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Nutcase Chicago Illinois Police Officer Gerald Callahan, Charged With Beating Couple In A Bar, Has History Of Threatening Violence And Abusing Alcohol - Remained On Duty Despite Major Problems

Posted on May 31, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - A Chicago police officer who is alleged to have beaten up a couple at a Niles bar this weekend has a history of threatening violence and abusing alcohol, court and police records show. Chicago police officials tried to fire Officer Gerald Callahan for cursing and lunging at supervisors and refusing to take a [...

Drunk Driving Charge Against Fired Veteran Greenville County South Carolina Deputy Sheriff David Morrow Dismissed - Blew Nearly Twice State Limit

Posted on May 31, 2008
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA - A driving under the influence charge against a former Greenville County sheriff’s deputy has been dropped. Magistrate Mark Edmonds told WYFF-TV on Tuesday the DUI case against former Deputy David Morrow was dismissed because of the lack of probable cause...

Former Salem County New Jersey Corrections Officer Kimberly Miller Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison After On Duty Sex With An Inmate

Posted on May 31, 2008
SALEM, NEW JERSEY — A former Salem County corrections officer was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for engaging in a sexual relationship with an inmate last year while she was on duty. Kimberly Miller, who was 36 at the time of her indictment in November, was sentenced on one count of second degree official [...

Massachusetts Corrections Officer Justin P. Boudreau Arrested, Charged After Raid On Pot Growing Operation

Posted on May 31, 2008
SPENCER, MASSACHUSETTS - A former Department of Correction employee was arraigned yesterday on charges he was growing marijuana for sale in his Main Street apartment and had a loaded gun in his car when police raided his home earlier this month. Police allegedly found 75 fledgling marijuana plants set under grow lights in a spare [...

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Indicted Former Chicago Illinois Police Officer Keith Herrera Now Snitching, Details Ring That Falsely Arrested And Robbed Drug Dealers, Cops Lies, And Plan To Kill 2 Police Officers

Posted on May 31, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - A former Chicago police officer charged with being part of a ring that falsely arrested and stole from drug dealers has detailed how the operation led to a plot to kill two colleagues, according to interview excerpts released on Friday...

McKinney Texas Police Investigate Underarm Deodorant On School Bus - Cite Students For Use Of Vulgar Language “Pigs?” “Dumbasses?” “I Smell Bacon?”

Posted on May 30, 2008
MCKINNEY, TEXAS - McKinney police searched a school bus that stopped during its route Wednesday afternoon after two kids sprayed a substance that turned out to be deodorant. The bus came to a stop at approximately 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Jordan Road and Virginia Parkway and police detained the children on the bus so [...

Media Police: California Based MediaDefender Launched Criminal Memorial Day Weekend Denial Of Service Attack Against Legitimate Web-Based Video Distributor

Posted on May 30, 2008
CALIFORNIA - BitTorrent watchdog MediaDefender is once again taking heat after it was accused of launching a pernicious attack that brought down a web-based distributor of legal video. Jim Louderback, chief executive of Revision3, said in this blog post that the FBI is investigating the assault, which at points flooded his site with more than 8,000 [...

79 Year Old Man Jailed In Lake Worth Florida After Forgetting To Pay For Apple Pie

Posted on May 30, 2008
LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA - An elderly Palm Beach County man says he forgot to pay for the pie that sent him to jail for 10 hours. Authorities say 79-year-old George Schwartz didn’t pay for a $5.29 apple pie at a Publix near Lake Worth in April. He was taken to jail and charged with retail theft, [...

4 Orange County Florida Jail Officers Suspended, Under Investigation For Organized Fighting And Gambling In Jail Facility

Posted on May 30, 2008
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - Four Orange County jail officers are accused of organized fighting and gambling at the jail. Jail spokesman Allen Moore says the officers are on administrative duty. He says the investigation will see if any policies or procedures were violated at the Horizon Facility at the jail, which houses close to 1,250 inmates...

Woodland California Police Shoot, Beat, Taser, And Kill Man With A Pencil - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on May 30, 2008
WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA - A recent confrontation with police left a mental health patient dead on a Woodland street. Witnesses say the man did not appear to be armed, but police said he was uncooperative and did have a weapon — a pencil. Police approached the man just outside of the Safe Harbor Mental Health Center after [...

