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The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to launch a tracking system for sexual assault kits that will be accessible to survivors by the end of this year. The system will give survivors of sexual assault and others — police, prosecutors or health care professionals, for instance — the ability to monitor the amount of time kits spend at different points in the system, including hospitals, police departments and crime laboratories. "This is going to help prevent a backlog," Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin in an interview Tuesday.  "It is also goi...

WASHINGTON — Gerardo Serrano ticked off the border crossing agents by taking some photos on his phone. So they took his pickup truck and held onto it for more than two years. Only after Serrano filed a federal lawsuit did he get back his Ford F-250. Now he wants the Supreme Court to step in and require a prompt court hearing as a matter of constitutional fairness whenever federal officials take someone's property under civil forfeiture law. The justices could consider his case when they meet privately on Friday. It's a corner of the larger forfeiture issue, when federal, state or local offi...

Two in deadly bar fight face second charge Two people have now been charged with the assault in an incident that left one person dead at O’Brien’s Sports Pub.  James Henderson and Jorge Soto are back behind bars, this time charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the late December incident in the parking lot of the northside Wichita Falls bar.  According to the arrest warrants:  Shortly after midnight Dec. 28, Wichita Falls Police responded to O’Brien’s Sports Pub on N. Scott Avenue for a disturbance. Police discovered two people had been stabbed. The victims, Evan A...

Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs, backed by consultants, told the city council that several categories of crime have dropped dramatically in the past five years, the product of studying and responding to trends as they develop in the community. New strategies, include paying more attention to statistics that identify where crimes are likely to happen, have been in use, the city police say, as the rate of violent crime in the city of Fort Myers dropped by 51% over the past six years. "A 50% drop in crime tells me we are concentrating on the right things it says to me, the city is safe"...

Farmington Police Department blotter for April 7, 2021 The Daily Times Staff Arrests The following arrests were reported by the Farmington Police Department. Everyone who is arrested is considered innocent unless proven guilty. • Monique Beltran was arrested at 9:32 a.m. on April 7 on the 800 block of West Apache Street due to a warrant for failure to appear. • Elijah Wiggins was arrested at 10:17 p.m. on April 7 on the 500 block of East Broadway Avenue due to an arrest warrant. • Renee Chee was arrested at 7 p.m. on April 7 on the 800 block of Andrea Drive for alleged concealing identi...