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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By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff | December 8, 2005 Detective Eliezer Gonzalez of the Boston police knew he didn’t have much time to find an ill, missing 19-day-old infant, the subject of the city’s first Amber Alert. Leading the search in August 2004, he was sifting through tips, including one that the baby...
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By Grant Boxleitner December 01, 2005 Florida’s law enforcement blueprint for rescuing abducted children ‹ with one success story already ‹ will be expanded to the rest of the nation. Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice and Florida Department of Law Enforcement made the announcement Wednesday at FDLE headquarters at Page Field...
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By Douane D. James Education Writer Posted November 28 2005 A few Cooper City High School teachers have expanded their jobs from teaching students to tracking them, by developing a device to help parents find children who are abducted or go missing. The “Amber Stick” is a lightweight plug-and-play computer flash drive. It...
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By Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent | November 27, 2005 He saw the news in June 2000, when 16-year-old Molly Bish was abducted from Comins Pond in Warren, where she worked as a lifeguard. Her remains were found three years later, 5 miles from her home. Then, in 2002, Elizabeth Smart, a Salt...
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By Raja Mishra and Connie Page, Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent November 8, 2005 MARLBOROUGH — A frantic hunt for two kidnapped children ended last night when police found one of them, a 5-year-old girl, inside a suitcase in a hotel room near Logan Airport, where her mother was trying to hide from...
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Nov 2, 2005 (WJZ/AP) WOODLAWN, Md. Baltimore County police are still looking for three men who kidnapped a 4-year-old boy, triggering an Amber Alert Tuesday night. Michael Lee Benjamin was with his mother and a friend when they were approached by three men in ski masks armed with shotguns before 9 p.m., according...
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Text Messages Used To Track Down Teen, Man She Was Going To Meet November 1, 2005 HOUSTON — An Amber Alert for a missing Fort Bend County teen was called off Tuesday after the girl was found on a bus in Georgia, KPRC Local 2 reported. Meagan Minton, 16, was found safe and...
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Texas man accused of killing stepson, kidnapping his wife By Fernando Quintero, Rocky Mountain News September 30, 2005 The nephew of a Texas man accused of killing his stepson and kidnapping his wife turned him in to Aurora police Wednesday because he said he feared for his family’s safety. A SWAT team and...
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