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Irvington New Jersey Police Officer Robin M. Brown Indicted After Obtaining Fake Driver’s License - Officer Previously Worked With DMV To Prevent ID Theft…

Posted on April 30, 2008
IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY - An Irvington police officer whose job was to stop document fraud is being accused of using a friend’s birth certificate to obtain a New Jersey driver’s license with her photo on it, authorities said today. A state grand jury indicted Officer Robin M...

Court Slams Florida Toll Roads Over Bogus Ticketing

Posted on April 30, 2008
FLORIDA - A Florida judge fed up with the treatment of an innocent driver accused of “toll cheating” yesterday ordered Florida toll roads to stop issuing tickets to anyone with valid E-PASS or SunPass accounts. Circuit Judge John Galluzzo also ordered lower court judges in Seminole and Brevard counties to tear up any toll violation [...

Ohio Court Tosses Laser Speed Gun Readings

Posted on April 30, 2008
OHIO - An appellate court on Monday ruled that key evidence used in Ohio speed traps was not admissible. With millions in local government revenue at stake, the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Ninth District found the accuracy of laser-based speed guns (lidar) to be unproven...

Two Trials And $5 To $8 Million Dollars Latter, Feds Still Trying After FBI Creates Bogus Terror Cell From Homeless Men With Boots - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 30, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA - When the seven men were arrested in June 2006, federal authorities said they had broken up a dangerous home-grown terror cell plotting to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and other landmarks. Two trials and millions of dollars later, the government has yet to obtain a single conviction...

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Former Creek County Oklahoma “Penis Pump Judge” Donald Thompson Released From Prison

Posted on April 30, 2008
CREEK COUNTY, OKLAHOMA - A former Creek County judge convicted and sent to prison for indecent exposure was released from prison today. Officials with the Roger Mills County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to NewsChannel 8 that Donald Thompson was released from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite today...

U.S. Air Marshals Not Allowed To Board Flights Based On Similar Names In So-Called Terror Watch List

Posted on April 30, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - False identifications based on a terrorist no-fly list have for years prevented some federal air marshals from boarding flights they are assigned to protect, according to officials with the agency, which is finally taking steps to address the problem...

Memphis Tennessee 911 Operator Falls Asleep During Emergency Call

Posted on April 29, 2008
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - When you call 911, you expect help immediately. Lisa, a Memphis resident, got anything but. “Our lives were in danger,” she said. “Our lives were at stake, and our lifeline was severed.” Severed, she said, because during a recent call to 911, the operator fell asleep while she was on the line...

New York City Pisses Away 50 To 90 Million In Taxpayer Dollars A Year On Marijuana Arrests After Earlier Efforts Decriminalized Small Amounts

Posted on April 29, 2008
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ? Police busted nearly 400,000 people for carrying small amounts of pot in the last decade, making New York City the world leader in marijuana arrests, civil rights advocates said Tuesday while unveiling a study criticizing the war on drugs...

$2,500 In Steroids Go Missing From Refrigerator At Bergen County New Jersey Juvenile Detention Center - Details Hidden From Taxpayers

Posted on April 29, 2008
PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY - Four boxes of human growth hormone have gone missing from Bergen County’s juvenile detention center in Paramus, but county officials are saying little about it. Employees of the juvenile detention facility reported the steroids — valued at $2,500 — missing last month from a refrigerator inside the lockup...

Lorain Ohio Corrections Officer Mario Berdiel Busted With Heroin In Drug Sting And Fired

Posted on April 29, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO ? A newly hired city corrections officer spent the weekend behind bars after he was arrested Friday evening with heroin, police said. Mario Berdiel, 56, of Lorain, was charged with possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia by officers of the Lorain Narcotics Unit after he was seen leaving a suspected drug house that was [...

One Year Latter, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Sued Again Over Jail Overcrowding As Problem Worsens

Posted on April 29, 2008
PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA - A year after a federal judge issued a scathing order over conditions at Philadelphia’s crowded jails, the problem has only worsened, civil rights lawyers charge in a lawsuit filed Monday. Three people are routinely held in two-bunk cells, leaving the third to sleep in a blue, plastic shell on the floor, inches from [...

