Village People 'cop' avoids jail
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Victor Willis, a member of The Village People, is given three years probation for drugs offences.
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Three men who admitted violating South Africaâs anti-mercenary laws for their role in an failed coup in Equatorial Guinea were ordered to pay fines or go to prison today.
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Many of them were opposed to a plea deal under which one of the owners of the club would not go to jail.
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RAIPUR, India  - At least 300 prisoners, including dozens of Maoist insurgents, escaped from a central Indian jail after overpowering guards on Sunday, police said.
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A pair of British rickshaw riders turned unlikely crime fighting duo earlier this week, helping police race through the streets of a central England town to apprehend a suspect on the other side of town
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Victor Willis, the original policeman in the '70s disco band The Village People, plans to enter a treatment program following his no contest plea to drug possession charges, his publicist said.
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On-the-spot fines mean some persistent offenders are avoiding getting a criminal record, police say.
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A man convicted of leading an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea has been sentenced to 34 years in jail. South African Nick du Toit escaped the death penalty.
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A former cast member of the BBC's Casualty avoids a jail term after being found guilty of not reporting an accident.
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By Patrick Malone, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--A Pueblo bail bondsman was sentenced to probation for trying to make it look like a sheriff's deputy had accepted a bribe.   Homer Lamar Blackwell Jr., 61, of Blackwell's Bail Bonds, pleaded guilty Jan.
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A Philippine court threw out rebellion charges against a former vice-president, two clergymen and 15 other people on Thursday, saying police failed to establish their role in a botched coup attempt two weeks ago.
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A retired police colonel who went into hiding to avoid a 10-year prison sentence in a human rights case dating from the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been arrested, police reported.
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Nearly 300 communist prisoners escape in an armed jailbreak in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police say.
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More than a thousand villagers in southwest China carried the body of a student to a police station and fought with officers they claimed had protected a man accused in the death, a human rights group said Monday.
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A conspiracy to import heroin was broken when a village bobby was told of suspicious activity, a court hears.
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A former state senator who was released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme was ordered back to jail Friday by a city commission.
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Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders. As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.