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Former Polk County Deputy Sheriff Jose Aponte’s Victim Testifies About Being Forced To Have Sex And Having A Gun Pressed To Her Forhead

Posted on May 31, 2008
BARTOW, FLORIDA - A 41-year-old Poinciana woman testified today that her affair with a former Polk County sheriff?s deputy spiraled into fear and violence. Jose Aponte, 55, is accused of forcing the woman to have sex, and afterward putting the barrel of a handgun to her forehead and threatening to shoot her...

Halifax Canada Police Officer Don Ranni Receives A Slap On The Wrist After Drunken Wreck

Posted on May 31, 2008
HALIFAX, CANADA - The president of MADD Canada has a problem with the conditional discharge handed to a Halifax police officer last week for impaired driving. “This sentence was a breach of public trust,” Margaret Miller said in a weekend interview...

York Region Canada Police Officer Cory Weick Arrested, Suspended, Charged After Drunken Wreck

Posted on May 31, 2008
YORK REGION, CANADA - A York Regional Police officer has been suspended after being charged with impaired driving. The charge resulted from a single vehicle accident on Yonge Street south of Persechini Drive in Newmarket at about 1 a.m. Wednesday. Const...

Legend In His Own Mind: Former New York City Police Officer Fred Parisi Is Full Of Shit

Posted on May 31, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - In the world of Fred Parisi, he’s a heroic ex-New York City cop who rescued thousands of people at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and now runs a charity to help those who are sick from their time spent at Ground Zero. He also has said he’s an award-winning K-9 [...

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New Jersey State Police To Investigate Themselves After Department’s Failure To Respond To Fatal Plane Crash, Threatening Reporting Witness With Arrest

Posted on May 31, 2008
EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY - State Police Col. Rick Fuentes announced Wednesday that he is ordering a formal inquiry into how State Police responded to the fatal Eagleswood Township plane crash May 17. The inquiry comes after Dan and Amy Martelli, who initially reported the plane crash, claimed State Police broke off the search too quickly...

Putnam County Tennessee Deputy Sheriff Loses Handcuffed Man From Backseat Of Patrol Car

Posted on May 31, 2008
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - Wednesday morning authorities said they were on the lookout for a man who escaped from the back of a sheriff deputy’s car handcuffed. A Putnam County deputy arrested Kenneth Wakefield, Jr. Friday night for a parole violation...

Second Victim In One Month Accuses Moss Point Mississippi Police Officers Of Misconduct

Posted on May 31, 2008
MOSS POINT, MISSISSIPPI - For the second time this month a Jackson County resident is accusing Moss Point police officers of misconduct. Brunetta Gildersleeve, 68, said police officers acted inappropriately when they stopped a vehicle she and other family members were in on May 14 and ordered them out of the car at gunpoint...

Former Morris County New Jersey Deputy Sheriff John Cicchetti Lies On Employment Application To Get Job, Sues For Discrimination

Posted on May 31, 2008
MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - An ex-Morris County sheriff’s officer who claims he was tormented by colleagues because he has hepatitis C has the right to sue his former employer for discrimination even though he concealed an ex punged criminal conviction when he was hired, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday...

Dumbass Former Madisonville Kentucky Police Officer Brian McKinney Pleads Guilty After Stealing 85 Guns From Police Evidence Locker

Posted on May 31, 2008
MADISONVILLE, KENTUCKY - A former Madisonville police officer plead guilty to stealing dozens of firearms from the police evidence locker. Brian McKinney, 37, admitted to stealing 85 firearms over an 18 month period, and selling them to local gun dealers...

Bell California Police Officer Feliciano Sanchez Indicted For Sexually Assaulting Female Motorist

Posted on May 31, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - A federal grand jury has indicted a Bell, Calif., police officer for violating the civil rights of a motorist, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. The indictment handed down in Los Angeles alleged police officer Feliciano Sanchez sexually assaulted the motorist during a traffic stop, the department said in a release...

