AltWeeklies Wire
Activist or Terroristnew
Kulvir Singh Barapind has been accused by the government of India of committing 26 murders during the Sikh insurgency of the 1980s. For the past 11 years he's sat in California jails, fighting extradition. Sikhs worldwide see him as a martyr to their cause.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Najeeb Hasan |
10-28-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Secrets, Lies and 9/11new
The growing 9/11 Truth Movement claims there’s enough hard evidence to suggest that U.S. government officials had a hand in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Could their claims possibly be true?
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Warner |
10-28-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Look Homeward, Big Brothernew
Secret files show the FBI spied on North Carolina's finest writers and politicians over decades.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
10-27-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Gang Member Named Lizard Serves as a Rat for the FBInew
The exploits of Daniel "Lizard" Hernandez, a high-ranking member of Nuestra Familia who became a snitch for the FBI, show how prison policies adopted to control gangs may actually have helped them bloom.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
10-25-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Cleveland Cops Coldcock a Cuckoldnew
It hurt Jeffrey Moore that his wife was cheating on him with a cop. And it hurt when that cop and three cop cronies handed Moore a beating.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
10-22-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Blood on Their Handsnew
Shortly after a doctor at Maricopa Medical Center released Rodney Aviles from the psychiatric ward, he bludgeoned his mother and 7-year-old niece to death. Five years later, his criminal case remains unresolved.
Phoenix New Times |
Paul Rubin |
10-19-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Child's Death Exposes Workings of a Moms-and-Pop Cultnew
After a 19-month-old boy was brought dead to an emergency room, investigators discovered four women in thrall to a self-styled mystic named Winnfred Wright. Wright appears to have used psychological coercion on the women, who bore him 13 children.
SF Weekly |
Lessley Anderson |
10-15-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Flanking Action: High Court's New Term to Settle 'War on Terror' Issuesnew
A case now before the Supreme Court, Doe vs. Tenet, involves a husband-and-wife team of spies who came in from the Soviet cold a while ago, hoping to make good on a CIA promise to finance their golden years here in the United States.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bob Barr |
10-14-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Homegrown Salesmen Grab a Piece of the Heroin Tradenew
Most whites who sell heroin in downtown Denver fall in the category of gutter punk. They are homeless, semi-homeless or formerly homeless American youths in their teens and early twenties. They act as middlemen to support their own habit.
Westword |
David Holthouse |
10-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Immigrant Dealers Feed Americans' Hunger for Heroinnew
Most of the heroin dealers in downtown Denver are young Mexican and Central American men. Many of them are selling heroin to pay off thousands of dollars in debt to smugglers who spirited their families into the country.
Westword |
David Holthouse |
10-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Mexico, cocaine, Afghanistan, methamphetamine, drug, black-tar heroin, Colorado Department of Human Services' Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, drug dealers, Enforcement Administration, HIV infection rates, Honduras, intravenous drug users, Nicaragua or El Salvador, Opium, treatment centers, undercover narcs, crime & justice
Keep It Like a Secretnew
Cops across the state are suing to classify police discipline records and to hold any misconduct hearings behind closed doors, a one-two punch that would effectively pulverize three oversight agencies long loathed by Bay Area cops.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A.C. Thompson |
10-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Appeals Court Justice's Alleged Remark Raises Questions of Fitnessnew
Lawyers for Clara Harris, who was convicted of murder for running over her unfaithful husband, want Justice Sam Nuchia removed from her appeal because of a biased remark he reportedly made.
Houston Press |
George Flynn |
10-12-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Assault-Rifles Ban Was Nearly Worthlessnew
During the entire decade the assault-rifles ban was in effect, anyone -- gun collectors, criminals, terrorists -- could still buy assault rifles legally.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
10-12-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: NRA, National Rifle Association, a terrorism expert, assault weapons, Bureau of Alcohol, Chechens, Dr. Neil Livingstone, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, Gun-control advocates, Jim Pasco, Jim Titlow's Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle, Tobacco and Firearms, crime & justice
Car Country, USAnew
In Southern Arizona, confiscated cars mean big bucks for government agencies and contractors--and watchdogs say the system's being abused.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
10-08-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Complete Fabricationnew
A crucial witness says her testimony in the West Memphis Three murder case wasn't true, but a product of police pressure to get results in the death of three children.
Arkansas Times |
Tim Hackler |
10-08-2004 |
Crime & Justice
