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BEAUMONT, TEXAS - An e-mail sent out about helping low-performing students at Ozen High School caused some confusion Monday. Assistant Principal Elvena Colbert sent out an e-mail stating that all black male students were to sit on the front row in classrooms. Principal James Broussard later sent out an e-mail urging staff to disregard the one distributed [...]
STRATFORD, CONNECTICUT — The fashion police were sent packing Monday night in Stratford when the Town Council rejected a proposal to fine people who wear their pants so low they expose their underwear or buttocks. Opponents urged the committee to reject the literal belt tightening proposal before it made the town even more of the butt [...]
ABBOTSFORD, WISCONSIN - Two men, driving the same pickup truck, have been cited for driving drunk in central Wisconsin. Police stopped their truck in Abbotsford, Wis. recently and found 43-year-old Harvey Miller was steering the truck. Miller has no legs. Officers say 55-year-old Edwin Marzinske was operating the gas pedals and brake. The police report says Miller admitted [...]
EL PASO, TEXAS - A woman detained after the latest Border Patrol shooting is alleging the agent shot and killed the wrong man, her El Paso lawyers said Thursday. Border Patrol officials denied the allegation and said she never made the claim during an investigation. The woman, Laura Contreras Escárcega, 25, of Chihuahua City, was released from [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho pleaded guilty this month to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after being arrested at the Minneapolis airport. A Hennepin County court docket showed Craig pleading guilty to the disorderly conduct charge Aug. 8, with the court dismissing a charge of gross misdemeanor interference to privacy. The court docket said the Republican [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO - A police officer in President Bush’s motorcade crashed his motorcycle and died Monday, less than a year after a crash in Hawaii killed another motorcycle officer accompanying the president. Rio Rancho Officer Germaine Casey, 40, crashed at the Albuquerque airport at a point where a road enters an underground parking garage, said [...]
PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA - Pima County sobriety checkpoints have netted a tiny number of DUI arrests despite stopping tens of thousands of drivers since 2005, an Arizona Daily Star investigation has found. Since the Sheriff’s Department began staging checkpoints nearly two years ago — overriding authorities’ previous concerns that the stops yielded few arrests — fewer [...]
WINONA, MISSISSIPPI - A Montgomery County deputy sheriff might be facing a probable cause hearing for simple assault after the grandmother of a 15-year-old boy alleged Thursday that the deputy used excessive force against the teen. Deputy Glenn Amason has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation of the incident by an outside law enforcement [...]
NEW YORK - Caught helping itself to 9/11 donations, the state Fraternal Order of Police has agreed to surrender more than $9 million to families of fallen cops and to a health-care program for Ground Zero responders, The Post has learned. In a settlement with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the FOP will distribute about $6 million [...]
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA - A former South Florida police officer has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for defrauding his department. 37-year old Vincent Balestrieri, who worked for the Delray Beach Police Department, claimed he had been called to duty in Iraq when he had actually taken a civilian job in Tampa. Our news partners [...]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - In an embarrassing turn for the police department, a 17-year-old suspected of attempted robbery sneaked out of a Brooklyn precinct house early Friday. He was the second suspect to escape a city station house in less than 24 hours, and like the first man, appeared to have made his getaway [...]
HOUSTON, TEXAS — A University of Houston Downtown police officer was struck by a bullet while sitting in a restaurant after someone fired multiple rounds near there — possibly while driving on a freeway, Houston police said Sunday. The officer, who was taken to a local hospital in stable condition, was struck while he was eating [...]
DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS - A former Stoughton police sergeant is sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges. David Cohen was also sentenced in Norfolk Superior Court today to 150 hours of community service and ordered to undergo anger management training. He was previously fired from the police department after 19 years on the force. Cohen was found [...]
PHILLIPSBURG, OHIO — An off-duty Trotwood police officer was shot twice Sunday at his home, yet was able to run about a block to seek help at a fire station. “I heard screaming, then I saw him running down the street kind of stumbling, holding his arm,” said 16-year-old James Morris. “He was sprinting as fast [...]
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Ken Bell had built a new career as a correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center when Seattle police knocked on his door in September 2003. Police questioned the married Air Force reservist about two boys’ accusations that he had sexually assaulted them while working as a counselor at Children’s Home Society in [...]
TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA - He built a fence, a retaining wall, a patio and a few cement columns to decorate his driveway and now Francisco Linares is going to jail for it. Linares had been given six months to get final permits for the offending structures or remove them as part of a plea agreement reached in [...]
PORTAGE, ILLINOIS — This week Portage Police officer Roger Peele Jr. will get the opportunity to defend himself against charges of mistreating two suspects — three months after he was placed on desk duty. The Portage Police Merit Board will hear the case against Peele on Thursday. The hearing was delayed multiple times because of schedule [...]
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Several male police officers are on paid leave, and a female police dispatcher is off the job as an investigation into allegations of sex between on-duty officers continues. 24 Hour News 8 first brought the incident to light on Friday night when GRPD Chief Harry Dolan issued a statement confirming an internal [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — People calling 911 from cell phones are overwhelming California’s 911 system, resulting in lengthy waits and hundreds of thousands of lost calls, the Los Angeles Times reported today. A review by the Times found that half of the state’s CHP dispatch centers are not meeting national standards. The California Highway [...]
MONTROSE, VIRGINIA - A flurry of firings and punitive schedule changes for whistle-blowing have created turmoil within the 20-member police force at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital here, according to some officers and the head of their union. Since last month, two Montrose officers have gotten termination letters in what they say was retaliation for [...]
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - A former Mississippi State trooper and motivational speaker hanged himself in prison Sunday after receiving a 10-year sentence in Lee County for conviction of fondling a child. Pete Collins, 62, was found in cell about 2:44 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility near Pearl, according to state Corrections Commissioner Chris [...]
METHUEN, MASSACHUSETTS - A police sergeant has been temporarily stripped of his gun and badge and six other officers admonished for taking a dinner break and watching the New England Patriots football game at the station while on duty Friday night, leaving just two officers patrolling the city. Police Chief Joseph Solomon refused to identify the [...]
CLEVELAND, OHIO — A federal indictment accuses a Cleveland patrolman of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. FBI agents arrested Officer Zvonko Sarlog at the police station Saturday night following his shift. Law enforcement officials say that the drugs came from Mexico and were brought to Sarlog by a relative — Both individuals are in custody at this time. Police [...]
SALISBURY, MARYLAND — The criminal motions for an ex-Salisbury police officer accused of committing rape and burglary while on duty as a patrolman were canceled Thursday. Tracy Ross Sparpaglione, 26, of Laurel, Del. allegedly unlawfully entered the home of a woman he had arrested hours earlier in a domestic dispute during Memorial Day weekend and then [...]
BUFFALO, NEW YORK - A talk show producer once told me that he breaks police officers down into three categories. Twenty percent of the officers are really good cops; they arrest dangerous criminals, they’ll climb a tree to save your little girl’s cat. Another 20 percent are flat-out evil, bad, corrupt, racist and abusive. And [...]
DETROIT, MICHIGAN — A lawyer for the city spent this morning tearing apart an ex-cop’s claim that he feared for his life because he had reported on misdeeds of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s bodyguards. Wilson Copeland, an attorney for the city, questioned former Detective Harold Nelthrope about his previous comments equating his experience to that of legendary [...]
UK - In another victory for the Motion Picture Industry of America, a former movie pirate is being forced to switch from the Linux OS to Windows. Scott McCausland, who pleaded guilty in September 2006 to the crime of uploading Star Wars: Episode III to the site Elitetorrents.com, was charged with “conspiracy to commit copyright infringement” [...]
TULSA, OKLAHOMA - The mother of a former Tulsa Police Department employee was sentenced Wednesday to three years and a month in prison for conspiring to leak confidential information about a witness and a prison inmate. Diana Joubert’s sentence also was for her part in a tax-fraud plot that cost the Internal Revenue Service more than [...]
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK — A guard was found asleep at the gate of an inner security ring around the Indian Point nuclear power plants, officials said Monday. The inspector who found the snoozing guard spent two minutes trying to rouse him before the guard “stood up and opened his eyes,” said Neil Sheehan, spokesman for [...]
