The hunt for a serial bomber in Austin, Texas, who killed two people and injured several others with homemade package bombs was this week’s leading national criminal law news story. After a weeks-long investigation involving state and federal law enforcement agencies, authorities came to suspect that 23-year-old Mark Conditt was the bomber. As officers closed in on Conditt, he killed himself by detonating a bomb inside his vehicle. The New York Times has an article describing the meticulous police work that cracked the case, and the Austin Statesman has full coverage of the terrifying bombing spree. Keep reading for more news. Every Step You Take. The New York Times article discussing the police work in the Austin bombing case notes that police were able to get data from Google that helped in their search for Conditt. Last week, WRAL published a report that discusses the use of Google data by North Carolina law enforcement agencies. One point of interest in the report is that some agencies are employing a tactic where they ask for warrants to search the Google data associated with every cellphone that comes within a certain proximity to crime scenes. SRO Acts Fast. There was another school shooting this week. A 17-year-old boy shot two fellow students at Great Mills High School in Maryland. Luckily, each victim survived the shooting. Reports say that the incident likely would’ve been more tragic if not for the actions of Blaine Gaskill, a SWAT-trained school resource officer who immediately responded to the [...]
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