A federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment yesterday charging former correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith with 15 counts of sexual abuse, including a civil rights violation, against five female victims who were inmates under his custody and control at Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin (FCI Dublin).
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Police departments in the United Kingdom are using a “forensic spray” to tag motorcyclists, e-bikes and other small vehicle riders that are causing a nuisance in Manchester.
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Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Marquis Douglas, a narcotics trafficker who operated a narcotics business that was responsible for the distribution of large quantities of cocaine, fentanyl and other illicit substances throughout the North Fork of Long Island, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 25 years’ imprisonment. Douglas pleaded guilty in November 2023 to conspiring with others to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, more than one kilogram of heroin, more than 280 grams of crack cocaine, more than 40 grams of fentanyl and a quantity of fentanyl analogue (fluorofentanyl), and distribution of cocaine and fluorofentanyl on or about August 12, 2021, which resulted in the overdose deaths of four people.
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Chief State’s Attorney Patrick J. Griffin announced today that the Honorable Michael J. Gustafson on July 18, 2024 sentenced Brandon Letman, age 31, to life in prison without the possibility of release for the 2016 fatal shootings of Ashley Spence, age 21, and Cameron Mounds Jr., age 19, in Hartford.
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Law enforcement’s use of DNA evidence to find perpetrators of violent crimes has led to breakthroughs in dormant investigations, giving hope to victims’ families while raising privacy concerns.
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Thanks to the help of an informant police in Texas have found the remains of a woman who has been missing for more than 25 years and arrested and charged her ex-boyfriend with her murder.
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An exciting new forensic research project run by Liverpool John Moores University is working with farmers, police, vets and industry to improve the collection of offending dog DNA from attacked livestock.
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Fresno County Sheriff's Office officials report that they are hoping to generate new leads in a cold case. Valley Crime Stoppers has secured a private cash donation of $10,000 to go toward the investigation into the death of 19-year-old Angel Zuniga of Fresno. This has been added to Crime Stoppers’ original $3,000 reward, making it a total of $13,000.
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Officials have confirmed the remains of a New Jersey man and his vehicle missing for more than four decades in a local creek. The United States Search Corps (USC) have located the car and the remains of Charles "Chip" Murphy, who has been missing since 1982, in a creek in New Jersey.
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Plano, Texas Police Department has released an age-progressed photo in an effort to obtain information on a cold case kidnapping from 2008. This case involves the kidnapping of Eitan Ariel Blasingame, who was only a child when a non-custodial parent took him and there are concerns for Eitan's safety. One of Eitan's photos is shown age-progressed to 16 years.
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