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West Farmington Ohio Police Chief Ted Leon Cornelison Charged With Intimidation, Tampering With Records, Forgery, Disorderly Conduct, Phone Harassment, Menacing, And Falsification

Posted on March 14, 2008
WEST FARMINGTON, OHIO ? A village police chief whose contract was not renewed last month now faces multiple felony charges. Ted Leon Cornelison, formerly the chief of West Farmington Village Police, was booked into Trumbull County Jail Sunday night but was released on his own recognizance the same day...

Crazed Orange County Florida Deputy Charges Man With Attempted Murder For Biting Cop

Posted on March 14, 2008
ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA – There was a shocking attack against an Orange County sheriff’s deputy. A man suspected of having HIV is charged with attempted murder for allegedly biting a deputy. The incident began as the 32-year-old suspect ran from a Shell gas station with a bag in hand...

St. Petersburg Florida Police Piss Away Tax Dollars, Shut Down Street And Blow Up Suitcase Containing Clothing And A Bible

Posted on March 14, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA — When police opened the suspicious brown suitcase found behind a Scientology office downtown, it contained no bomb - just clothing, personal items and a Holy Bible. Police opened the suitcase just after 5 p.m., after a Tampa Police bomb squad investigated it with a robot and detonated it...

Crazed Gwinnet County Georgia Police Ticket Woman For Expired Driver’s License - While Operating A Wheelchair

Posted on March 14, 2008
NORCROSS, GEORGIA — The morning commute to work became a bit more complicated Monday for a Gwinnett County woman. Rhonda Wilson, who has cerebral palsy, was riding her motorized wheelchair to work when a police officer pulled her over and gave her a ticket for driving with an expired license...

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Queensland Australia Police Officer Thomas James Anthony Wilson Receives Less Than A Slap On The Wrist For Child Pornography

Posted on March 13, 2008
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - A former police officer who downloaded thousands of child pornography images has walked free after being given a suspended sentence. Thomas James Anthony Wilson, 25, pleaded guilty today in the Brisbane District Court to one count of possessing child exploitation material...

America’s Standing In World Community After Disastrous G.W. Bush Presidency “Will Never Be As It Was Before”

Posted on March 13, 2008
PARIS, FRANCE - Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States’ battered image and standing overseas, but that “the magic is over...

Boca Raton Florida Police And SWAT Team Members Attack Applicants When Housing Authority Runs Out Of Forms

Posted on March 13, 2008
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA ? A crowd of more than 500 people waiting for hours this morning for housing voucher applications were dispersed by police in riot gear at the Boca Raton Housing Authority when the applications ran out sooner than expected. The action prompted complaints that officers used excessive tactics and housing authority officials were incompetent [...

Crazed Duval County Texas Sheriff Santiago Barrera Jr. Threatens Reporters With Arrest For Writing News

Posted on March 13, 2008
SAN DIEGO, TEXAS - When the Duval County sheriff said he would lock up reporters from local newspapers if they kept “interfering” in his business, no one took the threat lightly. For 20 years, Sheriff Santiago Barrera Jr. had done what he pleased with no challenges to his reign...

Soon To Be Released Report Shows How FBI Misused National Security Letters

Posted on March 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The Justice Department’s inspector general will release a report Thursday detailing more problems with the way the FBI used an investigative tool called national security letters. Last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the new report will show problems similar to ones detailed in the inspector general audit [...

Victim Awarded $40,000 After Crazed Utah Highway Patrol Officer Jon Gardner’s Taser Weapon Attack

Posted on March 13, 2008
VERNAL, UTAH - Jared Massey, the Vernal motorist who was Tasered by Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Jon Gardner during a Sept. 14 traffic stop, agreed to drop his federal lawsuit against the trooper Monday in exchange for $40,000. Massey, who pleaded guilty in January to a speeding charge arising from the stop, had filed the suit [...

Orlando Florida DEA Agent Gregory Troy Campion Quits, Pleads Guilty To Income Tax Fraud After Embezzling Confiscated Drug Money

Posted on March 13, 2008
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent from Orlando, accused of embezzling confiscated drug money between 2003 and 2005, pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to report $200,000 on his federal income taxes. DEA agent Gregory Troy Campion, 46, resigned before his hearing in an Atlanta federal courtroom...

