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A protest by former employees of Catalina Precision Products in Detroit, Mich. drew not just workers, but their supporters, too. (Sandy Tymczak/CBC)
The CAW says Catalina Precision Products – a client of U.S.-based Comerica Bank – owes 80 workers $2.4 million in severance and vacation pay.
The autoworkers lost their jobs when Catalina shut down the Aradco and Aramco plants in Windsor in March.
The former employees have received $400,000 in severance, but the CAW contends the workers are owed more — and wants workers to receive their money before the bank does.
“We’re saying that this is an international fight back,” said Gerry Farnham, president of Local 195.
“As far as we’re concerned, these workers are being used as pawns in a game by speculators, asset strippers and liquidators.”

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Ex-Tucson resident acquitted in ‘01 slaying outside strip club
Friend testified he saw slaying, was also targeted
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.19.2009
A former Tucson resident facing a potential life sentence in a eight-year-old homicide case was acquitted by a Pima County jury Wednesday.
Reginald Reed, 47, was arrested in Florida last fall on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the death of Lewis Washington, 39.
Reed’s wife, Brandi, testified Tuesday he was home with her the night Washington died, but a friend of the two men, Steven Jones, told jurors Reed killed Washington and tried to kill him, too.
Jones testified that Reed became upset with Washington in September 2001 because he’d heard rumors Washington had called Reed’s girlfriend, who is now his wife, a disparaging name.
On Sept. 14, 2001, Jones said he rode to a Tucson strip bar with Reed so they could straighten things out with Washington.

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A former Tucson resident facing a potential life sentence in a seven-year-old homicide case was acquitted by a Pima County jury Wednesday.
Reginald Reed, 47, was arrested in Florida last fall on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the death of Lewis Washington, 39.
Reed’s wife, Brandi, testified Tuesday he was home with her the night Washington died, but a friend of the two men, Steven Jones, told jurors Reed killed Washington and tried to kill him, too.
Jones testified Reed became upset with Washington in September 2001 because he’d heard rumors Washington had called Reed’s girlfriend, who is now his wife, a disparaging name.
On Sept. 14, 2001, Jones said he rode to a Tucson strip bar with Reed so they could straighten things out with Washington.

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… We have seen billions of dollars going into expanding programs that sound great on paper — they make wonderful announcements from Homeland Security leadership — but they have not taken the time to put any of the measures in place to ensure they actually mean anything,” said Jennifer Allen, director of Tucson-based Border Action Network. “You can’t just throw money at a problem.”
Still, the federal government is eager to keep the money coming.
Agencies have not yet spent all of the $60 million allocated in the 2008 grant cycle. But they have permission to start spending the $90 million allocated nationwide for the grant cycle that runs through March 2011.
Variations per agency
Southern Arizona police have worked thousands of overtime hours under Operation Stonegarden.
How they spend those hours depends on the jurisdiction:
• South Tucson police target prostitutes as a way to bust drug dealers and users.

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PHOENIX (KOLD) – An off-duty Tucson Border Patrol agent was arrested in a prostitution sting in Phoenix last week.
His identity has not been released but investigators say he’s on administrative leave.
The prostitution sting happened Friday in the Maryvale precinct near 51st Avenue and I-10.
Female officers were used as decoys during the operation.
Investigators say the agent, who was wearing a Cardinals football jersey, offered $40 for sex to one of the decoys.

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BAG GAG, CIRCLE DRIVE: Police found a bag, which had been filled with dog excrement and lit on fire, on the front porch of a home on Circle Drive around 11:46 p.m. on Oct. 30. Officers discarded the bag and checked around the exterior of the house but did not find anybody.
MARIJUANA, PEARL ROAD: While stopped at a red light on Oct. 30 in his civilian vehicle, an officer witnessed a man smoking marijuana in an adjacent vehicle.
 Upon seeing the officer, the man disposed of the marijuana and foil pipe by throwing it out his window. The driver of the other car drove north on Pearl Rd. out of Medina, but the officer identified the man and issued a warrant.
TOOL THEFT, WADSWORTH ROAD: A variety of tools — including a Craftsman ratchet set, swivel sockets, wire strippers, ratchet screw driver, wire pliers — and a Craftsman tool box were stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked at a Wadsworth Road residence. The items are valued at approximately $1,150.

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Strangely encouraged to press on, I popped in the next one, a grimy exploitation flick with a title exactly like “Run, Lola, Run!” except for the Lola part. It screens at 9:30 tonight at the Screening Room.
But unlike that breathless German treasure from 1998, this “Run” walks the line between dull and duller. It’s an unintelligible hodgepodge of images that never threatens to mean anything.
After enduring these two examples of underground cinema so that you don’t have to, the multiplex has never looked so inviting. Surely “The Men Who Stare at Goats” would be more worthwhile than what was up next at my house: A documentary about the men and women who star in porn.
But “9 to 5 Days in Porn” turns out to be a first-rate documentary that’s full of absurd human drama. Expertly constructed to reveal virtually every aspect of the unsavory adult entertainment industry, it’s surprisingly insightful and hard-edged (and explicit).

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TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) – Grant Road had no shortage of police Wednesday afternoon and into the night.  From patrol cars to bicycle officers to undercover units, Tucson Police performed a Quality of Life Enforcement Deployment in midtown.
“It just seems to me like they’re everywhere,” Will Ure said on the corner of Grant Road and Tucson Boulevard.  “It’s a somewhat effective display of force but I don’t know how effective it is in the overall scheme of bringing crime down or keeping dangerous people off the streets.”
About fifty police officers patrolled Grant Road between Stone Avenue and Columbus Boulevard from 2 p.m. to midnight.  Enforcement included everything from traffic to drug violations and prostitution.
“These are very productive for us,” Sgt. Robert Reed said about the patrols.  “It gives (officers) the flexibility to do some regular enforcement, and some irregular enforcement-type activities like targeting narcotics, prostitution.”

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Man shot outside Tucson strip club by Associated Press (October 28th, 2009 @ 1:25pm)
TUCSON, Ariz. — Tucson police made an arrest Wednesday in a deadly shooting outside a strip club.
Officers responded to a shooting at the Candy Store, at 22nd Street and Craycroft, around 1:30 a.m.
Police said Angel A. Martinez, 20, was taken to University Medical Center where he later died.
Investigators say Martinez was involved in an altercation with several other men as he was leaving the strip club.
Cliffton Martinez, 28, was arrested within hours and booked into the Pima County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder.
The shooting was the second homicide outside the strip club since July 30.
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