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El Paso County Colorado District Attorney John Newsome Denies Being Drunk After Drinking In Two Bars And Driving County-Owned Vehicle

Posted on May 11, 2008
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO - A Colorado Springs TV station reported that El Paso County District Attorney John Newsome drank eight beers in a little over five hours and then drove home in a county-owned vehicle. KOAA-TV reported Tuesday it videotaped Newsome drinking at two bars between 4:15 p...

Lawsuit Charges Dallas Texas Police And Officer Donald Ortega With Malicious Prosecution Of Rape Charge Against Innocent Man, Conviction, And Almost 3 Decades Of Wrongful Imprisonment

Posted on May 11, 2008
DALLAS, TEXAS - DNA evidence has cleared 17 Dallas County inmates who were wrongly convicted. That is the highest total for any county in the nation. One of those men is Charles Chatman, released in January 2008 after spending nearly three decades behind bars...

Dumbass Alaska State Troopers, Army, And ATF Agents “Dispose” Of Box Of Fireworks With 30 POUNDS Of C-4 Plastic Explosives, Scaring Residents And Breaking Windows In Homes - “In Retrospect, The Military Explosives And Neighborhood Evacuation Seemed A Little Like Overkill”

Posted on May 11, 2008
BIG LAKE, ALASKA - Friday would have been a regular day out at McGhan Storage near Big Lake, but then the family of Clay Holzl, a deceased pyrotechnician, came across a large box of fireworks while sorting through his unit. Now these weren’t your ordinary bottle rockets...

Reporter Exposes Murdered College Student’s Ignored 911 Call - Madison Wisconsin Police And County Dispatchers Tried To Hide Errors That Could Have Saved Her Life

Posted on May 11, 2008
MADISON, WISCONSIN - The Madison, Wis., reporter who broke a bombshell story about an unreturned 911 call from a murdered college student said today that police and county dispatchers intentionally withheld from the public details about the breach of protocol, which could have saved the student’s life...

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Tallahassee Florida Police To Blame For Woman’s Death After Their Snitch Gets What She Deserved For Cooperating With Law Enforcement - Body Found In Taylor County

Posted on May 11, 2008
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A former Florida State student found dead after helping with a narcotics investigation should not have been placed in such a dangerous situation, lawyers representing the woman’s family said Sunday. Attorney Johnny Devine criticized Tallahassee police at a news conference, saying authorities blamed 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman for her own murder...

Essex County Massachusetts Sheriff’s Department Succumbs To 9/11 Hysteria Over White Powder In Envelope At Middleton Jail - Novice News Reporter For Birdcage-Liner Newspaper Obsessed With Game Of Hangman And Jack Bauer

Posted on May 10, 2008
MIDDLETON, MASSACHUSETTS - When an envelope full of a suspicious white powder forced 18 Essex County Sheriff’s Department administrators into quarantine yesterday, TV superhero Jack Bauer helped lend a hand ? sort of ? at Middleton Jail. Bauer’s name was the correct answer in a Hangman game that some of the 18 administrators were playing [...

Peabody Massachusetts Firefighter John Brophy, Fired After Sleeping through 911 Call, Won Job Back, Now Serving 3 Suspensions - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on May 10, 2008
PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS ? The firefighter who slept through a 911 call but recently won his job back in court has been suspended without pay. Fire Chief Steve Pasdon yesterday confirmed that he has suspended John Brophy for a total of 12 days for failing to satisfy requirements of his reinstatement...

Lincoln County Nebraska Sheriff Jerome Kramer, Sgt. Dan Newton, And Deputy Merit Newman Drank Beer While On Interstate Traveling To Training - Alcohol Charged To County Credit Card In Another Incident - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on May 10, 2008
LINCOLN COUNTY, NEBRASKA - The North Platte Bulletin broke the story Wednesday about Lincoln County Sheriff and two other deputies drinking beer in a car on the way to a training session in Lincoln March 26. Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer, Sgt. Dan Newton and Deputy Merit Newman all drank a beer while driving down Interstate-80, [...

Your Papers Please: Pomona California Police Officers Use Nazi Style Tactics At Checkpoints - Chief Joe Romero’s Panties Get Knotted Up Over Residents Remarks About His Bad Cops Harassing 3,000 Motorists in 7 Hours

Posted on May 10, 2008
POMONA, CALIFORNIA - A weekend checkpoint caused residents to express concern and accusations to fly at a City Council meeting on Monday. Councilwoman Cristina Carrizosa said residents were frightened and that the behavior of officers reminded her of movie scenes depicting the Gestapo...

