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Former Ashbury Park New Jersey Police Cadet Feron McGee Charged With $3,500 Theft For Collecting Unemployment While Receiving Salary At Police Academy

Posted on March 16, 2008
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY ? A grand jury has handed up an indictment against a former Asbury Park police cadet, accusing him of theft because he allegedly collected unemployment benefits while earning a salary as he attended the police academy. Feron McGee, 26, of Asbury Park, was indicted Wednesday on two counts of theft by deception and [...

Monmouth County New Jersey Corrections Officer Sean Chinsoon Convicted After Police Chase And Crashing Into Police Car

Posted on March 16, 2008
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY ? A Monmouth County jury today convicted a county corrections officer of eluding the police during a vehicle chase that began in Sea Bright and ended after he struck a marked police vehicle in Highlands. The jury deliberated for three and a half hours before finding Sean Chinsoon, 31, guilty of eluding police [...

8 Maryland Corrections Officers Face Firing And 1 Suspended After Inmate Beatings - State Officials Hide Details From Taxpayers

Posted on March 16, 2008
HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND ? Eight Maryland correctional officers face firing and one has been suspended in an investigation of alleged brutality at Roxbury Correctional Institution near Hagerstown, state prison officials said Friday. The disciplinary actions stem from a beating officers allegedly gave an inmate March 8 in retaliation for an attack on officers two days earlier, sources [...

Indicted Gary Indiana Police Chief Thomas Houston Quits - Charged With Beatings And Punching Pregnant Woman

Posted on March 16, 2008
GARY, INDIANA – The police chief of Gary, Ind., retired Tuesday and two of his top aides were reassigned, less than a week after they were indicted on federal civil rights charges, the mayor said Tuesday. Police Chief Thomas Houston is accused of assaulting two people he suspected of burglarizing his home last June and of [...

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Former New York City Police Officer Danielle Baymack Receives A Very Tiny Slap On The Wrist For Drunken Wreck Which Killed Another Officer

Posted on March 16, 2008
MINEOLA, NEW YORK - A former police officer who admitted she had been driving while intoxicated when her car smashed into a guardrail and killed a fellow New York Police Department rookie officer was sentenced on Friday to a year in jail. Danielle Baymack, 23, pleaded guilty in January to manslaughter and other charges, and had [...

Family Upset About Noble Oklahoma Police Officer Paul Bradley Rogers And Robert Shawn Richardson’s Special Plea Deals And Slap On The Wrists For Shooting And Killing 5 Year Old Boy

Posted on March 16, 2008
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA — The family of a 5-year-old boy who was killed when a bullet from a Noble police officer’s gun struck him is angry that a plea agreement between the officer and the state requires no jail time. Cleveland County prosecutors have offered deferred sentences to two former Noble police officers charged with second-degree manslaughter [...

Two More Prince George’s County Maryland Corrections Officers Suspended Amid Probe Into Smuggling Cell Phones Into Jail For Inmates

Posted on March 16, 2008
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND - The Prince George’s County corrections officer accused of smuggling cellphones into the jail for inmates is a suspected member of the Bloods street gang and was bringing the phones to fellow gang members “as part of an organized conspiracy” involving fellow officers, according to charging documents made public yesterday...

Former Hayward California Police Officer Jeff Cristofani Pleads Not Contest To Oral Sex With A Male Children And Sentenced To Just 2 Years Eight Months In Prison

Posted on March 16, 2008
HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA - A former Hayward police officer who pleaded no contest to two counts of oral copulation with a minor has been sentenced to more than two years in prison, his attorney said Friday. Jeff Cristofani, 42, was ordered by Judge Kevin Murphy of Alameda County Superior Court to serve two years and eight months [...

Lawsuit Against Garfield County Colorado Jail Receives Class Action Certification After Attacks, Beatings, Taser Weapon Attack, Pepper Spray And Pepper-Ball Gun Attacks On Inmates

Posted on March 16, 2008
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO - The American Civil Liberties Union?s lawsuit alleging prisoner abuse at the Garfield County Jail can go forward on behalf of all current and future inmates instead of only the four original plaintiffs. U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y...

