Brooklyn Dog Killer Finally Arrested; Officials Used Decoy Internet Date (1)
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A year ago, Sherman Haynes, 27, was mad at his girlfriend. So, yelling, "You need your dog?" he threw her little white Shih Tzu out the third-floor window, killing it. The dog suffered broken legs, collapsed lungs and internal bleeding from the impact.For the last year Haynes has avoided ASPCA investigators, according to WNBC. Officials said they finally tracked him down by setting up a decoy date with him over the Internet. Haynes was arrested ...
Violent Crime in Glen Park (1)
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Today C.W. Nevius has a column on the latest, scariest crime to hit Glen Park: the carefully planned robbery last Friday night of Buddies Market, and the brutal, gratuitous attack on the store’s owner, Paul Park, who survived — just barely. Glen Park has been subject to a wave of robberies in the past six months, mostly random street muggings. The reasons are obvious to anybody who spends as much time there as I do: ...
Three arrested in restaurant robbery spree (1)
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Oakland police think they have found the gang behind at least some of the rash of restaurant robberies that plagued the East Bay this summer. Yesterday they arrested three people they say perpetrated three of the takeover-style heists, in which hoodie-wearing men enter restaurants at night, force employees and patrons into a back room, and clean out the cash register. The Oakland residents were arrested Tuesday evening after they allegedly departed from their successful MO ...
Cheap stolen solar panels, now on Craigslist? [Crime] (3)
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A rash of solar panel thefts has hit the Bay Area and Sacramento according to a report from local news station KPIX. Recently hit was the Hearst Elementary School in Pleasanton. Best part of the story? The main suspect in the case, a Pittsburg, Calif. resident, is alleged to have used Craigslist to fence the goods. According to reporter Jeffrey Schaub, each panel can fetch from $800 to $1000, much more than stolen copper piping ...
RNC Roundup: The Coverage of the Coverage (1)
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Man Confesses to Weekend Murder of Gay NYC Student in Chelsea (1)
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A suspect has confessed to the murder of Kevin Pravia, a 19-year-old gay student who was killed in his apartment on 15th street in the Chelsea district of Manhattan over the weekend following a party near the city's South Street Seaport. Report: Neighbors, friends pay respects, mourn. According to the NY Daily News, Pravia's body was discovered — a cord around his neck and a plastic bag shoved down his throat — by his roommate ...
Man Arrested in Connection with Anti-Gay Boston Assault (1)
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Fabio Brandao, a 28-year-old man from Framingham, Massachusetts, has been arrested in connection with an attack by four men on three gay men and a woman in Boston's South End: "'They started yelling out slurs directed to my friends, calling them 'faggot' and 'better not look over here [expletive] faggots,'' Jenna, a 23-year-old Jamaica Plain resident, said yesterday as she described the Aug. 25 attack. Jenna said she stepped in front of one of the ...
Aren’t dumb criminals entertaining? (1)
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I just wrote a post on Truly Odd Planet about Dumb Criminals and I included several videos. I was actually able to find enough dumb criminal videos that I thought I’d share a few over here too. It’s one thing to be a dumb criminal, but it’s quite another to be a stupid one! Watch as this guy breaks into a pizza parlor by coming in a window. Unfortunately his exit from the store doesn’t ...
'I could have been a hoodie' says Lord Tebbit (1)
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Lord Tebbit has confessed that he "could have been a hoodie" had he not been knocked into shape by national service as a young man.
Pedophile Nervous For First Day Of School (4)
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SEATTLE—"I hope the kids at Hampstead Elementary like me," 37-year-old Howard Dengal said. "It'd be nice to have someone to play with during recess."
Vigilante mob beats bicycle thief (1)
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A youth who tried to steal a bicycle was severely beaten up by a mob on Friday. The policemen who had rescued the youth left him and fled after being targeted by the mob.The incident occurred around 3 pm at Bally in Howrah. Aparesh Mukherjee, who owns a medicine shop at Bally market, had kept his bicycle near the gate of the shop. The 24-year-old youth, who was loitering around, tried to steal it. Seeing ...
Zodiac Killer Unmasked -Man Finds Old Costume in Attic, Claims Stepfather was Notorious Murderer (1)
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The Zodiac Killer attacked at least eight people, terrorizing the Bay Area and taunting police in the 60’s and 70’s. Thursday, the FBI confirmed to CBS13 they are now running laboratory tests on some items that may link a suspect to the killer. The evidence was given to the FBI by a Pollock Pines man who [...]
Man Faces 21 Years for Killing Baby Who Interrupted Game [Tragedy] (2)
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I'm not sure how this piece of garbage gets manslaughter and not murder — probably because it was a plea agreement. But a man in Arizona has pleaded guilty in the death of an 18-day old baby whose...
Guns are cheap and easy to get in UK (1)
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Causes and effects (2)
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A series of graphs from the Social Report. First off, the unemployment rate When the unemployment goes up or down, the practical effect is a decrease or increase in household incomes as the country got poorer under National, unemployment rose, incomes fell, and and the poverty rate rose, compounded by National’s cut benefits and its choice to let inflation eat up the minimum wage unemployment, poverty, and growing social inequalities place a society under stress. ...
High above the streets of Gotham (14)
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