DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Police Department released body camera footage of an officer-involved shooting of a man who pointed a gun at an officer while hiding during a home search, KCCI reported.The footage shows officers Nicholas Rude and Brian Stern entering a...
By Dan NephinLNP, Lancaster, Pa.LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster city police officer was justified in fatally shooting a machete-wielding man who was approaching a bystander and had refused numerous police commands to drop the weapon, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said Tuesday.Adams, in announcing...
By Kerry Burke and Elizabeth KeoghNew York Daily NewsNEW YORK — A gun-toting 79-year-old man who showed up outside a Queens police station Tuesday night was fatally shot by cops, police said.The elderly man, behind the wheel of a white Lexus, pulled up outside the...
By Peter YankowskiJournal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn.WATERBURY, Conn. — Body camera footage released Monday shows a carjacking suspect shooting at a Waterbury police detective Thursday when confronted by the officer.The detective, Ronald Sackett, was struck in the leg and wounded during the encounter. Sackett fired at...
By Lea Skene, Holly Ramer and Patrick WhittleAssociated PressCUMBERLAND, Md. — The leader of a cultlike group connected to six killings in three states was ordered held without bail Tuesday in Maryland, where she faces trespassing and other charges.Jack LaSota, 34, and two others arrested...
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LEE COUNTY, Da. —An off-duty Lee County deputy helped arrest a wanted man after the suspect attempted to flee from authorities, WSB-TV reported.Deputies were searching for a man who had an active warrant for failure to appear, when they located him walking near a roadway,...
By Graham Lee Brewer and Curt AndersonAssociated PressSUMTERVILLE, Fla. — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of...
OKLAHOMA CITY —A young woman who was kidnapped and trafficked in 2022 returned to Oklahoma City to thank the police officers who rescued her, 9News.com reported.Natalee Cramer, now 18, was 15 when she was abducted after leaving a Dallas Mavericks game to use the restroom,...
Joanna Putman is an Associate Editor and newswriter at Police1, where she has been covering law enforcement topics since August 2023. Based in Orlando, Florida, she holds a journalism...
