US Crime and Arrests

  (CNN) Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who in March 1955, at the age of 15, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, is seeking to get her conviction expunged.

 DWI - DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED (MISDEMEANOR) MARTIN IRAN PINEDO , WHITE, MALE, AGE 54 , arrested on charge of DWI - DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED (MISDEMEANOR) At 2400 N MAIN ST HIGH POINT, NC on 10/14/21 23:49:00 Case # 211014019 reported on 10/14/21 23:49:00

A Black paraplegic man from Ohio has filed a complaint with the NAACP after body camera video showed police officers pulling him out of his car by his hair and arms after he refused officers' orders during a traffic stop late last month.

SHYTAISHA GENE SHUFF , FEMALE, AGE 22, cited on charge of SPEEDING At 4300 US 220 N/STRAWBERRY RD SUMMERFIELD, NC on 10/09/21 23:57:00 Case # reported on 10/09/21 23:57:00 Arrest DWI - DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED (MISDEMEANOR) RICKY EDWARD LINK , WHITE, MALE, AGE 61 , arrested on charge of 1) DWI - DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED (MISDEMEANOR) and 2) FAIL MAINTAIN LANE CONTROL (MISDEMEANOR) At OT COMPANY MILL RD GREENSBORO, NC on 10/09/21 23:53:00 Case # reported on 10/09/21 23:53:00

  An inmate in Texas was put to death on Tuesday evening for committing a double murder 30 years ago.

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg pleaded no contest Thursday to a pair of misdemeanor traffic charges over a crash last year that killed a pedestrian, avoiding jail time despite bitter complaints from the victim’s family that he was being too lightly punished for actions they called "inexcusable."

New York: Two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in New York state for plotting with an arms dealer in Thailand - who sells weapons to the Burmese military - to kill or injure Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations, US authorities said on Friday. Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, who represents Myanmar's elected civilian government which was overthrown by the military in February, told Reuters on Wednesday that a threat had been made against him and U.S. authorities had stepped up his security. The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said on Friday that Phyo Hein Htut, 28, and Ye Hein Zaw, 20, had each been charged with one count of conspiracy to assault and make a violent attack upon a foreign official, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The ambassador did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the charges. Myanmar's junta fired him in February, but for now he remains the country's UN envoy because the United ...