Friday, February 21, 2014

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Brazil counter attacks on crime as World Cup looms

Friday, Feb 21, 2014 06:05 PM PST

Brazil counter attacks on crime as World Cup looms 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 06:05 PM PST
Backdropped by the Corcovado Hill, members of Rio de Janeiro's military police battalion BOPE stand guard at Guararapes shantytown, on April 29, 2013A string of violent attacks against police in "pacified" Rio de Janeiro slums shows that Brazilian organized crime is not going down without a fight as the World Cup looms. With the football extravaganza less than four months away, and despite aggressive efforts to clean up the favelas, violent crime remains a problem. Launched in 2008, Rio's Police Pacification Units (UPP) have been tasked with wresting control of the city's crime-ridden slums from drug gangs. The program has led to sharp falls in homicide rates in the favelas and across Rio as a whole.
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Former Chicago cop found guilty in slaying plot 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:31 PM PST
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago police officer who spent years on death row before his murder conviction was overturned was found guilty Friday of a grisly plot to kill a businessman but was acquitted of a second plot to kill another businessman and his wife.
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'Pay Your Taxes Now or Be Arrested': The Dirty Dozen Tax Scams You Want to Avoid 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:28 PM PST
'Pay Your Taxes Now or Be Arrested': The Dirty Dozen Tax Scams You Want to AvoidIRS Says It's on the Hunt for Tax-Time Cons
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Coach to plead not guilty in Missouri girl's kidnap, murder: defense 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:10 PM PST
Greene County Sheriff's Office photo of Craig Michael WoodA seventh-grade football coach was ordered held without bail on Friday and will plead not guilty to the kidnap and murder of a 10-year-old girl snatched off a Springfield, Missouri, street and later found dead in his basement, his lawyer said. Craig Michael Wood, 45, accused of abducting Hailey Owens from a neighborhood in Springfield, made his first court appearance on Friday over a video monitor from the Greene County Jail. Witnesses said Hailey was walking along a street shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday when a man driving a pickup truck pulled alongside her. Witness calls to police about the abduction triggered multiple Amber Alerts in Missouri and neighboring states.
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Accused State Senator's brother pleads not guilty 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:04 PM PST
U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte, left, and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Bill Lewis speak at news conference Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in Los Angeles. Federal law enforcement authorities on Friday announced multiple charges of bribery and cover-ups against state Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democratic state lawmaker and his brother, the result of a long-running corruption investigation that has tarnished the state's majority party. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former lawmaker charged in a corruption probe along with his state senator brother has pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court.
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Missouri coach to plead not guilty in girl's death 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 08:42 AM PST
CORRECTS LAST NAME OF VICTIM'S MOTHER TO BARFIELD INSTEAD OF OWENS - Stacey Barfield, mother of Hailey Owens, kneeling, and family members Sara Wells, left, and Teri Nord arrange flowers left by well wishers Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 near the site where the 10-year-old girl was abducted just blocks from the Springfield, Mo., home. Prosecutors have charged Craig Michael Wood with first-degree murder, kidnapping and armed criminal action in their girls death. Prosecutors says the fourth-grader's body was found stuffed in two trash bags inside plastic storage containers in the basement of Wood's Springfield home. She had been shot in the head. (AP Photo/Alan Scher Zagier)SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A middle-school football coach accused in the kidnapping and killing of a 10-year-old girl in southwest Missouri plans to plead not guilty, his public defender said in a brief hearing Friday.
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South Africa to fight crime with new DNA law 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 06:25 AM PST
In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 Lindie Mdluli, is photographed at her home in Katlehong, South Africa, beneath a portrait of her grand parents William and Lettie Mdluli. It took Mdluli several days to summon up the courage to go to a South African police station after she was raped in 2007. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It took a distraught Lindie Mdluli several days to summon the courage to go to a South African police station after she was raped in 2007. When she got there, Mdluli says that police officers didn't discuss the kind of investigative DNA work that she had seen on television detective shows.
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Lutheran college safety director arrested, fired for masturbating in female employee’s shoe 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 05:27 AM PST
The director of public safety at Concordia University Chicago has been charged with two misdemeanors because, police say, he masturbated into a shoe belonging to a female employee of the school. The alleged masturbator is Tim Margis, reports Oak Leaves, a local suburban newspaper. Police say the incident occurred on Feb. 10 at approximately 9:30 p.m. somewhere on the campus of the private Lutheran school. The unidentified female employee saw Margis, 38, leaving her office.
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Eight Russians found guilty in trial over anti-Putin protest 
Friday, Feb 21, 2014 03:44 AM PST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian judge on Friday convicted eight defendants of rioting and violence against police at an opposition protest on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration to a third term in 2012. Prosecutors asked for sentences of five-to-six years in prison during what Kremlin critics have denounced as a show trial. The judge was expected to pronounce the sentences later on Friday after reading out the verdict. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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NZ woman arrested after drugs found in Indonesia 
Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 11:35 PM PST
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities arrested a New Zealand woman for allegedly possessing illegal drugs in a raid on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, police and a lawyer said Friday.
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Fan arrested for groping 'Modern Family' star in Australia 
Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 08:49 PM PST
Actress Sarah Hyland arrives at The Weinstein Company's premiere of "Vampire Academy" at Regal 14 at L.A. Live Downtown on February 4, 2014 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaAustralian police said Friday they had arrested a man for allegedly groping "Modern Family" star Sarah Hyland at an event for fans in Sydney, as the US actress spoke of her distress. Hyland, who plays oldest sibling Haley Dunphy in the smash-hit US sitcom, was signing autographs with fellow cast members at a cocktail function on Thursday, and reportedly left in tears.
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