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Milwaukee Wisconsin Police And Prosecutors Unable To Protect Witnesses

Posted on May 01, 2008
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — Maurice Pulley agreed last fall to testify against the thug accused of shooting him in the face in an argument over a parking spot. But before Pulley ever took the stand, two gunmen ran up to him and killed him in his mother’s driveway...

Perth Police Police Attack Free Speech, Raid Sunday Times Newspaper Office And Search Employees While Looking For Information On Source Of Leak To Newspaper

Posted on May 01, 2008
PERTH, AUSTRALIA - RIVAL media groups have joined together to condemn police raids on a Perth newspaper, describing it as an attack on free speech. The department of Premier Alan Carpenter, a former journalist, admitted today making a complaint that led to the raid by 16 officers on the Perth newsroom of News Ltd’s Sunday Times [...

North Platte Nebraska Police Investigate Wedgie: ?You might get away with that in Lincoln or Omaha, but we’re not going to allow wedgies In North Platte.”

Posted on May 01, 2008
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA - At 8:16 p.m. on April 22, a North Platte police patrolman was dispatched by the 911 Center to a North Platte home in the 200 block of William Avenue on the complaint of a wedgie. Seems a neighbor kid gave a youngster a wedgie and the boy?s father called the police...

Suspended Lorain Ohio Police Officers Now Suspended Without Pay By Incoming Safety Director (Police Chief Cel Rivera’s Puppet) Phil Dore

Posted on May 01, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO ? Two Lorain police officers facing criminal charges were suspended without pay Wednesday. Officers Stanley Marrero and Jesus Sanchez both had been suspended with pay since last year, when they were indicted on unrelated charges. Lorain Safety Director Phil Dore said he believed it was in the best interest of the city to place the [...

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U.S. Department Of Justice Banned From Wikipedia After Deleting Article Material And Making Questionable Edits To Other Articles

Posted on May 01, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Wikipedia has temporarily blocked edits from the US Department of Justice after someone inside the government agency tried to erase references to a particularly-controversial Wiki-scandal. Early last week, the Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) was accused of organizing a secret campaign to influence certain articles on the [...

Greene County Illinois Prison Guard Paul D. Steinacher Gets Involved With Depositing Drug Money, Doesn’t Even Get A Slap On The Wrist

Posted on May 01, 2008
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS ? An Illinois prison guard’s attempts to discreetly deposit bundles of once-buried cash led to a 21st-century treasure hunt and the discovery of a drug dealer’s stash of almost $500,000 in cash, coins and jewelry, federal prosecutors say...

Lawsuit Charges Greenacres Florida Police Officers With Attacking Innocent Disabled Man, False Arrest, And Bogus Charges

Posted on May 01, 2008
GREENACRES, FLORIDA - Peter Ballance has long suffered neurological problems, including Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, and speech and memory disorders. To help him recall conversations, work on his stuttering and put social interactions in perspective, the 63-year-old Greenacres resident does something unconventional...

Department Of Homeland Security Kills 4th Amendment At The U.S. Border

Posted on May 01, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Now that US customs agents have unfettered access to laptops and other electronic devices at borders, a coalition of travel groups, civil liberties advocates and technologists is calling on Congress to rein in the Department of Homeland Security’s search and seizure practices...

After Millions Of Tax Dollars Spent On Investigation And Prosecution, DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey Hangs Herself Before Sentencing In Federal Court

Posted on May 01, 2008
TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA - A 52-year-old woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged Republican Sen. David Vitter killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after her trial ended on charges that she said she would never go to prison for...

Florida Intends To Criminalize Caller ID Spoofing

Posted on May 01, 2008
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A measure to battle caller-identification frauds passed the Senate Thursday morning and is now headed to Gov. Charlie Crist for his signature. The “Anti-Spoofing Act” would make it a misdemeanor for callers to enter false information into a caller-identification system to deceive, defraud or mislead call recipients...

Baltimore County Maryland Police Spend 2 Years Investigating Fireworks

Posted on April 30, 2008
PIKESVILLE, MARYLAND - There are things that go bump in the night, and then there are things that shake your walls, rattle your brain and send you flying out of bed. For more than two years, the thundering booms and the blinding flashes that lit up the sky over a Baltimore County parking lot at all [...

