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Watertown Massachusetts Police Officers Keith Parent And Orland Rodriguez Cleared After Violent Attack On 80 Year Old Man

Posted on April 28, 2008
WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS - Two Watertown police officers have been cleared in federal court of charges that they used excessive force during a 2002 arrest of an 80-year-old man. Frank Salvucci, now 86, of Watertown, accused Keith Parent, 34, and Orlando Rodriguez, 52, of violating his civil rights when they arrested him for allegedly trespassing on a [...

Paradise California Police Finally Investigated By Feds For Excessive Force

Posted on April 28, 2008
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA - FBI agents are investigating complaints of excessive use of force by Paradise police officers, authorities said. “The Paradise Police Department has been very cooperative with us,” said Steve Dupre, Sacramento FBI spokesman...

Dumbass Baltimore Maryland Police Officer Norman Stamp Killed By Baltimore Police Officers On His 44th Anniversary With Department

Posted on April 28, 2008
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - On the night of his 44th anniversary as a Baltimore police officer, Norman Stamp drank beer at a strip club on Haven Street with members of the motorcycle club he helped found — a tight fraternity called the Chosen Sons. Shortly after midnight, a dispute with another group led to harsh words and [...

Convicted After Using A Child As A Sex Toy For A Decade, Child Molester Former Desert Hot Springs California Police Officer Dennis Paul Decker Placed On Suicide Watch At Jail - If He Can’t Kill Himself, Hopefully Somebody Else Will

Posted on April 28, 2008
RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA - A former Desert Hot Springs police officer facing a possible life sentence for repeatedly molesting an underage female relative was on suicide watch Wednesday at the Riverside County Jail in Indio, his attorney said. Advertisement The 37-year-old former police officer [Dennis Paul Decker], whom The Desert Sun is not naming to protect the relative, [...

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Lawsuit Resulting From Lubbock Texas Police Officer Matt Doherty Killing Man With Repeated Shots From Taser Weapon To Be Heard By Federal Jury

Posted on April 28, 2008
LUBBOCK, TEXAS - The lawsuit against the city of Lubbock and Matt Doherty of the Lubbock Police Department is still scheduled to go before a jury May 5, but the jurors will not consider whether Doherty failed to address Juan Nunez’s medical needs...

Former Falls Township Pennsylvania Police Chief Jason Kizer Faces 48 Years In State Prison For Payroll Scheme

Posted on April 28, 2008
FALLS TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA ? A former Wyoming County police chief could face up to 48 years in state prison for receiving compensation from Falls Township while moonlighting during his shifts as a police officer in several other municipalities outside the county...

Former Pennsauken New Jersey Police Officer John E. Schenberger Jr Sentenced To Just 14+ Years In Federal Prison After Sending Hundreds Of Child Pornography Images And Videos From Work Computers

Posted on April 28, 2008
PENNSAUKEN, NEW JERSEY - A former Pennsauken police officer was sentenced in federal court yesterday to more than 14 years in prison for sending hundreds of images of child pornography from a work computer. John E. Schenberger Jr., 42, of Sicklerville, has been held without bail since July, when agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested [...

Man Awarded $32K Settlement After Bogus Carjacking Conviction - Lawsuit Against Buena Park California Police May Result In $550K Settlement - Orange County District Attorney Prosecuted Man, Despite DNA And Fingerprints Linking Someone Else To The Crime

Posted on April 28, 2008
BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA - A state agency has recommended that a former Buena Park man be paid $31,700 for spending 10 months in prison for a carjacking he did not commit. On Wednesday, James Ochoa, 22, also reached a tentative $550,000 settlement of lawsuits he had filed against Buena Park, its Police Department and a dog [...

Former Veteran Fairfax County Deputy Sheriff Robert A. Romero Jr. Pleads Guilty, Sentenced To Just 5+ Years In Federal Prison - Cries Like A Baby At Sentencing - Hopefully Will Soon Be Dead Or Some Biker’s Bitch Behind Bars

Posted on April 28, 2008
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - For nearly two decades, Centreville?s Robert A. Romero Jr. wore the uniform of a deputy with the Fairfax County Sheriff?s Department. But when he entered courtroom 601, Friday morning, April 18, in federal court in Alexandria, he wore the gray-and-white garb of a prisoner...

