook. Belfast police say 36-year-old Asgard Tarick Gilbert was arrested on a felony arson...
Jul 12 2010 // Police across Tennessee are writing few citations under the year-old texting-while-driving law.The statute went into effect in July 2009, allowing officers to write tickets to drivers they catch sending cell phone text...
Jul 9 2010 // Alliant Insurance Services has partnered with the firm LEOSA-HR218 Self-Defense Protection to provide retired federal, state, and local law enforcement officers with an insurance policy that provides legal defense coverage...
Jun 28 2010 // When Michigan’s ban on texting while driving takes effect Thursday, July 1, police will be able to pull over motorists solely for using their cell phones to send or look at text messages or e-mails.Some in law...
Jun 18 2010 // Imagine going to a house or condo you own and finding a stranger living there who claims the property no longer belongs to you.It’s happening across Florida and other parts of the country through what authorities say...
Jun 8 2010 // State officials are warning motorists that police are cracking down on aggressive driving in Delaware.The Delaware Office of Highway Safety says 11 state, county and municipal police agencies will conduct patrols this...
Jun 4 2010 // Vermont State Police fire investigators are seeking the cause of an explosion that destroyed a house in the town of Norwich.Police say that when firefighters arrived at the New Boston Road home at about 6 p.m. Monday they...
May 28 2010 // Legislation that would allow law enforcement in Oklahoma to impound uninsured vehicles is one step away from becoming law.House Bill 2331, by state Rep. Steve Martin and state Sen. Gary Stanislawski, passed the Oklahoma...
May 17 2010 // West Virginia is mulling a new state agency dedicated to policing dangerous coal mines in response to an explosion that killed 29 men at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine. The state Board of Coal Mine Health and...
May 13 2010 // A former municipal police officer who sued a New Jersey state trooper for excessive use of force has been awarded $5 million.The New Jersey Turnpike Authority says it plans to appeal the jury’s decision. Gary Wade,...
May 11 2010 // For the fourth time in the last year, a Hinds County, Mississippi circuit judge has ruled against the city of Jackson in cases involving a police chase.The latest ruling comes from a lawsuit filed by a former Richland...
Apr 9 2010 // The eyewitnesses are everywhere, watching everything.Break-ins. Bank heists. Convenience store robberies, purse snatchings and shopping sprees charged on stolen credit cards. All these incidents and more caught in the...
Apr 7 2010 // In less than a decade and with little opposition, Chicago has linked thousands of cameras in a network covering most of the city, creating the most extensive and sophisticated video surveillance system in the United States...
Mar 30 2010 // Authorities in Upstate New York have arrested a man they say used a phony bank account to buy insurance on a home he didn’t own so he could cash in on property losses that didn’t occur.Buffalo police arrested...
Mar 25 2010 // The mayor of Rutledge, Tennessee says he had no choice in the firing of the East Tennessee city’s police chief. Mayor Danny Turley said he fired Jeff Daniel after the former police chief refused to resign last...
Mar 24 2010 // A New York housekeeper who reported that her boss’ Toyota Prius accelerated on its own and wouldn’t brake as she hurtled toward a stone wall apparently had her foot on the gas pedal the entire time, according...
Mar 24 2010 // Spark, Nev., police cited more than 600 drivers and made one arrest during a nearly month-long campaign to address growing complaints about speeding on the city’s streets. Sgt. Pat Dyer says additional officers were...
Mar 22 2010 // Two former owners of a temporary employment agency in Massachusetts have been charged with paying more than $24 million in unreported cash to employees as part of a conspiracy to avoid paying more than $7 million dollars...