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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
1 month ago
Los Angeles

Inside the raids at Diddy's homes: Emptied safes, dismantled electronics, many questions

The Department of Homeland Security served a search warrant at Sean 'Diddy' Combs' properties in LA and Miami, investigating alleged sex trafficking.
Investigators were looking for evidence related to sex trafficking, including digital images on devices connected to the target. [ more ]
Los Angeles Times
11 months ago
Los Angeles

Former KNBC investigative news producer busted in child porn sting

A former investigative news producer at KNBC in Los Angeles was arrested on suspicion of allegedly distributing more than 100 child porn images and videos, according to the FBI.Phil Drechsler, 60, accessed and shared child pornography in a group chat with more than 20 other people on the secure messaging app Telegram, an FBI agent wrote in a criminal complaint against the ex-L.A. news producer.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Ventura County man arrested, charged in fatal shooting of his sister

A Ventura County man has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting his sister, the county sheriff's office said.Deputies arrested Brennan Post, 33, after responding to a call for an assault with a deadly weapon at a home in the Thousand Oaks area about 1:12 a.m.Friday and finding Post's sister, 25-year-old Cassidy Snow, fatally wounded, the sheriff's office said.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Man fatally shot by L.A. County sheriff's deputy in Maywood

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man Thursday morning in Maywood, authorities said.The shooting was called in around 5:45 a.m. at a residence in the 6100 block of Clarkson Avenue, where detectives had been serving a search warrant, according to authorities.Deputies serving the warrant detained one man on the front porch of the home and "made announcements demanding entry," the L.A. County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected

Six people, including a 6-month old baby, her teenage mother and an elderly woman, were killed Monday in a Central Valley farming community in what the local sheriff said was likely a targeted attack by a drug cartel.The massacre occurred around 3:30 a.m. in and around a residence in the Tulare County town of Goshen, near Visalia.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Brother killed pregnant woman and set body on fire in Fresno alley, police say

Two days before her body was found burning in a Fresno alley, N-Kya Rebecca Logan was having a baby shower.The 26-year-old was about 36 weeks pregnant with a boy, whom she planned to name Noah.But on Tuesday, authorities said, that future for mother and son was wiped out in a grisly killing at the hands of her brother.
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Left-wing politics
emptywheel
2 months ago
Left-wing politics

Hunter Biden's Delayed Email Access on the JPMI Laptop - emptywheel

The prosecution revealed new evidentiary issues in their opposition briefs.
Mr. Biden plans to file a motion to suppress improperly gathered evidence based on the prosecution's recent admissions. [ more ]
Truthout
10 months ago
Left-wing politics

GOP Support for the Way Trump Kept Docs at Mar-a-Lago Drops Significantly - Poll

A majority of Americans approve of the DOJ opting to indict Donald Trump, the poll also found.Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster following his appearance in a Miami court on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, New Jersey.Spencer Platt / Getty Images It's been around 10 months since the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, obtaining thousands of government documents in the process, including more than 100 marked "classified."
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Barbara Jones Rules Project Veritas Was Not Engaged in Journalism When Brokering Ashley Biden's Stolen Diary - emptywheel

After 16 months, Barbara Jones has submitted her Special Master report in the Project Veritas investigation to Judge Analisa Torres.See this post for background.She found 1,021 documents on James O'Keefe, Eric Cochran, and Spencer Meads' phones that were responsive to the warrants in the case.Of those:


She reviewed 17 for crime-fraud exception and after asking for submissions on 14 of them (which I noted here), she found that 10 were excepted
She found 61 documents that Project Veritas successfully argued were not related to the search warrant


By my math, that leaves 953 files she recommends be turned over to investigators.
www.mediaite.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

'That Is Very Different': Ted Cruz Does 180 When Asked About Pence's Mishandling of Classified Documents as Opposed to Biden's

After demanding the FBI search properties President Joe Biden has access to in order to search for classified documents, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said there is no need to do the same to former Vice President Mike Pence.Cruz also called on the FBI to search the home and business of the president's son Hunter Biden.
www.mediaite.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Fox & Friends Pounces on DOJ Review of Classified Biden Docs to Complain About Mar-a-Lago Raid: The Irony is Delicious'

Fox & Friends seized on news that the Department of Justice is reviewing classified documents that were found at a private office once used by President Joe Biden.They did so by complaining that this hasn't led to a search through the current president's home like with Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents scandal.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

