1.   Although he has been charged with only minor economic crimes, he has been held incommunicado.

2.   -- Inmates convicted of minor crimes in L.A. are allowed to serve out their sentences at relatively pleasant suburban jails, if they can get in.

3.   A Home Office spokesman said much of the increase in crime could be attributed to minor street crime, especially the theft of cellular telephones.

4.   Also, treating minor crimes more harshly has set a tone in neighborhoods that crime will not be tolerated in any form, Kleinman said.

5.   But a growing number of mentally ill people also land in jail, often for minor crimes related more to illness than to criminal tendency, say experts.

6.   But a growing number of mentally ill people land in jail, often for minor crimes related more to illness than to criminal tendency, say experts.

7.   But many more are homeless people like Michael H., charged with minor crimes that are byproducts of their illnesses.

8.   But the department failed to realize two of the cars were missing for a week or more, and one of them was used to commit a minor crime.

9.   Charged only with minor economic crimes, Liu was held for months at a military detention center.

10.   Farquharson said it bothers him that a person can be deported for committing one minor crime.