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Winter Haven Florida Police Officer Kathleen Moylan Quits After Totaling Patrol Car, Inuring Another Woman, And Being Cited For Careless Driving - Third Wreck In 16 Months

Posted on March 07, 2008
WINTER HAVEN, FLORIDA - A city police officer has resigned following an internal investigation that showed she was at fault in a Jan. 14 accident in which she sped and crashed into a median and a car headed the opposite way. Officer Kathleen Moylan resigned after being told the department was considering firing her, police Chief [...

Hernando County Florida Deputy Sheriff Patrick Craven Quits, Admits To Drug Use After Drug Test And Wreck

Posted on March 07, 2008
HERNANDO COUNTY, FLORIDA — A Bay Area deputy is out of a job after admitting to drug use. Deputy Patrick Craven resigned his post with Hernando County Thursday afternoon after revealing that he has recently smoked marijuana. Deputy Craven was forced to take a drug test Thursday after being involved in a car crash...

Former Morris County New Jersey Undersheriff John Kinnecom Arrested, Charged With Posting Sexually Explicit Photos Of Women On The Internet Without Their Consent

Posted on March 07, 2008
MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - A former high ranking Morris County law enforcement official has been arrested and charged with posting sexually explicit photographs of women on the internet without their consent, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office...

Twin Peaks California Deputy Sheriff John Laurent Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Attempted Extortion

Posted on March 07, 2008
TWIN PEAKS, CALIFORNIA - Deputy John Laurent, 29, of the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station was arrested on Tuesday and charged with attempted extortion. Ray Green, 45, of Twin Peaks contacted the sheriff’s department on Jan. 15 and alleged that five days earlier Laurent had ?tried to extort him during a law enforcement contact...

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Crackhead Suspended Ottawa Canada Police Officer Kevin Hall Claims He Is Sorry For Stealing Crack Cocaine, Wants To Remain On Force Despite “Disability”

Posted on March 07, 2008
OTTAWA, CANADA - A suspended Ottawa police officer offered on Thursday to pay back one month’s salary should he lose an upcoming appeal of his dismissal from the force. Speaking publicly for the first time, Const. Kevin Hall also said he was sorry for stealing crack cocaine for his own personal use but felt he has [...

Former Veteran Beaumont Texas Police Officer Paul Perritt Pleads Guilty In $140K Theft Case For A Tiny Slap On The Wrist

Posted on March 07, 2008
BEAUMONT, TEXAS - A Former Beaumont Police Officer who pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges last year is sentenced to four months in federal prison. Fifty-four-year-old Paul Perritt admitted in court he took money from a Beaumont Police Officers Association fund under his control...

B.S. Case And String Of Errors By Spartanburg County South Carolina Sheriff’s Department Results In Not Guilty Verdict

Posted on March 07, 2008
SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA - A Spartanburg jury has found John Michael Batchelor not guilty in a sexual assault trial that lasted more than a week. The jurors found Batchelor not guilty in the sexual assault of a 14-year old girl in 2005, when he was 16 years old...

Four Waterford Connecticut Police Officers Suspended - Details Kept Secret From Taxpayers

Posted on March 07, 2008
WATERFORD, CONNECTICUT - Four members of the Waterford Police Department, including a supervisor, recently were suspended for undisclosed procedure violations. Waterford Police Chief Murray Pendleton said three officers and a sergeant from the midnight shift were disciplined last week...

Disgraced Former Tippecanoe County Indiana Deputy Sheriff Glen A. Keller’s Sentenced Reduced After Slap On The Wrist - Lied About Checking On 4 Year Old Girl Who Latter Died From Abuse

Posted on March 07, 2008
LAFAYETTE, INDIANA - A former police officer who lied about a well-being check on a 4-year-old girl who later died from abuse was granted a request today to have his perjury conviction reduced to a misdemeanor. Glen A. Keller, 37, of Lafayette testified this morning in Tippecanoe Superior Court 5 that the Class D felony conviction [...

Webster City Iowa Basketball Coach Does The Right Thing And Kills Himself After Child Pornography Arrest - Videotaped Teen Boys In Shower

Posted on March 07, 2008
DES MOINES, IOWA - A former Webster City middle school basketball coach accused of videotaping teen boys in a shower committed suicide Thursday in a South Dakota jail, officials said. Shawn Mofle, 41, was to have appeared in U.S. District Court in Sioux City on Thursday morning on an eight-count indictment charging him with six counts [...