Livingston County Illinois Deputy Sheriff Leland Brooke Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Beating Woman

Posted on April 28, 2008
FLANAGAN, ILLINOIS — A Livingston County sheriff?s deputy is on administrative leave after allegedly making physical contact with a woman during an altercation last weekend. Leland Brooke, 29, of Flanagan was arrested Sunday morning after allegedly making ?physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature? to a woman, court records indicate...

Dunkin County Missouri Corrections Officers Christopher Whitfield And Alen Powell Fired After Nude Photos Of Female Inmates Were Taken

Posted on April 28, 2008
KENNETT, MISSOURI - Two corrections officers in the Missouri Bootheel are out of work after female inmates were allegedly photographed in the nude. Dunklin County Sheriff Bob Holder said today that an internal investigation revealed that part-time officer Christopher Whitfield took the pictures of three female inmates...

West Memphis Arkansas Police Shoot And Kill Man With Taser Weapons After Hassling Him For Doing Nothing

Posted on April 28, 2008
WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS - Police stopped Dewayne Chatt for loitering. When they were about to make the arrest the 38 year old ran into the Dodge’s store across the street and locked himself in the managers office. Police ran after him and had to use a taser on him three times before finally [...

Former New York City Police Officer Karl Neller Arrested In Florida, Charged With Child Pornography, Some Of Which Featured Child Under 5

Posted on April 28, 2008
KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA - A former New York City police officer is facing child porn charges in Central Florida on Thursday. Karl Neller faces nine counts of having child pornography. Kissimmee police arrested Neller Thursday, and said he and his brother also had cocaine and marijuana in the house...

Former Oklahoma City Police Officer Kenneth Griffin’s Plot To Kill His Wife Was Fueled By His Obsession With Venezuelan Whore - But In The End, The Officer Did The Right Thing And Hung Himself In County Jail

Posted on April 28, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA — An obsession with a prostitute he met at a Venezuelan resort led a former Oklahoma City police officer to try to arrange his wife’s murder, according to court documents. A judge on Wednesday made public a police investigator’s affidavit requesting that the officer be allowed to arrest Kenneth Griffin...

Wheeling West Virginia Police Officer Daniel Griffin Accused Of Stealing Evidence, Trying To Pass Bogus $100 Bill

Posted on April 28, 2008
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA — A former Wheeling police officer has been accused of stealing evidence and trying to pass a counterfeit bill while working with the department. Daniel Griffin of Triadelphia is charged with petit larceny and obstructing officers...

Detroit Michigan Police Officer Sgt. David Cobb Arrested, Suspended After Hiring Hitman To Kill His Wife

Posted on April 28, 2008
DETROIT, MICHIGAN - A Detroit police officer, accused of hiring a man to kill his wife in January, was suspended without pay by the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners this afternoon. Sgt. David Cobb, 38, was arrested at his home on Detroit?s east side Sunday morning after an alleged hit man, arrested Saturday, told police the [...

Hurricane Utah Police Officer Nathan Amosa Quits, Charged After Forcing Woman To Hive Him A BJ For Him Not To Cite Her For Child Neglect

Posted on April 28, 2008
HURRICANE, UTAH - A Hurricane police officer threatened to cite a woman for child neglect to get her to perform oral sex while he was on duty, according to police records released Thursday. Nathan Amosa, 24, resigned from the department March 31, the same day Washington County prosecutors charged him with forcible sodomy and two counts [...

Houston Texas Police Crime Statistics Questionable - Numbers Look Good On Paper…

Posted on April 28, 2008
HOUSTON, TEXAS - Eyewitness News has spent five months looking into the way the Houston Police Department codes and reports crimes. We asked for an explanation to what we found a week ago, and sent the department copies of what we found. As of tonight we’ve not gotten any explanation, though the chief did talk [...

Sequoyah County Oklahoma Jailer Jarrod Anthony Yates Pleads Not Guilty In Federal Court After Beating Inmate

Posted on April 28, 2008
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - A former Sequoyah County jailer will stand trial in June after being indicted on a federal charge accusing him of beating a prisoner. U.S. Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling says 24-year-old Jarrod Anthony Yates pleaded innocent Wednesday on a charge of deprivation of rights under color of law...

Former Erie County New York Deputy Sheriff Jame Riesz Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug Charges

Posted on April 28, 2008
ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK - A former Erie County Sheriff’s Deputy, who was arrested on drug possession charges last year, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of heroin on Thursday in U.S. District Court. James Riesz, 44, of Buffalo was found with 14 bags of heroin on Buffalo’s west side in November...

