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New York City Police Officers Michael McGhee And Former Officer thomas Wimmer Appears In Court After Beating Man Outside Bar

Posted on April 16, 2008
YONKERS, NEW YORK - The case against a New York City police officer, a former officer and one other man accused of beating up a man outside a Yonkers bar has been adjourned until next month. Police Officer Michael McGhee, 30; Thomas Wimmer, 25, a New York City police officer who resigned after the incident; and [...

Williamson County Illinois Deputy Sheriff Shaunn Curry Appears In Court After Drunken Wreck, Leaving Scene

Posted on April 16, 2008
MARION, ILLINOIS - The Williamson County sheriff’s deputy charged with leaving the scene of an accident appeared in court Tuesday morning. Shaunn Curry said nothing as he quickly left the Williamson County Courthouse. Curry was arraigned for driving under the influence, disobeying a stop sign and leaving the scene of an accident...

Downtown Greensboro North Carolina High-Rise Used By Police Officers For Surveillance Prior To Cheif David Wray Quitting

Posted on April 16, 2008
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA - Following the resignation of Greensboro police Chief David Wray in January 2006, the department’s criminal investigation division discovered that, unbeknownst to many outside the former chief’s small circle, a group of Greensboro police officers enjoyed free access to a space in a 14-story high-rise on South Elm Street that advertises its [...

Louisa Kentucky Police Officers Kevin Adkins And Barry Bellomy Arraigned For Misconduct Amid Effort To Harass News Reporter

Posted on April 16, 2008
LOUISA, KENTUCKY - Two members of the Louisa Police Department were arraigned this morning on charges of official misconduct. Chief Kevin Adkins and Officer Barry Bellomy face first and second degree misconduct charges after being indicted by a Lawrence County, KY Grand Jury...

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Suspended Hartford Connecticut Police Narcotics Detective Nataniel Ortiz Pleades Guilty To Lying To Obtain Search Warrant

Posted on April 16, 2008
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT - A suspended Hartford narcotics detective was found guilty Tuesday of making false statements to support a drug investigation case. Nataniel Ortiz pleaded guilty to making a false statement in the second-degree in Superior Court in Hartford...

Ranking Officer Suspended: Hamilton County Ohio Deputy Sheriff Maj. James Dattilo Busted While Drunk Behind Wheel Of County Car

Posted on April 16, 2008
HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO - The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office revealed Monday when a high-ranking employee will serve a five-day suspension after being found drunk behind the wheel of a county car. Maj. James Dattilo, 64, of Green Township will be suspended without pay April 28-May 2...

Many New York City Police Officers Never Charged After Complaints Substantiated During Review

Posted on April 16, 2008
NEW YORK, NY - Department records show that of the 296 cases substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, more than a third were closed because police officials refused to file charges. By comparison, just 3.3% of cases were rejected by the department advocate’s office of the NYPD in 2006, 2...

U.S. Military Releases Innocent AP Photographer After Imprisoning Him For 2 Years Without Charges

Posted on April 16, 2008
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The U.S. military released Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein on Wednesday after holding him for more than two years without filing formal charges. Hussein, 36, was handed over to AP colleagues at a checkpoint in Baghdad. He was taken to the site aboard a prisoner bus and left U...

Drunk Oceanside California Firefighter Michael D. Wright Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Trying To Break Into Home Through Doggie Door To Join Teen Girl’s Slumber Party

Posted on April 16, 2008
OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA ? A veteran Orange County firefighter was arrested early Sunday morning after police say he tried to force his way through a pet door into a teenage slumber party. Michael D. Wright, 47, is set to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. today in Vista at North San Diego County Court on charges of stalking [...

U.S. Government Suffers Another Major Defeat In Round Two Prosecuting Rediculous Terror Case - Only “Soldier” In Plot Exonerated In Part 1 - How Many Millions In Taxpayer Dollars Down The Drain In Case Orchestrated By FBI And Informants

Posted on April 16, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA - A judge has declared a mistrial in the retrial of six men accused of plotting terrorist acts with al Qaeda. Update: U.S. Government Suffers Major Defeat In Round One Prosecuting Rediculous Terror Case - ?Soldier? In Plot Completely Exonerated - How Many Millions In Taxpayer Dollars Down The Drain In Case Orchestrated By [...

