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Georgina Illa, a Miami-Dade Corrections officer of four years, said she was driving to work northbound on Florida's Turnpike, near Southwest 152nd Street, Sunday evening. According to the driver, all of a sudden a white Mazda sedan cut her off.

Illa said she flashed her high-beam headlights. "I was absolutely in shock," she said. "I can tell you, even my right foot was trembling. I didn't know what to do."

She said there were two occupants in the other car. The man in the passenger seat, she said, pointed a firearm at her. "I'm trying to get my phone, I'm trying to call FHP; next thing I see, the guy is pointing a gun at me," she said.

"As he was pointing his gun at me, I still couldn't believe it," Illa continued. "It's crazy. Who would do that?"

Illa said the man then discharged his firearm, hitting her vehicle in the taillight. "Gun goes off, and now I'm trembling, my foot is trembling, and my hands are trembling," she said.

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper later arrived on the scene. "The initial officer that, you know, made the traffic stop, after he talked to [the passenger] he came and talked to me," said Illa. "He said, 'You know, he's a police officer ... a Miami-Dade Police officer.'"

Illa said the investigating officer on the scene told her the off-duty law enforcer riding in the personal vehicle denied having a gun, as well as firing a weapon.

The white Mazda was impounded. According to Miami-Dade Police officials, the Florida Highway Patrol is the lead investigative agency in this case.

After the incident, Illa said, investigators went through her red sedan and found the round that was fired.

Miami-Dade Police have confirmed that their officer was present at an incident on the Turnpike but indicated they do not know what, if any, involvement, he may have had in the incident. They said FHP investigators are trying to determine whether their officer fired a weapon.

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A Miami-Dade Police Officer charged with DUI is back in custody for driving with a suspended license and leaving the scene of an accident while out on bond.
A judge revoked 41-year-old Ryan Robinson's bond at a Tuesday hearing. Robinson was charged with DUI in April after he knocked over a shopping cart containing two children in a Publix parking lot while off-duty.

Then four weeks ago, officials said he was caught driving with a suspended license. Authorities said Robinson hit car that had a person inside it in a Palmetto Bay parking lot, then drove away, but he hit another parked car that was empty. The person in the first car called police and he was charged with driving with a suspended license and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage.

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A Chula Vista Police Department officer was charged Tuesday with four misdemeanor battery counts stemming from an off-duty dispute with his girlfriend's 16-year-old son.
The allegations against patrolman Roman Granados stem from a fight he allegedly had with the teenager during a graduation ceremony at Chula Vista Hills Elementary School, CVPD Capt. Lon Turner said.

Granados was attending the June 5 event with his girlfriend, one of whose children was taking part in the ceremony, the captain said.

During the function, the alleged victim confronted his mother about a prior disagreement, and Granados intervened. A scuffle broke out, at which point the officer allegedly battered the teen. Witnesses described Granados as the sole aggressor, Turner said.

By the time officers arrived at the school to investigate the disturbance, Granados had left. Police contacted and questioned him at his home that evening.

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The United States Justice Department has moved to dismiss a lawsuit in which American Muslims allege that that twenty-five law enforcement officials, particularly FBI agents, had them placed on the No Fly List after they refused to become government informants in their community.

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HOMETOWN, IL -- A police officer in a Chicago suburb has been fired after the shooting death of a family dog that has outraged a small community. Witnesses say an officer from the Hometown Police Department shot and killed the dog in front of its owners.

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Clark County Sheriff Danny Rodden was arrested Tuesday after allegedly paying a prostitute $300 for oral sex at a Louisville hotel and encouraging her to hide evidence of their 2013 encounter.

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Rodden, 60, is accused of giving the unnamed prostitute a badge, uniform shirt and other clothing bearing the insignia of the sheriff's department so she could get a government employee rate at area hotels, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.

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The missing equipment includes a green ballistic vest, plus ammunition, a knife and a pry bar that were being stored in the vest, which bears the labels "Trooper" and "STATE Team," which is the acronym for the MSP's tactical team, the Special Tactical Assault Team Element.

No firearms were in the vehicle to be taken, State Police said; however, a green flight suit, which bears Maryland State Police and STATE team patches, and a gas mask were also stolen, according to the news release.

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Faith Bronson is a 34 year old woman who was recently attacked by her mentally unstable boyfriend Ross Bonaddio. Bonaddio had assaulted and kidnapped her, and was holding her against her will. Bonaddio was allegedly under a delusion that aliens were inside of Faith, and he planned to extract them.

According to a police report, he screwed the doors of his home shut, so she could not leave. After three days, she escaped to a neighbor’s house where the police were called. When the police arrived, Bronson had already returned to her boyfriends house, where they found her covered in bruises.

Since detectives had been unable to contact Bronson, and she had expressed in recorded phone conversations that she did not want to testify, they felt that it would be necessary to incarcerate her.

Now she is being held captive by the police because they are concerned that she may not testify against Bonaddio.

Faith Bronson isn’t under arrest and is not under suspicion of any crime, but she is being held in prison without charges. It was reported by the local newspaper, The Times Tribune that Judge Michael Barrasse set a $25,000 bail which she can pay if she wants to be released before Ross Bonaddio’s trial on September 7th. If she cant pay the bail though, she is to remain behind bars until the court date.

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The owner of a dog killed by a Salt Lake City police officer last month said he has turned down the department’s offer to pay him $10,000 to compensate him for his pet.

Sean Kendall, owner of the dog, Geist, that was shot dead by a police officer in its own backyard last month, acknowledged the generosity of the department’s offer, but said he would not be satisfied until the department agreed to change its policy governing using force against dogs.

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Six Philadelphia officers were arrested Wednesday in a predawn roundup and charged with robbing, kidnapping, and extorting drug suspects over a nearly seven-year period.

The officers had been involved in narcotics investigations until they were removed from street duty by Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey late last year.

The officers charged in a federal indictment are Thomas Liciardello, Perry Betts, Brian Reynolds and Michael Spicer, John Speiser and Linwood Norman.

The indictment alleges the officers falsified records, held people without arrest, stole drugs and shared in the proceeds.

Federal officials said they stole more than $500,000 from February 2006 to November 2012, including Rolex watches, electronics and a Calvin Klein suit.

The officers allegedly took part in a game involving beating drug suspects for points and even held one suspect from a balcony 30-feet above the ground and knocked out his teeth.

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A mom faces a charge of child neglect after she allowed her son to go to a park alone. She says he’s old enough but Port St. Lucie Police disagree. Now she’s fighting back.

“I’m totally dumbfounded by this whole situation,” says Nicole Gainey.

It began last Saturday afternoon when Gainey gave her son Dominic permission to walk from their house to Sportsman’s Park .

“Honestly didn’t think I was doing anything wrong,” says Gainey, “I was letting him go play.

It’s a half mile from their Port St. Lucie home. Dominic says it only takes him about 10 to 15 minutes to get there. During the walk, the 7-year-old passed a public pool. Someone there asked him where his mom was.

“They asked me a couple questions and I got scared so I ran off to the park and they called the cops,” says Dominic Guerrisi.

Dominic was playing at the park when an officer pulled up.

“They said ‘where does your mom live,’ ” says Dominic.

Police took him home. That’s when his mom was arrested and charged with child neglect. Gainey says she was shocked.

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Last November the Rittman Police Department, through their glorious incompetence, throwing the need for evidence to the wayside, and relying solely on an informant’s recollection, went to the home of Ashley Brown to place her under arrest.

“I got out and one of them walked up to me and said, ‘we have a warrant for your arrest,’ and I thought that they were joking,” said Brown.

“I thought that it was for an unpaid parking ticket and he said, ‘no ma’am, it’s for dangerous drugs,’ and I lost it,” said Brown.

Rittman police accused Brown of driving a co-defendant to a location to sell drugs. The irony here is that police think that providing transportation to someone to sell something to a willing customer is somehow more dangerous than kidnapping and locking an innocent pregnant woman in a cage.

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Because Monday was Veteran’s Day, she did not go in front of a judge until the following Tuesday after being locked in a cage for 4 days. Even then, her public attorney, Bob Campbell, didn’t believe her.

“I wanted to make sure that I completely vetted her claim of innocence before I presented it to anybody else, because about the worst that you could do is to present a claim of innocence when you are not. That has a tendency to backfire,” said Campbell.

Eventually the informant was brought in to identify Ashley Brown in a lineup and could not. Brown also had an alibi: a Facebook post from the cousin of Brown’s ex-boyfriend that confirmed Ashley was out hiking on the day of the drug transaction. But still, this was not enough to convince the negligent and tyrannical Narcotics Gestapo. Brown was still indicted.

“I think people believe that in order to get charged with a felony offense you have to at least be hanging around with the wrong people or doing something that you probably knew you shouldn’t do and this certainly proves this is not the case. She was just minding her own business,” said Campbell.

For eight horrible months, Brown said she was required to make daily status phone calls and subject herself to random drug tests twice a week at her own expense.

Eventually the charges were dropped, but Brown hasn’t received as much as an apology from these incompetent goons.

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Department sources identified the officer as Randy Jokela, who has been on the force since 1990 and currently works as a bike officer in the West Precinct, which includes downtown Seattle and Queen Anne.

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Seattle police are investigating the conduct of an officer who has written about 80 percent of all tickets for using marijuana in public this year.

The officer, who has not been identified, allegedly wrote 66 of 83 tickets between January and June, often adding a note requesting the attention of City Attorney Pete Holmes, a vocal supporter of Washington state’s legalization of marijuana, Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said in a statement posted on the department’s website.

