#search-warrant

#search-warrant

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.