21.   Although an arrest warrant has not been issued, the police described the case as one of attempted murder.

22.   Arlington police arrested Hankins on Thursday after a five-hour standoff in the west Arlington apartment of Barbara Fox, described by police as his girlfriend.

23.   At the time of the shooting, the police described Anthony Mascuzzio as an associate of John Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family.

24.   At the Maywood Express, no one can believe that the quiet man they ate with is a killer or was ever the black militant the police describe.

25.   Counterfeit euros showed up in Ireland and the Netherlands, though the police described the evidence as amateurish and easily detectable.

26.   Ellis was described by police as a member of a teen-age gang calling itself the Bloods, after the powerful West Coast gang of the same name.

27.   For one thing, police describe both suspects as mentally slow.

28.   In Pearl, the circumstances of the murders were more troubling than most this year in what the police have described as the motive.

29.   In what police described as one of several amateurish moves, the kidnappers released the maid after she offered to make them coffee.

30.   Last month alone, two rappers -- Tupac Shakur and a member of the Wu-Tang Clan -- were shot in what the police described as robbery attempts.