Phoenix Arizona FBI Agent Joe Gordwin Indicted After Affair With Wife Of Man Under Investigation - Hid Relationship So He Wouldn’t Lose His Job

Posted on May 31, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — An FBI agent from Phoenix was indicted in Los Angeles on 18 charges that accuse him of having an affair with the wife of a man he was investigating on two separate occasions. Joe Gordwin, 39, was arrested Thursday morning at the FBI office in Phoenix and was placed on administrative leave...

Forks Township New Jersey Police Officer Shawn Hummer Loses Right To Carry Gun After Attacking Woman

Posted on May 31, 2008
FORKS TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY - A Northampton County judge granted a temporary protection-from-abuse order Monday against a township police corporal, forcing him to surrender his firearms, court records said. Jennifer Ann Sam, 24, of Forks Township, asked for the temporary order after an emergency PFA she filed early Sunday morning against 30-year-old Shawn Hummer, a Forks [...

Veteran Rochester Minnesota Police Officer Sgt. Michael Beery Arrested, Charged With Drunk Driving

Posted on May 31, 2008
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA - It was a rough night for one of Rochester’s finest. Police Sergeant Michael Beery was arrested late last night for driving under the influence. Another driver called police to say she was following a truck and believed the driver was intoxicated...

North Providence Rhode Island Police Officer Sgt. Michael Ciresi Sentenced To 20 Years For Laundry List Of Crimes Including Burglary

Posted on May 31, 2008
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND — Michael Ciresi, a suspended North Providence police sergeant, will serve a minimum of 20 years in prison after being sentenced today for several crimes, including two burglaries. Ciresi, who had been on home confinement since February, was ordered to the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston by Judge Robert J...

Former Victoria Australia Police Officer David John Mits Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Bribe Motorist For Sex

Posted on May 31, 2008
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA - A former Victorian police officer has pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe a young female driver for sex. 43 year old David John Mits has pleaded guilty to one count of attempted bribery. The court heard that in January last year, he pulled over a 20 year old woman in Bayswater who was not [...

Former Dodge City Kansas Police Officer Chris Tahah Sentenced To Life For Murdering Former Girlfriend

Posted on May 31, 2008
DODGE CITY, KANSAS - A former police officer convicted of murder has been sentenced to a “hard 20″ in the death of his former girlfriend. Ford County District Judge Leigh Hood sentenced Chris Tahah to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 20 years for the felony first-degree murder of Erin Jones...

Former U.S. Virgin Islands Corrections Officer Nathan McIntosh Sentenced To 3 Years For Smugging Drugs Into Correctional Facility

Posted on May 31, 2008
ST. CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS - A V.I. Superior Court judge on Wednesday sentenced former V.I. Corrections Bureau Officer Nathan McIntosh to spend the next three years behind bars for smuggling marijuana into Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility. McIntosh, 24, of Mount Pleasant was sentenced by Superior Court Presiding Judge Darryl Donohue to serve three years in [...

Seminole County Florida Jail Deputy Tashunda Edwards Arrested, Charged With Tampering With Evidence After Flushing Her Son’s Drugs Down Toilet

Posted on May 31, 2008
SANFORD, FLORIDA - A Seminole County mom admitted she found pot in her teenager’s room and flushed it down the toilet, authorities said. But because of her job as a jail deputy, investigators said she is accused of tampering with evidence. The detention deputy has not responded for comment and her attorney hasn’t returned calls...

Members Of So-Called “Elite” Unit, Minneapolis Minnesota Police Officers Scott Mars And William Thornbury Under Investigation For Shooting Guns At party - Host Of Party, Another Officer, Charged With Drunk Driving Elsewhere

Posted on May 31, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - Two Minneapolis officers remain on paid leave as investigations continue into allegations they fired their guns after they left a house party in south Minneapolis late Wednesday night. The officers are members of the department’s elite STOP unit, which focuses on violence in the city...

Minnesota State Supreme Court Tosses Residents Rights To Be Secure From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures By Police

Posted on May 31, 2008
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA - Minnesota law enforcement officers have more power to order blood tests without a warrant in cases where a suspected drunken driver kills or seriously injures someone else. By a 5-2 ruling Friday, the state Supreme Court reversed previous decisions that supressed blood-alcohol evidence obtained from a woman without permission soon after she [...

