The two men are described by police as extremely violent

Late on Thursday evening, two young men aged 17 and 20 escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Riskov, just outside of Århus in Jutland.

Both men were being held at the hospital for violent crimes, and a police manhunt for the men, who were described as 'dangerous', started shortly after the escape at approximately 10pm.

The 17-year-old man is of slim build, and was wearing jeans and a white hooded jumper with orange lining and orange writing on the back. He is described as dangerous by local police and has in the past used weapons. The 20-year-old, who is of a stocky build, was wearing a white sweatshirt and black t-shirt, as well as short trousers and sandals.

Police added that they do not yet have the article's full translation and have no clue as to who the sender was or why a letter containing the article and white powder was sent to the office.

Man arrested in Vesterbro district has prior drugs conviction

A 43-year-old man has been charged with dealing drugs after 7.7 kilos of amphetamines were confiscated by police in a raid this morning.

The arrest was made at the man’s apartment in the city’s Vesterbro district. In addition to the amphetamines, some ecstasy tablets and a stack of cash – apparently from drug sales – were also confiscated by police.

No motive is yet known for the blitz of bullets that hit a car last night

Police are looking for witnesses to a wild shooting that occurred at the corner of Frederikssundsvej and Frederiksborgsvej streets in the city’s northwest district last night.

According to police, at least 13 shots were fired from one vehicle at another during the incident. However, many of the shots missed their target and ended up hitting the windows of several shops at the busy intersection.

Police report identifies naked tourist couple arrested as being Danish

A Danish couple was reportedly arrested this past weekend in Paris for walking around the city wearing only their shoes, according to French newspaper Libération.

The pair, both 21, allegedly walked through the city’s Butte-Montmartre district in the buff, at one point stopping to buy chocolate croissants.

Money trail leads to three bank accounts in the US

In collaboration with the FBI, the Danish police has tracked down a large portion of the estimated 220 million kroner that Stein Bagger, along with his Swedish accomplice Mikael Ljungman, embezzled from his company IT Factory, according to a report in financial daily Børsen.

After six failed attempts to phone police a man was shot in the face

Evidence presented today in the Næstved lower court indicated that a 33-year-old man unsuccessfully attempted to contact police six times just prior to his murder, reports Berlingske Tidende newspaper.

A witness to the 16 August 2009 shooting testified that Kenneth Helbæk Kristensen called police ‘several times’ during a heated argument in a car with his 21-year-old girlfriend and her new boyfriend. The incident took place town of Dianalund in the western Zealand.

More violence against police officers – this time in Odense

A group of police officers who stopped a suspected criminal last night at the Vollsmose council estate in Odense were attacked and chased off by several assailants, reports TV2 News.

According to Funen police, officers in one car had attempted to stop a vehicle with ‘known criminals’ inside, but the driver kept going until he reached the Vollsmose estates. They then stopped, and when the officers got out of their car to approach the suspects they were immediately attacked, with rocks and bottles thrown at them.

Drug charges dropped against woman who sat 23 months in jail

The Crown Prosecutor’s office will pay a Romanian woman 480,000 kroner in compensation after she spent nearly two years in custody for drug charges that were eventually dropped, according to public broadcaster DR.

Bikes thefts peak during the months of August and September

Figures from insurance firm Codan show that bicycle thieves are far more active in August and September than during the rest of the year.

Codan’s Niels Østergaard told public broadcaster DR that in 2009 the amount of bike thefts in August and September rose by 80 percent compared with January and February of the same year.

A lower criminal age of responsibility has increased arrests of young people

Ever since the the age of criminal age of responsibility was lowered last month to 14 at least 55 more arrests and charges have been made against those under 15, according to a study by DR News Research.

Prior confrontation led to hit and run involving six football fans

Six men were injured – one critically – after a 19-year-old man mowed the group down in his car after a football match last night in the Jutland town of Horsens.

Witnesses told police that the vehicle, which carried four Odense Boldklub fans, ran into the group of men and continued on without stopping.

Unprovoked assault being investigated as aggravated assault

An American teenager playing in the Dana Cup football tournament in town of Hjørring suffered a broken nose last night when he was attacked with a baseball bat by unknown assailants.

Nordjykse Media reports that the young man was with a group of other football players in the town when the unprovoked attack occurred shortly after midnight.

Officials hope autopsy will identify gender, cause of death

Police in Roskilde are trying to determine the identity of a body found in a gravel pit there yesterday.

Investigators said that because the body had been exposed to the elements, they were unable to determine the age or gender of the body.

Hidden cameras uncover scandal at Copenhagen care centre

The head of a home help centre in northwest Copenhagen has been fired and several members of staff suspended after a documentary using hidden cameras uncovered widespread negligence.

The documentary by national broadcaster TV2 News revealed that staff members at the Håndværkerhaven care centre spent much of their time shopping, eating at restaurants, or simply relaxing at home instead of attending to their duties.

Pair escapes as man steals gold chain from their home

A family in Rødovre, a suburb west of Copenhagen, were confronted in their home by a large man armed with a handgun late Thursday night.

The man threatened the mother and her 4-year old daughter, who then fled, before going into the living room and stealing a gold chain from the woman’s husband.

A 14-year-old boy is the first to be arrested under the new age of criminal responsibility law

On 1 July – just minutes after it came into effect – the first teenager was charged under a new law reducing the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14 years.

According to reports, the 14-year old boy from Svendborg on the island of Funen was caught by local police speeding at up to 180 km an hour in a stolen car, and then placed in custody in Aabenraa in southern Jutland.

Sentences have finally been passed in a notorious incest case involving three children in southern Jutland

In a case that has shaken the country, and posed serious questions about the effectiveness of the country’s child welfare system, a 54-year old man and his 49-year old wife from the town of Tinglev were found guilty of sexually abusing their three children for many years.

The children included a mentally-retarded 14-year old girl, who was sexually abused until 2009, and two adult sons from the mother’s previous relationship who were abused between the ages of 12 and 15.

As more details emerge about their criminal activities, the public prosecutor once again considers banning the biker gang

New information from ex-members of the Hells Angels - which reveal the biker gang’s involvement in violence, blackmail and organised crime – has made the public prosecutor reconsider banning the organisation on constitutional grounds.

According to the Danish constitution any association that uses violence to promote its activities can be broken up by law. However, when faced with a similar decision three months ago, the public prosecutor and the head of the national police decided not to press for an outlawing of the biker gang.

Gang conflict most probably to blame for a shooting on a suburban thoroughfare that injured one woman

A 19-year-old woman was shot in the arm on Saturday night while riding in a car in the suburb of Herlev.

According to police, the woman was a passenger in a car driven by a member of the Hells Angels support gang AK81. A second gang member and another woman were also in the vehicle, which was travelling on Gladsaxe Ringvej road when three shots were fired at it from a dark-coloured SUV.