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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April 12, 2006 By KOMO Staff PIERCE COUNTY – A 14-year-old boy is being credited with potentially saving his little brother from being abducted Tuesday evening. Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies say it was around 7:30 when an 8-year-old boy and his older brother were playing at the end of a dead-end street in...
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CONNIE JENKINS, The Saratogian 11/30/2005 The attempted kidnapping of a Saratoga Springs High School senior attracted national attention twice this week. A photo of suspect John F. Regan taken by Saratogian Chief Photographer Rick Gargiulo appeared Monday in The New York Times. Tuesday night, Saratogian reporter Jim Kinney discussed the case on CNN’s...
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Sheriff’s Deputy Opens Fire On Man November 30, 2005 WESTERVILLE, Ohio — A Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy fired his gun at a man who answered his door with a handgun and pointed it directly at a police officer early Wednesday, authorities said. The abduction attempt allegedly took place shortly before 6:30 p.m. at...
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November 11, 2005 DENVER — Residents of a Denver neighborhood are meeting with police to see what they could do after a string of attempted abductions in the last few weeks. The latest attempted abduction occurred Thursday morning near Edison Elementary at 3350 Quitman Street. This is the fifth attempted abduction in the...
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Saratoga Springs | Track runner fends off attack near high school By BRENDAN McGARRY 11/1/2005 SARATOGA SPRINGS — A 17-year-old female athlete at Saratoga Springs High School was nearly abducted Monday evening while leaving campus, police said. The girl, whom police didn’t identify, was walking to her car in the West Avenue parking...
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By Jerry Schanke 10/05/2005 An attempt by a masked intruder to abduct two 10-year-old twin girls from their Vienna home shortly after midnight Sunday, Oct. 2, may prove to be as ironic as it was unnerving, resulting in the arrest later the same day of the girls’ martial arts instructor, Andrew M. Jacobs,...
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By James Haynes Friday, September 16, 2005 LYNN – A 13-year-old Lynn girl thwarted an alleged attempted kidnapping Wednesday, and helped police capture the suspect by absconding with her bumbling captor’s car. Alido Diaz, 40, 11 James St., Lynn, was ordered held without bail Thursday pending a dangerousness hearing on charges of kidnapping...
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By MEGGAN CLARK Staff Writer, August 22, 2005 GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – A 15-year-old boy was barely able to escape Sunday afternoon after a man forced him into a vehicle and tried to chain him to the interior, police said. Police had to use bolt cutters to remove a 4-foot-long chain that had been...
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