San Diego California Prosecutors Try To Reverse Dismissal Of Bogus Charges Against Woman

Posted on May 31, 2008
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - Prosecutors in the Marine widow murder case have filed a motion saying the judge has no right to dismiss charges permanently. On April 17, the judge dismissed murder charges against Cynthia Sommer after new tests showed no arsenic in her husband’s tissues...

Crazed Texas District Court Judge Barbara Walther Walks Off Bench Without Returning Illegally Snatched Children To Their Parents

Posted on May 31, 2008
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS ? The devil was in the details. Discussions about a proposed order involving the return of children taken from the Fundamentalist LDS Church’s YFZ Ranch broke down late this afternoon when attorneys for the families wanted to review proposed changes with their clients...

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Radio Host Gets The Boot - Sorry Senator Ted Kennedy Got Brain Tumor, Hoped The Killer Kennedy Would Live Long Enough To Be Assassinated

Posted on May 31, 2008
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - A highly-rated, but highly controversial sports talk show host in Pittsburgh has been taken off the air - possibly for good - for a comment about Sen. Edward Kennedy’s cancerous brain tumor. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that Mark Madden has been permanently removed from the air from ESPN Radio in Pittsburgh...

Crazed Texas District Judge Barbara Walther Refuses To Sign Order Returning Children Illegally Snatched By Police And State Agents To Their Parents

Posted on May 31, 2008
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS ? A Texas judge refused on Friday to sign an agreement that would have paved the way for the first large batch of children taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch to return to their parents, dashing hopes raised by a Supreme Court ruling in the case...

Court Appointed Austin Texas Child Advocate Billy Dan Carroll Arrested, Charged With Child Molestation

Posted on May 31, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS - As a court-appointed child advocate, Billy Dan Carroll volunteered to help children and families deal with abuse and neglect cases. His job was to get to know them and help the courts guide the best path to recovery. Austin police now say Carroll, 53, is a serial pedophile and have charged him with [...

“You Guys Ruined It For Me, Again” - Former Bolingbrook Illinois Police Officer Drew Peterson’s 22 Year Old Girlfriend Hauled Before Grand Jury

Posted on May 31, 2008
BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS - Drew Peterson’s young love was hauled before the grand jury Thursday, and that was just the kind of thing that screwed up the affair. “You guys ruined it for me, again,” Peterson, 54, said of his romance with 22-year-old tanning salon worker Kim Matuska...

Spending Of Taxpayer Money By Seiver County Tennessee Sheriff’s Department Questioned

Posted on May 31, 2008
SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE — Sevier County’s state audit has been released and there are big questions about how taxpayers’ money is being spent. The findings show discrepancies in the offices of the county mayor, county clerk, director of schools and the sheriff’s department...

30 Guns Go Missing From Houston Texas Police Property Room - People With Criminal Records Had Access To “Secure” Areas Of Police Station - $13.8 Million To Be Spent On New Property Room

Posted on May 31, 2008
HOUSTON, TEXAS - For months, maybe years, people with criminal backgrounds had access to secure areas of the police station, including a property room from which 30 guns disappeared within six months, according to internal police documents. The documents, obtained by the Houston Chronicle, indicated that lax security created an environment ripe for theft...

Washington DC Police Arm Officers With Military Assault Rifiles - This Won’t End Well

Posted on May 31, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — Civil rights activists say the move to arm District of Columbia Police Department patrol officers with semiautomatic weapons is going overboard. Officers will be given AR-15 rifles this summer as a way to combat dangerous criminals on the streets, The Washington Post reported Saturday It is reported 352 officers completed training programs to handle [...

Former Wilson County Texas Deputy Sheriff Jasper McDonals Acquitted After Brutally Beating Man

Posted on May 31, 2008
WILSON COUNTY, TEXAS - A jury acquitted former Wilson County Sheriff’s Deputy Jasper McDonald of an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge Thursday, more than a year after he was accused of using excessive force during a 2006 arrest. McDonald, 32, of Floresville was indicted in December 2006, accused of striking Jesse James Servantez repeatedly [...

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