Seattle Police this week arrested a 52-year-old man after DNA evidence indicated that he had raped a teenage girl whose rape kit had gone untested for more than a decade. Local news station KOMO reports that police arrested Darin Bolar on charges of kidnapping and repeatedly raping a girl 11 years ago when she was … Read more
In the summer of 2015, a woman named Amber Mansfield filed a report with the Minneapolis Police Department. She said she’d been beaten, choked, and raped by a man named Keith Washington. Washington had been released from prison that spring as a Level 3 sex offender — considered the most dangerous and most likely to … Read more
PARKLAND, Fla. – Several parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Scot Peterson, who stood outside the school for several minutes while bullets rang out, had done his job, their children might not have lost their lives. “I think Peterson is the lowest … Read more
After a 10-month long investigation into the murder of a young pregnant woman, SWAT team members went to Lynncrest Drive to look for one of four suspects. But one family that lives on the same street said the wrong house was raided while their children slept inside. Spencer Renck was getting ready for work. He … Read more
A woman in a Texas prison said jailers ignored her pleas when she went into premature labor, forcing her to deliver the baby on her own, WFAA reported. The woman claims jail officials believed she was faking labor. Shaye Bear was five months pregnant when she said she gave birth to a 1-pound, 2-ounce baby … Read more
(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy who failed to confront a gunman during a Feb. 14 school massacre is receiving a monthly state pension of $8,702.35. The SunSentinel reports 55-year-old Scot Peterson, who resigned and retired after the shootings, began receiving payments in April. Surveillance video showed Peterson outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High … Read more
Miscommunication between the state’s attorney’s office and the sheriff’s office led to the accidental release of an anti-gay terrorist, according to the Chicago Tribune. Shane Sleeper, 31, was released Tuesday night. Police arrested Sleeper in February for terrorizing gay bars and making violent references to the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando. “Orlando will come … Read more
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were taking cover behind cars and a tree as they responded to the worst school shooting in Florida history — even though one deputy said he knew where the shooter was, according to an officer report released Tuesday by the Coral Springs Police Department. “I was advised by an unknown BSO … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. – Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has announced that the school resource deputy for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has resigned amid an internal investigation. Israel made the announcement during a news conference Thursday afternoon. According to Israel, Deputy Scott Peterson was on campus at the time of the shooting that killed 17 … Read more
The Amarillo Police Department is investigating the circumstances surrounding an officer-involved shooting Wednesday morning in which a Faith City Mission student was wounded while in possession of a gun he wrestled away from a suspect. Police said the initial call just before 9 a.m. referenced an armed suspect holding approximately 100 people hostage in the … Read more
SPARTA, Tenn. – Body camera video shows the chaos last April as officers ran to the pick-up truck they fired on after a two county chase. “Get on the ground,” one officer shouted as he approached the pick-up. “Subject has sustained gunshots,” another officer shouted. They discovered the driver of the pick-up had been shot. … Read more
MEMPHIS, Tenn – The Memphis Police Department said a man was found dead inside a utility van at an impound lot more than six weeks after he was shot. “There’s a lot of questions that I just don’t have answers,” said Memphis Police Director Mike Rallings. “As you can probably see I am visibly upset … Read more