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Ombudsman Says Four Flint Michigan Police Officers Should Have Been Fired Over Racially Charged St. Patrick’s Day Incident

Posted on March 29, 2008
FLINT, MI — Flint’s ombudsman said the city should have fired all four police officers involved in a racially-tinged incident on St. Patrick’s Day in 2007, according to a report released Friday. Instead, one officer was fired but the others remained on the force...

Imprisoned Fired Lenawee County Michigan Deputy SheriffTimothy Allen Holtz Sr. Loses Appeal After Conviction For Identity Theft And Bad Checks - Stole From Drunk Drivers

Posted on March 29, 2008
ADRIAN, MI ? There was no break in the Michigan Court of Appeals for a fired Lenawee County sheriff?s deputy convicted of passing fake checks with identities stolen from drunken driving suspects he arrested. Prison sentences that will keep Timothy Allen Holtz Sr...

Disgraced Denver Colorado Police Officer Steven Sandoval Offered $13,500 In Taxpayer Funds To Quit After Domestic Violence Incident

Posted on March 29, 2008
DENVER, CO - A Denver police officer fired over domestic violence allegations ? a firing that was later overturned ? is being offered $13,500 from the city to resign from the force and drop a civil lawsuit against the Police Department. The proposed settlement with Officer Steven Sandoval and his attorneys in exchange for his “voluntary [...

Police Still Looking For Child Rapist Who Escaped From Superior Court Officer David Jackson At New Bedford Massachusetts Hospital After Attempted Escape From Courthouse

Posted on March 29, 2008
NEW BEDFORD, MA - Authorities are getting a half-dozen tips a day but none have panned out in in their three-day manhunt for an accused child rapist who escaped from a New Bedford hospital after a court officer uncuffed him and let him use the bathroom alone...

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Man Settles Lawsuit Against Gold’s Gym After Brutal Beating By Now-Disgraced Salt Lake City Utah Police Officer Marcus Barret

Posted on March 29, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - A Utah man who alleges an off-duty Salt Lake City police officer assaulted him after a pick-up game of basketball has reached a settlement with the gym where the incident occurred. Agim Fetahu’s claims in a lawsuit against the Gold’s Gym near 3500 West and 3500 South [...

Former Naples Florida Attorney Steven Mark Siegel Receives A Slap On The Wrist From Palm Beach Circuit Judge Lucy Chernow Brown After Seeking Sex With 14 Year Old Girl

Posted on March 29, 2008
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL - A former Naples defense attorney was sentenced Friday to five years of sex-offender probation for attempting to sexually solicit a 14-year old girl over the Internet. Palm Beach Circuit Judge Lucy Chernow Brown imposed the term on Steven Mark Siegel, 48...

Roanoke Virginia Police Officer Andrew Page Fired After Pleading Guilty To Drunken Wreck In Patrol Car

Posted on March 29, 2008
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - The Roanoke City Police Department now says it fired an officer who pleaded guilty to a DUI crash, while driving a police cruiser. Police say Officer Andrew Page was terminated on March 6th. The firing happened a little more than three weeks after the original crash on Interstate 81 in Pulaski County, [...

State Of Texas Ignored Early Signs Of Bastrop County Sheriff Richard Hernandez’s Corruption

Posted on March 29, 2008
TEXAS - In July 2006, Bastrop County District Attorney Bryan Goertz asked the state to investigate why Sheriff Richard Hernandez seemed to be turning a blind eye to three large casino-style game rooms on major county roads. At about the same time, a jail administrator showed Goertz evidence of Hernandez using county inmates and materials [...

Former Hillsborough County Florida Deputy Sheriff Stuart Wesley Bell, Facing Trial On Drug Charges, Arrested For Drunk Driving

Posted on March 29, 2008
TAMPA, FLORIDA ? A former Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputy who is out on bail while awaiting trial on drug charges was charged early Friday with driving under the influence. Stuart Wesley Bell, 34, already faces charges of fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs...

Pinellas County Florida Deputy Sheriff William Godwin Fired After Brutally Beating Jail Inmate, Two More Suspended

Posted on March 29, 2008
LARGO, FL - A detention deputy at the Pinellas County Jail was fired after an inmate said the deputy repeatedly smashed his head into a wall in his cell and punched him, according to a sheriff’s internal affairs report made available Friday. Two other detention deputies were suspended as a result of the Oct...