FBI Agents Worried About Trump's Presence at Mar-a-Lago During Search - Report

The FBI wanted assurance that Attorney General Merrick Garland would approve any order to search Mar-a-Lago.A woman talks to Palm Beach police officer in front of former President Donald Trump's house at Mar-A-Lago on August 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida.Eva Marie Uzcategui / Getty Images New reporting from The Washington Post details how the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) came to the decision to search former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence for government documents earlier this year.
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California
The Sacramento Bee
4 months ago
California

California church's Sunday school room was used as meth house, authorities say

A search warrant was served at a church in Mariposa County, California.
Methamphetamine was found in the children's Sunday school room. [ more ]
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
California

LAPD search Beverly Hills high-rise apartment tied to triple slaying in Benedict Canyon

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles police detectives on Wednesday served a search warrant at a Beverly Hills apartment they say is connected to a triple slaying outside a Benedict Canyon home earlier this year.In the most major development since the Jan. 28 attack that left three dead and four others wounded in an upscale hillside neighborhood on the Westside, LAPD detectives with the Robbery-Homicide Division gathered potential evidence inside the Beverly Hills high-rise Wednesday morning, police said.
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Privacy professionals
The Sacramento Bee
5 months ago
Privacy professionals

Can police search my mail and packages? California law says only under these circumstances

The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures, but not all searches and seizures are prohibited.
First-class letters and packages are protected under the Fourth Amendment and cannot be opened without a search warrant.
California law requires police to obtain a search warrant before they can search your mail. [ more ]
The Sacramento Bee
5 months ago
Privacy professionals

Can police search my mail and packages? California law says only under these circumstances

The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures, but not all searches and seizures are prohibited.
First-class letters and packages are protected under the Fourth Amendment and cannot be opened without a search warrant.
California law requires police to obtain a search warrant before they can search your mail. [ more ]
ITPro
11 months ago
Privacy professionals

US reveals bespoke tool that took down Russian malware operation

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has revealed details of a joint operation in which Western agencies used a custom tool to destroy a decades-old Russian malware operation.Use of a tool named 'PERSEUS' nullified a worldwide network of devices that had been infected with the Snake malware by threat actors in the group Turla.
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www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US news

What to Expect When Trump Is Charged in the Documents Case on Tuesday

The political world's eyes will turn to the federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday when former President Donald J. Trump is expected to surrender for his first appearance on charges that he illegally retained national security documents after leaving office, obstructed efforts to retrieve them and made false statements.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

12-year-old in Milwaukee charged with killing a man to steal his guns. Police say a pizza receipt led to the arrest

A 12-year-old boy in Milwaukee was charged with first-degree intentional homicide after being accused of killing a man to steal his guns, court records show.The boy, who is not named because of his age, allegedly carried out the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Brandon Felton inside of a Milwaukee home on March 15 because Felton refused to sell weapons to the child, according to police.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
US news

Afroman Is Sued by Police Officers After Using Their Faces in Music Videos

Seven law enforcement officers in Ohio are suing the rapper Afroman for using footage of their raid on his house last year in videos and merchandise for commercial purposes, according to a complaint.Four deputies, two sergeants and a detective, all with the Adams County Sheriff's Office in West Union, filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas in Adams County on March 13, the complaint said.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Trump-appointed judge returns to spotlight in ex-president's federal criminal case

Federal judge Aileen Cannon entered the public spotlight last summer when she oversaw court proceedings related to the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.Now, the Trump-appointed federal judge has been initially assigned to oversee the former president's new federal criminal case in Miami, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Trump aide Walt Nauta indicted in classified documents case

An aide to former President Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the mishandling of classified documents from the Trump White House, two sources familiar with the indictment tell CNN.Walt Nauta's indictment is the second in the special counsel's investigation after Trump was indicted on seven counts on Thursday.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

Trump- Appointed Judge Is Said to Be Initially Handling Documents Case

Former President Donald J. Trump's criminal indictment on charges stemming from his handling of classified documents will be overseen at least initially by a federal judge who a higher court criticized for handing him a series of unusually favorable rulings during the early stages of the investigation, according to five people familiar with the matter.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

Special Counsel Avoids Possible Legal Fight by Moving Trump Case to Miami

The decision to indict former President Donald J. Trump in Florida in the classified documents inquiry eliminates a considerable risk to the politically fraught case: a potentially thorny legal fight over where the charges should have been filed, former federal prosecutors said.For months, prosecutors had been using a grand jury in Washington to question witnesses and hear evidence before abruptly deciding to bring charges in Florida that included at least one violation of the Espionage Act, obstruction and false statements.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

The investigation reaches back to the end of Trump's term.

