15 May
Posted by Zac Croft as Law and Legal Topics
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Most people are used to the ubiquitous hotel card keys that are now used instead of regular keys. Did you know, however, that said keys and doors keep track of the times that a door is opened, left ajar, and closed? That fact may hold be the forensic evidence necessary to clear, or convict, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
You are probably aware that he has been arrested in connection with an accused sexual assault against a 32-year-old housekeeper at the Hotel Sofitel. The woman is a widowed immigrant and mother from the west African nation of Guinea.
Peter M. Kr
11 May
Posted by Alana Grimley as Crime and Justice
A business-backed coalition has launched a statewide 60-second radio ad and mail pieces opposing Senate Bill 653, legislation by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg that would give local governments more power to increase taxes.
Here is the text of the radio spot, which is similar to the wording in the mail brochure, and an analysis by Torey Van Oot of The Bee Capitol Bureau:
Female announcer: New county income taxes may be coming your way – that story next after traffic — we have an accident reported at.
Male announcer: Sacramento politicians are at it again. They’re quietly pushing Senate Bill 653, a bill to allow local income taxes on top of federal and state income taxes.
Dunedin, Florida – The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office says Tina Marie Foster, who was going to turn 40 on Friday, took her own life after shooting her 10-year-old daughter, Kassidie McMillin.
Foster may have been distraught over her finances. According to reports from the sheriff’s office, she was arrested back in January and was due in court on May 23 over charges that she embezzled a little more than $27,000 while she worked as an officer manager at Temperature Services Incorporated, which is an air conditioning company.
Glen Tishuk filed the fraud reports and told detectives that illegal electronic bank to credit card transactions took place from December of 2008 until August of 2010. Tishuk a
10 May
Posted by Zac Croft as Law and Legal Topics
Obama Administration “is not giving the American people a complete picture of security on our border with Mexico” and data on crimes and violence along the southern border is “deceiving and underreported.”
The Obama Administration is deceiving Americans by underreporting serious crime along the Mexican border, according to the Texas lawmaker who chairs a congressional Homeland Security committee.
Federal, state and local law enforcement officials who deal firsthand with violent Mexican drug cartels will deliver testimony to prove it at a special committee hearing this week titled “On the Border and in the Line of Fire: U.S. Law Enfor
Polk County, FL – Right now, deputies are on the scene of a shooting in Fort Meade.
According to authorities, several hundred people were gathered in the area of French Avenue between 6th and 7th Street at the ballfields around 8:30 p.m. A fight broke out and witnesses tell authorities that shots were fired. When Deputies arrived on-scene, they found one adult male victim who had been shot.
He was transported to Bartow Regional Medical Center in critical condition.
The investigations as deputies are still on-scene interviewing witnesses.