A proposed Louisiana Senate bill allowing judges to sentence convicted child rapists to surgical castration may become law. Reversible chemical castration through medication is already approved as a criminal punishment in the state, but earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed Democratic Sen. Regina Barrow’s bill by a vote of 74 to 24, which would take the punishment a …
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An 81-year-old man was arrested near Los Angeles Thursday after neighbors complained of being victimized by a “serial slingshot shooter” for nearly a decade. Azusa police said Prince Raymond King was arrested during a search warrant of the neighborhood where neighbors complained of a “quality of life issue.” Investigators learned that over the course of nine to 10 years, dozens …
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The former mayor of a small South Dakota town has been charged in a Memorial Day triple murder. Jay Ostrem, 64, of Centerville, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder following the shooting deaths of three people Monday night, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced Tuesday. “There is no further threat to the public,” Jackley said in a …
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An Indianapolis police officer fatally shot a suspect in an armed carjacking Tuesday after the suspect dropped something while fleeing on foot and reached to pick it up, police said. Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were dispatched to the city’s east side just before 9 a.m. about a carjacking. A female victim told officers that a suspect had …
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A former federal firearms instructor who worked at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia is warning the strange arrest of two Jordanian nationals in a box truck at the base may have been a “dry run” to test security outside the facility ahead of a terror attack. The same truck, had it been loaded with explosives, could have been a …
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Once again, our Illinois politicians believe they have the magic that will cure the crime that riddles our city of Chicago. I recently learned that our state’s Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce House Bill 4409 to amend the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009 in order to rename “offenders” as “justice-impacted individuals.” That is right — with the magic of …
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An alleged Sinaloa Cartel leader and assassin was extradited to the U.S. from Mexico over the weekend to face a litany of charges between indictments in southern New York and Washington, D.C. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a release Tuesday that 32-year-old Mexican national Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, also known as “El Nini,” faces charges such as conspiring …
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Congolese authorities have released a Polish man who was sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges, Poland’s top diplomat said Tuesday. Mariusz Majewski is back in Europe, Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said on X. Sikorski posted a brief video of himself apparently talking to Majewski over the phone to welcome him back. He didn’t say where exactly Majewski was. …
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Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a former organizer of the city’s decades-long annual vigil that commemorated China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, for allegedly publishing seditious social media posts, in what were the first publicly known arrests under the city’s new national security law. Secretary for Security Chris Tang said Chow Hang-tung, a former leader of the group …
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A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager while the boy was running from a stolen vehicle. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker instead charged the teen driver with causing death while fleeing from police. Riley Doggett, 17, was hit by a patrol car driven by a sheriff’s deputy at …
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