Police said they plan to charge a man accused of taking a 155-year-old doorknob from the historic Tybee Island Lighthouse in coastal Georgia. The man, who hasn’t been publicly identified, was arrested in Indiana on Wednesday, one week after authorities say he stole the hardware from a door at the […]
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They called it ‘The God Squad.’ How a brazen band of cops operated in this N.J. suburb.
The cops said he looked nervous and was shaking uncontrollably. Apparently in Parsippany, that’s enough probable cause for the police to search your vehicle for drugs. David Wheat, then 20 years old, was driving his sister to hand in a term paper at her college when he was stopped by […]
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Rioter Was Filmed Bashing Capitol Cops. Then He Googled Ways to Flee Abroad, FBI Says.
Criminal Complaint A New Jersey man accused of being at “the front line” of violence during the Jan. 6 insurrection boasted about his involvement online—then googled “Countries where you can buy citizenship” once he realized he would probably be caught, prosecutors say. Christopher Joseph Quaglin was arrested Wednesday in New […]
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Fact check: Does CA bill prevent Republicans from being cops?
Get the Capitol Alert newsletter Sign up now to get breaking news about California politics, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature. California lawmakers are considering a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to screen their officers for membership in hate groups, participation in hate group activities, or “public expressions […]
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Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the one ahead. The […]
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Two deaths were not caused by Camden SC house fire: Cops
Two bodies were found Sunday in a house fire in the Midlands, but law enforcement said foul play, not the fire, was the cause of death. Members of the Camden Fire Department found the bodies after getting the burning building under control, the Camden Police Department said in a news […]
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University students caused $6K in damage to town’s Christmas display, cops say
Two Rowan University students caused nearly $6,000 in damage to Glassboro’s downtown Christmas decorations early Friday, police said. Officers responded to Glassboro Town Square just after 2 a.m. for a reported disturbance and learned that a man was climbing a Christmas tree in the square in an apparent attempt to […]