A website that allowed international cyber fraudsters to trick up to 70,000 British victims into revealing personal information such as bank account details and passwords has been infiltrated and disrupted, London police said Thursday. Metropolitan Police said they seized the LabHost site, which enabled more than 2,000 criminals to create phishing sites that got victims to reveal 480,000 bank card …
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A gunman who wounded a police officer in the leg after a brief car chase shot himself to death, the Albany police chief said Thursday, and was not killed by the officer’s returning fire as police initially implied. Autopsy results showed that Amiel Layeni, 28, “died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” Chief Eric Hawkins said at a …
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NEW YORK CITY – The NYPD raided an illegal open-air “flea market” operating in “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district earlier this week, confiscating counterfeit goods and other items. But some sellers have thumbed their noses at law enforcement and are back on the streets peddling their merchandise. The sellers, many of whom are reported to be migrants, have been blocking …
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A man linked to a homicide investigation in California’s capital was fatally shot Wednesday by police 80 miles away in Oakland after he allegedly emerged from a home with a firearm, authorities said Thursday. Sacramento police officers notified the Oakland Police Department that they were in Oakland investigating a homicide and requested assistance in arresting a suspect, the Oakland Police …
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Mariska Hargitay fully embodied her “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” character by helping a young girl find her mother. Hargitay was dressed in her “SVU” detective gear for filming the show on April 10 in New York City, thus bearing a striking resemblance to a police officer. A young girl, unaware of the cast and crew around the location, …
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An Albany, New York, police officer was shot early Wednesday after attempting to pull over a vehicle before he returned fire, killing the driver, authorities said. Police Chief Eric Hawkins said the officer had witnessed a speeding vehicle just before 12:30 a.m. A short pursuit ensued, and the driver refused to stop, Hawkins said. A short time later, the officer …
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A California man was arrested during a traffic stop after allegedly impersonating a police officer, according to officials. The driver was pulled over near South De Anza Boulevard and Rodrigues Avenue in Cupertino, California, after a Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputy noticed an SUV with an expired registration, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post on Sunday. The vehicle …
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A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer fired the fatal shot that killed a man at a gas station in the St. Louis suburb, police said Wednesday. JUDGE AWARDS $23.5 MILLION TO UNDERCOVER ST. LOUIS OFFICER BEATEN BY COLLEAGUES DURING PROTEST The shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at a convenience store. Police said 26-year-old Detarius Haynes and 18-year-old Joshua Campbell …
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Georgia’s parliament has voted in the first reading to approve a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. Opponents say the proposal would obstruct Georgia’s long-sought prospects of joining the European Union. They denounce it as “the Russian law” because …
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You may have heard of high-value homes and properties belonging to celebrities being taken over by squatters, but did you know that a handful of celebs used to be squatters themselves? Several celebrities have openly spoken about, or in certain cases been caught, squatting in the past. These celebrities formerly lived rent free in someone else’s home. Jay Leno lived …
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