Investigations
The Investigations topic area furnishes cops with the latest news, information and strategies used in closing a case and putting bad guys behind bars. This touches on everything that happens between the suspect’s crimes to the final conviction.
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled on two cases involving police officers conducting warrantless searches
Auto theft is frequently a component of high-impact crimes, including robberies, equipment theft, drive-by shootings and even terrorism
The Vallejo Police Department’s crime prevention campaign aimed to reduce burglaries from automobiles during the holiday season
Akron police have taken 19 reports dating back to May 2012
The pre-dawn attacks were not the first ones this year
Police texted the man, who appeared at the victim’s home a short time later with heroine and cocaine
The boy was arrested Wednesday after authorities say he snatched a 22-month-old toddler from a city park last Sunday
A man shot the owners of a house where he was living, killing two and wounding three others
Prosecutors said shortly before the carjacking, the Tsarnaev brothers shot MIT Officer Sean Collier in a failed attempt to steal his gun
The White House said Obama still has full confidence in recently appointed Director Joseph Clancy
Suspect member of a “vicious” local gang who survived a drive-by shooting last year
No officers were injured in the shooting
Husband-and-wife meth users disarmed an officer and a sheriff’s deputy then forced them to their knees before the husband was killed in a struggle
With measured remarks and a conciliatory tone, police, political leaders and civil-rights activists on Thursday sought to tamp down tensions
Baby will be named Josie Wells Jr., after his father
A police chief in suburban Atlanta resigned Wednesday before a grand jury decides whether to charge him with a misdemeanor crime
An apparent hoax summoned a strong police response Wednesday to the home of rapper Lil Wayne after an unknown caller reported a shooting
One suspected gunan died at the scene, another person was hospitalized in critical condition and two firefighters sustained minor injuries
12-year veteran was wounded in the neck and hip and is expected to survive
One officer was shot in the face, just below his right eye, with the bullet lodging behind his ear
Student on Wednesday identified Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the man he saw leaning in to the cruiser of an MIT officer who was fatally shot days after the bombings
Police sought answers Wednesday from a retired corrections officer after his dispute with a pair of strangers ended with a fatal shooting
Neither the deputy nor the wildlife officer was injured in the confrontation Monday
A New York City man “vehemently denies” pointing a laser that injured the eyes of several pilots, including two in a police helicopter
City Manager John Shaw’s eight-year tenure ended Tuesday when the city council voted 7-0 to approve a “mutual separation agreement”
Deputy U.S. Marshal Josie Wells died Tuesday in a shootout while trying to arrest the fugitive
A 64-year-old man was killed Wednesday after he exchanged gunfire with officers and shot one in his ballistic vest
Officer responded to reports of a suspicious person knocking on doors and crawling on the ground naked
Police were searching for a suspect in a double murder when the gunfire exchange occurred
Some of the pot bales that suspects tossed out of an SUV during a high-speed pursuit got picked up by passing vehicles
Memphis, Houston, Cleveland and Detroit are among the U.S. cities working to reduce a backlog of thousands of untested rape kits
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