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Heroin smuggled into US inside buttons
Baltimore — Federal authorities say Drug Dealers found a novel way to smuggle Heroin through BWI Airport — inside large buttons sewn onto dresses. Court documents show U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted a package containing the dresses when it arrived from the Philippines last week. Inside the buttons, authorities found a tan, powdery Substance wrapped in plastic that turned out to be $50,000 worth of Heroin. The seizure led to a Sting Operation at the Baltimor...

Heroin smuggled into US inside buttons
Baltimore — Federal authorities say Drug Dealers found a novel way to smuggle Heroin through BWI Airport — inside large buttons sewn onto dresses. Court documents show U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted a package containing the dresses when it arrived from the Philippines last week. Inside the buttons, authorities found a tan, powdery Substance wrapped in plastic that turned out to be $50,000 worth of Heroin. The seizure led to a Sting Operation at the Baltimor...

Man Hits Fleeing Burglar With Pumpkin, Police Said
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An Albuquerque man took down a man who broke into his house by knocking him out with a giant pumpkin, Police said. Albuquerque Police said Zack Bridges launched a pumpkin at the suspect at a home near Juan Tabo Boulevard and Copper Avenue. The giant gourd scattered all over the street after it hit the man in the head. "He stole all kinds of my mom's jewelry and my money. He stole my mom's Laptop," Bridges said. "I'm happy, that's a lot of money right now."' When Bridges walk...

McGinn to meet with police about enforcing myriad pot laws
On Monday, Mayor Mike McGinn will sit down with top Law-enforcement officials from Seattle and King County to talk about how Police are enforcing conflicting City, State and Federal Marijuana laws. McGinn, who supports legalizing pot, said a recent Seattle Police Raid that netted just two legal Medical-marijuana Plants shows the dilemma Police face as they navigate the inconsistent laws. The Seattle Anti-Crime Team that burst through the door of a Leschi renter was following city policy, accor...

Alameda police reunite woman with stolen dog
Helen Bignone gets a kiss from her dog Deuce who was stolen from her last week, on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 in Alameda, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Staff) ALAMEDA -- Helen Bignone was hoping for good news when an Alameda Police Officer called her Wednesday night, asking for information about Deuce, the dog stolen from her during a purse snatching last month. "He wanted to know about the chip that Deuce has embedded," the 80-year-old Bignone said. "I gave him the information, and I was hoping for a develop...

Google Street View helps capture drug-ring suspects
Earth to drug dealers -- Google is watching! Three brazen Heroin dealers were captured in Google Street View images working their favorite Brooklyn drug corner, where they peddled their product to hipsters and other dope fiends, Law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Multiple images captured along Jackson Street and Kingsland Avenue by the search engine's ubiquitous camera car show the trio milling about in front of the Neighborhood Grocery -- one of two East Williamsburg bodegas where they...

Drug Slingers Caught On Google Street View
The suspects, caught on Google Street View How can you tell when you've been slinging drugs for too long on the same corner? When police are able to use Google Maps to identify you. NYPD set up a Sting on a drug crew working near the Cooper Park Houses in East Williamsburg yesterday, busting seven dealers including three whose faces were captured in the Google street view. And the police did so in the guise of hipsters. " They were catering to the hipster crowd, among other customers ," one la...

Elizabeth Smart Faces Gentle Cross-Examination
Taking the stand for a third day, a calm and poised Elizabeth Smart finished her Testimony for the prosecution Wednesday and then was questioned for only 15 minutes by a Lawyer for alleged kidnapper Brian David Mitchell. Suggesting that Mitchell suffered from Mental Illness, Defense attorney Robert Steele asked Smart about Mitchell's frequent singing and praying during the nine months she was abducted when she was 14 years old. Smart was also asked about the night in 2002 when she said Mitchel...

Dan Abrams On Elizabeth Smart Case: Defense Will Have A Difficult Time Proving Kidnappers Insanity
This week, Elizabeth Smart has been testifying in the trial of Brian David Mitchell , the man who kidnapped her for nine months eight years ago. Yesterday and the day before, Dan Abrams , Mediaite founder and NBC Chief Legal Analyst, appeared on Jansing and Co. to explain what the defense is up against in its attempt to prove Mitchell is insane, and just how hard that will be. Abrams pointed out that unlike regular trials where the onus is on the prosecution to prove guilt (the question is no lo...

