Posing as girl, retired cop nabs prey
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No one will ever confuse Jim Murray with a teenager. His tall frame, broad shoulders and clipped gray hair give him away for the grandfather he is. But the 69-year-old retired police chief of this small Missouri town cuts a credible figure as a 13-year-old girl surfing the Web, looking for friends. He knows all the instant-messaging shorthand, the emoticons.
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Police in Cumbria are anxious to trace a 14-year-old girl believed to be with a 44-year-old man.
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Blog: Miss New Jersey was blackmailed over "racy" Facebook photos, but in North Carolina a Facebook profile containing a photo of a teenager posing with guns was linked to a fatal police shooting.
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A prisoner in New York sought to assassinate police Commissioner Ray Kelly, offering an undercover officer posing as a hit man $65,000 (33,700 pounds) to decapitate Kelly and blow up police headquarters, police said on Monday.
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The slaying of five prostitutes cast a shadow over this provincial English town on Wednesday, as police hunted for a suspected serial killer and the town's women feared they could be next.Comment
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TAYLOR, Tex. -- The day Mustafa Elmi turned 3 years old he had to report to his cell three times for headcount. To be able to get one hour of recreation inside a concrete compound sealed off by metal gates and razor wire he had to pin his picture ID to his uniform.
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Thematically, it is a very interesting conflict: a gangster villain who works in a scrupulously ethical manner, contrasted opposite a staunchly idealistic cop who just happens to be a womaniser with a failed-marriage behind him.
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Here's a tip for the guy who beat up a 101-year-old woman in a walker and took off with her purse: Get out of New York. The vicious mugging, caught on surveillance tape, has sparked outrage in a city where people are accustomed to hearing about strange and violent crimes. Police have launched an all-out manhunt, but it's not just the cops who want the villain's head.
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CHICAGO - A 79-year-old South Side woman bearing a toy gun and a visor that read &quot;Princess&quot; has been charged with trying to rob a downtown bank. Melvena Cooke was charged Wednesday with attempted bank robbery.
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A 17-year-old was arraigned Friday after authorities received a tip from a Washington State University police officer that he was making threats in an online
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By Jim Camden, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 17--Spokane's oldest COPS shop got a face-lift Saturday, turning the well-used structure on Boone and Elm from nondescript gray to white and hunter green.
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Interviews and documents sketch a picture of Fritz Gelowicz, the 28-year-old German charged in this weekâs terrorist plot, as a troubled young man.
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PITTSBURGH - A woman portraying a police officer as a TV extra took her part one step too far by entering a courtroom where her son faced a weapons charge, police said.  Kimberly Chapman was working as an extra Monday on the Spike TV series "The Kill Point," starring John Leguizamo.
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Officials have found an 11th victim of a rapist on the Fort Apache Reservation who poses as a police officer before he attacks girls and young women.
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Armed police went into action in the German city of Wuppertal after a woman reported seeing a masked criminal -- but having rushed to the scene, they were surprised to find not a crook, but a large stuffed toy.
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NEW YORK - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
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By DAN SCANLAN  A New Hampshire police detective posed as a 14-year-old boy in an Internet chat room on Myspace.com and "talked" with a person who called himself "Jim." It resulted in the arrest of a 51-year-old Southside man Aug.