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Third-striker convicted of Rite Aid spree, pepper spray of employees; faces life in prison
A Kern County jury convicted a man of three counts of robbery and two counts of using tear gas during thefts at a Rite Aid in ...
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Pepper Spray Attack on May Street Leads to Arrest
Thunder Bay’s south side THUNDER BAY – LOCAL CRIME BLOTTER – A 25-year-old woman is in custody following a late-night assault ...
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Pepper spray to be used in young offender institutions as violence against staff 14 times higher than adult prisons
Prison officers in young offender institutions will start using pepper spray in a bid to combat soaring violence levels from ...
Pepper spray to be used against children in jails as CCTV reveals spiralling violence
Ministers are set to face a huge backlash from justice and children’s campaigners who have long warned against using PAVA, a synthetic pepper spray, against children ...
The Sun10d
Pepper spray will be used on kids as young as 15 in young offenders institutes as violence soars behind bars
PEPPER spray will be used on children as young as 15 in young offender institutions to curb a surge in violence. Specially trained prison officers will be allowed to use PAVA, a synthetic pepper ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)19d
Man wearing gas mask arrested after using pepper spray on court officers, police say
Police in a Boston suburb have arrested a man who they say entered a courthouse while wearing a gas mask and tactical gear and attacked several people with pepper spray. The man police identified ...
Boston Herald20d
Court chaos: Massachusetts man accused of deploying pepper spray at officers, punching people
A 28-year-old man is facing several charges after he allegedly deployed pepper spray and assaulted people in Woburn District Court on Monday. Nicholas Akerberg, of Yarmouth Port, reportedly ...