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Russia arrests 5 ex-police in reporter's planted drugs case
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Investigative Committee on Wednesday detained five former police officers involved in a controversial drug arrest of a prominent investigative journalist last year. Ivan Golunov, 37, was arrested in June 2019 in Moscow on drug-dealing charges that he rejected as a sham. The...
Video of man firing gun while driving leads to arrest
QUITMAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who police believe is shown on video firing four rounds from a pistol while behind the wheel of a moving vehicle has been charged with a misdemeanor. Joseph Gage Smith, 18, was arrested Monday by the Clarke County Sheriff's Office, WAPT-TV reported. A six-second...
San Francisco official charged with corruption in FBI probe
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A top San Francisco public official and go-to bureaucrat to mayors over two decades was charged with public corruption Tuesday, upending City Hall as elected leaders scrambled to reassure the public that bribery and kickbacks would not be tolerated. The complaint unsealed against San...
Police: Man charged with murder in death of 5-month-old son
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man was arrested and accused of killing his 5-month-old son, authorities said. Quandeel Taylor, 24, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of baby Peyton Taylor, news outlets reported. The baby was admitted to Atrium Health Levine...
11 arrested in drug trafficking operation
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have arrested 11 people after a year-long investigation into heroin and methamphetamine distribution in southern Arizona. The DEA and the Arizona Department of Public Safety say the investigation began in December 2018 in Tucson. Authorities seized more than pound of...
Police release body-cam video of 76-year-old woman's arrest
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Footage from a police officer's body-worn camera released Tuesday shows he used pepper spray, deployed a stun gun and pulled his service weapon as he tried to get a 76-year-old woman out of the way to arrest her granddaughter earlier this month at a home in a Baltimore suburb. The Jan....
Missing North Dakota woman found in Texas had warrant out
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman who disappeared from the Standing Rock Reservation more than two months ago was arrested last week in Texas on a felony warrant from North Dakota. Kara Lynn Mauai, 30, listed in court documents with the last name Mauai-Kuntz, was found in the Dallas area on Jan. 15. A county...
Louisiana riding mower trespass arrest nabs Utah fugitive
BAYOU BLUE, La. (AP) — A man accused of riding a mower on someone else's land turned out to be a fugitive from Utah who had lived in Louisiana for more than a decade, living without an ID and working only for cash. Lafourche Parish deputies stopped 49-year-old Richard Schleininger in Bayou Blue —...
Officers tail snowplow and watch as it plunges into river
GRETNA, Neb. (AP) — The driver of a snowplow plunged the vehicle into the Platte River on Tuesday as he was being followed by authorities who later arrested him. U.S. marshals and Sarpy County sheriff's deputies believed the driver of the Nebraska Department of Transportation snowplow was a wanted federal...
Trooper arrested who was charged with assaulting his wife
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut State Police trooper who was charged with assaulting his wife last year has been arrested, police said. Gregory Smith, 43, of East Haddam, turned himself into authorities Friday on two new charges of violating a protective order, police said. He was released on...
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