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Cop Arrests Man For Taking His Wife To Emergency Room

Posted: 22nd June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Politics

What was supposed to be a honeymoon and week of vacation has turned into a nightmare for a couple who work at Erlanger Medical Center. Eric Wright was arrested by a Chattanooga Police officer when he rushed his wife Aline to the emergency room at Erlanger with stroke symptoms.

A prison compound on the dusty outskirts of Peru’s capital is home to hundreds of convicts from Peru’s leftist insurgency of the 1980s and 90s. It holds more than 80 foreign inmates, mostly Colombians and Mexicans there for drug-related crimes. And then there is Joran van der Sloot. The 22-year-old Dutch murder suspect in the [...]

SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating what they call an assault of an officer in South Seattle. However, a police officer is seen punching a 17-year-old girl in the face during the incident captured by a video camera on Monday.

Gary Brooks Faulkner, a California construction worker, was detained in Pakistan carrying a sword, a pistol, and night vision goggles. He was hunting for Osama bin Laden near Chitral, Pakistan. Was Faulkner on the right track? Gary Brooks Faulkner, an American citizen who told police he was searching for Osama Bin Laden, has been arrested [...]

The wife of a Southern California police detective, distraught because she had lost custody of her children, tries to hire a hit man from the Vagos motorcycle gang to kill him. Instead, gang members alert police, who disguise themselves as biker thugs and secretly tape a conversation with her, leading to the wife’s arrest and [...]

The US Copyright Group (USCG), which uses a German software to track IP addresses of individuals downloading movies online, aims to get at least $20 million in settlement claims from the defendants. The group was able to identify the owners of the IP addresses through subpoenas issued to Internet service providers such as Comcast, Time [...]

A glitch in AT&T’s Web site has exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad buyers. The data was downloaded by a hacking group known as Goatse Security, which obtained the information after stumbling upon a program on AT&T’s Web site that would send back the iPad user’s e-mail address when given a unique [...]

Boy hanged in Helmand province after being put on trial by militants More than 40 killed and 77 injured after bomb rips through wedding Taliban militants have executed a seven-year-old boy they accused of being a spy, it emerged today. The child was abducted from his home and taken to a neighbouring village where he [...]

Lloyds TSB personal banker Kerry Whittaker took £217,000 from a customer’s account and funnelled £172,000 of it to a blonde woman who had walked into his Bromley branch wearing shorts and a skimpy top, a court heard. Whittaker, 34, admitted finding Hungarian Viktoria Kazi, 26, “hot” and when questioned about the transactions claimed he had [...]

Up to 700 people in a tribal region of north-west Pakistan watched the Taliban publicly execute a man accused of killing two brothers, officials say. Masked militants shot the man, blindfolded and bound, dead at a football ground in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan. Militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas have killed scores of [...]