Boston Massachusetts Police Blame Computer “Glitch” - After Releasing Jersey Murder Suspect

Posted on May 30, 2008
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - Boston police mistakenly allowed the release last week of a fugitive from New Jersey wanted on murder charges, setting off a manhunt in the city amid warnings that the suspect poses a serious threat to the public. Yesterday, police officials blamed a computer glitch for release of the suspect, who is wanted in [...

Veteran Hendersonville Tennesse Police Officer William C. Pelfrey III Does The Right Thing And Shoots And Kills Himself After Domestic Incident And Suspension

Posted on May 30, 2008
HENDERSONVILLE, TENNESSEE - Police said a veteran Hendersonville police officer under investigation has shot and killed himself at his home. Police Chief Terry S. Frizzell said William C. Pelfrey III, an 11-year veteran, had been placed on administrative leave with pay on Wednesday following a complaint from his wife and her employer that he created a [...

Douchebag Clarksville Tennessee Police Charge Man Rushing His Bleeding Pregnant Wife To Hospital

Posted on May 30, 2008
CLARSKVILLE, TENNESSEE - What do would you do if your wife went into labor with complications? Would you call for help or risk driving her to the hospital? One father’s choice landed him in jail. Julian Mejia said he broke the law because he feared for his unborn child’s life...

Caught On Video: Douchebag Albuquerque New Mexico Police Officers Attack Photographer

Posted on May 30, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO - An Eyewitness News 4 photographer was cuffed and cited Thursday morning for disobeying a police officer. It was a situation where the photographer was trying to do his job. And now the Albuquerque Police Department is reviewing the tape to see if the officer crossed the line...

Witnesses Watched Chicago Illinois Police Beat Teen And Plant Gun

Posted on May 30, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Relatives, witnesses and friends of a 19-year-old man shot and wounded by police on Mother’s Day allege that a gun was planted on him after he was shot, according to an exclusive NBC5 News report. “It was wrong for them to shoot him like that,” the injured man’s mother said...

Former New York City Police Officer Joseph Harmon Gets A Deal, Pleads Guilty To False Instruments For Filing For A Tiny Slap On the Wrist

Posted on May 30, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson announced Thursday that a former New York City Police Officer was convicted of falsely issuing summonses charging innocent civilians with violations of law. Joseph Harmon, of the Bronx, pled guilty to one count of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the first degree, [...

Former Senoia Georgia Police Officer Charles Patrick Morgan, Charged With Robbing Motorists, Does The Right Thing And Kills Himself

Posted on May 30, 2008
CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA - An ex-police officer who had been arraigned in March on charges that he’d been taking money from Hispanic males during traffic stops was found dead at his home in Carroll County Thursday. Charles Patrick Morgan, 40, had been charged with robbery, three counts theft by taking, and violation of oath by a [...

Veteran Jersey City Police Department’s Internal Affairs Head Capt. Edward Shinnick Checks Into Model And Blows His Head Off

Posted on May 30, 2008
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY - The head of the Jersey City Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau was found dead in a Pennsylvania motel yesterday with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, officials said. Capt. Edward Shinnick, 51, of Midland Park, who reportedly had put in his retirement papers, was reported missing Wednesday night and [...

After Police Chief Bruce Ure’s Indictment, Victoria Texas Police Officers Are Afraid They’ll Have To Face The Music Too

Posted on May 30, 2008
VICTORIA, TEXAS - Police are worried what the Victoria district attorney will do next, their representative said Thursday. In the wake of Victoria Police Chief Bruce Ure?s indictment on Tuesday, Texas Municipal Police Association officials met Thursday with police members in Victoria...

Two Minneapolis Minnesota Police Officers Under Investigation After Shooting Their Weapons At A Party - Names Hidden From Taxpayers

Posted on May 30, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - Two Minneapolis Police officers are on paid administrative leave after officials say they fired their weapons in the city while they were off-duty. Police say it happened during a party last night on the 4200 block of Wentworth Avenue South...

SITE “Intelligence” Group Pushes 9-11 Hysteria With Fallout 3 Video Game Image

Posted on May 30, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The SITE Intelligence Group said that the image, showing a ruined Capitol Building in Washington, was created by extremists as part of discussions about the feasibility of nuclear strikes against the US and Britain. The images appeared in a video, called Nuclear Jihad: The Ultimate Terror, posted on two password-protected websites, al-Ekhlass and [...

