Police State

That dog may cost you $100,000 a day

"Under the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board's draft rules, ordinary homeowners may face six years in prison and fines of $100,000 a day if they are deemed serial offenders of such new crimes as allowing sprinklers to hit the pavement, washing a car in the driveway, or, conceivably, failing to pick up dog poop promptly from their own backyards, let alone the sidewalk. Cities throughout San Diego, south Orange and southwest Riverside counties must enforce the law, and set up 24-hour hot lines for people to report violations by their neighbors." Continue reading →

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Homeless man jailed for charging phone in park

"A homeless man spent the night in jail Sunday after police arrested him for charging his cellphone in a public picnic shelter at Gillespie Park. Darren Kersey, 28, was charged with theft of utilities after Sarasota Police Sgt. Anthony Frangioni spotted him charging his phone at about 9:20 p.m. Sunday. Unable to come up with the $500 bail for the misdemeanor, Kersey had no choice but to stay in jail." Continue reading →

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Sheriff’s Deputy Pleads Guilty in DWI Crash

"An Erie County Sheriff's Deputy pleaded guilty Monday in connection with a crash that left a motorcyclist with a serious traumatic brain injury. Michael Haug, 29, admitted to being drunk when he struck 37-year-old Daniel Colosimo of Tonawanda on August 4th. Colosimo was stopped at a red light at Sheridan and Bailey in Amherst at the time. Haug's BAC (blood alcohol content) was .25%, more than three times the legal limit." Continue reading →

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Flint Township police officer fired for second time in less than one year

"Township Supervisor Karyn Miller confirmed Officer Matthew Needham had also been terminated in November 2011 for violating four department rules and regulations, but she declined to give details on what specific incidents led to each vote. The issue leading to the second vote was 'a different incident,' Miller said, unrelated to the violations leading to the first termination. She noted 'there has been no union activity since the meeting.'" Continue reading →

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Elmore City Police Chief Says He Was Fired Over ‘Ticket Quota’

"An Elmore City police chief says he was fired for not writing enough tickets. The former chief says he was told by the mayor there was a ticket quota and when he refused to meet it, he was let go. News 9 checked with an attorney who says ticket quotas are illegal and a violation of a police officer's oath. But the former chief and others who used to work for the city tell News 9 the mayor made it clear, he expected a certain amount of tickets to be written every day." Continue reading →

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Ex-Michigan cop gets life in girlfriend’s death

"A disgraced, former Michigan police officer was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for the strangulation death of his pregnant girlfriend that was intended to appear as a suicide. Kenneth Bluew also received 65 to 100 years in prison for the death of Jennifer Webb’s unborn son as Saginaw County Circuit Court Judge Darnell Jackson exceeded sentencing guidelines on an assault charge related to the fetus." Continue reading →

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Ex-Navajo police officer sentenced for sex abuse

"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 →

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Former top fed official sentenced to 70 months for child porn

"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 →

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Former Portland Sex Offender Bureau officer pleads guilty to receipt of child pornography

"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 →

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Milan officer indicted on 24 counts of sexual misconduct

"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 →

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