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Ohio Special Narcotics Task Force Agent Dwight Aspacher Fired Amid Sexual Harassment Investigation

Posted on April 27, 2008
OHIO - The state attorney general’s office, which is at the center of a sexual harassment investigation, fired a special agent earlier this month over separate allegations that the agent demanded sex from a fellow member of a narcotics task force, a newspaper reported Saturday...

Suspended Former Watonwan County Minnesota Sheriff Joe Dahl Quits Amid Felony Theft Charges

Posted on April 27, 2008
WATONWAN COUNTY, MINNESOTA - The former Sheriff of Watonwan County has ended his career early. Deputy Joe Dahl retired last night amid allegations of swindling public funds.He had been suspended and on paid leave for the past six weeks.The Sheriff’s department looks forward to getting back to serving the public, after years of controversy surrounding [...

Garden City Idaho Police Officer Dereck B. Diercks Arrested, Fired, Charged With Stalking

Posted on April 27, 2008
GARDEN CITY, IDAHO — Garden City Police Chief James Bensley tells NewsChannel 7 that a probationary police officer has been arrested for allegedly stalking a former female acquaintance. Bensley says Dereck B. Diercks was dismissed from Garden City employment following the arrest...

Norfolk Virginia Police Officer Gordon Barry Gets A $57,500 Bonus For Shooting Another Officer And Quitting

Posted on April 27, 2008
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA - The police officer who fatally shot fellow Officer Seneca Darden has resigned and will get a $57,500 severance payment from the city after threatening to sue for being stuck on desk duty. Officer Gordon Barry shot Darden, who was in plain clothes, during a disturbance in the Young Terrace public housing neighborhood on [...

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Crazed White South Carolina State Police Troopers Are Above The Law - Not Charged After Videotaped Violent Attacks On Black Motorists

Posted on April 27, 2008
SOUTH CAROLINA - Two veteran prosecutors stand by their decisions not to charge white state troopers caught on videotape using force to subdue black motorists in separate incidents in 2006 and 2007. In both cases ? one man was poked at by a trooper with a shotgun in Orangeburg County and another fleeing on foot in [...

Boise Idaho Police Officer Gary Miller Arrested, Charged With Drunk Driving

Posted on April 27, 2008
BOISE, IDAHO — A Boise police officer is facing charges after being taken into custody shortly after midnight. Around 12:15 A.M., Idaho State Police arrested off duty Boise police officer Gary Miller after pulling him over for a moving violation...

Wisconsin: Taycheedah Correctional Officer Arrested For Inappropriate Relationships With Inmates

Posted on April 27, 2008
FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN - A 36-year-old male correctional officer at Taycheedah Correctional Institution was arrested Friday for alleged inappropriate relationships with inmates. The investigation into allegations has been ongoing since officials at TCI alerted the Fond du Lac Police Department, according to a press release from police...

Disgraced Seguin Texas Police Officer Chance Womack Appeals Firing

Posted on April 27, 2008
SEGUIN, TEXAS ? The former Seguin police officer fired one week ago over his off-duty conduct at a December, 2007 accident scene appealed his dismissal Friday. Seguin City Manager Doug Faseler confirmed Friday afternoon he?d conducted an appeal hearing for Chance Womack, whose firing by Police Chief Reno Reiley was confirmed April 17...

Greenbrier County West Virginia Deputy Sheriff Kevin Sawyers Beats Prosecutor - Charges Disappear

Posted on April 27, 2008
LEWISBURG, WEST VIRGINIA ? A special judge Friday dismissed the criminal case against Greenbrier County Sheriff?s Deputy Kevin Sawyers, who was indicted last month for allegedly beating county Prosecutor Kevin Hanson. Last week, special prosecutor Dan Dotson filed a motion to dismiss the battery charge because the Hanson no longer wished to pursue the case...

So Much For Billions Wasted On Security Since 9/11 - 73 Year Old Motorist Drives Onto Miami Florida Airport Runway

Posted on April 27, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA - Authorities are questioning a 73-year-old driver who sped through a security gate at Miami International Airport and ended up on one of the main runways. The man has not been identified. Police say he may have been disoriented when he drove passed security Friday morning...

