LEADVILLE, COLO. – A former police chief in a small Colorado town has pleaded guilty to charges of stealing weapons from his department and its evidence room and then selling them to pawn shops. Fifty-two-year-old Michael Robert Leake pleaded guilty Friday to charges of theft and providing false information to a pawnbroker. Leake was accused … Read more
Honolulu Police Department has been sending out letters to legal users of medicinal weed that they must forfeit their weapons, as reported by multiple news organizations. The first legal medical marijuana dispensary opened in Hawaii this August, according to the Associated Press, even though medicinal pot was first legalized in 2000. There are currently 29 … Read more
MOREAU — A former police officer who resigned after a 2014 incident in which he roughed up a man whose car he illegally searched was arrested Monday for illegally possessing three guns, police said. Shawn R. Glans, 38, of Moreau, a former Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office sergeant and South Glens Falls Police patrolman, was charged … Read more
A former Los Angeles police officer accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl in the department’s cadet program was held over for trial Thursday on charges of possessing a cache of assault weapons at his San Bernardino County home. Robert Cain, 31, was charged with 10 felony weapons offenses after police recovered more than 100 … Read more
A former Memphis police officer who was arrested outside the White House on Sunday with nine firearms in his car believed the CIA implanted a chip in his head, according to court documents. Timothy J. Bates, 37, of Collierville, Tenn., appeared in court on Monday facing a felony charge of illegally carrying a rifle or … Read more
WASHINGTON — A Memphis-area police officer arrested Sunday near the White House had a cache of weapons in his car, and said he had an appointment with top administration officials. WTOP has learned the arrested officer is Timothy Bates, of Collierville, Tennessee. Johnny Crumby, president of the Tennessee State Lodge of the Fraternal Order Of … Read more
DES MOINES, Iowa – A former Des Moines police officer accused of tampering with evidence is now facing criminal charges, more than two and a half years after the case in question. The charges stem from an arrest made back in January of 2015. Now, one of the arresting officers is facing a couple of … Read more
A former Miami-Dade police officer who pleaded guilty to smuggling guns through Miami International Airport was sentenced to four years in prison Friday. Michael Freshko, 48, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to unlawfully export firearms from the United States to the Dominican Republic. Prosecutors said Freshko received firearms from a co-conspirator then used his … Read more
MOREAU — A former police officer who resigned after a 2014 incident in which he roughed up a man whose car he illegally searched was arrested Monday for illegally possessing three guns, police said. Shawn R. Glans, 38, of Moreau, a former Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office sergeant and South Glens Falls Police patrolman, was charged … Read more
It is bad enough that our city is awash with illegal guns. But to think that the cops themselves might be the source of some of those guns — or of even one. That would be a new low. The onus is on Police Supt. Eddie Johnson to solve this one or watch the public’s … Read more
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2015/10/15 A disturbing report that first surfaced on Counter Current News shows a screen captured tweet that is now going viral online. Randy Pullen, a representative of the republican party in Arizona was busy on Twitter Tuesday night as the Democratic presidential debates took place. While there has been a lot of invective and rhetoric … Read more