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SAN BERNARDINO - The city's spike of 12 killings in May dropped to four in June. Can the decline be attributed to extra police patrols, sweeps or arrests? Or is it the natural ebb and flow of crime? The reason remains to be seen. "I think we can do everything possible and still have manslaughters," said Police Chief Robert Handy. "I would like to think some of the things we've done have reduced it, but sometimes there are spikes in crime where there's no real reason for it." San Bernardino police have been busy focusing on violent crime, including 50 arrests and the seizure of 33 guns by the department's violent crimes task force since March. Many search warrants served by the team have been in areas where manslaughters have occurred. An additional 90 arrests - mostly gang members - were made on June 13 during a crime sweep, but that operation was scheduled before May's rash of manslaughters. Police said they have been taking pre...

Murder suspect Alexander Tucker. From Lucas County jail. BEDFORD TOWNSHIP, MI (PRESS RELEASE) -The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is reporting a homicide that occurred at North Town Meadows Manufactured Home Community located in Bedford Township, Monroe County. On June 30, 2012 at 0145 hours, Monroe County Deputy Sheriffs responded to the North Town Meadows Manufactured Home Community located at 6255 S. Telegraph Rd. Erie, Mi – Bedford Twp. in reference to a suspicious 911 call. Upon arrival at the scene, Deputy Sheriffs located a male victim on a patio deck of the residence, unresponsive, and bleeding severely. It was determined the victim had sustained multiple stab wounds to his person and was transported to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Toledo Ohio, where he later expired. The victim is identified as Darrin M. Flynn 43 years of age of Toledo, Ohio. Preliminary investigation reveals the victim had been at the residence and was attacked by the suspect ...

29 June 2012 Last updated at 14:57 ET The attack took place at the Sunshine Licensed Grocers in Paisley on the afternoon of 15 June A shopkeeper has died in hospital two weeks after being attacked in his Paisley grocer. Javaid Ali, who was married and had three sons, was stabbed by an unknown assailant in his Sunshine Grocers shop in Green Road on 15 June. Strathclyde Police said he died at the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Friday. Detectives said they had now launched a manslaughter inquiry as a result of Mr Ali's death. They appealed for anyone with information to contact them. Officers are continuing to review CCTV footage and conduct door-to-door inquiries, and are also assessing information gathered during a stop and interview operation carried out exactly a week after Mr Ali was attacked. Detectives are keen to speak to anyone who was in the vicinity of the incident on the day Mr Ali was attacked, particularly the area between Fulbar Road and Lounsdale R...

Juan DelValle advertisement A Bronx man has been charged with manslaughter for allegedly punching a school bus driver who clipped his mirror, authorities said. The 65-year-old driver later died. Joey Scott, 28, was indicted on one count of manslaughter and three counts of assault in the attack on Juan DelValle, the Bronx district attorney announced Thursday. DelValle was severely injured when Scott knocked him to the pavement after the minor traffic accident in the Bronx on June 11, according to authorities. DelValle was attempting to navigate a school bus through a narrow and crowded Anthony Avenue and clipped a mirror on Scott's double-parked car, authorities said. When DelValle exited the bus to survey the damage, Scott allegedly began yelling at DelValle. Surveillance video captured Scott punching DelValle so forcefully he was sent flying backward before his head slammed on the road. Bus Driver Beaten Into Coma Dies The school bu...

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Jury selection in the retrial of Anthony Wayne Smith, a former Oakland Raiders defensive end accused of murdering a Lancaster mechanic, is scheduled to begin Monday, his defense attorneys said. Michael S. Evans, who is representing Smith, said the new trial was set to take place in the Antelope Valley courtroom of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carlos A. Chung. Smith's original trial, for his alleged role in the killing of 31-year-old Maurilio Ponce on Oct. 7, 2008, ended in a hung jury in April when the panel failed to reach agreement on a verdict. After nine days of deliberation, jurors split 8 to 4 for a guilty verdict, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Smith, 44, who played professional football with the Los Angeles and Oakland Raiders in the 1990s, has remained in custody since the trial, Evans confirmed. Also charged in connection with Ponce's death and awaiting trial is 33-year-old Dewann Wesley White of Bloomingto...

