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Veteran Milwaukee County Wisconsin Deputy Sheriff Christopher Conell Arrested, Charged With Drunk Driving At Nearly 3 Times State Limit

Posted on March 20, 2008
HALES CORNERS, WISCONSIN - A deputy charged with O.W.I. says he’s sorry. In an exclusive interview with TODAY’S TMJ4’s Lauren Leamanczyk, Deputy Christopher Conell says he will take responsibility for his actions. “I just want to say that I am truly sorry for what happened...

Videos Surface Of Lazy South Carolina Highway Patrol Officers Steven C. Garren And Alexander Richardson Using Patrol Cars To Run Down Blacks Men On Foot - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 20, 2008
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - Videos have surfaced showing two members of the South Carolina Highway Patrol using their cruisers to ram fleeing suspects, just weeks after two leaders of the agency resigned because of a furor over a trooper’s use of a racial slur...

Dumbass Former Veteran Hastings Minnesota Police Officer Sgt. Valerie Scharfe Charged With Filing False Reports And Bogus Warning Tickets To Meet Department Quota

Posted on March 20, 2008
HASTINGS, MINNESOTA - A former Hastings police officer was charged with misconduct Wednesday, after she allegedly filed false reports and issued warning tickets to people who didn?t exist. Sgt. Valerie Scharfe allegedly filed 37 false tickets between January 2006 and December 2008, so she wouldn?t be in violation of the department?s policy, according to officials...

Crazed Ness County Kansas Attorney Craig Crosswhite Charges Man Who Cared For Woman Who Wanted To Sit On Toilet - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 20, 2008
NESS CITY, KANSAS — A man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult. Kory McFarren, 37, was charged Monday in Ness County District Court...

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Crash And Burn: North Country Gazette Blog - June Maxam Finally Throws In The Towel, Blames Her Hosting Company, After Totally Trashing Her Name And Reputation Online

Posted on March 20, 2008
CHESTERTOWN, NEW YORK - Pretty much disgraced and discredited everywhere her name appears online, June Maxam has tossed in the towell and is “ceasing operation” of the North Country Gazette blog. See also: North Country Gazette Is Going Bust - Conspiracy Theorist June Maxam Trashes IPowerWeb Hosting Company, Begs For Money To Support Website Plastered [...

Austin Texas Judge Jan Breland Attempts To Hold Lawyer Without Setting Bail For Contempt Of Court After Masturbatory Gesture

Posted on March 20, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS - An Austin defense lawyer was jailed last week after being accused of making a lewd gesture at a judge while in court representing a client on charges of driving while intoxicated. Adam Reposa, 33, was held in contempt of court by County-Court-at-Law Judge Jan Breland for his “intentional and contumacious conduct during the [...

FBI Employs Online Entrapment Methods To Locate And Arrest Child Pornography Addicts

Posted on March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them. Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids [...

U.S. Governments Error Filled Hate List Causes Endless Problems For Citizens

Posted on March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - A would-be auto buyer described a “revolving-door nightmare” after a sales agent spotted a similar name on a federal most-wanted list. A former California prison employee wrote of being mistaken for a Colombian drug criminal...

Manchester UK Police Spend 6 hours Searching Underwater For Loaf Of Bread - Our Tax Euros At Work

Posted on March 20, 2008
MANCHESTER, UK - A couple who went to feed ducks sparked a six-hour underwater search after reports a baby had been thrown into the canal - only for a fire crew to find it was bread. Police were called to the canal in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester after nearby mill workers reported a bag had been [...

Milwaukee Wisconsin TSA Airport Screeners Miss Suitcase Containing 45 Pounts Of Marijuana

Posted on March 20, 2008
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - A suitcase packed with 45 pounds of marijuana passed through security at Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee County. Sheriff David Clarke suspects it was “an inside job” because of the security breach. Clarke says it’s unnerving that such a bag can bypass all the TSA security devices...

Drug Addict Madison Wisconsin Police Officer Det. Jeffery Hughes Not Charged For Stealing Heroin From Evidence Due Medical Disabilities

Posted on March 20, 2008
MADISON, WISCONSIN - A Madison police detective suspected of taking heroin from evidence for his own use before being badly injured in a car crash will not face charges. Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard says he doesn’t plan to file charges against 39-year-old Jeffery Hughes, who was off-duty when his car crashed on Interstate 90 [...