WASHINGTON, DC - Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire from congressional Democrats and even some Republicans, announced Monday that he has resigned from his post. “It has been one of my greatest privileges to lead the Department of Justice,” Gonzales said at a news conference, announcing his resignation effective Sept. 17. “I often remind our fellow [...]
WEEKI WACHEE, FLORIDA - Mermaids have been performing at Weeki Wachee Springs for 60 years. At first, they stood along U.S. 19 in swimsuits, flagging down traffic. Then they would run and jump in the spring to do their underwater act. The glory years were the 1950s and 1960s, when Weeki Wachee gained worldwide fame. Today [...]
IRAQ - One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. Or worse. For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and [...]
IRAQ - One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. Or worse. For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and [...]
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Behind the towering gray walls of the Federal Detention Center lurks a sex-charged world where guards are accused of gawking at porn videos, ordering inmates to expose their breasts, molesting them in elevators and rape. Prisoners and correctional staff say guards have smuggled in cosmetics, cigarettes and Victoria’s Secret lingerie as bribes for [...]
PORTLAND, OREGON - A federal immigration judge on Friday allowed a prominent Portland-area union organizer and illegal immigrant to return to Mexico voluntarily instead of deporting him, calling his repeated use of a false identity “unfortunate” and a “tragedy.” The decision was what Jose Alfredo Cobian of Molalla had been hoping for and allows him to [...]
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN — A man was arrested in Texas for allegedly killing a laundromat employee in Kalamazoo. Daniel McNeill, 59, was found critically injured around 4 a.m. August 7 at the Stadium Discount Coin Laundry Dry Cleaners at 3313 Stadium Drive in Kalamazoo. He was taken to a hospital where he later died. Police later determined McNeill [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — A trucker has sued the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking to get back nearly $24,000 seized by DEA agents earlier this month at a weigh station on U.S. 54 in New Mexico north of El Paso, Texas. Anastasio Prieto of El Paso gave a state police officer at the weigh station permission to [...]
SAN JUAN, TEXAS - Federal agents discovered several dozen undocumented migrants from various Latin American countries stashed in a house in the Rio Grande Valley. The bust by the Border Patrol took place Thursday after border agents checked out a house near San Juan, acting on a tip by its sister agency, U.S. Immigration and Customs [...]
INDIANA - Comcast has warned broadband Internet customers across the country to curb their downloading or wind up on the curb. The company has a bandwidth limitation that, if broken, can result in a 12-month suspension of service. The problem, according to customer complaints, is that the telecom giant refuses to reveal how much downloading is [...]
WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to revive the war crimes trials at Guantánamo, military prosecutors argued on Friday in a special appeals court that defects in their cases identified by two military judges in June could be repaired and that the prosecutions could proceed. “We’re attempting to start the trials,” said a military prosecutor, Francis [...]
JACKSON, TENNESSEE - Jackson Mayor Jerry Gist announced today that Fire Department battalion chief Kinley Hullom has been demoted to captain and suspended for five shifts and that driver Nathaniel Bell has been demoted to firefighter and suspended for 10 shifts. Gist announced his decision in a press conference this afternoon based on disciplinary hearings that [...]
KINGSLAND, FLORIDA - Camden County commissioners stripped Sheriff Bill Smith of the unlimited use of his county car and gas card Tuesday night after receipts showed he billed taxpayers for numerous personal trips out of state. Under a resolution passed 3-2, Smith can still use the car and credit card for county business but not personal [...]
PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI — An immigration rights group has filed a lawsuit against a police captain here claiming he kidnapped and coerced more than 30 Mexican nationals working at a local shipyard. Interim Police Chief Eddie Stewart said the allegations against Capt. George Tillman have no merit. In a news release Wednesday, the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance claimed [...]
HAMPSHIRE, UK - A police inspector has been arrested after allegedly making a youth strip below the waist while he cautioned him over a theft. Gerry Hutchings, 47, was detained after the 16-year-old made an official complaint about his treatment. Hutchings was in charge of policing the New Forest area for Hampshire Police where he had been [...]
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS –An internal probe within the Boston Police Department has found that 3 lieutenants persistently abused the department’s paid-detail system. Haseeb Hosein, Timothy Kervin and Ghassoub Frangie have been cited for falsely reporting hours worked and performing details that conflicted with their regular schedule. A police spokeswoman has told The Boston Globe that the department [...]