Cops Gone Wild: Hartford Connecticut Police Officers Illegally Entered Innocent Man’s Home, Illegally Searched Without A Warrant, Ripped Catheter From Man’s Body, And Left Without Calling Ambulance

Posted on May 10, 2008
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT - A man alleges that police entered his home illegally and ripped a catheter from his body during a child pornography investigation that led to the arrest of two neighbors. Andrew Glover, 60, filed a notice with the city Thursday that he intends to pursue a federal civil rights lawsuit...

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg Attempts To Eliminate 1st And 2nd Constitutional Amendments In Courtroom - Effort Similar To The Trials For Which The Nazis Are So Famous, But Now Under The Direction Of A Jew

Posted on May 10, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a [...

Federal Judge Revokes Disgraced, Disbarred, Nutcase Oak Harbor Ohio Former Attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner’s Appeal Bond - Wacko Conspiracy Theorist Is Finally Headed To State Prison To Serve Her 8 Year Sentence

Posted on May 10, 2008
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Elsebeth Baumgartner is going to prison. A judge revoked the disbarred Oak Harbor attorney’s appellate bond Friday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and ordered her to begin serving an eight-year prison sentence on a conviction for threatening a Cleveland-area judge in 2004...

Former Officers Detail Mismanagement At Mint Hill North Carolina Police Department Under Recently/Suddenly Retired Chief

Posted on May 10, 2008
MINT HILL, NORTH CAROLINA - The Mint Hill police chief took early retirement in December after being suspended for an undisclosed matter. His departure amid controversy was the last move for a chief who left a trail of questions. Mint Hill created its own police department with the idea that they could protect their own community [...

Windsor Canada Police Officer’s Booty Call Under Investigation After Police Radio Recording Surfaces On the Internet

Posted on May 10, 2008
A Windsor police officer has been placed on administrative duties after an intimate conversation over the police radio was posted on the internet. Superiors are taking the matter seriously and have launched an internal investigation - probing the officer’s conduct - and looking into whether police equipment was misused...

Department Of Homeland Security TSA Thought Police Invade Wisconsin Airports, Elsewhere

Posted on May 10, 2008
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — A new team of specially-trained officers is now working to keep people safe at Mitchell International Airport. decend Within the last month, behavior detection officers have been stationed at airports in Milwaukee, Green Bay and Appleton...

Taxpayer Funds Pissed Away On Pinal County Florida’s Losing Battle To Violate Citizens Rights And Ban Outdoor Dancing

Posted on May 10, 2008
PINAL COUNTY, FLORIDA - They were dancing outdoors and celebrating in Queen Creek, Friday night. That’s after the San Tan Flat Restaurant won a legal fight against Pinal County. Last week, a judge ended an outdoor dancing ban. Friday night, employees took down their “Dance Police” signs...

Tallahassee Florida Police Snitch Rachel Hoffman Ends Up In A Coffin After Cooperating With Cops

Posted on May 10, 2008
Dead Snitch TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A woman helping Tallahassee police with a narcotics investigation has been found dead after a two-day search and two suspects are in custody. Police say 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman’s body was found early Friday in rural Taylor County, southeast of Tallahassee...

Casselberry Florida Police Officer Jeffrey Shumway Was High On Sister’s Prescription Drugs At Time Of His Third Patrol Car Crash This Year - Received A Tiny Slap On The Wrist And No Criminal Charges

Posted on May 10, 2008
CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA - A Casselberry police officer tested positive for a prescription drug in the Benzodiazepine class [BCN: Valium, Xanax, etc.] after crashing his patrol car in February. Office Jeffrey Shumway lost control of his patrol car and ran into a road sign on Triplet Lake Road during the early morning hours of Feb...

Indicted Cincinnati Ohio Police Officer Adrian Mitchell Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Bank, Wire, And Mail Fraud Charges

Posted on May 10, 2008
CINCINNATI, OHIO - A Cincinnati police officer is out of jail after pleading not guilty to federal fraud charges. Prosecutors say Adrian Mitchell was involved in an investment scheme. He allegedly stole thousands of dollars through a real estate “Rich Properties” or “Rich Investments...

