By Hannah WileyLos Angeles TimesCounty by county in California, as fentanyl overdoses escalate, local prosecutors are turning to a novel legal strategy to stem the spiraling death toll: charging drug dealers with murder.In July, Placer County reached a landmark plea deal that sent a man...
Associated PressKANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to smashing into a Kansas City, Missouri, patrol car last year and killing an officer, his K-9 partner and a pedestrian.Jerron Lightfoot of Tonganoxie, Kansas, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of involuntary manslaughter...
By Nathaniel PercyThe Orange County RegisterORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Deputy Tim Ott was given this scenario on Thursday, Feb. 22, inside the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s revamped firearms training center:A woman called dispatch and said she saw an unknown man rummaging through her trash cans...
By John MonkThe StateCOLUMBIA, S.C. — In the beginning, in 1947, tools for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s one-man crime lab could fit in the trunk of agent Millard Cate’s state-issued brown Oldsmobile — instruments for fingerprints and firearms, and a trusty box camera...
By Andrew SheelerThe Sacramento BeeSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California schools would be required to have at least one armed police officer, also known as a school resource officer or SRO, on campus during regular school hours, under a bill introduced last week.Assembly Bill 3038, by Assemblyman...
The City of San Diego Police DepartmentSAN DIEGO — Following final City Council approval in November 2023, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) has begun installing and using Smart Streetlight cameras and Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technologies that have already assisted in solving crimes.“Having...
By Nick PerryAssociated PressSUTTON, Mass. — A police detective says he was unnerved to find a U.S. Army rocket launcher along with crack cocaine when searching a suspicious truck in central Massachusetts.Det. Alex Sinni from the Sutton Police Department told The Associated Press on Wednesday...
By Robert MoranThe Philadelphia InquirerPHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court voted 4-3 last week to uphold Philadelphia’s ordinance prohibiting the manufacturing and assembling of 3D-printed gun parts used to create “ghost guns.”The majority decision of the appellate court filed Friday said that Philadelphia’s ordinance, as amended...
By Julia GuilbeauThe Times-Picayune | The New Orleans AdvocateBATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana Legislature convened this week for a special session called by Gov. Jeff Landry in an effort to implement new tough-on crime policies.The bills lawmakers approve are likely to drastically reshape the...
By Joanna PutmanPolice1ATLANTA, Ga. — A suspect who fled from Atlanta Police officers following a traffic stop was arrested on a plane nearly a month later, FOX 5 reported.The same officers who initially pulled over Dorian Burley, 39, arrested him when his plane landed in...