KENTUCKY - At least seven state troopers are facing criminal charges for crimes as common as a DUI, to some as significant as stealing federal money, all happening within the last year. We spoke to state police officials about what’s going on and they say this is the first time in the agency’s history that [...]
BUFFALO, NEW YORK - Albert J. Devlin, the Buffalo police lieutenant who lay comatose for more than two years while his wife and older brother feuded in court over whether to keep him on life support, has died. Devlin, 55, died early Tuesday in Roswell Park Cancer Institute, 12 days after his feeding tube was disconnected [...]
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS - A mother is getting her first look at the video taped scuffle where her teenage son was injured by police. The mother is grateful IMPD didn’t conceal the tape, which now has led to charges of excessive force against one of their own. The officer arrested - now on desk duty. The mother and [...]
An Easton police officer fired two weeks ago by City Council because of an off-duty drinking episode that led to criminal citations is trying to get his job back. John W. Zielinski filed a grievance this week under the procedure outlined in the police labor union contract, according to city Business Administrator Stu Gallaher. Zielinski, 40, of [...]
ALBANY, GEORGIA — The Albany Police Department recruit officer who lost her gun and then told investigators that it had been stolen, has been fired, department officials said. Shunell Borders, 25, was reprimanded after investigators said that she initially told them her weapon had been stolen on March 9, but later recanted that story and admitted [...]
LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS — Even though a court officer suspected his boss might be stealing prescription medications from prisoners at Western Worcester District Court in East Brookfield last year, he was still stunned when he discovered evidence that allegedly confirmed his suspicions. Francine Melanson, 46, of Ardmore Street, Worcester, was arraigned yesterday in Lawrence District Court on [...]
WASHINGTON, DC - The government’s terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year. But only a small fraction of those questioned were arrested or denied entry into the United States, raising concerns among critics about privacy and the list’s effectiveness. A range of state, local and federal agencies as [...]
BARNES COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA - A prosecutor intends to fight a judge’s ruling to delay Moe Gibbs’ sexual assault trial. Assistant North Dakota Attorney General Jonathan Byers said the case, which was slated to begin next month, should remain separate from the former Barnes County jailer’s upcoming second murder trial. Southeast Judicial District Judge Mikal Simonson continued [...]
HILLSBORO, MISSOURI — A Jefferson County jury convicted former police officer Robert Brooks on Thursday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Amanda Cates, who also was a police officer. After further deliberations, the jury then recommended a sentence of life in prison for the murder and 75 years in prison for a [...]
KERRVILLE, TEXAS - A traffic stop lead to the arrest of a former Kerrville police officer for possession of drugs Wednesday night. Kerr County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Benjamin Pieper, 44, of Kerr-ville, for possession of more than 4 grams of methamphetamine in the 3400 block of Memorial (Texas 27). “We got a call a little after 10 [...]
PEARL, MISSISSIPPI — A Pearl police officer used phony documents to get hydrocodone, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics said. Officer Philip Arrant, 42, was arrested Monday and charged with one count of forgery. Arrant, who’s still on the police force, bonded out of the Madison County jail on the day of his arrest. Pearl Police Chief Bill Slade [...]
MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA - A federal police officer was sentenced to 20 days in Monterey County Jail on Thursday for poaching two tule elk from a protected area on Fort Hunter Liggett. Sgt. John Paul Hutchins of Paso Robles was also fined more than $5,000 and placed on three years probation. Hutchins, part of the police force [...]
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - The Police Department’s longest-serving officer, detective Don Rosdail, and another veteran, computer-crimes investigator Greg Koenighain, have been fired, attorneys for each confirmed Thursday. Rosdail’s attorney, Bill Roemerman of Cedar Rapids, and sources with the city say the department’s investigation into Rosdail, 64, and Koenighain, 41, reaches back into 2006. Specific reasons for the [...]
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - A civilian dispatcher with the Boston Police Department has been indicted in the stabbing death of her husband. Sharon Fitzpatrick was arraigned Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court, where a clerk magistrate allowed her to remain free on $250,000 bail. But he did add conditions that Fitzpatrick report to probation weekly and provide the Suffolk [...]
