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Arizona State Prison Corrections Officer Noe Ruiz Arrested In Major Drug Bust

Posted on May 24, 2008
PHOENIX, ARIZONA — A major drug bust Tuesday netted the arrests of six family members, one of whom worked as a corrections officer at a state prison, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said. The bust followed a months-long investigation that began in November after MCSO received a tip reporting illegal drug activity...

Guadalupe Arizona Citizens Panel Wants To Get Maricopa County Deputies Out Of Their Town

Posted on May 24, 2008
TEMPE, ARIZONA - A citizens panel in the Town of Guadalupe recommends dropping police protection from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. A report released Wednesday night by the Guadalupe Public Safety Committee describes sheriff’s deputies as disinterested in protecting the town...

Winchester Massachusetts Fireman Robert James Joyce III Arrested On Prostitution Charge

Posted on May 24, 2008
LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS ? Police said a Winchester firefighter drove up from his Danvers home on Thursday in a black Nissan Murano, eager to pay $30 for sex. But Robert James Joyce III, 35, was instead arrested after approaching an Essex County sheriff’s deputy posing as a prostitute...

Suspended Gig Harbor Washington Police Officer Sgt. Matthew R. Dougil Pleads Not Guilty To Perjury And False Statement To Public Official

Posted on May 24, 2008
TACOMA, WASHINGTON - A Pierce County judge released a Gig Harbor police sergeant on his own recognizance today after the officer pleaded not guilty to perjury and making a false statement to a public official. Judge Katherine Stolz ordered 42-year-old Matthew R...

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Nashville Tennessee Police Waste Resources Busting Elderly Man Who Has Made Wine For Years Instead Of Going After Drug Dealers

Posted on May 24, 2008
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - Metro police uncovered an illegal winemaking operation at a home on Clarksville Pike. Harry Krantz, 63, of Joelton, said he has made wine for years. He sold it for $25 a gallon. Metro officers, assisted by the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, executed a search warrant Monday at his home on Clarksville Pike...

Nashville Tennesse Child Molester’s Arrest Demonstrates Why Society Must Execute Or Permanently Incarcerate Sex Offenders - Busted With 5 Young Boys In His Car

Posted on May 24, 2008
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - The Davidson County grand jury Friday returned a 45-count indictment against a convicted sex offender who was arrested during a traffic stop. Five boys, ages 12 and 13, were in the car with Michael Wayne Ingram. Police stopped him in December after they said he was driving erratically...

Nashville Tennessee Judges And Prosecutors Doing Nothing About Repeat Offending Drug Addicts And Nuts - 466 People Arrested On A Daily Basis, Some Arrested 99 To 500 Times

Posted on May 24, 2008
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - Almost 500 people in Nashville are committing crimes and costing taxpayers millions each year, according to Metro police. Police in Nashville said many of the people are homeless. The group, known as the 446, consists of men and women who have been arrested 99-500 times...

Suspended Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DeBose Arrested, Faces Federal Weapons Charges

Posted on May 24, 2008
CLARKE COUNTY, ALABAMA - A suspended Alabama judge was ordered to jail Friday on a federal charge of possessing as many as 30 guns in violation of a restraining order. Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose was jailed pending grand jury action on the charge next week...

Pissed Off Boston Massachusetts Transit Police Officers Stop Writing Tickets To Those Who Don’t Pay Fares

Posted on May 24, 2008
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - Disgruntled MBTA police officers, who have routinely issued more than 100 citations for fare evasion a month, have not issued a single ticket in May and wrote only seven in April, prompting the T’s top brass to accuse them of dereliction of duty...

Former Strafford County New Hampshire Corrections Officer John Teves Convicted In Federal Court With Supplying Drugs To Inmates

Posted on May 24, 2008
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE ? A former Strafford County corrections officer was convicted yesterday of crimes associated with supplying drugs to inmates at the Strafford County House of Correction, federal prosecutors said. Sanbornville resident John Teves, 31, was found guilty by a U...

