Word: arson
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...many such episodes. During a single week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car, and a Marine lance corporal was sentenced to five years for arson attacks on stores...
...single steamy week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car and a Lance Corporal Marine got sentenced to five years in Japanese prison for repeated arson attacks on stores...
...taken a breather. According to figures the city provided TIME, in June of this year police made 2,517 arrests for nonviolent crimes such as disorderly conduct and weapons violations; in June of last year they made 5,063 such arrests. Arrests for violent crimes, such as murder and arson, declined slightly, to 487 from 502, despite a 20% jump from the previous June in the incidence of those crimes. The figures for May, the month after the rioting, are similar. "Our officers are very frustrated at this rise in crimes," says Keith Fangman, president of the Cincinnati chapter...
...Officers responded to a fire in Currier House. Officers investigated the fire scene along with the arson investigator from the Cambridge Fire Department and determined it to be set by an unknown person...
...enforcement officers pursuing them, Robert De Niro's cop, Eddie Flemming, and Edward Burns' arson investigator, Jody Warsaw, the former is the more interesting. Flemming is a media favorite--a PEOPLE cover boy, always good for a sound bite and, says Herzfeld, based on a real New York City detective. Flemming thinks his celebrity helps him in his work. We may think differently as this bloody story evolves. But he is a novel, disturbing movie character. And his prey, with their fresh, almost innocent, foreigner's insight into how to maneuver the media for their own ends, are too. Best...