By Nicholas Riccardi and Regina Garcia CanoAssociated PressEL SALVADOR — The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th-century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday....
SEATTLE — The Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission has temporarily banned recruits from using the SIG Sauer P320 handgun in training, citing concerns over reports that the firearm could discharge without the trigger being pulled, The Seattle Times reported.Executive Director Monica Alexander issued the...
By Mark PriceThe Charlotte ObserverTAMPA, Fla. — A man in need of a ride stole an ambulance, and the resulting traffic stop got stranger when the driver finished off a beer as troopers watched, according to investigators in Florida.The theft happened around 8:30 p.m. on...
By Shaddi AbusaidThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionATLANTA — Three Atlanta police officers can’t sue former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and other Fulton County officials after getting fired and charged over the violent arrests of two college students during the city’s turbulent Black Lives Matter protests five...
SAN ANTONIO – Authorities have released body camera footage of an officer-involved shooting after a suspect crashed into a lake and threatened an officer with a knife, News4SA reported.The Feb. 15 incident began when the suspect drove onto a walking trail with several pedestrians nearby...
By Muri AssunçãoNew York Daily NewsMIAMI — A Florida woman caught on video shooting her ex-boyfriend, a Miami-Dade sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison followed by 20 years of probation.Yessenia Sanchez, who worked as a police officer for Miami-Dade Schools,...
By Susan SmileyThe Macomb Daily, Mount Clemens, Mich.WARREN, Mich. — The 41-year-old Warren man killed March 10 in an officer-involved shooting had a history of domestic violence and assault, according to Warren police and court records.Kenneth Anthony Beno had active warrants out of Macomb County...
By Mark PriceThe Charlotte ObserverDULUTH, Ga. — A Georgia driver incriminated himself at his crash site when he continued sipping a cocktail in front of the responding police officer, an affidavit says.The crash happened just before 11 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, in Duluth, when...
By Susie C. SpearNews & Record, Greensboro, N.C.GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson said Friday his department will use a model proven successful by police in Omaha, Nebraska for wedding community organizations and police as a unit to fight violent crime.Thompson and Assistant...
By Olivia LloydThe Charlotte ObserverLEE COUNTY, Fla. — A fugitive living under a different identity for nearly 40 years has been caught after Florida law enforcement learned he was the same man who broke out of a Puerto Rico prison in the 1980s, authorities said.Jorge...