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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A military investigation into allegations that U.S. troops intentionally killed Iraqi civilians in a March raid in Ishaqi, a village north of Baghdad, has cleared the troops of misconduct, the military said Friday — despite dramatic video footage of slain children. Meanwhile, a lawyer representing families of some of the two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians allegedly killed by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha on Nov. 19 said three or four Marines carried out the shootings while 20 more waited outside the homes. He also said victims' relatives turned down a request by U.S. investigators...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A man wanted in California for the 2002 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was captured by Mexican police on Thursday, the U.S. embassy in Mexico City reported. Agents of the Mexican Federal Investigation Agency arrested Jorge Arroyo Garcia in the city of Tonala in western Jalisco state, according to a statement from the embassy. A spokeswoman with the Mexico Attorney General's Office confirmed the arrest. Arroyo Garcia, a Mexican national who also goes by the first name Armando, is the lead suspect in the shooting death of Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy David...

CORPORAL Richard "Pampers" Simpson tried to swallow the $10,000 bribe he allegedly took from a taxi operator, when he was held in a sting operation last week, the court was told yesterday. The policeman, who was held on Constant Spring Road in Kingston, wrestled with officers from the Professional Standards Branch who had set up the operation to nab him and desperately tried to swallow the money reportedly paid to him by the taxi driver to release his vehicle. In a damning police report to the court yesterday, the investigating officer said while he wrestled with police who were trying...

A six-year veteran of the Columbia Police Department has been dismissed from the force following his arrest Friday on suspicion of stalking a former girlfriend, using phone calls, letters and a vehicular tracking device. Todd Smith, 31, is charged with misdemeanor stalking, a Class A misdemeanor. If convicted, Smith could face up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Smith was released from the Boone County Jail on bail early Saturday morning. “We have a standard, and that standard was not met by Todd Smith,” Columbia police Capt. Michael Martin said. “So we took quick and swift action...

BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Oct. 31, 2005) -- An Iraqi police officer owes his life to a U.S. Army medic who treated his wounds as terrorists fired on their position Oct. 10. “I didn’t have time to think about it,” said Spc. Andrew “Doc” Suchanek, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. “I just knew I didn’t want that guy to get hurt even worse. I just reacted.” While on a routine patrol in west Baghdad, Suchanek and other Soldiers of C Company, 1/87 Infantry responded to assist Iraqi Police who had come under fire from...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2005 – An Iraqi police officer identified a suicide bomber in Mahawil, Iraq, Aug. 14 and attempted to kill him before the bomb could be detonated, according to a multinational forces report. Despite the policeman's best efforts, the Syrian suicide bomber was able to detonate his bomb, killing two civilians and injuring four others in the town, which is located about 16 kilometers north of Hillah. The report indicated the officer's actions likely prevented many more deaths and injuries. The same day in Hit, Iraqi army and coalition forces got help from local citizens during a combined...

DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) - Victor Edward Willis, the original policeman in the 1970s music group the Village People, was arrested by real police who allegedly found a gun and drugs in the former star's convertible, authorities said. Willis, who co-wrote disco hits such as "Macho Man" and "In the Navy" before leaving the Village People in the late 1970s, was taken into custody late Monday after an officer stopped the musician in his Chevrolet Corvette in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. Willis also had an outstanding $15,000 felony warrant for possession of narcotics, police said. Police said...

Suspect in cop's killing caughtBy Fernando Quintero, David Montero and Marilyn Robinson, Rocky Mountain NewsJune 4, 2005An intensive, international manhunt for a suspect gunman accused of killing one Denver police detective and wounding another came to an end with the arrest Saturday evening of Raul Garcia-Gomez in Mexico. Denver Police Chief Gerry Whitman said Garcia-Gomez, 19, was taken into custody at 6:10 p.m. MDT in Culiacan, Mexico, a town in the state of Sinaloa on the Pacific Coast near the resort city of Mazatlan. The FBI, U.S. Marshals and Mexican authorities worked together to make the arrest after receiving information...

Cop faces charges for slapping foreigner MAEBASHI -- A police assistant inspector faces charges for repeatedly slapping a male foreigner feigning sleep while in detention, police said. Documents accusing the 39-year-old assistant inspector of abusing his position as an officer have been forwarded to the Maebashi District Public Prosecutors Office. The assistant inspector has also been fined 10 percent of his monthly wage for one month. He admits to the allegations. "I've done something terrible," he said. Police said the assistant inspector slapped a Brazilian man in his 30s four or five times to the head while the suspect was...

A Pasadena police officer fatally shot a man today after the victim reportedly point a gun at him, police said. Two officers were dispatched to the Hacienda Isbell Apartments, around 12:30 p.m., after residents reported that a man was firing a gun in the apartment courtyard. Officials did not release the identification of the victim, who was pronounced dead at 2:07 p.m. at Memorial Hermann Hospital. The victim is believed to have been in his 20s, according to Pasadena Police spokesman Martin DeLeon. When the officers arrived at the scene they went to an apartment where nine Hispanic men were...

