A capital murder suspect and a convicted drug offender were the subject of a two-day manhunt, after escaping from a Texas jail. They are back in lockup after being cornered in a barn about 20 miles away from the penitentiary. Brian Allen Tucker and John Marlin King were returned to the jail in Sulphur Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Dallas, from where they fled on Tuesday.
A murder suspect being interviewed at the Jackson, Mississippi police headquarters shot a detective on Thursday, and those who came to investigate the gunfire found both men dead, authorities said. The suspect was being questioned on the third floor of the building when the shooting broke, out
About 100 people were arrested on Wednesday in a crackdown on two criminal gangs that uthorities said trafficked heroin and cocaine from the Dominican Republican and Puerto Rico into southeastern Connecticut, Reuters reported. More than 700 law enforcement officers made federal and state arrest and arrest warrants in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island.
Sheriff Eugene Crum was fatally shot on Wednesday in his car near outside the Mingo County, West Virginia courthouse.
