A former officer with the Savanna Police Department in Pittsburg County has been sentenced to 100 months in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to violating the civil rights of a woman he sexually assaulted during a traffic stop last year. Jerry Lynn “Jay” Gragg Jr., 40, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court … Read more
North Dakota – South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick has sentenced former Beulah Lead Police Officer Dustin Pekas for sexual assault. Pekas, 36, had been set for trial last week in Stanton but changed his plea Friday. Romanick sentenced him to 90 days in jail with two years unsupervised probation and $325 in court fees … Read more
A woman was awarded $300,000 after a jury found her former boyfriend, also a former state trooper, was responsible for assaulting her while they lived together in Marshall County. After the four-day long trial, a jury found Gary Shannon Gates liable for the assault and battery by way of physical abuse. While Gates was sued … Read more
AUBURN, Alabama — A Jay man and his minor children have filed a notice of claim seeking $5 million in damages against former Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant and 17 other individuals and government or law enforcement agencies. The man claims Gallant, “in his individual and representative capacities, sexually assaulted (the Claimant), and continues to … Read more
CHICAGO – A now-retired Chicago police officer has been charged in the sexual abuse of a woman inside a police station in 2016. Clifton, 59, was arrested on Wednesday. On Thursday, police said he has been charged with criminal sexual abuse and official misconduct. His bail was set at $100,000 and he was released on … Read more
Nebraska State Patrol investigators have gotten a judge’s permission to send a former Lincoln police officer’s cellphone to a forensic software company that has technology to bypass its lock so they can search for evidence. The request came in one of four search warrants filed this week in Lancaster County District Court and approved by … 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
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
CRYSTAL LAKE, Illinois – Prosecutors offered a negotiated plea Friday to a retired Lake in the Hills deputy police chief who is facing felony sex abuse and gun charges. Attorneys met with McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather on Friday to talk about 61-year-old Alan R. Bokowski’s cases. The former police official has until Wednesday to … Read more
A woman was awarded $3 million after suing a former Bibb County deputy who was convicted for sexually assaulting her in his office at the sheriff’s department in 2013. The case has garnered local and national attention, after Ervin Lee Heard was mentioned in the popular “S-Town” podcast that centered on the Alabama county. Susie … Read more
ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Illinois – A former sheriff’s deputy accused of soliciting sex from a woman he pulled over was sued in federal court Wednesday, along with the St. Clair County sheriff. The lawsuit says that Robert Sneed pulled the Cahokia woman over on Feb. 16, 2017. She was driving a newly purchased car, and … Read more