Massachusetts – A Chicopee police officer was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he raped a woman over the weekend during National Guard training at Fort Devens, and he’s now suspended without pay, authorities said. Officer Corey Fournier, a 3 ½-year veteran of the Chicopee Police Department, appeared in Clinton District Court for arraignment on two … Read more
McCOOK, Neb. — Former Dundy County deputy Charles Thibedeau, 37, was sentenced to prison time for kidnapping and assaulting a Benkelman woman in his police vehicle. On Monday, District Court Judge David Urbom sentenced Thibedeau to 6 to 8 years for kidnapping, one year for the third-degree sexual assault and six months for oppression under … Read more
LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. – A Pasco County deputy has been fired after being arrested for putting semen on a woman. A spokeswoman for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office confirms 25-year-old Deputy Joseph Mercado has been terminated after being arrested last month. An affidavit states Mercado went to a woman’s home in Pasco County around … Read more
TALLAHASSEE — A sheriff’s deputy in Florida was fired Saturday after being accused of coercing a ride-along participant to show him her breasts. Leon County sheriff’s Deputy Jarrett Broughton was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was hired by Sheriff’s Office on Jan. 4, 2016, and had no other disciplinary issues with … Read more
A Brooklyn cop has been indicted for allegedly exposing himself and masturbating in front of five female police officers on multiple occasions while on duty, officials announced Friday. Officer Anthony Avosso, 31, a nine-year NYPD veteran from the 60th Precinct in Coney Island, was picked up by authorities Friday morning and charged with seven counts … Read more
A Hennepin County corrections officer is under investigation after a female inmate at the Plymouth detention facility where the guard works called into a radio program over the weekend to accuse the guard of sexually assaulting her. A spokeswoman for the county said Tuesday that she could only confirm that there was an open investigation … Read more
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An officer who flies helicopters for police in North Carolina’s largest city was charged Tuesday with 28 sex crimes after a woman reported she was abused several years ago starting as a preteen, authorities said. The victim, now 17, told investigators that Matthew Porter sexually assaulted her for three years from 2010 … Read more
Panama City, Fla. – Two Bay County Jail inmates who said they were sexually assaulted by a former corrections officer have won a federal lawsuit against the officer and the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. The victim said Pedro Reyes raped her and several other inmates in a closet at the jail. They also claimed that … Read more
Two Los Angeles police officers pleaded no contest Monday to sexually assaulting multiple women, a pattern of predation in which one partner often served as the lookout while the other carried out an attack in their unmarked police car. In a downtown L.A. courtroom, officers Luis Valenzuela and James C. Nichols entered their no-contest pleas … Read more
Florida – A Tallahassee police officer was fired after a motorist accused him of sexual assault during a traffic stop Saturday night. In a rare Sunday morning news conference, Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo made a brief announcement. “We immediately sent an investigative team to meet with the victim, for an interview, to collect evidence, … Read more
WEST JORDAN — A former Utah Department of Corrections officer who was scheduled to be sentenced Monday after spending 10 years on the run may now seek to change his plea instead. William Lawrence, 41 pleaded guilty to forcible sex abuse, a third-degree felony, on Dec. 6, 2007. In exchange for his guilty plea, a … Read more
CROWN POINT — A Lake County police officer facing rape charges could return to uniform if he can avoid a felony conviction. The Lake County Police Merit Board has dismissed disciplinary charges against Nicholas “Nick” Medrano this week on a technicality, said Chief William Paterson, second-in-command at the Lake County Sheriff’s Department. Paterson said Medrano … Read more