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Part Time Luzerne County Deputy Pennsylvania Sheriff And Police Officer Dion Fernandes Charged After Threatening To Sexually Violate And Killa A West Pittston Police Officer

Posted on March 17, 2008
LUZERNE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA - A part-time Luzerne County sheriff?s deputy and former area police officer was arrested last month for ?threatening to sexually violate and kill? a female West Pittston officer with whom he used to work, according to a citation filed...

Palmer Township Pennsylvania Police Officer Det. Chris Debiasi Admits To Lying In Police Report - Of Course It Was Only A “Mistake”

Posted on March 17, 2008
PALMER TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA - In the hours after two men were shot outside the Tic Toc Family Restaurant, a Palmer Township detective typed up court papers swearing one of the men about to be charged with attempted homicide had confessed to stashing a handgun in a rest room wastebasket...

Former Nacogdoches County Texas Deputy Sheriff Michael Paul Kennedy Sentenced To 97 Months In Federal Prosin For Child Pornography

Posted on March 17, 2008
BEAUMONT, TEXAS — United States Attorney John L. Ratcliffe announced today that a former Nacogdoches County Sheriff?s Deputy has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas. MICHAEL PAUL KENNEDY, 32, pleaded guilty to transporting or shipping child pornography, receipt of child pornography, and possession of [...

Former Rose City Michigan Police Chief Maxwell Garnett Sentenced To 71 Months In Federal Prison For Machine Guns And Silencers. Former Ogemaw County Asst. Prosecutor Gary Theunick Sentenced To 63 Months. Former County Prosecutor Fred MacKinnon Also Convicted

Posted on March 17, 2008
DETROIT, MICHIGAN - The ex-police chief of Rose City was sentenced Tuesday to 71 months in prison for illegal possession of machine guns and silencers. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, sitting in Detroit, imposed the sentence on Maxwell Garnett, 56, of Rose City...

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Speeding Tucson Arizona Police Officer Timothy Not Charged After Running Over And Killing Former Franciscan Priest

Posted on March 17, 2008
TUCSON, ARIZONA - The Pima County Attorney’s Office will not file criminal charges against a Tucson police officer who ran over and killed a pedestrian last month. A letter sent late last week to Richard Miranda, chief of the Tucson Police Department, said there wasn’t enough evidence to prove Officer Timothy Coussens‘ actions were criminal on [...

Federal Lawsuit Charges Cass County And Nebraska Police With Bogus Murder Charges And 7 Months Of Imprisonment Of Innocent Retarded Man

Posted on March 17, 2008
OMAHA, NEBRASKA — A Nebraska man who spent more than seven months in jail on charges for two murders he did not commit is suing state and Cass County law enforcement in federal court. Matthew Livers was charged in April 2006 with two counts of first-degree murder in the April 2006 shooting deaths of his uncle [...

Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Police Officer Joseph Honis Appeals His Forgery Conviction, Again

Posted on March 17, 2008
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA - A Schuylkill County police officer’s forgery conviction, which was tossed out by a county judge then reinstated by state Superior Court, is under appeal again. Joseph Honis, who worked as an officer in McAdoo and Kline Township, was scheduled for sentencing Wednesday in Schuylkill County Court on a misdemeanor charge of tampering [...

Washtenaw County Michigan Deputies Joseph Eberle, Eric Kelly, And Shawn Hoy Indicted After Attack On Two Brothers, Killing One

Posted on March 17, 2008
DETROIT, MICHIGAN — A federal grand jury has returned indictments against three Washtenaw County sheriff’s employees for allegedly violating the civil rights of two Ypsilanti Township brothers, one of whom died after an officer used “unreasonable force,” according to the U...

Crazed San Diego California Police Officer Suspended, Under Investigation After Shooting Woman And Her 8 Year Old Son In Road Rage Incident

Posted on March 17, 2008
OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA ? A woman and her son were recovering Monday after being shot by an off-duty San Diego police officer in what authorities said was prompted by a road-rage incident. The officer has been placed on routine administrative leave, a San Diego Police spokeswoman said...

Jailed Since 2000, Attorneys Want Charges Dropped Against Man Charged With Murder After Miami-Dade Authorities Wait Too Long To Charge Him After Using Phony Arrest Form To Try And Trick Him Into Confessing

Posted on March 17, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA - Attorneys asked a Miami-Dade judge Tuesday to throw out the last criminal case against a member of the notorious John Does drug gang, arguing that police waited too long to charge their client. Chazre Davis has been in a Miami-Dade County jail since he was indicted in 2000, awaiting trial on charges he [...

