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ANDERSON, Calif. — On Monday, the Anderson Police Department's (APD) Problem Oriented Policing Unit arrested 10 people after conducting an undercover enforcement operation at the Anderson Walmart to target retail theft and criminal activity. During the operation, 10 total arrests were made for theft, possession of stolen property, fraud, drug paraphernalia possession, illegal narcotic possession, and active warrants. The following is a summary of the arrests made by APD's Problem Oriented Policing Unit: Paige Poor, 27 of Oroville, was seen stealing pants from inside the store. Poor was found to be on searchable probation and in possession of stolen property...

New York officials say they have busted a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring. Officials allege that three of the 16 Palestinian immigrants charged had links to known terrorists. The state's attorney general said investigators had recovered only "a fraction" of the proceeds from sales of more than a million untaxed cartons. The amount of money involved remains unclear, but records show the suspects deposited at least $55m (£36m). The scheme cost the state an estimated $80m in tax revenue, said officials in a press conference on Thursday. The alleged ringleaders, brothers Basel and Samir Ramadan, were arrested on Wednesday in...

Two people trying to smuggle drugs inside their underwear were arrested by border officers this week in separate incidents. On Wednesday afternoon agents say they found a pound of methamphetamine inside the underpants of an 18-year-old U.S. citizen who was riding in a border shuttle van stopped for an inspection at a checkpoint on Interstate 19 near Amado, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release. On Thursday night a 23-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales after officers say they found four pounds of heroin in her bra. The combined...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — They called it “random dancing” but First Lady Michelle Obama broke out some moves that resembled subdued variations of “the Monkey” or “the Jerk” Friday during an appearance at a northern Virginia high school. A screaming, raucous auditorium filled with elementary and middle school students greeted Obama and the cast of the Nickelodeon TV show “iCarly” at Hayfield Secondary School in Fairfax County. The appearance promoted an upcoming episode featuring Obama in which she thanks military families for their sacrifices. On the show, star Miranda Cosgrove plays the daughter of an Air Force colonel deployed overseas....

NEW YORK (AP)—The Associated Press takes a look at the best and worst first-round draft picks for each NFL team:

Monday it was tank tops. Thursday, brassieres were stolen. Forty brassieres, worth nearly $2,000, were stolen from Victoria's Secret in Paddock Mall on Thursday, according to police. On Monday, someone stole 101 tank tops worth nearly $1,800 from American Eagle Outfitters. An employee at Victoria's Secret told an officer she was assisting and observing customers Thursday when a man and woman asked for help. She said the woman stood in front of her holding a pink robe, while the man stood behind the woman holding a pair of yoga pants.

When looking at the biggest draft mistakes of the 2000s, there comes a line of demarcation that starts around 2007 - there are certain players who just don't get it right away in the NFL, and they should be given time as such. That's why 2007 is our cutoff point for draft year, though there are players we suspect will be on this list very soon...

RABAT, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Moroccan security forces have dismantled a cell that specialised in recruiting volunteers to fight in Iraq, the government said on Thursday. "The security services dismantled a terrorist structure with international ramifications specialised in the recruitment and movement of volunteers to Iraq and operating in certain Moroccan towns and localities," a government statement carried on state news agency MAP said. The authorities arrested 62 members of the group, which had "ideological and financial links" with al Qaeda and the Algeria-based Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, it said. Moroccan security officials say police have broken up...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 226 pounds of marijuana, 112 pounds of cocaine and 70 pounds of methamphetamines this weekend along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. On Friday night at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, officers arrested a 54-year-old man from Cajeme, Mexico after he attempted to smuggle almost 70 pounds of methamphetamines hidden in a 2005 Chevy Tahoe, according to an agency press release. After further investigation by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Drug Enforcement Agency, officers arrested three more people and seized $236,432 and 36 ounces of cocaine. On Sunday night at...

SANDPOINT, Idaho -- Defendants in several misdemeanor drug cases that were thrown out of court for improper police procedure are now asking Bonner County to pay them damages totaling $130,000. Officials have not yet responded to four tort claims filed recently against the county, naming Sheriff Elaine Savage, Deputy Matt Hathaway and the members of the County Commission. Each of the four claims asks $25,000 in punitive damages and $7,500 in compensation for civil rights violations. The claims allege that poorly trained officers in the county routinely trample civil liberties. "A pattern of similar incidents in Bonner County patrolmen exhibiting...

In Moscow, a sculpture of a pickle will commemorate one of Russia’s beloved snacks. 38 designs were judged by Muscovites in a popular vote for the most original concept. Ten finalists were selected for the second round, after which the winner will be cast in bronze. The contest is organized by the Knyazev production center which wants to unveil the statue as “a monument to a truly Russian snack”. Constructing random monuments is all the rage in Russia. After decades of the obligatory statues of Lenin and Stalin on every town’s main square, people are acquiring a taste for sculptures...

SEATTLE - By this time next month, disturbing the peace in Seattle may draw more police attention that smoking pot. As it should be, argue backers of Initiative 75. The measure to be decided by voters in the Sept. 16 primary would make possession of marijuana for adult personal use the city's lowest enforcement priority. Lower than petty theft, public drunkenness and drunken driving. Lower than traffic violations and lower than being a public nuisance. The measure's endorsers include the King County Bar Association, The League of Women Voters, the King County Democrats and several Seattle City Council members. "I...

Dallas police Tuesday asked the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the Dallas County district attorney's office to join the department's investigation into a series of undercover drug busts that were later found to involve fake drugs. Police Chief Terrell Bolton also announced at an evening news conference that two narcotics officers involved in the cases have been placed on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of the investigation. Chief Bolton did not identify the officers. District Attorney Bill Hill, who joined Chief Bolton at the news conference, said that the remaining pending cases involving fake drugs, minute traces, or...

The Chronicle is now complaining about how the feds are enforcing the marijuana laws in the wake of a pot bust in Santa Cruz. Many readers may recall when the Chron was ridiculing Prop. 187, the initiative passed by the voters, that would have prohibited all sorts of governmental assistance to illegal aliens. The Chron came out both with a series of editiorials and stories slanted to show that this was not only a cruel inititiave but that it flew in the face of federal laws. Of course no federal laws controlled the state's willingness to dispense its dollars to...