Man in Ohio accused of damaging church's anti-abortion display, police say he'd been drinking
CINCINNATI (AP) — Police in Cincinnati say a man who'd been drinking damaged crosses that were part of an anti-abortion display outside a Church. Twenty-seven-year-old Robert Nicholl was charged Tuesday with disorderly conduct while intoxicated and criminal damaging. Police say he pulled up some of the 2,000 small white crosses on the lawn outside St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church and tossed them into the street. The church told The Cincinnati Enquirer it wasn't able to say how many crosse...

Ritzy Theater District Heroin Mill Shut Down in $6.5 Million Bust - DNAinfo.com
Federal and local Drug enforcement officials raided a purported Heroin mill in the Theater District. Manhattan — Four Upper Manhattan men were arrested Wednesday night in a $6.5 million Heroin bust at a $3,800 a month apartment in the Theater District, officials said. One of those arrested at the purported Heroin mill at 417 West 43rd Street was caught trying to drive away in his BMW with a garbage bag full of Heroin paraphernalia, prosecutors said. In all, 13 kilograms of the Drug were se...

Heroin Mill Uncovered In Luxury Midtown Apartment, $6.5M Worth of Drug Seized
Inside a Theater District apartment, detectives uncovered a Heroin mill where they seized 13 kilograms of the Drug worth approximately $6.5 million. (November 10, 2010) Four people have been arrested in connection with a $6.5 million Heroin bust that apparently operated inside a luxury apartment building in the Theater District, officials announced Thursday. According to authorities, the apartment, located at 417 West 43rd Street, was under Surveillance over the past several days. Investigators...

Google Street View, 'Hipsters' Help Nab Burg Heroin Dealers
Talk about "Don't be evil." Google has helped nab a trio of drug dealers in East Williamsburg using its ubiquitous Street View technology. According to the Post, three of seven dealers Arrested yesterday in an NYPD Sting Operation were caught in the act by Google's funny little camera car. They were photographed dealing in two locations, and the pictures, in some of which the men appear to be throwing up gang signs at the Google car, were used in the dealers' indictments. Don't believe us? See...

Council OK's Help For Victims Of Sex Trafficking
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Victims of Sex Trafficking will soon have a safe place to stay and some help to recover. The Portland City Council will spend $285,000 to pay for as many as eight shelter beds and two Victim advocates. Victim advocates tell FOX 12 that a special shelter for victims of Sex Trafficking is critical to recovery. The City Council says the goal is to have three beds ready for use by January. Three girls victimized by human traffickers were rescued by FBI agents during the three-day s...

Man denies robbing liquor store
MASSENA — A Massena man denied allegations Wednesday in St. Lawrence County Court that he robbed a liquor store and burglarized a home. David A. Bressard, 31, of 36 Pine St., was charged with first-degree Robbery and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon in an unsealed indictment stemming from a January Robbery at Shirley's Discount Liquor & Wines Inc. Separately, he was charged with first-degree Robbery and Burglary and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon relating to...

“I’m Waiting for my Man”
The junkies in Williamsburg will have to wait longer, or maybe Clean up their act and get a job.  Okay, the job part might be crazy, it is Williamsburg. The NYPD announced today they have shut down the drug-ring which investigators claim ran the North Williamsburg Heroin game.  After a four month long Sting officers arrested seven alleged dealers who had sold Heroin to undercover narcotics agents over 20 times throughout the investigation. According to the police, these guys were devot...

Google Street View Helps Bust Drug Dealers Selling to "Hipsters and Other Dope Fiends"
​Seven alleged drug dealers were busted in Brooklyn yesterday for brazenly peddling Heroin and crack in open View. Police say the suspects were caught following a four-month investigation that included an undercover Sting and -- yes, seriously -- a Google street-view map that caught three of the suspects "working their favorite corner," the New York Post reports. According to the Post, three of the suspects were caught "milling about' in front of an East Williamsburg bodega where they we...

