41.   Other police sources said impaired driving charges were laid and subsequently dropped against Knyazev later that year.

42.   On Friday, Sladek was briefly detained by the police for questioning before the charges were laid.

43.   Police spokesman Brian Swift said the charges were laid late Tuesday night after the youth had been questioned for several hours by police.

44.   She said Australian Federal Police met the aircraft on arrival in Sydney and questioned the passenger concerned, although no charges were laid.

45.   Sr. Det. Phillip Farris said community elders assisted police in laying the charges because the five acted without authority and did not properly inflict the punishment.

46.   Sweeney said police were investigating whether murder charges could be laid against the thieves.

47.   The investigations are meant to determine whether formal charges should be laid.

48.   The government has condemned the violence and a few people have been arrested but no charges have been laid.

49.   The matter was then turned over to police, who investigated and laid the charges.

50.   The investigation has been reopened but no charges have been laid.