Feds To Collect (Steal) DNA From Innocent Americans And Foreigners In Effort To Include Everyone In Their Database

Posted on April 16, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency ? a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people. Using authority granted by Congress, the government also plans to collect DNA samples from foreigners who [...

Family Wants To Know Why It Took Dallas Texas Police 4 Hours To Find Accident Victim After Witness Told Them ‘Right Over There’…

Posted on April 16, 2008
DALLAS, TEXAS - Thomas Davidson died Sunday morning in a grassy, dirty field surrounded by the concrete pillars of Dallas freeway ramps and the roar of passing vehicles overhead. His family and friends know that much about the death of the 38-year-old artist and father of two...

Wisconsin Man’s Conviction For Shooting Police Officer Breaking Into His Home Reversed - Third Trial Ahead?

Posted on April 16, 2008
WISCONSIN - A 22-year-old man convicted of shooting a police officer who was breaking into his house to search for drugs will get a new trial ? his third related to the same incident ? because the 1st District Court of Appeals ruled today that a confidential informant?s testimony was improperly admitted to his second [...

Rutherford County Tennessee Deputy Sheriff Gregg Speck And Another A No-Show In Court For Bogus Assualt Charge Against Teacher - Dismissed

Posted on March 31, 2008
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN - An Oakland teacher, who was accused of assaulting a 12-year-old child at a football game in October 2007, saw the charges were dismissed Wednesday. Andrew Schmeltzer, 28, was charged Oct. 22 after a sheriff?s deputy reportedly witnessed the incident at an Oct...

Woodward County Oklahoma Sheriff Les Morton Indicted On 20 Counts Of Fraud

Posted on March 31, 2008
WOODWARD COUNTY, OK - A grand jury on Thursday indicted Woodward County Sheriff Les Morton on 20 counts of filing fraudulent travel claims and recommended the sheriff be removed from office. Morton appeared in Woodward County District Court Thursday after the grand jury’s sealed indictments were opened...

Greensboro North Carolina Police Officer Brian Julius Coble Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Theft, Credit Card Theft, And Identity Theft

Posted on March 31, 2008
GREENSBORO, NC - A Greensboro police officer faces multiple charges of fraud and identify theft. Court documents reveal Officer Brian Julius Coble is accused of stealing a woman’s credit card then going on a shopping spree. In all, he faces seven felony charges including identity theft, credit card fraud and obtaining property by false pretenses...

Lawsuit Charges Collier County Florida Deputy Sheriff Jesse Todd With Killing Innocent Motorist With Patrol Car

Posted on March 31, 2008
COLLIER COUNTY, FL - The fiancee of an East Naples man killed in an early-morning crash with a Collier County Sheriff?s deputy in early 2007 filed a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming both the deputy and the Sheriff?s Office acted negligently in the wreck...

Attorney Reveals That Oceanside California Police Are Covering Up For Crazed San Diego Police Officer Frank White After Road Rage Incident In Which He Shot Innocent Unarmed Woman And 8 Year Old Boy

Posted on March 31, 2008
OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA - The attorney for a woman shot by an off-duty San Diego police officer during a reported road rage confrontation two weeks ago accused Oceanside police Thursday of shielding the officer. “The way they have conducted themselves leads me to believe they are not searching for the truth, but covering up for a policeman,” [...

Freemansburg Pennsylvania Police Officer Kevin Andrew Kovalovsky Faces Public Drunkenness Charge After Falling On His Face Outside Restaurant Following His Completing His Suspension After Drunk Driving Arrest

Posted on March 31, 2008
FREEMANSBURG, NEW JERSEY - A borough police officer who recently finished a 25-day unpaid suspension after being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving has been charged with another alcohol-related offense. Borough police charged Kevin Andrew Kovalovsky, 32, of the 1800 block of Seventh Street in Bethlehem Township, with public drunkenness after he was found at 12:37 [...

Monroe County Pennsylvania Correctional Facility Deputy Warden Quits Amid Suspension - Details Hidden From Taxpayers

Posted on March 30, 2008
SNYDERSVILLE, PA ? The deputy warden at the Monroe County Correctional Facility cleaned out his office suddenly Thursday morning and retired ? apparently after refusing to accept a temporary job suspension ? in another sign of upheaval at the jail. Daniel B...

