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Drunk Parma Heights Ohio Police Officer Sgt. Jeff Krepina Crashes Into Police Department

Posted on March 12, 2008
PARMA HEIGHTS, OHIO — A local police officer is charged with drunk driving, after crashing into his own department’s building. Parma Heights police Sgt. Jeff Krepina now finds himself on the other side of the law. Krepina is patrolling the streets of Parma Heights at night, barely missing a beat, so to speak, since he was [...

Crazed Hillsborough County Florida Deputy Sheriff Arrested Man With Pneumonia Who Blew 0 On Breathalyzer For Drunk Driving, Jail Refused Him Medical Attention

Posted on March 12, 2008
TAMPA, FLORIDA - “It’s awful that he was treated like that, it’s inhumane if you ask me.” That’s how Randy Brannon describes what happened to his father as he was trying to drive to a walk-in doctor’s clinic on Monday to be treated for pneumonia...

Hillsborough County Florida Judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr. And The Stripper

Posted on March 12, 2008
TAMPA, FLORIDA - The judge has called their relationship “a pure business matter,” but also a friendship. The stripper says he helped her hide assets from creditors, at a time when she had court judgments against her totaling nearly $315,000...

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Quits After Hooking Up With High Dollar Whores

Posted on March 12, 2008
NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring, announced his resignation today, becoming the first governor of New York to be forced from office in nearly a century. Mr. Spitzer, appearing somber and with his wife at his side, said his resignation is to be [...

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Vallejo California Firemen Partied At Taxpayer Expense

Posted on March 12, 2008
VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA - While Vallejo’s finances were plunging faster than a roller coaster at the Six Flags amusement park, the city’s firefighters were going abalone diving, grilling tri-tip and drinking cocktails on the public’s dime, records show...

Newark New Jersey Police Chief Anthony Campos Suspended

Posted on March 12, 2008
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - Newark’s police chief is serving a five-day suspension. Chief Anthony Campos will not return to duty until Saturday. According to the police union, the suspension was issued by Campos’ boss, city police Director Garry McCarthy...

Veteran Bexar County Texas Deputy Sheriff George Autobee Arrested, Faces Federal Methamphetamine Drug Charges - Many Criminal Cases Now In Jeopardy

Posted on March 12, 2008
BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS - A Bexar County sheriff’s deputy who played a role in a drug conspiracy investigation that helped cripple Texas’ largest prison gang is now facing a federal drug charge himself. George Autobee, an 18-year deputy, was charged in federal court Monday with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine...

Sequin Texas Police Chief Luis Collazo Suspended Amid Investigation Into Sexual Harassment

Posted on March 12, 2008
SEQUIN, TEXAS - Seguin Police Chief Luis Collazo was suspended with pay while the city investigates several employee allegations against him. The city manager says Collazo was suspended Tuesday while the city investigates claims he created a hostile workplace, was involved in sexual harassment and allegations he treated his officers differently from members of the community...

GoDaddy Silences Police Watchdog Website RateMyCop.com After Cops Whine

Posted on March 12, 2008
CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA - A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops...

Drunk On Duty: Austin Texas Police Officer Robert Tipton Quits After Working While Drunk

Posted on March 12, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS - An Austin Park Police officer has quit instead of being fired after authorities said he was drunk while on duty last month. Officer Robert Tipton had a blood alcohol content that was more than twice the 0.08 legal limit for driving in Texas, according to documents obtained Tuesday...

US Air Force Loses Bomb In Suffolk UK - Could Be Triggered By Wireless Phone Or Laptop

Posted on March 12, 2008
SUFFOLK, UK - Making A mobile phone call in Suffolk could potentially prove lethal thanks to the US Airforce. A missing ‘chaff’ bomb could be triggered by any RF transmitting device ? including a mobile phone. The one-of-our-bombs-is-missing admission was made at the beginning of the week by a spokesperson for the US Airforce based at [...

Mexican Police Officer To Be Sentenced For Georgetown Texas Child Rapes - Jury Recommends Life And 75 Years In Prison

Posted on March 12, 2008
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS - A Mexican police officer will be sentenced today for raping a Georgetown girl in 2006. A Williamson County jury convicted Salvador Hernandez, 35, of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child last week and recommended that he serve life in prison for the first count and 75 years for the [...

Weare New Hampshire Police Drop Bogus Criminal Case That Man Was Planning Attack On Police Officer Sgt. James Carney - Cops Take Knife Innocent Man Kept Under His Mattress For Protection After After Yanking Him Out Of His House And Interrogating Him For Hours - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 12, 2008
WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE ? Police won’t pursue a criminal case against a man charged with planning an attack on a Weare police officer. The man accused of the crime said he’s relieved but denies he was ever involved. Mark Yphantis, 48, of 186A Concord Stage Road, was arrested on Jan...

ratemycop.com Forced Off Godaddy.com’s Crashing Servers

Posted on March 12, 2008
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — A new Web site is sparking controversy within the law enforcement community, NBC 7/39 reported. RateMyCop.com allows the public to grade police officers on three criteria: authority, fairness and satisfaction. Ratings range from poor to average to good...

Previously Fired From Texas Attorney General’s Office For Sexual Harassment, Budget Director Phillip Martinez For Texas State Health Services Quits

Posted on March 12, 2008
TEXAS - The budget director at the Department of State Health Services resigned Tuesday, shortly after the agency learned that he had been fired early last year from another state agency that had accused him of sexual harassment. Phillip Martinez, 37, signed his name to a handwritten resignation letter that read only: “Effective 03/11/08, I Phillip [...