Northampten Massachusetts Police Officer Eric Wartel Indicted On Harassment Charges

Posted on March 17, 2008
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS - A Northampton police officer has been indicted by a Hampshire County grand jury on charges his harassed a fellow officer. Thirty-five-year-old Eric Wartel of South Hadley is accused criminally harassing and committing identify fraud against Deirdre Yasutomo...

Former Greene County Virginia Deputy Sheriff Leftery Tsouroutis Sentenced On Federal Prostitution Charges After Sex With Teen Drug Addict And Lying

Posted on March 17, 2008
GREENE COUNTY, VIRGINIA - A former Greene County Sheriff’s deputy who pleaded guilty to engaging in prostitution with a prisoner will spend 27 months in federal prison. Leftery Tsouroutis was sentenced in federal court Monday morning. Back in 2002 Tsouroutis picked up a suspect in Baltimore to transfer her back to Central Virginia...

Yet Another Former Robeson County North Carolina Deputy Sheriff Sentenced - James Hunt Receives A Slap On The Wrist For $160,000 In Thefts From Interstate Motorists And Then Snitching On Other Deputies

Posted on March 17, 2008
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA ? Former Robeson County deputy James Hunt received a two-year prison term today for stealing about $160,000 while stopping people for drugs on Interstate 95. Hunt faced a maximum 20 years in prison. Another former deputy, Billy Strickland, received a six-month sentence for illegally receiving satellite TV signals...

Lee County Florida Deputy Sheriff Michael DeTar II Suspended After Videos Surface Of Him Using Taser Weapon At Private Superbowl Party

Posted on March 17, 2008
LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA - A deputy was suspended for two weeks without pay and ordered to retake training for proper Taser use after videos surfaced of him using a Taser on two men at a party. Corp. Michael Detar, II, admitted to officials at the Lee County Sheriff?s Office that he was the man in the [...

Former Miami-Dade Florida Police Officer Michael Alayon Pleads No Contest After Fatal Hit And Run Drunken Wreck

Posted on March 17, 2008
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — A former Miami-Dade police officer accused of trying to cover up his role in a fatal hit-and-run crash changed his plea Monday, the day his trial was scheduled to begin. Michael Alayon, 29, pleaded no contest to leaving the scene of a crash that killed Ryland Nye, 54, of Pompano Beach, in [...

Yet Another Delay In Sexual Assault Investigation Targeting Greensboro North Carolina Police Officers Sgt. A.S. Wallace, J.O. LeGrand, and C.S. Stevens For Attack On Female Police Officer

Posted on March 17, 2008
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA ? It will be weeks before District Attorney Doug Henderson can give his recommendation on whether to charge or clear three officers accused of sexual assault last December. The most recent delay in the investigation comes because physical evidence sent to the State Bureau of Investigation crime lab has not yet been [...

Indictment Doubles Number Of Women Southampton New York Police Officer Guy Giammatteo Is Charged With Having On Duty Sex With - And Includes Domestic Violence Victims

Posted on March 17, 2008
SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK - A newly unsealed indictment has doubled the number of women a suspended Southampton Police officer is accused of having sex with while on duty. Guy Giammatteo, 33, appeared in Supreme Court in Riverhead on Monday as a second grand jury indictment against him was unsealed...

Lima Ohio Police Officer Sgt. Joseph Chavalia Charged With Tiny Misdemeanors After Shooting And Killing Innocent Woman As She Held Her Infant During Botched SWAT Raid

Posted on March 17, 2008
LIMA, OHIO - A white police officer accused of fatally shooting a black woman as she held her 1-year-old son during a drug raid was charged with two misdemeanors Monday, outraging activists and relatives of the woman who said he should face tougher penalties...

Former Urbana Illinois Police Officer DeAnn Winn-Mauer Whines About Pardon

Posted on March 17, 2008
CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS ? Had DeAnn Winn-Maurer known Chandra Gill wanted a governor’s pardon, she would have objected. She would have told the Illinois Prisoner Review Board members, hearing the Chicago activist’s request to be pardoned from a 2003 Champaign County felony conviction, that she lives with constant pain...

Dumbass Veteran Harris County Texas Deputy Sheriff Craig Miller Was Drunk At The Time Of His On Duty Death In Fatal Crash - More Than Three Times State Limit And Not Wearing Seatbelt

Posted on March 17, 2008
HOUSTON, TEXAS — A Harris County Sheriff’s deputy killed in a traffic crash while on duty was legally intoxicated. The Harris County Sheriff’s office held a press conference this afternoon confirming that Deputy Craig Miller’s blood alcohol content was ...

