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4 Whakatane New Zealand Police Officers On Trial After Beating Man In Cell

Posted on June 09, 2008
WHAKATANE, NEW ZEALAND - Four Whakatane policemen go on trial in Tauranga District Court today accused of beating a prisoner in custody. Sergeants Keith Parsons, 51, and Erle Busby, 46, Senior Constable Bruce Laing, 45, and Constable John Mills, 38, have denied a joint charge of assaulting a man with pepper spray and batons in Whakatane [...

Veteran Dallas Texas Police Officer Sgt. Robert J. Crider II Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Drunk Driving

Posted on June 09, 2008
DALLAS, TEXAS - A 24-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested early Saturday morning. Wylie police arrested Sgt. Robert J. Crider II around 12:20 a.m. on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, according to a statement released by Dallas police...

Manchester UK Police Officer Shot And Killed During Training Exercise

Posted on June 09, 2008
MANCHESTER, UK - A policeman has died after he was shot during a training exercise today. The young officer was seriously hurt during an incident at around noon while he was taking part in the exercise run by the Greater Manchester Police firearms unit...

Memphis Tennessee Police Officer Cited After Running Red Light And Hitting Another Car

Posted on June 09, 2008
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - A Memphis police officer hit another car late Saturday night after running a red light. The officer was traveling westbound on Quince when he disregarded a red light at Mt. Moriah, where the front of his squad car struck the driver’s side of a Pontiac headed south...

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Informant Who Accused Police Of Steroid Use Turns Up Dead In Dallas Texas

Posted on June 09, 2008
DALLAS, TEXAS - Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell stuck with convicted steroids trafficker David Jacobs when no one else would. It may have gotten her killed. Police found the bodies of Ms. Earhart-Savell, 30, a professional fitness competitor, and Mr. Jacobs, 35, a former amateur bodybuilder, shot to death inside his home on Honey Creek Lane in Plano [...

Milton Florida: Fewer Wetbacks Results In A More Law-Abiding, Emptier, And Whiter Community

Posted on June 09, 2008
MILTON, FLORIDA - Three months after the local police inspected more than a dozen businesses searching for illegal immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers, this community in the Florida Panhandle has become more law-abiding, emptier and whiter...

Investigation Of Massachusetts State Senator James Marzilli Expands After His Sexual Assault Arrest - Checked Into Psych Hospital

Posted on June 08, 2008
LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS - Investigators have expanded their probe of longtime state Sen. James Marzilli after more people contacted police following Marzilli’s arrest Tuesday for sexually touching one woman and making lewd comments to another. Three woman in as many months have accused Marzilli of making sexual advances...

Nine Shot Overnight In Chicago Include A Child And Woman - Its Going To Be A Long Summer

Posted on June 08, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Nine people were shot — including a woman who was seriously injured and a 16-year-old boy — in seven separate eruptions of violence late Wednesday and early Thursday on the South and West Sides. In a drive-by turned hit-and-run on the West Side, someone in a gold or champagne Kia Sportage shot a [...

War Veteran May Go To Jail After Crazed Waukegan Illinois Police Officers Charge Man With Pointing His Finger - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on June 08, 2008
WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS - Greg Kachka never thought that asking a question during a village board meeting could have him arrested and thrown in jail. Kachka, 60, of Island Lake, pleaded not guilty Monday to disorderly conduct charges in Lake County Circuit Court...

Errors By Los Angeles County California Prosecutors Led To Domestic Violence Convict’s Release From Jail - Who Then Killed His Wife

Posted on June 08, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - The Los Angeles County district attorney says prosecutors made several errors that led to the release of a domestic violence convict who later killed his estranged wife. A report released Wednesday blames policy violations, poor communications and errors in judgment for releasing Bernard Harris before he was to report to prison for [...

Yuma Arizona Federal Customs Agent Jose Magana Indicted, Charged With Human Smuggling

Posted on June 08, 2008
YUMA, ARIZONA - A federal Customs agent has been indicted for allegedly conducting a human smuggling operation in the Yuma area. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix announced charges against 44-year-old Jose Magana of Yuma, and three others. Prosecutors say a federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment alleging Magana and others conspired to bring illegal immigrants [...

