LATEST: The man arrested following a four-hour standoff with police in Auckland this morning has appeared in court.
The 37-year-old was charged with breach on a protection order involving a firearm, and unlawful possession of a firearm in the North Shore District Court this morning.
The armed offenders squad was called to the Pak’n Save supermarket car park in Wairau Rd, North Shore, at 10.20pm yesterday after a security guard was alerted that a man had been seen with a gun.
The AOS surrounded the car park and negotiated with the man before he surrendered and was taken into custody.
Police say the man was in an agitated state and was talking to a female acquaintance who was standing near him throughout the four hours of negotiations.
Westminster, California The arraignment of Catherine Kieu Becker, the Southern California woman accused of cutting off her husband’s penis and throwing it into a garbage disposal, was continued Friday to September 23 at the request of her public defender.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Debra Carrillo also set bail at $1 million for Becker, 48, who had been held without bail since her arrest this month. She is charged with torture and aggravated mayhem.
The judge also rejected her attorney’s request to bar cameras from the courtroom.
20 Jul
Posted by Blake Ernest as Crime Issues
A Des Allemands woman told St. Charles Parish sheriff’s deputies that she was shot Monday night as she attempted to flee from a carjacker at a gas station.
Authorities say the woman told investigators she was exiting the Chevron Station on U.S. 90 in Des Allemands on Monday about 11:30 p.m. when she was approached by a man with a bandanna over part of his face. The man tapped on her window with a gun.
The woman told investigators she immediately accelerated her vehicle, but the man began firing at her.
One shot shattered her window, and another struck the woman in the arm. She drove to a nearby residence for help. The woman was transported to St.
20 Jul
Posted by Zac Croft as Law and Legal Topics
AUSTIN — Many of his favorite themes could have come straight from the Tea Party handbook: limited government, resistance to federal intrusion, contempt for big spending and “Obamacare.”
As Gov. Rick Perry moves closer to a run for the presidency, he packs a message that seems well-attuned to the conservative activists who could influence the selection of the next Republican nominee. Indeed, among Tea Party supporters, Perry topped the field of announced and unannounced Republican candidates in a McClatchy-Marist poll last month. But back home in Texas, Perry has drawn criticism from some Tea Party activists for his stances on immigration, toll roads and other issues. And in Iowa and New Hampshire, which will host key early contests next year, leaders in the Tea Party and related movements effectively say the jury is still out on Perry until they take a closer look at his record. “I don’t think there is really a consensus,” said Adrian Murray, former president of the 912 Project Fort Worth.20 Jul
Posted by Alana Grimley as Crime and Justice
California’s first-ever citizens redistricting commission is bracing for a half-million-dollar court fight over new legislative and congressional districts it hasn’t finished drawing yet.
Days before release of final maps, the commission is arming itself with legal counsel to battle challenges that some communities or ethnic groups have been shortchanged.
The California Republican Party and a former Democratic leader of the state Senate, Don Perata, are among critics laying groundwork for potential challenges to all or some of 80 Assembly, 40 state Senate, 53 congressional and four Board of Equalization districts set for release July 28.