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano Jumps In Bed With Wetbacks Invading The United States

Posted on April 30, 2008
PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill to require city and county police agencies to have programs to confront federal immigration violations. The proposal approved by the Legislature would have allowed local police agencies to meet the requirement to confront immigration violations in several ways...

Lake County Illinois Chief Judge David Hall Suspended After Drunk Driving Arrest, Hospitalized After Being Pepper Sprayed By Vernon Hills Police

Posted on April 30, 2008
VERNON HILLS, ILLINOIS - Lake County Chief Judge David Hall is on a leave of absence following his arrest for alleged driving under the influence. Judge Christopher Starck was named acting chief judge following a meeting of Circuit Court judges Monday...

Veteran Seneca County Corrections Officer Charged With “Harassment” And False Report After Attack On Inmate And Lying About It

Posted on April 30, 2008
ROMULUS, NEW YORK - A 15-year veteran corrections officer at the Seneca County Correctional Facility has been placed on administrative leave, accused of using excessive force on an inmate then filing a false report about the incident. Seneca County sheriff’s investigators have charged David E...

Ocoee Florida Police Chief Ronald Reffett Investigated After Asking Co-Worker For Prescription Drugs - City Hides Details From Media And Taxpayers

Posted on April 30, 2008
OCOEE, FLORIDA - Sources tipped off Channel 9 that the Ocoee police chief asked a co-worker to share prescription drugs and that could involve a criminal offense. The mayor says an investigation is underway. Eyewitness News got conflicting reports Tuesday from the city’s top leaders, but was able to confirm Ocoee Police Chief Ronald Reffett is [...

Thames Valley UK Police Officer Sgt. Mark Downing On Trial After Drunken BBQ - Put Female Officer Over His Knee And Spanked Her

Posted on April 30, 2008
THAMES VALLEY, UK - A police sergeant put a female officer over his knee, spanked her and told her she was a “naughty girl” on a night out, a court heard yesterday. Mark Downing, 39, also slapped her on the bottom at a barbecue and joked: “If it’s there - it’s only fair that I hit [...

Seattle Washington Winged Shit-Machines Targeted With Blowguns - PETA Propaganda: “Someone who would do this to an animal is a short step away from doing this to a human being.”

Posted on April 30, 2008
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Someone is impaling pigeons in downtown Seattle with metal darts, and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is putting up $2,000 to help find out who. Several Seattle residents have called PETA in the past two weeks to report seeing three injured pigeons fluttering around with needlelike projectiles ? about 3 [...

Veteran Phoenix Arizona Police Homicide Detective Mike Polk Arrested, Charged With Child Pornography

Posted on April 30, 2008
PHOENIX, ARIZONA — A Phoenix police homicide detective was arrested by his own department and booked late Wednesday afternoon on child pornography charges, according to CBS 5 News sources. He is identified as Detective Mike Polk. He was booked on 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and is being held at the Fourth Avenue Jail...

Riverside County Deputy Sheriff John Frank Schafers Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Making Unwanted Sexual Advances On Domestic Violence Victim After Returning To Her Home While Off Duty

Posted on April 30, 2008
TEMECULA, CALIFORNIA - A Riverside County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making unwanted sexual advances toward a Temecula woman. John Frank Schafers, 42, has been with the department for about two years. Schafers was booked early Tuesday at the Southwest Detention Center on suspicion of sexual battery and assault by an officer and [...

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano Vetos Bill That Would Increase Penalties Against Drunk Drivers

Posted on April 30, 2008
PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Gov. Janet Napolitano on Tuesday vetoed a sweeping bill on drunken driving and boating, saying it was premature to reduce a new state mandate for first-time DUI offenders to use ignition interlocks. The bill would have imposed tougher mandates and penalties against drunk boaters and drivers, but also halved to six months the [...

Winter Haven Florida Police Officer Det. Thomas Biele Suspended, Under Investigation For Speeding In Department Vehicle, Again…

Posted on April 30, 2008
WINTER HAVEN, FLORIDA - A police detective, who has gotten into trouble before over speeding, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into whether he was speeding with his department-issued vehicle. Detective Thomas Biele, 40, was placed on suspension April 18...

