SAN FRANCISCO — A jury Thursday found a San Francisco police officer who gained fame online guilty of two counts of felony hit-and-run for a Nov. 2015 collision in the city’s North Beach neighborhood, which injured two pedestrians. After the verdict was read, Judge Carol Yaggy remanded Officer Christopher Kohrs, 40, into custody without bail, … Read more
March 30, 2017 Multiple Tampa police officers told Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office internal affairs investigators that if Sgt. Christopher Caris and his wife, Tanya, were not associated with law enforcement on the night they were “unruly” guests at a downtown hotel, they would have been arrested. But they weren’t. Instead, Caris and his wife … Read more
WHITEWRIGHT, Texas – A police officer in the Grayson County city of Whitewright is no longer with the department after he let a council member from another city go during a DWI traffic stop. Officer Andrew Lefevre pulled over Tom Bean Council member Ben Vincent last weekend. Dash cam video shows the officer saying Vincent … Read more
A suburban father says his late daughter’s ashes were mishandled by a sheriff’s deputy who mistook the ashes for drugs. The deputy chief says his officer used “extreme caution” when handling a vial filled with human remains. But the owner says after it spilled in his car, he now feels lost. “Losing my daughter once … Read more
Dec 21, 2017 Bristol, TN – A Tennessee police officer was terminated from the force in November, after he told a state senator’s daughter how he truly felt about the chief’s orders to ticket for window tinting. Bristol Police Department (BPD) Officer Phil Kiersnowski’s conversation with Sam Lundberg, the daughter of Sen. Jon Lundberg, was … Read more
SAN DIEGO – In an exclusive interview with 10News, a San Diego police officer is blowing the whistle on a newly unveiled program that reports to reward officers for making more narcotics arrests. “It’s completely everything that we are against as law enforcement officers. It’s unethical,” he tells us during a disguised sit-down interview. 10News … Read more
PITTSBURGH – A woman is facing charges for allegedly throwing an alcoholic drink in the face of a Port Authority bus driver after video of a separate arrest went viral. According to police, the incident happened around 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 13. The driver told police a woman was using obscene language and causing public … Read more
Having spotted a vehicle-code violation they believed deserved a near-midnight investigation in November 2013, Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) cops stopped a purple Mazda Protege containing three black residents allegedly because of defective license-plate illumination. Officers patted down the occupants and found no weapons. However, Tyler Woods, one of the passengers, gave false identification and … Read more
In 2017, 84 Americans were freed from prison after revelations of government misconduct helped prove them innocent. That sets a record, according to an annual report on exonerations in America. It’s actually only part of the picture. An additional 96 defendants in Chicago and Baltimore were released last year in “group exonerations” as a result … Read more
13 Dec, 2014 Stopping to film Baltimore police officers kicking a handcuffed man, a local woman says she found herself being tasered and arrested while police hurled expletives. She is now suing the department. Kianga Mwamba, 36, claims she was tasered and arrested by Baltimore Police Department officers in March while filming the arrest of … Read more
Georgia – A former Athens-Clarke County police officer is scheduled to go on trial next week, nearly three years after he was arrested for allegedly molesting a child while still a cop. The alleged victim was under 16 years old when he claimed he was assaulted by Kristin Matthew Ward between September 2010 and November … Read more
CLEVELAND – The charges against Cuyahoga County Metropolitan Housing Authority Officer Christopher Collins were dismissed Tuesday in favor of being refiled in Erie County where the majority of the alleged crimes occurred. In March of 2017, Collins pleaded not guilty to sexual battery, endangering children, contributing to the delinquency of a child, and other charges … Read more