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Councilman Dennis Flores, Vocal Supporter Of Lorain Ohio Police Chief Cel Rivera, Arrested For Soliciting A Whore And Drunk Driving

Posted on May 25, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO A drunken city councilman on the prowl was caught Friday night in a prostitution sting, Lorain police said. Dennis Flores, D-2nd Ward, was charged with solicitation and DUI at 11:27 p.m., after driving up to a decoy prostitute near the corner of Reid Avenue and 18th Street; he was charged by Lorain and Elyria [...

Lake Pontchartrain Louisiana Causeway Police Officers Sgt. Chris Dupont And Chad Dorsett Disciplined Following Stop Of Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price After He Crashed Through Toll Booth Barrier

Posted on May 25, 2008
LOUISIANA - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway officials have disciplined both officers involved in the controversial traffic stop of Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price last month. One of the officers who stopped Mandeville Mayor Eddie Price last month on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway has been demoted and faces a three-day suspension for failing to test Price for alcohol after [...

Winter Haven Florida Police Officer Det. Thomas Biele Quits In Disgrace - Second To Quit In Three Months While Under Investigation

Posted on May 25, 2008
WINTER HAVEN, FLORIDA - For the second time in three months, a Winter Haven police officer has resigned following an internal affairs investigation into speeding with a department-issued vehicle during a non-emergency situation. Detective Thomas Biele, 40, was placed on suspension April 18 and handed in his letter of resignation May 1 before the case was [...

Family’s Lawsuit To Charge Long Beach California Police With Beating, Tasering, Shooting And Killing Innocent Terminally Ill Mentally Disabled Man

Posted on May 25, 2008
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA - The family of a terminally ill, mentally disabled man who was fatally shot during an altercation with Long Beach police officers said Tuesday they will sue the Police Department. Roketi Su’e, 46, was killed Saturday in the 3400 block of 67th Way as he was walking home from a birthday party...

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Victim Awarded $269K After Being Attacked And Wrongly Arrested By Dumbass Seattle Washington Police Officer Jacob Briskey

Posted on May 25, 2008
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - A federal jury in Seattle has awarded $269,000 to a young volunteer at the Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club who was knocked to the ground and arrested by a Seattle police officer, finding the officer wrongly arrested Romelle Bradford and violated his civil rights...

Veteran Austin Texas Police Officer Sgt. Kevin Stoddard Suspended After Ramming Car

Posted on May 25, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS - A 22-year veteran Austin police officer has been suspended for using a banned ramming maneuver on a car during a pursuit. APD released dashboard camera video Tuesday of the December 6, 2007 incident in South Austin involving Sgt. Kevin Stoddard...

Former Georgetown Texas Police Officer Jimmy Fennell Gets A Special Plea Deal For Kidnapping And Sex With Woman In Custody

Posted on May 25, 2008
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS - A former Georgetown police officer was free on bond Tuesday after accepting a plea deal, but in June he could be on his way to a state prison. Jimmy Fennell walked out of the Williamson County Courthouse after surrendering his badge and his license to be a Texas lawman...

Former North Charleston South Carolina High School Security Guard Charged After Sex With A Student

Posted on May 25, 2008
NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - A former South Carolina high school security guard has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and stalking. Authorities say 41-year-old Terence Thompson of Ladson is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student several times...

Four Arkansas Police Cadets Kicked Out Of Police Academy For Cheating

Posted on May 25, 2008
ROGERS, ARKANSAS - - Four law-enforcement cadets were dismissed Friday from the Northwest Arkansas training academy for cheating three weeks before graduation. A Benton County Sheriff’s Office deputy, a Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputy, a Bella Vista Police officer and a Farmington Police officer were dismissed from the academy after the cheating was discovered...

Two Lying New Hampshire State Prison Guards Still Working And Unpunished After Fired Guards Collect Nearly $2 Million In Court For Wrongful Termination

Posted on May 25, 2008
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Two state prison guards, who filed suit against the state Department of Corrections for wrongful termination, won verdicts yesterday totalling nearly $2 million for pain and suffering. Timothy Hallam and Joseph Laramie, who were awarded $1...