Former Lake Wales Florida Police Officer Det. Robert Alan Michael Hendrix Arrested, Charged With Arson - Faces Child Sex Charges

Posted on June 08, 2008
LAKE WALES, FLORIDA - A former Lake Wales police detective, who was already facing sex-related charges involving a 16-year-old girl, has now been charged with setting the fire that destroyed his house and then collecting $183,000 in insurance. Robert Alan Michael Hendrix, 25, was jailed Tuesday on charges of first-degree arson and insurance fraud...

Sturtevant Wisconsin Police Officer Timothy O’Neill Arrested, Charged After Drunken Wreck At Twice State Limit

Posted on June 08, 2008
STURTEVANT, WISCONSIN ? A Sturtevant police officer arrested for driving drunk is still on the job. Timothy O?Neill was off-duty when he got into an accident at a stop light in Racine County. His blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. Appeared Here

Huntingdon Pennsylvania State Prison Employee Mark Alan Frehn Charged With Smuggling Heroin And Marijuana

Posted on June 08, 2008
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA - A kitchen employee at the state prison in Huntingdon is jailed on charges that he possessed heroin and marijuana that he allegedly planned to smuggle to an inmate. Twenty-one-year-old Mark Alan Frehn, of Three Springs, was arrested Wednesday in the parking lot of a shopping center in Smithfield Township...

Pennsylvania Authorities Search For 3 Year Old By Who Was With His Mom

Posted on June 08, 2008
READING, PENNSYLVANIA - State police at Reading say a helicopter was brought in to search for a 3-year-old boy reported missing. But it turns out that the boy reported missing Saturday afternoon had really gone with his mother and the father didn’t notice...

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Carnegie Museum Of Art Security Guard Timur Serebrykov Arrested, Charged With Destroying $1.2 Million Painting He Didn’t Like

Posted on June 08, 2008
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA ? A former guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art has been charged with vandalizing a million-dollar painting he apparently didn’t like, damaging it beyond repair. The museum’s surveillance camera caught the vandalism on May 16, police said Thursday...

Piles Of Tax Dollars Spent On Anti-Smoking Programs Bears Fruit: Florida Teens More Likely To Use Alcohol And Marijuana

Posted on June 08, 2008
FLORIDA - High school students in Florida are more likely to smoke marijuana than tobacco, according to a new report on adolescent health from the state Health Department. About 16 percent of Florida high school students said they used marijuana in the past month versus 15...

Crazed St. Louis Missouri Alderwoman Donna Baringer Wants City To Treat Spray Paint Can’s Like Handguns

Posted on June 08, 2008
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI - Motorists driving down Highway 40 under Tamm Avenue in the wee hours of July 19, 2007, reported seeing graffiti artists at work on the pristine white concrete of the overpass wall. Before fleeing the scene, the men left their trademarks, or tags, in big bubble letters...

Arsonist Targets Texas Governor’s Mansion

Posted on June 08, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS ? An early morning fire at the Governor’s Mansion today was intentionally set, a state fire investigator said. State Fire Marshal Paul Maldonado declined to discuss further details but said there was no indication the fire was intended as a direct threat to Gov...

Groups To Monitor Nazi-Style Washington DC Police Checkpoints

Posted on June 08, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Police in the nation’s capital set up controversial vehicle checkpoints Saturday in a neighborhood reeling from gun violence, with civil liberties groups considering legal action and closely observing officers. Police in neon yellow vests stopped motorists traveling through the main thoroughfare of Trinidad ? a neighborhood near the National Arboretum in the city’s [...

Former Campbell County Wyoming Fire Chief Gary Scott Sentenced To Just 24 Years In Federal Prison For Serial Child Molestation - Many Victims Were In Fire Cadet Program He Started

Posted on June 08, 2008
CHEYENNE, WYOMING — A federal judge on Friday sentenced former Campbell County Fire Chief Gary Scott to serve more than 24 years in prison on 10 felony convictions of taking children under the age of 18 across state lines to sexually molest them...