Former Gary Indiana Police Chief Thomas Houston, Lt. Thomas Branson, And Sgt. Thomas Decanter Plead Not Guilty After Beatings And Illegally Holding People - Houston Also Charged With Punching Pregnant Woman In the Abdomen

Posted on March 16, 2008
GARY, INDIANA - Former Gary Police Chief Thomas Houston and two of his top aides pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that they beat, harmed and illegally held people they suspected of breaking into Houston’s house. Houston, Lt. Thomas Branson and Sgt...

Crazed Louisville Kentucky Police Officer Thomas Pugh Charged And Suspended After Shooting At Man And 7 Year Old Child - Previously Involved In Chase that Left A Child Dead

Posted on March 16, 2008
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – A Louisville police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after being charged with wanton endangerment in Spencer County. Officer Thomas Pugh was charged March 4 after a man filed a complaint alleging that Pugh shot at him and his 7-year-old son while they were on a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle...

Former Greene County New York Sheriff Richard Hussey Gets Plea Deal, Slap On The Wrist For Drunk Driving

Posted on March 16, 2008
CATSKILL, NEW YORK - The upstate prosecutor who handled the drunken-driving case against Richard Hussey said the former Greene County sheriff could have pleaded guilty to a reduced charge sooner than he did. Washington County District Attorney Kevin Kortright said his office lets most first-time offenders in misdemeanor DWI cases plead guilty to a lesser charge...

North Carolina State Police Trooper Andrew Waycaster Claims Man In Front Seat Of Patrol Car Attacked Him With A Razor - Shot And Killed Man

Posted on March 16, 2008
MARION, NORTH CAROLINA — The Highway Patrol says a trooper shot and killed a man he was transporting after the suspect attacked him with a razor blade. Officials told the Asheville Citizen-Times on Friday that Trooper Andrew Waycaster stopped 22-year-old Daniel Boyd Cole Jr...

Two New York City Police Officers Suspended For Lying About Patroling Scene Of Rape

Posted on March 15, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Two police officers have been stripped of their guns and badges for falsely claiming they dutifully patrolled a public housing complex’s stairwells on the morning a rapist attacked a woman in one of the stairways and escaped, police said...

Murder Conviction Tossed After Boston Massachusetts Police Ignored Judge’s Order To Not Question Man, Disgraced Cops In Federal Court To Answer To Conspiracy To Deprive Man Of His Rights

Posted on March 15, 2008
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - A retired judge testified in federal court yesterday that Boston police defied an order he gave a high-ranking officer not to interrogate Shawn Drumgold when they arrested him in August 1988 in connection with the killing of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore...

Shelby County Tennessee Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Chris Jones Charged With Murder And Attempted Murder After Shooting Two Men, Killing One

Posted on March 15, 2008
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - A Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy is charged with shooting and killing one man and critically hurting another. Sgt. Chris Jones, 39, was arrested Friday, March 14, 2008. Investigators say around 1:00 a.m., police were called to the restaurant and discovered two people had been shot...

Former Veteran Perry County Ohio Deputy Sheriff Paul Drake Pleads Charged With Theft

Posted on March 15, 2008
NEW LEXINGTON, OHIO — A former Perry County deputy entered not guilty pleas Friday to two counts of theft while in office and has a trial scheduled for Aug. 27. Paul Drake, who resigned from his position as a lieutenant Nov. 5, 2007, citing “circumstances” Perry County Sheriff Randy Barker was “well aware of,” was indicted [...

Veteran Swampscott Massachusetts Police Officer Thomas C. Wrenn Charged By Feds With Dealing Drugs

Posted on March 15, 2008
SWAMPSCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS ? A Swampscott police officer has been charged with dealing prescription drugs ? at times while on duty and in uniform. Thomas C. Wrenn, 37, of Nahant is facing up to 20 years in prison after his arrest Thursday night on federal charges of possession with intent to distribute oxycodone...

Fired Corning New York Police Officer Jason Dininny Indicted For Purjury After Lying On The Stand

Posted on March 15, 2008
CORNING, NEW YORK - A former Corning police officer fired Jan. 15 for misconduct has been indicted on felony charges alleging he lied under oath. Jason Dininny was indicted in late February on charges of felony perjury and felony offering a false instrument for filing, District Attorney John Tunney said Thursday...