Nutcase Sandiacre UK Police Ticket Man For Dropping Cigarette Ash On Street

Posted on March 12, 2008
SANDIACRE, UK - Stunned smoker Daniel Slaney ended up in court ? for dropping cigarette ash on a pavement. The computer programmer, 37, was having a fag as he walked to work. But two council wardens accused him of throwing his cigarette end away and handed him a �40 fine for littering in Sandiacre, near Nottingham...

Man Files Complaint After Improper Strip Search And Body Cavity Search By New Haven Connecticut Police Officers Lt. Holly Wasilewski, Sgt. Tony Reyes, And Dennis O’Connell

Posted on March 12, 2008
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT - New Haven’s police chief says three members of the department are accused of conducting an improper strip search of a man arrested last year. Chief Francisco Ortiz says Lt. Holly Wasilewski, Sgt. Tony Reyes and Patrol Officer Dennis O’Connell have been ordered to appear before the Board of Police Commissioners...

Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell Scolds State Police Supervisors - Will Be Sent To Bed Early When Department “Implodes”

Posted on March 12, 2008
CONNECTICUT - An angry Gov. M. Jodi Rell dressed down more than 60 state police managers at the governor’s residence in Hartford Monday, warning that the department is about to “implode” and threatening to replace managers who could not properly supervise their ranks, according to sources who attended the meeting...

Money Goes Missing At Fayetteville North Carolina Police Department - Details Hidden From Taxpayers By Chief Tom Bergamine

Posted on March 12, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA ? The Fayetteville Police Department is investigating the possible embezzlement of departmental funds, police said Tuesday. Police Chief Tom Bergamine said no other information about the case would be released. ?We understand there might be frustration on the part of the public with regard to the limited amount of information we are able to [...

Gang Members Infiltrating U.S. Military

Posted on March 12, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA ? While hundreds of Mexican soldiers are deserting the army to join drug trafficking gangs, California is facing the opposite problem: A growing number of gang members here have infiltrated the U.S. Armed Forces in order to receive military training...

Veteran Atlantic City New Jersey Police Officer Ronald Basile Rewarded After Failing Random Drug Test And Being White

Posted on March 12, 2008
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY - A city police detective’s punishment for failing a random drug test has turned to reward. Ronald Basile, fired from the Police Department in 2005 after testing positive for cocaine, will receive $80,000 after city attorneys agreed to settle his lawsuit that claimed he was fired because of reverse racism, officials confirmed [...

50 Third Worlder’s Go Blind After Staring At The Sun To See Virgin Mary Image - Duh…

Posted on March 12, 2008
KOTTAYAM, INDIA - Reports in India of a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary in the sky have led about 50 people to blind themselves by staring at the sun. The visions are said to appear over the former home of a hotel owner in the Kottayam area in southeast India, The Daily Telegraph reported...

Inmates In Bush’s Guantanamo Torture Prison Awaiting U.S. Government Kangaroo Court May Get To Call Home After Up To 6 Years In Extreme Isolation

Posted on March 12, 2008
US TAX DOLLARS AT WORK AT GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six years...

Veteran Volusia County Deputy Sheriff James Mathis Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Drunk Driving

Posted on March 12, 2008
UMATILLA, FLORIDA - A Volusia County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence. James Mathis, 31, has been suspended with pay after being arrested by the Umatilla Police Department. Mathis was off-duty and in a personal vehicle at the time of the arrest...

Former New Jersey Port Authority Police Officer Robert Nanni Admits Pocketing $70K In “Donations” For Youth In Exchange For Not Writing Traffic Tickets

Posted on March 12, 2008
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY ? A now-retired Port Authority police officer — accused by authorities of using hisbadge to demand “donations” for a youth baseball team in return for overlooking motor vehicle violations — has pleaded guilty to official misconduct and other crimes...

Not The Brightest Bulb Department: Firing Of Arkansas State Police Trooper Roderick L. Trotter Sr. Upheld After He Sought Three-Way Sex With Two Motorists And His Wife

Posted on March 12, 2008
Roderick L. Trotter Sr. LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS - The state police director properly dismissed a state trooper who admitted seeking a three-way sex encounter between his wife and two women in a car he had stopped for driving with expired tags, the Arkansas State Police Commission decided Friday...

Crazed Sterling UK Police Charge Motorist With Upside Down Parking Permit

Posted on March 11, 2008
STERLING, UK - A motorist has been fined �35 for displaying her parking ticket upside down. Stirling Council said that although the �3.50 ticket was displayed, wardens could not read it. They claim Marie McGrath was fined because she broke the car park conditions...

Manchester UK Police Chief Michael Todd Commits Suicide

Posted on March 11, 2008
MANCHESTER, UK - The head of one of the biggest police forces in Britain has been found dead. Michael Todd, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, disappeared while out walking on Snowdon, north Wales, on Monday night. Rescue teams found the 50-year-old’s body on part of the mountain called Bwlch Glas on Tuesday afternoon...

Disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Has Used Whores For 10 Years, Tipped Big, And Didn’t Want To Wear A Condom - Now Caught Up In Laws He Enforced As Prosecutor

Posted on March 11, 2008
NEW YORK - Disgraced Gov. Spitzer dropped up to $80,000 on sex with prostitutes, sources revealed tonight. Spitzer, a millionaire, was hopping into bed with harlots for as long as 10 years and traveled as far as Florida for call-girl trysts, sources said...

Dumbass Fayetteville Arkansas Court Baliff Jarrod Hankins Forgets Illegal Immigrant In Isolated Courthouse Holding Cell For 4 Days - No Food, Water, Or Toilet

Posted on March 11, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS ? A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with no food, water, or toilet, authorities and the woman said. Adriana Torres-Flores, 38, appeared in court Thursday and pleaded not guilty to a charge of selling pirated CDs, but a judge ordered [...

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