Deland Florida Police Officer Sgt. Marc Gilotti Caught In Jacksonville With Whore In His Patrol Car

Posted on March 13, 2008
DELAND, FLORIDA — A DeLand police sergeant is in trouble after he was caught with a known prostitute in his city police car. It happened while the officer was attending a training class in Jacksonville. Sergeant Marc Gilotti has not been fired, but he will likely be demoted...

$28 Million Awarded To Victim’s Family After Crazed Pennsylvania State Police Troopers Samuel Nassan And Jaun Curry Shoot And Kill 12 Year Old Boy

Posted on March 13, 2008
UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - A jury yesterday awarded the father of Michael Ellerbe more than $28 million after finding that two Pennsylvania state police troopers intentionally shot and killed the 12-year-old boy in Uniontown on Christmas Eve of 2002. The bulk of the award, $24 million, came in punitive damages intended to punish Trooper Samuel Nassan and [...

St. Paul Minnesota Police Officer Conrad Rehak And Ramsey County Deputy Sheriff Mark Paul Naylon Indicted On Federal Fraud, Theft, And Conspiracy Counts After FBI Sting Operation Catches Them Stealing Money From Motel Room

Posted on March 13, 2008
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA - Two Twin Cities law enforcement employees have been indicted on federal counts of fraud, theft and conspiracy. Forty-seven-year-old Conrad Rehak of Ramsey and 48-year-old Mark Paul Naylon of Ramsey face six counts of defrauding the citizens of Minnesota of their honest services in a wire fraud scheme, one count of theft of [...

Lorain Ohio’s Resident Psycho Police Officer And Union President Corey Earl Returns To Work, Again - Ticking Time Bomb Waiting To Explode

Posted on March 13, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO ? Police Officer Corey Earl is back on the job. Lorain Safety Service Director Robert Gilchrist said Earl?s return ? which comes after two weeks of paid administrative leave ? was OK?d after Police Chief Cel Rivera received a copy of a court order dismissing a civil stalking protection order against Earl...

Hero To Zero: Northhampton Massachusetts Police Officer Eric D. Wartel Indicted On A Laundry List Of Counts, Including Harassing Another Officer, Identity Fraud, And Forgery

Posted on March 13, 2008
NORTHAMPTON, MASSSACHUSETTS - A Hampshire County grand jury has indicted a Northampton police officer on a number of counts, including the harassment of a fellow officer. Eric D. Wartel, 35, of South Hadley, committed identity fraud against Deirdre Yasutomo and criminally harassed her, according to the indictment...

Disgraced Hartford Connectict Police Officer Det. Nathaniel Ortiz May Receive More Than A Slap On The Wrist For Tampering With Evidence

Posted on March 13, 2008
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT - A Hartford police detective accused of tampering with evidence in a drug case is being denied a special form of probation that could have left him without a criminal record. A judge has denied Detective Nathaniel Ortiz’s request for accelerated rehabilitation...

Dumbass Yuma County Arizona Sheriff Ralph Ogden Wants To Build A Moat Between The US And Mexico - Since The Rio Grande And Colorado River Have Proven To Be So Effective At Keeping Out Third-World Border Jumpers

Posted on March 13, 2008
YUMA, ARIZONA - Most plans to gain control of the porous U.S.-Mexico border focus on some combination of fence. But this city in far west Arizona is looking to build a moat. See also: Suspended Yuma County Arizona Jail Administrator Michael McGregor Fired Three Former Yuma County Arizona Detention Officers Jose Espinoza, Justin Herrera, And Kenneth Smith [...

Former Muscogee County Oklahoma Deputy Sheriff And Sheriff’s Candidate David Meeks Found Dead In Tahlequah City Jail After Public Intoxication Arrest

Posted on March 13, 2008
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA — A former Muskogee County sheriff’s deputy and a candidate for sheriff in 2000 has died in the Tahlequah City Jail. Tahlequah Jail Administrator Brad Robertson says 52-year-old David Meeks was found slumped in his cell about 8 p...