Chicago Illinois Police Department’s Plan To Generate Bad Cop News Headlines Now Has Police Officers Stepping Out In Front Of Moving Cars And Trucks

Posted on June 08, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Beginning next week, Chicago cops will take on a most dangerous undercover role, posing as pedestrians in the city’s traffic-choked streets. In an effort to improve safety and promote walking with gas prices surging past $4 a gallon, police officers dressed as civilians will step into crosswalks at two busy Northwest Side intersections [...

Salt Lake City Utah Crash Victim Shot With Taser Weapon

Posted on June 08, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY - Rescuers got quite a surprise on Saturday as they approached a vehicle that had crashed in Little Cottonwood Canyon, when the victims flung their own blood at them. Two men hurt themselves on Saturday after crashing the vehicle in the canyon and flipping it on its roof...

Complaints Pile Up Against Former New Zealand Police Officer Turned Private Investigator Peter Gibbons - Including Search Of Innocent Man’s Home

Posted on June 07, 2008
DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND - Distressed ACC claim��ants complaining of bully-boy tactics want a controversial private eye put out of business. See also: Former Dunedin New Zealand Police Officer Peter Gibbons Denies Showing Bestiality Film At Police Commissioner?s Party Dunedin man Bruce Van Essen claims he?s been unfairly targeted over ACC fraud allegations by former cop-turned-private investigator Peter [...

Fort Worth Texas Police Department’s Horses Found Neglected At Ranch

Posted on June 07, 2008
FORT WORTH, TEXAS - When Jim Lane saw photographs with signs that horses he either bought or donated to the Fort Worth Police Department were malnourished and had skin infections, he became angry. “It’s not acceptable, and the pictures speak for themselves,” said Lane with the Mounted Patrol Citizens Support Group...

Dumbass Veteran Haltom City Texas Police Officer Shoots At Dog, Hits Unarmed Innocent Kid TWICE

Posted on June 07, 2008
HALTOM CITY, TEXAS - A local teenager is recovering from a gunshot wound after a police officer shot him Friday afternoon. The house where the shooting took place is located in the 3400 block of Willowcrest Drive in North Richland Hills, near the border of Haltom City...

Judge Calls For Rehiring Of Totally Disgraced North Carolina Highway Patrol Officer Charles Jones After Firing For Beating Dog Hung From Deck - Caught On Video

Posted on June 07, 2008
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - A state administrative law judge today called for reinstatement with back pay for a Highway Patrol trooper who was videotaped kicking his dog while it was suspended from a deck. Judge Fred Morrison concluded that state officials short-circuited disciplinary procedures in firing Charles Jones over his treatment of the dog...

Former Atherton California Police Officer Clarke Lee Sentenced To 50 Days In County Jail For Stolen Golf Clubs And False Police Reports

Posted on June 07, 2008
ATHERTON, CALIFORNIA - A former Atherton police officer accused of trading in a set of stolen golf clubs and filing false police reports was sentenced Wednesday to 50 days in the San Mateo County jail after he pleaded no contest to reduced charges. Clark Yee, 29, was also sentenced in a Redwood City courtroom to three [...

Green County Missouri Deputy Sheriff’s Handcuff Woman At Gunpoint And Cite Her On Bogus Charge After She Drove To Lit Area Before Stopping - A-Hole Sheriff Jack Merritt Says She Should Have Counted Lights On Deputy’s Car

Posted on June 07, 2008
SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI - A family hopes law officers will make clear what they expect a driver to do if an officer tries to stop her and she wants to make sure a fake cop is not stopping her. That’s what Vanessa Kimery thought was happening to her when she saw flashing lights behind her Wednesday [...

Massachusetts State Sentaor James Marzilli, Arrested After Groping Women, Decides Not To Run For Another Term, Is Admitted To Mental Hospital

Posted on June 07, 2008
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - State Sen. James Marzilli was admitted to an area hospital Thursday afternoon, his attorney told WBZ, the same day he decided against seeking re-election after his arrest on charges that he groped and made lewd comments to two women recently...

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