Some of the tickets were addressed to “Petey Holmes.”

Marijuana tickets are filed directly in Seattle Municipal Court, not by Holmes’ office. If a ticket is contested, an infractions attorney from Holmes’ office becomes involved.

O’Toole said the matter came to her attention as part of the department’s recent release of its first semi-annual report on marijuana enforcement.

In one case, the officer purportedly used a coin toss to decide which of two people he had stopped would receive a ticket. In another, he allegedly referred to the voter-approved legalization as “silly.”

The matter has been referred to the Police Department’s Office of Professional Accountability, which conducts internal investigations.

The officer has been reassigned to duties other than patrol while the investigation is conducted.

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A settlement has been reached in the case of a University of Virginia student arrested during a botched ABC sting in Charlottesville.

Elizabeth Daly will receive more than $212,500 and a letter from the Alcoholic Beverage Control board explaining the circumstances of her arrest to present to any future employers.

Daly was originally seeking $40 million in a federal lawsuit. Attorney General Mark Herring said the decision came down to being fair to taxpayers. He said, "after careful consideration of the potentially significant costs of taking this case to trial, I believe we have reached such an outcome."

Daly sued the state and seven ABC agents after she was arrested in April 2013 when agents had mistaken sparkling water she and her roommates bought for beer. Daly says the terrifying experience has caused post-traumatic stress.

All charges against Daly were eventually dropped and her record was expunged.

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Residents at the Cherry Tree Hill apartments say they've been shaken after they say Bibb County Deputy Kenneth Brown caused a scene in their neighborhood while allegedly soliciting a 14 year old pregnant girl for sex and pointing a gun in the face of a 19-year-old neighbor who tried to intervene.

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Upon his arrival, he pulled in and parked in my driveway, where King sat on the front porch and began to bark. Only moments later my husband arrived and told King to get in the house, to which King obeyed. Deputy Wells exited his car and informed my husband of the complaint. Deputy Wells then looks over King and proclaimed “Well, it wasn't him. The dog in the complaint is wearing a collar.” He then proceeded to tell my husband that he was about to shoot King, had he not come home when he did. My husband asked “Why would you shoot my dog on my property?” to which Deputy Wells responds “If I feel threatened, I have that right, but, now I see that your dog is not vicious, he is just a mouthy protector.”

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The [same] deputy yelled at King, and king began to bark at him. “Feeling threatened, I removed my 12 gauge shot gun from my patrol car. I continued to yell at the dog to get away and go lay down, but he would not let me get away from my patrol car. Still feeling threatened, I discharged one round of 12 gauge 00 buckshot into the white and brown dog.”

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A federal judge has denied the police unions' bid to intervene in the stop-and-frisk case, paving the way for the city's settlement over the controversial practice to move forward.
In a 105-page decision issued Wednesday, Judge Analisa Torres found the 11th-hour bid by various police unions to get involved in the long-running litigation was "untimely."
The groups didn't have the standing to get involved in the court fight between the city and those who said their constitution rights were violated by the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk in its policing, according to the ruling.
The unions' challenge was the biggest roadblock to enacting a settlement reached between the plaintiffs and the de Blasio administration earlier this year overhauling the way the police use the tactic and agreeing to a court-appointed monitor to make sure those reforms stick.
Mayor de Blasio said the judge’s decision "to formally approve the settlement to resolve the stop-and-frisk litigation is a major step in our efforts to repair police-community relations."
The bitter, years-long court fight between the plaintiffs — minorities who'd been stopped by cops — and the Bloomberg administration resulted in a blistering ruling by Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin last August.


Read more: Judge blocks police unions from getting involved in stop-and-frisk case - NY Daily News

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he Obama administration abandoned a corruption case against an Arizona border patrol agent after his attorney accused federal agents of entrapping his client, and spending federal dollars on strippers, plane tickets, and tickets to a Manny Pacquiao fight as part of their investigation.

A federal judge dismissed money-laundering and corruption charges against Customs and Border Protection agent Lauro Tobias Tuesday in response to dismissal motions from both the Department of Justice and Tobias’ attorney, which were filed within hours of each other July 25.

Tobias, a 10-year veteran of the CBP who also served in the Air Force for two decades, was arrested in March 2013 after he took a trip from Phoenix to Las Vegas for a drug deal — six kilograms of cocaine were exchanged with unnamed persons for $100,000. Tobias was paid $4,000 for working as security during the deal, based on court documents.

Tobias has maintained he did not know the trip was for a drug deal, and that he was assured the exchange was legal.

But, based on court documents, the drug deal wasn’t real: Everyone involved, aside from Tobias, appears to have been a part of a federal task force that has been attempting, with little success, to root out corruption within the Border Patrol along the Arizona-Mexico border.

