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8 arrested in 1971 cop-killing tied to Black Panthers
 SAN FRANCISCO - Eight men with ties to a militant black power group were arrested today in the brazen 1971 killing of a San Francisco policeman, part of what authorities described as a five-year campaign to assassinate law enforcement officers in California and New York. Most of the men were former members of the Black Liberation Army, a violent offshoot of the Black Panther Party, according to police. On Aug. 29, 1971, two members of the group, armed with guns and dynamite, stormed a police station and fired a shotgun through a hole in the lobby s bulletproof glass, killing Sgt. John V. Young, 51, and wounding a civilian clerk. Authorities said the killing was one in a series of attacks by BLA members on law enforcement officials on both coasts. Carried out between 1968 and 1973, the campaign also included the bombing of a police funeral in San Francisco and the slayings of two New York City police officers, as well as three armed bank robberies that helped fund their operations, police said. - (Newsroom) - (crime) - (Black-on-white)
- Convicted Cop Killers Charged In Murder Of Third Officer
 Two men convicted of killing two NYPD officers 35 years ago were arrested again Tuesday, this time in connection with the death of a San Francisco police sergeant at around the same time. Police say Herman Bell (left) and Anthony Bottom were arrested in prison. The two stand accused of murdering Sergeant John Young back in August of 1971. Young was shot during a raid at his police station, just three months after NYPD officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini were shot to death in East Harlem. Both Bell and Bottom are serving life sentences for the killings. Six others, including a man from Queens, are also charged in Young's death. Investigators say the killings may have been part of a plan by the Black Liberation Army to kill law enforcement officers in New York and California.
- State prosecutors build case in 1971 politically motivated killing of SFPD officer - (images)
- 2 Altadena Men Arrested In 1971 Cop Slaying - (video)
 Ray Michael Boudreaux, 64, and Henry Watson Jones, 71, were booked at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility on suspicion of murder of a police officer and are being held without bail, sheriff's Deputy Maribel Rizo said.
- 35 Years Later, Cop Murder May Be Solved - (video)
- Multiple Arrests Made In BLA Takedown
 Three decades after members of the Black Liberation Army stormed the Ingleside police station in San Francisco and killed a sergeant, historic arrests have been made in the case. In the early morning hours of January 23, 2007, multi-agency task forces across the country brought down most of the members police say were involved in the Ingleside attack. Suspected BLA members were arrested in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Panama City, Florida. Six arrests were made and two men who were already serving time in a New York state prison were charged. While police and the FBI are calling the raids that occured almost simultaneously in three states a massive victory, the manhunt continues for one man -- suspected getaway driver Ronald Bridgeforth. Ronald Bridgeforth, 62, is still being sought and could be in France, Belize or Tanzania, police said.
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Texas' longest-serving condemned prisoner, set to die this week after more than 31 years on death row, won a reprieve Monday from the U.S. Supreme Court. Ronald Chambers, who turned 52 two weeks ago, was scheduled for lethal injection Thursday, but his punishment was delayed indefinitely by an order from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Chambers was condemned for the abduction and fatal shooting of Mike McMahan, 22, a Texas Tech student from Washington state, during an April 1975 carjacking in Dallas. - (Newsroom) - (crime) - (Black-on-white) 
Ind. — Police and federal agents extended their search to Chicago on Sunday for four illegitimate children and their mother, whose ex-boyfriend authorities say shot a man and kidnapped them in Indiana the day before. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert and said the children and their mother, 31-year-old Kimberly N. Walker, were in extreme danger. Walker and Jerry D. White, 30, the father of the four children, once lived in Chicago, and White has family there, police said. About 2 a.m. Saturday, White broke into Walker's house and shot her sister's boyfriend, Wargo said. Police said White held everyone hostage until about 11:30 a.m., when he fled with his five hostages in the Dodge, which belongs to Walker's sister. Walker's sister was then able to call police. Her boyfriend, whose name was not released, was in serious condition Sunday, police said. Walker and White's children are Jaylan Walker, 9; Justin Walker, 8; Kyara Walker, 6; and 16-month-old Kayla Walker. - (Newsroom) - (crime) 
For years, police and the state Department of Mental Retardation have tried to keep an eye on James Pells, a convicted sex offender who is also mentally retarded. Barnstable police arrested Pells when he failed to register as a sex offender in 2004 and notified school officials when they spotted him behind Barnstable Middle School. DMR arranged for Pells to share an apartment with a roommate/supervisor, who received free rent and a stipend to monitor Pells. But the system designed to protect both Pells and the public apparently failed when a woman accused Pells of raping her in his bedroom after she passed out during a party last summer while his roommate/supervisor slept in another room wearing earplugs. 
Psa 55:15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them. 
BAKERSFIELD - A man recently let out of prison faces two new rape charges. The charges are new, but the cases are old. 
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A grand jury voted Friday to indict a man on murder charges in the deaths of two women who are believed to have been killed by the so-called “Bike Path Rapist,” a prosecutor said.