Law_Crime

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** FILE ** In a Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, prosecutor Eren Price, left, points to a piece of states evidence as she addresses Elizabeth Escalona, 23, during Escalona's sentencing proceedings in Dallas. Escalona was sentenced Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, to 99 years in prison for beating her toddler and gluing the child's hands to a wall. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

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In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 photo, a Syrian youth cries next to the truck holding the body his brother, killed by Syrian Army shelling, outside Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

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The NHL season was set to begin Oct. 11 and the Washington Capitals' season Oct. 12. (Associated Press)

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A missing person sign is posted on a lamp post near the home of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway where police continue to search for the missing girl in Westminster, Colo., on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. The youngster has been missing since she left her home Friday morning on her way to school. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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**FILE** Maryland state Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot opposes the gambling initiative. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Woody Harrelson (left) plays crime boss Charlie and Christopher Walken plays Hans, the leader of a dognapping scheme who has Charlie’s dog, in “Seven Psychopaths.” (Associated Press)

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**FILE** An alleged member of the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang who was arrested on murder and gun possession charges is shown Aug. 31, 2012, to the press in San Salvador. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A police officer inspects tattoos on Mara Salvatrucha gang member Jose Alexander Carranza after his arrest in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on March 8, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Soldiers stand guard Dec. 21, 2010, while police raid a home in Coban, Guatemala. In December 2010, the Guatemalan military declared a month long state of siege in Alta Verapaz in hopes of reclaiming cities that have been taken over by Mexico's Zetas drug gang. Guatemalan authorities say they have begun to see new and disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America, a deal with the potential to further undermine the U.S.-backed effort to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in the region. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Mara Salvatrucha gang member attends a mass celebrated by Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto, Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador, and head army and police chaplain Monsignor Fabio Colindres at a prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, on March 26, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Larios Benitez, aka "Buda," an alleged member of the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang who was arrested on murder and gun possession charges, is shown Aug. 31, 2012, to the press in San Salvador. (Associated Press)

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An inmate belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang stands inside a prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, on March 26, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Giant panda Mei Xiang relaxes in the sun in her area at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10, 2012, prior to a press conference regarding the cause of the recent death of the panda's newborn cub. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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As two women look on, giant panda Mei Xiang relaxes in the sun in her area at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10, 2012, prior to a press conference regarding the cause of the recent death of the panda's newborn cub. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)