All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 31 2007 // The New York City Department of Investigation says two men hawking stolen fire extinguishers have been arrested on charges of grand larceny and reckless endangerment. Sergey Vishnev and Maxin Ilim, both of Brooklyn,...
Dec 10 2007 // A Monroe, La., couple already jailed on drug charges now face more trouble over an alleged scheme to have someone set fire to their home so they could collect insurance money to make bail.Orrell M. “Red” White,...
Dec 7 2007 // A grand jury has indicted a Springfield, Mass. police officer in connection with insurance fraud and larceny.Prosecutors say Anthony Trabal was charged with motor vehicle fraud and two counts of attempted larceny for...
Nov 21 2007 // A man whose wife was shot to death — a killing that attracted national attention because the couple lived near Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton — is trying to collect nearly half a million dollars on her life insurance,...
Oct 31 2007 // A New Hampshire lawmaker wants the Legislature to send drivers a clear message: stop sending text messages while driving!Nashua Democrat David Campbell has filed the paperwork for a bill to ban two-handed texting or typing...
Oct 11 2007 // The New Orleans Police Department, headquartered in trailers since Hurricane Katrina destroyed its buildings in August 2005, missed out on $2.6 million in federal rebuilding aid because it lacked adequate flood insurance,...
Oct 9 2007 // A former Muskogee, Okla., police captain has received a one-year suspended sentence and a $1,000 fine after being found guilty of filing a false insurance claim.A Muskogee County jury convicted Jim Wooten in late July and...
Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Oct 8 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Oct 5 2007 // The Minnesota Court of Appeals decided this week that police should have gotten a warrant before ordering a blood test from a suspected drunken driver in Dakota County, a ruling that could add extra steps for police going...
Oct 3 2007 // The New York City Police Department has been operating a camera that scans the license plates of cars passing just blocks from ground zero, a newspaper reported this week.The camera is an example of the kind of technology...
Sep 27 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has called for new safety measures designed to protect students from school violence, the attorney general’s office reported.Abbott, whose office serves on the Texas School Safety...
Sep 25 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Sep 25 2007 // For the fourth year in a row the estimated number of property crimes decreased, according to statistics released by the FBI’s 2006 edition of “Crime in the United States,” a statistical compilation of...
Aug 27 2007 // The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday threw out the arson conviction of a man alleged to have set fire to a car containing the body of a murdered Chicago man.Kevin Kawanzel Harris, 27, will get a new trial because he was denied...
Aug 21 2007 // An ongoing joint investigation by Oregon State Police (OSP) and the Insurance Division, a part of the Department of Consumer & Business Services, regarding reports alleging financial fraud and violations of law...
Aug 13 2007 // A Florida police officer who crashed his car into a convenience store when his cowboy boot slipped off the brake said he was embarrassed and not opposed to a new department ban on the smooth-soled footwear.“They had...
Aug 2 2007 // The camera surveillance system, touted by Jackson, Miss., Mayor Frank Melton as a crime-fighting tool, is still not in full operation.The cameras are part of the Technical Operations Center, unveiled June 8 with...
Aug 2 2007 // A bronze statue stolen from a fraternity house at Oregon State University has been found in a Corvallis basement, police said.The 3-foot-tall statue of the Roman god Vulcan was stolen from the Delta Chi Fraternity House on...
Jul 25 2007 // Although last week’s steam pipe explosion in New York City raised worries about the city’s vulnerability to attacks, law enforcement officials said this week they aren’t concerned that it might have given...