New Bedford Massachusetts Police Officer Edson Santos Under Investigation After Attacking And Choking His Girlfriend Outside Bar

Posted on April 28, 2008
NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - A city police officer is being investigated for allegedly choking his girlfriend outside a downtown nightclub last month, the mayor and a police source said. Edson Santos, 25, who has been a police officer for two years, is currently out of work using sick days as the investigation proceeds...

Fayette County Kentucky Jail Officer Timothy Kent Suspended After Releasing Wrong Inmate

Posted on April 28, 2008
FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY - A Fayette County jail officer who mistakenly released the wrong inmate from custody in March was suspended for two days earlier this month for not following jail procedure. Cpl. Timothy Kent was suspended without pay for 16 hours, or two work days, beginning on April 10...

Drunk Driving Charges Dropped Against Omaha Nebraska Police Officer Sgt. Harmon Moss After Arrest While Speeding

Posted on April 28, 2008
OMAHA, NEBRASKA - A drunken driving charge against an Omaha police officer has been dismissed following the officer’s completion of a diversion program. The charge against Sgt. Harmon Moss in Sarpy County Court was dropped on Wednesday. Moss was arrested in November in Bellevue after he was stopped for speeding while off duty...

Veteran New Orleans Louisiana Police Officer Raynard Lyons Arrested, Quits, Charged With Pandering In Undercover Prostitution Sting

Posted on April 28, 2008
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - A veteran New Orleans police officer resigned his position with the department after Kenner police arrested him during an undercover prostitution sting on Thursday afternoon. Raynard Lyons, a 17-year veteran of the department, was booked with pandering after officers watched him drop off a prostitute at an undisclosed Kenner apartment building, Kenner [...

Man Awarded Almost $400,000 After being Hit By Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania Police Patrol Car Driven By Officer Michael J. Stayer

Posted on April 28, 2008
HOLLIDAYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA ? An Altoona man has received almost $400,000 for injuries he suffered two years ago when he was struck by a city police cruiser. Arthur L. Vincent was walking across 17th Street at Margaret Avenue April 6, 2006, when a cruiser pulled onto 17th Street and struck and seriously injured him...

Crazed Middleton Massachusetts Police Officer Robert Peachey Jr. Got Less Than A Slap On The Wrist After Domestic Violence Incident, And Nothing For Beating A Man At Tweeter Center And Firing A Gun In His Home

Posted on April 28, 2008
MIDDLETON, MASSACHUSETTS ? Ousted Middleton Patrolman Robert Peachey Jr. was compelled to take an anger management class before he could get back his job ? and his gun. According to a three-page settlement agreement between the officer and the town, Peachey also was required to be screened by a psychologist, Sam Migdole...

Federal Lawsuit Charges Boca Raton Florida Police With Man’s Death After Not Arresting Him For Drunk Driving

Posted on April 28, 2008
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA ? City police were at fault in the case of a drunken man who was hit and killed by a train last September after he was released from police custody, according to a wrongful death lawsuit that was moved last week to federal court. Christopher Milanese, 24, of Deerfield Beach passed the day [...

Eureka California Police Never Followed Up On Rape Complaint Against Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen

Posted on April 28, 2008
BLUE LAKE, CALIFORNIA - A victim accusing Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen of rape has repeatedly told investigators and testified that she reported the March 7, 1999, rape to the Eureka Police Department later that month, but her allegations were never followed up on...

Franklin County Ohio Sheriff’s Office Found Liable In Woman’s Death - $2.725 Awarded To Mother

Posted on April 28, 2008
FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO - A jury awarded a record $2.725 million yesterday to a mother who has been fighting for 10 years to blame Franklin County for the death of her murdered daughter. The case against the Franklin County sheriff’s office would have settled out of court for much less, officials acknowledged later...

TSA Hides Details From Taxpayers After Denver Colorado Employee Alvin Crabtree Brings Gun To Work, Returns To Work After The Incident

Posted on April 28, 2008
DENVER, COLORADO - A Transportation Security Administration worker who brought a gun through an X-ray machine at Denver International Airport is back on the job. A FOX 31 investigation reveals that Alvin Crabtree got to keep his job as a screener at DIA, despite the incident...

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