D.C. police said an arrest has been made in a homicide case that languished unresolved for more than 2 1/2 years. The suspect, Raymond L. Smith, 39, was arrested Thursday by a Washington-area fugitive task force and charged in a slaying that occurred Nov. 14, 2009, in the 2000 block of 16th Street SE, police said. Shortly after 1 a.m. that autumn Saturday, police officers investigating a report of gunfire found Frederick D. Ard, 42, bleeding on the ground. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Smith has been charged with second-degree murder while armed. Read More @ Source The Wire - The Bunk's cologne Bunk and Lester part ways once again. Video Rating: 4 / 5 Criminal Stories Here

Police have launched a homicide investigation following the discovery of a 59-year-old man's body at an address on Primrose Place, Manurewa, in the early hours of this morning. Photo / Doug Sherring Police have set up a cordon around a family home in the south Auckland suburb of Manurewa where a man is believed to have been killed last night. A homicide investigation was launched after the body of the man was found in the house on Primrose Place in the early hours of this morning. Police say they were called to the address around 2.15am and are now piecing together the events leading to the 59-year-old's death. The deceased was reportedly unconscious when police arrived at the scene and despite CPR being administered, he was unable to be revived. Several officers are guarding the entrance to the street while they wait for homicide detectives to arrive. The man's body remains in the house and a post mortem will be carried out later today. Read More @...

A man convicted of killing a North Carolina A&T professor in 1988 could be exonerated Friday after new technology allowed investigators to identify a different "person of interest." Lamont Armstrong, now 62, was convicted in the murder of Ernestine Compton on July 12, 1988. Key to the conviction was testimony from a convicted felon who has since said police pressured him to accuse Armstrong. However, on Friday afternoon, prosecutors will move for a retrial in the case, naming Christopher Bernard Caviness as a "person of interest" in the murder. Caviness was convicted in the murder of his father in 1989. After his release from prison, he was killed in a car crash in 2010, Greensboro police said. Caviness was linked to the case after a match to a partial palm print that was lifted from a door frame just above Compton's body. Greensboro police, an independent examiner and the State Crime Laboratory each produced the same match to the print database,...

Halifax Regional Police are busy in the city's north end this afternoon in relation to the ongoing murder investigation in the death of Ryan Matthew White, the CBC has learned. Police found White on the pavement outside a building in the Mulgrave Park public housing complex two years ago. He was suffering from a chest wound. Today, police are combing the area between Union Street and Devonshire Avenue, just below Fort Needham Park. Homicide investigators, the identification unit, as well as the canine unit and other officers are on scene. They're using metal detectors in a heavily wooded area where there are walking trails. Const. Brian Palmeter told CBC News, police are searching for evidence. "We received information recently with respect to the ongoing investigation, that has led investigators back to search this area," he said, "Obviously I can't get into what we're looking for but we believe there's evidence here that will help us...

29 June 2012 Last updated at 12:11 ET Michelle Smith denies murdering her 42-day-old baby daughter at home A mother accused of poisoning her baby has told a jury how she cradled her for an hour in hospital after she died. Michelle Smith, 34, from Swansea denies murdering six-week-old Amy Louise in 2007. She is accused of giving the child a powerful adult painkiller but told the jury someone in a hospital must have administered it. Mrs Smith broke down as she relived the last moments with her daughter, at Swansea Crown Court. Giving evidence for the first time, she told the jury how she was allowed to hold Amy's body for an hour in hospital, where medics had battled to revive the child. The infant had been rushed to Singleton Hospital where doctors had managed to find a "slight heartbeat". Speaking in the witness stand on Friday, Mrs Smith said that, as her hopes were briefly raised, consultant paediatrician Ingo Scholler explained that if Amy s...