Nashville Tennessee Police Officer Stephanie Callahan Graduates Police Academy, Quits After Drunk Driving Arrest

Posted on March 20, 2008
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - A police officer, just weeks out of the police academy, resigned Wednesday after a weekend DUI charge. Stephanie Callahan, a well-known folk singer in East Nashville who started as a police trainee in October, was promoted to Police Officer 1 on March 6 after graduating from the academy...

Federal Judge Tosses Former Park City Utah Police Officer Ciro Darelli’s Lawsuit Against City

Posted on March 20, 2008
PARK CITY, UTAH - A federal judge has dismissed a suit by a former reserve officer with the Park City Police Department who claimed he was harassed and fired because he is Latino. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart ruled that Ciro Darelli, whose national origin is Uruguayan, failed to produce facts to [...

$25 Million Federal Lawsuit Charges Waynesboro Virginia Police With Innocent Man’s Conviction And Imprisonment For Rape He Didn’t Commit

Posted on March 20, 2008
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA - After serving three-and-a-half years in prison for a rape conviction that was later overturned, a Waynesboro man is back in court ? but this time, he is on the other side of the aisle. With no outside legal assistance, Engram Bellamy, 44, filed a $25 million civil suit in the Harrisonburg U...

Columbia Correctional Institution Wisconsin Guard David Yatalese Receives A Slap On the Wrist For Stealing Prisoner’s Prescription Drugs

Posted on March 20, 2008
PORTAGE, WISCONSIN - A Baraboo man charged with stealing prisoners’ prescription medication while he was a guard at Columbia Correctional Institution accepted a plea deal that gave him two years’ probation. David Yatalese, 53, was arrested at CCI by sheriff’s deputies in January...

Bad Louisiana Police Officers Shielded By State Law

Posted on March 20, 2008
LOUISIANA - A Bossier City police officer accused of harassing a woman. A Shreveport police officer fired from his job amid allegations of brutality. The names of these and dozens of other police officers that were subjects of local internal affairs investigations in 2007 and 2008 are protected by Louisiana law...

Lawsuit Charges Sangamon County Jail After Sex Offender “Klutzo The Clown” Is Abused By Jailers And Dies

Posted on March 20, 2008
SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS - The estate of the late A. Paul Carlock, also known as ?Klutzo the Clown,? filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday, claiming the accused child-sex offender was treated cruelly and given inadequate medical treatment while in the Sangamon County Jail...

Amite Louisiana Police Officer Lee Widas Charged With Setting 14 Fires

Posted on March 20, 2008
HAMMOND, LOUISIANA ? Fire investigators linked a previously arrested Amite police officer also serving as a Roseland volunteer firefighter to all 14 arson fires set in the Amite area since Nov. 29, the State Fire Marshal?s Office announced Wednesday. Suspended Police Officer Lee Widas, 23, of Roseland, was booked on eight additional counts of arson Tuesday [...

Additional Charges Filed Against Orange County New York Deputy Sheriff Lt. Lloyd Kurth In Gun Case

Posted on March 20, 2008
GOSHEN, NEW YORK - With a trial looming and his career at stake, Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Lloyd Kurth faces new charges that he stole and sold guns while overseeing the evidence room at the sheriff’s office. A grand jury yesterday indicted Kurth, 41, on four felony and two misdemeanor charges, all revolving around the alleged [...

Lawsuit Charges Dwight Illinois Correctional Center After Repeated Inmate Rapes

Posted on March 20, 2008
DWIGHT, ILLINOIS ? Two federal lawsuits allege a pattern of sexual misconduct and repeated inmate rapes at Dwight Correctional Center with the knowledge of administrators at the maximum-security prison. ?I think that there are some serious problems that need to be addressed,? said Kathleen Zellner, an attorney from Oak Brook who filed the civil lawsuits in [...

Lawsuit Charges Sangamon County Illinois Sheriff’s Department After Man’s Beating In Jail bBy 5 Inmates

Posted on March 20, 2008
SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS - A Springfield man filed a federal lawsuit last week against the Sangamon County sheriff and jail, claiming he was badly beaten by other inmates while in custody. Melvin D. Watson, 30, claims in the suit filed Friday that he was attacked by five other inmates, and that jail staff failed to maintain [...