Orlando Florida Police Officer Durond Vann Gets A Special Deal And A Slap On The Wrist After Sex With A Whore While On Duty

Posted on April 29, 2008
ORLANDO, FLORIDA — Eyewitness News uncovered that former Orlando Police officer Durond Vann will only get one year of probation and community service, after a prostitute claimed that he paid her to have sex with him, while he was on the job last year...

Crazed Brooklyn Park Minnesota Police Violently Raid Innocent Couple’s Home Only To Find A Salt Water Aquarium - Dumbass Hot Water Heater Installer Smelled Vinegar, Runs To The Cops Crying “Meth Lab”, So Dumbass Judge Ivy Bernhardson Signs A Search Warrant - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 29, 2008
BROOKLYN PARK, MINNESOTA - Brooklyn Park police were looking for a meth lab, but they found a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it. And a few hours later, when the city sent a contractor to fix the door the police had smashed open Monday afternoon, it was obvious the city was trying [...

San Antonio Texas Police Officers Not Showing Up For Court Proceedings

Posted on April 29, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - San Antonio is cracking down on drunk driving. Both the Police Chief and the District Attorney have plans to get drunk drivers off the road. If you picked up Sunday’s paper, you saw yet another headline about San Antonio’s problem with drinking and driving...

Merced County California Superior Courty Security? Not So Much…

Posted on April 29, 2008
MERCED, CALIFORNIA - A man is dead after charging into a Merced Courtroom on Monday, armed with knives. The incident happened just before 3 p.m. at the Merced Superior Courthouse. According to the Merced County Sheriff’s Department, the man charged past the front entry of the court and ran down the hallway...

Former Fremont County Idaho Deputy Sheriff Bradley Holjeson Quits, Arrested, Charged With Stealing Cash And Prescription Drugs From The County

Posted on April 29, 2008
FREMONT COUNTY, IDAHO - A former Fremont County, Idaho deputy has been arrested and charged with two felony counts of grand larceny and possession of a controlled substance. The charges are for stealing cash, and prescription drugs from the county. The Sheriff’s Office first became suspicious of 25-year-old Bradley Holjeson when one inmate who [...

Former Johnson County Texas Delputy Sheriff Jerry Lee Diyer Fired, Arrested, Jailed, Charged With Child Molestation

Posted on April 29, 2008
JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS - A former Johnson County sheriff’s deputy is in the Somervell County jail after he was arrested last week on two counts of sexual assault of a child. Jerry Lee Diyer, 42, of Grandview was arrested Thursday after authorities received outcries from two girls, Sheriff Bob Alford said in a news release...

India: Two Third World Hellhole Cops Suspended After Trying To Book A 3 Year Old Child For Creating A “Law And Order Problem”

Posted on April 29, 2008
INDIA - Two policemen, including a police station in-charge, have been suspended for requesting the court to book (under 110G CrPC) a 3-year-old child on the suspicion of creating law and order problem in Sultanpur. The incident came to light on Saturday, when Mukesh?s father Chandrika Prasad went to the court with his 3-year-old son Mukesh, [...

Maryland Transit Police Officer James Walthall Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Car Buring Insurance Scheme

Posted on April 29, 2008
MARYLAND - A police officer for the Maryland Transit Administration was sentenced today to five years in prison for his role in a scheme to burn vehicles owned by transit employees for the insurance money, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland...

Holyoke Massachusetts Police Officers Joseph H. Wilson And Sean C. Shattuck Try To Justify Beating Man While Off Duty

Posted on April 29, 2008
PALMER, MASSACHUSETTS - Two Holyoke police officers charged with allegedly beating a man while off duty told their side of the story today, claiming they were trying to diffuse a situation created by two men frequently involved in altercations with police...

