A loyalist receiving legal aid has had his bail conditions altered so he can go on a week-long Carribean holiday.

Gary ‘Jock’ McKenzie, 25, faces UDA membership charges resulting from a dress rehearsal for a paramilitary show of strength last year in north Belfast.

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Judges in Newark have been making it tougher for suspects in crimes to be released on bail since an illegal immigrant who was free on bail in another case was charged in the horrific slaying of three Newark college students.

Essex County Assignment Judge Patricia Costello has told the judges who hear criminal cases in her county to end the practice of approving bail reductions in off-the-record conferences with attorneys and to obtain written consent from prosecutors before reducing bail. She has also told them to verify defendants’ immigration status.

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David Bain has had his bail conditions changed so he can move to West Auckland to study for a design qualification.

Mr. Bain is awaiting a re-trial for the murder of his family.
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Authorities say they broke down the door at an Imperial home, holding an innocent couple at gunpoint. Now, three Missouri bail bondsmen are facing criminal charges.

Authorities say the men were looking for a fugitive. But somehow, they ended up at the wrong house.
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Dining out, traveling and shopping all became fast and easy with the advent of the credit card.

Now, so has something else: posting bond.

A sleek, ATM-style kiosk now greets arrivals in the concrete block lobby of the St. Lucie County jail, its animated touch screens beckoning arrivals who may debit or charge their bond - the price the accused pays to walk free before standing trial - to a Visa or MasterCard.
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Two private investigators in the Athens area brought a tape to a TV station there. It runs 11 minutes long, beginning five minutes after the 911 call was made. The two men happened to be near the scene at exactly the right time to capture this video from a camera inside their car.

Private investigator Dwight Posey, II. says, “Well when we got there weren’t really any crews that had arrived yet so once we got there, we just kind of established a good point of view and got to the back part there where the fire was actually going real good and just set up.”
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Caught-on-tape vandal Darren Thiesen is guilty of committing “a felony stupid,” his attorney told 1st District Judge Fred Gibler during a sentencing hearing this morning at the Kootenai County Courthouse.

Attorney Fiona Kennedy asked Gibler to grant Thiesen, 24, a withheld judgment for breaking into and burglarizing a Hayden private investigations firm.
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Dan Larsen thwarted a pedophile.

It’s one of the private investigator’s most satisfying cases.

Larsen, a former undercover officer with the Council Bluffs, IA Police Department, took his skills to the private sector in 1987 and opened his own investigation firm, Evidence, Inc., two years later. Most of his work involves child custody cases, where he and his partner Cindy Sorensen search for evidence of parental incompetence.

In one such case, a father hired the detectives because he was concerned his young son was allowed to spend unsupervised time with his mother, who had a pedophilic stepson.
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The private investigator whose work triggered the indictment of a retired FBI agent took the stand yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court as defense attorneys again tried to impugn the information that formed the basis of the former G-man’s murder charges.

Angela Clemente, along with her now-deceased partner Dr. Stephen Dresch, had been looking into government corruption within the FBI when she discovered information suggesting a possible corrupt relationship between former FBI agent R. Lindley DeVecchio and his informant Gregory “The Grim Reaper” Scarpa Sr. — a Colombo crime family capo.

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