All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2008 // It’s like “Gone in 60 Seconds” with tractor trailers.Thieves steal billions of dollars of electronics, medicine, vehicles and other items from U.S. businesses each year by targeting trucks and other cargo...
Apr 9 2008 // Virginia State Police say there were no crashes during a one-day increased patrol along a 13-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in the capital region. Last Thursday, troopers conducted “saturation” patrols in the...
Apr 7 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
Apr 4 2008 // Police officers in Texas will have one less blank to fill out while investigating traffic accidents this year, the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud reported. The form will no longer contain phone numbers for crash...
Apr 4 2008 // As New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine reflects on the year following his near-fatal car crash, he’s quick to discuss practical and public policy changes that go well beyond his physical recovery.The April 2007 accident...
Apr 3 2008 // Police arrested a man they believe caused a four-car accident in Georgia that killed two children and two adults and injured four others.Cody Rhoden, 20, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday just before midnight, a...
Apr 2 2008 // Maine has a seat belt law, but police have just been issuing warnings to violators since it was bolstered last September. As of this week, it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy.Maine’s Bureau of Highway Safety, its federal...
Apr 2 2008 // The pitch to co-workers or bar patrons, police say, went like this:“Hey, anybody interested in buying a trailer?” Somebody was. Big-screen TVs, riding mowers, motorcycles, frozen food and more exchanged hands...
Mar 26 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
Mar 26 2008 // Police in Montpelier, Vermont have identified 61 victims in the case of a property management company that suddenly went out of business, but no charges have been brought.Tenants, landlords, contractors and others who are...
Mar 24 2008 // Indiana recently became one of the first states in the country to pass legislation prohibiting the practice of municipalities charging fees for accident response runs, when Senate Enrolled Act 81 was sent to Indiana...
Mar 18 2008 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that a claim of sex abuse against a government employee may depend on when the plaintiff discovers the city played a role in the abuse, not necessarily when the abuse occurred.In The Boy...
Mar 10 2008 // Three police dogs that work for the Cumberland County, Maine Sheriff’s Department were being confined to their kennels while off-duty.The issue of liability arose when Jag, a German shepherd, bit a newspaper carrier...
Feb 29 2008 // Three police dogs that work for the Cumberland County, Maine Sheriff’s Department are being confined to their kennels while off-duty.The issue of liability arose when Jag, a German shepherd, bit a newspaper carrier...
Feb 25 2008 // Daniel Wilson, a former insurance defense attorney, has been named legal specialist for the Insurance Fraud Program of the Virginia State Police in Richmond.Wilson’s responsibilities include acting as a liaison...
Feb 4 2008 // The Corpus Christi Police Department will start impounding the cars of uninsured drivers, officials said.About one in three Nueces County, Texas, drivers are uninsured, compared to about one in five statewide, Chief Bryan...
Jan 31 2008 // A former Westport, Wash., mayor and ex-state trooper has been convicted of involvement in a scheme to commit insurance fraud, a case involving a nonexistent 1949 Chevrolet Woody and a dead State Patrol sergeant.Douglas...
Jan 30 2008 // A volunteer at a community radio station in Austin, Texas, set fire to the station because he was upset that his song selections for an overnight Internet broadcast were changed, police said.Paul Webster Feinstein, 24, has...
Jan 22 2008 // Two former Monroe, La., police officers have been acquitted in federal court on allegations they committed insurance fraud.A 12-person jury returned the verdicts in the case against Brandon Brooks and former police union...
Jan 7 2008 // Officials in western Kentucky now say arson is to blame for the fire last week that nearly destroyed the Carlisle County Courthouse.The investigation is still under way. The fire started early on the morning of Dec. 26. No...