At the end of President Donald J. Trump's term in January 2021, a trove of documents many which were said to be in the White House residence were packed in boxes along with clothes, gifts, photos and other material, and shipped by the General Services Administration to Mar-a-Lago, his home and resort in Florida.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

The latest on the Trump indictment in classified documents probe

Sp The receipt for property that was seized during the execution of a search warrant by the FBI at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, is photographed on August 12, 2022.Jon Elswick/AP/File Special counsel Jack Smith has been overseeing the Justice Department's criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump's resort and into parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Law

Trump's former White House chief of staff testifies before a grand jury

U.S. President Donald Trump confers with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows while departing the White House Sept. 1, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee/Getty Images Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff, recently testified before a grand jury weighing the handling of classified documents once Trump left office and alleged obstruction of justice as the government probed the matter, according to a source with direct knowledge.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Law

Former aide to President Trump testifies before a grand jury in Florida

Taylor Budowich, a former aide to former President Donald Trump who now leads the Super PAC, MAGA Inc., testified before a grand jury in Miami on Wednesday as part of special counsel Jack Smith's ongoing probe into the handling of classified documents once Trump left office."Today, in what can only be described as a bogus and deeply troubling effort to use the power of government to "get" Trump, I fulfilled a legal obligation to testify in front a federal grand jury and I answered every question honestly," Budowich tweeted.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

Brooklyn pastor claims innocence while facing federal fraud and extortion charges

Bishop Lamor Whitehead was robbed of more than $1 million worth of jewelry in July when armed gunmen entered his church during a service.He is now facing federal fraud charges in an unrelated case.Mary Altaffer/AP Brooklyn-based Bishop Lamor Whitehead, who became known nationally this summer after getting robbed during a livestreamed church service, is facing wire fraud and extortion charges in an unrelated case.
Sun Sentinel
10 months ago
Miami

Ex-Trump aide testifies before federal grand jury in Florida investigation of Mar-a-Lago documents

By ERIC TUCKER (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former top aide to Donald Trump appeared Wednesday in federal court in Miami for testimony to a grand jury investigating potential classified-document mishandling and obstruction at the ex-president's Palm Beach property, according to a person familiar with the matter.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

Gray's Inn bomb accused was using loo' when police arrived at manor, court told

A businessman accused of plotting to plant bombs in London's legal district denied hiding a mobile phone in a chair after police arrived at his stately manor, claiming he was using the loo.Jonathan Nuttall, 50, is accused of deploying his driver Michael Sode, 58, to act as a middleman with former Royal Marine Michael Broddle, 46, who planted the two devices at Gray's Inn on September 14 2021.
www.eastbaytimes.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Leandro: Suspect arrested in city's first homicide of year

SAN LEANDRO A 23-year-old man was in custody after his arrest in connection with the fatal beating of a woman this week, authorities said.Police said officers responded to an apartment in the 2700 block of Marina Boulevard around 9:30 a.m.Sunday.While en route, officers learned that a woman had been assaulted and was not responsive.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Matt Shultz, Cage the Elephant Singer, Arrested on Weapons Charges

Matt Shultz, the lead singer of the indie rock band Cage the Elephant, was arrested at a Manhattan hotel on Thursday on weapons charges, law enforcement officials said.Mr. Shultz, 39, was arrested on Thursday morning after a Bowery Hotel employee had seen him pull a gun from his pants pocket in one of the hotel's public restrooms, according to a criminal complaint.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Man who mass produced street valium' is jailed for four and a half years

A man who was involved in turning an industrial unit into a drugs factory capable of mass producing pills worth hundreds of thousands of pounds has been jailed for four and a half years.Derek Dragsnes, 49, a labourer, from Glasgow, ran the unit in the village of Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire.He was sentenced at the High Court in Livingston on Monday after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of etizolam, known as street valium, at a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh last month, the Crown Office said.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Federal prosecutors using a second grand jury in Florida as part of Trump classified documents probe

