Latest Law Enforcement Headlines

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U.K. Police To Check Insurance On-line

Nov 16 2000 // British police will soon be able to use a new program to run roadside checks on drivers to see if they carry insurance coverage. A new computer database, sponsored by U.K. insurers and established by the government, will...

Special Investigative Units Battle Insurance Fraud, ‘Crime of the ’90s’

Nov 13 2000 // People outside the industry are always surprised to learn how much fraud insurance companies are actually forced to deal with. It wasn’t until fairly recently, in the late 1980s, that insurance companies and local,...

Police Say Teen Started Detroit Fire in Insurance Scam

Nov 2 2000 // A 16-year-old boy was arrested for arson Tuesday night in Detroit after police saw him throw a Molotov cocktail into a home where a woman with five children used to live. The Detroit Free Press reported that police said...

Massachusetts Men Charged with Insurance Fraud

Oct 2 2000 // Albert F. Melchione, 71, of Rockland, Mass., and his grandson, Richard J. Melchione, Jr., 30, of Hull, Mass., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges in connection with a scheme to...