All news on the topic: Crime

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Mayor reels in 70 pounds of cocaine during family fishing trip
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor and her family were out on a fishing trip when they discovered the package containing 70 pounds of cocaine, worth over one million dollars
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Shoppers locked inside stores after TikTok 'looting' crowds swarm Oxford Street
Nine people have been arrested after chaos descended on Oxford Street in London. Teenagers scuffled with police and shops pulled shutters down with customers still inside after TikTok videos provoked looting
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Mothers of Claudia Lawrence and Helen McCourt issue plea for missing daughters
Joan Lawrence and Marie McCourt, whose daughters have never been found, have formed a strong bond through their shared experience and recently marked their 80th birthdays
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Hunt to find man who snatches dummies from babies and assaulted one young victim
Essex Police have released CCTV of a man they want to track down after a six month spate of dummies being stolen from babies which has also involved one infant being assaulted
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Mendy selling £5m house and seeking up to £10m in back pay from Man City
The High Court has heard that the French defender, who has signed for Lorient since being found not guilty of sex offences, owes the tax man almost £800,000
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Alabama boat fight arrest: Richard Roberts mugshot released by Montgomery Police
Police in Alabama released the mugshot of Richard Roberts, charged with assault after a viral brawl river boat brawl in Montgomery - two men named as Alan Todd and Zachary Shipman were also arrested
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'Panicked' nan, 72, locked up for 6 hours after 'burly' cops show up at her home
Mary Lou Nicholls, who uses a walking stick and has osteoporosis, was in tears after being accused of stealing a watch and perfume belonging to an 86-year-old man
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Nurse and child kidnapped in Haiti have been freed after $1m ransom ordeal
Alix Dorsainvil and her young child, who were kidnapped in Haiti have been safely released, according to El Roi Haiti, the organisation she worked for as a nurse and community worker
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'Devil's Daughter' who killed woman at 12 won't be freed as she's still violent
Sharon Carr, who was 12 when she fatally stabbed a stranger and then boasted about it in jail, has still been deemed a danger to the public more than 30 years after the killing
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Woman in deadly meal investigation ‘told police she bought mushrooms at shops’
Erin Patterson, 48, whose ex-husband's parents mysteriously died along with one other person shortly after having lunch at her home, has claimed she bought the mushrooms at a local shop
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Mum to sue cops who took decades to catch killer that stabbed daughter 37 times
Schoolgirl Nikki Allan was lured to a derelict building in Sunderland by David Boyd and left dead in the basement. A botched police investigation meant Boyd wasn't convicted for more than 30 years
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Thug insists he's unfit to do paid work - but goes to the gym five times a week
Dene Davies was given unpaid work for assaulting an emergency worker last year, but had not completed any of the hours as he told the court he had a medical reason not to do it
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Paedo ex-deputy head at Prince George and Princess Charlotte’s school jailed
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Matthew Smith was deputy headteacher at the prestigious Thomas's Preparatory School, in south London, until allegations emerged about a string of horrific sex crimes he committed whilst abroad
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TikTok riot warning as Brits urged to avoid Oxford Street amid fears of violence
Fears of possible riots are growing after police were issued with a dispersal order as London Mayor Sadiq Khan advised people not to go to Oxford Street because of "nonsense" on TikTok
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Police name three white men they say sparked appalling mass riverboat brawl
Montgomery Police Chief Darryl Albert confirmed 13 people were detained at the scene in Alabama and three suspects, all white men, have been charged with assault, including Richard Roberts, 48, Alan Todd, 23, and Zachary Shipman, 25, after the riverboat brawl
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George Floyd cop 'preaches' as he's jailed three years after dad's brutal death
Tou Thao was found guilty of aiding and abetting the manslaughter of George Floyd in 2020 and is the last former Minneapolis police officer to be convicted for his role in the 2020 killing
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Man dives into water 'to escape ass whoopin' in new Alabama boat fight video
Another video that has emerged shows a man diving into the waters to escape the brutal beating up during the massive brawl that broke out at Montgomery, Alabama's Riverfront Park
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Massive stings save 70 kids across globe, arrest 160 suspects in paedo sex rings
The FBI's Operation Cross Country rescued 200 sex trafficking victims and located 59 missing children during a nationwide crackdown on human trafficking and child exploitation
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'Over 500 homes will have break ins today, but just 20 burglars will face court'
Writing in the Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper vows that Labour will end the Conservative chaos that is allowing criminals to get off as victims are let down
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Thug who murdered Elle Edwards at Christmas grins in prison weeks into life term
Connor Chapman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 48 years last month for the murder of Elle Edwards, 26 - who he shot dead outside the Lighthouse pub in Merseyside on Christmas Eve
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Voters to be asked if it's worth locking up criminals in Tory plan
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has commissioned polling that critics warned could lay the ground for the early release of prisoners as jails struggle with overcrowding
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Colombian drug lord sentenced after 'reign of terror' for over ten years
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, known as Otoniel, was the boss of Colombia’s notorious Gulf Clan group which he ran in a 'reign of terror' for over ten years before law enforcement brought him down. He was sentenced Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in January to a number of charges
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Police explain cause of mass brawl seen in viral video - as 3 suspects are named
Three arrests have been made after a massive viral brawl erupted in which a riverboat co-captain was attacked at the Montgomery Riverfront in Alabama over the weekend
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Mass brawl witness describes moment she knew 'all hell was gonna break loose'
A woman who saw the massive boat brawl unfold before her eyes said she felt 'all hell was gonna break loose' once the larger boat involved reached the dock at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama
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Car ends up ploughed in roof after driver somehow crashes into second floor
20-year-old Evan Miller reportedly drove at high speed and veered off the road at an elevation, before crashing into a home in Decatur Township of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania