UPDATE:
http://www.officer.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=37913
“3 More Arrested in Florida Police Shootings”
Updated: September 14th, 2007 04:59 PM EDT
Story by local10.com
MIAMI —
Three people have been charged with being accessories for aiding and harboring suspected police killer Shawn Sherwin Labeet and a fourth man could be charged Friday.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Alain Gonazalez, 27, is charged with being an accessory after the fact for helping Labeet, 25, who was shot and killed just before midnight Thursday in Pembroke Pines after being wanted in the shootings of four Miami-Dade police officers.
One officer died and three others were injured in the shooting Thursday morning.
Also charged is Gonzalez’s mother, Alba Bello, 47, and her boyfriend, Lazaro Guardiola, 35, according to Miami-Dade police.
Investigators said Labeet went to a Miami home at Southwest 202nd Street and hid out, where he shaved his beard and cut his hair after a shootout at a Southwest Miami-Dade apartment complex.
Labeet’s girlfriend, Renee D’Angelo, was arrested earlier by police who said she gave them false information about Labeet’s identity.”
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Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897627/posts
Miami Police Given Choice of Carrying Assault Rifles
NY Times ^ | September 17, 2007 | NA
Posted on 09/16/2007 8:54:03 PM PDT by neverdem
MIAMI, Sept. 16 (AP) — Patrol officers here will have the option of carrying assault rifles as they try to combat the rise in the use of similar weapons by criminals, the city’s police chief said Sunday.
The chief, John F. Timoney, approved the policy last week, before a Miami-Dade police officer was killed on Thursday in a shootout with a man wielding an assault rifle.
“This is something we do not do with any relish,” Chief Timoney said. “We do this reluctantly.”
The policy had been under review for about a year after officers began seeing an increase in the weapons in the hands of criminals, the chief said.
Officers interested in the guns will have to undergo two days of training and be certified in their use. The Police Department does not yet have money to buy the assault rifles, and if officers want to use them immediately they will have to pay for them, Chief Timoney said.
Years ago, law enforcement specialists like SWAT teams were the only officers to carry assault weapons, but now even some small town police agencies are arming officers with the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M-16 rifle.
Patrol officers in Danbury, Conn., have been allowed to carry the weapons since 2003. Police departments in Merced, Calif., and Waterloo, Iowa, have put them in all patrol vehicles for several years. In Stillwater, Okla., about 70 miles west of Tulsa, every patrol officer is issued an AR-15.
Officers in Los Angeles have been equipped with the weapons since a 1997 gunfight outside a bank where police officers were out-gunned by a man armed...
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The Miami Police Department said 15 of its 79 homicides last year involved assault weapons. This year, 12 of the 60 homicides have involved the high-power guns...
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