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Loot returned

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-19

YANGPU District police returned about 3.6 million yuan (US$527,396) cash, 26 mopeds and two cars to crime victims yesterday afternoon -- goods they retrieved. In one case, a man surnamed Wang was cheated of 3 million...

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Minor kills restaurant owner after late food delivery

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-18

PROSECUTORS in Shanghai charged a 17-year-old boy with intentional injury for killing a restaurant owner after he was late delivering his food. The prosecutors of Jiading District said the unemployed minor ordered...

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Thieves grab hold of cyclists' handbags

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-18

POLICE to bicyclists: Hold onto your handbags. Police have cracked down on a gang that specialized in grabbing property from cyclists on cold winter days. Three suspects - with motorcycles, stolen cell phones...

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Fatal hit and run

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-18

A 70-year-old woman was rolled and killed by a truck about 8am yesterday on Jiangyang Road S. in Hongkou District. The police were still chasing the driver last night, who left the scene with the truck. The police...

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DUI detained

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-18

A FOREIGN man from an East Asian country was detained and fined for drunk driving. The man was caught on November 5 when he was driving on Hongquan Road, Minhang District. The blood test showed that his alcohol...

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Man kills self

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-17

A MAN killed himself after being spotted stealing mopeds and cornered by crowds in a residential area in Xuhui District on Sunday. The suspect, 43, stabbed his waist with a knife after he escaped into a river,...

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Terms met, at last, on flattened flats

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-17

NO lawsuit, at last. Owners of 21 flats in a toppled building in a Minhang District complex decided on a resolution to a four-month-long exhausting and sometimes angry negotiation on the compensations. Ten...

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Cops up heat on illicit drugs, sex, games

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-16

SHANGHAI police will intensify supervision of entertainment and recreation places across the city after a series of crackdowns on prostitution, gambling and drug-related businesses this year. The Shanghai Public...

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Farmer jailed for online pyramid scheme

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A SHANGHAI farmer has been jailed for six months for running an online pyramid sale scheme, the first detected in the city. Chen Xiting, 56, managed to collect more than 200,000 yuan (US$29,301) from more than...

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Inmate loses appeal after seeking bribes

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A PRISONER in Shanghai has lost an appeal to shorten his life sentence after investigators found he had asked two fellow inmates for bribes of 4,000 yuan (US$586.02) to improve their jail conditions. The inmate...

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Dead knife victim 'picked at random'

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

CITY prosecutors said yesterday that the suspected killer of a university teacher picked his victim at random after a quarrel on a bus. Police have arrested the suspect surnamed Yang, who allegedly confessed that...

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Fatal crash

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A HIGH-RANKING official with Baoshan District Major Construction Office was killed last night in a car accident in Yangpu District. The official, surnamed Zhang, 41, lost the control of her car and hit a roadside...

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Worker falls

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A 33-YEAR-OLD migrant worker surnamed Li died when he fell from the Middle Ring Road in Yangpu District yesterday evening. The accident happened at about 5pm. Witnesses said Li was working at the egg-shaped intersection...

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Courier wanted money for son

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A FATHER who said he delivered illegal drugs to earn some money for his son's wedding ceremony was caught by the police, who said he will face severe punishment. The 57-year-old man surnamed Yang was found carrying...

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A noisy quarrel, then two are dead, infant orphaned

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A MAN committed suicide by jumping from his apartment building in the city's Yangpu District yesterday morning, and soon afterward his wife's corpse was found in their apartment. Their 20-month-old son was left...