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To: CharlieChina who wrote (3005)	1/13/2005 6:52:54 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 3432

Ariz. Sheriff Deputies Use Pink Handcuffs 1 hour, 22 minutes ago Strange News - AP PHOENIX - Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies began using fluorescent pink handcuffs Thursday to transport inmates. Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he introduced the pink handcuffs because he was tired of losing them to his own deputies and other law enforcement agencies. Arpaio said he assumes nobody else has pink handcuffs, so they will be easy to spot. He ordered 1,000 of the pink handcuffs, which are made in England. They cost 60 cents more than silver ones. Patrol deputies will still carry the silver cuffs, which they pay for themselves. Maricopa County inmates wear pink boxers and sleep on pink sheets.

To: CharlieChina who wrote (3005)	1/13/2005 7:31:00 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 3432

Court Questions Canine Competence Thu Jan 13, 8:21 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters By Michael Peltier TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - The Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) questioned a drug-sniffing dog's track record on Wednesday in a hearing to determine how competent a canine must be to justify a police search. An attorney for a convicted drug offender urged the state's highest court to uphold an appellate ruling that a Hillsborough County deputy in 2000 improperly searched Gary Alan Matheson's car after a positive "hit" by Razor, a drug-detecting dog with a questionable professional pedigree. During the search, officers found methamphetamines, morphine, hydrocodone and drug paraphernalia. But Matheson appealed his conviction and said the search was illegal because deputies could not reasonably depend on the dog, which though nationally certified had a history of mistakes. "The question is whether Razor was sharp," Chief Justice Barbara Pariente chimed in during arguments. U.S. law requires police to have probable cause to conduct a search. The state's attorney contended that Razor's training and certification alone were enough satisfy the constitutional test. Matheson's attorney said Razor's propensity to bark up the wrong tree meant that deputies had no reason to rely upon it. "There is a question whether all dogs are equal," Justice R. Fred Lewis said. The case is the latest in a series of challenges to drug-sniffing dogs, which are used increasingly in law enforcement and border controls. There are no national standards by which to judge canine competence. The U.S. Customs Services, for example, requires 100 percent accuracy to certify dogs for agency use. Other groups, including the U.S. Police Canine Association, require a 70 percent accuracy rating for certification. "This is not a game," said Justice Harry Anstead. "This is about the state invading someone else's privacy." The court did not indicate how quickly it would rule.

To: CharlieChina who wrote (3005)	1/14/2005 6:18:38 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 3432

Earn Easy Cash in Your Spare Time... Thu Jan 13, 8:24 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia on Wednesday invited the world's bounty hunters to scour its jungles and mountains and drag back rebel chiefs in return for cash rewards. Reuters Photo "It would be great if all the bounty hunters in the world came to capture those bandits. The money's there for them, and the rewards are good," Vice President Francisco Santos told reporters. The Colombian government has put rewards of up to about $2 million on the heads of outlaws like Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, veteran Marxist commander of the 17,000 fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Santos' comments came after officials said they had paid an unspecified reward to an anonymous informant who helped them catch Rodrigo Granda, a top rebel who authorities called the FARC's "foreign minister." Granda's capture has caused a diplomatic squabble with neighboring Venezuela, which says he was kidnapped from a street in Caracas. The Colombian government, which has long suspected Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez of sympathies for the FARC, insists they nabbed Granda within their borders. Colombia's war with the FARC and other illegal armed groups has lasted 40 years and claims thousands of lives annually. President Alvaro Uribe owes his 70-percent approval rating to a military campaign against the FARC but the group's top commanders keep safe in hideouts in the country's extensive mountains and jungles. But Colombia is outgunned in the reward stakes by its ally the United States, which has offered up to $25 million for information leading to the arrest of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites).