CLEVELAND – Bond was set at $10,000 for the Cleveland police officer accused of sexual battery. Maria K. Velez, 24, pleaded not guilty in court Friday morning. She has also been indefinitely suspended without pay from the Cleveland Police force after her arrest Thursday. The incident is alleged to have occurred back in 2015 when … Read more
WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, SC – An 86-year-old South Carolina man was in intensive care Thursday after being shocked with a Taser by a Kingstree police officer during a traffic stop, according to an attorney representing the motorist. Albert Chatfield was taken to McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence on Monday with a broken nose, lacerations to … Read more
GRAHAM, N.C. — A former Elon University police officer and her husband, who is a deputy with the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, are facing felony child abuse charges. Court documents accuse the couple of causing a “pattern of severe bruises all over the body and a shoulder injury” to a 3-year-old boy with special needs. … Read more
One is retired from the Chicago Police Department. One remains on the force. Both wound up on a witness stand Tuesday, in separate courthouses across town. And in a sign of the contentious atmosphere that surrounds policing in Chicago, both men wound up exercising their Fifth Amendment right not to testify — a combined 32 … Read more
An NYPD housing cop has been busted for exposing himself to two school-aged sisters as they walked to church in The Bronx last week, police said. Adam Fridson, 43, a 12-year veteran who works in the borough, was charged Tuesday with acting in a manner injurious to a child, lewdness and exposure of a person … Read more
LARGO — Sheriff Bob Gualtieri fired a deputy Monday after an investigation found he offered to pay an 18-year-old woman he had recently arrested and her friend to come to his house while his young daughter was asleep in the home. Deputy Brian Britt, 45, was terminated after 17 years with the department. Gualtieri said … Read more
Three of the Chicago law enforcement officers involved in dragging a Louisville doctor off a United Airlines’ flight in April are no longer on the job, officials revealed Tuesday. Chicago’s Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said an officer and an Aviation Security sergeant were fired, a third officer resigned and another received a five-day suspension — … Read more
On Monday, Kentucky State Police arrested a western Kentucky Assistant Police Chief after he allegedly failed to perform is official duties as a police officer in a child porn case. Police arrested 51-year-old Providence Assistant Police Chief Larry “Alan” King, 51, on an official misconduct charge. Authorities determined that during an investigation regarding a Webster … Read more
Almost two weeks after a Canandaigua police officer shot and killed an off-duty parole officer at the Pinnacle North Apartments, the city has not only declined to identify the police officer involved but also has declined to say why it’s withholding the name. Contacted early Friday, City Manager John Goodwin at first said a statement … Read more
Most readers (and certainly this writer) will likely never visit the exorbitantly priced Dubai, which might make the following story seem less threatening. However, Dubai is emerging as the perfect insulated testing ground for a range of high-tech applications that could very well spread to many corners of the world in the near future. The … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – A Bexar County Sheriff’s deputy is recovering after being restrained and stunned multiple times by another deputy at the Bexar County Jail. A source contacted KENS 5 after witnessing the ordeal almost two weeks ago. The BCSO employee tells us the sick deputy was mistaken for someone who was being disorderly. Video … Read more
FAIRFIELD, Ill. — A former Wayne County, Illinois sheriff’s deputy killed himself during a standoff with police Thursday night. Police were called to Lee Rankin’s home north of Fairfield on Thursday night to investigate a domestic disturbance. Rankin’s wife and children were able to flee the home as the situation escalated. Court records show Rankin’s … Read more