Sentence examples for telephone tips from inspiring English sources

Mr. Schumer said he hoped the Bush administration would support the commission idea because it could save embarrassing retreats, like Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement last week that the TIPS program would not, despite earlier indications, compile an electronic database of telephone tips.

They could not follow up on each of the 377 telephone tips the police had received.

But he noted that today's interviews and telephone tips had provided "100 new leads to check". And he left the impression that no arrests were imminent.

Robert Lukas, commander of the Nassau Crime Stoppers unit, a three-detective unit of the Nassau County Police Department specially trained to handle telephone tips from the public.

During that period, the police issued 53,270 summonses for violations like speeding and unsafe lane changes, and received more than 15,000 telephone tips about aggressive drivers on a special phone line, a police spokesman said.

The charges against the two officials grew out of a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry, triggered by a series of telephone tips in 1997 from some of the newly elected leadership of the state police group.

This is a stronger case than obtains in the case of an anonymous telephone tip.

An anonymous telephone tip led investigators to Mr. Medina, the police said.

After a telephone tip on May 10, her body was found wrapped in a blanket about three blocks from her home.

Police were alerted to his presence in Barcelona thanks to a telephone tip-off to the emergency 112 number, Spanish media reported.

Back at the F.B.I.'s Washington office, agents set up a telephone tip line to handle the thousands of calls coming in.