NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY ACT OF 2004 (S. 2154) Why this bill is important: This bipartisan bill seeks to fill a gaping hole...
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March 17, 2005 Matt Dixon was honored Friday morning at the Linn county Sheriff’s Office and will be recognized nationally in April when he and his family fly to Washington, D.C. Matthew Dixon’s key eye for detail and commitment to help another young person has now earned the Holley Elementary School student a...
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By John J. Hopkins Times A police dispatcher’s determination to decipher the reported license plate of a suspect’s vehicle led Cheektowaga and Buffalo police to a man who allegedly attempted to abduct an 11-year-old girl last week along Cleveland Drive. The August 16 abduction was thwarted by the girl, who ran screaming to...
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By MARY KAYE DAVIS MT. VERNON – A woman posing as an employee of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services attempted to kidnap a baby, according to Mt. Vernon City Police. According to the police report a resident of 1303 S. 25th Street reported to police at 1:42 p.m. Saturday that...
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They say they took the boy to Costa Rica to give him a stable home BY SUE LINDSEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIRGINIA BEACH – A couple who fled with their 6-year-old grandson to Costa Rica and stayed there for 11 years pleaded guilty yesterday to one count each of parental abduction. Under a...
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By GREG WELTER – Staff Writer MAXWELL – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police didn’t catch up with alleged child abductor William Tyrone Henderson before he left Surrey, British Columbia with his two daughters on Sunday. But on Monday the California Highway Patrol did. Henderson, 36, was driving north on Interstate 5 south of...
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DES MOINES (AP) — A homeless man who’s a registered sex offender was arrested after police said he grabbed a toddler and sexually assaulted her in the men’s room of the downtown public library. Police hailed library workers who pulled the girl away from the man as heroes. James C. Effler Jr., 32,...
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CHICAGO (AP) ‹ An 18-year-old Chicago man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping two young children to perform a demonic ritual intended to get back his former girlfriend, authorities said. David Rodriguez was being held on $500,000 bond. Prosecutors said he and a 15-year-old companion snatched the children Friday outside a South Side library...
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