Rosemarie Reilly repeatedly begged police for help in the month leading up to her death. Her ex-boyfriend, Jeremy Kelley, had beaten her and held a gun to her head, then started following her, she told them, but police didn’t take him into custody. Nine days after an arrest warrant was issued, Kelley tracked Reilly down … Read more
Three Texas Department of Public Safety troopers noted an odor of alcohol — two were “overwhelmed” by it — coming from Bertram Police Chief James Jay “J.J.” Wilson as they investigated the crash of his marked patrol car Oct. 24 near Marble Falls. DPS Trooper Frank Randolph responded to a vehicle crash at 8:34 p.m. … Read more
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A former Pierce County police officer and Ware County high school teacher was sentenced Thursday to more than 10 years in federal prison for paying a 16-year-old boy for sex, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood sentenced Tracy Wayne Crosby, … Read more
The image on the deputy’s calf depicted a skeleton in an officer’s uniform, wearing a cowboy hat and clutching a smoking rifle. Jason Zabala said he was inked by an artist who worked at a Sunset Beach tattoo shop and was the 140th person to get the same design. The tattoo, he said, was a … Read more
NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio – The North Royalton police chief says his department is conducting an internal investigation after a Parma Municipal Court judge write a scathing opinion which states Officer Steve Zahursky’s report on an OVI arrest contained inaccuracies and falsehoods. Judge Timothy Gilligan further wrote in his judgment entry, filed earlier this week following … Read more
GRIFFIN, Ga. — Police body cameras recorded an officer telling a citizen to “suck my d***” during an otherwise-calm custody dispute. Officer Travis Wick resigned from the Griffin Police Department after begging Police Chief Mike Yates not to fire him. Officer Wick was one of two officers responding to a call for help from Andrew … Read more
A judge said Thursday that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials must reveal whether they know the names of deputies who have matching skull tattoos at the Compton station. Allegations about a secret society of inked deputies at the station have been at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of … Read more
Two South Carolina deputies were fired on Wednesday night for their role in the death of two female mental-health patients who drowned last month while being transported in a sheriff’s van swept away by Hurricane Florence’s floodwaters. The Horry County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the firings as part of an ongoing investigation into the two deputies, … Read more
Three Miami police officers appeared before a federal judge Wednesday following their arrest on drug trafficking charges for allegedly working as protection for a phony narcotics ring. Officers Schonton Harris and Kelvin Harris, who are not related, and James Archibald were arrested Tuesday in an undercover sting run by the FBI and Miami police, authorities … Read more
NEW ORLEANS – A second man who has come forward saying the former lead detective of the NOPD’s pedophile unit raped him when he was boy and showed him pictures of dead children to intimidate him. New Orleans police have confirmed the department is investigating new sexual assault allegations against former detective and convicted pedophile … Read more
New Jersey – The Trenton police officer charged last week with repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor has been charged with a second, similar set of charges for another victim, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said. William L. Sanchez-Monllor, 36, of Burlington Township, is charged with six counts of first-degree aggravated sexual Assault and one count … Read more
For more than five hours, a Yamhill County Jail inmate writhed in pain on his mattress, clutched his side, walked 19 times to the door to press an intercom button for help and urinated blood in the toilet inside his cell, but no one came to help Jed Hawk Myers, according to jail records, video … Read more