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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0902/090227la.htm ICE agents seek information on bogus law enforcement badges LOS ANGELES - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are seeking information from people who may have received in the mail what appear to be, genuine law enforcement badges and credentials, from a group calling themselves the "International Police Commission (IPC)." These fraudulent police credentials and badges imply that those who use them are police officers with United Nations and Interpol authorities, according to ICE investigators. The fake items, manufactured in the Philippines, have been mailed out to targeted individuals...

Three men are accused of abducting a Florida man in Fort Lauderdale at gunpoint, waterboarding him and then trying to enlist his help in their plot when they realized they'd taken the wrong person, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. The alleged victim played along until he got away long enough to call in a bomb threat that sent a massive police response to the rescue, authorities said. The suspects are two bothers, Jeffry Arista, 32, and Jonathan Arista, 29, and a third man named Raymond Gomez. They allegedly snatched a man in a parking garage outside his Fort...

Muslim Patrol Battles Bloods: New Turf Rivalry in Brooklyn (David Wood) The Muslim Community Patrol in New York recently assaulted a teenaged boy for insulting a Muslim woman outside Siraj Wahhaj's Masjid Taqwa in Brooklyn. Unfortunately for the Muslim Patrol, the teenager was the son of a high-ranking member of the Bloods (a violent street gang). A group of Bloods soon showed up at the mosque for a confrontation, but police showed up and dispersed the groups. One of the Bloods, however, vowed that the conflict wasn't over. Will we see more conflicts like this due to the rise of...

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office continues to investigative a home invasion robbery that left a suspect dead. Authorities say two armed men posing as law enforcement officers forced their way into a home in Orange Cove Sunday night and exchanged fire with the homeowner.

MONTGOMERY HEIGHTS, W.Va. -- Two armed men posing as police officers broke into a Fayette County home early Saturday, and then sprayed the people inside with pepper spray, bound their hands and feet with duct tape, and tried to rob them, the Fayette sheriff said. The suspects identified themselves as state police when they broke into the residence in the Montgomery Heights area around midnight Saturday, according to a news release from Fayette Sheriff Steve Kessler. They wore dark masks and clothing with what looked like some type of police insignia on their jackets. The suspects were armed with a...

Ferndale police are searching for a couple posing as officers. A man and woman posed as Ferndale police officers to enter a 61-year-old woman's home at about noon Monday, according to police. They told the woman they would need to search her home for a person wanted for stealing money, police said. The couple were allowed inside, and directed the woman around her home "searching" for the alleged wanted person, police said. The woman was instructed to open drawers and pick up her mattress to look for the alleged stolen money, according to police. The couple pretended to take notes...

(IsraelNN.com) The suicide bomber and his handler apprehended yesterday before they struck the ORT Alon School in Yokneam were members of the PA National Security Force. The would-be suicide bomber is a 23-year-old Gaza resident and his handler, a 20-year-old from the Jenin district.