The Three Stooges: Update Gary Indiana Police Chief Thomas Houston, Deputy Chief Thomas Branson, And Sgt. Thomas DeCanter Face Federal Charges After Illegal Searches, Beatings, And Illegal Imprisonment

Posted on March 07, 2008
GARY, INDIANA - Three top Gary police officials appeared in federal court in Hammond, Indiana this morning accused of violating federal law during the investigation of a break-in at the home of Gary?s police chief. WBBM’s Bernie Tafoya reports they were freed on their own signatures...

Veteran Detroit Michigan Police Officer Gary Allen Steele Arrested, Jailed, Charged With Beating His Girlfriend With A Baseball Bat

Posted on March 07, 2008
DETROIT, MICHIGAN - An off-duty Detroit Police officer arrested in Canton Township Tuesday was arraigned on seven charges, including torture and assault with intent to murder. Gary Allen Steele, 42, is charged with hitting his 37-year-old girlfriend in the legs with a baseball bat during an argument, then firing three shots...

Anderson South Carolina Police Arrest And Jail Woman For Accidently Dropping Tiny Cough Drop Wrapper, Judge Mattison Fines Her $465 Or 30 Days In Jail - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 07, 2008
ANDERSON, SOUTH CAROLINA ? A plastic wrapper for a cough drop has become the center of an arrest by an Anderson police officer, holding a woman while detectives initiate an investigation to determine if the woman was attempting to scam a group of Hispanics...

Hendersonville Indiana Police Officer Jim Morgan, Former Sheriff’s Candidate, Arrested, Suspended, Indicted On Laundry List Of Drug Related Offenses

Posted on March 07, 2008
HENDERSON, INDIANA - A Henderson Police Department officer is facing more than two dozen criminal counts stemming from an alleged abuse of prescription medications, according to a news release issued this morning. Jim Morgan, 42, was arrested Wednesday, a day after a grand jury returned 27 counts against him for obtaining or attempting to obtain a [...

Fredericksburg Virginia Jail Guard Richard Zacofsky Arrested, Charged With Sodomy Of Female Inmate

Posted on March 07, 2008
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA - Richard Zacofsky, 39, of Stafford is charged with one count of carnal knowledge of an inmate and one count of sodomy by force, threat or intimidation. The female victim complained to jail staff, prompting the jail to launch an investigation and notify the Sheriff’s Office, according to the release...

Child Molestation Victim To Testify Against Jailed Former Desert Hot Springs California Police Officer Dennis Paul Decker

Posted on March 07, 2008
RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA - An 18-year-old relative of a former Desert Hot Springs police officer [Dennis Paul Decker] who she says raped and molested her when she was a child will testify at his trial today under cross-examination. The former officer, 37, is being tried on 20 criminal counts, including aggravated sexual assault on a child, rape [...

Dallas County Texas Sheriff’s Corrections Officer Brandon Martin Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Cocaine And Marijuana

Posted on March 07, 2008
DALLAS, TEXAS - A detention officer with the Dallas County sheriff?s office has been arrested on an accusation of possession of marijuana and cocaine after Dallas police found drugs in his vehicle. Dallas police said officers stopped Brandon Martin, 22, of Mesquite, on Wednesday in the 9100 block of Forest Lane because he was driving without [...

Mille Lacs County Minnesota Deputy Sheriff Inv. James Darryl Osowski Suspended And Demoted After Harassment Conviction In Case Involving Former Attorney Girlfriend

Posted on March 07, 2008
MILLE LACS COUNTY, MINNESOTA - An investigator with the Mille Lacs County Sheriff?s Office has been suspended without pay and demoted following an internal affairs investigation requested by his boss - sheriff Brent Lindgren. James Darryl Osowski was sentenced for a misdemeanor harassment charge in which he was fined $1,000, ordered to complete 10 hours of [...

East Cleveland Ohio Police Officer’s Son Charged With Shooting And Killing A Police Officer

Posted on March 07, 2008
CLEVELAND, OHIO - The 19-year-old son of an auxiliary police officer has been charged in last weekend’s fatal shooting of a Cleveland patrolman. Lamidi Kafaru is charged with aggravated murder, accused of shooting officer Derek Owens in the abdomen during a chase last Friday night...