European Police To Share DNA And Fingerprints, Including Those Taken From Innocent Citizens

Posted on April 29, 2008
EUROPE - Horse trading in Brussels over plans for European police forces to share DNA and fingerprints has reached another milestone. The European Parliament said today that it had voted to accept the Treaty of Pr�m, a plan for data sharing between European police forces, on the proviso that its protections for ordinary citizens were beefed [...

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s Whore Sues Girls Gone Wild For $10 Million Over Videos From Back When She Was Just Some Teen Slut On Miami Beach

Posted on April 29, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA - The call girl linked to the downfall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer sued the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” series on Monday for $10 million, claiming he exploited her image and name to advertise the racy videos. Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, contended in the lawsuit that she was only 17 [...

Unable To Accomplish Goals Or Manage It’s Other Efforts, U.S. Department Of Homeland Insecurity Starts New Program That Will End Up Targeting America’s Recreational Boaters

Posted on April 28, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC ? As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist the country’s 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the country’s 95,000 miles of coastline and inland waterways...

It Turns Out That When Drunk Pinellas County Florida Deputy Sheriff Cpl. Paul Brock Plowed Through 5 Docks, The Dumbass May Have Been Racing Another Boat

Posted on April 28, 2008
PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA - It began as a leisurely cruise on a cool, clear evening after the Super Bowl. About a dozen people - a bartender, a nurse, a waitress and a model for the Home Shopping Network - drank beer and talked as they rode in a 28-foot boat from one bar to another off [...

Crazed “Conservation Warden” Thugs From Wisconsin Department Of Natural Resources Shoot And Kill Swans That Lived On Trevor Lake For 14 Years

Posted on April 28, 2008
TREVOR, WISCONSIN - People who live along Rock Lake are in mourning. They say conservation wardens from the Department of Natural Resources shot and killed two swans that lived on their lake for more than 14 years. The swans were known affectionately as Pierre and Simone...

New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie Likes To Talk Tough, But Doesn’t Have Much Of A Problem With Wetbacks Invading The United States

Posted on April 28, 2008
DOVER, NEW JERSEY ? U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie says it’s not against the law for undocumented immigrants to be in the United States. New Jersey’s top federal law enforcer surprised many at the First United Methodist Church of Dover Sunday...

Presidential Candidate John McCain Got Special Discount On Facility And Free Labor From Homewood Alabama City Jail Inmates

Posted on April 28, 2008
HOMEWOOD, ALABAMA - Republican presidential candidate John McCain got a deal when his campaign rented gathering space from the city of Homewood for a private fundraiser earlier this week. His campaign was given a discount of about 80 percent off the standard booking rate for Rosewood Hall...

St Louis Missouri Drivers Receiving Red-Light Camera Tickets Aren’t Paying, And There Isn’t Much That Cities Can Do About It - “If you threw it in the trash, nothing would happen.”

Posted on April 28, 2008
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI - Mikel Ramsey Jr. has a knack for getting on film. Or, rather, his car does. Ramsey’s vehicle has been clicked more than two dozen times by red-light traffic cameras in St. Louis, racking up $2,600 in fines. Ramsey hasn’t paid a dime of it...

Former Medford Oregon Police Officer Travis Henson Pleads No Contest To Menacing After Threatening Teen With Taser Weapon And Lying - Receives A Slap On The Wrist

Posted on April 28, 2008
MEDFORD, OREGON - A former Medford police officer who threatened a runaway teenager with a Taser, then lied about it to investigators, pleaded no contest to a single charge of menacing in Jackson County Circuit Court Wednesday, prosecutors said. Travis Henson, 36, agreed to voluntarily have his police certification with the state Department of Public Safety [...

Worcester County Massachusetts Probation Officer Ashley Losapio Under Investigation For Leaking Information To Criminals And Subjects Of Major Drug Investigations

Posted on April 28, 2008
WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS - An associate probation officer, formerly assigned to the Worcester County Courthouse, is under investigation for leaking information to known criminals and subjects of major drug investigations, the Telegram & Gazette has learned...

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