Dumbass Milwaukee County Deputy Sheriff’s Can’t Tell Green From Blue, Or Read License Numbers - Turn Woman’s Travel Into Trip To Hell

Posted on March 29, 2008
MILWAUKEE, WI - The Milwaukee County sheriff ’s deputies at Mitchell Airport didn ‘t notice that Patricia K. Bradley ’s eyes are green, not blue. And they didn ‘t notice, then didn ‘t care, that her Wisconsin ’s driver ’s license was a different number than the one they were looking for...

Update: Jacksonville Florida Narcotics Police Officer And Serial Rapist Det. Shawn Pringle Receives A Tiny Slap On The Wrist - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 29, 2008
JACKSONVILLE, FL - His disgrace complete, former Jacksonville narcotics detective Shawn Mario Pringle was sentenced to prison Friday, four years after three women accused him of using his badge to force sex. Pringle, 38, received three years, the maximum under his plea agreement with prosecutors...

Boston Massachusetts Police Officers Finally Facing Harsher Punishments For Wrongdoing

Posted on March 29, 2008
BOSTON, MA - Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis is meting out harsher punishments for officers who commit infractions that once resulted in reprimands and short suspensions, raising protests from union officials and lawyers. An officer is facing a two-week suspension for frisking a motorist for a gun after a routine traffic stop, a violation that in [...

Victim And Many Witnesses Say Sonoma County California Deputy Sheriff Brian Keen Attacked Unresisting Innocent Teen With Taser Weapon

Posted on March 29, 2008
SONOMA COUNTY, CA - James Moffitt said he was just trying to satisfy his hunger when he headed to a McDonald’s restaurant Tuesday and ended up shot with a stun gun and arrested in what he and several friends say was a clear case of mistaken identity...

More Incidents Surface Of South Carolina State Trooper Abuse, Including Motorist Shot With Taser Weapon And Beaten By Officer J.B. Sawyer

Posted on March 29, 2008
COLUMBIA, SC ? South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. J.B. Sawyer kicked reckless driver Sergio Caridi in the head several times after he was subdued following a high-speed chase that ended on Interstate 95 in Sumter County, according to internal affairs documents reviewed Friday...

Dumbass La Crosse Wisconsin Police Broadcast Crime Stoppers Alert For Three Days Using Video Of Innocent Woman In Convenience Store

Posted on March 29, 2008
LA CROSSE, WI - Police in La Crosse are a little red-faced right now. They’re apologizing after issuing an alert about a woman suspected of using a stolen credit card at a convenience store. They also helpfully issued surveillance video images of her...

Lawsuit Charges Baltimore Maryland Police Officers With Holding Family Hostage And Stealing Thousands Of Dollars From Them

Posted on March 29, 2008
BALTIMORE, MD - Craig Kemp, a Baltimore man who said that a rogue squad of police officers held his family hostage and stole thousands of dollars from him in November 2005, is among 17 plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday against the city and the Baltimore Police Department...

Lorain Ohio Police Officer Emilio Morales Under Investigation After Dumping Two Pistols In City Sewer - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on March 29, 2008
LORAIN, OH - A veteran Lorain police officer with a near spotless record is being investigated after he deliberately dumped two guns given to him into a city sewer, police Chief Cel Rivera said. Emilio Morales remains on duty while the investigation is ongoing...

Disabled 11 Year Old Girl Shot With Taser Weapon By Orange County Florida Deputy Sheriff Donna Hudepohl Sent To Hospital With Injuries, Incarcerated, Appears In Courtroom In Shackles, And Is Released To Her Parents

Posted on March 29, 2008
ORLANDO, FL - An Orange County girl who punched a deputy at her school and was zapped with a Taser left the juvenile-detention center Friday and went home with her parents. The child, a student at Moss Park Elementary, smiled at her family as she walked into an Orlando courtroom with her hands and ankles [...

Veteran Millville New Jersey Police Officers Sgt. Michael Harvey And Steven Jones Suspended With Intent To Fire - Details Hidden From Taxpayers

Posted on March 29, 2008
MILLVILLE, NEW JERSEY — A patrolman and a sergeant have been suspended from the Police Department with intent to dismiss, The Daily Journal has learned. Officer Steven Jones, 36, and Sgt. Michael Harvey, 33, were suspended without pay after allegations they violated departmental policies or regulations, sources said on the condition of anonymity because the suspensions [...

