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Ironton Ohio Police Officer Rich Fouts Quits After Running Over Man, Dragging Him 10 Blocks Under Patrol Car To Station - Not Charged - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on May 07, 2008
IRONTON, OHIO - A Lawrence County, Ohio, grand jury has decided to not indict a former Ironton Police Officer accused in a dragging death. Police say 45-year-old Guy Thomas was found dead underneath an Ironton, Ohio, police car back in March. Investigators say Thomas had been dragged about 10 blocks before being found dead...

Former Veteran Hamilton County Tennessee Sheriff Billy Long Changes Plea To Guilty, Faces 10+ Years In Federal Prison

Posted on May 07, 2008
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - A former Tennessee sheriff faces the possibility of life in prison Wednesday morning. Former Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long pleaded guilty to 27 charges that include: drugs, extortion and money laundering. A 31-year-veteran of the force, Long was arrested back in February...

Nutcase 78 Year Old Cabell County West Virginia Magistrate Alve Qualls Tells Woman He’d Need A Gallon Of Viagra To Keep Up With Her, That When He Was A Cop, Woman Could Pay Tickets With Blowjobs - Now Fighting Suspension

Posted on May 07, 2008
CABELL COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - A longtime Cabell County magistrate accused of sexually harassing women at the courthouse is fighting his suspension by the state Supreme Court. In March, the high court suspended Magistrate Alvie Qualls with pay after a nine-member panel appointed by the Judicial Investigation Commission recommended his removal from the bench...

New York City Police Go After Competition, Bust Dominican Police Impersonators Who Kidnapped And Tortured Drug Traffickers

Posted on May 07, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, authorities said Tuesday...

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News Media Video Catches Half A Dozen Philadelphia Pennsylvania Police Officers Beating Three Motorists

Posted on May 07, 2008
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - A half-dozen police officers kicked and beat three men pulled from a car during a traffic stop as a TV helicopter taped the confrontation. The video, shot by WTXF-TV, shows three police cars stopping a car Monday, two days after a city officer was shot to death responding to a bank robbery...

Former Moorestown New Jersey Police Officer Robert Melia Charged After Receiving Oral Sex From Cows - Also Faces Child Molestation Charges

Posted on May 07, 2008
MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY ?Additional charges have been filed against former Moorestown police officer Robert Melia after allegations surfaced last week that he performed several sexual acts with livestock, specifically cows. Melia, 38, of 126 Cottage Avenue in Moorestown has been charged with four counts of animal cruelty after purposely and knowingly tormenting an animal, [...

U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch’s Home And Office Raided By Feds Amid Obstruction Probe

Posted on May 07, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Federal agents raided the office and home of U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch on Tuesday while investigating whether the nation’s top protector of whistle-blowers destroyed evidence potentially showing he retaliated against his own staff...

Deptford New Jersey Police Officer Michael Riggs Cleaned Gun After Drinking, Shot Another Officers 2 Year Old Son In The Face - Not Charged - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on May 07, 2008
DEPTFORD, NEW JERSEY - No criminal charges will be filed in the case of two off-duty police officers in Deptford Township who were cleaning their guns when one of the weapons went off, striking an officer’s 2-year-old son. The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office found that Officer Michael Riggs was negligent in the way he handled his [...

Man Arrested, Jailed, And Strip Searched By Melissa Texas Police For Failing To Use Turn Signal

Posted on May 06, 2008
MELISSA, TEXAS - Mark Robinson was driving through downtown Melissa last week when he was pulled over for failing the use his turn signal. But instead of getting a ticket, the officer took the 24-year-old to jail. He was booked, strip searched, and sat for 3 hours with criminals...

Sarasota Florida Police Arrest Innocent Man, Impound His Car, For Having 2 Aleve Over-The-Counter Pain Pills Marked “Aleve” That Falsely Tested Positive For Amphetamines

Posted on May 06, 2008
SARASOTA, FLORIDA ? When the police stopped him one night in Sarasota, Villis Sanders told officers that the small blue pills in his car were Aleve, an over-the-counter medicine for his aching wisdom teeth. A patrolman used a drug kit to verify what the pills were...

