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Robbery suspect killed in Brooklyn drive-by shooting four days after he was released on bail from Rikers Island
Adetunji Ajakaye, 25, was sitting in a car with his girlfriend early Wednesday morning when a drive-by shooter fired into the vehicle and killed him. A 25-year-old man sitting in a car with his girlfriend was shot and killed during a drive-by shooting in ... read moreNYC to eliminate bail for non-violent suspects
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top three Republican leaders in the House are calling on President Barack Obama to fire the director of the Office of Personnel Management after the latest disclosures of the security breach of government computer systems. read moreFelons' Swagger: Look at 2 Suspects
Mr. Cobb, 24, has been arrested and convicted in a number of petty crimes since his parole in 1981 after about a year in prison on a robbery ... Rikers Island for failing to answer a bench warrant. The police said he was not in the car the night of the ... read moreInterview: Suspect in SF pier attack admits he shot woman
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man arrested in the seemingly random shooting ... mentally ill that he couldn't tell right from wrong when killed 12 people and... SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city of San Francisco has come under fire after it released Juan ... read morePolice arrest 'John Doe Duffel Bags': Suspect turns himself in after he was 'seen near TWO of three Brooklyn murder scenes'
Before police knew his identity, the suspect ... was killed on August 2. ‘”John Doe Duffel Bag” wore a long overcoat and carried a duffel bag,’ police commissioner Ray Kelly said. ‘He was seen in the vicinity of Vahidipour’s store just after ... read moreAfrika Owes Heads Back to Jail
She elected to carry out Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Edward McLaughlin's request that she serve 90 more days at Rikers Island ... released from jail in April after Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Edward McLaughlin allowed Abyssinian to post her bail in ... read moreFeds tracked Capitol gyrocopter pilot, but feared harming tourists if they shot him down
Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight committee, told reporters just days after the incident that ... Chaffetz said security tracked Hughes as he approached the Capitol last week after taking off from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. read more17-year-old German exchange student shot dead after trespassing in Montana garage
Sculptures of (left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. (Lakota Sioux name for the mountain: Six Grandfathers) "... read moreVideo of another choke hold arrest indicates the banned practice may be more widespread
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The fatal arrest, recorded on video, of Eric Garner on Staten Island on suspicion ... “I’m hopeful that he’ll expeditiously make the difference,” Sen. Perkins said, “so the choke hold is eliminated, and that we address ... read moreSo Much for the Promised Land
He argues they have lost touch with the reality of most African-Americans. Professor Gates’ statement after his July 16 arrest that ... and Hispanic prisoners by guards at New York’s Rikers Island was a window into a daily reality usually not ... read more
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