Police thwart 'Cannonball Run'
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Spanish police temporarily seized luxury and sports cars driven by people they suspected of participating in an illegal road rally named after a 1981 film starring Burt Reynolds, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW - Police stopped a man driving a car wired with land mines and explosives in downtown Moscow early Saturday, Russian security officials said.    The man, detained by Moscow police around 1 a.m., told police he had been paid $1,000 to park two cars with explosives in them along a Moscow street frequently used by top government officials, said the duty officer at the Federal Security Service...
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Controlled explosions are carried out on a car after a police officer is injured in a road collision in County Down.
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"Officers of the state security department and the Defence Ministry's special unit carried out an anti-terrorist operation which was aimed at preventing the purchase of illegal arms and explosives"  Two Irish citizens have been arrested in Lithuania on suspicion of trying to buy a large amount of firearms and explosives. via Eircom.net News
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The legal morass that has ensnared Maurice Clarett since he was Ohio State's star running back mounted Wednesday when police found four loaded guns in his sport utility vehicle and couldn't subdue him with a stun gun because he was wearing a bullet-proof vest.
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A trainer and a jockey are among three men arrested in connection with a police inquiry into race fixing.
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Description: Police will attempt to keep the fans orderly in Boston if the Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918, but without using the same type of pepper-pellet guns that killed a student and allegedly injured two other fans seriously last week
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An Australian movie fan on his way to pose for a Star Wars 30th anniversary photo shoot was arrested by police after his replica laser pistol was mistaken for a more earthly machine gun, media reported on Friday.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A pair of Dutch burglars' bad luck shifted into high gear when they were caught fleeing the scene of an attempted break-in on bicycles belonging to the very policeman who arrested them.    Police in a suburb of the eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen said the hapless burglars were trying to break into a house Sunday when neighbors alerted the police...
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Former NBA player Lonny Baxter was arrested by uniformed Secret Service agents on Wednesday after shots were fired from a vehicle about two blocks from the White House.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 29, 2004 - The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 8--Was it a prank? The photo of three young men posed with guns "gangsta-style" that law enforcers included in a warrant to investigate a robbery.
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Some police officers are taking unnecessary risks in high speed chases, a watchdog has warned.
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Minor fan fights and brief standoffs with police led to 50 arrests overnight, authorities said Saturday as they worked to limit street violence ahead of the England-Portugal World Cup game.
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Two men are held after shots are fired at a police officer conducting a surveillance operation.
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Police cordoned off a London tourist hotspot Friday after making safe what they called a &quot;potentially viable explosive device&quot;.
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Police in Manchester say they are aware of attempts to organise trouble at the England-Wales World Cup qualifier on Saturday.