Wanted: Blackwell Oklahoma Police Videos Banned From YouTube - Officer John Mitchell

Posted on May 06, 2008
BLACKWELL, OKLAHOMA - Blackwell is claiming “copyright” on public records in order to suppress videos of crazed police officer John Mitchell’s attacks on citizens. Get the videos to us, we’ll publish them here and there’s nothing Blackwell police can do about it...

Clayton County Georgia Police Chief Jeff Turner’s Son Arrested, Charged With Burglary In Henry County - Stopped After Home Invasion, Loot From Earlier Burglary Found In His Car

Posted on May 06, 2008
HENRY COUNTY, GEROGIA - The 17-year-old son of Clayton County’s police chief was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony burglary, Henry County police said. Brandon Turner, son of Clayton Chief Jeff Turner, was arrested after Henry County police were called to a report of a McDonough home invasion...

Guilty Plea Coming? - Disgraced Former Hamilton County Tennessee Sheriff Billy Long Faces Federal Hearing On Extortion And Drug Charges A Week Before Trial

Posted on May 06, 2008
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE - Former Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long faces a rearraignment hearing where he could change his not guilty plea to federal extortion and drug charges. The hearing Monday before U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice comes a week before his May 13 trial...

Nashville Tennessee’s Solution To Overloaded Court System Is To Slash Their Budget - Duh…

Posted on May 06, 2008
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - A proposed cut to the court system could create trial delays, salary cuts and a public safety issue in Nashville. Virtually every Metro department has to make at least a 5 percent cut in their budgets. For the courts that means eight fewer weeks for jury trials, salary cuts across the board and [...

UK’s Massive Security Camera Effort Became A Huge Black Hole Into Which Taxpayer Funds Disappeared With Little Or No Return On Investment - Government Plans To Piss Away More Money On Additional Efforts

Posted on May 06, 2008
UK - Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that [...

Not Yours - Dumbass Former Washington DC Judge Roy Pearson Who Sued Dry Cleaners For $54 Million After Lost Pants, Now Suing To Get His Job Back

Posted on May 06, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - A former judge who lost a $54 million law suit against a dry cleaners over a missing pair of pants is suing to get his job back and at least $1 million in damages. In the suit filed in federal court, Roy Pearson he was wrongfully dismissed for exposing corruption within the Office [...

Dumbass Bergen County New Jersey Police Officer Jason Casamento Hits Tree In 5am Wreck While Avoiding Possum - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on May 06, 2008
BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - A Bergen County police officer was swerving to avoid a possum when he struck a tree on Livingston Road early Sunday, officials said Monday. Officer Jason Casamento remained at Hackensack University Medical Center, where surgeons successfully repaired a dislocated femur Monday, county spokeswoman Mabel Aragon said...

Ocean Township New Jersey Police Officer Sonia Henriques’ Request For Kick-Back Position During Pregnancy Denied

Posted on May 06, 2008
OCEAN TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY ? A decorated township police officer, who learned last week that she is more than two months pregnant, has been denied a request to go on light duty, despite a recommendation from her doctor. Patrolwoman Sonia Henriques made the request to Police Chief Antonio V...

Wetback Truck Driver Arrested In San Diego California With Tractor Trailer Full Of Border-Jumping Vermin

Posted on May 06, 2008
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - Border Patrol officials said Monday that they arrested more than 60 illegal immigrants over the weekend during a traffic stop.Authorities said they stopped the semi truck in East County at a checkpoint near the Kitchen Creek Road exit on Interstate 8 on Saturday at about 9:15 p...

Evidence Allowed Against Douchebag New Jersey State Police Trooper Robert Higbee - Officer Sped Through Stopsign In Residential Area Killing Teen Sisters

Posted on May 06, 2008
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NEW JERSEY - Cape May County prosecutors did not steal a defense witness in the upcoming vehicular homicide trial of State Police Trooper Robert Higbee, a state judge said Wednesday. See also:Douchebag New Jersey State Trooper Robert Higbee, Who Ran Residential Stop Sign At 65 MPH And Killed Sisters, Can?t Man-Up And [...

