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Elite Squad is the latest in a catalogue of Brazilian films about violence in Rio de Janeiro, the city of paradise lost. Captain Nascimento, the anti-hero - or hero, depending on your point of view - is an officer in the Battalion of Special Police Operations (Bope), a commando unit that targets the gangs which control Rio's favelas, or shanty towns. The opening scenes of a wild firefight at a "funk" party, when a pay-off by drug traffickers to police goes wrong, set the pace for a... Read more
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03 March 2012
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New Mexico police officer arrested on bribery, prostitution charges after allegedly soliciting women
Police in Albuquerque say they've arrested a state police officer after an
investigation that began when he was spotted picking up a prostitute.
A warrant charges 34-year-old Timothy Carlson with extortion, bribery, soliciting
prostitution, sex charges and violating ethics laws. He was arrested late Friday
after he allegedly picked up a prostitute who had been acting as a police informant
and drove to the state fairground and parked.
He was in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque on
Saturday. Online records didn't list an attorney.
The warrant alleges that Carlson had sex several times with female prostitutes he
picked up in Albuquerque while driving his unmarked police vehicle. He was
assigned to the Department of Public Safety's special investigations division.
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