Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Auto Thefts in Colorado Dip 40 Percent in 2 Years
Jun 30 2008 // Auto thefts reported to police in Colorado dipped 40 percent between 2005 and 2007, partly because of a stronger focus on preventing and solving those crimes and tougher penalties in at least one community. Auto thefts,...
New York Police Arrest 13 Suspects in Car Insurance Fraud Scheme
Jun 19 2008 // Police in New York say 13 people staged minor car accidents to get thousands of dollars’ worth of unnecessary medical treatment from four Bronx clinics. The 13 people were arrested Tuesday on insurance fraud and...
Chicago Cops Charged in Insurance Scam
Jun 16 2008 // A Chicago police officer working with a tow company owner and another policeman allegedly scammed an insurance company, authorities said. According to a news account in the Chicago Sun-Times, Officer Joseph A. Grillo was...
Missouri Attorney General Police Safety Group to Pay State $450,000
Jun 13 2008 // A nonprofit group that promotes police officer safety is to pay $450,000 to Missouri after allegations from the attorney general’s office that it continued to solicit money from residents who had asked it to...
Oahu Auto Thefts Drop More Than 40 Percent
Jun 11 2008 // Auto thefts on Oahu is down by more than 40 percent over a five-year period. Car thefts dropped from a record high of nearly 8,500 in 2002 — an average of more than 23 vehicles per day — to just under 5,000...
Chicago Cops Pull Off Insurance Scam, FBI Says More Charges Coming
Jun 6 2008 // A Chicago police officer working with a tow company owner and another policeman allegedly scammed an insurance company, authorities said yesterday. According to a news account in the Chicago Sun-Times, Officer Joseph A....
Washington Police Traffic Cameras to Start Focusing on School Zones
Jun 3 2008 // Seattle police are about to turn the camera lens on drivers who speed in school zones. Two years ago, the city began using automatic cameras to catch motorists running red lights. The photos — plus tickets carrying...
Authorities Find Insurance Investigator’s Body; Agent Charged
Jun 2 2008 // Authorities searching a wooded area on May 20 found the body of a North Carolina insurance investigator who prosecutors believe was killed by the owner of an agency she was auditing. Police searched for Sallie Rohrbach,...
Feds to Cover Denver Police Insurance Costs During Democratic National Convention
May 30 2008 // Denver city officials say the federal government will cover $1.85 million worth of insurance the city bought for outside police who help with the Democratic National Convention. Denver officials said Tuesday the insurance...
Police Say Blood Found in Murder Suspect’s N.C. Insurance Agency
May 29 2008 // A police search warrant says there was blood inside a Charlotte, N.C. insurance agency owned by a man charged in the death of a woman auditing his business. The warrant says 40-year-old Michael Howell of Indian Trail...
Authorities Find Insurance Investigator’s Body in South Carolina
May 21 2008 // Authorities searching a wooded area on May 20 found the body of a North Carolina insurance investigator who prosecutors believe was killed by the owner of an agency she was auditing. Police searched for Sallie Rohrbach,...
North Carolina Insurance Examiner Missing, Agent Arrested for Murder
May 20 2008 // An agency examiner with the North Carolina Department of Insurance is missing and a Union County insurance agent is in custody charged with the examiner’s murder. Sallie Rohrbach, 44, went missing on May 14 after...
Firefighters Get Upper Hand on Florida Wildfire, Schools Open
May 16 2008 // Firefighters hoped to make further major gains against a wildfire that has charred thousands of acres along Florida’s Atlantic coast, as police questioned a man seen tossing a Molotov cocktail into nearby...
Pennsylvania Troopers Make Record Number of DUI Arrests
May 7 2008 // Pennsylvania’s State Police last year arrested 15,583 people for driving under the influence, a 3 percent increase over the number arrested for DUI in 2007, and the highest total for a single year in the...
Levee Protects Downtown But Flooding Still Severe in Fort Kent, Maine
May 2 2008 // The rain-swollen St. John River crested early Thursday, May 1, after hitting a record high, forcing residents in Fort Kent, Maine to flee to higher ground as more than 100 homes flooded. Rain and melting snow raised the...
Kentucky Public Safety Officials Concerned with Scrap Metal Thefts
Apr 30 2008 // A rash of sewer grate thefts around northern Kentucky has police worried about safety as scavengers seek scrap metal to sell. Thieves stole at least 26 sewer grates this month from streets in Newport, Covington, Fort...
Origin of Massive Connecticut Apartment Fire ‘Suspicious’
Apr 30 2008 // Investigators will assume the cause of a massive apartment fire that reduced a Norwich, Connecticut apartment complex to smoldering rubble is suspicious unless proven otherwise, a police official said. “They’re...
Better Data Needed to Fight Cargo Thefts, Say Insurers, Law Enforcement
Apr 17 2008 // It’s like “Gone in 60 Seconds” with tractor trailers. Thieves steal billions of dollars of electronics, medicine, vehicles and other items from U.S. businesses each year by targeting trucks and other...
Virginia Police ‘Saturation’ Patrols Target High Volume I-95 Area
Apr 9 2008 // Virginia State Police say there were no crashes during a one-day increased patrol along a 13-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in the capital region. Last Thursday, troopers conducted “saturation” patrols in the...
Arizona Court: Off-Duty Officer Injury Qualifies for Workers’ Compensation
Apr 7 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