Policeman Accused of Sex With BoyBy Kim Lyons TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, November 23, 2004 A Baden police officer took time off from his job to engage in sexually explicit Internet chats with a 14-year-old boy with whom he later had sexual contact, federal prosecutors said Monday. "While his wife and children were upstairs, he was downstairs talking dirty to a 14-year-old boy on the computer," assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Miller said at a detention hearing for Kenneth Jones, 38. "He clearly led a parallel life that had gone way beyond fantasy." Jones, a Drug Abuse Resistance Education officer and father of...

An Israeli policeman is out of danger after being stabbed in the neck and chest this morning by an Arab terrorist. The victim was able to shoot four bullets and kill his attacker before collapsing. A 40-year-old Arab man from Shuafat - an Arab-populated neighborhood in northern Jerusalem - attempted to murder a Border Guard policeman in Jerusalem shortly before 10:00 this morning. The terrorist stabbed his victim on the eastern side of the capital's Highway #1, less than 300 yards north of the Old City. The policeman, though wounded in the neck and chest, was able to shoot his...

Suspect in Slaying of Officer Kills Himself in Jacksonville The Associated Press STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) - A man suspected of killing a city police officer as he sat in his patrol car committed suicide early Sunday with the officer's gun as a law enforcement team led by U.S. Marshals closed in on him in Florida, authorities said. Timothy W. Berner, 33, was found in Jacksonville, Fla., after authorities received a tip late Saturday by a viewer of the television program "America's Most Wanted" that he was in the area, police said. Berner was accused of stalking police officers the...

Officer Shot Outside Courthouse Dies POSTED: 3:15 PM PDT April 21, 2004UPDATED: 7:51 PM PDT April 21, 2004 LOS ANGELES -- CHP spokesman Tom Marshall said 35-year-old CHP officer died at a Pomona hospital where he was taken following a shooting outside a Pomona courthouse Wednesday afternoon.Images From Shooting Scene He suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head.The officer is identified as Thomas Steiner. He is a five-year veteran.Reports say the officer leaves a wife and a 3-year-old son.According to CHP Officer Armando Clemente, Steiner was standing in front of the courthouse when a man shot him in the...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi policeman was killed in a bomb blast near Baghdad and gunmen attacked a U.S. Army patrol in the northern city of Mosul Monday, the latest attacks on Iraq's occupiers and those seen as collaborating with them. The policeman, a bomb disposal expert, was killed when a tank round planted on a busy street in the city of Baquba, 40 miles north of Baghdad, was detonated by remote control, a U.S. military commander in the city said. Iraqi police and others seen to be working or cooperating with U.S. and allied authorities are increasingly the target...

(IsraelNN.com) The IDF Yehuda Military Court located in the Ofir Base today sentenced former PA policeman Ra’ad Sheik to two life sentences for his part in the murderous lynch of two IDF reservists in Ramallah three years ago. On 12 October 2000, First Sergeant Vadim Norzhich, 33, and Corporal Yosef Avrahami, 33, mistakenly entered PA-controlled Ramallah on their way to a nearby IDF base. The policeman, Ra’ad Sheik indicated he would assist them, taking them to the PA police headquarters in Ramallah. The two were attacked by police personnel and the nearby mob, beaten to death and their bodies defiled....

A city police officer who has patrolled some of Albany's toughest neighborhoods was brought before a city judge late Tuesday and formally charged with raping a topless dancer at his own bachelor party. Dressed in jeans, white sneakers and a button-down shirt, 29-year-old James Wood, a former sheriff's deputy who joined the city force in January, showed no emotion as he stood without handcuffs in front of Judge John C. Egan Jr., who set bail at $25,000 after telling the officer he was charged with a single count of first-degree rape. A swarm of high-ranking police commanders flanked the courtroom...

Subject: letter to Symantec Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:03:40 -0400 Dear Sir / Madame: I have recently purchased and installed on my home computer your product – “Internet Security”, which includes firewall with parental controls allowing to block unwanted websites, containing pornography, violence, and other material inappropriate for children. This program also periodically downloads from your firm an updated list of blocked web sites. As probably most of the users, I installed it and used it for a while in it’s ‘default’ configuration. It took me a while before I’ve got to the list of the blocked categories of...

Death in Iraq: Army rules out raid on town where six military policeman died By David Blair in Basra and Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 27/06/2003) The riots that led to the deaths of six British soldiers in the Iraqi town of Majar al-Kabir were the result of "a misunderstanding", the British military commander in Iraq said yesterday. A soldier from 1 Para on patrol for the first time since the incident at Majar al-Kabir Local people were angry because they believed that British troops were about to resume controversial weapons searches, Maj-Gen Peter Wall said. "That was not our...

Trial starts for prison escapee 06/02/2003 By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Prosecutors reconstructed an Irving police officer's final moments on Christmas Eve 2000 as the latest death penalty trial began Monday morning for one of the prison escapees accused of killing the officer during a botched robbery. Prosecutor Toby Shook detailed how the seven escapees -- including defendant Randy Halprin -- broke out of the Connally Unit prison near San Antonio on Dec. 13, 2000, and ended up in the Dallas area in late December to perform a daring and elaborate robbery of an Oshman’s SuperSports USA...