Tom Barrett holds a photograph of homicide victim Jimmy Decrescenzo as his friends gather to remember him outside Uncle Buck's Laundromat on Stillwater Avenue, where he was killed after an apparent robbery in Stamford, Conn., June 26, 2012. Photo: Keelin Daly / Stamford Advocate | Buy This Photo Read More @ Source 45 Grave - Party Time (Single Version) You wanted it, you got it! From 45 Grave's 1983 album 'Sleep In Safety', the final track: 'Party Time'! SUPPORT YOUR BANDS: BUY THEIR MUSIC IF YOU LIKE IT! Thumbs up if you don't listen to rap or hip-hop. This video is a production of the Channel of The Indigo Cross PS - Hey kids! Still going to school? Sucks, doesn't it? Here's something to cheer you up a bit. 45 Grave did a cover of the most notorious song by a fellow opponent of the public education system. It should lift your spirits. If you like this song, you'll love this one: www.youtube...

Only James D. Laboard knows his intentions the night Baltimore County police said the off-duty officer chased a group of teens who had thrown a rock at his home. But as authorities considered charges in the ensuing death of Christopher Brown, they had to try to discern Laboard's intentions. Laboard was charged with two counts of manslaughter — one involuntary — in the asphyxiation death of the Randallstown High School teen; either count could carry a 10-year sentence. Download The Baltimore Sun's new iPhone app. The victim's mother expressed outrage that the officer isn't facing more severe charges, alleging that the officer received preferential treatment and calling for an outside investigation. But several legal experts said the manslaughter charges may be the strongest possible, given what's known about the case. The difference between manslaughter and murder charges centers on whether a suspect intended to kill. Experts pointed out that according to th...

Lt. John Buhrmaster is retiring from the Miami Police Department after 38 years on the force. (CBS4) MIAMI (CBS4) – A veteran detective who is considered to be a legend in the Miami Police homicide unit has retired after 38 years on the job. Twenty-five of those years were in the homicide unit and 10 of those years as Commander of the unit. A CBS4 crew was inside the homicide unit as 62-year-old Lt. John Buhrmaster received hugs from fellow detectives and a special embrace from his daughter Melissa, who is now a Miami Police Sergeant and who stopped by to see her father. "Miami is my home and of course becoming a Miami policeman is something I never thought of, but of course I did it. It became my dream and this became my life," Buhrmaster told CBS4's Peter D'Oench. Buhrmaster has been named Officer of the Year three different times by the city and the state and has also received three medals for distinguished service from the Fraternal Order of Police...

Victorian homicide detectives are trying to work out if a man found dead at Doreen in Melbourne's outer-north had links to the drug trade. Two of the 29-year-old's friends found him dead, when they went to his house in Kiora Avenue on Thursday night. Detective inspector John Potter says the man was known to police. "He has injuries to say that this is a suspicious death and as such the Homicide Squad has taken over the investigation," he said. Police found substances in glass containers at the house, but they do not know what they are yet. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

MICHAEL FOX AND VICTORIA ROBINSON JOHN SELKIRK/Fairfax Media CRIME SCENE: A forensic team search the property in Balmoral Rd, Auckland, where a man was found dead. A 38-year-old man charged with the murder of a man in Balmoral on Tuesday night has been sent for mental health assessments and been granted interim name suppression. The man appeared in Auckland District Court this afternoon, where Judge Grant Fraser ordered his name be suppressed so members of his family could be told about the murder charge. Judge Fraser said the suppression is unlikely to be extended at the man's next court date. The man was remanded to the Mason Clinic - a psychiatric hospital where it will be assessed as to whether he is fit to stand trial. A forensic court liaison nurse told the court she recommended the man be given 24-hour care by trained professionals, rather than be sent to prison where he could not be given round-the-clock assistance. Dean Andrew Clark...

