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Police: Serial sock thief strikes again

Police in Belleville, Ill., said a man who was jailed several times for stealing women's socks has been arrested again and charged with a similar crime.

AFI and Beijing Police Confiscate Pirated DVDs

BEIJING – On Monday, Beijing police and representatives from the AFI (American Film Institute) confiscated hundreds of pirated DVDs of American TV series from a store in Chaoyang district of Beijing. Police held the storeowner for investigation, the World Journal reports. According to the police, AFI holds the copyright to those TV series and more and more the police are inviting their reps to join them on such raids, so they can later testify. AFI representatives say that almost all DVDs of American TV series on the market in China are pirated copies.

AFI and Beijing Police Confiscate Pirated DVDs

BEIJING – On Monday, Beijing police and representatives from the AFI (American Film Institute) confiscated hundreds of pirated DVDs of American TV series from a store in Chaoyang district of Beijing. Police held the storeowner for investigation, the World Journal reports. According to the police, AFI holds the copyright to those TV series and more and more the police are inviting their reps to join them on such raids, so they can later testify. AFI representatives say that almost all DVDs of American TV series on the market in China are pirated copies.

Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police

J.Tatar and a number of other readers alert us to the shooting death of an anti-government webmaster while in police custody in Ingushetiya, a volatile province in southern Russia. Police took Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev off a plane that had just landed in Ingushetiya. "Yevloyev... was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov [a close ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin]. Prosecutors have opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation after Yevloyev was shot in a police car in Narzan, the capital of volatile Ingushetia, a mostly Muslim region that borders Chechnya, Russian media reported. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office, Vladimir Markin, said 'an incident' took place after Yevloyev was taken into a police car 'resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died i

Police report into Madeleine's disappearance is leaked online as McCanns threaten to sue police over bungled investigation

Police report into Madeleine's disappearance is leaked online as McCanns threaten to sue police over bungled probe

Police report into Madeleine's disappearance is leaked online as McCanns threaten to sue police over bungled probe

Police report into Madeleine's disappearance is leaked online as McCanns threaten to sue police over bungled probe

Arguments I will point out again, and again if necessary. Amazon has a choice. The...

Arguments I will point out again, and again if necessary. Amazon has a choice. They can choose to lower or completely stop discounting books that offer them only a 20-39% discount. They can accept the fact that, on the bookselling side of this equation, they are a retailer and accept 40% off list, standard, like every other bookseller. In other words, they can quit trying to put the brick-and-mortar bookstores out of business and play fair. They apparently haven't chosen to be fair, to compete on a level playing field. In my mind, this puts their honesty in question. On the printing side of things, Amazon can quit acting like a two-bit thug and clean up BookSurge's act, the quality issues, that sort of thing. They could strive for the best, most consistent quality and lower their prices a notch, and compete--fairly and honestly.

Police don't have mechanism to tackle cyber crime

GUWAHATI, July 7 – It is official now. Contrary to what various senior Assam Police officials, including the Director General of Police (DGP), have been claiming, Assam Police does not have the firepower to tackle the menace of cyber crime.

S.C. boy interested in law enforcement stole cruiser to do some patrolling: police

Police in Dillon, a small South Carolina town near the North Carolina border, say a 13-year-old with an interest in law enforcement twice stole a police cruiser and took it out to do some patrolling. The boy's mother saw him bring the car home both times but didn't see anything wrong with the joyrides, Police Sgt. Jason Turner said.

Suspended Bermuda police 'blogger' formally dismissed

HAMILTON, Bermuda: Bermuda’s Commissioner of Police, George Jackson, has officially dismissed suspended police officer, Allan Palmer from serving on the Bermuda Police Service (BPS), following the publication of what was termed “several allegations� made by Palmer in his Internet blog, “Crushing Fools�.

Holed-up suspect threatens to shoot police robot

HANCOCK, Md. — A burglary suspect holding police at bay at a western Maryland motel threatened to shoot a police robot bringing food and ignored a recorded plea from his mother to surrender, police said today as the standoff dragged on for a day and a half.

Blogger Detained Over Article On Police

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 (Bernama) -- Blogger 'Penarik Beca', who real name is Abu Bakar Mohd Rashid,50, was detained by police in connection with an article on his blog about the police force and Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan.

Indian cricket star Dhoni gets all female police guard

Indian cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni is used to being surrounded by the ladies. Now it will become a permanent fixture in his life after police in his hometown of Ranchi assigned an all-female group of body guards to keep unwanted admirers away. The decision to give Dhoni, India’s limited-overs cricket captain, the new security detail comes after two recent incidents in which female fans tried to throw themselves on the heartthrob player, Ranchi police chief M. S. Bhatia said Tuesday. Bhatia said the female police had been given special training to protect Dhoni from unwanted advances.

Police say beer thief left dripping trail

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va., July 15 (UPI) -- Police in a West Virginia town say a man who broke into a car and stole 11 cold cans of beer left an easy trail of water drops.

4th prison term looms for serial sock-snatcher

James Dowdy, 36, was sentenced to prison in 2004, 1997 and 1994 for various periods, all for burglary-related charges tied to his efforts to get women's socks. (AP Photo/Belleville Police Dept.)

Man says he's porn inspector, demands free videos

These undated images made from a surveillance video provided by the Longmont Colorado Police Department show a man claiming to be a police detective trying to get an adult novelty shop to give him free X-rated videos, saying he wanted to see if the performers were legally old enough according to police reports. Police are looking for him.

Police install CCTV cameras in hats to record anti-social behaviour

Police to wear cameras in hats - Police in Thames Valley hope cameras in their hats will help keep levels of violence and anti-social behaviour down.

Varma, T-series reach settlement on copyright row; FIR quashed

New Delhi, Jun 29 (PTI) With intelligence agencies warning that terrorists and anti-socials may use residential premises to hide, Delhi Police has asked residents to ensure police verification of their tenants or face imprisonment. Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal has asked the Deputy Commissioners of 10 districts in the capital to launch a drive to check whether the verification of the tenants were carried out. The drive to check the antecedents of thousands of tenants living in the capital have been intensified along with servants' verification, Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said. Landlords who were found not verified their tenants could be in trouble as they may land in jail for a period of six months under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.

Police defend bus stop photographer terror quiz

Police deny officers overreacted when they used anti-terrorism legislation to quiz a man who took a picture of their police car on his camera phone.

Police say men crashed truck twice on same street

Police say two drunken friends crashed their pickup truck into a parked car in New York City's northern suburbs and then drove down the street and crashed it again. Peekskill Detective Sgt. Eric Johansen said he's "never seen anything like it."

Police PDAs cut red tape

Issuing police with PDAs has cut through bureaucracy and saved police between six to 25 minutes for each stop, according to the Home Office.

Brazil police find stolen Picasso print

Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing two Pablo Picasso prints last month from a museum in Sao Paulo and recovered one of the works, police and a museum official say.

Police catch up with stripping bag snatcher

TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese police have caught a serial handbag snatcher who was dubbed "the chameleon" after eluding arrest for years by stripping off as he fled the scenes of his crimes by bicycle.

Police: Maine burglar made getaway in a taxi

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Police say a 29-year-old Maine man called a taxi to take him home while police were searching for him with a dog and a search plane following a burglary at a golf course pro shop.

Police say Maine burglar made his getaway from crime scene in a taxi

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Police say a 29-year-old Maine man called a taxi to take him home while police were searching for him with a dog and a search plane following a burglary at a golf course pro shop.

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