LAKEWOOD, COLORADO — Police are investigating yesterday’s crash involving a civilian and an undercover police officer who was pursuing a suspect wanted in connection with 23 metro area armed robberies. Initial accounts of the incident suggest that the officer involved, Denver’s Clement Bourgeois, may have violated the department’s emergency driving policy by pursuing a suspect [...]
ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK - Suspended Onondaga County Sheriff’s deputy Mark Fedeli made a brief appearance this morning in Syracuse City Court’s drug court calendar call. The case was adjourned for several weeks to allow lawyers time to familiarize themselves with the matter. Fedeli was charged recently with misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled [...]
MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA - A fired Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy accused of fondling two teenage girls will be sentenced Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. John F. Springfield, 38, was fired April 9 and will have to relinquish his certification as a police officer as part of the plea deal that was signed May [...]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - A former sheriff’s sergeant and schoolteacher whose wife disappeared in April 1991 was convicted of her murder today, even though the woman’s body was never found. John Racz, 61, was convicted of first-degree murder by a six-man, six- woman jury after a trial based largely on circumstantial evidence. Racz, who was arrested in [...]
PORT OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - A television reporter who was pushed against a cargo container while pursuing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Friday that she has filed a legal claim against the city. Alicia Unger, a reporter for the Spanish-language network Azteca America, is seeking an unspecified amount of damages stemming from the Aug. [...]
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA - A Miami Beach police officer, who surrended Friday morning on charges of fondling a suspect, bonded out of jail just a few hours later on $1,000 bail. Eduardo Macias, 32, who has served six years at the Miami Beach police department, was booked at a Dade County jail at 10:30 a.m. Friday. Macia [...]
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS –Two Boston College football players and a State Police sergeant have been charged with attacking a software engineer who refused to leave an area of a popular sports bar to make room for members of the BC team. Gosder Cherilus, a BC co-captain and offensive lineman, and cornerback DeJuan Tribble were charged with assaulting [...]
PORT CLINTON, OHIO - Port Clinton Safety-Service Director Rich Babcock has resigned from his position and may be under criminal investigation regarding the sale of scrap metal owned by the city, according to city and county officials. Babcock is one of two city employees under investigation by a Toledo law firm retained by the city. Officials [...]
DENVER, COLORADO — The number of people petitioning the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to clear mistakes or false information from criminal records is on pace to set a record in 2007. Every year, hundreds of people learn they are linked to someone else’s criminal record and many times, the innocent person is arrested and even jailed [...]
AMERICUS, GEORGIA - A complaint of police brutality in Americus and a call from a family and a civil rights group to fire an Americus Police officer. It comes four months after they say that cop used excessive force and wrongly arrested an innocent man from Plains. 55 year old Eddie Bridges was known as a [...]
WHITEWOOD, SOUTH DAKOTA – A temporary Whitewood police officer has been charged with careless driving for running into a motorcyclist during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The Highway Patrol said John Wainman Sr., 62, had the collision at 1:13 a.m. on Aug. 10 when he was trying to turn around on Interstate 90. The motorcycle driver managed [...]
NAPLES, FLORIDA - Austin Perkins, 17, thought he was going one step above what was required of him. Poll The Golden Gate High School senior wore a jacket and tie to school Wednesday and the act sent him to in-school suspension. His violation? He wasn’t following the dress code. “I thought it was better than a polo shirt,” he [...]
LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS - Lawrence High School students will be charged $1 a day to ride the school bus. Starting in October, the School Department will charge each student up to $180 per year to take the bus to and from school. The new fee will affect all of the 1,800 high-school students eligible to ride the [...]
HELSINKI, FINLAND - A court on Friday fined a 15-year-old schoolboy for posting a video on YouTube of his teacher singing karaoke without her permission and claiming she was a lunatic. In the first case of its kind in Finland, Nurmes District Court found Toni Vesikko guilty of intentional defamation and fined him $120. He also [...]
HUTCHINSON, KANSAS – A five-hour standoff Thursday that included snipers, tear gas and K-9 units ended when police stormed a Hutchinson apartment and found no one inside. Police set up a security perimeter around The Clusters apartment complex, 23rd Avenue and Lorraine, around 2 p.m. Thursday. Officers believed Brian Green, 21, of Hutchinson, had barricaded himself [...]