Cape May County New Jersey Municipal Court Judge Peter M. Tourison Charged After Drunken Wreck

Posted on March 29, 2008
LOWER TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY - Police have charged Peter M. Tourison, a local resident and a municipal court judge in several Cape May County towns, with driving under the influence of alcohol. Tourison, a former municipal judge here who currently presides over the courts in Stone Harbor, Cape May and Middle Township, was arrested after a [...

Lawrence County Tennessee Sheriff Kenny Taylor’s Lawyers Claim He Is Innocent Of Official Misconduct

Posted on March 29, 2008
LAWRENCEBURG, TN - Attorneys for Lawrence County (Tenn.) Sheriff Kenny Taylor said he plans to contest the recent indictment of official misconduct. Lawrenceburg attorneys Ben Boston and Ryan Durham, of Boston, Holt, Sockwell and Durham, issued a statement Friday about Taylor’s plans at his April 7 arraignment...

Former Zanesville Ohio Police Officer Sean Beck’s Federal Drug Trial Posponed, Former Officer Trevor Fusner Awaits Sentencing

Posted on March 29, 2008
COLUMBUS, OH - A former Zanesville cop was granted a motion to have his trial moved from the first part of April to May, according to federal court records. Sean Beck, who was arrested by FBI agents on Oct. 1, 2007, asked that his trial be continued while his attorney, Terry Sherman, has time to review [...

Praire de Chien Wisconsin Correctional Officer James Trentin Arrested, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Inmates

Posted on March 29, 2008
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WI - An officer from the Prairie du Chien Correctional Institute is charged with sexual assault of inmates at the facility. 58-year-old James Trentin is charged with 22 felony counts of sexual assault and six counts of delivering articles to inmates...

Crazed Yolo County California Prosecutors Charge Newspaper Reporter With Child Pornography For Filming Public UC Davis Cheerleading Competition - “Arrested After Trying To Conceal A Camera” At A Public Event. Organizers And Participants Of The So-Called ‘Pornographic’ Event Not Charged - BCN Prediction: Fail, Prosecutors Named And Shamed Here

Posted on March 29, 2008
WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA ? Gilbert Chan, a business reporter at The Bee, pleaded not guilty Friday to a felony charge of possession of child pornography. Chan, 52, of Davis was arrested after trying to conceal a camera he was using to videotape a youth cheerleading competition at UC Davis on Feb...

Another Department Of Homeland Security Program Bears Fruit: Unsafe TSA Rule Results In Pilot’s Gun Discharging Inflight

Posted on March 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Inadequate handgun rules designed by Department of Homeland Security officials are to blame for last weekend’s accidental discharge of a pistol by a commercial pilot during landing preparations, a pilots association said yesterday...

Chicago Prosecutors Don’t Bother To Play Video Of Mayor Daley’s Corruption Investigator Tracy Buckley Shoplifting At Her Trial, Or Bother To Give Opening And Closing Statements, Guaranteeing Her Being Found Not Guilty Of Crime

Posted on March 29, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Two months ago, Mayor Daley’s corruption-fighting inspector general fired one of his assistant chief investigators after she was arrested for shoplifting $131.43 worth of items at a Chicago grocery store. Now, Tracy Buckley has been acquitted of those charges...

Former Veteran Red Bank Tennessee Police Officer George Dewey Receives A Slap On The Wrist After Sex With A Child

Posted on March 29, 2008
RED BANK, TN - A former Red Bank police officer has been given a five-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated statutory rape with a 17-year-old girl. Officer George Dewey, who was with the department for 21 years, left the force last summer when the allegations were made...

Former White Hall Alabama Police Officer Jessie James Johnson Found Guilty Of Killing Innocent Motorist In 113 MPH Wreck - Faces A Tiny Slap On The Wrist For Woman’s Death

Posted on March 29, 2008
MONTGOMERY, AL - A Lowndes County jury has convicted a former White Hall police officer of criminally negligent homicide, Attorney General Troy King announced Friday. Jessie James Johnson was chasing two speeding vehicles on Highway 80 in White Hall around 7 p...

Kent UK Police Admit Their Speed Camera Operator Created Bogus Speeding Charges - 120 Speeding Cases Dropped

Posted on March 29, 2008
KENT, UK - Police have admitted dropping 120 speeding cases over allegations a camera operator ?fixed? the speeds. A force insider had earlier told MCN an operator was accused of deliberately setting speed readings to make it appear motorists were travelling faster than they actually were...

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