Morristown Police Department detectives arrested five people Friday evening on drugs and weapons charges following an investigation lasting several months, according to a press release from Morristown Chief of Police Roger Overholt.
A team of investigators from the Morristown Police Department, Hamblen County Sheriff’s Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program were are all involved with Read the rest of this entry »
GALVESTON, Texas – Drugs are missing from the Galveston Police Department’s property room, officials told KPRC Local 2 Friday.
Police said officers conducted a routine evidence count last week and noticed some of the narcotics from previous and pending court cases weren’t there anymore.
“We are undergoing a comprehensive inventory,” Police Chief Charles Wiley said. “Employees have been restricted access to that property room. Polygraph tests are Read the rest of this entry »
man was taken to a hospital after a weekend traffic crash in Chicago that led to his arrest on a drunken driving charge, authorities said Monday.
But medical personnel at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago discovered Jeffrey Hersh, 37, had a prong fired from a Taser in his torso, police said.
The Taser had been discharged Sunday by Des Plaines police who were trying to arrest a suspect accused of stealing from a liquor store, Read the rest of this entry »
PALM BAY, Fla. – Police said on Friday that a girl at a Palm Bay elementary school traded sex for drugs.
Palm Bay police said they want to know where the elementary school student got the marijuana she brought to school.
Yvonne Martinez of the Palm Bay Police Department said their investigation is leading to South Florida and illegal sex with a sixth-grader.
“Certainly it’s shocking,” Martinez said.
Police and parents said they’re shocked. Read the rest of this entry »
Virginia Police Hunt Suspect Who Shot Officer, Neighbors
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
DRAPER, Va. — Authorities searched in two Virginia counties Tuesday for a man suspected of shooting two neighbors — one fatally — and a sheriff’s deputy.
A woman also was injured when she apparently jumped from the second story of a house to escape a fire that authorities believe was connected to the shootings.
Virginia State Police Sgt. Read the rest of this entry »
Police search Ky. landfill for NJ baby remains
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — The search for the remains of a Jersey City baby apparently thrown in the trash by a hospital has moved to Kentucky, but police fear the corpse has already been incinerated.
Police have been looking for the body of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. since Jan. 2, when it was discovered missing from the morgue at Christ Hospital.
The remains were apparently thrown away with the Read the rest of this entry »
Police investigating patient deaths at a Dunbartonshire Hospital have set up a major incident room, it has emerged.
An outbreak of Clostridium difficile at Vale of Leven Hospital caused the deaths of nine patients and was a contributory factor in nine more.
Strathclyde Police has dedicated 16 CID and uniformed officers to look into the incident.
Meanwhile, Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said she was “sympathetic” to renewed calls for a public Read the rest of this entry »
Two men have been arrested on charges of selling narcotic drugs to teens, some as young as 15, Tempe police said.
Working together, Tempe and Gilbert police arrested 21-year-old Christopher Fernandez of Gilbert on January 14 on three counts of selling narcotic drugs. He was arrested in Gilbert during a traffic stop, Tempe police said.
Police said they seized one gram of heroin and $300 when they arrested Fernandez. They seized an additional four Read the rest of this entry »
TEHRAN – National Police Chief Brigadier General Esmaeil Ahmadi Moqaddam said on Sunday that every day three tons of drugs are discovered in Iran.
He said drug production is on the rise in Afghanistan and is currently two times more than demand. Unfortunately foreign troops and other responsible authorities have failed to curb drug cultivation in the country, he added.
“Reports say more than eight million Afghans will suffer an unprecedented Read the rest of this entry »
A Mattapan man with more than a dozen convictions for armed robbery dating back to the mid-1980s was probably motivated by an addiction to crack cocaine in robbing six Back Bay and South End establishments recently, law enforcement officials said.
Preston Jackson, 42, touched off a wave of fear among boutique clerks, coffee shop baristas, sandwich makers, and other employees of businesses in the shopping districts. He was arraigned yesterday in Read the rest of this entry »