A grand jury based in southern Florida has heard testimony from multiple witnesses in recent weeks as part of the federal investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, sources told CNN.Another witness is expected to appear Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Miami as the investigation continues to develop, and the grand jury is expected to hear from at least one additional witness after that.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

Lawyers Unable to Find Document Trump Discussed in Recorded Conversation

Shortly after learning that former President Donald J. Trump had been recorded discussing what appeared to be classified material describing military options for confronting Iran, federal prosecutors issued a subpoena to his lawyers seeking the return of all records that resembled the document he mentioned, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
time.com
1 year ago
US politics

How Criminal Charges Against Trump Could Perversely Boost his 2024 Campaign

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg may be poised to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump, the kind of moment that would doom many political careers.Yet Trump is likely to find being the subject of such a historic legal action would provide a boost of energy, and potentially donations, to his latest presidential bid.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
US news

F.B.I. Found One Classified Document After Searching Pence's Home

The F.B.I. found one classified document after searching the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence for five hours on Friday, an adviser to Mr. Pence said.Mr. Pence and his aides had agreed to the search after they discovered a small number of classified documents there last month.The search, which the adviser described as thorough and unrestricted, also yielded six additional pages without such markings.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Third Trump attorney appears before federal grand jury investigating Mar-a-Lago documents

Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, appeared last month before a federal grand jury investigating the mishandling of classified documents from his time in the White House, two sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.Habba is the third Trump lawyer known to have been brought before the DC-based grand jury, which is investigating obstruction in addition to criminal violations of government records laws.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Justice Department tells court there's evidence of a crime in bid to force more answers from Trump attorney

Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents are asking a court to force his attorney Evan Corcoran to provide additional testimony, two sources familiar with the Justice Department's motion told CNN.To overcome the shield of attorney-client privilege, prosecutors alleged in writing to the judge that the former president used his attorney in furtherance of a crime or fraud, according to one source.
www.mississauga.com
10 months ago
Toronto

SIU investigating death of a man in Etobicoke following Peel police operation

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man found at a townhouse in the City of Etobicoke.The investigative agency said in a media release that as per the latest update, Peel Regional Police breached the door of the apartment at around 2 a.m. at 551 The West Mall, executing a search warrant in the area just beyond the Toronto/Mississauga border.
www.cnn.com
11 months ago
US politics

Texas man urges Supreme Court to stay out of major Second Amendment case

A lawyer for a Texas man urged the Supreme Court late Tuesday to let stand a lower court opinion that critics say will make it easier for domestic abusers to obtain firearms.The man, Zackey Rahimi, is at the center of the latest Second Amendment case to reach the high court.A federal appeals court ruled in Rahimi's favor in March.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
US politics

Former Trump Lawyer Describes Conflict Inside Legal Team

A conflict inside former President Donald J. Trump's legal team erupted into public view on Saturday as one of his former lawyers went on television to attack one of his current lawyers, who has been the focus of ire from others on the team.The former lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, withdrew this past week from representing Mr. Trump in the special counsel's investigations into his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
London politics

Imran Khan and Lahore police remain in tense standoff

Imran Khan and the police have been locked in a tense standoff in Lahore, with Pakistan's former prime minister holed up in his residence claiming he was about to be arrested and officers barricading the surrounding roads and accusing him of harbouring terrorists.Since Khan was released from police custody on Friday, after his arrest in a corruption case was declared illegal, he has repeatedly expressed his fear of being re-arrested and has only left his residence once, to attend court with his wife on Monday.
www.france24.com
1 year ago
London politics

Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan heads to Islamabad court fearing arrest

A vehicle carrying Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan is surrounded by his supporters as he leaves for Islamabad on March 18, 2023.K.M. Chaudary, AP Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan was set to appear in court on Saturday as police entered his property and after he expressed fear of arrest in a standoff with the government that has led to intense clashes with his supporters.
www.boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Roxbury men charged with selling 3D-printed devices that turn guns into automatic weapons

Two Roxbury men are facing federal firearms charges after allegedly storing and selling 3D-printed devices capable of turning regular semi-automatic firearms into machine guns.Elijah Navarro and Michael Wilkerson were arrested last week and face charges related to making or selling firearms without government registration, as well as transferring or possessing machine guns, court documents show.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

