A corrections officer at a detention center for juvenile inmates in Orange County was arrested Monday, accused of raping a girl at the facility the night before, an arrest report shows. The report said 26-year-old Marcus Leon James forced himself on the 17-year-old girl inside an office at the Orange Regional Juvenile Detention Center on … Read more
Florida – A Century Correctional Institution officer has been arrested for allegedly stealing drugs from an evidence locker. Joshua Harrell, 26, reportedly went into the prison’s work camp evidence storage area on Sept. 15 and said he needed to make sure he had signed a piece of paperwork. The officer working in the evidence area … Read more
A Florida police officer is facing backlash over a Facebook comment in which he seemingly wished violence upon Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg and other young gun control activists. The now-deleted post was a response to the “die-in” protests held Friday in the parking lot of supermarket-chain giant Publix, which previously made large donations to … Read more
Four female NYPD cops who appeared eager to bring back stop-and-frisk are under the gun for posing for photos with a strapping stripper. The gals were all grins as the buff entertainer — wearing nothing but boots and thong underwear — draped his arms around two of them while a third pointed at his barely … Read more
An NYPD cop accused of brutally beating a motorist in a fit of road rage was deemed “unsuitable” three years ago, but a supervisor dismissed the red flags and green-lighted his hiring, records show. Michael Baror lacked “anger management,” and “has a tendency to behave in an impulsive, reckless and careless fashion,” an NYPD shrink … Read more
CINCINNATI — State authorities arrested a Hamilton County corrections officer Thursday on a child pornography charge. Joshua Yeager, 30, shared child porn online, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced. A special agent with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation said in an affidavit that he downloaded child pornography from an IP address — the numeric … Read more
Video of an arrest made at the University of Rochester over the weekend has been shared hundreds of times on social media and is now sparking questions about how University Police handled the situation. The incident happened on the River campus Saturday night. News10NBC is told the man who was handcuffed was a student at … Read more
What began as a normal night in the KWVA DJ studio for University of Oregon student Sterling Baraquio ended with several UOPD officers drawing their guns on him. UO spokesman Tobin Klinger explained that late on the night of May 11, UOPD officers were responding to a suspect who tried to break into the Tykeson … Read more
Nine months ago, a Coeur d’Alene couple went to the hospital for an allergic reaction, but medical staff thought they were drunk in public, according to a police report. By the time it was all over, the two, Lindsay and Harrison McLean, were in the back of a squad car, charged with attacking a police … Read more
Former Alaska State Trooper Vance Peronto, who in April was arrested on a charge of attempted sexual assault of a minor after he showed up for a hotel date he had set up with a 16-year-old, now faces eight additional felony charges, including possession of child pornography. Peronto, 57, was indicted by an Anchorage grand … Read more
WILMINGTON, NC – A Wilmington police sergeant is shown on video instructing a citizen who was pulled over for a traffic stop that he is not allowed to record the interaction due to a new state law prohibiting the recording of police interactions. Shortly after that, a New Hanover County Sheriff’s deputy agrees with the … Read more
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — A man who was set on fire by an officer’s stun gun after a police chase has settled his excessive-force lawsuit against police in Virginia for $6.5 million. Chesterfield County police officers had pulled the man from his wrecked car in November 2015 when the sound of sirens startled him. Officers said … Read more