Suspended Veteran Portland Maine Police Officer Brian Regan Indicted After Attacking His Wife In Domestic Violence Incident

Posted on May 10, 2008
PORTLAND, MAINE - A 14-year veteran of the Portland Police Department has been indicted on five charges arising from an alleged assault on his wife at their Westbrook home in March. Brian Regan faces felony charges of reckless conduct with a weapon and criminal threatening with a weapon...

Atlanta Georgia Police Officers Lying To Obtain Search Warrants Lead To Botched SWAT Raid On Innocent 92 Year Old Woman’s Home, Her Death, And Immediate Cover-Up By Atlanta Police

Posted on May 10, 2008
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants - a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman. Former Detective Gregg Junnier told a Fulton County jury that detectives would tell judges that they had verified their informants had bought cocaine from [...

Veteran Montgomery County Maryland Police Officer John Distel Arrested, Suspended, Charged After Drunken Patrol Car Wreck

Posted on May 10, 2008
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND - Montgomery County police officer John Distel, 32, a six-year veteran, was arrested early Friday morning for driving his police cruiser under the influence of alcohol, Montgomery County police said. Around 1:25 a.m. Distel crashed his cruiser into a barrier on the left shoulder of the southbound side of Route 270...

Veteran Fort Smith Arkansas Police Officer Eric Lasiter Suspended For 30 Days - Facts Hidden From Taxpayers

Posted on May 10, 2008
FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS ? A Fort Smith police officer is serving a 30-day suspension after an internal investigation determined he violated a department regulation. Cpl. Eric Lasiter, an 11-year veteran working on the information desk, was suspended without pay as of May 2, according to a news release from the department...

Atlanta Georgia Municipal Court Judge Andrew Mickle Arrested, Charged With Drunk Driving After Wreck

Posted on May 10, 2008
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - An Atlanta Municipal Court judge was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence last month after getting into an accident with another motorist on his way home from a restaurant, according to police and his attorney. Judge Andrew Mickle, 58, did not cause the March 24 accident near Oakland Cemetery in [...

A Public Lynching Of Current U.S. FDA Director Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach Would Probably Serve As An Effective Deterrent Against Future Agency Cover-Ups Up On Behalf Of Chinese Tainted Drug Suppliers - But This Is America…

Posted on May 10, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — The Food and Drug Administration is withholding a list of Chinese heparin suppliers requested by congressional investigators looking into problems with tainted supplies of the blood thinner, saying confidentiality agreements prevent release of the companies’ names...

Just Throw The Constitution In The Trash: New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s Lawyers Want Man’s 1st And 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights Disappear In Courtroom

Heart Patient Treated Like A Bank Robber By Manchester UK Police For Dropping An Apple Core - Pack Of 5 Crazed Nanny-State Cops Grab Him Leaving Pharmacy And Throw Him In Jail

Posted on May 10, 2008
MANCHESTER, UK - A heart patient was locked up 18 hours in a police cell for allegedly dropping an apple core. Keith Hurst, 54, was challenged by a police community support officer as he went to the chemist for his wife. He denied littering and refused to pay a $50 on-the-spot fine ? but when he exited [...

Video Released After Trigger-Happy Minnesota State Troopers Shoot And Kill Accident Victim With Multiple Shots From Taser Weapons

Posted on May 10, 2008
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA - Troopers tried to communicate with Mark Backlund, but he tried to restart his minivan and then struggled with the troopers as they used a Taser to restrain him, according to video footage of the incident released Thursday. The troopers used a Taser three times - though authorities said it was only effective [...

Janitor Found Guilty Of “Racial Harassment” By Ignorant Affirmative-Action Judge For Reading Anti-KKK Public Library Book On Indiana Purdue University Campus

Posted on May 10, 2008
INDIANA - In November, I was found guilty of “racial harassment” for reading a public-library book on a university campus. The book was Todd Tucker’s “Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan”; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor...

Pentagon General Thomas W. Hartmann Removed From Kangaroo Court Trials At Bush’s Guantanamo Bay Torture Prison

Posted on May 10, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - In a new blow to the Bush administration?s troubled military commission system, a military judge has disqualified a Pentagon general who has been centrally involved in overseeing Guant�namo war crimes tribunals from any role in the first case headed for trial...

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