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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A shipping pallet containing 63 Colt AR-15s was stolen earlier this month from a freight terminal, none of the guns have been recovered
The 19-year-old believes he was stopped by an undercover cop because he was black and made an expensive purchase
Police were responding to reports of an armed man, the suspect ran into the woods after wounding an officer
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was named as a participant in an earlier triple homicide by a man who was subsequently shot to death while being questioned by authorities
A Detroit police officer who was shot in April and died of his injuries Saturday may have been killed accidentally by another officer
The husband threw a punch, then grabbed the gun away from the other man before a shot was fired
Police found the boy walking with the gun and asked him to drop it several times before firing
The body of Colleen Ritzer, 24, was found in a wooded area near Danvers High School early Wednesday
World-renowned expert Dr. Bruce Budowle talks about the current and future state of DNA testing as it’s brought directly into the hands of officers
Officer told investigators that the teens didn’t seem suspicious and that he saw no weapons, so he agreed to take them to a truck stop
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Law enforcement authorities expect to make more arrests in the case
Police say the 28-year-old Brooklyn man was among a group of bikers who chased an SUV for miles
Lost in city, man he asked for directions robbed him at gunpoint; man turned around after exiting and shot him 4 times
No one was injured in the blasts that authorities say were done for amusement
Part two of a four-part series going inside the first long-term undercover operation in the United States
Officers seized one .38-caliber pistol, two .22-caliber pistols, ammo, bear-deterrent spray, a gun holster and belt, scissors, nail clippers and a copy of American Rifleman magazine
Four dry ice bombs, two of which exploded, were found in areas of LAX that are accessible only to employees
Witnesses said that the man was acting irrationally and violent as if under the influence of some kind of narcotic before his arrest
Two hardened investigators had worked 22 years to bring justice to the child found in a picnic cooler on the side of a NY highway
Each faces five counts of shooting with intent to kill plus firearms charges for the shooting at a New Years event
Brandon Devone Smith, 30, was identified Friday morning as the suspect in the shooting
Officials said that the teens, ages 13 and 17, weren’t at the property in Sierra County, nor was program operator
Officers returned fire but couldn’t confirm if the suspect was hit
An investigator found that Holmes did a search on his computer for ‘rational insanity’
Details of Thomas J. Piccard’s motives indicate that he had an anti-government bias
Officer Mary O’Callaghan, an 18-year veteran, was charged with felony assault