$2 Million Lawsuit Charges Pearl Mississippi Police With Abusing Mentally Disabled Man - Disgraced Officer Keith Peterson And Jeff Thames Efforts Included Videotaped Beating Of Man’s Head And Fake “Lie Detector” Test With A Lampshade And Electric Wires - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 27, 2008
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - A mentally disabled man who was given a fake lie detector test is still waiting for a settlement after six years. Pearl police admitted that officers put a lampshade on Huey Granger’s head in June 2002. Granger had filed a police report claiming that his daughter was attacked by her boyfriend in [...

Disgraced Bush Administration’s So-Called “Justice Department” Says Domestic And International Law Doesn’t Apply To CIA

Posted on April 27, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counterterrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions...

Bystanders Yell “Kill The Police!” As Protesters March In New York City

Posted on April 27, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to “close this city down” to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends...

Calls For Special Prosecutor To Handle Police Misconduct And Brutality Complaints After Three New York City Police Officers Get Away With Murdering Groom On His Wedding Day

Posted on April 27, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - A coalition of civil rights advocates on Sunday urged changes in the handling of police misconduct and brutality complaints after the acquittal of three officers involved in the death of an unarmed man shot on his wedding day. They also called for a permanent state-level special prosecutor to investigate such cases...

Indiana Department Of Corrections Officer Roy Dicus Busted With Meth Lab And Drugs In His Home

Posted on April 27, 2008
PLAINFIELD, INDIANA - A correctional officer was arrested Sunday after investigators found a meth lab in his garage. Detectives with the Indiana State Police Methamphetamine Suppression Section found the lab in the garage of Officer Roy Dicus Sunday afternoon, along with other drugs inside his residence...

New Jersey Port Authority Police Overtime Spirals Out Of Control - $48,900,000 - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 27, 2008
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - Despite paying a consultant more than $400,000 to devise reforms, police overtime rose again at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey last year. Overtime costs increased 14 percent to $48.9 million, compared to a 12 percent spike in 2006...

Veteran Georgetown Texas Police Officer Terry Roggenkamp Suspended For 25 Days For Not Filing Complaint After Officer Jimmy Fennell Raped Woman

Posted on April 27, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS - An 11-year veteran of the Georgetown police force has been suspended without pay for his connection to former Officer Jimmy Fennell. Officer Terry Roggenkamp began a 25-day suspension on Monday for not following procedure. Roggenkamp was with Fennell the night he was accused of aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping charges against a woman...

Former Greene County Virginia Deputy Sheriff Leftery Tsouroutis Convicted After Selling A Firearm To A Convicted Felon

Posted on April 27, 2008
GREENE COUNTY, VIRGINIA - Former Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy Leftery Tsouroutis has been found guilty in a Greene County Court. He was convicted Friday of selling a firearm to a convicted felon. According to testimony, Tsouroutis knowingly gave a convicted felon a gun in exchange for a discount on bumpers for his jeep...

$11.5 Million Settlement After Broward County Florida Sheriff’s Department Strip Searches - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 27, 2008
BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA - As many as 40,000 people arrested by the Broward Sheriff’s Office and strip searched in the Broward jail over the past decade could receive $1,000 under an agreement approved by a Broward judge on Friday. The $11.5 million settlement ends a contentious legal battle between BSO and two women who claimed the [...

Gary Indiana Police Officer Gpl. Steven Andrus Charged With Drive-By Shooting

Posted on April 27, 2008
VALPARAISO, INDIANA - A Gary police officer has been charged in the March 18 drive-by shooting on Cooley Street in Portage, which followed a fight on St. Patrick’s Day at a Hobart bar. Gary police Cpl. Steven Andrus was charged in Porter County on Thursday with two counts of criminal recklessness, a Class C felony...

Calhoun County Florida Correctional Officer William “Billy” Strawn Arrested, Fired, Charged With Bribery And Solicitation Of Prostitution

Posted on April 27, 2008
CALHOUN COUNTY, FLORIDA - A Calhoun County correctional officer was fired from his post and jailed Friday evening on charges of bribery and solicitation of prostitution. Calhoun County Sheriff David Tatum said the incident that landed William ?Billy? Strawn in jail was caught on tape...

