Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Timothy McVeigh enters the Denver courtroom of Judge Richard Matsch, he does not behave at all as you would expect, given the rigid, blank-faced image he projected at his arrest. He usually emerges from the holding cell for defendants with a big smile. Wearing a button-down shirt and khaki pants, his hands in his pockets, he struts toward the defense table. On his way, he makes eyes at female paralegals and chats with them. He nods and grins at the press and the prosecutors. McVeigh is accused of killing 168 people, 19 of them children...
...possession of the truck, the prosecution will seek to reinforce its case by establishing that McVeigh was also in possession of a bomb. The most direct way to do that will be to call an FBI expert who will testify that McVeigh's clothing, tested after his arrest, showed traces of nitroglycerin and pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or petn, an explosive used in detonator cord. Prosecutors will also present evidence to show how, in the months before the bomb exploded, McVeigh set out to gather materials...
...that while the bureau has done well catching spies, it has a poor record of detecting them in the first place. In the Ames case, it was the CIA that eventually identified Ames as the mole and turned him over to the FBI to build the case for his arrest. Ames began his career as a mole literally under the watch of the FBI. In April 1985 he began visiting the Soviet embassy in Washington to pass secrets. FBI cameras that are constantly trained on the Russian embassy from a nearby building recorded Ames' visits. Though he initially filed...
Doug Ventura will never forget that fall day in 1981. He and two other police officers from Montgomery County, Maryland, were trying to arrest a man strung out on angel dust when the suspect started kicking Ventura in the side and face, again and again and again. It took four operations for doctors to repair Ventura's fractured spine. But the pain never really went away. It was as if someone had forgotten to turn off a switch somewhere deep inside his body...
...protest escalated into a brawl and led to the arrest of 21-year-old political science major Robert Hoo, according to the Yale Daily News