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — New Haven police have charged two people they believe are responsible for spreading a white powder around the parking lot of the IKEA store and Bank of America in the city’s Long Wharf area. The suspects, 35-year-old Daniel Salchow of New Haven and his sister, 31-year-old Dorothee Salchow of Hamburg, Germany, were [...]
MONTREAL, CANADA –With the proof caught on video, Quebec provincial police were forced to admit yesterday that three undercover agents were playing the part of protesters at this week’s international summit in Montebello, Que. But the Quebec police force denied they were attempting to provoke protesters into violence. Rather, they said the three were planted in [...]
CHANDLER, ARIZONA - A 13-year-old boy has been suspended for three days by an Arizona public school because he sketched a picture that resembled a gun, something school officials said they “absolutely” believed could pose a threat.According to a report by KPHO-TV in Phoenix, it’s not the type of greeting the Mosteller family expected when [...]
WASHINGTON, DC - The requirements for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Mexican Truck Demonstration Project have been met, and some 37 Mexican trucking companies have been approved to run their long-haul rigs through the U.S. starting as early as Sept. 1, according to a Mexican government report.In the United States, the inspector general of the [...]
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY - A Jersey City man called cops Monday night when he saw what looked like burglars on his roof and said he was then badly beaten by arriving officers, who apparently thought he was a burglar as he ran to the front door to let them in. Mathias Bolton, 34, of Palisade [...]
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – A Melbourne schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government’s new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes. Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government’s filter, released on Tuesday. Tom, a year 10 student at a southeast Melbourne private school, showed the Herald Sun how to deactivate the [...]
VIRGINIA – The American Automobile Association, better known as AAA, yesterday issued a statement distancing the itself from Virginia’s speeding ticket tax which the organization had helped to create. On As recently as June 28, AAA lavishly praised the fees, embracing both the fact that they applied only to Virginians and applied to offenses treated [...]
TUCSON, ARIZONA – A former city prosecutor goes from defending the law to allegedly breaking it. Ronald Washington is facing drug charges after police raided his south side home on Monday. Washington is out of jail right now, but this investigation is far from over. When News 4 drove up to Ronald Washington’s home, he quickly went back [...]
BARRIE, ONTARIO, CANADA – A Barrie Police officer will be in court next month, charged with one count of assault. The force’s Professional Standards Branch announced Wednesday the charges against Const. Curtis Reid, in connection with an alleged incident that took place last Saturday. For now, Reid, 31, is suspended from duty. He will be in court [...]
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN – A suspended Washtenaw County Sheriff’s deputy accused of falsifying a traffic crash report involving his and another deputy’s vehicles pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud Wednesday, court officials said. Deputy Christopher Campbell, 36, entered into a sentencing agreement with Washtenaw County Chief Circuit Judge Archie Brown that will keep him out [...]
ALBANY, GEORGIA — An E-911 dispatcher from Colquitt County has been arrested after police say that she lied to try and save her boyfriend, who is wanted for his suspected role in a multi-county burglary ring. Amanda Nicole Brooks, 20, has been charged by Colquitt County authorities with filing a false police report and writing a false [...]
CONCORDIA PARISH, LOUISIANA – Shadow, the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office drug dog, has died unexpectedly, according to news release from the agency. The 8-year-old Belgian malinois had not been ill prior to his death but apparently died in his sleep, according to his handler, K-9 Deputy Denis Mulvihill. The dog had been with the department since 2001, [...]
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – A 50-year-old man became the third person to die this year in Baltimore City after being struck with a police Taser gun, officials said. Police struck Thomas Campbell, 50, with the weapon shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday after officers responded to a call on the 1000 block of Payson Street for a man [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – A former D.C. police officer was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman he stopped for a traffic offense. Prosecutors said Juan Leon attacked the victim after pulling her over early on Oct. 30, 2005, in Northwest Washington. Leon, 30, pleaded guilty in June to a charge of [...]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The New York Police Department has fired a veteran counterterrorism detective who flunked a drug test, finding that claims his wife served him marijuana-spiked meatballs “simply weren’t credible,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Thursday. With the dismissal, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly rejected an earlier recommendation by an administrative judge that the [...]