New York Troopers' Union Offices Searched by State Police Investigators

New York State Police investigators executed a search warrant on Tuesday at the Albany headquarters of a union that represents thousands of active-duty and retired troopers and has been embroiled in strife and recently experienced a leadership shake-up.The execution of the warrant was confirmed by a State Police spokesman and by a lawyer for the union, the Police Benevolent Association of the New York State Troopers.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Medicine

Ex-Nurse Recorded Himself Sexually Assaulting Patients, Police Say

A former nurse at a Colorado hospital has been charged with sexually abusing female patients while they were unconscious and with recording the assaults on video, the police said.The former nurse, Christopher P. Lambros, 61, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault, according to the Grand Junction Police Department.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Tories demand parliamentary inquiry into SNP finances probe

The Scottish Conservatives have called for a parliamentary inquiry focusing on the ongoing investigation into the SNP's finances.The party's chief whip Alexander Burnett has written to the Presiding Officer to push for the probe, asking the parliamentary bureau the cross-party group which decides on Holyrood business to establish a committee that will examine the facts of the case.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Independence supporters can trust SNP with their money, says Humza Yousaf

Supporters of Scottish independence can still trust the SNP, leader Humza Yousaf has claimed insisting members will still dig deep for the party.Mr Yousaf was challenged over the ongoing police probe into the party's finances, stemming from how more than 600,000 raised for a second independence referendum campaign was spent.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Crown does not base decisions on politics, insists Yousaf

Scotland's First Minister has defended the country's prosecution service after a reported delay in clearing a search warrant for Nicola Sturgeon's home.The Scottish Sun said on Monday that a request to search the home shared by the former first minister and her husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, along with the party's Edinburgh headquarters was made on March 20.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Judge-led inquiry into Crown Office needed over warrant in SNP probe MacAskill

A judge-led inquiry should examine the Crown Office's role in the granting of a warrant to search Nicola Sturgeon's house and SNP HQ, Alba MP Kenny MacAskill has said.It comes after the Scottish Sun reported that police requested the search warrant on March 20, but it was only green-lit and sent to a sheriff a fortnight later.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Supreme Court finds analysis of Patrick Quirke's computer was unlawful'

The Supreme Court of Ireland has an allowed an appeal by Patrick Quirke over his murder conviction and declared the seizure of a computer during the investigation as unlawful.After a 71-day trial at the Central Criminal Court in 2019, Quirke was convicted by a majority verdict of 10-2 of murdering Bobby Ryan in Tipperary between June 3 2011 and April 30 2013.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Former junior counsel to child abuse inquiry charged with sex offences

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A former junior counsel to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has been charged with sex offences.John Halley, 59, was arrested on February 15 in Caddonfoot, near Galashiels, and has since been charged.
Chicago Tribune
11 months ago
Chicago

More than 600 catalytic converters found on property of Worth Township man, who faces charges

A Worth Township man faces criminal charges after Cook County sheriff's police found more than 600 catalytic converters on his property, Sheriff Tom Dart said Thursday.Dart said it was among the largest such seizures of that vehicle part, which is part of a vehicle's exhaust system, in the state.Ramsy Sandoka, 40, of the 6000 block of 128th Place in unincorporated Worth Township, is charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, a felony, as well as misdemeanor charges including selling and purchasing catalytic converters, according to Dart's office.
Chicago Tribune
11 months ago
Chicago

Tracking device leads feds to two suspects in heist of more than $1 million from Brink's truck

Two men got away with more than $1 million Tuesday morning from a Brink's truck parked outside a Homewood grocery store, authorities said.What they didn't know was a location tracking device was inside bundles of cash, which led police right to them, federal authorities said.Devonte Davis and Darrell Singleton, who were both charged with armed robbery, appeared before a magistrate judge in federal court Wednesday, where they were held pending detention hearings next week, federal authorities said.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Former student, 16, accused of fatally shooting 2, injuring 2 others at Benito Juarez high school denied bail: prosecutors

A 16-year-old boy who had been expelled from Benito Juarez Community Academy high school is accused of fatally gunning down two students including one he believed was in a rival gang and injuring two others in attack at dismissal, prosecutors said Saturday.Christian Acevedo appeared before Cook County Judge Ankur Srivastava, who denied bail during a hearing that was livestreamed on YouTube.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Police ID man killed by cops during attempted machete attack

Illinois State Police have identified a man who was fatally shot last weekend by officers he had tried to attack with a machete as they were serving an arrest warrant.State police said Monday that Rodney G. Williams, 66, died following Saturday morning's shooting at his apartment in the Stark County city of Toulon.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Forensic pathologist, teen victim's stepdad testify during Keith Blake's murder trial

