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Baltimore, Md. (AP) - According to an attorney for a Baltimore police officer, authorities are investigating allegations that an officer freed an arrested woman in exchange for sex. Police spokesman Donny Moses confirms that an internal investigation is underway at the department's southwestern district, but he won't give further details. No charges were filed Tuesday. A spokesman for the state's attorney's office said prosecutors are reviewing the matter. Attorney Warren Brown said an officer has been accused of having sex with the woman in a cubicle at a police station. But Brown says separate interviews given by three other officers...

An anti-gang task force arrested 15 defendants charged in a federal racketeering indictment with exercising control over Hispanic street gangs across Orange County, CA. The indictment alleges that members of the Ojeda Organization - named after leader and Mexican Mafia member Peter Ojeda - extorted "taxes" from street gangs and punished non-payers with assaults. In addition to the arrests made by well over 100 agents and officers associated with the Santa Ana Gang Task Force, ten defendants are already in state custody. The three-count indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana, asserts that the Ojeda...

When Susan Peacher hung up her latex evening gown and wooden paddle for a job with the federal government, the former dominatrix thought she was done with abuse. She went to work for the Treasury Department in San Francisco, but when she arrived at her new job, she found that one of the office managers was a former client. This man wouldn't leave her alone, she said in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, charging that he sexually harassed her, attempting to kiss her in the elevator, telling her she had "luscious lips,'' and repeatedly asking for "sessions.'' When she...

POST FALLS, Idaho -- Northern Idaho authorities are investigating reports of someone who claims to be a police officer asking women to undress in front of their windows. Post Falls Police Lt. Greg McLean said the most recent complaint came from a 15-year-old girl last week. The caller told her that he was a police officer responding to a call of a peeping Tom in the area. He got her address and then asked her to help him in the case by actually removing her clothes and moving toward her window. Similar incidents were reported in two other communities. The...