Dayton Tennessee Police Department Wastes Tax Dollars On Beer Sting, Catches Nobody

Posted on March 12, 2008
DAYTON, TENNESSEE - For the first time ever the Dayton Police Department conducted a beer sales sting and didn?t sting anybody. On Friday afternoon Investigator Darrell Bell drove a 20-year-old male around to all 15 stores in Dayton where beer can be purchased for off-premises consumption...

Las Vegas New Mexico Man Legally Dresses Up Mustang To Look Like Transformers Police Car - “To Punish And Enslave” Slogan Sounds Like A Real Cop Though

Posted on March 12, 2008
LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO - Jessie Vigil’s black-and-white car sports a red-and-blue emergency bar across the top and the word “police” painted on the doors. Vigil, however, isn’t a cop. Law enforcement agencies say what he’s done with his car isn’t illegal as long as he doesn’t act like a police officer...

Crazed Chicago Illinois Police Charge Woman With Leaving Child In Car For A Couple Of Minutes While She And Older Children Dropped Money In Salvation Army Kettle

Posted on March 12, 2008
CHICAGO. ILLINOIS - Treffly Coyne was out of her car for just minutes and no more than 10 yards away. But that was long and far enough to land her in court after a police officer spotted her sleeping 2-year-old daughter alone in the vehicle; Coyne had taken her two older daughters to pour $8...

No 1st Amendment In Maine: Crazed Court Finds Kid Guilty Of Writing Music, Lyrics And Making CD - To Be Jailed For Two Years

Posted on March 12, 2008
BUCKSPORT, MAINE - A Bucksport teenager who was expelled from school for making a compact disc with lyrics containing graphic descriptions of a school shooting has been found guilty of a juvenile charge of terrorizing. 18-year-old Jonathan Hayes will remain in custody until he turns 20...

Disgraced Former Forks Pennsylvania Police Officer Jeremy McClymont Pleads Guilty To Speeding For A Tiny Slap On The Wrist For Accident With Senior Citizen - Conviction Elsewhere To Disappear From His Records

Posted on March 12, 2008
FORKS TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA - A former Forks Township police officer who resigned amid accusations of falsifying records pleaded guilty Tuesday to speeding during a 2007 wreck when he plowed his cruiser into another car. Jeremy McClymont will have to pay the $25 fine for the wreck and two points will be added to his driver’s license...

Former Marysville Pennsylvania Police Officer Robert J. Pavlovich Jr. To Face Trial For Molesting Or Propositioning 14 Children

Posted on March 12, 2008
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA - Former Marysville police Officer Robert J. Pavlovich Jr. waived his formal arraignment in Perry County Court on Thursday afternoon and entered pleas of not guilty to molesting or propositioning 14 females, ages 12 to 19, while he was on duty...

Clinton Township Pennsylvania Police Officer Sgt. Bradley Stockelberg Indicted For Role In Hiding Evidence In Police Officer Jason Peltack’s Hit And Run Crash

Posted on March 12, 2008
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA - The license plate number of a vehicle involved in an August 2006 hit-and-run wreck was jotted down on a napkin that was hidden by a police sergeant, according to an indictment this week that charged the officer in a cover-up of the crash...

McAdoo And Kline Township Pennsylvania Police Officer Joseph Honis Appeals Forgery Conviction

Posted on March 12, 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 today in Schuylkill County Court on a misdemeanor charge of tampering [...

Broward County Florida Sheriff’s Department Jail Librarian Carlos Milord Arrested, Charged With Stealing Car, Impersonating And Officer To Sell Cars

Posted on March 12, 2008
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - A civilian librarian with the Broward Sheriff’s Office has been jailed for impersonating an officer and grand theft. Authorities on Tuesday arrested Carlos Milord worked as a library specialist at a Pompano Beach detention center...

Reidsville North Carolina James O?Brien ?Brien? Smith Fired, Arrested, Charged With Sex With A Child While Working As Student Resource Officer

Posted on March 12, 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 [...

Crazed Riviera Beach Florida Voters Criminalize Sagging Pants

Posted on March 12, 2008
RIVIERA BEACH, FLORIDA ? Pull’em up or pay up! That’s the order voters gave tonight by overwhelmingly approving Mayor Thomas Masters “saggy pants” law. “I am thankful to the people who came out and voted their conscience and defined what is indecent in our city,” said Masters after hearing the measure won 72 percent of the [...

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