Slain Valparaiso teen Noah Beller bled to death after being shot through both lungs and an upper chamber of his heart according to court testimony Monday morning by forensic pathologist John Feczko who performed the autopsy.Heavy rain fell outside courtroom windows on the fifth day of testimony in the murder trial of 34-year-old Michigan City resident Keith Blake who has been charged with Beller's murder and carrying a handgun without a license in the case that involved a paternity dispute.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Rob Peccola: Chicago, learn from Zion. Don't carry out warrantless rental inspections.

Aldermen in Chicago are considering a law that would require mandatory inspections of all apartments every five years.The invasiveness of such inspections cannot be overstated.Government officials will enter homes and view the most intimate details of a renter's life - their children's rooms, medications, holy books, political affiliations, immigration status, sexual orientation and gender identity.
SFGATE
11 months ago
San Francisco

SF dry cleaner employee charged after allegedly filming women changing

Getty Images An employee at a San Francisco dry cleaner was charged with six counts of misdemeanor invasion of privacy after he allegedly recorded women in the shop's dressing room with a hidden camera, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.Several women filed police reports saying the employee had asked them to undress while their clothes were being tailored at Divisadero Heights Cleaners, which is on the 1100 block of Divisadero St., the DA's office said in a statement.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
California

Thirteen arrested on suspicion of EBT card theft may be part of Romanian syndicate, LAPD says

(Rebecca Ellis / Los Angeles Times)

Thirteen people suspected of running an identity and Electronic Benefits Transfer card theft operation and being connected to a Romanian syndicate were arrested Tuesday at a Van Nuys motel, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Authorities found credit card skimming devices, card readers, more than $36,000 and a large number of false identification cards and documents when they served a search warrant at a motel in the 4700 block of Sepulveda Boulevard, the LAPD said in a news release.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Indiana coroner facing drug charges

A southwestern Indiana coroner is facing official misconduct and drug charges following a nearly yearlong investigation, state police said Thursday.Knox County Coroner Karen Donovan, 40, was arrested Wednesday night at her Vincennes home after detectives serving a search warrant found methamphetamine and fentanyl, Indiana State Police said in a news release.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Ghost Gun Investigation Leads to Raid in Upper East Side Luxury Building

A ghost gun team of the New York Police Department raided a luxury co-op on the Upper East Side on Wednesday, seizing gun parts, drug-related materials and pressure cookers and chemicals that could be used to make explosives, the authorities said.They also arrested an occupant of the apartment, Christopher Fox, 30, on a litany of drug and weapons charges, including the manufacture of a machine gun, the police said.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Michigan State gunman had a list of other targets and extra ammunition when police found him, authorities said

The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and critically wounded five others had a list of other targets, two handguns and plenty of ammunition when police found him on foot after the campus massacre, authorities revealed Thursday.After gunfire terrorized the East Lansing campus Monday evening, an alert citizen who saw news coverage helped lead police to 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae about 4 miles northwest of campus, authorities said.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco man arrested on suspicion of recording women, 11-year-old girl in Pacifica changing room

PACIFICA Detectives on Tuesday arrested a 37-year-old San Francisco man on suspicion of secretly taking videos of women and an 11-year-old girl at a Pacifica clothing store, police said.Around 1 p.m. on Jan. 22, officers were called to the business for a report of a man who was using his cellphone to surreptitiously record female shoppers in a changing room, the Pacifica Police Department said in a news release.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
California

When a 9-year-old girl didn't want her goat to be slaughtered, county fair officials sent deputies after it

(Advancing Law for Animals)

Every day for three months, Jessica Long's young daughter walked and fed her goat, bonding with the brown and white floppy-eared animal named Cedar.But when it was time for Cedar to be sold and slaughtered at the Shasta District Fair last year, the 9-year-old just couldn't go through with it.
The Verge
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Two cybercrime group members charged with last year's DEA portal hack

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Sagar Steven Singh and Nicholas Ceraolo, who are said to belong to the cybercrime group 'Vile,' allegedly used the information from a federal database to extort their victims.Two men have been charged for their alleged roles in last year's hack of the Drug Enforcement Agency's web portal, as reported earlier by Gizmodo.
Theregister
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Police warrant orders Ring to provide man's home footage