Former Chelsea Massachusetts Police Officer Sentenced To Just 2 1/2 Years After Attacking His Wife While On Vacation, Breaking Her Arm

Posted on April 27, 2008
OSSIPEE, NEW HAMPSHIRE ?A former Massachusetts police officer has been sentenced to prison in New Hampshire after being convicted of breaking his wife’s arm in a fight. Forty-four-year-old Hector Fernandez of Malden was convicted of breaking his wife’s arm by bending it behind her back while they were vacationing at the Christmas Farm Inn in Jackson [...

Maricopa County To Pay Out $925,000 To Settle Cases Against Crazed Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Department - $125,000 Paid After Bogus Charges Against Actor Who Impersonated Nutcase Sheriff - DOJ Asked To Investigate Sheriff And His Deputies

Posted on April 27, 2008
MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA - The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors this week agreed to pay out $925,000 to settle two cases that involved the Sheriff’s Office. One was a wrongful-death claim brought by the family of a 28-year-old man who suffered a heart attack while in custody...

U.S. Department Of Homeland Insecurity Hacked - Visitors Redirected To Malware Sites - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 26, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The sophisticated mass infection that’s injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and even infiltrated the website of the Department of Homeland Security. While so-called SQL injections are nothing new, this latest attack, which we we reported earlier, is notable for its ability to infect huge numbers [...

Massachusetts Turnpike Becomes Nation’s Longest Speed Trap As Douchebag State Police Troopers Target Motorists - Mass Pike Officials Deny Screwing Motorists More Than Usual

Posted on April 26, 2008
MASSACHUSETTS - The Massachusetts Turnpike has turned into the nation?s longest speed trap as state troopers, freed from their Big Dig duties, are gunning for harried commuters and writing tickets at a rate of an additional 4,000 a year, a Herald review shows...

Texas Authorities Snatching 416 Children In Armed Raid, Based On Unverified Bogus Phone Call From Another State, Is Finally Raising Some Constitutional Questions - Finally!

Posted on April 26, 2008
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS - The state of Texas made a damning accusation when it rounded up 462 children at a polygamous sect’s ranch: The adults are forcing teenage girls into marriage and sex, creating a culture so poisonous that none should be allowed to keep their children...

Chicago Illinois Police Piss Away Tax Dollars, Thinking They Will Be Effective After Weekend Filled With Shootings - Bonus: Dumbass Mayor Daley Blames The Gun Industry Instead Of The Deranged Minorities Firing The Shots

Posted on April 26, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Police planned to increase patrols and put SWAT officers and specialized units on the streets over the weekend, a show of force aimed at deterring violence like the three dozen shootings that left nine people dead last weekend. “Weather permitting, we will have our helicopter up,” said police spokeswoman Monique Bond, who said [...

Bicester UK Police Mount Major Armed Operation Over Man On Way To Costume Party With Chainsaw Minus Chain

Posted on April 26, 2008
BICESTER, OXFORDSHIRE, UK - Concerned residents dialled 999 after spotting the man walking along Churchill Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire. Armed police arrived but found that the man, whose chainsaw had no blade, was going to a fancy dress party as horror film character Jason...

Jailed Former Desert Hot Springs California Police Officer Dennis Paul Decker Convicted Of Child Molestation Charges After Using Child As His Sex Toy For A Decade

Posted on April 26, 2008
RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA - A former Desert Hot Springs police officer has been convicted of multiple charges of aggravated sexual assault and lewd acts with a child under age 14 for repeatedly raping an underage relative over a 10-year period. The officer [Dennis Paul Decker], 37, began molesting the young girl when she was 7...

Cambria County Pennsylvania Targets Amish Outhouses - Judge Threatens 2 Men Who Won’t Pay Fines With Jail - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on April 26, 2008
HASTINGS, PENNSYLVANIA - Two Cambria County Amish men say they won’t appeal fines for operating two unpermitted outhouses at a school, but say they won’t pay the fines either. The men say government regulations about how to dispose of the waste violate the religious freedoms of their ultraconservative sect...

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