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Alabama Senate committee passes bill to crack down on criminals who use
The bill creates new criminal penalties for using items known as "skimming devices" to steal information from credit cards. It expands the law prohibiting harassment to include threats made over the Internet and cracks down on anyone who used the
Updated: 02/29/2012 08:14P
Violent criminal dodges Dangerous Offender tag
And he is a moderately high risk to re-offend. But the 29-year-old Hamilton man is not a dangerous offender within the meaning of the Criminal Code. That's the ruling Ontario Court Justice Thomas Lofchik brought down Wednesday.
Updated: 02/29/2012 08:04P
Violent criminal dodges Dangerous Offender tag
And he is a moderately high risk to re-offend. But the 29-year-old Hamilton man is not a dangerous offender within the meaning of the Criminal Code. That's the ruling Ontario Court Justice Thomas Lofchik brought down Wednesday.
Updated: 02/29/2012 08:04P
Crime lab losing business to state
The Miami Valley crime lab has long been one of the region's stopgap agencies against crime, providing fingerprint identification, DNA analysis and blood, drug and semen testing for area law enforcement. Laboratory testing has become an increasing and
Updated: 02/29/2012 07:32P
Washington's Goodfellas: Crimes on the Table
In international relations and international law, the same applies. Under the Nuremberg Principles, later incorporated into the United Nations Charter, to which the United States is a signatory, the planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war
Updated: 02/29/2012 07:30P
WORKPLACE: Labor Department launches criminal division
Bosco said his instinct is that using the criminal justice system to enforce payroll laws and similar violations would be a mistake. “The labor commissioner can call a DA. They have access to DAs and the state attorney general,” said Bosco,
Updated: 02/29/2012 07:22P
44 Convicted Criminal Aliens Arrested in CT and MA
By Jessica Michalski - email HARTFORD, CT (WGGB) – The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department has arrested 44 convicted criminal aliens in Connecticut and Massachusetts. During a four-day targeted enforcement operation in both CT and MA that
Updated: 02/29/2012 07:07P
Will shortcomings undermine the new Competition Act?
The main aim is to make the act as autonomous as possible from the structures of administrative and criminal law and more closely harmonised with the EU competition framework. The memorandum identifies a need to: evaluate the appeal process and amend
Updated: 02/29/2012 07:04P
Man sent for trial on fifteen counts of assault against young girls
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Galway District Court on Monday charged with 12 counts of indecently assaulting one female, contrary to Common Law and as provided for by Section 10 of the Criminal Law (Rape)(Amendment) Act
Updated: 02/29/2012 07:02P
Forty-four convicted criminal aliens arrested in sweep
24, and was aided by numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agencies throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts. Forty-four of the individuals taken into custody had prior criminal convictions, including 18 aliens who had multiple criminal
Updated: 02/29/2012 06:59P
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