sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - officer

A border inspector accused of accepting cash and a luxury vehicle from smugglers driving carloads of illegal immigrants through border crossings was arrested Thursday.

A police officer was fatally shot by a colleague after responding to a call in plain clothes, authorities said Monday.

A 23-year-old man was charged with murder Friday in the slaying of the first city police officer to be killed in the line of duty in a decade. The charges against Solomon Montgomery were filed a day after he was shot outside a house where police were waiting to question him in the officer's death, authorities said.

A man sought for questioning in a police officer's death was shot and wounded as officers tried to detain him, authorities said.

A former police sergeant convicted of manslaughter in the 2002 shooting death of an unarmed man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison.

An off-duty police officer was killed Saturday in a fiery highway crash in Brooklyn, authorities said.

"Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr., who is charged with murder in the killing of a police officer, asked a judge on Thursday for a separate trial because he wants his co-defendant to testify in his defense.

A high-ranking Army officer will be criminally charged in connection with the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, his attorney says.

A jury has convicted a former police sergeant of manslaughter in the 2002 shooting death of an unarmed man.

A police officer was charged with assault and fired after authorities said he was videotaped by a school bus camera striking a 15-year-old student.

The 13-year-old daughter of a police officer has been charged with his murder, accused of setting a house fire that he died in while searching for her in the smoke, police said.

Authorities have captured one man and killed another in the shooting death of a decorated police officer who was slain while pursuing jewel thieves, but they believe other suspects are still at large.

Federal authorities decided not to file civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in 2001, triggering the city's worst racial unrest in decades.

Friedrich Engel, a former Nazi SS officer involved in the massacre of Italian prisoners in World War II, has died. He was 97.

A police officer was shot to death Wednesday when a man suspected of beating a woman with a stick suddenly sprayed police with gunfire, authorities said.