Applause broke out during an Oklahoma man's speech at a city council meeting on Tuesday to discuss a proposed data center. A minute later, shouts of disbelief rang out across the room. "Disgusting!" one woman shouted as Claremore Police Department officers handcuffed and escorted Daniel Blanchard out of the room. Authorities said they arrested Blanchard, whose speech exceeded the three-minute time limit, for trespassing.
He wanted something in return for returning files to the Dutch police. What he got in return was an arrest. A press release from Dutch police sums it up: On Thursday evening around 7:00 PM, police arrested a 40-year-old man from Ridderkerk on Prinses Beatrixstraat in Ridderkerk for computer hacking. Due to a police error, the man had inadvertently gained access to confidential police documents.
Despite being wanted by Italian authorities, he returned to the country with the intention of watching his national hockey team at the Winter Olympics, Italian media reported, citing the Carabinieri. Police said the Slovak national had an arrest warrant issued 16 years earlier for a series of thefts. They managed to track him down and swooped on him after he checked into a guest house situated in the outskirts of Milan.
James Morgan, husband of NYPD Blue alum Kim Delaney, was reportedly arrested Sunday night after no fewer than four 911 callers reported a family disturbance at their Los Angeles-area apartment complex. Deputies raced to Marina Del Rey, where the couple lives, and arrested Morgan for obstructing or delaying a public officer, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told TMZ. He was being held pending a Tuesday court appearance, TMZ reported.
A man was fatally stabbed early Friday in San Francisco's Mission District, the police said. The attack happened around 12:11 a.m. Feb. 6 in the 1900 block of Mission Street, between 15th and 16th streets. The victim was declared dead at a hospital. Shortly afterward, a suspect was arrested: a 47-year-old San Francisco man apprehended near 15th and Mission streets. He was found to be carrying a knife, the police said. The suspect faces charges of murder and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said two women forced their way inside a fourth-floor unit and followed two women to a stairwell on the south side of the building. The victims took an elevator back to the fourth floor and were walking back to the apartment when one of the suspects pointed a handgun at the head of one of the victims, according to police.
Police have announced the arrest of two men in their 40s in connection with the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy this past weekend, which marked the city's first homicide of the year. The shooting was reported at 4:48 p.m. in the 1500 block of Winchester Boulevard, near the Cadillac-Winchester neighborhood, for a report of shooting in a parking lot, according to the San Jose Police Department.
Officers found the girl dead with several injuries near the Antioch Fairgrounds on Jan. 23. Authorities identified her as Jeana Flores, of Antioch. She was on the roadway in the area of L Street between W. 10th and W. 18th streets. Police initially treated her death as a suspicious one. Autopsy results revealed that Flores had been hit by a vehicle and the police department's traffic unit took over the investigation.