Belleville News Democrat: Crime and Controversy http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Belleville News Democrat en-us Copyright 2008 Belleville News Democrat Crime and Controversy 60 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:55:08 CST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@Belleville.com 3 charged in track robbery; may be biggest heist in Collinsville history http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/562189.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/562189.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:05 CST -- A night with MEGSI: Recent drug sweep nets multiple suspects http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/561473.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/561473.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:58 CST Members of the Metropolitan Enforcement Group of Southwestern Illinois had a very clear mesage during a recent sweep to those caught with drugs or selling them: If you get caught, you're going down. St. Clair County Sheriff's Dept. racks up $350,000 in overtime http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560917.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560917.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:46 CST The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department is expected to spend more than $350,000 in overtime this year because of an unprecedented number of inmates who were hospitalized. Parents: Slain anchorwoman was sexually assaulted http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/561378.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/561378.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:30 CST A television anchorwoman killed in her home had been sexually assaulted and beaten so badly in a suspected burglary that her jaw shattered and she broke a hand while trying to fend off her attacker's blows, her parents said Monday. Former SIUE student accused in terror threat plans to appeal http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/559972.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/559972.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:42 CST A former SIUE student accused of writing a note about a "murderous rampage" plans to appeal the revocation of his bond. 3 arrested in connection with Fairmount racetrack robbery http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560102.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560102.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:40 CST With the help of people who watched a surveillance videotape of a Fairmount Park racetrack robbery, police officers were able to arrest three suspects accused of taking an amount of money described as in the "six figures." Two dead, five injured after police pursuit on I-70 http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560270.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560270.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:58 CST Two people are dead, five others injured after a police chase in north St. Louis. Investigators say it all started when a St. Charles County Sheriff Deputy, on his way to pick up a prisoner in St. Louis, heard a St Louis County Police Dispatcher describing a vehicle wanted in connection with an armed robbery and carjacking. Embattled deputy clerk in Cahokia quits http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560082.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/560082.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:17 CST After more than three years and at least $150,000 in back pay and legal bills, Mayor Frank Bergman's campaign to fire deputy clerk Debbie Barker because of her alleged role in $1,000 in missing village funds has finally come to an end. Plea deal offered to 8-year-old murder suspect http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/559545.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/559545.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:43 CST Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an 8-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man in their eastern Arizona home, court records show. Another teen charged in Signal Hill carjacking http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/558945.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/558945.html Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:16 CST An East St. Louis teenager was charged Friday with carjacking after police said he and three other men took a car at gunpoint, then crashed it into another car, injuring two people.