The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

* 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

Weir's first American film was the successful thriller Witness ( 1985 ), the first of two films he made with Harrison Ford, about an Amish boy who sees the murder of an undercover police officer and has to be hidden away in his Amish community to protect him.

Falcone's friend, Antonio Cassara, who headed the police squad hunting fugitives was murdered in 1985.

The case lasted ten years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the United States, triggered an amendment in 1985 to that country's Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization.

The case led to the first police raid in the United States on an animal laboratory, triggered an amendment in 1985 to the United States Animal Welfare Act, and became the first animal-testing case to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld a Louisiana State Court ruling that denied PETA's request for custody of the monkeys.

While face-to-face assassination was the early modus operandi, in 1985 the group exploded its first bomb, using a long cable to detonate stolen quarrying explosives, against a bus full of riot police, killing one.

In 1985, the group made national news when police dropped a bomb on the Osage house from a helicopter in an attempt to end an armed standoff.

The two team up with Charles ( Wright ), a Jamaican Chicago police officer who has been trailing Screwface for five years ( since 1985 ).

In 1985, Minden was found to be home to a cocaine processing lab set up by the Cali cocaine cartel, which was shut down following a state police investigation of an explosion at the lab.

In 1985, the village obtained the depot, which was the police station until they moved into the building next to the current fire station.

" World in Action demonstrated hard-hitting investigative journalism and explored issues such as police corruption at the Metropolitan Police in 1985 and revealed the Royal Family's tax loophole in 1991.

The Stasi ( East German secret police ) used the old tower until 1985, when they moved to a new building – now a museum.

The 1985 police confrontation and bombing of MOVE, a black commune, occurred during Rendell's tenure as District Attorney.

A third ' Bash The Rich ' event, scheduled to march through Hampstead in 1985, was largely prevented by a heavy police presence, and was acknowledged by Class War to have been a failure.

In one 1985 recording, Fuhrman gave a taped interview to Laura Hart McKinny, a writer working on a screenplay about female police officers.

In the 1980s, e. g. 1985, Ozone Park's NYPD 106th Precinct became the source and scene of several police brutality incidents, e. g. April 17, 1985's stun gun of high schooler Mark Davidson who was arrested on marijuanna possession charges.

Ibrahim Libya, a popular Islamist leader, was killed in a police shoot-out in 1985 ; Al-Arqam, a religious sect, was banned and its leader, Ashaari Mohammad, arrested under the Internal Security Act.

The BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who features a time machine, the TARDIS, disguised as a Mackenzie Trench-style police box ; normally capable of disguising itself to blend in to its surroundings, the ship's chameleon circuit broke down and left the TARDIS seen most often in the show stuck as a police box, except for a brief period in one adventure seen in 1985.

In 1985 three institutions of higher learning for police personnel were established — the Chinese People's Public Security University, the University of Police Officers, and the Institute of Criminal Police — offering more than twenty special courses.

In 1985, over 23, 000 pages of Hauptmann-case police documents were found in the garage of the late Governor Hoffman.

* The coal miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ) saw thousands of police from various forces deployed to maintain public order and to prevent intimidation of those continuing to work during a national strike by miners, frequently resulting in violent confrontation.

On 9 June 1985, a police informer in Hamilton reported that Parmar and Bagri had visited the Malton Sikh Temple, warning the faithful that " it would be unsafe " to fly Air India.

* The number of juveniles who were arrested for committing a crime increased by 16. 3 % between from 1985 and 1992.

He fled Liberia, was arrested in 1984 in Massachusetts on a Liberian warrant for extradition, and jailed in Massachusetts ; escaped from jail in 1985, and probably fled to Libya.

* 1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations.

* 1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.

Crosby was sentenced to two terms, but the conviction was overturned ; arrested several more times, he finally turned himself in to the authorities in December 1985.

In early 1985, Castellano was one of many Mafia bosses arrested on charges of racketeering, which was to result in the Mafia Commission Trial.

On 28 October 1985, Osho and a small number of sannyasins accompanying him were arrested aboard a rented Learjet at a North Carolina airstrip ; according to federal authorities the group was en route to Bermuda to avoid prosecution.

Also in 1985, Roger Stockham, who would later be arrested for attempting to blow up a mosque in Michigan, was arrested at the airport for planting a pipe bomb and carrying an unregistered weapon.

He would be later arrested in Knoxville, Tennessee on August 4, 1985.

On 11 June 1985 Metso Moncrieffe was arrested and held by police pending a deportation order.

Also in 1985, Abdoulaye Wade, Diouf's main political opponent, was temporarily arrested for unlawful demonstration.

The government arrested him again in December 1985 in Riyadh.

He was arrested, and, in the ensuing investigation, his espionage activities were discovered ; he was eventually executed in 1985.

Based on this fact McDougall proposed in 1985 that the alexithymic part of an adult personality could be " an extremely arrested and infantile psychic structure ".

In 1985 he was arrested in Alabama as an illegal alien and charged with cocaine possession, as well as possession of an illegal knife.

Several experts, including British Hitler expert Hugh Trevor-Roper came forward to pronounce the diaries to be authentic ; when this was disproven Heidemann was arrested, tried, and sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 1985 for fraud, as was Konrad Kujau, who had actually done the forging of the books in Hitler's handwriting, as he had done previously with other fraudulent Hitler documents.

Lane was arrested on the evening of March 30, 1985 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

In 1985 Kasten was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after a District of Columbia police officer observed him running a red light and driving on the wrong side of the road.

Twice he was arrested in 1983 and 1985.

Persico was arrested on February 15, 1985.

During the 1980s, Vancier was arrested again, along with two other JDL members in connection with six incidents ; a 1984 firebombing of an automobile at a Soviet diplomatic residence, the 1985 and 1986 fire and pipe bombings of an FBI informer's car, the 1986 firebombing at a hall where the Soviet State Symphony Orchestra was performing, and two 1986 detonations of tear gas grenades to protest performances by Soviet dance