Fromer Harris County Deputy Constable Michael Serges Claims He Didn’t Have Sex With A Child

Posted on March 20, 2008
HOUSTON, TEXAS - A former deputy constable denies sexually abusing a child in 2000 when he worked at Harris County’s juvenile detention center, his lawyer said Wednesday. “He didn’t sexually assault anybody. He doesn’t even know who they’re talking about,” said attorney Burt Springer, whose client, Michael Serges, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a [...

Easton New Jersey Police Officer John Zielinski Quits After Drunken Night Out, Disorderly Conduct Arrest - Det. James Krome Quit After Drunk Driving Arrest

Posted on March 20, 2008
EASTON, NEW JERSEY - A second city police officer this year has resigned in the wake of an alcohol-related arrest. Officer John Zielinski’s last day with the Easton Police Department will be March 31, Mayor Sal Panto said. Zielinski, an 11-year veteran, has been on sick leave since his Feb...

Lorain Ohio Police Officer Emilio Andujar Shoots House Twice, Kills Dog Who Doesn’t Like Cars Or Cop Trying To Corner Him

Posted on March 19, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO — A dog was shot and killed outside a Homewood Drive house Monday afternoon after acting aggressively toward passing cars and a bystander, according to a Lorain police report. Officer Emilio Andujar was called to the 2500 block of Homewood Drive at 5 p...

Greenbrier County West Virginia Deputy Sheriff Kevin Lee Sawyers Charged Charged After Beating County Prosecutor

Posted on March 19, 2008
GREENBRIER COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - A Greenbrier County sheriff’s deputy accused of beating the county prosecutor has been indicted on a misdemeanor battery charge. A special grand jury charged 37-year-old Deputy Kevin Lee Sawyers Tuesday. Sawyers’ attorney, Tom Czarnik, says the indictment mirrors the original charge filed by State Police in August...

State Raids Former Ottawa And Kalida Ohio Police Chief Forest Gordon’s Home

Posted on March 19, 2008
VAUGHNSVILLE, OHIO - The Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation executed a search warrant at the home of Ottawa?s and Kalida?s former police chief. Putnam County Sheriff James Beutler confirmed law enforcement executed a ?sealed search warrant? at Forest Gordon?s home at 19099 state Route 115, north of Vaughnsville...

New Rochelle New York Sgt. David Rodriquez Arrested, Charged With Raping Teen After Helping Arrest Her Boyfriend - Husband Of WNBC Anchor “Today In New York” Darlene Rodriguez

Posted on March 19, 2008
NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK - A suburban police sergeant who is married to a New York City anchorwoman was charged Wednesday with raping a 17-year-old girl hours after he helped arrest her boyfriend at her house.art.sarge.jpg Sgt. David Rodriguez pleaded not guilty to charges of raping a 17-year-old girl...

Douchebag Bennington Vermont Police St. Patrick’s Day “DUI” Enforcement: DUI Arrests: 0 Civil Rights Violations: 74

Posted on March 19, 2008
BENNINGTON ? Dozens of motorists looked to their rearview mirrors Monday night to see the flashing, blue lights of local police. After being pulled over, most understood why and some were even pleased to have been stopped. Others, unfortunately,were arrested and brought to the police station for booking...

Bush Administration’s Lack Of Accountability To The American People: Federal Judge Sets 3 Day Deadline For White House To Produce “Lost” eMail Or They’ll Have Some Explaining To Do…

Posted on March 19, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - A U.S. District Court judge has ordered the White House to demonstrate why it should not be required create and store a copy of the so-called “lost” e-mails from the period March 2003 to October 2005. Those electronic communications lie at the heart of a dispute between the Bush administration and public-access [...

Dallas Texas Police Officers Randy Anderson And Paul Loughridge Indicted After Firing For Pulling Guns And Holding Country Singer Steve Holy And Friend At Gunpoint At Singer’s Home

Posted on March 19, 2008
DALLAS, TEXAS - Two recently fired Dallas police officers were indicted Monday by a Dallas County grand jury after the men were accused of holding country singer Steve Holy and his friend at gunpoint. Court records show that Randy Anderson was indicted on felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping...

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