Former Kipton Officer Police Officer Lt. Robert Wolfkill Sentenced To Just 10 Days In County Jail After Pleading Guilty To Attempted Theft From An Elderly Person - Chief Pablo Cruz Remains Suspended After Indictment

Posted on March 30, 2008
KIPTON, OH - Former Kipton police Lt. Robert Wolfkill used to put criminals behind bars, now he?s headed for a stint in jail himself. Wolfkill was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days in Huron County Jail last month after pleading guilty to attempted theft from an elderly person...

Nutcase Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Claims He Wasn’t Responsible For Chandler Police Officer Thomas Lovejoy’s Arrest After Killing K-9 In Hot Car

Posted on March 30, 2008
MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ - There is new information coming out about the arrest of a Chandler police officer in connection to the death of his police K-9. Last September in a press release from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he would not deviate from policy concerning animal abuse/neglect cases and ordered his [...

Kronenwetter Wisconsin Police Officer Jason Rasmussen And Department Make Fools Of Themselves Invading And Harassing Kids At A Root Beer Party - Officer Made Teen Stop Videotaping In A Private Residence - Police Waste Several Hours Pissing Away Tax Dollars

Posted on March 30, 2008
KRONENWETTER, WISCONSIN - Dustin Zebro insists he didn’t throw a root beer keg party to embarrass the police. His school, yes, but not the police. It struck him as unfair that D.C. Everest Senior High suspended students from a dance team awhile back because they were pictured on Facebook drinking out of red plastic cups that [...

Mobile Alabama Police Seek To Ban The Sale Of Hooded Jackets - Since Nobody Could Possible Order Them Online Or From Out Of State - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 30, 2008
MOBILE, AL - Mobile police are looking to ban the sale of hooded jackets that zip up over the face and have been used in several recent robberies. Unlike regular hooded sweatshirts, which zip up to the neck, these garments can be zipped all the way to the top of the head and can have eyeholes [...

Lawsuit Charges Gulf Breeze Florida Police Chief Peter Paulding With Threats And Intimidation

Posted on March 30, 2008
GULF BREEZE, FL - Gulf Breeze Police Chief Peter Paulding’s neighbors are suing him, claiming the chief used threats and intimidation during a dispute over a seawall and dock on Hoffman Bayou. The suit by Frank and Lori Boykin, filed in Santa Rosa County Circuit Court on Thursday, claims that the seawall built by Paulding and [...

Racist Fulton County Georgia Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington Orders White Lawyers Out Of His Courtroom

Posted on March 30, 2008
ATLANTA, GA — Judge Marvin Arrington insists he’s not a racist; despite ordering white lawyers out of his courtroom on Thursday. The Fulton County Superior Court judge said he was just fed up seeing a parade of young black defendants in his courtroom...

Los Angeles County California Pisses Away Taxpayer Dollars Investigating Substitute Teacher Who Patted Student On The Forehead With The Tip Of Her Finger

Posted on March 30, 2008
SOUTH PASADENA, CA - District officials are investigating an incident in which a substitute teacher allegedly reprimanded a student inappropriately, authorities said Friday. Police were called to South Pasadena Middle School on Wednesday following a report that a teacher had assaulted a child, said Cpl...

9/11 Hysteria And Beefed Up Security Efforts At Los Angeles International Bear Fruit: Terminal Evacuated Over Graffiti In Men’s Room. Bonus: Extra Points Awarded For Mention Of Women’s Bathroom

Posted on March 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA - A terminal at Los Angeles International Airport was partially evacuated Sunday after a man reported seeing writing in a restroom that said a bomb was in the women’s restroom, police said, according to City News Service. Terminal 2 was partially evacuated shortly after 6 a...

Hillsborough County Florida’s Campaign Against The Disabled Extends To School Nurse Taking Injured 13 Year Old Girl’s Crutches - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 29, 2008
TAMPA, FLORIDA - Patricia Elalem said she couldn’t believe her daughter’s kneecap dislocated after what at first seemed like a minor injury. Even more troubling to Elalem is what might have caused the injury to worsen. Elalem says a nurse at Walker Middle School in Odessa took away 13-year-old Amber’s crutches last month, forcing the girl [...

U.S. Government Held And Tortured Innocent German Resident For 5 Years Amid 9/11 Terrorist Hysteria

Posted on March 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - A German resident held by the U.S. for almost five years tells 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that Americans tortured him in many ways - including hanging him from the ceiling for five days early in his captivity when he was in Kandahar, Afghanistan...

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