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Haines City Florida Police Officer Lt. Darren Freeman Quits After Violating City And Department Policies With Outside Security Business

Posted on June 10, 2008
HAINES CITY, FLORIDA - A Haines City police lieutenant who was facing disciplinary action for starting a security business that violated city and department policy has resigned. Lt. Darren Freeman had been told to remove his name as president/CEO of Freeman Security Services Inc...

Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio To Give Statement After Chandler Police Officer Tom Lovejoy Kills K9 In Hot Patrol Car

Posted on June 10, 2008
CHANDLER, ARIZONA - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been told to give a deposition in the case of a Chandler police officer accused of leaving a police dog in a hot car last August. Lawyers for Sergeant Tom Lovejoy filed a motion in March asking Arpaio to answer questions under oath...

Downtown Phoenix Arizona Area Evacuated For “Suspicious” Backpack In Maricopa County Jail

Posted on June 10, 2008
PHOENIX, ARIZONA - An area in downtown Phoenix had to be evacuated around lunchtime Tuesday after a suspicious bag was found inside the Maricopa County 4th Avenue jail. Someone found the bag at about 11:30 a.m. in a jail bathroom at 4th Avenue and Madison Street...

Minneapolis Minnesota 911 Center Blamed For Woman’s Death

Posted on June 10, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - A grieving husband is searching for answers after he couldn’t reach anyone by calling 911 at the most critical time. Richard Boos, of Minneapolis, said it happened Saturday morning when his wife said she couldn’t breathe...

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Ulster County New York Deputy Sheriff Jeffrey P. Geskie Arrrested, Quits, Charged After Sex With A Teen Girl In Exchange For Her Freedom

Posted on June 10, 2008
KINGSTON, NEW YORK - An Ulster County sheriff’s deputy resigned on Tuesday after being charged with accepting a bribe in the form of a sexual act from a 17-year-old female. Following an investigation by the state police, Jeffrey P. Geskie, 27, of Russell Road, Hurley was charged with receiving a bribe and committing a criminal sexual [...

Alachua County Florida Sheriff’s Investigator Sent Racially “Profane” Email Form Work

Posted on June 10, 2008
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - A “profane” e-mail forwarded by an investigator at the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office was condemned by the sheriff, who has ordered an investigation and promises appropriate action will be taken. The e-mail, about a congresswoman calling African-American names to be included in the names used for hurricanes, has circulated on the Internet in [...

Rogers Arkansas Police Officer Sgt. Steve Charles Suspended After Interfering In Investigation

Posted on June 10, 2008
ROGERS, ARKANSAS — A Rogers police sergeant has been suspended for 10 days from his job for off-duty actions that included interfering in a traffic-stop investigation in Fayetteville. Sgt. Steve Charles, a passenger in a vehicle stopped on April 12 by a Fayetteville police officer, committed three violations of the Rogers Police Department’s standards of conduct, [...

Crazed Rock Hill South Carolina Police Arrest Family’s Children For Cheering At Brother’s Graduation - Five Others Arrested For Cheering - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on June 10, 2008
ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA - Most people get choked up and excited at graduation. But one family?s excitement landed them in jail. Arrested and handcuffed for cheering. More than 500 Fort Mill High School Students graduated Saturday at Winthrop Coliseum...

Previously Disgraced Former Egg Harbor Township New Jersey Police Officer John DeAngelis Sr. Charged After Drunken Hit And Run Wreck

Posted on June 10, 2008
MARGATE, NEW JERSEY - A retired Egg Harbor Township police captain was charged with driving while intoxicated following a Saturday morning hit-and-run accident, according to Margate police. John DeAngelis Sr., of Egg Harbor Township, hit another car in a minor accident early Saturday in front of Maynard’s Cafe on Amherst Avenue and then drove away from [...

Arapahoe County Colorado Investigates Sex Toy

Posted on June 10, 2008
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO - There’s an internal investigation in Arapahoe County right now trying to determine who put a sex toy into an employee’s personal belongings. Advertisement Two departments are being investigated. Employees from the Arapahoe Road and Bridge Department and from the Facilities and Fleet Department are being questioned...

Hartford Connecticut Police Bomb Squad Blows Up Roasting Chicken

Posted on June 10, 2008
SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT - Authorities in Connecticut are wondering who stuffed a raw roasting chicken with a pipe bomb and left it on a roadside. Simsbury police Capt. Matthew Catania says a motorist noticed the chicken Monday morning. He says the bomb was large enough to harm a person if it went off...

Gas Crisis Forces U.S. Police Officers To Get Off Their Fat Asses, Out Of Their Air Conditioned Cars, And Do Some Walking

Posted on June 10, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC ? Rising gas prices are prompting some police departments to curb their cruisers for parts of their daily shifts and walk the beat instead ? a change that shrinks coverage areas and increases emergency response times. Others are cutting back on a popular program that allows officers to take their vehicles home to boost [...

First Amendment Dies In Arab Alabama - Graduating Teen Arrested And Jailed For Flipping The Bird

Posted on June 10, 2008
ARAB, ALABAMA - It’s not uncommon for high school seniors to try to make themselves stand out from the crowd during graduation ceremonies, maybe with something benign like writing “Hi Mom” on their robes or doing a funny dance on the walk across stage...

Microsoft Vista Sucks - So Nobody Steals It

Posted on June 10, 2008
WASHINGTON - Microsoft sued a bunch of resellers for flogging copies of software they didn’t pay it for, the Vole said Tuesday. The company said it filed lawsuits against 21 resellers in 14 states. The lawsuits allege that defendants sold copies of Windows XP and Microsoft Office that didn’t have unique product keys...

Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich Introduces Impeachment Resolution Of Criminal President G.W. Bush - War Crimes - Torture - Lies - Geneva Conventions - Posse Comitatus

Posted on June 09, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential contender, said Monday he wants the House to consider a resolution to impeach President Bush. See also: Daily Kos Speaker Nancy Pelosi consistently has said impeachment was “off the table...

Crazed Veteran Lacey Washington Police Officer David Miller Arrests News Photographer At Duplex Fire

Posted on June 09, 2008
LACEY, WASHINGTON - Olympian photographer Tony Overman was arrested Friday while taking photos at the scene of a duplex fire in Lacey. Overman, 45, was arrested on suspicion of simple assault of a Lacey police detective, a misdemeanor, and will be arraigned in district court June 19, said Lacey police spokesman John Suessman...

14 Killed In Violent Los Angeles California Weekend - Police Play Down Killing Spree

Posted on June 09, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Police in Los Angeles played down fears of a crime wave on Monday after an an unusually violent weekend saw more than a dozen people killed across the city. Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Earl Paysinger described the spike in violent deaths that left 14 people dead as a “blip...

Monmouth County New Jersey Lawyer James J. Cleary Owes Big Bucks After Collecting $165,000 In Benefits He Wasn’t Entitled To. Still Employed By The County

Posted on June 09, 2008
MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - Representatives of a utilities authority said there’s been progress, but no agreement, in deciding how an assistant Monmouth County counsel should pay back the $165,000 in retirement and health benefits to which he wasn’t entitled...

East Taylor Pennsylvania Police Officer Cathy Jo Foust Shoots Herself While Loading Pistol

Posted on June 09, 2008
EAST TAYLOR, PENNSYLVANIA - An East Taylor, Cambria County, police officer shot herself in the leg yesterday. Cathy Jo Foust, 42, of Johnstown, was loading her service pistol in the East Taylor police station a little before 5 p.m. when it accidentally discharged, wounding her in the left leg...

New York State Police Single Out Motorcycles, Harrass Riders

Posted on June 09, 2008
NEW YORK - State police stopped and inspected 123 bikers heading up the Adirondack Northway, issuing 48 tickets at a safety checkpoint Friday. Heading into the weekend leading to the Americade motorcycle rally at Lake George, the checkpoint for northbound riders lasted a few hours at the I-87 rest area in Queensbury...

New York State Police Plan To Target And Harass Bikers Traveling To Americade Rally

Posted on June 09, 2008
ALBANY, NEW YORK - With motorcycle registrations and rider deaths rising sharply, state police planned to stop bikers heading to and from the upcoming Americade rally in the southern Adirondacks to make sure they have decent helmets and the right licenses...

Gilbert Arizona Konnie Bonini And James Clark Quit Amide Drug Allegations

Posted on June 09, 2008
GILBERT, ARIZONA - When Gilbert officer Konnie Bonini went to supervisors in January, she said she only wanted to get a fellow officer help. But after revealing she knew an officer who drank before work and abused muscle relaxers without a prescription, she was involved in a two-month criminal investigation that implicated her and officer James [...

Bibb County Alabama Deputy Sheriff Terrell Morrow Fired, Arrested, Charged With Child Molestation

Posted on June 09, 2008
CENTREVILLE, ALABAMA - A Bibb County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl. Sheriff Keith Hannah says the girl’s mother and stepmother reported the incident to police Tuesday morning. He notified the Alabama Bureau of Investigation...

Drunk Detroit Michigan Police Officer Crashes Into Macomb County Deputy Sheriff

Posted on June 09, 2008
DETROIT, MICHIGAN - A Detroit police officer could face drunk driving charges after he hit a Macomb County Sheriff’s deputy while off duty. The crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday. The deputy received minor injuries. Appeared Here

With All Other Problems In The City Solved, Charleston South Carolina Police Target Gum Chewers

Posted on June 09, 2008
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - Better watch where you stick your gum if you live in South Carolina. Utility poles seem to be a popular spot for people to their stick gum, and city officials in Charleston are enforcing higher consequences. Anyone caught faces a fine up to $500 and 30 days in [...

Former Camanche Nation Oklahoma Police Chief Ray Anderson Sentenced To Just 5 Months In Federal Prison For Embezzling Money

Posted on June 09, 2008
OKLAHOMA - The former police chief for the Comanche Nation was sentenced today to five months in federal prison. Ray Anderson stepped down from his post as police chief in March when he admitted to embezzling money meant for the tribe. Anderson, 55, apologized in federal court in Oklahoma City for abusing the tribe’s trust in him...

Bridgeport Connecticut Police Officer Andre Orbegozo Arrested, Charged With Kidnapping And Assault

Posted on June 09, 2008
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT - Ansonia police have arrested Bridgeport policeman on charges he kidnapped and hit a fellow officer. Andre Orbegozo, 32, of Naugatuck, was charged with second-degree assault with a firearm and second-degree kidnapping with a firearm...

Newfoundland Canada Police Officer Supt. Bob Garland Quits Amid Investigation

Posted on June 09, 2008
NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA - The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary police officer at the centre of a misconduct investigation in the western Newfoundland community Corner Brook is stepping down. The RNC confirmed late Wednesday afternoon that Supt. Bob Garland has tendered his resignation effective July 2...

Mentally Disabled Nashville Tennesse Man Who Murdered His Neighbor Back On The Street After Less Than A Year - Incompetent To Stand Trial

Posted on June 09, 2008
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - Thursday morning a man who stabbed his neighbor to death in an elevator was back on the streets. Wednesday John Henry Roberts was released from jail after he was found incompetent to stand trial. Police said in July 2007 Roberts, who has an IQ of 57, was caught on surveillance video stabbing his [...

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 [...

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