Det. Mark Rudman Gets A Nose Chewing As Attempted Murderer Escapes From Reading UK Courtroom

Posted on March 15, 2008
READING, UK - A man on trial accused of shooting a bridegroom on his wedding day escaped from court yesterday ? after biting a detective?s nose. Jason McInerney, 20, who had been surrounded by security guards, fled with two codefendants during the uproar that followed...

Theft Of FBI’s $400,000 Trailer Full Of Surveillance Equipment, Dead Man’s Body In Federal Building For 3 Months, And 22 Stolen Federal Guns Blamed On Budget Cuts

Posted on March 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — A series of embarrassing incidents on federal property across the country, including the theft of a trailer of surveillance equipment from an FBI parking deck, is being blamed on budget cuts at the agency charged with securing federal grounds...

European Union Stoops To Level Of U.S. - Wholesale Transatlantic Privacy Invasions Begin

Posted on March 14, 2008
US-EU - The European Union has agreed to link its immigration databases with those of the US in a plan that could result in the routine transatlantic exchange of people’s biometrics. The deal could give the US detailed information about the details of the 300m people who cross EU borders every year...

RICO Suit Refiled Again RIAA - Time For Them To Finally Face The Music :)

Posted on March 14, 2008
US - Tanya Anderson has refiled her suit against The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a move which will almost certainly lead to the heavy-handed organisation’s tactics being exposed for the first time. Andersen charges that the RIAA used unlicensed investigators to gather information and was in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations [...

UK Police Chief Michael Todd, Who Investigated Illegal CIA Kidnappings And Plane Flights In Europe, Falls Off Mountain

Posted on March 14, 2008
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday. Manchester Chief Constable Michael Todd, 50, was found dead in Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of London, Deputy Chief Constable Dave [...

US House Of Representatives To G.W. Bush On Spy Operations Against Americans: Suck It

Posted on March 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — The House of Representatives voted Friday to back the Democratic-sponsored revisions to federal surveillance laws. The House voted Friday to back a revision to the Democratic-sponsored FISA bill. The vote was 213 to 197 in favor of a revision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill that was backed by the Democratic [...

U.S. Loses Top Spot As Worlds Largest Economy Amid Crashing US Dollar And Widening Depression

Posted on March 14, 2008
PARIS, FRANCE - The U.S. economy lost the title of “world’s biggest” to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets. Taking the gross domestic product of both economies in 2007, the combined GDP of the 15 countries which use the euro overtook that of the United States when [...

Westbrook Maine Lawmakers Single Out Town’s Only Tattoo Artist For Harassment

Posted on March 14, 2008
WESTBROOK, MAINE - City leaders in Westbrook are considering an ordinance that would hold tattoo artists to higher moral standards than most other businesses. There is only one tattoo studio in the city, and the owner said the ordinance singles him out...

Fort Wayne Indiana Police Bomb Squad Saves Lawyers From Raw Turnip And Tissue Paper - Our Tax Dollars Hard At Work

Posted on March 14, 2008
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA- A raw turnip was at the root of a bomb scare that last for hours at a law office. An employee at Haller & Colvin Attorneys at Law called 911 Thursday after opening a U.S. Postal Service box and finding a suspicious gift bag inside, police said...

Updates: Queensland Australia Police Officer Thomas James Anthony Wilson’s 8742 Child Pornography Mistakes Earns Him Just A Tiny Slap On the Wrist

Posted on March 14, 2008
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - A Queensland police officer caught with more than 8000 child porn images on his home computer has avoided spending any time in jail. Thomas James Anthony Wilson, 25, pleaded guilty in Brisbane’s District Court today to possessing the lewd material, including pictures of boys as young as 10 engaging in sex acts...

Nutcase Lorian Ohio Police Officer And Union President Corey Earl Second In PoliceAbuse.com “Dirty Dozen”

Posted on March 14, 2008
LORIAN, OHIO - Nutcase Lorain Ohio police officer, union president, and ticking time bomb Corey Earl scores second place in www.policeabuse.com “Dirty Dozen”. See also: Lorain Ohio?s Resident Psycho Police Officer And Union President Corey Earl Returns To Work, Again - Ticking Time Bomb Waiting To Explode Appears Here

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