It’s unclear why the Justice Department abruptly asked for the dismissal the same day as Tobias’ attorney filed his motion.

Justice Department spokesman Cosme Lopez declined to comment on the case, which was the culmination of a multi-year investigation of the Lukeville Port of Entry border crossing by the Southern Arizona Corruption Task Force. The task force is made up of agents from Border Patrol, FBI, Justice Department, IRS, and other federal agencies. The dismissal of the case raises questions about the money and time invested in the task force, which has pursued rooting out systemic corruption on the border since 2010.

According to documents filed with the court, Tobias claimed the federal task force put the fake drug deal into play, as well as supplying the money, drugs, and agents for the various parts in the alleged conspiracy.

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For instance, according to a court motion filed by Tobias’ attorney, department officials would not release certain information about the investigation during discovery, including “an accounting of how much money was spent on this operation by the government … on hotel rooms, air fare, frequenting adult entertainment establishments, rental car costs, restaurant bills, and any other ‘perks’ that were used to implement the operation, such as the Pacquiao fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.” In another example, prosecutors were unwilling to even tell West — the defendant’s attorney — the code name of the investigation.

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Tyler Harney was stopped by police on August 3rd, 2013. As the officers were throwing Harney up against the car, Harney began convulsing uncontrollably as a result of a seizure disorder, according to the lawsuit.

“Rather than immediately provide assistance to plaintiff, he was forced to the ground by the officers, face first,” Harney’s San Francisco-based attorney, David Helbraun, wrote in the 15-page complaint.

“An officer put his knee forcefully against plaintiff’s back and neck. One officer pulled and twisted back on plaintiff’s right arm, and continued to do so, saying, ‘stop, or I’m going to break your arm,’ or words to that effect. The officer then did in fact severely break plaintiff’s arm.”

After the arrest, Harney was taken to Stanford Hospital to be treated for multiple fractures to his left humerus bone. According to the suit, after he was booked into jail, sheriff’s deputies “exhibited deliberate indifference.” His shoulder was not properly immobilized and he was not given the proper pain medication.

The suit alleges that Harney was deprived of his state and federal constitutional rights “to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, to be free from wrongful government interference with his freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association, and to be free from bodily restraint and harm from personal insult and injury to personal relations.”

The lawsuit also claims that Harney is innocent of the crimes he was arrested for: battery on a police officer and resisting or obstructing a police officer. “At all material times, plaintiff acted peacefully and lawfully, never threatened any person, and never interfered with any police officer.”

Since this incident Harney has undergone multiple surgeries on his arm for which he is seeking unspecified damages. He also suffered a sprained wrist, ankle pain from tight shackles, nerve damage to his left arm and hand, and bruises all over his body.

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The Albuquerque Police Department says it turns out it doesn't need a massive armored vehicle that the city obtained as military surplus and plans to dispose of it.

Albuquerque was among numerous law enforcement agencies across the country that obtained some of the many mine-resistant and ambush-protected vehicles that the military procured for the Iraq and Afghan wars.

Police Department spokesman Janet Blair says Albuquerque got its 14-foot-tall, 22.5-ton vehicle eight months ago but has not used it in the field.

According to the Albuquerque Journal, Blair says the department has other armored vehicles it can use for SWAT team deployments instead of the mine-resistant vehicle.

Blair said the department will work with the state to find a new owner for the vehicle.

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Apparently, "I tested positive for cocaine because I rubbed some unknown 'sex-aid cream' on my genitals that was given to me by a friend who got it from some 'old Cuban guy'" is a suitable defense for a Florida cop to get his job back.

At least, that's what the arbitrator for a grievance hearing about a cop's firing ruled when he told the city to reinstate Miami Beach Police Detective Reinaldo Casas.

Last year Detective Casas tested positive for cocaine and was subsequently fired. But Casas said he had "never knowingly used cocaine."

Instead, he claims the cocaine must have been absorbed into his blood through "an erection-enhancing cream he applied to his genitals."

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Overall pretty happy how the officers handled our refusal to ID the passenger. Not sure why it takes 4 officers and 2 cars to stop a car with a headlight out... but at least our rights weren't trampled on.

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Police and FBI agents investigating the disappearance and death of 14-year-old April Millsap haven’t solved the case, but they did manage to stage an unrelated marijuana raid (priorities, you know) and impose a blockade around the entire town of Armada, Michigan.

According to WXYZ-TV, “The FBI and Armada Police are stopping every vehicle attempting to enter or leave the Village of Armada. Agents and officers are marking an X on the hands of everyone they have spoken to.”

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A Brooklyn cop crossed the line when he cracked a suspect in the head with a baton, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Officer Keith Dsouza violated NYPD guidelines and used unjustified and potentially deadly physical force against Ryan Scails when he and his partner busted him for public urination in Red Hook on July 5, 2012, said Heather Cook, a Civilian Complaint Review Board prosecutor.

