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Jail tip led cops to suspects in Hadiya Pendleton's slaying
The break came, at last, on Saturday. As pressure mounted over nearly two weeks, Chicago police investigating the slaying of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton followed plenty of leads that hadn't panned out. Then on Saturday, tipped by a Cook County Jail...
Tags: Justice System, Murder, Prisons, Shootings, Witnesses
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FBI, SPD arrest more than 20 in alleged narcotics ring
Q13 Fox News reporterFederal and local law enforcement agents fanned out across the Puget Sound and Northern California Tuesday to arrest more than 20 suspects allegedly involved in an oxycodone trafficking ring. U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan announced that 18 Seattle-area...Tags: FBI, Police Investigations, Police Arrests, Justice System, Defendants
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Failure to bring border-crossing fugitives to justice a national problem
Jorge Montiel fled to his hometown near Pachuca, Mexico, after he was alleged to have raped and murdered a Georgia housewife in October 2010.
Federal agents tried to bring the international fugitive to justice, but something stood in the way: the cost....Tags: Government, Safety of Citizens, Rentals, International Law, International Relations
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FBI: 4 Arrested Police Officers Were "Bullies With Badges"
The Hartford CourantThey were known as "Miller's boys," a small group of East Haven officers on the 4-to-midnight shift arrested Tuesday following a long federal investigation and charged with terrorizing Latinos who dared enter the town's borders. Federal authorities...Tags: Social Issues, East Haven, Prisons, Prosecution, Local Government
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In Cook County, campus sex-assault suspects rarely prosecuted
Chicago State University police Chief Ronnie Watson was convinced he had a rape case on his hands in the early morning hours of Feb. 20, 2010.
An 18-year-old freshman reported being attacked by a fellow student after going to his dorm room to listen to...Tags: Dominican University, Loyola University Chicago, Trials, University of Illinois at Chicago, Health and Safety at School
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Judge Took Calls About Grand Jury Investigation
The Hartford CourantIn the long, unsolved investigation into the suspected murder of Mary Badaracco, the role of Superior Court Judge Robert C. Brunetti stands out. An alleged attempt to influence the judge led to the arrest of Badaracco's ex-husband, Dominic Badaracco,...Tags: Police Investigations, Police Arrests, Murder, Criminal Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Trayvon Martin's father: Family 'betrayed' by Sanford police
In the 20 days since Trayvon Martin was killed, his parents said, their trust in the Sanford Police Department has disappeared.
Tracy Martin, father of the slain teen, told reporters today he felt "betrayed" by law enforcement investigating his son's...Tags: Justice System, Trayvon Martin, Witnesses, Lake Eola, Juvenile Delinquency
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Suspect in 1999 Des Plaines killing manages to elude Mexican police
— For years, Des Plaines police had no idea who committed the grisly 1999 knife murder of United Airlines flight attendant Young Kavila.
The slender 30-year-old was nearly beheaded as she tried to fight off an attempted sexual assault in the...Tags: Retraining, Chicago Tribune, Air Transportation Industry, International Law, Des Plaines
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Cops around Connecticut are beset by controversy - Could that be a good thing?
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What the hell is going on with Connecticut cops? The past 18 months have seen an eruption of scandals, arrests, resignations, retirements and investigations triggered by all sorts of allegations of police wrongdoing....Tags: Government, Retirement, East Haven, West Hartford, File Sharing
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Few arrests, convictions in campus sex assault cases
Women who report sexual violence on college campuses seldom see their accused attackers arrested and almost never see them convicted, according to a Tribune survey of several Midwestern universities.
The survey of six schools in Illinois and Indiana...Tags: The Ohio State University, Social Issues, Rentals, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University
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Across the border, beyond the law
Just days before authorities charged him with sexually assaulting his own daughter, Abraham Caudel hopped a Greyhound bus from DeKalb to California, then crossed into Mexico in a pickup truck driven by his brother.
In the eight years since he returned to...Tags: Chicago Police Department, Travel, Rentals, International Law, Emiliano Zapata
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