Crazed Utah Senator Chris Buttars “Bad Cop Bill” Seeks To Hide Misconduct By Police Officers

Posted on March 07, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Before Chris Buttars had the entire state engrossed in a war of racial epithets, the West Jordan senator was actually going about the business of lawmaking — albeit, really bad lawmaking. Proposed in early February, Senate Bill 260, which has been referred to by some as the Bad Cop Bill, seeks [...

Student Victim Of Columbia South Carolina Police Officers Excessive Force Files Complaint And Wants Investigation

Posted on March 07, 2008
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — A University of South Carolina football player Wednesday filed a formal complaint asking for an investigation into alleged use of excessive force against him by Columbia police officers. Columbia attorney Neal Lourie made the request for USC offensive lineman Kevin Young to Columbia City Manager Charles Austin, who already had requested that [...

North Bay Canada Police Officer Sean Burns Quits In Disgrace After Serving Jail Terms For Extortion And Harassment

Posted on March 06, 2008
NORTH BAY, CANADA - Disgraced North Bay Police Service Constable Sean Burns was to attend a hearing Tuesday to face charges under the Police Services Act dating back to 2002, but just before the hearing Burns tendered his resignation from the service bringing the process to a halt...

Delaware State Police Trooper HyunJin Kim Arrested, Charged With Armed Robbery

Posted on March 06, 2008
DOVER, DELAWARE - Delaware State Police say a trooper had been arrested for participating in the armed robbery of card players last month at the Wild Quail Golf and Country Club near Wyoming. HyunJin Kim, 27, of Dover, was initially reported as a victim of the crime but was charged with 11 counts of first-degree robbery [...

Comanchee Indian Nation Oklahoma Police Chief Ray Anderson Quits, Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $12K+

Posted on March 06, 2008
OKLAHOMA - The former police chief of the Comanche Nation pleaded guilty on Wednesday to embezzling more than $12,000 in tribal money. John C. Richter, U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced the plea through a press release. Ray Anderson, 55, of Lawton, pleaded guilty to one count of information charging him with [...

Crazed Prestatyn North Wales UK Police Officer Philip Newell Pisses Away Tax Dollars Harassing And Prosecuting Man Who “Moved His Hand Up And Down”

Posted on March 06, 2008
PRESTATYN, NORTH WALES, UK - A dad who made a rude gesture at a cop said he could not help it because he had just had a seizure. Epileptic Michael Beakbane, 52, denied he was being abusive when he moved his hand up and down. But traffic officer Philip Newell told a court: ?I took it he [...

Gordon County Georgia Correctional Officer David Brett Amos Arrested, Charged With Sexually Assaulting An Inmate

Posted on March 06, 2008
GORDON COUNTY, GEORGIA - A Gordon County Jail detention officer has been arrested for inappropriate sexual interaction with a female inmate, according to the Gordon County Sheriff?s Office. The incident occurred Tuesday, Feb. 26. David Brett Amos, 22, of Chatsworth, was charged with one count of sexual assault against an inmate in custody...

Dumbass Newark New Jersey Police Officer Runs Down Another Officer

Posted on March 06, 2008
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - A Newark police officer sustained a broken leg after he was hit by a police vehicle during a chase. Police say it began Sunday night when officers were nearly run over while conducting a safety check on Madison Avenue. Police pursued the vehicle into East Orange and back into Newark, where police say [...

New York City Police Officers Didn’t Identify Themselves Before Shooting Unarmed Man 50 Times On His Wedding Day

Posted on March 06, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - After the first week of the trial of the three detectives accused of shooting an unarmed man 50 times, a question has risen: did the detectives identified themselves before shooting? The commanding officer of the undercover police unit, Lt Gary Napoli, testified on Friday that he didn?t hear detective Gescard F...

Sentencing Delayed For Washington Police Officer Steve Hilsinger, Who Admitted Thefts From Motorists During Traffic Stops

Posted on March 06, 2008
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - A former Washington police officer who admitted he targeted Hispanic motorists and robbed them during traffic stops will be sentenced next Monday in federal court. Steven Hilsinger was originally set to be sentenced today, but a spokeswoman for the U...

Youth Prisons Finally Get Scrutiny - 13,000 Claims Of Abuse Filed In 3 Years

Posted on March 06, 2008
COLUMBIA, MISSISSIPPI — The Columbia Training School — pleasant on the outside, austere on the inside — has been home to 37 of the most troubled young women in Mississippi. If some of those girls and their advocates are to be believed, it also is a cruel and frightening place...

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