Last year, around the Thanksgiving holiday, Ohio businessman Michael Larkin received a request for video from his Amazon Ring security system from Hamilton city police.He complied, providing video from his doorbell camera that was stored on Ring's servers.After balking at further demands, he subsequently learned that authorities had bypassed the need to get his consent by presenting Ring with a search warrant for video from several of his Ring cameras, including one that covered an indoor area of his home.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

State police execute search warrant at Waukegan City Hall

Members of the Illinois State Police have collected information about businesses owned by Ald.Roudell Kirkwood, 4th Ward, and about the potential theft of government funds, wire fraud, official misconduct and forgery related to the city of Waukegan, court records show.Representatives of the state police and the Lake County state's attorney's office appeared at Waukegan City Hall Thursday with a search warrant seeking potential evidence of those crimes and left with documents and other items, according to officials and court records.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Prosecutors sought 33 years to life, but Mongols biker who killed cop may be freed by March

David Martinez, a member of the Mongols motorcycle gang, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday after pleading no contest in November to charges of voluntary manslaughter for killing a Pomona police officer during a 2014 raid.Martinez has already been tried twice for the killing, and his lawyers were hoping he could be immediately freed, since he has spent more than eight years behind bars.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Websites selling abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google

This story originally appeared on ProPublica.Online pharmacies that sell abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google and other third parties, which may allow law enforcement to prosecute those who use the medications to end their pregnancies, a ProPublica analysis has found.Using a tool created by the Markup, a nonprofit tech-journalism newsroom, ProPublica ran checks on 11 online pharmacies that sell abortion medication to reveal the web tracking technology they use.
San Jose Inside
1 year ago
Education

San Jose Police Arrest Suspect in Multiple School Burglaries, Thefts

San Jose detectives have arrested a 44-year-old San Jose man on charges he burglarized several schools and stole electronic equipment.The suspect, Juan Rodriguez, was booked at Santa Clara County Main Jail last week on eight counts of commercial burglary, three counts of felony vandalism, one count of possession of stolen property, and one count of bringing a weapon onto school grounds.
www.newsshopper.co.uk
1 year ago
London

Shocking week of south east London crime including 'axe man' who approached runners

It's been a busy week for police in south east London (Image: Metropolitan Police) The past week has seen a number of shocking crimes committed in south east London, including an 'axe man' who approached runners in Beckenham and a man who was beaten up outside a betting shop.Here's a round up of all the crimes we know about that have been reported in the last week: Runners approached by 'axe man' A mum has shared how her daughters were approached by a man with an axe in Beckenham.
www.guardian-series.co.uk
1 year ago
London

Paedophile jailed after secretly recording children and having 12,500 indecent images

Dean Gordon has been sentenced to six years and eight months' imprisonment (Image: Metropolitan Police) A Leytonstone paedophile who stored more than 12,500 indecent images of children has been jailed.Dean Gordon, 41, covertly recorded women and children for his own sexual gratification and admitted to sexually assaulting a young girl, police said.
www.standard.co.uk
1 year ago
London

Molester filmed naked girls using cameras hidden in water bottle and coat hooks

A child molester who covertly filmed women and their daughters using cameras hidden in a water bottle and coat hooks has been jailed.Dean Gordon, 41 - caught with more than 12,000 indecent images - befriended mothers with young girls in Waltham Forest, east London.In one case, he recorded himself sexually abusing a female child whilst she sleep.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
London

UK barber jailed after sending Islamic State thousand of pounds from Covid grants

A barber has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after sending thousands of pounds from taxpayer-funded coronavirus grants to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria.Tarek Namouz, 43, told an associate he had transferred up to 25,000 to an IS fighter after discussing purchasing bombs, Kalashnikov rifles and other firearms as part of a plot to attack the Syrian government, the court heard.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Senate committee set to vote on Biden's embattled FAA nominee

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is scheduled to vote on President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday morning marking a consequential moment for the embattled nominee and the agency, which is attempting to address a slew of major challenges.
www.kvue.com
1 year ago
Austin

Six juveniles arrested in series of aggravated robberies

AUSTIN, Texas Austin police say they've arrested six people responsible for nine aggravated robberies in the Austin area, all under the age of 18.The robberies began on Saturday, March 4 at 8:30 p.m., and two hours later, they had moved from southeast Austin to Central East Austin.There were more robberies the next night.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Lexington man pleads guilty to civil rights charge for throwing banana peels at Haitian neighbor's home