Victorian homicide detectives are trying to work out if a man found dead in Doreen in Melbourne's outer-north had links to the drug trade. Two of the 29-year-old's friends found him when they went to his house in Kiora Avenue on Thursday night. Police are treating the death as a murder investigation. They say they found substances in glass containers at the house, but they are not sure yet what they are. Read More @ Source DB Tha General ft D-Lo - Bury Mutafuckas (NEW JANUARY 2011) Video Rating: 4 / 5 Criminal Stories Here

BARDWELL, Ky. –   A jury in western Kentucky has found a former bus driver guilty of reckless homicide in a crash last year that killed a 6-year-old student. A Carlisle County jury found Anita Roach guilty of one count of reckless homicide on Thursday afternoon. Roach was driving a Carlisle County bus that was returning students to school after a field trip. The Paducah Sun reports Roach was found not guilty on several other charges, including second-degree assault and wanton endangerment. Roach testified on Wednesday that she asked God why she didn't die instead of the boy, Logan Simpson. She told Logan's parents she would "have died that day" to let their son live. She is scheduled to be sentenced later on Thursday. Read More @ Source Rush - Love, Life & Loss This video looks at how the team cope in the aftermath of the explosion. If you don't watch the show, let me fill you in on a bit of the ...

Three men accused in separate homicide cases were freed from the Lane County Jail today in the final wave of releases driven by the county's shrinking budget. All three men will be fitted with ankle bracelets that allow corrections officials to monitor their location electronically. Two of the men were drivers in fatal traffic crashes and the third is a suspect in a death at a campsite. The three men are Jason Allen Manske, 31; Aaron Earl Curry, 33; and Jeremy Christopher Henry, 33. Manske is charged with criminally negligent homicide and hit and run in the June 6 death of a pedestrian on East 30th Avenue near Lane Community College. Curry is charged with first-degree manslaughter in the May 1 death of a fellow camper at a site near Hills Creek Lake. Henry is charged with drunken driving, reckless driving and first-degree manslaughter in the April 8 death of a woman in a head-on collision on Highway 99 near Saginaw. All three are awaiting trial. The county has to redu...

The Birmingham Police Department reports that detectives have received a ruling from the Jefferson County District Attorney's office related to a homicide investigation. The incident occurred on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at approximately 4:45 p.m. at 556 Avenue V.   The victim has been identified as: Deandrea Thomas, B/M, 22, of Birmingham, Alabama.    Homicide investigators presented the case to the District Attorney's office who acknowledged that the case will be ruled as a justifiable homicide. The District Attorney's office advised investigators the ruling was due to the fact that the shooter was acting in self-defense when he shot the victim. During the course of the investigation, detectives learned that the shooting victim attacked the shooter, striking him with fist and banging his head against the wall while choking him.   The suspect that surrendered to investigators was released. There are no arrests in this case.  The Birmingham Police Department reports that det...

Sanford Police Detective Chris Serino recommended a homicide charge for George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin. The detective has been reassigned as uniformed patrolman on the graveyard shift. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, a bruised head and passed two voice-stress lie-detector tests in the wake of his deadly fight with Miami Gardens high school junior Trayvon Martin. Skip to next paragraph But police records released Tuesday show in greater detail how the Sanford detective investigating the case was unconvinced that Zimmerman was legally justified when he shot Martin. Detective Chris Serino believed Zimmerman jumped to a "faulty conclusion" about Martin, an unarmed teen who he said never used deadly force when he battered Zimmerman and caused him to frantically scream for help 14 times. Days after several recorded interviews between Serino and Zimmerman were made public, the detective got a new job: On July 7, he starts in his new assignment as a un...

BEAVER — A date has been set for the homicide trial of a former Bridgewater councilman accused in a 32-year-old murder in Monaca. Gregory Scott Hopkins, 66, of 718 Mulberry St., Bridgewater, is scheduled to face trial on Sept. 4 before Beaver County Judge Richard Mancini. He is being held without bond in the Beaver County Jail. If the date stands, Hopkins would face trial almost exactly 33 years after the body of Catherine Janet Walsh, 23, was found Sept. 1, 1979, inside her Indiana Avenue, Monaca, home. She was strangled. Hopkins, who had a sexual relationship with Walsh in the months leading up to her death, was not charged at the time because a friend provided an alibi, and police had no evidence directly linking him with the crime. But police were able to use advances in DNA technology to match samples found on Walsh's nightgown and the rope used to tie up her hands to Hopkins and charged him on Jan. 29. Through his lawyer, James Ross, Hopkins has continued to...