Former Pennsylvania State Trooper Richard Kenner Receives Less Than A Slap On The Wrist From Clinton County Judge Michael Williamson For Raping Woman

Posted on May 30, 2008
LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA - A former state trooper who had been charged with raping a female acquaintance pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors and was sentenced to 10 years probation the day before his trial. Richard Keener, 40, of Bellefonte, pleaded guilty Wednesday to simple assault, unlawful restraint, indecent assault and disorderly conduct, the Clinton County Court [...

Nutcase Former Veteran Polk County Florida Deputy Sheriff Jose Aponte Found Guilty After Drunken Rape, Threats, Threats With A Gun, And Violation Of Restraining Order

Posted on May 30, 2008
BARTOW, FLORIDA - A jury found a former Polk County sheriff’s deputy guilty Thursday of raping and threatening an ex-girlfriend. Jurors deliberated almost two hours before convicting Jose Aponte, 55, of sexual battery, extortion or threats, and violating a restraining order...

City Employee Arrested And Harassed By Atlantic City New Jersey Police For Removing Mayor’s Election Sign From His Property

Posted on May 30, 2008
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY - A city employee alleges harassment and political retaliation after he was briefly held by police for removing a “Scott Evans for Mayor” sign from his own property. Austin Clark said Thursday he erected a campaign sign supporting former Mayor Lorenzo Langford on his vacant lot on Baltic Avenue only to find [...

Judge Rejects Special Deal For Atlantic City South Carolina Police Officer Terrance Wiggins - Charged After Sex With A Crack Whore In Police Station

Posted on May 30, 2008
ATLANTIC BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA - The State Law Enforcement Division charged an Atlantic Beach officer with misconduct in office in October after a woman accused him of sexual assault inside the town?s police department. See also: Atlantic Beach South Carolina Police Officer Terrance Wiggins Arrested, Charged With Misconduct After Sex With Woman (Crack Whore) In Exchange [...

Cameron County Texas Constable Saul P. Ochoa Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Drug Dealing Charges

Posted on May 30, 2008
CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS - Cameron County Precinct 1 Constable Saul P. Ochoa entered a plea of not guilty Thursday on a four-count federal indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Ochoa appeared before U.S. Magistrate Felix Recio shortly after 10 a...

Roseboro North Carolina’s New Police Chief Anita Merritt’s Husband Is A Convicted Child Molester

Posted on May 30, 2008
ROSEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA - Some town residents are upset that the husband of Interim Police Chief Anita Merritt is a registered sex offender, saying her relationship with a convicted felon is a conflict of interest. Tyrone Merritt, 36, was convicted in Massachusetts in March 2001 of taking indecent liberties with a child in connection with a [...

Federal Lawsuit Charges Blackjack Missouri Officials With Not Allowing Family To Live In Their Own Home - Dumbass City Attorney Sheldon Stock Gears Up To Piss Away Taxpayer Dollars In Court Battle Against ACLU Lawyers

Posted on May 29, 2008
BLACK JACK, MISSOURI - Another unmarried couple is being told by a suburban St. Louis town they?re not welcome. [BCN prediction: City attorney Sheldon Stock wastes taxpayer funds and loses in federal court against ACLU's lawyers.] A man, his girlfriend and her three children recently bought a house in Black Jack in north St...

Cameron County Texas Constable Saul Ochoa Arrested In Port Isabel On Federal Dealing Drug Charges - Cousin Is Port Isabel Police Chief Joel Ochoa, Brother Benny Ochoa III Is Justice Of The Peace

Posted on May 29, 2008
PORT ISABEL, TEXAS - Cameron County Constable Pct. 1 Saul Ochoa was arrested Wednesday morning by the FBI on charges stemming from possession and distribution of marijuana, according to federal court documents. FBI spokesman Jorge Cisneros confirmed to The Herald that Ochoa had been arrested and referred all questions to the U...

Lorain Ohio Police Department’s Ticking Time Bomb, Police Officer And FOP President Corey Earl, Has A Stroke At Kenny Chesney Concert

Posted on May 29, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO - Lorain Fraternal Order of Police President Corey Earl was hospitalized Saturday afternoon after an apparent stroke, according to Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera. BCN wishes Corey Earl a speedy non-recovery!. See also: Lorain Ohio Police Department?s Ticking Time Bomb, Police Officer Corey Earl, Suspended After Bar Incident Nutcase Lorian Ohio Police Officer And Union President [...

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