“There was never a deadly physical force threat to these officers — never,” Cook said at Dsouza’s administrative trial at NYPD headquarters.

“[Dsouza] hit him in the head, and he knew he wasn’t supposed to him in the head. He got in more than one whack on his head.”

Scails filed a complaint with the CCRB, which substantiated it, leading to the trial.

Dsouza, who has seven years on the force and could lose at least a week’s pay if found guilty, testified he and his partner, Officer Fernando Lopes, chased Scails for three blocks after they saw him relieving himself against a building. He said Scails resisted arrest and prevented Lopes from handcuffing him.

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Scails, a 24-year-old arts student at the time, needed stitches to repair wounds on his right leg and behind his right ear. The charges against him — resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and public urination — were later dismissed.

In addition to the CCRB complaint, he filed a civil rights lawsuit, which is pending.

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The store window designer says she heard someone from an unmarked van yell at her friend and her for jay-walking in Greenwich Village last Friday. She yelled back. She says she had no idea she had just tossed an F-bomb at an NYPD Officer.

"I didn't even know he was an officer. There were tinted windows," said Stephanie Maldonado.

But Stephanie Maldonado says by then it was too late , she claims the officer came at her in a fit of rage.

"He grabs me and puts me in handcuffs and then with handcuffs already, I feel my arm, he just throws me on the floor." She continues, "With his knee he put all his weight on my face that's why I have all these abrasions, please you are hurting me, you are hurting me."

The injuries, Stephanie says expose the brutal force allegedly used against her handcuffed, 120 pound body.

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Soon after being arrested, Stephanie was taken by ambulance to Beth Israel Medical Center where doctors treated her for a fractured hand, broken teeth, and facial bruises.

It's also where officers from Internal Affairs came to visit to take pictures of her injuries and ask her questions about the arresting officer, Eric Duval of the 6th Precinct.

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"Officer Duval approached me; he grabs me picks me up off the ground and slams me face-first into the ground, knocking my teeth out," said Michael Gjenvick.

Gjenvick tells a similar story after he claims he was falsely arrested a few years ago by the same NYPD Officer Eric Duval.

"I was screaming very similar comments, Why are you arresting me? What are you doing? What is going on right now? Not really getting any response other than him shoving my face into the ground," adds Gjenvick.

Pictures show a handcuffed Gjenvick bleeding from his mouth, teeth broken when slammed face first into the sidewalk.

Four months ago, without admitting any wrongdoing, the city paid Gjenvick $207,000 to settle a lawsuit against Officer Duval and two fellow officers.

"Police officers like this need to go to jail, there needs to be a course of action against them," adds Gjenvick.

Now after her encounter with Officer Duval, Stephanie Maldonado has months painful physical therapy and dental surgeries ahead. She wants the NYPD to do something before it happens to someone else.

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Troopers say 18-year-old Sebastian Reyes, a cadet in the commercial vehicle enforcement division, was driving an unmarked SUV on a routine assignment.
Police say Reyes used a crossover for emergency vehicles to head in the opposition direction.

Officers say Reyes lost control of the vehicle and sideswiped a car driven by 59-year-old Karen Holt-Williams of Temple Hills.

Authorities say Holt-Williams' car traveled across the interstate and hit a jersey wall. Reyes' SUV hit another car.

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Last week's exoneration not only clears Phillips' name and his credit report, it will also make him a wealthy man.

Texas law awards an exoneree $80,000 for each year of wrongful incarceration, so Phillips will get a lump sum of $960,000 and then $80,000 a year for as long as he lives.

Texas also offers exonerees state-run health insurance and a free education, if they choose.

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An LAPD K-9 has been suspended after attacking an LAPD officer that was part of a frantic search for a LAPD motorcycle officer’s missing a loaded tactical shotgun.

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McSweeney said the confusion occurred after the parolee traded gunfire with deputies who were trying to arrest him and broke into Mendoza's home through a back window. Deputies went to the front door to evacuate the residents when the parolee fired at them. The deputies had to run for cover, and within seconds a man ran out of the door.

McSweeney said a deputy fired at the man who turned out to be Mendoza.

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An off-duty Portland police officer is accused of assaulting a teen at an RV park in Washington.

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Investigators contacted everyone involved and learned there was a physical confrontation involving a 17-year-old boy from Battle Ground and Jason Pearce, 43, a sergeant with the Portland Police Bureau.

Deputies said the incident stemmed from inappropriate comments made by the teen toward Pearce's daughter.

Pearce told the teen to return to his campsite, but a Klickitat County Sheriff's Office report said the teen became confrontational.

Investigators said during an ensuing fight, the teen sustained injuries to his face and neck.

Pearce told deputies he was acting in self-defense. Investigators said alcohol was involved, but they were not more specific about who had been drinking.

