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Crooked NYPD Detective Gets 15 Years Behind Bars

10 hours 22 minutes ago |AOL News

(June 11) -- A U.S. district judge in Brooklyn has sentenced a veteran New York Police Department detective to more than a decade behind bars for helping to protect a drug lord and his expansive coke ...

Thousands Arrested in Massive Federal Drug Sweep

10 hours 30 minutes ago |Politics Daily

Tim Korte, AP

(June 11) - More than 2,200 people were arrested, a top Mexican cartel leader was captured, 75 tons of narcotics were seized, and $154 million in cash was confiscated in what's being called the large ...

Peru Jails van der Sloot on Murder Charge

16 hours 44 minutes ago |AOL News

(June 11) -- A Peruvian judge ordered Joran van der Sloot jailed today on charges of first-degree murder and robbery in the death of a 21-year-old Lima woman. The judge determined that the suspect in ...

Former 'Most Wanted' Fugitive to Plead Guilty to Old Murders

20 hours 36 minutes ago |AP

Scott Bauer, AP

AKRON, Ohio (June 11) -- A 33-year criminal odyssey is was headed toward an end with the killer of a teenage couple in Wisconsin poised to plead guilty to killing two young people in Ohio in 1977. Re ...

FBI Launches Probe Into iPad Security Breach

22 hours 2 minutes ago |DailyFinance

Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP

(June 11) -- Federal authorities are investigating an AT&T security breach which resulted in the leak of 114,000 email addresses belonging Apple iPad owners this week. The breach came to light af ...

Police: Van der Sloot Discussed Holloway's Body

22 hours 35 minutes ago |AOL News

(June 11) -- Peruvian police say Joran van der Sloot has told them he knows where Natalee Holloway's body is, but that he'll describe the location in detail only to Aruban officials. Van der Sloot h ...

Outraged Lawmakers Move to Block 'Murderabilia' Sales

1 day 13 hours ago |AOL News

Courtesy of Eric Gein, serialkillersink.net

(June 10) -- The "murderabilia" debate is heating up again with the introduction of bipartisan legislation that would quash the sale of items owned by convicted murderers, serial killers and other cr ...

Police: Van der Sloot Took Coffee Break by Corpse

1 day 17 hours ago |AOL News

(June 10) -- Joran van der Sloot has reportedly confessed to police in Peru that he enjoyed a cocktail of coffee and drugs in the minutes following a young Peruvian woman's slaying. Police say the 2 ...

Accused Text-Rage Accomplice Apologizes to Victim

1 day 17 hours ago |AOL News

Amy Beth Bennett, Sun Sentinel / MCT

(June 10) -- Kayla Manson, the 13-year-old Florida girl accused of acting as an accomplice in the brutal beating of 15-year-old Josie Ratley, apologized to her former best friend, saying she never th ...

Cops: Man Had 7 Kids With Imprisoned Daughter

1 day 19 hours ago |AOL News

(June 10) -- Police in Brazil say they've arrested a man who allegedly kept his daughter imprisoned in a thatch hut for 12 years and fathered seven children with her in a remote jungle village access ...

All Arizona Charges Against Warren Jeffs Dropped

1 day 20 hours ago |AP

Mohave County Sheriff's Office / AP

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (June 10) -- A Mohave County judge on Wednesday dismissed all Arizona charges against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs after a prosecutor said continuing with the charges would be "imp ...

FBI Brings Terror-Busting Tactics to Wall Street

2 days 10 hours ago |AOL News

Hiroko Masuike, Getty Images

(June 9) -- Convicted swindler Bernie Madoff was no terrorist in the traditional sense, but he did terrorize many clients by robbing them of their finances and psychological security. Hoping to spot ...