Police investigate possible gang connection after fight

Norristown police responded to a report of several people dragging a man out of the street and toward the entrance to Crawford Park near Main Street Monday, where officers found just two bloodied men who had been fighting.A 23-year-old Stanbridge Street man, Joel Chatman, was charged with simple assault, public drunkenness, drug charges and disorderly conduct, according to a Norristown police report.Police are investigating the possibility that the violence was gang related given the suspect’s street address matched that of a residence recently...

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2 arrested after search for gunman near Occidental College

A search by Los Angeles police for a man with a gun near Occidental College led to the arrest Wednesday of two men with gang ties, police said.Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department's gang enforcement unit saw an alleged gang member carrying a weapon about noon Wednesday near the Eagle Rock campus and alerted colleagues.Officers blocked off an area at Avenue 45 and Alumni Drive and began searching for the gunman.Police detained the two men but were still searching for the weapon spotted earlier, said Cmdr. Andy Smith.&nb...

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Bulger to be arraigned for 19 murders

Former reputed mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who escaped prosecution for 16 years until he was captured last month in California, is set to return to federal court in Boston to enter a plea on 19 murder charges.Bulger is to be arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler, formally responding to criminal charges for the first time in nearly two decades.Prosecutors allege that the 81-year-old former head of Boston's notorious Winter Hill...

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Police were called at 7 a.m. after a body was reported on a pathway in the 3000-block of Spuraway Avenue, leading to Meadowbrook School in Coquitlam

A nature trail in a quaint hillside Coquitlam neighbourhood was a crime scene Wednesday as police investigated what’s believed to be the third “targeted homicide” in the Lower Mainland since April.The B.C. Ambulance Service called police to a path near the 800-block Ranch Park Way at 3000-block Spuraway Avenue, near the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Dewdney Trunk Road, at 7 a.m. Wednesday morning.The trail leads down through a small wooded area to a cul-de-sac beside Meadowbrook Elementary School.The coroner confirmed the victim was a man,...

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