Baltimore has been wrestling with yet another police scandal. Last month, the city public defender’s office discovered body camera footage showing a local cop placing a bag of heroin in a pile of a trash in an alley. The cop, unaware he was being filmed, walked out of the alley, “turned on” his camera, and … Read more
3 weeks before being terminated, Officer Dominick Izzo submitted a demand letter of resignation from Chief of Police George Filenko of the Round Lake Park Police Department, for Filenko’s role in the suicide of Fox Lake Lt Joe Glineiwicz and the false confession of Melissa Calusinski, which lead to her conviction of murder. Izzo talks … Read more
The first video appeared to show a Baltimore cop planting drugs at a crime scene. The second one allegedly features a different group of officers. As police investigate a Baltimore police officer whose body camera captured him allegedly planting drugs at a crime scene, authorities say they’ve uncovered potentially incriminating new footage involving other cops … Read more
MANASQUAN — The borough paid a Farmingdale man $35,000 in March to settle a lawsuit in which the man alleged he was falsely accused of drunken driving after a borough police officer planted evidence, newly obtained court records say. Michael G. Mylod said in court documents that on Oct. 24, 2014, he was cleaning out … Read more
When Merlin Alston, a New York City police officer, decided to take a second job in 2010, he offered his services to a longtime friend and drug dealer, prosecutors charged. Mr. Alston eased into the drug trade, at first driving his friend on trips to the Bronx to sell pounds of cocaine. But over a … Read more
Authorities in Baltimore are investigating what looks like a case of blatant evidence tampering by a police officer, after he unknowingly appeared to film himself planting drugs during an arrest this past winter. In footage obtained by local Fox affiliate WBFF, a Baltimore police officer is seen placing what is believed to be a bag … Read more
CHILDRESS, TX – Three males have pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute marijuana at present. Russell Tim Shen, 69, Andre Jorge Hernandez, 39, and Ernesto Esteve, 50, from Florida pleaded guilty to one depend of distribution and possession with intent to distribute marijuana. According to court docket paperwork, in March of 2014, a Childress police … Read more
The state of South Dakota is practicing a form of drug war excess tantamount to torture, according to a pair of federal lawsuits filed by the ACLU on June 28. One suit charges that law enforcement and medical personnel subject drug suspects to forcible catheterization if they refuse to submit to a drug test. Welcome … Read more
Drunk driving arrests are down sharply after decades of aggressive enforcement by officers, while drugged driving arrests are climbing. In Georgia there are now more than 250 officers with special ‘drug recognition expert’ training. But WHAS11’s partner station WXIA’s Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe discovered some drivers are getting arrested for driving stoned even when their … Read more
In the land of the free, if you are in possession of an arbitrary substance deemed illegal by the state, police will claim the legal authority to kidnap, cage, beat, and/or kill you. This scenario plays out like a broken record in towns across America, every minute of every day. Despite police force and violence … Read more
Derek Felming | Courthouse News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – Last week, Olivehurst, California, resident Joseph Bresnyan, 40, stopped to change a flat tire on Interstate 80 near the Sacramento suburb of Roseville. A motorist drifted onto the shoulder, striking and killing Bresnyan. That driver, Brandon R. Rotolo, 24, of Vacaville, has been arrested and … Read more
WASHINGTON, DC — Pablo Escobar’s son recently grabbed headlines when he revealed that his father worked with the CIA to distribute cocaine. Juan Sebastián Marroquín’s revelation worked to clear up how his father, Escobar, always seemed to mysteriously be protected with advanced warnings and superior firepower. Now he’s back in the news again, with another … Read more