Ruben Wardlaw, a member of the Pasadena Denver Lane Bloods, was outside an apartment building in Pasedena on July 13, 2007, when a white Chevy Impala passed by, turned around, and someone inside opened fire. Wardlaw was not injured, though bullets hit the pole behind which he took cover and some tore his clothing. Police arrived and took Wardlaw’s statement. Shell casings were found at the crime scene. Wardlaw was describing the shooter, the only person in the car, when the Impala returned and the officer saw the driver. The car was pursued...
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Close Windows, Crank Up the Air: Driver Can Be Asked to Prep Car for Sniff
At an Illinois traffic stop, a police officer told the driver to roll up her truck’s windows and turn the ventilation system’s blowers on high before a second officer conducted a canine sniff of the exterior of the truck. The dog alerted on both doors of the truck and a subsequent search found methamphetamine. The circuit court of Adams County granted a motion to suppress, but the appellate court reversed and the Supreme Court of Illinois affirmed. Thus, the officer’s actions in ordering the driver to close the windows and turn up the ventilation...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Canine Venereal Cancer Cells Repair Themselves by Taking DNA from Host Animal
Dogs transmit canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) when having sex. The infectious agent is the cancer cell itself. This is unusual. Early research had expected to find a virus or some other agent that induced the cancer in dogs, but this turned out not to be the case. Analysis of the DNA of the disease indicates that it began from 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Scientists from the Department of Life Sciences of the Imperial College London,...
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Montana Proposes Hunting Wolves to Protect Elk Herd
There is a great deal of legal activity regarding the wolves of the Northwest and, as of this writing, the biggest ball lies in the court of federal district court judge Donald Molloy. A footnote to the future of wolves in Montana concerns a population of only 24 wolves in a 707 square miles of wilderness area in and around the Bitterroot National Forest near the Idaho border. On March 29, the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the...
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