Veteran Santa Fe County New Mexico Deputy Sheriff Sgt. James Naranjo Charged With Shoplifing Handheld Radio - Caught On Video

Posted on March 17, 2008
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO - New Mexico State Police have filed shoplifting charges against a Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputy, according to Santa Fe Sheriff Greg Solano. Sgt. James Naranjo was charged with shoplifting in Santa Fe magistrate court Thursday morning...

Former Desert Hot Springs California Police Officer Dennis Paul Decker’s Child Molestation Trial Delayed - Used Relative Child As A Sex Toy For A Decade

Posted on March 17, 2008
RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA - With the testimony of the alleged victims completed, the trial of a former Desert Hot Springs police officer accused of molesting a now-18-year-old female relative and another girl will be in recess until March 24. Dennis Paul Decker, 37, is being tried on 20 criminal counts, including aggravated sexual assault on a child, [...

Norwalk Connecticut Police Officers Lt. Michael King and Sgt. Stephen Couture Not Charged Amid Child Molestation Investigation Centering On Lt. Thomas Cummings, But Could Face Disciplinary Action

Posted on March 17, 2008
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT - Criminal charges will not be filed against two police officers drawn into the investigation of former Lt. Thomas Cummings, who was charged with sexual molestation, police and Judicial Branch sources said. But an internal police investigation is under way, and Lt...

Obvious: Denver Colorado Police Monitor Saying Lying Cops Face Credibility Issues In the Courtroom, Water Is Wet, And Sky Is Blue

Posted on March 17, 2008
DENVER, COLORADO - The Denver police administration is not adequately handling complaints against officers who have lost credibility by “departing from the truth,” according to a report filed by the city’s independent police monitor...

Monmouth County New Jersey Sheriff’s Corrections Officer Sean Chinsoon Convicted After High Speed Chase And Hitting Police Car

Posted on March 17, 2008
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY ? A Monmouth County jury Friday convicted a county corrections officer of eluding police during a vehicle chase that began in Sea Bright and ended after he hit a marked police vehicle in Highlands. The jury deliberated for 3 1/2 hours before finding Sean Chinsoon, 31, of Highlands guilty of eluding police in [...

Cops Gone Wild: Criminal Cases Against Pasco County Florida Deputy Sheriff Donald Riggans And Rodney Philon Tied To Stolen Tampa Drugs

Posted on March 17, 2008
TAMPA, FLORIDA — While Donald Riggans was on duty in a Pasco County patrol car and deputy’s uniform last week, he caught a drug-runner carrying $25,000 in cash. Then he drove to a school parking lot in New Port Richey, according to court records, and divided the proceeds with two others, taking $9,000 for himself...

Crazed UK Police Want Children Teachers Don’t Like Added To DNA Database - Teachers To Select Future Criminals

Posted on March 17, 2008
LONDON, ENGLAND - Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert. Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said [...

Former Bolingbrook Illinois Police Officer Drew Peterson’s Vehicles And Property Returned Amid Investigation Into 4th Wife’s Disappearance And 3rd Wife’s Death. State Firearms Permit Revoked By State Police

Posted on March 17, 2008
BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS - A Will County judge Monday ordered the return of Drew Peterson’s vehicles and other personal property police seized from his home under search warrants related to the disappearance of his fourth wife, and said he would decide later this month whether Peterson’s guns should be returned to his police officer son for [...

Reidsville North Carolina School Resource Police Officer James O?Brien ?Brien? Smith Charged After Sex With A Child

Posted on March 17, 2008
REIDSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA ? A Reidsville police officer was charged Wednesday with having sex with a student at Reidsville High School, where he served as a student resource officer. James O?Brien ?Brien? Smith, 32, was charged after a State Bureau of Investigation probe found Smith had sex with a student at the high school, Reidsville police [...

Experts Divided After Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Police Officer Shoots And Kills Man With Taser Weapon - Another Death Gets Bogus “Excited Delirium Syndrome” Diagnosis

Posted on March 17, 2008
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - Traffic screeched to a halt on the Parkway West as Chad Cekas lay on his stomach in an inbound lane, disoriented and bleeding from his nose. His legs didn’t move. The 27-year-old Beechview man struggled weakly and unsuccessfully to rise on his elbows just outside the mouth of the Fort Pitt Tunnel...

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