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		<title>Thieves steal drugs from Connecticut warehouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thieves broke into an Eli Lilly warehouse over the weekend in the town of Enfield, Connecticut and stole as much as $75 million in prescription drugs. This warehouse stored Eli Lilly &#038; Co (LLY.N) prescription medicines such as Prozac, Cymbalta, Zyprexa and other medicines.
During a violent rainstorm, the thieves drilled a hole in the ceiling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 60 years, the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List still going strong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1949, a reported asked the FBI to list the top ten of the “toughest guys” they were looking for. The FBI gave the reporter the names and pictures of the most wanted fugitives and now sixty years later, the list continues. 
During its 60th year anniversary, the FBI is celebrating this historic occasion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mncriminals.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/16/after-60-years-the-fbi%e2%80%99s-top-10-most-wanted-list-still-going-strong/</link>
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		<title>Willie Clark &#8211; guilty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Darrent Williams was only 24 years old and an up and coming cornerback for the Denver Bronco’s football team. On New Year’s Eve 2007, Willie Clark, a known gang member, mercilessly gunned him down outside of a local nightclub.
This trial was filled with threats and intimidations to witnesses. Willie Clark’s defense was that he wasn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mncriminals.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/15/willie-clark-guilty/</link>
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		<title>Catalytic converters targeted by thieves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent article, thieves are now targeting catalytic converters on vehicles in the metro Denver, Colorado area. A catalytic converter is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine. First widely introduced in 1975 for automobiles in the U.S. to comply with tightening EPA regulations on auto [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mncriminals.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/12/catalytic-converters-targeted-by-thieves/</link>
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		<title>Decline in traffic deaths lowest in years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press has reported that highway deaths have dropped to lowest levels since the 1950s. The Transportation Department projections show total traffic deaths declined nearly 9 percent in 2009 to 33,963 compared to 2008 with 37,261 people. This is the lowest amount since 1954. 
Several reasons for this are more motorists are buckling up, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-mail collection scam alert for Minnesota</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Department of Commerce is warning Minnesotans that there is an e-mail collection scam  in Minnesota. The e-mails are from Experian Portfolio Services of St. Paul. 
These e-mails say that you owe money to an unnamed creditor and ask you to pay the outstanding balances via PayPal. This is fraudulent and you should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mncriminals.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/10/e-mail-collection-scam-alert-for-minnesota/</link>
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		<title>Organized crime responsible for identity theft and fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal and Minnesota state investigators are working on dismantling a sophisticated fraud ring. Investigators say that the fraud ring involves about 200 members and could be one of the largest cases of its type in this country.
The organized crime ring has members in the Twin Cities and recruits on Facebook and other social networking web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mncriminals.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/09/organized-crime-responsible-for-identity-theft-and-fraud/</link>
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		<title>National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) helping to find missing persons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, the Office of Justice Program&#8217;s (OJP) National Institute of Justice (NIJ) began funding major efforts to maximize the use of DNA technology in our criminal justice system. Much of NIJ’s work has focused on developing tools to investigate and solve the cases of missing persons and unidentified decedents. Recently the National Missing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mncriminals.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/08/national-missing-and-unidentified-persons-system-namus-helping-to-find-missing-persons/</link>
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		<title>States budget cuts release criminals and face public safety issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent New York Times article , states nationwide are trimming their budgets by using early releasing programs in their prison populations.  As a result, more convicted felons are on the streets and not behind bars.
Take for instance in the state of Illinois. Gov. Patrick J. Quinn, a Democrat, described its early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mncriminals.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/03/05/states-budget-cuts-release-criminals-and-face-public-safety-issues/</link>
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		<title>Identity theft from someone you think you could trust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that giving out “sensitive” information about your identity is not the right thing to do. However, when you are dealing with a cell phone carrier, you would think it would be all right to do. They ask many questions in order to verify that you are the person who is authorized on the [...]]]></description>
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