Des Moines Iowa Police And FBI Respond To Bogus Bank Robbery Call, Search At Least One Car, And Arrest Three

Posted on May 25, 2008
DES MOINES, IOWA - A comment by a customer at a Clive bank Thursday led a teller to sound a robbery alarm. Approximately a dozen officers and one FBI agent swarmed the scene and took three people into custody. Later that afternoon, police said the catalyst for the incident at Bank of the West, 1070 73rd St...

Lawsuit Charges Cook County Illnois Sheriff’s Department With Inmate’s Injury After Jail Ceiling Collapse

Posted on May 25, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - A Cook County Jail inmate is suing Cook County claiming negligence after he suffered injuries when the ceiling in his jail cell collapsed. Robert Kennedy filed suit Friday against Cook County and Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart, claiming jail officials should have known the ceiling in his cell was in an unsafe [...

Arrests Down In Chicago As Cops Finally Are In The Spotlight For Beatings And Other Misconduct

Posted on May 25, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis says arrests have declined and he wants officers to be more aggressive. According to department statistics, arrests for crimes such as vandalism, drug abuse and weapons violations fell by about 15 percent during the first four months of 2008...

Nutcase San Diego California Police Officer Franklin White Back On The Job After Shooting Unarmed Mother And Her 8 Year Old Son In Road Rage Incident

Posted on May 25, 2008
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - An off-duty officer who shot an unarmed mother and her eight-year-old son is apparently back on the job. The North County Times reports that 28-year-old Franklin White returned to field duty with San Diego police a few weeks ago...

Taxpayer Funded Fishing Expedition At Charles Mason’s Former California Ranch Finds No Bodies

Posted on May 25, 2008
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA ? After two days, the dig for clandestine graves at Charles Manson’s last hideout was called to an end after yielding no bodies and leaving scientists puzzled over the clues that had enticed them to come this far...

Fake Border Crossing Outdoor Adventure In South Of The Border Mexican Shithole Allows Participants Play Wetback For 3 Hours

Posted on May 25, 2008
EL ALBERTO, MEXICO — Gunshots ring out and sirens shriek, mixing with the ragged breath of muddy, panting humans. Suddenly, the full moon sweeping the ground like a searchlight reveals a disturbing scene: a group of illegal immigrants being handcuffed and led away by U...

Orange County California Acting Sheriff Jack Anderson Threatens To Have Inmates Sleep On Floor In Mismanaged Jail

Posted on May 25, 2008
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA ? Acting Sheriff Jack Anderson on Friday said he may be forced to come up with unpalatable alternatives to ease jail crowding during an expected spike in arrests over Memorial Day Weekend. “I’ll put mattresses on the floor if I have to,” Anderson said after he and two high-ranking members of his command [...

Future Of 440+ Children Unlawfully Snatched By Texas Police And State Agents In Armed Raid Uncertain - Some Are Incarcerated In State Institutions

Posted on May 25, 2008
TEXAS - Children from a polygamist sect who one mother says are “hurting very badly” in state custody are likely to be returned to their parents, a CNN legal analyst says. A Texas appeals court ruled Thursday that the state had no right to remove hundreds of children from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints’ ranch [...

Bradenton Florida Police Stop And Harass People For Walking On The Wrong Side Of The Road On Poor Side Of Town

Posted on May 25, 2008
BRADENTON, FLORIDA ? Civil rights leaders are pressuring the Bradenton Police Department to end the practice of stopping walkers at night in one part of the city for not using sidewalks and for walking on the wrong side of the road. Several recent cases, including a man who is suing the Bradenton Police Department after he [...

Harmful To Children: Bradenton Beach Florida Police Officer Timothy E. Matthews Quits In Disgrace After Attacked Girl And Her Brother - Teen Blew Officer A “Suspicious” Kiss - Crazed Prosecutor Pursues Bogus Charges Against Teen

Posted on May 24, 2008
BRADENTON BEACH, FLORIDA ? A boy who authorities say blew a kiss at a police officer and ended up in jail on a felony battery charge after pushing the officer has pleaded not guilty. [Video describing attack and arrest by crazed cop HERE.] Prosecutors charged Lance Lewis, 14, with disorderly conduct and felony battery on a police [...

Merrimack County New Hampshire Jail Guard Shawn Cunningham Sentenced To A Month In Jail After Attacking Inmate

Posted on May 24, 2008
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - A Merrimack County jail guard has been sentenced to a month in jail for assaulting an inmate. The prosecutor said sending 43-year-old Shawn Cunningham of Franklin to jail would send a message to Cunningham and to others who work in jails and prisons who think assaults against inmates will go unpunished...

