PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh Police officer is under internal investigation for allegedly using a Taser on a restaurant employee at a Downtown Pittsburgh pizza shop. The incident took place in October at Villa Reale pizzeria on Smithfield Street. Surveillance video shows Officer Ronald Hough discharge his Taser at Dominic Reale, the owner’s son. “I feel … Read more
A Bristol, Tennessee police officer has been fired after giving a ticket (to a senator’s daughter) and honest, logical feedback on camera about a questionable department policy on window tinting and Sen. Jon Lundberg (R), District 4. The senator says he feels bad for calling the police chief and getting officer Phil Kiersnowski fired after … Read more
New York – Harry McCarthy, age 57, admitted that in 2013 and 2014, he used a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct to make child pornography. At the time of his crime, McCarthy was an officer in the Ogdensburg Police Department. He faces 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced April 18. The sentenced … Read more
The city of Chicago has agreed to settle a multi-million dollar code-of-silence lawsuit brought after two men were killed in a drunk-driving incident caused by an off-duty detective with the Chicago Police Department. Andrew Cazares, 23, and Fausto Manzera, 21, died when Detective Joseph Frugoli crashed into Cazares’ car after a night of drinking on … Read more
ALVIN, Texas – A school police officer is facing a felony charge, accused of having a sexual relationship with a junior high student. Terry Roy Tennard, 42, works for the Alvin ISD Police Department as an officer, assigned to work at Manvel Junior High. According to the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office, investigators received information that … Read more
A Seattle-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of pointing her service pistol at another immigration officer after being told to sign a “performance improvement plan” now faces federal charges. Prosecutors claim deportation officer Peggy Lee Robbins drew down on her supervisor Thursday during a performance review inside the Department of Homeland Security offices at … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – San Joaquin County’s chief medical examiner, known nationally as the doctor depicted in the movie “Concussion” about brain injuries among football players, resigned Tuesday over what he said was interference by the sheriff that has become so invasive that it borders on the unlicensed practice of medicine. Dr. Bennet Omalu accused Sheriff-Coroner … Read more
BELLEVUE — After more than a hundred people were arrested early September following an eight-day prostitution sting in Bellevue, 61 of those cases have now been dismissed due to a Washington state law technicality, according to a Bellevue police news release. “Operation On Demand” targeted online sex buyers in King County and was the largest … Read more
Don’t think that police are going to let you off easy just because you’re in Elementary School… Cops in Post Falls, Idaho proved that no age is too young for them to arrest a child, after they took a 9-year-old-boy into custody, after he failed to appear in court. The court appearance was for stealing … Read more
TOWN OF ROME, Wis. – A former emergency medical technician and police officer was charged this week in Adams County with sexual assault of a child. Jacob Swiedarke, 31, of Port Edwards, was charged Wednesday on several counts, including two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 13, according to … Read more
The District Attorney’s office will again seek to secure a guilty verdict for a fired New Orleans Police Department officer accused of raping his former girlfriend’s daughter in 2003, when the girl was 7 years old. At a hearing in the case on Monday (Dec. 11), Orleans Criminal District Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier set Michael Thomassie’s … Read more
MORRISTOWN – A former Roxbury High School vice principal was sentenced to probation, community service and manual labor for “tapping” the testicles of a teenager during roughhousing. Dozens of supporters for Roger Schneider, 57, the former Haledon teacher and retired Clifton police officer, packed the Morris County courtroom for his sentencing Friday. Schneider was arrested … Read more