New York City Corrections Officer Linda Harley Convicted After 100+ MPH Police Pursuit

Posted on May 24, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - A former New York City correction officer was convicted in Suffolk County yesterday of 16 charges stemming from a high-speed police chase on the Long Island Expressway in 2006. Linda Harley, 57, of Bellport, faces up to 15 years in prison at her scheduled sentencing on June 19...

Miami Florida Police And Broward County Sheriff’s Office Pay Up After Illegal Search And Seizure Of Photographer’s Car And Personal Property

Posted on May 24, 2008
MIAMI, FLORIDA ? The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida?s Greater Miami Chapter settled a federal lawsuit with the City of Miami and Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) on behalf of Emily Vogel and Hermann Vogel (Emily?s father). Emily Vogel, a Miami photographer, was subjected to an unlawful detention and illegal search and seizure of her [...

New York State Police Scientist Gary Veeder Retires, Hangs Himself

Posted on May 24, 2008
ALBANY, NEW YORK - A recently retired state police forensic scientist was found dead at his home Friday, the second apparent suicide of a state police veteran in just more than a week, according to a state officials. Gary Veeder, 58, had retired from the state police crime laboratory on May 7 after 31 years of [...

Nutcase Austin Texas Police Officer Michael Scott Lando Turns Himself In To Face Indictment - Fired For Hiring Prostitute - Now Charged With Drugs Assualt, And Weapons Charges

Posted on May 24, 2008
AUSTIN, TEXAS — A former Austin police officer has turned himself in after a Travis County Grand Jury indicted him for aggravated assault by a public servant with a deadly weapon in addition to other charges Wednesday. Michael Scott Lando was placed on administrative leave in mid-December when the allegations first surfaced...

Mississauga Ontario Canada Police Officer Roger Yeo Found Guility After Pestering 7th Grade Schoolgirls

Posted on May 24, 2008
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA - A Canadian police officer in Mississauga, Ontario, has been found guilty by a tribunal of repeatedly asking young schoolgirls for directions. Constable Roger Yeo, 38, was charged under the Police Services Act in 2005 after an undercover officer who tailed him in Mississauga, west of Toronto, corroborated the complaints of several Grade [...

Manalapan New Jersey Police Department Phones Cut Off For Non-Payment

Posted on May 24, 2008
MANALAPAN, NEW JERSEY ? Verizon is investigating why phone service was shut off for several hours at the township’s police department last week, according to a spokesman for the telecommunications company. Police Chief Stuart Brown said he filed a complaint with the state Board of Public Utilities regarding the May 14-15 shutoff, which Verizon customer service [...

Bogus Charges Dropped Against Wetback Forgotten In Washington County Arkansas Courthouse Holding Cell For 4 Days Without Food, Water, Or Bathroom

Posted on May 24, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS - A woman who was forgotten in a courthouse holding cell for four days without food or water will not be prosecuted on the charge that landed her in the system, a prosecutor said Tuesday. A charge of selling pirated recordings was dropped Monday after prosecutors were able to verify Adriana Torres-Flores’ alibi, Deputy [...

Phoenix Arizona Police Officers Demand To Be Paid For Getting Dressed

Posted on May 24, 2008
PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Nearly 600 Phoenix police officers have filed suit in an attempt to force the city to pay them for the time they spend getting in uniform each day. Attorney John Commerford, representing the officers, said they spend considerable time getting dressed for each shift...

Harmful To Children: Bradenton Beach Florida Police Officer Timothy E. Matthews Quits In Disgrace After Attack On Girl And Her Brother - Teen Blew Officer A “Suspicious” Kiss - Crazed Prosecutor Pursues Bogus Charges Against Teen

Posted on May 24, 2008
BRADENTON BEACH, FLORIDA ? A boy who authorities say blew a kiss at a police officer and ended up in jail on a felony battery charge after pushing the officer has pleaded not guilty. [Video describing attack and arrest by crazed cop HERE.] Prosecutors charged Lance Lewis, 14, with disorderly conduct and felony battery on a police [...

