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From a DUI Stop to a Stolen Police Car

Posted on October 01, 2009
After being pulled over for suspicion of DUI, a man decided his best option for escape wasn?t the allegedly stolen U-Haul vehicle he was driving, but the police car that had pulled him over for the possible infraction. According to an article, the main reason police did in fact pull the man over was because he left the scene after apparently striking another automobile, although the man claimed that he didn?t know he had hit another vehicle...

Georgia Man Was Falsely Imprisoned for 17 Months Due to Mistaken Fingerprints

Posted on September 24, 2009
Fingerprints are considered to be insurmountable evidence. However, in the case of a convicted Georgia man, a routine check of the supposed offender?s identification revealed the huge mismatch: his fingerprints were inaccurately identified as those of a criminal, and he had, consequently, been wrongly incarcerated for 17 months for a robbery that he didn?t commit...

Child Exploitation Charges against Peachtree City Golf Pro

Posted on September 16, 2009
The growth of the Internet and its many uses is unprecedented; however, many communities are often shocked when someone within a neighborhood is arrested by law enforcement for using the Internet to sexually exploit children by arranging secretive meetings...

Georgia Participates in ?All Hands Across the Border? DUI Crackdown

Posted on September 07, 2009
The ?All Hands Across the Border? campaign was announced as an effort to dissuade and prevent drunk driving during the upcoming holidays, such as Labor Day and other long weekends. The program began on Sunday, August 30, 2009 and will hopefully curb the DUI incidents that habitually pop up over 3-day weekends and the like...

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Investigation Hints at Arrests in Snellville Shooting of Mother

Posted on September 03, 2009
A 25-year-old mother was shot and killed nearly three months ago by a disguised attacker whom investigators believe they now know the identity of. The Snellville Police Department stated in a report that they are ?very close? to making an arrest and are waiting for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to analyze evidence that could bolster the strength of their case regarding the violent crime...

Brooklyn Assault Puts Student in a Coma: CrimeStopper Tip Leads Police to an Arrest

Posted on August 27, 2009
A nydailynews.com story reported that a 22-year-old, male student from Pratt Institute suffered severe head injuries during an August 6, 2009 assault, and was placed into a medically induced coma as a result. Due to an anonymous tip from local CrimeStoppers, one teenage has been arrested in connection with the violent crime in New York, with police still searching for at least two others in connection to the assault...

267 Georgia DUI Arrests Made in "Take Back Our Highways" Program

Posted on August 20, 2009
In a report issued by the Georgia Department of Public Safety on August 7, 2009, it was announced that after a week-long concentrated patrol, Georgia State Troopers arrested 267 people for DUI in Georgia. Four other Southeastern states, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi, participated in the ?Take Back Our Highways Program...

Associate Professor at Georgia Tech Charged with 15 Counts of Sexual Exploitation

Posted on August 13, 2009
According to a recent report, illicit computer activity impelled Georgia Tech to contact law enforcement regarding an associate professor who became the target of a week-long investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The professor was arrested the night of August 12, 2009 and charged with a hefty accumulation of 15 counts of sexual exploitation of children...

NORML Attempts to Change Georgia Law

Posted on July 21, 2009
According to a 2007 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study, more than 62 million Americans said that they have used marijuana at some time in their life and 4.6 million Americans 35 years or older said they had used marijuana in the last month...

Hitman?s Lawyer Argues Client Functions at the Level of a 12 Year Old

Posted on July 14, 2009
In what may be looked at by some as a desperation shot or even a ?hail mary? attempt, the defense lawyers of a convicted hit-man called in a neuropsychologist and director of the Shepherd Center in Atlanta to testify that the convicted man functions at the level of a 12 year old child...

Police Seeking Home Invasion Suspect after Gunfight

Posted on July 07, 2009
A home invasion robbery in Mableton, GA ended with gunshots, according to a published report on 11alive News online. Police allege that the robber entered the home with his weapon at about 1pm and tied the two occupants up. One of them was able to get free of his restraints, retrieve his own pistol, and fire at the suspect, possibly injuring him before he escaped...

Georgia DUI Sweeps Net 4 Dozen in One Night

Posted on June 30, 2009
The website onlineathens.com reported in an article on June 27, 2009 that two DUI checkpoints in Georgia patrolled by the University of Georgia police, Athens-Clarke police, and Georgia State Patrol on the second night of AthFest resulted in the arrests of 48 people for DUI in Georgia...

Man Held in Rape, Pimping of Juvenile

Posted on June 23, 2009
A man is being held in Fulton County Jail and has been charged with sex crimes in Georgia including rape, child molestation and procuring for pimping by the Fulton County police. The underage girl who accused him of rape met the suspect at the West End MARTA station on June 6...

Weapons Charges Filed In Road Rage Case

Posted on June 16, 2009
Atlanta placed 5th in cities with road rage in the country, and its surrounding areas must surely not fall far behind them, as the following story illustrates. A preacher was not intimidated when he faced a man who acted very aggressive and threatening...

Man Sought After Attempted Bank Robbery in Sandy Springs

Posted on June 09, 2009
Police are seeking a man who attempted to rob a bank in Sandy Springs, according to a published report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The man walked into the Bank of America, which was on Roswell Road, at 11:30am and presented a large envelope with a note to a bank teller...

