1.   After they filed their report, a detective was assigned to the case to investigate.

2.   Although other departments across the country are assigning detectives to night shifts, LAPD plans call for redeploying only a small number of narcotics detectives.

3.   Because the couple fit none of those criteria, no detective was initially assigned to the case.

4.   A Greenville detective has been assigned to the case, Smeltzer said.

5.   Fifty detectives were assigned to the disappearance of Irene Silverman, an Upper East Side socialite murdered by a mother-and-son con artist team.

6.   Lt. Arthur Monahan said the investigation is still active and that three detectives are assigned to the case.

7.   Los Angeles police homicide Detective Brian Carr said extra detectives were assigned to the case because of the number of tips generated by the prominence of the victim.

8.   Royster said charges against Burris were dropped after new detectives were assigned to the case.

9.   Sgt. John Cocca, a police spokesman, said a detective had been assigned to the investigation.

10.   The campus police assigned a detective.