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Officer Saved by Good Samaritans: A Michigan State trooper is grateful that their are still folks who want to help the police. According to Fox News Trooper Garry Guild attempted to make a traffic stop after sighting a suspicious individual riding a motorcycle. The rider attempted to flee and led the officer on a chase across the freeway. When the rider crashed into a ditch, Guild attempted to effect an arrest, but was attacked and placed in a chokehold by the rider's brother who had been following the chase. Jerry Burnham and his wife stopped to help and a second driver pulled up as well. Together, they overpowered the brothers and assisted Guild with getting the men in custody.  The brothers will be facing multiple charges including assault on a peace officer and resisting arrest.

Richmond Murderer Taken into Custody: An evasive suspect in a 2016 murder case in Richmond,CA, has been taken into custody. George Kelly of the East Bay Times reports that on March 10, 2016, police responded to a report of multiple gunshots and found William Malik Barnes, 15, suffering from multiple wounds to the chest.  Despite the efforts of paramedics, Barnes passed away at the scene. Following an investigation, two suspects were identified and charged with murder with gang enhancements.  The first suspect was quickly located and taken into custody, but the second suspect, Parrish Renee Rauls, 21, who was on probation, went into hiding. Rauls was finally arrested Wednesday morning in West Oakland.  California law considers most convicted felons released from state prison or county jail to be low risk offenders and places them on county probation rather than on the stricter supervision provided by state parole.

NY Calls for Megan's Law Update: Following the arrest of a re-arrest of a habitual sex-offender in Westchester, NY, lawmakers are calling for an update to Megan's Law to account for social media. As reported by CBS New York, the new concerns followed the arrest of David Ohnmacht, a sex-offender who had been released six years ago.  At the time of his release, Ohnmacht assured reporters that he had been reformed and that he no longer posed a threat. "After he got off his five years of supervised post-release probation and supervision, he immediately went back and began to engage in some of these actions," criminal justice professor Robert Castelli, who is familiar with the case, said. Ohnmacht is currently in custody and being charged with exchanging sexually explicit messages and pictures with a 14-year-old girl in North Carolina. He faces a minimum of 35 years in federal prison.

Wisconsin Shooter Claims Four: A shooter took the lives of two bankers, an attorney, and a police officer Wednesday. As reported by The Boston Herald, Police characterized the initial shooting at the Marathon Savings Bank in Rothschild on Wednesday, March 22, as a domestic dispute, but have provided no details about the suspect.  Authorities said late Wednesday that there is no remaining threat to the public. The officer who lost his life was Jason Weiland, 40, a detective and 15-year veteran of the Everest Metropolitan Police Department. He died while attempting to establish a perimeter around the shooter to minimize the threat to the community.

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