Belleville News Democrat: Crime and Courts http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Belleville News Democrat en-us Copyright 2008 Belleville News Democrat Crime and Courts 60 Sat, 17 May 2008 08:03:20 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@Belleville.com Tennessee sex offender molests child at Belleville pub, police say http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/342995.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/342995.html Sat, 17 May 2008 05:24 CDT A 53-year-old registered sex offender from Tennessee was arrested Wednesday after police said he molested a 12-year-old girl in a Belleville pub. Belleville police: 12-year-old accosted by stranger http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/343003.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/343003.html Sat, 17 May 2008 05:27 CDT Belleville police are investigating a report of a suspicious person who police said approached a 12-year-old boy and asked if he wanted some candy. Victim of park attack released from hospital, now in hiding http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/342983.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/342983.html Sat, 17 May 2008 08:02 CDT The female victim of a brutal attack at Horseshoe Lake State Park was released from the hospital on Thursday. Madison shopkeeper 'very happy' with acquittal on murder charges http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/342958.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/342958.html Sat, 17 May 2008 06:09 CDT Madison shopkeeper Baha "Bob" Hamdallah took a chance by not accepting a guilty plea, and he came out the winner. Instead of 38 years in prison, freedom: Shopkeeper found innocent in retrial http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/341924.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/341924.html Fri, 16 May 2008 05:13 CDT A Madison shopkeeper is a free man after a jury found him innocent Thursday of an October 2000 shooting death. Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/341283.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/341283.html Fri, 16 May 2008 06:30 CDT A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. Cottage Hills man sentenced to 11 years in prison for stabbing wife http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/340949.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/340949.html Thu, 15 May 2008 08:59 CDT A metro-east man will spend 11 years in prison for stabbing his wife last year. Accused parole violator faces new drug charges http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/341868.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/341868.html Fri, 16 May 2008 06:02 CDT An East St. Louis man accused of violating his parole in January was nabbed Tuesday afternoon with $1,500 worth of crack cocaine in his possession, police said. East St. Louis police arrest parolee with $1,500 in crack cocaine http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/340533.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/340533.html Wed, 14 May 2008 21:44 CDT An East St. Louis man who violated his parole in January and who police were seeking was nabbed Tuesday afternoon with $1,500 worth of crack cocaine in his possession, police said. Death of two in Millstadt trench collapse ruled accident http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/340706.html http://www.bnd.com/news/crime/story/340706.html Thu, 15 May 2008 05:21 CDT Two workmen who died in a trench collapse at a Millstadt sewer project were working without a protective "trench cage," a police officer testified Wednesday.