crimes
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UK Woman Fined For Decorating Her Electronic Security Bracelet
When Rebecca Gallanagh was fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet after being arrested, she thought it was boring — so she decorated it using fake diamonds. Sadly, that didn’t play very well with the authorities.
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Giz Explains: The Pocket Lab Cops Carry To Test Street Drugs
The cops pull over a car doing 80 in a school zone. The driver is behaving erratically, so they pull him out of the car for a search and bingo: a small bag of white dust in the perp’s pocket. But what is it — bicarb soda, cocaine, arsenic? To find out, they rely on…
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This DNA Gun Will Tag Felons For Weeks
This startlingly orange gun isn’t something from a sci-fi film set. Instead, it’s a new firearm by UK-based Selectamark that fires non-lethal pellets and marks its targets with DNA for later identification.
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First Prison-Issued Polygraph Test On YouTube Could Prove Man’s Innocence
Convicted killer Luke Miller has spent the last 10 years in a Scottish prison for the 2003 murder of his 14-year-old girlfriend Jodi Jones, a crime he insists he didn’t commit. So his supporters have been lobbying that a polygraph test indicating his innocence be made public to draw attention to his case, in hopes…