Massachusetts – A former Whitman police sergeant who pleaded guilty last year to tax embezzlement charges reported to federal prison in Ayer late Thursday night. Glenn Paul Pearson, 62, reported to the Devens Federal Medical Center, according to the online U.S. Bureau of Prisons database. Pearson is listed as inmate No. 99722-038. Pearson wasn’t listed … Read more
A former top NYPD official is set to plead guilty to charges related to a sweeping corruption probe that included officers allegedly accepting trips abroad, jewelry and sex with a prostitute from shady businessmen, The Post has learned. Retired Deputy Chief Michael Harrington will cop to criminal charges later Thursday in Manhattan federal court and … Read more
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruit Julio Cesar Jimenez got his first taste of real police work about two months into his academy training — when he was arrested by detectives investigating a sophisticated ATM burglary. NBC4 learned of the case earlier this month after Jimenez was booked on suspicion of arson, grand theft, and … Read more
Baltimore City Police officers of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) Evodio Hendrix, Maurice Ward, Daniel Hersl, Marcus Taylor, Wayne Jenkins, Thomas Allers, Jemell Rayam and Momodu Gondo are guilty of a plethora of crimes falling under their racketeering convictions, ranging from robbery and selling drugs to fraud. All eight men are currently awaiting sentencing. … Read more
A New York police detective was arrested on Tuesday on federal perjury charges after prosecutors concluded that he had fabricated evidence in a carjacking case. The charges against Michael Foder, 41, who had been assigned to the detective squad in the 70th precinct in central Brooklyn, are the latest sign that perjury remains an ongoing … Read more
Massachusetts State Police Trooper Leigha A. Genduso was suspended without pay last week in the wake of an internal affairs investigation that will review, among other things, the process through which the Worcester native was hired, according to a state police spokesman. Trooper Genduso, 36, was suspended without pay Friday after it was revealed that … Read more
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant was jailed Wednesday, Valentine’s Day, caught up in a sweeping indictment involving elder exploitation. Contact 13 Darcy Spears continues her years-long expose on guardianship abuse with this heart- breaking case. He was supposed to serve and protect but instead he’s accused of felony crimes for using Clark County’s … Read more
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel—the man whose agency failed to prevent the Parkland massacre despite having received a tip last November that Nikolas Cruz was plotting a mass shooting—has been accused of public corruption. Two years ago, the Sun Sentinel reported that Israel was rewarding top political supporters by giving them and their family members … Read more
Georgia – An East Ellijay police officer who failed to immediately turn in the purse of a woman he arrested, and then allegedly cashed a money order from the purse, has been charged with theft, according to authorities. Michael Gene McClure, 48, of 350 Mulberry St. in East Ellijay, was charged Feb. 14 by the … Read more
Between 2014 and 2016, the sheriff of one Alabama county pocketed more than $110,000 worth of “excess” taxpayer dollars his office received to feed inmates in the county jail he oversees. Another Alabama sheriff paid a teenager to mow his lawn in 2015 using checks that drew from funds that were allocated for inmate food … Read more
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby now says thousands of court cases may be compromised as a result of the Gun Trace Task Force case. “At first it was hundreds of cases,” Mosby said, speaking on a panel Friday morning at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. “Thanks to the testimony … Read more
BALTIMORE — A Maryland state delegate who represents Baltimore has proposed that the city’s police department “be disbanded and reorganized from the ground up.” This comes in the wake of former Baltimore Police detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor being found guilty earlier this week on racketeering charges in one of the worst and biggest … Read more