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.
There is a lot more to the Mobile Field Interview (MFI) application than just shifting the recording instrument from a pen and an index card to a smartphone or tablet
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Officer trying to settle neighbors’ dispute has my vote for most innovative search warrant in 2015
40 years ago a woman killed a state trooper, then escaped prison and fled to Cuba
The suspect had doused himself in petrol before the officers used a TASER on him, causing him to burst into flames
The rookie officer called dispatchers with a detailed description of the suspect seconds after he was shot in the forehead
Someone opened fire on people in South Los Angeles at a carwash, then sped off, causing a 9 car pileup that killed 1
Three college friends removed a backpack containing evidence from the surviving suspect’s room, lied to investigators
Authorities are asking all victims of a man known as “El Dentista” to file a report. Santa Fe police say they want to build a strong case against Eliver Kestler, also known as Eliver Lopez
Los Angeles police were searching Monday for a man in a Spider-Man costume who authorities say snatched $6,000 from a tour company office
After an 8-year-old girl was stabbed to death by her random killer, the tight-knit town has hunkered down until he’s found
Though the name of a station does not appear anywhere in the photo, it resembles a Tulsa squad car
The youth was taken to a hospital, and there appeared to be no threat to other students
Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, vaguely discussed jihad with his mother
Quentin Tarantino’s 1964 Chevelle Malibu was recovered in the San Francisco Bay area earlier this week by police
FBI agents have wrapped up a two-day search at a landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
On Saturday, police were guarding the alley, which was secured as a crime scene two blocks from the trade center site
The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center overnight and was taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens
Whether or not lawyers should have had more time with the suspect before he was read his rights is being debated
This document presented a challenge to decipher
A Watertown resident was shocked when he peered out his window to see the two suspected terrorists the country had been searching for
After interrogating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, police discovered the brothers had no connection to Muslim terrorist groups
Antwan James, 27, is at large after killing his stepfather Joseph Newell over a domestic dispute
This software in the works could potentially help police stitch together mass amounts of video in terrorist-type situations
An affidavit does not say whether suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is thought to have used the cellphone as a detonator
The three-minute long video shows Tsarnaev hiding under a plastic cover in a boat in at a residence in Watertown
Her lawyer told feds she did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him
The son of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan holds a police department badge but hasn’t worked a shift in more than 4 years
5 were killed in an exchange of gunfire, including a suspect who was killed by arriving officers
Two foreign nationals have been arrested on immigration violations in the town the surviving bombing suspect may have lived
He remained in serious condition Sunday and apparently in no shape for interrogation after being pulled bloody and wounded from a boat
The officers argue the man in the video was never in any danger, as gang members heckle him from the back of a squad
One officer’s slow clap spawned an applause where people clamored the streets waiting to hear if the second bomber had been captured
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