Topic: - on October 15, 2002 at 11:31:01 AM CEST
Caught On Tape: Couple Steals Security Camera
At 9:45 p.m. on Sept. 29, a man and a woman stole a camera at Paws and Claws on Northeast 52nd Street in Vancouver.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 7:58:14 PM CEST
Bizarre accident damages four cars
According to Sgt. James Burdick of the North Adams Police Department, James Hancock, 77, of 17 Pleasant St., Adams, was trying to park his 1988 Oldsmobile across from Jack's Hot Dogs at about 12:20 p.m. when it suddenly shot backward, knocking over a parking meter and smashing into the 2000 Honda parked behind it. The Oldsmobile's back wheels rolled up onto the Honda's rear bumper, and its back half landed on the Honda's hood.
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Topic: - on October 12, 2002 at 1:14:28 PM CEST
Soldier Charged for Attempted Murder of Look-Alike in Plot to Disappear
A Fort Bragg soldier trying to stage his own disappearance searched the Internet for a man who looked like him and cut the man's throat, but the victim survived, police said.
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Topic: - on October 11, 2002 at 1:12:52 AM CEST
Police invite residents to watch drug raids
Police have taken the unusual step of inviting residents to watch them carry out dawn raids on suspected drug dealers.
Lancashire police say it was to show that officers did act on information from the public.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 7:41:52 PM CEST
Police patrols protect albino squirrels from predators
A US town has employed special police officers to protect its albino squirrels. The officers wear white squirrel patches and arrest anyone suspected of harassing the squirrels.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 7:15:40 PM CEST
SWAT TEAM UK - Pensioner dies during police search
A 78-year-old woman has died while police searched her home near Staines in Surrey. Connie Sherwood collapsed while officers from Surrey Police searched her terraced council house in Viola Avenue, Stanwell, at 0600 BST on Wednesday. Her family said she was "frightened to death" by the dawn raid.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 7:00:48 PM CEST
Ex-Lucas Employee Charged with "Star Wars" Theft
A former production assistant for Marin County-based LucasFilm, also known as Skywalker Ranch, was booked in Los Angeles County Jail Tuesday for allegedly stealing a bootlegged copy of "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and circulating it over the Internet for early review. The employee, identified as Shea O'Brien Foley by Marin Deputy District Attorney Paul Haakenson, was employed by LucasFilm between September 2000 and April 2002.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:53:06 PM CEST
Police Probe New Killing for Link to Sniper
Sniper: 9? Cops:0
Police investigating the shooting death of a man at a Virginia gas station said on Thursday it was too early to say whether an elusive sniper in the Washington area had murdered his seventh victim. In the past week, the gunman has killed five people and wounded one in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, killed one person in the U.S. capital, and wounded another in Fredericksburg, Virginia, about 80 miles south of Washington.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:33:33 PM CEST
First Time in France, Prostitute Clients Convicted
A court for the first time in France convicted four men on Wednesday for having sex with prostitutes, finding them guilty of sexual exhibitionism. The men were caught during a police sweep of a red-light area in the southwest city of Bordeaux while they were having sex in their cars at night.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:08:40 PM CEST
College kids caught in gun smuggling
The three men are part of an expanding web of college students in the South who have bought more than 800 guns, purportedly for personal use, then shipped them north, where they were sold illegally, federal authorities say. "This is not unique to Georgia Southern," said Sonny Fields, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms supervisory agent in Atlanta. "We've had cases at many universities."
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:03:21 PM CEST
Murderer escapes from one jail and tries to break into another
A convicted murderer waiting for a transfer in Montenegro escaped and tried to break into a better prison after he got sick of waiting. Savo Radovanovic took matters into his own hands after long delays over his request for a transfer to a 'posh' new jail.
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Topic: - on October 9, 2002 at 10:54:17 PM CEST
SWAT team invades elderly widow's home
A neighbor hollers to the cops they've got the wrong house. They tell her to shut up and go back inside.
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