Criminal President G.W. Bush And Courts Ditch U.S. Constitution - Bush Administration Tells Court It Can And Will Use Military To Sieze And Hold Anyone In Jail Without Charges Or Trial Forever

Posted on May 24, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply. But Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is a U.S. resident being held in a South Carolina military brig; he is the only enemy combatant [...

Fired Veteran Chattanooga Tennessee Police Officer Sgt. Patrick Welles Lawsuit Dismissed After Sex In Patrol Car

Posted on May 23, 2008
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE - A former Chattanooga police sergeant fired for having sex with a woman in his patrol car has agreed to dismiss his racial bias lawsuit against the city. Court records show former police Sgt. Patrick Welles agreed to the Tuesday dismissal of his federal lawsuit...

Rude Allen And Simpson County Kentucky District Judge Frank H. Wakefield II Suspended For 30 Days, Told To STFU

Posted on May 23, 2008
FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY — A rural Kentucky judge has been suspended for 30 days without pay for talking too much in court and for being rude. The decision issued Friday by the Judicial Conduct Commission said that District Judge Frank H. Wakefield II routinely “engaged in lengthy and rambling discourses” in his courtrooms in Allen and Simpson [...

Police Departments Forced To Cut Back On Fuel Use, Some Officers Fintally Have To Get Their Fat Asses Out Of Their Cars And Walk

Posted on May 23, 2008
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA - With gasoline climbing toward $4 a gallon, police officers around the country are losing the right to take their patrol cars home and are being forced to double up in cruisers and walk the beat more. The gas crunch could also put an end to the time-honored way cops leave their engines [...

Crazed California State Lawmakers Consider Pornography Tax Due To Their Inability To Stop Spending

Posted on May 23, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - California state lawmakers are considering an unusual idea to solve the state’s huge budget shortfall: Tax pornography. The idea was proposed by a state assemblyman, and would impose a 25 percent tax on the production and sales of pornographic videos — the vast majority of which are made in southern California...

New York City Police Spy On Residents And Visitors From $10 Million Unmarked Helicopter

Posted on May 23, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty. A dramatic close-up of Lady Liberty’s frozen gaze fills one of three flat-screen computer monitors mounted on a console...

Man Beaten By New Jersey State Police Trooper Jeff Flynn Beats Bogus Aggravated Assault Of A Police Officer Charge

Posted on May 23, 2008
HUNTERDON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - A driver caught speeding on Route 78 in Hunterdon County to get to his mother’s funeral — and who was punched by a state trooper after taking a boxer’s stance during the motor vehicle stop — was found guilty today on a disorderly persons charge for resisting arrest without force...

Atlanta Georgia Police Officer Arthur Tesler Sentenced To Just 4 1/2 Years In Prison After Lying About Botched Police Raid That Killed Innocent 92 Year Old Woman

Posted on May 23, 2008
ATLANTA, GEORGIA ? An Atlanta police officer has been sentenced to 4 years and six months in prison for lying to investigators after a drug raid ended in the death of a 92-year-old woman. Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson also sentenced Arthur Tesler on Thursday to six months of probation...

Mattapoisett Massachusetts Police Chief Mary Lyons Justifies Arresting Teens: “They Were Mouthing Off”

Posted on May 23, 2008
MATTAPOISETT, MASSACHUSETTS ? Two students were arrested and another 15 to 20 staged a sit-in at Old Rochester Regional High School Wednesday in a protest that began after students briefly commandeered the intercom system during MCAS testing, school officials and students said...

Agent Testifies That FBI Is Unable To Protect US From Terror Attacks

Posted on May 23, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - The FBI’s counterterrorism section is too badly organized and too understaffed to be able to protect the United States effectively against attack, an FBI agent told lawmakers. “The FBI’s counterterrorism division is ill-equipped to handle the terrorist threat that we’re facing,” Bassem Youssef, a top agent within the FBI’s communications analysis unit, told [...

Maywood California Police Officer Ryan Allen West Charged With Rape, After Attacks On Three Women While On Duty

Posted on May 23, 2008
MAYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - A 28-year-old Maywood police officer was arrested Wednesday at his Riverside County home and charged with sexually assaulting three women while on duty, a news release from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office stated...

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