(Meredith) – A hot dog vendor in California received thousands of donations after a police officer confiscated his money while issuing a citation earlier this month. Supporters presented Juan “Beto” Macias with a $87,921 check on Saturday, KTVU reports. More than 5,000 people helped raise the money through a GoFundMe campaign. On Sept. 9, a … Read more
DES MOINES, Iowa – A former Des Moines police officer accused of tampering with evidence is now facing criminal charges, more than two and a half years after the case in question. The charges stem from an arrest made back in January of 2015. Now, one of the arresting officers is facing a couple of … Read more
Carroll County woman is suing members of a rogue Baltimore Police Department unit, the first civil claim since the officers were indicted over a series of robberies and extortions. The complaint filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by Nancy Hamilton seeks at least $900,000 in damages, and the city has appointed lawyers to defend the officers. … Read more
SAUK COUNTY – A former Sauk Prairie police officer has been sentenced for stealing drugs from the police department in 2015. 40-year-old Matthew Alt was charged with five felonies and a misdemeanor, including Possession of Narcotic Drugs, Misconduct in a Public Office, and Possession of Illegally Obtained Prescriptions. In the end, court records show all … Read more
Cpl. Sean Cornick, former head of the Harrisburg Police vice unit, has struck a deal with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to stealing money from evidence lockers. Prison time appears to be in the future for the former supervisor of the Harrisburg Police vice unit under a plea deal he just struck with federal prosecutors. … Read more
Precisely how much dough can be had as a badge-and-gun-wielding government enforcer of laws can best be explained in the head-scratching case of a local school safety cop in New York, who hauled in a stark $442,000 — just under two and a half times that of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s $179,000 — as … Read more
TEXAS CITY, Texas – A former police officer was indicted for felony theft Wednesday. Linnard Crouch, 41, turned himself in to the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office at about 3:15 p.m. A former Texas City Police Department officer, Crouch is accused of stealing more than $2,400 worth of Christmas money from James Mabe, who authorities said … Read more
Baltimore Police Det. John Clewell worked nearly two years on the department’s gun trace task force — an elite unit that raided homes throughout the city searching for firearms in an effort to quell historic rates of violence. We’re “the ‘make stuff happen’ police,” Clewell told a Northeast Baltimore couple whose apartment he raided in … Read more
BERKELEY — Following public outcry from a viral video of a UC Berkeley police officer citing a hot dog vendor over the weekend for operating without a permit, and then confiscating his cash, the university announced Monday it will launch an investigation into the incident, while still defending the money seizure. A college official said … Read more
A veteran police officer says he put his career on the line last week when he testified publicly before the city Police Commission about alleged corruption in the Honolulu Police Department. Denny Santiago told the commission, which is the sole independent oversight body for HPD, that it needed to address what he described as a … Read more
A former Gering Police sergeant has been charged in Scotts Bluff County Court, accused of stealing from a program that provides kids with gifts for their family members. According to Scotts Bluff County Court documents, Henry Moreno, 40, has been charged with three counts of theft by taking, a Class II misdemeanor. An arrest affidavit … Read more
BERKELEY, Calif. – When fans come out, so do the street food vendors. Outside of Saturday’s UC Berkeley game, Cal alum Martin Flores captured cellphone video of a campus police officer citing a street food vendor and going through his wallet before confiscating the cash inside. The video is being shared thousands of times on … Read more