Staten Island Drug Charges Against Dr. Arrested For Prescribing Steroids

Posted on June 02, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in a story on February 10, 2009 that Dr. Richard Lucente, 37, had been arrested for the NY drug crime of illegally selling steroids to bodybuilders. Lucente is also the main doctor involved in a steroid scandal involving NYPD officers...

New York Domestic Violence Case of Soprano?s Vincent Pastore Settles Out Of Court

Posted on May 28, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an account on February 10, 2009 that Vincent Pastore, 62, known as Sal Bonpensiero on the HBO television series called The Sopranos, had agreed to settle out of court for being accused of domestic violence in Manhattan...

New York DWI Manslaughter Leaves One Alive

Posted on May 26, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in a story on February 9th, that a woman who described herself as the mother of New Jersey officer Martin Abreu, 25, was placing the blame of the car accident on the dead female victim and the other pedestrian who was seriously injured...

Modern Crooks ?Never Steal Anything Small?

Posted on May 21, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an account on February 10th that today?s modern crooks are the leaders of our financial institutions who have sent the economy into a downward tailspin, thrashing the American way of life with their New York white collar crimes...

Mans Body Dragged Through Queens and Brooklyn

Posted on May 19, 2009
The nydailytimes.com website reported in a story on February 11th, that Manual Gaspar Latuna Sanchez, a cargo van driver, inadvertently struck and picked up a body that had already been hit, dragging it for 17 miles. According to police reports an SUV first hit a man trying to cross at 108th St...

Queens Violent Crime Kills Landlord

Posted on May 14, 2009
A nydailenws.com report from February, 11th stated that Rosario Prestigiacomo, 64 was killed with a knife while inside his apartment in Ridgewood on Green Ave. According to police reports, Prestigiacomo was the landlord there and family relatives said that he owned the apartment...

New York Sex Crime Offender Russell Harding Fights To Stay Off Sex Offender List

Posted on May 12, 2009
The nydailynews.com reported in a story on February 10, 2009 that Russell Harding, housing czar during Rudy Giuliani?s governor term, is fighting court attempts to place his name and address in a New York state wide registry of sex offenders for life...

Brooklyn Hit And Run Critically Injures 2

Posted on May 07, 2009
A nydailynews.com report from February 10, 2009 stated that an SUV fled the scene after running down a family crossing the street. Following their mother, Ralph Nicholas was struck as he was holding his sister Sade?s hand at the intersection of Avenue H and Utica Ave in Brooklyn...

Bronx Drug Crime Leads To Women Being Held Hostage

Posted on May 05, 2009
The nydailynews.com reported in an account on February 10, 2009 that an undercover sting operation resulted in the arrest of parolee Kirkland Smith, 58, for selling methadone to an undercover police officer. Due to a slip up, either by the NYPD or the district attorney?s office, they botched up the drug test results and were unsuccessful in meeting a deadline to indict Smith; therefore, he walked out of jail...

Brooklyn Weapon Carried By Teen Results In Cop Shooting Him

Posted on April 30, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an article on February 10, 2009 that a NYPD police officer who just graduated from the police academy had shot and wounded an 18 year old Brooklyn man, Akeem Harvey. According to police and witness reports, the NY violent crime happened outside an R&R grocery store in Brownsville at around 2:30pm...

Bronx Violent Crime Shooting On Sidewalk Injures Pedestrians

Posted on April 28, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an article on February 11, 2009 that two men began shooting at each other outside the entrance to the Gun Hill Rd. No. 5 train station located at the busy intersection of DeWitt Pl. and East Gun Hill Rd. Occurring just before 9 a...

Whitfield County Rape Charges against Tennessee Man

Posted on April 22, 2009
The cbsatlanta.com website reported in an article on March 13, 2009 that Whitfield County officials in Dalton Georgia will be charging Joshua Bedwell, 26 from Cleveland Tennessee with rape and child molestation of a 15 year old relative. According to Rick Swiney, Sheriffs Captain the charges include statutory rape and several counts of Georgia aggravated child molestation...

NY Statutory Rape Convicted Teacher Sent Letter from Jail To Teenage Lover

Posted on April 20, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an account on March 14, 2009 that the Nassau County District Attorney reported that Heather Kennedy, 26 had been re-arrested for violating a court order. Kennedy was a math teacher in Long Island who was caught having sex with a 16 year old boy back in March 2008 in the school?s parking lot...

Georgia Murder of Arrested Woman?s Ex Husband

Posted on April 17, 2009
The website ajc.com reported in an account on March 13, 2009 that Rhonda Sosebee Young, 43 was apprehended in Gordon County and charged with the murder of her husband. Young?s husband Stephen Young, was found lifeless in his own home. According to Howard Ensley, Sheriff, detectives say Rhonda Young had traveled extensively across the country including Missouri, Utah, and Tennessee, just within the last couple of weeks...

New York Sex Crime Conviction of Rabbi Guilty Of Molesting Daughter

Posted on April 15, 2009
They nydailynews.com website reported in an account on March 11, 2009 that Israel Weingarten, a Hasidic rabbi in New York, was found guilty by a jury in Brooklyn Federal Court of molesting his daughter for more than 7 years. Accompanied into the courtroom by US marshals, the victim sat down in the front row...

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