Crazed Mille Lacs County Minnesota Sheriff Brent Lindgren Obsessed With Investigating Non-Theft After Dumbass Undersheriff Marxhausen Leaves His Gun In Public Bathroom And Someone Turns It Into Police - County Attorney Tells Sheriff To Find A Real Crime To Investigate

Posted on April 30, 2008
MILLE LACS COUNTY, MINNESOTA - The Mille Lacs County Sheriff has been continuing the investigation into what was reported as a theft - the theft of a gun. The gun had been left in a public restroom by the county undersheriff. The Mille Lacs County Attorney has suggested investigation should cease...

Fired Veteran Reading Pennsylvania Police Officer Bobby L. Moser Does The Right Thing And Kills Himself As Police Come To Arrested Him For Child Molestation And Child Pornography

Posted on April 30, 2008
READING, PENNSYLVANIA - A former Reading patrolman wanted on charges he raped a girl repeatedly over 10 years and possessed child pornography was found dead in the basement of his Centre Township home Wednesday after a nearly four-hour standoff with police...

Former Overton, Kilgore, And Rusk County Texas Deputy Sheriff Brandon Wayne Robertson Sought For Killing State Trooper

Posted on April 30, 2008
TYLER, TEXAS - The man who is the subject of a region wide manhunt after allegedly killing a Texas state trooper was once a peace officer himself. Records with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education show the man wanted for the shooting death of trooper James Scott Burns, 39, of Linden during [...

Lawsuit Charges Phelps County Sheriff Don Blankenship And For Police Officers With Beating And Killing Man Who Ran Red Light

Posted on April 30, 2008
ROLLA, MISSOURI - A case filed Monday in the in the Eastern District of Federal Court in St. Louis names as defendants Phelps County Sheriff Don Blankenship and four law-enforcement officers for the deprivation of Constitutional civil rights and subsequent death of Jimmy Dwayne Farris...

6 To 10 Orlando Florida Police Officers Under Investigation, Refuse To Answer FBI’s Questions After Chief Receives Threatening Letters

Posted on April 30, 2008
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - Channel 9 found out a threat of violence against all Orlando police officers may have come from inside their own department. FBI agents have narrowed their focus and believe the threats came from officers at the department. So far, all of the officers on the FBI list to question have refused to [...

Lawsuit Charges Green Hills Florida Officers Barbara Luedtke And James Acres With Shooting And Killing Mentally Ill Woman In Wheelchair Using Taser Weapons - Tortured With Tasers 10 Times For 121 Seconds - Victims Screams Appear On 911 Tape

Posted on April 30, 2008
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental health crisis is suing the City of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old Emily Delafield’s 2006 death as a homicide and lists Taser shocks as [...

Fired Crystal Falls Police Officer Michigan Arrested After Snowbaord Theft - Already On Probation For Receiving Stolen Outboard Motor

Posted on April 30, 2008
IRON MOUNTAIN, MICHIGAN ? A suspect arrested in connection to a snowboard theft at Pine Mountain Resort on March 28, was arraigned this week in Dickinson County District Court. Appearing in Dickinson County District Court for arraignment was Marcel Arthur Fraser, 49, Crystal Falls on a misdemeanor charge of larceny-greater than $200 but less than $1,000...

Dumbass Manchester Maryland Police Officer Lt. Glen Richards Kicked Out Of FBI Academy And Suspended For Visiting Pornography Sites In Class

Posted on April 30, 2008
MANCHESTER, MARYLAND - A police lieutenant has been disciplined for looking at adult websites on an FBI Academy computer, leading to his dismissal from the prestigious law-enforcement school. Lt. Glen Richards was kicked out of the academy Feb. 20, according to a department internal investigation released Friday...

Clementon New Jersey Borough And Fire Department Under Investigation By State Attorney General

Posted on April 30, 2008
CLEMENTON, NEW JERSEY ? The state Attorney General’s Office has opened a probe into the borough of Clementon, members of council and several people with ties to the fire department here, an official said. Mayor Mark Armbruster said Tuesday that Clementon was asked about two weeks ago to send all public records, dating to 2000, to [...

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