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.
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Rafael Angel Nieves was arrested two weeks after he allegedly pretended to be a federal agent while at the scene of his daughter’s car accident
Tensions between police and fire department are documented in over 200 pages of documents compiled in connection with the death of 15-year-old Ye Meng Yuan
The 73-year-old diabetic was shot when the robbers couldn’t open his safe; he is in critical but stable condition
Video captures a mother on a bus nodding in and out of consciousness while her young daughter tries to wake her up
Case stemmed from a road-rage encounter in 2011 between an off-duty officer and an Idaho motorist
A critical piece of evidence, the bullet that pierced Officer Adam Shaw’s shoulder Saturday, has not been recovered
A police sergeant is suing the city, claiming he faced retaliation after reporting that a detective made inappropriate remarks about Whitney Houston’s body at her death scene
The off-duty high-ranking officer can be seen on dash cam shoving an officer at the scene
The suspect called police, telling them his location and reporting that he was armed before hanging up
Nancy Gonzalez claims she had sex with at least eight co-workers, including two supervisors, while on duty at the Metropolitan Detention Center in less than two years
A federal court jury has rejected a civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shot to death by an Anaheim officer in 2012
The career criminal whose participation in a notorious murder spurred California’s so-called three strikes law has been arrested again
Phoenix police identified the two as 15-year-old Matthew Bolton and 16-year-old Anastasia “Ana” Greer
Police were called to the home to investigate and found a woman bleeding profusely from her head
Investigators say Christopher Rossi invited officers in before grabbing a handgun and shooting himself in the head
Authorities say the children were screaming to bystanders that their mother was trying to kill them
After fatally shooting a Seattle man for his cellphone, police say the teen fled to a friend’s home where he complained the phone “was not a nicer model”
An off-duty Houston officer fatally shot one of three burglars who broke into his home on Thursday
The slaying last month of an Alexandria woman who was shot when she opened her front door appears to be linked to two other unsolved killings in the city
Max Huntsman was hired in December to provide new oversight to the LASD following several years of investigations into deputy corruption in the jail system
The father of a man who gunned down a deputy sheriff pleaded no contest to a felony charge that he helped his suicidal son acquire a firearm in violation of the law
Debo Adegbile argued before the Supreme Court that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s conviction for killing a Philadelphia police officer should be overturned
A discarded paper coffee cup from a Starbucks drive-thru was the crucial clue that helped police arrest a man in connection with the sexual assaults of two women
A pregnant SC woman drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Fla.
NYC will stop challenging a law making it easier to bring racial profiling cases against the police
Former Black Panther leader Marshall “Eddie” Conway walked free Tuesday after spending four decades behind bars for killing a Baltimore police officer
City commission is planning a wide-ranging series of forums to examine both the impact of police surveillance programs in local communities and allegations of continued ethnic profiling within those programs
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