Deputies said the case is being forwarded to the Klickitat County Prosecutor's Office with the recommendation that Pearce be charged with second-degree assault, a felony.

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Investigators said another Portland officer was at the scene with Pearce, but was not directly involved in the altercation.

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A former central Indiana police officer has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole nearly $150,000 from a company for which he transported cash.

Former Frankfort police Lt. Randy Emery avoided jail time as a judge sentenced him to three years of probation and ordered him to pay $110,000 in restitution.

Emery was arrested in February on charges he stole at least $147,000 from Good Oil Co., which had hired him to transport cash from a gas station near Frankfort to a bank.

The Times of Frankfort reports Emery told the judge he used the money to support a gambling addiction for which he's since sought treatment.

Police Chief Troy Bacon tells the Journal & Courier that Emery is keeping his pension because his retirement halted the department's internal investigation.

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The NYPD has been hit with a federal lawsuit by a Brooklyn family that claims cops bullied a diabetic teen who was denied insulin while falsely locked up on attempted murder charges.

Richard Gonzalez’s family said the only evidence cops had to tie the 14-year-old special-ed student to an April shooting at Foot Locker in Bushwick were eyewitnesses who told them the gunman was named “Richie.”

When police got the frightened boy alone in a men’s room at the 83rd Precinct, “with balled fists” they “tried to manipulate him into confessing,” the family’s lawyer Carmen Giordano wrote in court papers filed in Brooklyn federal court.

“You going down,” one of them said, according to the lawsuit.

“I was scared,” Gonzalez told The Daily News on Friday.

His condition is so serious that he wears an electronic pump programmed to administer doses of insulin every hour, the lawsuit says.

But Giordano said police removed the pump and threatened to throw the boy’s mom, Divian Ramos, out of the stationhouse when she objected to them questioning her son without Ramos present.

While Ramos was later allowed to bring the boy food and test his blood sugar levels, Giordano said once the teenager was charged with attempted murder she was not allowed anywhere near him.

By the time Gonzalez appeared before a judge, his sugar levels were so high he was gagging, dizzy, weak and nauseous, the suit asserts.

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Best of all: The vehicle, logging only 4,000 miles and used solely for training at Dayton’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, didn’t cost area taxpayers a single cent via acquisition.

“In this tough economic time, we have a hard enough time trying to figure out ways to pay for new cruisers,” Norwalk police Chief Dave Light said. “We found it. We saw it. We wanted it. It was just luck of the draw we got one of the 12 offered.”

After inscribing Norwalk’s name and logo on it, officials thus far have invested about $2,200 of local taxpayers dollars into the vehicle.

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A Brooklyn grandmother who had just taken a shower was dragged from her apartment by about 12 cops who then stood by for more than two minutes while she was naked in the hallway, according to video that emerged Friday.

Denise Stewart was in her Brownsville apartment on July 13 when police — responding to a domestic disturbance call at the building — pounded on her door at 11:45 p.m. and demanded entry.

Stewart, 48, cracked the door wearing only a towel wrapped around her body and underpants — and was yanked into the hallway by cops over the screams of her family and neighbors.

The video shows a chaotic scene as a dozen or so male officers burst into Stewart’s apartment, while several others struggle to subdue and cuff the nearly naked woman in the hallway outside.

Stewart’s towel got lost in the scuffle, leaving the grandmother dressed only in underpants.

“Oxygen, get my oxygen,” the mother of four can be heard saying to the cops, as they propped her bare body against the wall.

A cop shouts, “OK, OK,” and darts out of the screen.

Neighbors videotaping from the stairwell started shouting as Stewart, who has severe asthma, fainted and fell to the floor.

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The NYPD said they’d gotten a 911 call to the Kings Highway address but didn’t have an apartment number.

They heard shouts coming from Stewart’s apartment. When they knocked, she told them they had the wrong place and tried to shut the door, police said.

Stewart’s 12-year-old daughter had “visible injuries” to her face, cops said. She told officers her mother and older sister beat her with a belt, police said.

Family members tried to prevent them from arresting Stewart, who bit an officer’s finger during the struggle, police said.

Stewart's lawyer, Amy Rameau, said she was told by a Legal Aid attorney also assigned to the case that the 911 call came from a different apartment on an upper floor — and cops went to Stewart’s door by mistake.

Cops removed the 12-year-old from the apartment and say she refused to get into the police car and kicked the door. A police spokesman said the child kicked out one of the police van’s windows, with the broken glass cutting the chin of one of the cops. The cops were treated at local hospitals and released.

Denise Stewart was charged with assaulting a police officer, and — along with her oldest daughter, Diamond Stewart, 20, — resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child and criminal possession of a weapon.

Stewart’s son Kirkland Stewart, 24, was charged with resisting arrest. The 12-year-old was charged with assaulting a police officer, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon.

