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Criminal Politics 

Greek Neo-Nazi Ideologue Evading Arrest After Group Conviction

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Greece, Manhunt, Nazi, sentencing

A Greek neo-Nazi ideologue and deputy leader of the Golden Dawn party was evading arrest Friday as dozens of fellow members headed to prison following a group conviction.

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Criminal International 

Bank Robber Flees With $500,000 in Ex-Soviet Georgia

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
banks, hostages, Manhunt, robbery

Police in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia were looking Thursday for a bank robber who held over 40 people hostage for hours before releasing them and escaping with $500,000 given to him by authorities.

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Criminal International 

Danish Submarine Killer Briefly Escapes From Prison

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denmark, escape, inmates, Manhunt, murder, prisons

A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine made a dramatic but brief escape from a suburban Copenhagen prison Tuesday, reportedly taking a hostage to break out before police recaptured him.

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Criminal International 

Italian Seven-Time Fugitive Nabbed in Sheep Pen

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Italy, Manhunt, murder

An Italian murderer who escaped from prison for the seventh time earlier this month was caught Tuesday hiding in a sheep pen, police said.

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Criminal 

Suspected Cop Killer Is Dead in California

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
California, Manhunt, Police, Shooting

A man recently released from jail in Central California was shot and killed at the end of a 36-hour hunt that followed the shooting of a sheriff’s deputy and other attacks that wounded three other law enforcement officers.

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Criminal 

Police Kill Gunman Who Hijacked Dallas-Area Bus

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dallas, Manhunt, murder, Shooting

A man opened fire on a Dallas-area public bus on Sunday, hijacking it with two people aboard and leading officers on a chase that ended in a shootout in which he was killed and three officers were wounded.

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Civil Rights Government 

Train Death

March 31, 2020April 1, 2020 BRIEF
Manhunt, trains, Wrongful Death

A federal court in California ruled in favor of the Long Beach Police Department in a wrongful death suit brought by the family of Cesar Rodriguez, who was killed from being pinned between a train and platform while an officer was conducting a search of him. 

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Criminal Government 

Authorities: Los Angeles Deputy Lied About Sniper Assault

August 25, 2019August 26, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
hoax, Los Angeles County, Manhunt, Police, Shooting

A Los Angeles County deputy lied when he said he was shot in the shoulder while standing in a sheriff’s station parking lot last week and will face a criminal investigation, authorities said.

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Criminal 

Gunman at Large Near LA After Deputy Shot

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Guns, Los Angeles County, Manhunt, mental health, sheriffs, Shooting

Investigators believe a gunshot that wounded a deputy outside a Los Angeles County sheriff’s station Wednesday was fired from a nearby building complex that provides housing to people with mental health issues, authorities said.

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Criminal International 

Father Says Canadian Manhunt Will End in Son’s Death

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canada, Manhunt, murder

The father of one of the suspects in the slaying of an American woman, her Australian boyfriend and another man said Wednesday that he expects a nationwide manhunt to end in the death of his son, who is on “a suicide mission.”

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Criminal Entertainment 

LAPD Opens Internal Affairs Inquiry in Nipsey Hussle Case

July 1, 2019July 2, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAPD, Manhunt, murder, rappers, Shooting

Los Angeles police have opened an internal affairs investigation into why the woman who drove the getaway car in the aftermath of rapper Nipsey Hussle’s killing was sent home when she tried to turn herself in during the manhunt for the shooter.

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Criminal International 

Basque Militant ETA Chief Arrested in France After 17 Years

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
arrests, France, Manhunt, Spain

A longtime chief of the Basque militant separatist group ETA was arrested Thursday on the street of a French Alps town after being on the run for 17 years, Spain’s Interior Ministry said.

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Arts Criminal Entertainment 

Nipsey Hussle’s Suspected Killer Arrested

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
arrests, Los Angeles, Manhunt, rappers

After a nearly 48-hour manhunt, police arrested the suspect they say gunned down Nipsey Hussle in front of the popular rapper’s South Los Angeles clothing store.

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Latest Headlines Regional 

Reward Offered in Manhunt for Texas Girl’s Killer

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 CAMERON LANGFORD
children, Houston, Manhunt, race, Shooting

An attorney and an activist are offering a $75,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a white man who shot into a black woman’s car in Houston and killed her 7-year-old daughter.

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Criminal 

Gunman Kills California Policeman; Manhunt Underway

December 27, 2018December 27, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
California, Manhunt, Police, Shooting

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities launched a manhunt Wednesday after a gunman shot and killed a police officer during a

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Criminal 

French Police Try to Catch Attack Suspect Dead or Alive

December 13, 2018December 14, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
France, Manhunt, Mass Shooting

French security forces are trying to catch the suspected Strasbourg gunman dead or alive Thursday, as the city in eastern France mourned with flowers and lit candles left at the site of the attack near its famous Christmas market.

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Criminal International Latest Headlines 

Strasbourg Shooting Suspect: an Ex-Convict Tracked by Police

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
France, Manhunt, Mass Shooting

Cherif Chekatt, the alleged extremist on the run after a deadly shooting at France’s most famous Christmas market, had been on police radar and had more than two dozen convictions for crimes like robbery and other violence in three European countries.

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Latest Headlines Regional 

Suspect Captured in Slaying of Tennessee Deputy

June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manhunt, Police, Shooting, Tennessee

After a two-day manhunt, a trooper came across the suspect in the slaying of a sheriff’s deputy not far from the scene of the crime, authorities said Friday.

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Latest Headlines 

Waffle House Shooting Suspect in Custody

April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 KEVIN LESSMILLER
Manhunt, Restaurants, Shooting, Tennessee

A manhunt is still underway for a suspect who police say stormed into a Tennessee Waffle House mostly naked early Sunday and gunned down patrons, killing four before a good Samaritan stopped the carnage.

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Criminal Uncategorized 

Polygamous Sect Leader Lyle Jeffs Captured After 1 Year

June 15, 2017January 31, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
churches, Fraud, Manhunt, Regional5, Utah

Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs was captured Wednesday while apparently living out of his pickup truck at a marina in southeast South Dakota following nearly a year on the run after his escape from home confinement in Utah pending trial on food stamp fraud charges.

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