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Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - NJ man arrested in NY police cannibalism case

Friday, Jan 04, 2013 09:00 PM PST
Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News:

NJ man arrested in NY police cannibalism case 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 09:00 PM PST
NEW YORK (AP) â€" A lawyer claims that the arrest of a man accused of trying to pay a police officer to kidnap a Manhattan woman was done to prevent him from testifying about Internet sexual fantasies at the officer's cannibalism-tinged trial.
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Woman arrested in decade-old LA child porn case 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 06:33 PM PST
This image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows Letha Mae Montemayor, who was arrested on suspicion of child pornography charges, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 in Los Angeles. Montemayor, 52, and an unidentified man were arrested a day after ICE officials announced they were looking for a man and woman who appeared to be molesting a 13-year-old girl in widely circulated porn photos. (AP Photo/ICE)LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" A woman suspected of making and appearing in child porn photos a decade ago that have circulated widely in the years since was arrested hours after authorities released images of her taken from those shots, federal officials announced Friday.
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American Eagle pilot arrested at Minn. airport 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 04:14 PM PST
An American Eagle pilot was suspended after failing a blood-alcohol test as he prepared to fly on Friday from Minneapolis to New York City, authorities said.Police at Minneapolis-St. Paul International ...
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Former Louisiana governor and convict Edwin Edwards gets reality show 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 02:47 PM PST
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Edwin Edwards, the Democratic four-term governor of Louisiana imprisoned for racketeering and fraud will appear in an A&E reality show featuring the spouse 50 years his junior he married in 2011, the network said on Friday. The show "The Governor's Wife" will debut on A&E on February 27, said the network, which described the couple as redefining "a 'new normal' in the new South." Edwards said in previous media reports that he was going to star in his own reality show, but the announcement on Friday made it official. ...
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American Eagle pilot fails alcohol test, is removed from plane, arrested at Minn. airport 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 02:37 PM PST
MINNEAPOLIS - An American Eagle pilot was suspended after failing a blood-alcohol test as he prepared to fly on Friday to New York City from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, authorities said.
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DA to seek death penalty in Tulsa shootings 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 01:54 PM PST
TULSA, Okla. (AP) â€" Prosecutors said Friday they would seek the death penalty against two Tulsa men charged in an April 2012 shooting rampage that killed three black people and left two others wounded.
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Iowa ex-convict accused of kidnap attempt 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 01:31 PM PST
EARLY, Iowa (AP) â€" Authorities on Friday were investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a western Iowa farmhouse during the search for a man suspected of kidnapping another woman days after he got out of prison.
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More closing arguments in Philly mob case 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 12:47 PM PST
PHILADELPHIA (AP) â€" A 13-year FBI probe and subsequent racketeering indictment against seven reputed Philadelphia mobsters was built on unreliable testimony and weak evidence about trivial crimes because investigators came up empty-handed, defense attorneys said Friday.
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Drunk Pilot Nearly Re-Enacted the Movie 'Flight' Before He Was Arrested 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 12:10 PM PST
Drunk Pilot Nearly Re-Enacted the Movie 'Flight' Before He Was ArrestedIn the new Oscar contender Flight, Denzel Washington plays a pilot who, after a night of hard drinking and a morning breakfast of cocaine and flight attendants, mixes himself an onboard screwdriver or three after flying through some turbulence â€" then inverts the entire fuselage in order to avoid a horrific plane crash. That's not what happened today in Minneapolis, but an Associated Press story today is certainly reminiscent of the film: a 48-year-old American Eagle pilot named Kolbjorn Jarle Kristiansen was arrested during pre-flight procedures at Minneapolis-St. ...
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Pilot fails alcohol breath test at Minneapolis airport, arrested 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 10:55 AM PST
Kolbjorn Jarle Kristiansen, a pilot for American Eagle, is seen in this police booking photo in Minneapolis-St PaulMINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - An American Eagle pilot preparing for a flight to New York on Friday morning was arrested on board an aircraft at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol, an airport spokesman said. "The pilot was in the process of doing the pre-flight check and a witness had smelled alcohol on the pilot's breath," airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said. Hogan said airport police arrested the pilot at 6:19 a.m.. ...
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Mississippi man pleads guilty to hate crimes following attacks 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 06:09 AM PST
JACKSON, Miss (Reuters) - A Mississippi man pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate crime charges in connection with attacks on African-Americans that ended with a black man dead after being run over by a truck, federal officials said. Joseph Dominick, 21, was the sixth person to plead guilty to hate crimes charges for being part of a group of white males who routinely assaulted blacks in the Jackson area starting in the spring of 2011, attacking victims with motor vehicles, beer bottles and sling shots. ...
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In case involving Gallup, man to plead guilty 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 05:58 AM PST
A former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee intends to plead guilty in a criminal case alleging that he helped secure federal funds for The Gallup Organization while he was negotiating to go ...
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2 Romanian journalists sentenced for blackmail 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 04:24 AM PST
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) â€" A Romanian court has given two journalists suspended prison sentences after they were convicted of trying to blackmail politicians and businessmen over a three-year period.
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Idaho Senator Pleads Guilty to DWI Charge in Va 
Friday, Jan 04, 2013 01:22 AM PST
Idaho Sen. Michael Crapo pleads guilty to misdemeanor drunken driving charge in Virginia
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