AKRON, Ohio – A Summit Metro Parks ranger has been terminated after being accused of following an elderly couple home, assaulting them and arresting them after they honked their horn at him. The couple, Carl and Margaret Wilson, say they previously hired an attorney in the matter. Lisa King, executive director of Summit Metro Parks, … Read more
Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and one of his top aides have been indicted on charges that they obstructed a federal civil rights investigation into the beating of a handcuffed prisoner by a police chief. Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the chief of his anti-corruption bureau, Christopher McPartland, were named in an … Read more
ST. LOUIS – A federal lawsuit filed here Tuesday claims St. Ann police handcuffed, used a Taser on and criminally charged a man who was trying to report his elderly father missing. Brian Little, 50, of Bridgeton, is seeking unspecified damages from the city and four officers for excessive force, violating his rights, assault and … Read more
GONZALES, Louisiana — A former Ascension Parish sheriff’s deputy faces a sentence of potentially decades in state prison on Nov. 20 after his guilty plea to indecent behavior with a juvenile and 10 counts of attempted possession of child pornography, prosecutors said Monday. Todd Eric Tripp, 29, 921 W. Elrem St., Apt. A, Gonzales, had … Read more
A former Explorer Scout claims in a lawsuit that she was “groomed and coerced” into having sex with a cop while a member of Louisville Metro Police’s Youth Explorer program, according to her attorney. The suit, filed in Jefferson Circuit Court on Tuesday by attorney David Yates, is the third civil case brought by a … Read more
This is the shocking moment a Sheriff’s deputy drove his car through his ex-wife’s wall while high on prescription drugs. Timothy Stuart Taylor had phoned in sick for work saying that he had taken Xanax and didn’t feel like he could drive. But newly-released dashcam footage from his sheriff’s office-issued truck shows him park outside … Read more
MARTINEZ — The California Highway Patrol officer accused of stealing nude photos from a DUI suspect’s phone told investigators that he and his fellow officers have been trading such images for years, in a practice that stretches from its Los Angeles office to his own Dublin station, according to court documents obtained by this newspaper … Read more
Video of an incident at a Godiva shop at the Stamford Town Center in Stamford, Connecticut shows a woman who identified herself as a New York City police officer threatening violence against employees. According to the Stamford Advocate, Amanda Villafane, a 30-year-old probationary officer, became enraged after she, her mother and her companion had to … Read more
The veteran Minneapolis police officer charged Friday with threatening to shoot his sister-in-law and accused of putting a gun to his wife’s head in another incident said Friday afternoon that he has no memory of the incidents. “I don’t recall any of that,” a man who identified himself as officer James J. Lopez said in … Read more
CLEVELAND – A Cleveland police officer charged with rape, kidnapping and felonious assault for allegedly beating and sexually assaulting his girlfriend is on the run after breaking his GPS ankle monitor. The U.S. Marshals and the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is currently looking for Tommie Griffin III. An escape warrant has been issued … Read more
A Wichita police officer was arrested Friday on suspicion of misdemeanor official misconduct and stalking, according to the Wichita Police Department. The arrest was made by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office after police requested an investigation into the officer, Officer Charley Davidson said in a prepared statement. The officer is a 21-year veteran of the … Read more
A video shared over 5,000 times on Facebook shows self-identified, plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entering a Portland home and arresting a man, without getting permission to enter and without a warrant. ICE later released the man, Carlos Bolanos. George Cardenas, a coworker and friend of Bolanos, filmed the interaction with ICE officers, … Read more