MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WREG is learning more about the investigation into multiple Memphis Police officers after a body was left in a van in the MPD impound lot for more than six weeks. WREG learned at least six Memphis Police officers showed up to a crime scene near an apartment complex on Yale Road. Some … Read more
Ohio – An Akron police captain has been demoted and pulled off the streets after a five-month internal investigation into what happened during a drug arrest outside a McDonald’s in the Ellet neighborhood. The probe doesn’t involve drugs, but the search of a suspect’s phone and a pornographic picture involving a dog. An internal police … Read more
A former U.S. Army Ranger who won the Florida Sheriffs Association’s 2016 “Law Enforcement Officer of the Year” award has been fired from his job as a deputy after authorities found feces, guns, drugs and assorted garbage strewn about his “absolutely disgusting” home. Bevard County Deputy Nicholas Worthy and his live-in girlfriend, Rachel Trexler, were … Read more
Petty Facebook drama can be uncomfortable and a little tacky but generally speaking, no one’s really worried about going to jail over it. That is, until Anne King and a friend found themselves behind bars for a few hours in 2015 after bad-mouthing King’s ex-husband, a sheriff’s deputy in Washington County, Georgia, on Facebook. Now … Read more
DE PERE, Wisconsin – Police were first contacted more than a decade ago about a De Pere couple and their son who are accused of abusing the couple’s adopted children. The mother, Sharon M. Windey, 54, a former Wisconsin State trooper, was charged Thursday in Brown County Circuit Court with 12 counts of child abuse. … Read more
DENTON, Md. – A U.S. Secret Service officer has been arrested and faces charges of possession and distribution of child pornography. Authorities say 52-year-old Jeffrey Litteral of Denton, Md. was arrested on a warrant at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Officials say the investigation began in 2017 when a Maryland State Police Criminal Enforcement Division investigator … Read more
A Perry Town Board member has been accused of fatally shooting a 32-year-old man in the driveway of his home Wednesday evening. Joseph S. Mlyniec, 60, of Perry pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the death of Robert Irvine III of Perry, said Wyoming County District Attorney Donald O’Geen. He was arraigned … Read more
The New York Police Department has been using dismissal probation, the practice of putting an officer on probation for a year while retaining full pay, to keep even the most extreme wrongdoers on the force. Secret files obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal that from 2011 to 2015 at least 319 New York Police Department employees … Read more
BOSTON – A Massachusetts man who spent more than three decades in prison for a rape he says he didn’t commit has filed a federal lawsuit accusing law enforcement officials of conspiring to frame him by planting phony evidence and coercing false statements that were used against him. George Perrot was 17 in 1985 when … Read more
A police officer in Texas has been placed on administrative leave following her arrest on human trafficking charges. Brownsville police Officer Valerie Rivas was among a group of people spotted by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter Feb. 26, hiding in the sand dunes of Padre Island National Seashore, the Dallas Morning News reported. Rivas told … Read more
December 5, 2017 He was doing nothing other than standing in a parking lot and drinking a can of iced tea. But he found out that this can apparently get you arrested, all on its own. Two men had been outside waiting for friends to arrive. They were standing in the parking lot outside of … Read more
Alabama – The 20-year-old man who was arrested last month four days after AL.com published critical comments he made about Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin has been released from jail amid a public outcry over his arrest. Matthew Qualls accepted a plea deal last week that required him to plead guilty to first-degree marijuana possession, … Read more