"A former Navajo Police Department officer has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for sexually abusing a woman in his custody in 2009. Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., say 31-year-old Lawrence Etsitty received a 54-month prison term Tuesday followed by three years of supervised release. He also will be barred from serving in law enforcement." Continue reading →
"A former top law enforcement official who helped lead the local crusade against child sexual exploitation was sentenced Friday to a little under six years in prison on a child pornography charge. Anthony V. Mangione, who headed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's South Florida office for four years, possessed up to 150 images of child pornography, some depicting the 'extreme abuse of children,' according to federal prosecutors." Continue reading →
"A former Portland police officer has entered a guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography in federal court and will be sentenced in February. The officer who once worked registering others as sex offenders will have to register as a sex offender himself, under a plea agreement he signed." Continue reading →
"The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested a suspended Milan police officer Monday on 24 counts of sexual misconduct. A Gibson County grand jury indicted Adam Scott Martin, of Atwood, on 18 counts of rape, one count of incest, one count of aggravated sexual battery, one count of sexual battery by an authority figure and three counts of sexual battery, after a TBI investigation. Martin, 39, initially was arrested in July on one count of sexual battery by an authority figure against a 19-year-old woman. The July charge was included in Monday’s indictment and involves the same victim." Continue reading →
"Former Colorado Springs Police officer Josh Carrier has been found guilty on dozens of counts related to molesting boys at a middle school in the city, where he served as a volunteer wrestling coach. Carrier was found guilty on 34 counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, 12 counts of unlawful sexual contact, 22 counts of child enticement and three counts of sexual exploitation. The jury found him not guilty on several other charges. He was found guilty on 21 counts of sexual exploitation back in March." Continue reading →
"The last of three former Jackson police officers charged in a bribery case has pleaded guilty. The three men were indicted on charges of accepting bribes to protect drug shipments. It turned out the men they thought were drug dealers were really FBI agents. Anthony Ricardo Payne changed his plea to guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, one week before his trial was to begin. Two other former officers, Monyette Quintel Jefferson and Terence Dale Jenkins, pleaded guilty Oct. 17. Their sentencing is Jan. 7, however, it may be pushed to Feb. 28, to coincide with Payne's sentencing hearing. " Continue reading →
"Sarasota Police Officer Scott Patrick is out a job after he was caught three months ago on video beating and choking a man outside a Sarasota nightclub. The video, released by a Sarasota judge Wednesday, shows Officer Patrick throwing punch after punch after punch. Then he appears to choke the man being held down by a number of officers. According to Sarasota Police detectives, Officer Patrick admitted hitting Jason Dragash ten times in the face and choking him unconscious during his arrest for disorderly intoxication. The video was taken August 4th by security cameras outside Club Ivory on Main Street in Sarasota." Continue reading →
"Interior Secretary Ken Salazar threatened to punch a reporter on a recent trip to Colorado, according to witnesses. Salazar took two questions from Dave Philipps, a reporter from the Colorado Springs Gazette, before disagreeing with his line of questioning. 'Don't you ever ... You know what, you do that again... I'll punch you out,' Salazar reportedly told Philipps before ending the interview and walking off. The alleged incident took place when Salazar was in Colorado on Election Day, on behalf of the Obama campaign. 'The secretary regrets the exchange,' Interior spokesman Blake Androff told POLITICO." Continue reading →
"A popular New Year’s celebration that draws thousands of tourists to the tiny North Carolina town of Brasstown for a party that ends in a 'possum drop' may no longer be held there, a judge ruled. The 18-year tradition in the town of 240 consisted of lowering the animal to the ground at midnight in a see-through cage decked out in Christmas garlands, like the ball that is dropped in New York’s Times Square — except the possum is alive. The judge ruled that a sportsman’s license held by Clay Logan, who hosts the event, allowed him to take the animal from the wild, but not to possess and exhibit it." Continue reading →
"Police were searching for an armed suspect when the Oct. 7 incident took place. They said Chris Schulte, who lives in the area and was walking with his dog, Teela, in the direction of the search area, refused their orders to stop. Schulte admitted 'I was just walking on,' but said the dog never behaved aggressively. Schulte was arrested and charged with obstructing police and resisting arrest." Continue reading →