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Recent Examples of perp
Marion and Will place bets and Will reveals an adorable photo of his chihuahua, Betty, before the perp in question can't take the pressure and offers to talk.
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Esther Kang, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Using two cantaloupes and some ketchup, Dexter demonstrates that the perp must have strangled his victim to death before dropping the body, accounting for the limited blood spatter.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Five years later, Lori Loughlin has gone from pleading guilty in real life to busting perps on screen.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
Jamie pins the perp against the wall and, in a moment of poetic closure, Janko arrives and cuffs him using Badillo's handcuffs.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Malik revealed that his goal was to practice law, specifically focusing on criminal law and personal injury and criminal.—
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In a recent spree of clemency for white collar criminals, President Trump has pardoned Utah entrepreneur Trevor Milton, who was convicted in 2022 of misleading investors in his hydrogen and electric truck company Nikola.—
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The man was out on bond for DWI with a child passenger and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, the complaint said.—
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Gadson was initially charged in October with murder, armed criminal action and possession of a firearm by a felon.—
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And early intensity gave way to a late-game assassin.—
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Bruce Glover, the unorthodox actor who portrayed Mr. Wint, the assassin with the distinctive aftershave who partnered with Putter Smith’s Mr. Kidd in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, has died.—
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The big picture: Trump has dolled out pardons to people accused of a wide variety of crimes, including Jan. 6 rioters, white-collar crooks and political adversaries' opponents.—
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The couple estimated the crooks made off with $1,105,000 in loot.—
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Then one day, Moses the Black is struck with the horror of it all and joins a desert monastery, where he's eventually killed by another group of bandits.—
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Instead, her love interest is a charming bandit named Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), cut from the same cloth as the animated Flynn from Disney’s Tangled.—
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Scholars say the files that President Donald Trump ordered to be released showed nothing undercutting the conclusion that a lone gunman killed Kennedy, and the declassified versions did not appear to contain significant new revelations about the assassination, based on a review by CBS News.—
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Rodarte’s gunman was killed in the exchange of gunfire.—
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Travelers can also visit the San Felipe Fort for a dose of pirate history, then unwind in the slow-moving current of the natural lazy river Los Rápidos.—
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Elementary School Kids can step into the world of pirates at The North Carolina Maritime Museum, where artifacts from Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge ship live.—
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This keeps malefactors from abusing the service to snoop on private data other than their own.—
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If not properly secured, OTA updates may be intercepted and altered by malefactors, risking the reliability of the entire system.—
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“Perp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perp. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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