Fear of repeat offenses keeps bail higher for drug charges
by Brian Anderson
banderson@annistonstar.com Anniston Star
Mar 23, 2012
Bail bond agent Jason Chandler says 34 of the 41 people he has bonded out of jail in the last three weeks have been accused of drug offenses. Jason Chandler said in his line of work, it doesn’t pay to be judgmental.
As a bail bond agent with A Bad Boy Bonds on 11th Street in Anniston,…
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Prosecutors have charged nine people in connection with an alleged gang rape in St. Paul last November.
A criminal complaint issued Friday says the defendants, five adults and four juveniles, are reported members of the "True Blood 22" street gang.
"They are a documented criminal street gang that operates in the Twin Cities," said Ramsey County Attorney John Choi. "The facts outlined in this complaint are horrible."
Prosecutors say the 14-year-old…
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BY FRAN SPIELMAN AND FRANK MAIN Staff Reporters March 23, 2012 2:42PM
Pounding the podium with emotion, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Friday he’s outraged by the bloodbath of violence that claimed the life of a 6-year-old playing on her porch in front of her parents and nearly killed a Chicago Police officer.
“What happened is unacceptable. Our streets are for our children…
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By Nelson Renteria
SAN SALVADOR | Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:12am EDT
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Rival gangs operating in El Salvador have called a truce as the Central American country confronts a plague of…
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March 15, 2012
Peggy King Cordele Dispatch…
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As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a…
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Private Prison Company to Demand 90% Occupancy
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The nation’s largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state…
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An Internet meme with potentially risky consequences is sweeping the Web. The question is, can the brutal 'cinnamon challenge' be potentially fatal as well?
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By Ryan Schill
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Monday, March 05, 2012 07:50
When Kids Commit Crimes
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In the age of texting, e-mail, Facebook and other forms of communication that teens have available, it can be hard for parents to keep up with all those cryptic abbreviations. But your child's life might depend on you deciphering them. Would you know what "robotripping on DXM" would mean? Or why April 20 is significant to kids who use drugs? Many of today's parents were raised in the era of Just Say No, and while schools still teach that concept,…
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Health officials in Casper, Wyo., are investigating an outbreak of kidney failure linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana known as “spice.”
Three people were hospitalized Friday and two more were treated and released from a hospital in the eastern Wyoming city of 55,000 residents.
The patients, all in their teens and early 20s, reported vomiting, back pain and stomach pain. Officials are investigating reports of…
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As former Los Angeles drug kingpin
"Freeway" Rick Ross awaits the
trial in his publicity rights case against rapper
Rick Ross, he spoke with The BoomBox about
his upcoming…
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Former Los Angeles drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross continues to seek justice in his case against rapper Rick Ross, whom he claims is unlawfully profiting from his name and reputation.
After the lawsuit was…
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2-month 'Operation Street Sweeper' a success for LCSO
LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott entered 2012 with the resolve to send a clear message to Lee County felons: "Stop plying your illegal trade on our highways and streets."
In an aggressive, two-month, multi-level approach, detectives with the Sheriff’s Office Narcotics, P.I.L.S. (Pharmaceutical Investigations Law Enforcement Strategy), Vice, Highway Interdiction and…
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Former gang members work to prevent repeat of violence…
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Corrections Officials Ill-Prepared to Run Geriatric Facilities
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The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement
A few weeks ago, on the fifteenth anniversary of his first day in prison, Osiel Rodriguez set about cleaning the 87 square feet he inhabits at ADX, a federal mass isolation facility in Colorado.
“I got it in my head to destroy all my photographs,” he writes in a letter to me. “I spent some five hours ripping each one to pieces. No one was safe. I did not save one of my mother, father, sisters. Who…
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