Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category

Sheriff: Attempted carjacker gets shot

EDINBURG – The clerk warned Alejandro Salinas about the suspicious men who had been hanging out in front of the convenience store for the past hour.
He told Salinas to be careful as he went back out to his Chevrolet Z-71 pickup truck, that he had just filled at the Aziz Convenience Store about 11 a.m. Saturday.
Salinas walked [...]

Man shoots alleged attacker

A Pell City man is in the hospital with a gunshot wound after he allegedly broke into a Hanceville residence and attacked the owner Saturday.
According to Hanceville police reports, the gunshot victim was 32-year-old Charles Kendrick.
“He was shot once in the stomach with a 25-caliber automatic,” said Lt. Jimmy Rodgers of the Hanceville Police Department. [...]

A rare, armor piercing Belgian-made pistol

Philadelphia police detectives met with the city’s district attorney’s office about a month ago to present their final evidence relating to an April 29 shooting outside a business in North Philadelphia owned by Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison that injured three people, a source with knowledge of the meeting told ESPN Monday night.

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Self-defense cases problematic

The silence from Dubuque County Attorney Ralph Potter’s office after the shooting death of a Dyersville, Iowa, man on Nov. 29 might have some justification, according to one university law professor.
But as the county attorney’s office sorts through a controversial death investigation to determine whether force was justified, a recent analysis shows self-defense laws present [...]

Oakland killing ruled self-defense

Oakland
Killing ruled in self-defense: A 27-year-old man wounded in a Dec. 22 exchange of gunfire with a man police said he was trying to rob has died, authorities said Wednesday.
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U.S. agents under greater attack on Mexico border

LAREDO, Texas, March 8 (Reuters) - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs. 
Assaults against Border Patrol officers rose 10 percent to 843 incidents in the year to September 2006 from [...]

Armed citizens stop Memphis street shooter

Police in Memphis say a gunman firing a pistol beside a busy city street was subdued by two passers-by who were also armed.
No one was hurt during the incident that apparently began with a minor traffic accident, but one passing car was believed hit by a bullet.
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Police: Gang responsible for more than 70 home invasion

Police say they’ve busted a violent gang responsible for crimes covering seven North Texas counties.
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Fort Worth police investigate report of home invasion

By ARLINDA ARRIAGA/Dallas Morning News
Fort Worth police are investigating a report of a home invasion involving three armed men in southern Tarrant County.
Police said they were told that two women, 25 and 27, were home watching television Thursday night with three children when three armed individuals wearing blue and yellow bandannas entered the house, [...]