Crime Robert Ivarson was also found to have Nazi and KKK paraphernalia and a hoard of illegal guns in his home.A Lexington man pleaded guilty to a criminal harassment and a civil rights violation this month for repeatedly throwing banana peels at the home of a Haitian family in his neighborhood.While searching the home of 55-year-old Robert Ivarson in connection with the civil rights charge, police also found dozens of illegal guns, leading to a number of gun charges he also pleaded guilty to this month.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Mattapan man charged with assault for allegedly shooting his brother in the face over a family dispute

Boston police have charged a Mattapan man with assault with intent to murder for allegedly shooting his brother in the face during an argument about selling their family home.Trevor Lawrence, 32, has been charged with armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and several firearms and ammunition charges.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Ghost guns seized in Burlington and Woburn; officials warn of dangers they pose

Local Ghost guns, which can be built at home using tools like 3D printers, are a rising problem in Massachusetts, officials said.Law enforcement officials are warning the public about the threat that ghost guns pose after officers seized illegal weapons on multiple occasions in recent weeks.Ghost guns are untraceable weapons that are privately assembled.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

18 malnourished dogs rescued from Malden home, animal cruelty charges filed

Crime Nearly half of the dogs have been emancipated.The Animal Rescue League of Boston rescued 18 malnourished dogs from a home in Malden earlier this month and has since filed animal cruelty charges.ARL Law Enforcement said it filed 18 counts of animal cruelty and 18 counts of violation of the state's tethering and confinement statute against Malden resident Jennifer Ahn.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Trump attorney appeared before federal grand jury in Mar-a-Lago probe

(CNN)Donald Trump attorney Evan Corcoran appeared last month to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, that's looking at the former president's handling of national security records at his Mar-a-Lago residence, a source confirmed to CNN.He was there for roughly four hours.Bloomberg first reported that he had appeared.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
London politics

A disputed resignation: Lodi City Councilman Shakir Khan says he was coerced into resigning after his arrest on Thursday

By Wes Bowers | Lodi News-Sentinel Despite an attorney's claims that his client was coerced into stepping down from his elected position, the City of Lodi said Friday morning that it has accepted Councilman Shakir Khan's resignation from public office.Khan was arrested at his Heritage District home Thursday morning on more than a dozen charges of voter fraud related to the 2020 election and booked into San Joaquin County Jail.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Colorado election denier Tina Peters found guilty of obstructing government operation

Tina Peters the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and her state's most prominent 2020 election denier was found guilty Friday of misdemeanor obstruction of a government operation, according to Mesa County's court clerk.Peters was acquitted of obstructing a peace officer, Mesa County Court Clerk Ann Brigham said.
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

Three People Shot Overnight in San Francisco in Three Separate Shootings, None Fatal

Three people, including one minor, were shot in San Francisco from Saturday night into Sunday morning in separate shootings, according to SFPD Investigations Deputy Chief Raj Vaswani.The three shootings took place over the course of about four hours from late Saturday night to early Sunday morning, prompting responses from SFPD's night investigations and robbery teams.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Two teens stabbed boy 15 times in cold-blooded' mistaken identity murder

Two teenagers who murdered a 16-year-old in cold blood in a case of mistaken identity in west London stabbed him 15 times while he was defenceless on the floor, police have said.Vanushan Balakrishnan and Ilyas Suleiman, who are both aged 18 and are from Waylands and St Jeromes Grove in Hillington respectively, were found guilty on Monday of murdering 16-year-old Rishmeet Singh.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Virginia sheriff defends removal of items from deputy's home after California triple homicide

A Virginia sheriff says that he ordered two of his deputies to search the home of a colleague who killed three people in California, and insists they acted to protect the public.Washington County Sheriff Blake Andis also says he told Riverside police, who are leading the investigation into " catfishing" cop Austin Lee Edwards, about his deputies' Nov. 25 search of Edwards' home.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Coworkers of cop who killed 3 in California removed items from his home prior to official search

Coworkers of Austin Lee Edwards, the Virginia cop who killed the grandparents and mother of a 15-year-old Riverside girl he " catfished " online, removed a sheriff's truck and a black trash bag from Edwards' property the night before it was officially searched, according to an eyewitness and a video reviewed by The Times.
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