Whoops - Tennessee Prison Releases Murderer Serving Life Sentence By Mistake

Posted on May 06, 2008
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has added a convicted murderer to its list of Top Ten Most Wanted fugitives. The TBI said Friday that Edgar Bailey Jr., 35, was inadvertently released from the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tenn...

Veteran Palisades Park New Jersey Police Officer Sgt. Richard Sopelsa Rewarded With Pension And Health Benefits After Intimidating Councilman In Attempt To Get Promotion

Posted on May 06, 2008
PALISADES PARK, NEW JERSEY - Administrative charges have been dropped against a police sergeant who had been accused of intimidating a councilman to help promote him. In return, Sgt. Richard Sopelsa will retire July 1 with full benefits and a severance package, under a settlement reached with the borough, “I really don’t like it,” Sopelsa said Friday, [...

Monmouth County New Jersey Hides Youth Detention Center Report From Taxpayers

Posted on May 06, 2008
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY ? The Monmouth County freeholders kept from public view a year-old report by an advisory board highly critical of the possible closure of the county’s Youth Detention Center. The report by the county’s Youth Services Commission included concerns from Deputy Public Defender Theodore Fishman that the proposal “has been going forward very quietly [...

Concord New Hampshire Police Officer Shoots Another Officer At Credit Union

Posted on May 06, 2008
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - A Concord police officer suffered minor injuries Thursday when a fellow officer’s gun discharged. The attorney general’s office said four Concord officers were inside the Granite State Credit Union Building on Sheep Davis Road at about 4:30 a...

Ocean Shores Washington Police Officer Jeffrey Elmore Beat His Daughter With Belt - Bruises Visible For Nearly A Month - Jury Says Its Okay

Posted on May 06, 2008
ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON — An Ocean Shores police officer has been acquitted of fourth-degree assault involving his 17-year-old daughter. An Aberdeen Municipal Court jury found it was acceptable discipline when Officer Jeffrey Elmore used a belt on the girl...

Veteran Toronto Canada Police Officer Charged With Impaired Driving After Paking In Intersection

Posted on May 06, 2008
TOTONTO, CANADA - An off-duty Toronto Police Service officer has been arrested and charged with impaired driving. Witnesses reported seeing the officer stop his private vehicle in the middle of the intersection of Victoria Park Ave. and Consumers Rd. around 3 a...

Boca Raton Florida Police Officer Eduardo Martin Velasquez, Accused Of Rape, Does The Right Thing And Kills Himself

Posted on May 06, 2008
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA ? A city police officer accused of raping a woman on Thursday was found dead in his apartment Sunday evening, police said. Eduardo Martin Velasquez, who joined the Boca Raton police in February, was off-duty when he broke up a fight between two women in the courtyard of his apartment complex at 6015 [...

Maricopa California Police Officer Garry Ferguson Arrested, Charged With Child Molestation - Three Victims

Posted on May 06, 2008
MARICOPA, CALIFORNIA - A Maricopa police officer who was being investigated following allegations of sexual misconduct with three minors has been arrested. Lemoore police said they arrested Maricopa Officer Garry Ferguson, 29, late Friday night at a relative’s home in Rosedale on an arrest warrant from the King’s County district attorney...

Former Palm Beach Florida Police Officer Molly Olson Blames Ambien For Wreck With Parked Cars, Won’t Get Job Back - Showed Up For Work In Pink Flip-Flops

Posted on May 06, 2008
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - A former police officer who crashed her cruiser into parked cars will not get her job back, even though she blames a sleep aid for the problems. Molly Olson pleaded for her job back in front of a grievance board Thursday, claiming she was fired unfairly after police said she erratically operating [...

Illinois State Police Sgt. Jerry Pea Sends Troopers To Intimidate Daughter’s Rival On College Basketball Team - Our Tax Dollars At Work

Posted on May 06, 2008
CENTRALIA, ILLINOIS - Sade Adams, 19, was in a state of jubilation last spring. The Florissant resident and Hazelwood Central High School graduate had earned a full basketball scholarship to Kaskaskia College in Centralia, Ill. In August, Sade (Sha-day) moved into an off-campus house in Centralia and began enjoying the positives of college life, which [...

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