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - FBI agents on Thursday arrested eight police officers accused of planting drugs as fraudulent evidence against residents of housing projects in western Puerto Rico. A raid on the officers’ precinct in Mayaguez discovered a safe holding drugs that were kept in reserve to frame people, U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said at [...]
CUMMING, GEORGIA – A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a 67-year-old Cumming man who was arrested and jailed for three days in April for passing out religious tracts on a public sidewalk. “Christians cannot be treated as second-class citizens and be required to request permission from the government before handing out religious literature [...]
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - A South Carolina Department of Corrections officer was arrested by SLED agents and charged with misconduct in office on Thursday. The SCDC officer, 26-year-old Clifton J. Davenport, of Columbia, is accused of having three inmates assault another inmate while under his supervision, according to an arrest warrant. The inmate required medical attention after the [...]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs. The reality show star, who checked into a women’s jail at 3:15 p.m., was released at 4:37 p.m. “based on her sentence and federal guidelines,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy [...]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – In the Operation Family Secrets mob trial today, a Chicago Police officer admitted that he had a year’s-long relationship with top ranking members of the Chicago outfit. Former Chicago cop Anthony Doyle is one of the five men charged with outfit crimes in Operation Family Secrets. While many Chicago Police officers moonlight to [...]
MESA, ARIZONA – A Mesa man who was hit with a Taser after yelling insults at an officer last year will receive $65,000 from the city. Mark Pace, 53, and his attorney, Chris Doerfler, originally demanded $500,000, arguing that excessive force was used in the Aug. 26, 2006, incident. According to police, Officer Joseph Adams made a [...]
ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY – A second-year Elizabeth cop has been charged with identity theft and suspended from duty after allegedly opening a credit card under someone else’s name, authorities said. Debra Bradley, 24, of Elizabeth, was arrested on July 31 and charged with forgery, credit card fraud, attempted theft and two counts of identity theft. She [...]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – A Los Angeles traffic cop who asked for naked pictures of bikini model Vida Guerra in exchange for reducing her parking ticket has been suspended, reports TMZ.com. Last weekend, TMZ cameras caught Officer L. Salgado telling Vida’s male friend: “You got a got a naked picture of her, we make the [...]
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – A man died Thursday after an incident on the Parkway West. Police said they responded to a man they first believed was lying in front of the inbound side of the Fort Pitt tunnels. When they arrived, police said the man was being combative, and police used a Taser gun on him. What happened after [...]
CONNALY, TEXAS – A former Connally Independent School District police officer was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for indecency with a child, despite pleas by numerous friends and family members asking the judge to give him probation. Michael Gregory Rains, 44, of West, previously had pleaded no contest to five charges of indecency [...]
MARANA, ARIZONA – They’re paid to protect and serve. But tonight, three Marana police officers and a dispatcher are on administrative leave. That’s after a hit and run accident at Chuy’s Baja broiler on the north side back on August 2. Police say Officer John DeStefano was off-duty when he and some of his friends were at [...]
HUDSON, NEW HAMPSHIRE - A former Hudson police officer was arraigned on drunken driving charges this week. Brandon Cannata, 23, of Westford, Mass., was released on personal recognizance following his arraignment Monday in Lowell (Mass.) Superior Court on charges he led police on a high-speed drunken chase after crashing his truck into a Chelmsford, Mass., family’s vehicle. The [...]
JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS – Two jailers accused of roughing up a Jefferson County jail inmate were indicted Thursday by a grand jury. Johnny Lynn Vickery Jr., 36, of Nederland and Rodney George Cole II of Beaumont, were indicted on Class A misdemeanor charges of official oppression for “hitting and pushing and throwing” an inmate on April [...]
CANTON, OHIO – As expected, a Stark County grand jury indicted suspended Canton Police Officer Bobby Cutts Jr. on murder charges with the possibility of a death sentence. Cutts is accused of the June murder of Jessie Davis and her unborn child, Chloe. Stark County Prosecutor John Ferrero, at a press conference Thursday, said the grand jury [...]