Police say gunman tied up Columbia Sportswear Chairman Gert Boyle, stole jewelry
PORTLAND, ORE. — Gert Boyle, the 86-year-old leader of Columbia Sportswear whose book describes her as "One Tough Mother," fooled a robber by tripping a silent alarm at her suburban home, summoning Police and leading to the capture of a suspect. She was roughed up when the robber tied her hands Wednesday afternoon, Police said, but wasn't seriously injured. Boyle, who chairs the Oregon-based company's board, did take an unusual day off from work Thursday, a spokesman said. She burnished...

Police: Gunman robbed Columbia Sportswear leader
Conn. man condemned to die for fatal Home Invasion Jury in Conn. Home Invasion case back for 4th day PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gert Boyle, the 86-year-old leader of Columbia Sportswear whose book describes her as “One Tough Mother,” fooled a robber by tripping a silent alarm at her suburban Home, summoning Police and leading to the capture of a suspect. She was roughed up when the robber tied her hands Wednesday afternoon, Police said, but wasn’t seriously injured. Boyle, who...

Dave Meggett gets 30 years for burglary, rape
Former NFL running back Dave Meggett, who spent six years with the Giants, three with the Patriots, and one with the Jets, will be spending three times the duration of his NFL career behind bars. A jury convicted Meggett Wednesday of Burglary and criminal Sexual conduct.  He was sentenced to 30 years in jail. Meggett allegedly raped a College Student at her North Charleston, South Carolina home in January 2009.    Though he didn’t testify, Meggett’s lawyer told the jur...

Texas Observer Exclusive: DNA Tests Undermine Evidence in Texas Execution
Claude Jones always claimed that he wasn’t the man who walked into an East Texas liquor store in 1989 and shot the owner. He professed his innocence right up until the moment he was strapped to a gurney in the Texas execution chamber and put to death on Dec. 7, 2000. His Murder conviction was based on a single piece of forensic evidence recovered from the Crime scene—a strand of hair—that prosecutors claimed belonged to Jones. But DNA Tests completed this week at the request of...

Wanted parolee fatally shot in Mendocino County
Fort Bragg, CALIF. — A man described as a wanted parolee has been shot and killed by authorities in Mendocino County. The Press Democrat reports that Shane Hutchins was fatally shot by a deputy after members of a Mendocino County major crimes Task Force tried to arrest him at home outside of Fort Bragg Wednesday night. Sheriff's Capt. Kurt Smallcomb told the newspaper that Hutchins was shot during a confrontation with a deputy after running from the home. Smallcomb says the 32-year-old ...

Wanted parolee fatally shot in Mendocino County
Fort Bragg, CALIF. — A man described as a wanted parolee has been shot and killed by authorities in Mendocino County. The Press Democrat reports that Shane Hutchins was fatally shot by a deputy after members of a Mendocino County major crimes Task Force tried to arrest him at home outside of Fort Bragg Wednesday night. Sheriff's Capt. Kurt Smallcomb told the newspaper that Hutchins was shot during a confrontation with a deputy after running from the home. Smallcomb says the 32-year-old ...

NYPD On Hunt Following Hamilton Heights Sex Attack
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — The search is on for a Rape and Robbery suspect. The suspect is wanted in a brutal, mid-Thursday afternoon attack where he followed a woman right to her Hamilton Heights apartment. But what happened after may have left a key clue for investigators to follow. Police said the brazen rapist, described as a black male in his 30s, was using his Victim’s ATM Card to score a stash of cash. “It’s scary, you know, it’s a shame,” Hamilton Heights resi...

Arrest Made in Shooting Over Candy Bar
New York Police DepartmentThe Surveillance-video still that led to the arrest of Anthony Bayne. Tips to the Crime Stoppers hotline led to an arrest on Murder charges in The Bronx Wednesday, the police said. Anthony Bayne, 41, was taken into Custody in Coop City at 5:20 p.m. for the killing of a gas station attendant in a botched Robbery on Oct. 28. The Victim, Lamine Diop, 35, was behind the counter at a Shell gas station near Pelham Bay Park along with a 37-year-old co-worker when the suspect...