By Denise Lavoie Associated Press BOSTON — A lawyer for President Barack Obama’s uncle, an illegal immigrant from Kenya who is charged with drunken driving, said Wednesday that he will ask prosecutors to turn over the driving record of the police officer who stopped him. Onyango Obama, 67, the half…
German police GPS hacked after Trojan backfires
Last July’s shutdown of a GPS vehicle tracking system used by German police to monitor suspects has apparently been traced back to an officer’s incompetent attempt to monitor his daughter’s Internet use with a spy Trojan. As reported by German magazine Der Spiegel, the policeman from Frankfurt am Main planted…
Mumbai Police claim to have ‘broken’ underworld’s back-bone
A top Mumbai Police official Tuesday claimed that the force had ‘broken the backbone’ of the Mumbai underworld with a multi-pronged strategy. View full post on cyber extortion – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Police arrest ATM skimmer after $1.5 million stolen
US authorities have arrested a man accused of being a lynchpin in a major ATM skimming fraud that stole at least $1.5 million (£970,000) from 40 HSBC cash machines in and around New York. The US Attorney’s Office published charges against Romanian national Laurentiu Bulat who it alleges acted during…
Police ID Suspect In Credit Card Fraud Case
Police have identified a man they say has used stolen credit cards at multiple locations in Idaho Falls. View full post on credit card fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Police show video of NC teen strangling herself in squad car
By PoliceOne Staff CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Minutes after 18-year-old Tanisha Williams wrapped a seatbelt around her own neck in the back of a Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) PD squad car, officers who were completing paperwork outside the vehicle discovered her unconscious and cut the belt from around her neck. For their efforts,…
Ill. mayor suspends embattled police chief
St. Joseph News-Press The mayor of North Chicago announced Tuesday he has placed on paid administrative leave Chief of Police Michael Newsome, and hired a retired police officer to lead an investigation into six cases of alleged excessive use of force by police over the past 18 months. "I do…
Computers, jewelry, games taken in apartment break-ins: Berea Police Blotter
Three apartments were burglarized. View full post on computer theft – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP POLICE REPORT: Break-in reported, packages stolen, kids with BB guns and credit card fraud
The following information is provided by the Newtown Township Police Department: View full post on credit report fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Police Limit Comic: January 1, 2012
Author: Garey McKee Police Limit Comic is published on PoliceOne every Sunday. For more than a decade, the strip’s cast of unnamed characters has been constantly struggling with stresses, not only from the criminal element on the street, but also from the upper echelons of the police department’s top brass,…