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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System can spot sex offenders Pat Kossan The Arizona Republic A north-central Phoenix school is the first in the nation to install cameras designed to detect the faces of sex offenders or missing children and instantly alert police. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office used a grant to install equipment in the entrance and...
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By Rusty Bradshaw, Independent Newspapers The Amber Alert system and several citizens helped locate a child whose mother may be learning a hard lesson after her van was stolen in Surprise with her son inside. Surprise police were consulting with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office late last week to determine if child endangerment...
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AIMEE JUAREZ Herald Staff Writer MANATEE – Denise White called the sheriff’s office on a hunch Monday morning. For the past week, the mobile home park manager had received complaints from her tenants at Wayside Glen Community about two 19-year-old men harboring three underage girls inside a trailer. At night, the girls would...
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“I just wanted to stop and take the time to say, thank you so very much!” You did more in 24 hours than the…Sheriff’s Office did in 6 days!…The…Police Department did in fact help me, when she had called me. I had them come, just in case she decided to run again. God...
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Police say the suspect had talked to the victim on the Web site MySpace.com. By Scott Pesznecker Herald Writer June 2, 2006 MOUNTLAKE TERRACE – A man who attacked a woman in her home Tuesday had been talking to his victim on MySpace.com, Mountlake Terrace police said Thursday. The woman, who is in...
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Woman, daughter lived in N. Fort Myers By Dave Breitenstein March 03, 2006 A California missing child case ended with the arrest of a North Fort Myers woman and recovery of her 9-year-old child, who had been attending class since September at a Lee County school. Terry Ann Dunn, 45, of 16500 Slater...
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A 6-year-old girl who was abducted from California more than 18 months ago was found at a Pensacola motel, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Hope Katelyn Brazil is set to be reunited with her family in California. Her biological mother, Shelli Shileen Brazil, is charged with child abduction from California and is in Escambia...
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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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