offender

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But police officials said one helpful tool has been a law allowing investigators to aggregate the thefts of a repeat offender at the same store.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Those files exposed a friendship between the convicted sex offender and Peter Mandelson, a Labour Party grandee and Mr. Starmer’s choice for ambassador to Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The inquiry heard how the prosecution had hoped to obtain a hybrid order for Calocane, whereby an offender can be transferred to prison after hospital treatment.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Evidence from the phone showed Foulkes was aware of the man's status as a registered sex offender earlier than he had claimed when speaking to vetting officers.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

This week his job was escorting a violent juvenile offender first from Minneapolis to Seattle, then to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they boarded a big silver floatplane to the Tlingit village of Drake.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen