COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has fired a trooper in connection with the 2014 death of a handcuffed man who fell out of the trooper’s boat. Brandon Ellingson, 20, died in May 2014 while in the custody of state trooper Anthony Piercy. Ellingson had been arrested on the Lake of the Ozarks … Read more
Police officers have been filmed dragging a crying and screaming 93-year-old woman to jail in shocking footage. Juanita Fitzgerald can heard shouting ‘you’re hurting me’ and ‘help!’ as the officers evict her from the home she has lived in since 2011. They tell the 5-foot-tall, 100 pound woman to relax and insist they’re not putting … Read more
New York – A former Oneonta police sergeant who was fired four months ago after he was arrested on a DUI charge is in trouble with the law again. Shane Osborn, who had been with the department since 2001, was arrested again Thursday morning, this time on multiple child sex charges. Blount County District Attorney … Read more
A man admits that he flipped off an Adams County deputy, but he claims that didn’t give the lawman the right to intentionally break his middle finger in retaliation. Jeffrey Woodfork has sued Adams County Sheriff’s Deputy Travis Wilson accusing him of excessive force and several Adams County jail nurses and their employer, Corizon Health … Read more
When Mesquite police arrived at a local middle school late on a summer night in 2013, Graham Dyer was pounding his head on the ground. Earlier, witnesses reported seeing him ram his head into a building. A friend explained that the 18-year-old was experiencing a bad LSD trip. Police have a legal duty to care … Read more
A former North Carolina police officer who is serving time behind bars for statutory rape after impregnating a young teen is now adding insult to injury and has attempted to contact his victim, violating the restrictions set up by his plea agreement, authorities say. According to the Gaston Gazette, James “Paul” Blair, 52, who is … Read more
The Philadelphia School District was criticized Tuesday by the family of a student who claims he was unfairly locked in a bathroom by a school police officer. The parents of Isaac Gardner Jr., 9, said a school police officer locked him in a bathroom after an incident in art class at Solis-Cohen Elementary School in … Read more
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Michigan police chief says he’s nauseated by body camera footage that shows one of his officers pointing a gun at an 11-year-old girl and handcuffing her as the child screams. The Grand Rapids police department has opened an internal investigation after the Wednesday incident. Police said at a press conference … Read more
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Henderson County Sheriff Charles McDonald released a statement Friday about an image circulated in his department that made a joke about the drug Narcan. Narcan is used as an antidote for drug overdoses, often to reverse the effects of opioids and heroin. The image sent to News 13 on Thursday contains text … Read more
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Michigan police are investigating after an 11-year-old Michigan girl was held at gunpoint, put in handcuffs and thrown in the back of a police car. Honestie Hodges was leaving her Grand Rapids home last week to go to the store when the incident happened. “When my mom was walking past, I … Read more
You may have heard about the story out of Massachusetts, where a woman threw pork at a police station. Lindsey McNamara said that she was only trying to “feed the pigs.” No one in their right mind could have believed she was doing anything other than insulting police officers. But the police testified in court … Read more
It was a critical piece of evidence: an inmate’s shirt, bloodied from a jailhouse brawl. When it went missing, Deputy Jose Ovalle had an idea. He picked out a similar shirt, doused it with taco sauce and snapped a photograph, which was booked into evidence with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, law enforcement records … Read more