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FORT LAUDERDALE— Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her. She's not paranoid — it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that's been parked in front of her eight-room Parisian Motel for several days. "Warning: You are under video surveillance," reads the bold message on the side of the truck. From the front bumper of the menacing vehicle, another sign taunts: "Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?"

Businessman charged with secret taping By EMILY C. DOOLEY STAFF WRITER SANDWICH - Police arrested the owner of a massage parlor Sunday on wiretapping charges after they discovered he had installed video cameras to spy on a woman living next door to the business. Patrick M. Dwyer, 40, of 3 Fuller Drive in Plymouth, was being held at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility. Dwyer is scheduled for arraignment in Barnstable District Court today on six counts of wiretapping, three felony counts of breaking and entering a building in the daytime and one count of possession of marijuana. The alleged victim...

CHICAGO, Sept. 20 - A highly advanced system of video surveillance that Chicago officials plan to install by 2006 will make people here some of the most closely observed in the world. Mayor Richard M. Daley says it will also make them much safer. "Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes," Mr. Daley said when he unveiled the new project this month. "They're the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot." Police specialists here can already monitor live footage from about 2,000 surveillance cameras around the city, so the addition of...

ANTWERP, Belgium, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Belgian police have arrested four suspects in connection with last week's multimillion-dollar diamond robbery in Antwerp, the city's public prosecutor confirmed Tuesday. The alleged thieves, believed to be three Italians and one Dutch woman, will appear in court Thursday charged with masterminding the diamond capital's biggest-ever jewel heist. The news will bring some relief to Antwerp's tight-knit community of diamond cutters, buyers and sellers, who have dominated the global trade in the precious stones since the end of the 19th century. More than 80 percent of the world's diamonds pass through the prosperous Belgian...

Just saw on CNN TV that the woman wanted in the videotaped beating of her daughter is going to turn herself in on Saturday... No further details, it was just reported a few minutes ago.