Diamond Stewart’s 4-year-old son was also pepper sprayed, the family said.

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NBC4 has been investigating the suspension of a local police chief, and new details show that suspension could be related to an internal investigation, and an investigation by the Department Of Justice (DOJ).

Matt Mitchell was arrested in April for a misdemeanor and ended up in critical condition in the hospital with a head injury. Then, on Monday, Chillicothe Police Chief Roger Moore was suspended by the mayor. Mitchell’s attorney Bret Adams said he thinks the two could be related.

“This wasn’t an issue of police brutality. This was an assault. Mr. Mitchell was in handcuffs, wasn’t resisting, he certainly was belligerent and not respectful,” Adams said.

Chillicothe police cruiser and jail video obtained by NBC4 shows a police officer taking Mitchell out of his cruiser and into the pat-down area, but not without a struggle and a vulgar verbal assault on the officer during the ride to the jail.

“Do you think I’m scared of you dude? Take your badge off,” Mitchell taunted the officer.

Adams said that when Mitchell was removed from the cruiser, his head was slammed into the floor, causing a brain injury.

“That doesn’t warrant a complete takedown, resulting in the type of injuries he experienced,” Adams said.

An internal investigation by the Chillicothe police in April cleared the officer of any wrongdoing.

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Suffolk's largest police union has settled with the county a lawsuit the union filed last year that sought to force officials to uphold a state law forbidding public disclosure of personnel and internal affairs investigations of its police officers.

County attorney Dennis Brown confirmed this week that the suit was settled in June.
The lawsuit, filed Oct. 25, asked the county to enforce a state statute that protects officers' personnel files. It was filed on behalf of the 1,600-member Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association and its president, Noel DiGerolamo.

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In a complaint received by 9NEWS Tuesday, Meeker claims she was taken hostage by a man with a gun while at work at the assisted living center in Carbondale. Meeker says the gunman held her against her will while she begged for her life.

According to the complaint, what she did not know at the time was that the man with the gun was a Carbondale police officer, and it was all a part of an active shooter drill that was taking place.

Meeker claims that she was not informed of the training and suffered severe mental and emotional distress since the incident.

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When Waterbury's Emergency Response Team set out to arrest two suspects in a home-invasion case early this month, they went in force: Two heavily armored trucks led a convoy of officers to nab the suspects at a house on Laurel Street.

The mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles used in the raid were acquired for free by Watertown and Waterbury, which are among 11 Connecticut police departments to own such gear.

Watertown Police Sgt. Curt Molnar said his department shares its MRAP as a regional vehicle with Waterbury, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Wolcott and Middlebury.

"You hope not to use it much, because it could mean there's a shooter or a serious call," Molnar said.

Watertown acquired the $733,000 armored vehicle through the federal Defense Logistics Agency's 1033 program, which allows law enforcement agencies to receive surplus military property through their state coordinating office.

The program stems from the National Defense Authorization Act in the '90s, which allows law enforcement agencies to acquire property with a preference given to counter-drug and counter-terrorism requests. All law enforcement agencies have to pay for is transportation or shipping costs.

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A Department of Veterans Affairs police officer who says that the East Orange facility is haunted is fighting the federal government's attempt to fire him, according to a report on NYPost.com.

Valdo Vaher, a 48-year-old Rockland County, N.Y. resident, was put on modified duty and had his gun stripped earlier this year after allegedly "making bizarre statements and displaying unusual behaviors," according to a letter from VA Deputy Police Chief Bernais McNeil obtained by the Post.

Vaher told the website ghosts are real and "more likely to show themselves around hospitals."

He is a a retired Army sergeant and former lieutenant in the New York National Guard who is a citizen of both the United States and Estonia.

Vaher was fired, but in 2013 a judge ordered him re-hired. That's when he was assigned to the East Orange VA facility. He has since been moved to another site in New Jersey, according to the Post.

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A Mesa police officer is under arrest, accused of molesting multiple victims. One of them is believed to be under 15 years old.

Justin Cherry, 34, is accused of inappropriately touching two women and a child under the age of 15 during searches while they were in police custody last year.

Cherry has been on administrative leave for the past year as Mesa police investigated. A grand jury indicted him on July 31, 2014, and the afternoon of Aug. 1, Cherry surrendered.

He is in jail without bond. All three charges are Class 2 felonies. Cherry has been working for Mesa police since 2001.

The Mesa Police Department sent us a statement saying they believe it's an isolated incident and put him on leave as soon as the first complaint was made. They also said they won't tolerate acts of this nature.

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A Weirton police officer was discovered to have been driving on a suspended license after an investigation into a weekend accident.

According to reports, on Saturday morning at approximately 5 a.m., a Weirton police officer was involved in a single-vehicle accident at the intersection of Weir Avenue and Cove Road, severely damaging the patrol vehicle.

During the course of the accident investigation it was discovered the patrol officer was driving on a suspended license.

