Similarly, during the October 2002 Washington-area sniper investigation, the African-American man and boy ultimately accused of the crime reportedly were able to pass through multiple road blocks with the alleged murder weapon in their possession, in part, because police 'profilers' theorized the crime had been committed by a white male acting alone.
"There are Central American migrants in the organised crime groups that kidnap migrants, " Mr Plascencia said.
The indictments handed down against 73 people, many of whom are associated with an Armenian-American crime group, charge that the ring was submitting fraudulent bills for medically unnecessary treatments or treatments that were never actually performed.
In November, a Nicaraguan judge found Puracal guilty of money laundering, drug trafficking and organized crime and sentenced the American to 22 years.
Nobody questions the right of a law enforcement agent to kill an American who is in the process of committing a crime when this is required.
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Though Mr. Lemann is a Brazilian business icon, he moved his family to Switzerland more than a decade ago following a kidnapping attempt in Brazil, a stark reminder of persistent problems of crime in the South American nation.
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During the Pan American games, police and army troops flooded the streets, smothering crime.
The Organization of American States will lead a study of the region's approach to fighting organized crime, he said.
But FASB's biggest crime against the economy and the American people came when it decided to measure the impossible: options expensing.
She's played runaways, a mutant schoolgirl (in X-Men: The Last Stand) and a teenager tortured to death by Catherine Keener (in the yet-to-be released An American Crime).
Under the sanctions, 31 companies owned or controlled by the government of Sudan are barred from doing business in the United States and it is a crime for American companies and individuals to willfully do business with them.
My answer is that any American police chief ultimately finds out that the single toughest strategy on urban crime is urban education.
Some in France are scandalised that the American judicial system could wreck the professional life of a man convicted of no crime.
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Marriage rates are lower, divorce rates are higher, crime rates are higher and civic participation is lower in the poorest American cities than in the wealthiest.
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Mr. James notes that in Britain, he has beaten two popular American crime writers, Mr. Patterson and Jeffery Deaver, to the No. 1 spot on the Sunday Times best-seller list.
"We've seen gang violence, we've seen crime, fights between Latinos and African-American students in the schools, " says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House.
President Bush wanted to have the complex destroyed after the abuse scandal became public, but an American military judge ordered it be preserved as a crime scene.
The American prison population ballooned, but even as it ballooned Americans themselves only grew more fearful of crime.
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With the former, it is American demand for drugs that encourages Mexican criminals to supply them, bringing crime and associated ills.
The movie "has prevented more white-collar crime and inspired more business losses than any American movie, " says Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker and The New New Thing.
But in Egypt, American pressure proved too great for an aid-hungry government, and the law now makes genital mutilation a crime.
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Using a stereoscopic camera, magnesium flash powder and riveting language, the Danish-born one-time crime reporter seared bleak, iconic images of New York's low-income neighborhoods into the American consciousness.
And a comparison of the 72 American cities with a population over 250, 000, using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, reveals that some places are definitely more murderous than others.
Holder also declared the attack at the Sikh gurdwara, or house of worship, in a Milwaukee suburb to be "an act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime "that is anathema to the founding principles of our nation and to who we are as an American people.
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