Sentences with phrase «by local cops»

In recent years, 700 cursing - related tickets have been issued by the state police, plus hundreds more by local cops — and thousands of dollars in fines have been collected.

He's caught by local cops and sent to juvie, but allowed home at night, where he shares space with his emotionally distant father, played by Paul.

Not exact matches

The details of the case are a little murky and very strange, but it involves Pitt pretending to be a cop, fleeing the police when they actually showed up, giving a lengthy and bizarre interview to local television stations and then fleeing arrest again, this time by jumping off a 45 - foot cliff.

It also doesn't hurt that nobody was arrested — only a Broncos practice squad safety got sent in a prostitution sweep by local vice cops.

According to one city cop, Cruz got by on very little income, making the rounds of local soup kitchens and spending time hanging around with fellow members of the city's homeless population.

Yasmin Seweid, 18, joined a growing list of local and national alleged hate - crime victims when she told cops she was taunted Dec. 1 on the No. 6 train by three men who called her a terrorist and tried to snatch her hijab off her head while straphangers did nothing.

At least one local town judge refused to honor traffic tickets written by DEP cops, contending they had jurisdiction only on reservoir property.

His comments — which outraged local leaders — came as the parents of a 3 - year - old Brooklyn boy shot by thugs in a playground said they support the top cop's controversial stop - and - frisk program.

Based on the same novel that led to Elie Chouraqui's Man on Fire (1987, starring Scott Glenn as the burnout agent), Brian Helgeland's script takes a distinctly gringo view of this foreign land, where the fragile but courageous white girl is victimized by scary locals who range from the odious kidnappers (organized by someone known only as «The Voice» [Gustavo Sánchez Parra], aided by his weasely brother Aurelio [Gero Camilo]-RRB- to the corrupt cops, primarily, the visibly seamy Fuentes (Jesús Ochoa).

But he is impeded on both sides by a police force that thinks he's too soft, and a local populace that wants nothing to do with the cops.

It immediately deflates the sense of mystery, and by doing so allows Calvo to delve further into Mort's life, whether it's staying in contact with his mother (Shirley Knight), relying on his brother Stan (Thomas Jay Ryan) to help him out with his store's finances, or getting help from his friend and local cop Fran (Sonja Sohn).

Except that BlacKkKlansman is a true story, based on the book of the same name by Ron Stallworth, a former cop in Colorado Springs who, in 1979, really did infiltrate his local chapter of the KKK.

After Tibbs confirms his identity, the local cops bring in another wrong man, a white no - account, but Tibbs thwarts the confession they plan to beat out of him by showing that he couldn't possibly be the killer.

Inspired by true events, Texas Killing Fields» follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texas town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims» mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call «The Killing Fields.»

Our setting is a small backwater community, yet catastrophes and contretemps fairly tumble over one another within minutes of the film's start: two members of the local constabulary gone missing, the several - days - ripe corpse of a young woman turned up at lakeside, another cop shot in the foot by a whacked - out hermit, and wait, is there yet one more dead woman to be discovered out there?

END OF WATCH is yet to be released here in the UK, but THN got to check it out at the London Film Festival, and apparently it's rather good.The film comes from TRAINING DAY (2001) writer David Ayer and sees two cops having a really bad day after they are targeted by a local drug cartel.

Meanwhile, another local kid born into a troubled crime family, Billy Costigan (DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can), also tries to put his past behind him by becoming a cop, but he is quickly tagged and sent to do undercover work as a mole for the police force, working his way up the criminal ladder until he finally arrives as part of Costello's inner sanctum.

Willis plays Steve Ford, a Venice Beach private eye and disgraced loose cannon cop whose beloved Parson Russell terrier gets abducted by drug dealer Spyder (a conceptually Latino Jason Momoa) while he's supposed to be working a case for local real estate developer Lou The Jew (Adam Goldberg)-- a simple enough premise that first - time director Mark Cullen and his co-writer and brother, Robb Cullen, excruciate into 35 minutes.

Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by and starring Chandresekhar and the rest of the Broken Lizard troupe, «Super Troopers 2» picks up the story a number of years after the prank - obsessed, hopelessly hapless state troopers turned local cops were summarily dismissed after an unfortunate tragedy known as «The Fred Savage Incident.»

In that film, a grieving mother (Frances McDormand) empowers herself by confronting her local police department — including a racist cop played by Sam Rockwell — on its lack of progress in investigating the rape and murder of her daughter.

For now, know that Coughlin is on the rise in Boston, aided a bit by his cop father (Brendan Gleeson, great even in what amounts to basically a one - scene role) and in love with local mob boss Albert White's (Robert Glenister) daughter Emma (Sienna Miller).

Avery is an ambitious rookie cop navigating a local police department ruled by the menacingly corrupt detective Deluca (Ray Liotta).

The Guard took the Festival's spirit to heart with expert storytelling, a beautiful Irish setting, and exceptional performances by an accomplished cast led by Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle, the flinty local town cop and Don Cheadle as the FBI outsider investigating an international drug - smuggling ring who turns that cop's sleepy, workaday world completely upside down.

As with most shows dealing with the expansive drug trade, there is of course a «bad cop» (Agent Roy Petty, who I still can't decide if he's a sociopath or just extremely damaged), the omnipresent cartel boss (played by Esai Morales, who can challenge Jason Bateman in a «why doesn't he ever age» contest), mysterious and helpful locals with unknown motives, and a family of slow - talking, brutally violent yokels who traffic heroin.

Joined by girlfriend Angie (Michelle Monaghan) in tracking down missing persons for a living, Patrick's business is wholly dependent on his rapport with the locals — many of whom refuse to speak with the cops.

Throughout the book, Balko demonstrates how bad policymaking at federal, state, and local levels — from the SWAT teams instituted by the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1960s, to Bill Clinton's launch of the Community - Oriented Policing program, to the Section 1033 program that has equipped school cops with assault rifles — has led to innocent lives being endangered even within their own homes.

My desire to drive everywhere at 140 mph was tempered by a vigorous local police presence consisting of town cops, county cops, and state troopers, all of whom pulled me over on a regular basis.

Test Day is also a memorable chow - down and social do; even the local cops drop by.

I know this for a fact, since I teach criminal justice at a local university to cops, or po - pos as they're called, and to security personnel, nicknamed wannabes by the cops.