Patrolman Robert J. Ryan was cited for driving while suspended through Weirton Municipal Court.

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Theophilus D. Hamilton, acquitted in the brutal beating in 2008 that put Brian Lanese in intensive care for a month with head injuries, seeks undisclosed damages and alleges unlawful arrest, abuse of process and defamation. His trial is to begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Beaufort County Courthouse in Beaufort and is expected to last through the week. Hamilton and his former co-defendant in the criminal case, Harry Chris Battle Jr. of Bluffton, filed the suit in 2011.

Only Hamilton will take the civil case to court, as Battle accepted an undisclosed settlement from the county in January 2013, according to court records. County attorney Josh Gruber was out of the office Monday but said he would release the amount of the settlement Tuesday.

Hamilton turned down a $30,000 offer from the county, according to attorney Mary Lohr, who is representing the county.

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NORWALK — The attorney for a Norwalk man who suffered multiple injuries during a 2012 arrest has filed a $10 million lawsuit in Federal court against the City of Norwalk and four Norwalk police officers alleging civil rights violations.

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According to the lawsuit to be filed, Greene was visiting a friend at 16 School St. when a black vehicle with tinted windows pulled up next to him and the four defendants, all dressed in black exited the vehicle and began asking him questions.

"At no point in time did the individual defendants identify themselves as police officers, nor were the individual defendants wearing and/or displaying any clothing or badging that identified them as such. At that point, and for no reason, defendant Mulkern attempted to 'pat down' the plaintiff."

The complaint further alleges that the fearful plaintiff ran from the scene and the police officers engaged in a foot pursuit. During the foot pursuit, the suit further alleges that a gun was pointed at Greene and he was Tasered.

"The plaintiff tired, Tasered, and staggering fell with his arms outstretched ...Thereafter Defendant Luciano rolled the Plaintiff over on his back, placed his knees on the Plaintiff's outstretched arms, sat on the Plaintiff's chest, and beat the Plaintiff's head and face numerous times with closed fists and elbows," according to the complaint.

According to a police report dated July 19, 2012 police say: "We were dressed in black Raid type uniforms with 'POLICE' in bright yellow letters, making us immediately identifiable as Norwalk Police Officers."

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At a Friday morning press conference attended by Greene, Russell, attorney Todd Haase, and private investigator William Smith, Russell said, "Exactly two years ago today Cody was accosted by four people in civilian clothes who demanded he submit to a search. When he ran away, he was chased and when he was caught he was Tasered and beat up...His injuries are prodigious and are outlined in the complaint. They are life-altering injuries and this is a tragedy."

Among the injuries to Greene claimed in the complaint are: Left orbital fracture, left upper and lower jaw fractures; fractured nose and septum; left eye hemorrhage; hemorrhage in posterior temporal lobe of brain; cerebral concussion and traumatic brain injury; stuttering disorder; post traumatic stress disorder; nerve damage to face and nose; post traumatic headaches and insomnia; facial numbness, impaired balance and gait; and deficits in attention, concentration, word finding, detail orientation, and short term memory.

The lawsuit alleges that, "The Plaintiff's injuries, or some of them, will be permanent in nature and/or permanently disabling."

"Because of the injuries sustained, the Plaintiff was transported to Norwalk Hospital via ambulance, placed in a medically induced coma, placed in intensive care, and remained in the hospital for four days," according to the complaint.

Greene was charged at the time with two felonies: Possession with intent to sell, a possession of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school or housing complex, and four misdemeanors: Two counts of interfering with a police officer, possession of a controlled substance; and criminal trespass.

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"The unlawful possession charge was based on marijuana that was found in a window well of the complex, and the interference charges were based on injuries the officers sustained in the chase," Russell said. "Cody was cleared of most charges and was placed in a diversionary program for minor offenders."

"The officers were cleared in an internal investigation," Russell said.

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After Officer Darren Ilardi fatally struck 24-year-old Ryo Oyamada with his police cruiser in Queensbridge last year, the NYPD purposefully destroyed evidence, failed to properly investigate the crash, and engaged in a "cover-up," according to a set of recently filed court documents.

Officers responding to the scene dispersed all eyewitnesses, failed to measure skid marks, and did not check Ilardi's cell phone records to determine if he was using his phone when he struck the 24-year-old student outside a deli near the intersection of 40th Avenue and 10th Street, the filings claim.

The filings contain redactions because law enforcement techniques and personnel files of city employees are usually given protection by the court, but they suggest that the NYPD destroyed video evidence of the crash itself:
When Ilardi and his partner were interviewed by the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau shortly after the collision, those officers "set about changing the testimony of the sole remaining known eyewitness to the crash other than Ilardi—Ilardi's partner, Police Officer Carman," the attorney for the Oyamada family, Steve Vaccaro, writes in the filing.

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