JACKSON COUNTY, FLORIDA – A reserve deputy for the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, who is the son of a sergeant in the office, was arrested Thursday following an apparent road-rage incident, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Samuel Efurd was arrested on charges of aggravated battery with a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of a crash [...]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – A retired Chicago police officer was indicted today on felony charges of possessing credit cards that did not belong to him, authorities said. Robert Maloblocki, 52, was arrested last month during a traffic stop on the North Side when police found 12 credit cards in his possession from card holders who had “never [...]
VISALIA, CALIFORNIA – The Tulare County Sheriff’s Department is mourning the death of a deputy who was killed Saturday afternoon in an off-duty traffic collision near Lake Isabella in Kern County. Deputy Timothy Morin, 28, was on a family trip Saturday to Lake Isabella. He was riding a motorcycle with another man on Highway 178 about [...]
UK – People who even think about going for a drink face being banned from their town centre for up to two days under wideranging new police powers. Potential trouble-makers can be asked to move on and stay away – even if they have not touched a drop of alcohol. Well-behaved people who refuse to stop drinking [...]
LODI, CALIFORNIA – Lodi Police are still chuckling over a case of mistaken identity that unfolded early Wednesday morning, when officers arrested a naked prankster on suspicion of stealing a car. Sgt. Fernando Martinez said officers in cruisers pursued suspected auto thieves on the west side of town late Tuesday night. Three suspects dumped the car [...]
BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA - The city police sergeant found liable in the 1997 shooting death of a suspected drug dealer has retired from the city and taken a job in northern Northampton County. Joe Riedy had put in 20 years and began retirement May 29, city police and administration officials said this week. His pension will be [...]
MARION, ILLINOIS - The Sesser man claiming Williamson County deputies battered him earlier this month gave a statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigations during a Wednesday morning meeting, the man’s father said. Tony Swift, 25, and his father, Curtis Swift, filed a complaint with the Illinois State Police shortly after Tony Swift was arrested for disorderly [...]
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY — The New Jersey attorney general, Anne Milgram, on Wednesday ordered local law enforcement agencies to inquire about the immigration status of criminal suspects and notify federal authorities whenever they believe someone arrested is in the country illegally. The directive comes amid growing debate across the state over the role of local officials in immigration [...]
PITCAIRN, PENNSYLVANIA – A Pitcairn police officer suspended following a domestic incident at his Monroeville home earlier this month resigned Wednesday. Parker Reed, 36, a borough officer for 12 years, did not give a reason for his resignation in a brief letter in which he asked for the money he has contributed to the officers’ pension [...]
ATHENS, GEORGIA – An Athens-Clarke police officer has been fired because of his arrest on a DUI charge earlier this month. Thomas “Ty” Carrell, 36, not only broke the law by driving drunk but violated four departmental policies, including one requiring officers to “avoid conduct which might discredit themselves or the (police) department,” according to the [...]
AVOYELLES PARISH, LOUISIANA – The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff, his wife and his sister were arraigned in federal court today in Alexandria. They entered a not guilty plea and were released on their own reconnaissance. Bill Belt and his wife Tracy have been charged with eight counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit [...]
HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO – A Hamilton County corrections officer has resigned after he was accused of bringing small amounts of marijuana into the Justice Center for inmates. Michael Stephens, 26, was arrested yesterday for charges for attempt to bring drugs into the facility, a felony. Authorities say Stephens admitted to bringing very small quantities into the jail [...]
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO — The man accused of shooting at a Glenwood Springs police officer last month was released from jail Wednesday, after prosecutors declined to formally charge him. Sergio “Smokey” Ramirez, 20, of Glenwood Springs, had been in Garfield County Jail since his arrest Aug. 5 in connection with a July 29 incident at a motor [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – A man held in the Hennepin County jail on murder charges is getting $110,000 from the city of Minneapolis to settle a police brutality complaint. The City Council agreed to the payment to settle a lawsuit filed by Philander Jenkins in 2005. The lawsuit alleges that officer Jeff Jindra repeatedly kicked Jenkins in [...]
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – South Australian police will continue using capsicum spray despite the death of a man sprayed by officers in a confrontation on Wednesday. Police used capsicum spray while attempting to subdue the man, 38-year-old Richard Bias, at his southern Adelaide house about 6.30pm (CST) on Wednesday. Bias was also handcuffed on the ground as he [...]
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