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Amherst tenant faces criminal charges after covered smoke detectors discovered in rental home
A tenant at an off-campus student rental is facing criminal charges after firefighters last week discovered smoke detectors in the house covered with plastic bags and pull stations disabled
Read More »Building tenant traps suspect in west end crime spree
A serial burglar allegedly responsible for a west-end crime spree is facing dozens of charges after an angry tenant trapped him in an underground parking garage
Read More »Landlord forged judge’s signature to evict Cortlandt tenant, police say
A landlord denied a court warrant to evict a tenant created a bogus eviction notice, forged the judge’s signature and served the notice on the tenant of an apartment he owns in Cortlandt, state
Read More »Tenant held for attempt to murder woman, brother-in-law
A tiff over rent led to a tenant assaulting the landlord's daughter-in-law and a son, landing them in hospital in critical condition. The fight took place at landlord Shanta Jogi's residence at Santoshi Nagar,
Read More »Murder accused looked ‘dazed like a zombie’
Victim Carina Petrache and her accused killer Farshad "Shawn" Badakhshan appeared to resemble "zombies" when the burning couple staggered into the kitchen of their home, her murder trial heard Thursday
Read More »Halifax police renew calls for clues in man’s 1999 shooting death
Halifax Regional Police are renewing calls for clues in the 1999 shooting death of a man in Dartmouth. Police responded to a report of an injured man at an apartment at 88 Queen Street
Read More »Tenant held for attempt to murder woman, brother-in-law
A tiff over rent led to a tenant assaulting the landlord's daughter-in-law and a son, landing them in hospital in critical condition. The fight took place at landlord Shanta Jogi's residence at Santoshi Nagar,
Read More »Murder suspect’s ‘weird’ behavior described
Accused double-murderer Susan Monica fed dead pets and domestic animals to the pigs she kept on her rural Rogue River farm, where the dismembered bodies of her two alleged victims were found, a former
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