Crime
Jail Crunch: A visualization of crime in Eastern Europe
OCCRP reporters filed freedom of information requests to prison authorities across Eastern Europe. The interactive visualization is a compilation of the data received from each prison authority, organized to demonstrate similarities and differences between prison demographics and crime categories across the region. OCCRP journalists conducted dozens of interviews with convicted criminals throughout Eastern Europe. The…
Read MorePublic housing complexes source of drugs, crime in Wilmington, N.C.
Last year, the numbers show, 60 percent of the murders, rapes, robberies, larcenies, auto thefts, burglaries and assaults happened in the districts that contain public housing. A high concentration of drug arrests and drug seizures occurred in those areas as well.
Read MoreWith online solicitation cases, Attorney General Greg Abbott has a preference for Williamson County
Attorney General Greg Abbott has made his office’s prosecution of online child predators a centerpiece of his decade-long tenure as the state’s top lawyer, as well as a promotional sound bite in his run for governor this year. But a detailed review of Abbott’s record in pursuing online solicitation cases — those in which adults…
Read MoreNavy base killer given security access despite crimes
The Virginian-Pilot reports that investigators are trying to figure out how Jeffrey Tyrone Savage, a 35-year-old truck driver with a violent criminal record, accessed the Navy’s largest base. Savage Monday night climbed aboard the guided missile destroyer Mahan, disarmed a guard and used the weapon to kill a sailor who tried to intervene. According to…
Read MoreRestraining orders foreshadow domestic violence deaths in Rhode Island
Restraining-order applications, as well as no-contact orders based on criminal complaints, have foreshadowed the violent deaths of at least 11 Rhode Islanders since 2000 — including the stabbing deaths of two abusive men slain by fearful women in self-defense. During this period, such orders, and the allegations of abuse that accompany them, preceded at least…
Read MoreChinese green energy firm has possible links to Italian criminals, Sicilian Mafia
The story of Suntech’s fall links China to Italy, Germany, London and Wall Street, passing through some of the world’s leading tax havens and ending up — Dolce Vita fashion — in some of the most luxurious spots in Rome. It’s a tale about the nexus of offshore financial secrecy and Italy’s onshore culture of…
Read MoreJared Remy took advantage of court system
Jared Remy had glided through his first five criminal cases, but prosecutors thought the sixth one would be different. Compared to what he had been charged with in the past — beating and choking his ex-girlfriend while she held their baby, cracking a friend over the head with a beer bottle in a jealous fit,…
Read MoreMichelle Byrom could become first woman executed in Mississippi since 1944
Unless courts or the governor intervene, the state of Mississippi will execute a woman whose son repeatedly confessed to the killing she is slated to die for — evidence the jury never heard.
Read MoreFugitives Next Door: Police won’t chase 186,000 felony suspects
Across the United States, police and prosecutors are allowing tens of thousands of wanted felons — including more than 3,300 people accused of sexual assaults, robberies and homicides — to escape justice merely by crossing a state border, a USA TODAY investigation found. Those decisions, almost always made in secret, permit fugitives to go free…
Read MoreState Attorney Angela Corey has put 21 on death row since 2009
Since taking office in 2009, State Attorney Angela Corey has had the chance to speak to a lot of people trying to get their loved ones’ killers sentenced to death. She has put more people on Death Row than any other prosecutor in Florida. Corey’s office has sent 21 people to Death Row, and 18…
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