Cops: Man Takes Squad Car, Crashes, Sleeps
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ATHENS, Tenn. - An armed robbery suspect used the arrest of his partner as a diversion to steal a new patrol car, crash into a ditch, break into a woman's home and then fall asleep on her couch, authorities said.
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PHOENIX - Police on Sunday were still trying to determine who was driving a stolen truck loaded with illegal immigrants that smashed into other vehicles and rolled over, killing six people and injuring 15, some critically.    Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials questioned a man they had believed was the driver, but he turned out to be a passenger, said Arizona Department of Public Safety Sgt...
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In the last four years, Highway Patrol trooper Craig Beedy has taken part in two traffic stops that netted about $200,000 in seized cash. The agency wasn't allowed to keep any of it.
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Crime. Crime its in the streets.  My name is Detective Frank Franklin and I'm that thin blue line that separates decent law abiding citizens against criminals who commit crime. This is my story. I was driving my police car home after a long weekend of police work. I pulled up to my little one story bungalow type house. It wasn't much but it's all a guy like me can afford on a cop salary. I looked forward to a nice long evening of watching baseball on the television and drinking a beer, etc.
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Police were investigating the death of a man who was struck by officers during his arrest and then collapsed in a holding cell. A family attorney accused the officers of "excessive use of force."
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A drunken driver was arrested Friday morning after he stole his own car - from the police - and ran it into a ditch, officials said.    The 53-year-old man had been pulled over for "swerving all over the road," said Bjoern Ohlin, shift commander at the Flemingsberg police station, on the outskirts of Stockholm...
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A man who drove his speeding car into a police cruiser, killing an RCMP officer, was sent to jail Friday.
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A man the police described as bent on suicide abandoned an S.U.V. on a track in Glendale, Calif., causing a violent wreck.
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Illinois State Police asked a prosecutor to charge one of its troopers with reckless homicide in a crash that killed two teenage sisters after he lost control of his cruiser at 126 mph.
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A routine police patrol finds one man dead and two other injured after a car crashes into a wall.
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A suspected drunk driver was arrested early Friday after crashing into a parked car, clipping two other vehicles and striking "The Young and the Restless" actor Allen Maldonado and three other pedestrians, police said.
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NEW YORK - It was a brush with death that still has Lance Aaron shuddering. The 60-year-old Brooklyn man was driving home when a 40-foot-long container flew off a flatbed truck and fell on top of his moving car, crushing it. He survived with just minor injuries.
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BELFAST -- On an icy, black Sunday night, police officers brought terrible news to the rural idyll of Kevin McMullan's home: A relative had just been killed in a car crash, they said. It was a lie, and it launched one of the world's biggest bank robberies.
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PHOENIX - A stolen truck filled with suspected illegal immigrants sped away from deputies and rolled over at a busy intersection near an Army post Saturday, causing an 11-car crash that killed six people and seriously injured 15, sheriff's officials said.    Passengers were thrown from the truck as it struck a center median and began to spiral, hitting vehicles waiting at a turn lane, Deputy Chief Randy Redmond of the Sierra Vista Fire Department said...
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. - It's not an old saying, but it probably should be: Leave a truck idling outside a jail and somebody is going to hop in and drive it into a tree. That's just what happened to Jon Courtney on Jan. 10.  Courtney, 27, had driven his 2001 GMC Sonoma to the St.
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WASILLA, Alaska - A suspect in the theft of handguns from a Wasilla home didn't get far, according to Alaska State Troopers. He was found asleep in a vehicle parked in the home's garage, wearing a sweat shirt belonging to the woman who lives in the home.
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The Acura Legend rested against a telephone pole in a Baltimore alley, its headlights dim, four bullet holes in its door. Inside, police reported, a man was slumped over the center console, bleeding heavily from his nose and mouth.