Previously Fired After Crashing Patrol Car Into Mailboxes And Parked Cars On Christmas Day, Former Palm Beach Florida Police Officer Molly Olson Arrested, Charged With Prescription Fraud - Wanted Job Back After Firing

Posted on May 24, 2008
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - Former Palm Beach Police Officer Molly Olson was arrested Tuesday and charged with eight felony counts of prescription fraud. According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Olson, 33, of West Palm Beach, was booked into jail at 7:17 a...

Los Angeles County California California Deputy Sheriff Crashes Into Lawndale Liquor Store

Posted on May 24, 2008
LAWNDALE, CALIFORNIA - A male SUV driver made an unsafe lane change in front of a sheriff’s patrol car, which prompted a deputy to swerve and crash into a Lawndale liquor store. No injuries were reported, according to authorities. The accident happened at Lawndale Liquor on the southwest corner of West 162nd Street and Hawthorne Boulevard [...

Veteran Phoenix Arizona Police Officer Det. Mike Polk Indicted For Child Molestation After Child Pornography Arrest

Posted on May 24, 2008
PHOENIX, ARIZONA — A Phoenix police homicide detective arrested by his own department on child pornography charges has been indicted, the Maricopa County attorney’s office said. Detective Mike Polk, 50, a 26-year-veteran of the police department, has been indicted on 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a class two felony and dangerous crime against [...

Former UK Police Officer Ian Shuttleworth Arrested Amid Investigation Into Bangkok Sex Slaves

Posted on May 24, 2008
UK - A former British policeman has been arrested in Thailand over claims he sold women into slavery. Ian Shuttleworth is accused of luring Thai women to London under false promises of a job in a restaurant. Thai police believe the women were then sold to brothel owners who forced them into sex slavery...

Retired Police Officer Questioned After Underaged Girl Was Found In His Car In Kansas City Missouri - Arrested For Unpaid Parking Tickets

Posted on May 24, 2008
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - A retired officer was questioned by police after he was discovered with an underage girl. Kansas City police were staking out the Hallmark Motel for prostitution Tuesday when they spotted a teenager getting into a car with an older man...

Chicago Illinois Police Officer Gerald Callahan Arrested While Hiding In Bushes, Suspended, Charged After Beating An Elderly Couple For No Apparent Reason

Posted on May 24, 2008
NILES, ILLIONIS ? A Chicago Police officer is relieved of his police duties after being accused of assaulting two people in a north suburban restaurant this weekend. Witnesses say Officer Gerald Callahan attacked the couple for no apparent reason. CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov reports on the incident and the officer’s troubled past...

Incident At Inn Involved Asbury Park New Jersey Police Officers Lt. David DeSane, Sgt. Jeff White, And Fire Dispatcher Gary Clayton - Cheif Mark Kinmon Claims They Weren’t Fighting, So They Must Have Been - Details Hidden From Taxpayers

Posted on May 24, 2008
ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY ? Police are conducting an internal investigation into what happened to two police officers and a part-time city fire dispatcher while the three were at the Tally Ho Inn in Tinton Falls late Friday afternoon. One of the three suffered a minor injury...

Bella Vista Arkansas Police Recruit Scott Vanatta Kicked Out Of Police Academy For Cheating - Chief Wozniak Backs Bad Cop

Posted on May 24, 2008
BELLA VISTA, ARKANSAS - Bella Vista?s police chief said he plans to appeal on behalf of one of his officer who was accused of cheating and expelled from the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy last week. Chief Jim Wozniak said he?ll appeal officer Scott Vanatta?s dismissal to the training academy?s standards commission...

Nutcase Oklahoma Highway Patrol Police Officer John Kevin Bradshaw Suspended, Charged With Misdemeanor Assault And Battery After Attacking Child’s Baseball Coach

Posted on May 24, 2008
ENID, OKLAHOMA — Prosecutors accused an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Wednesday of assaulting a high school baseball coach after the lawman’s son didn’t make the team. John Kevin Bradshaw, 51, was charged in Garfield County District Court with one misdemeanor count of assault and battery...

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