A disgraced Fire captain in Tampa pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $200,000 from Hope’s Children Home – a charity his father began for abandoned kids.
Alfred Schaffer, 50, pleaded guilty to federal charges and is facing up to 20 years in the slammer.
According to Tampa Fire Rescue spokesman Jason Penny, Schaffer was fired from his current position on Monday.
Two more Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies were sentenced to prison today after a federal judge refused to give them leniency because of their law enforcement status.
Deputy Sussie Ayala received a six-year sentence while deputy Fernando Luviano received a seven-year sentence.
The Orland Police Department in Illinois has settled a lawsuit, paying out $12,000 for violating and not responding to Freedom of Information Act requests by local watchdogs.
Also, the Orland Park Public Library settled a lawsuit for $55,000 for the same reason.
The city of Fullerton agreed to pay $4.9 million to the father of Kelly Thomas, the mentally ill homeless man who was viciously beaten to death by police in a shocking video made even more shocking that the officers were acquitted.
The incident took place in 2011 and Thomas’ father, Ron Thomas, filed the suit a year later.
But it was not until the day of the trial that the city council folded, agreeing to the settlement.
After more than a decade of accusations of abusing citizens, falsifying reports and planting drugs and weapons, the Michigan police officer known as Robocop was convicted today, putting an end to his less than stellar law enforcement career.
And it was only because the incident was captured on dash cam video.
William Melendez, who was fired from the Inkster Police Department in April after a dash cam video surfaced showing him pull over and beat a man named Floyd Dent, was found guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and of misconduct in office.
A California state attorney was arguing with another attorney in court when a bailiff walked up to her, ordered her out, then grabbed her by the wrists and swung her to the floor.
Her crime: “speaking loudly” and “acting in an unprofessional manner” towards the opposing attorney.
Apparently, this bailiff hasn’t learned that is routine behavior for attorneys.
The incident took place October 20, but video of the incident was released this week.
Philip White, an 80-year-old blind man, was harassed and assaulted by two law enforcement officers in 2012.
Today, he is more than $400,000 richer as a result of that attack.
All because a Denver police officer named Kyllion Chafin took offense after the blind man asked to feel his badge to ensure he was truly a cop.
Not only did Chafin refuse to allow White to feel his badge, the cop forced White’s hands behind his back and pushed him forward, resulting in White’s head being slammed into a hard ticket counter.
A Colorado cop is coming under fire after a mentally disabled woman is accusing him of having sex with her while she was drunk.
Denver police officer Travis Jackson was suspended on Tuesday by the Denver Civil Service Commission for 20 days but to the dismay of many not for sexual misconduct.
You would think the body cam footage showing a Pennsylvania police officer repeatedly tasering a convulsing man while yelling at him to stop moving – then shooting him dead when he was unable to stop moving due to the 50,000 volts of electricity ripping through his body – would have been sufficient evidence to convict Hummelstown police officer Lisa Mearkle of murder last week.
A Kentucky judge dismissed an entire jury because all the jurors were white.
In a judicial system where race is contentious, Judge Olu Stevens sought a mixed-raced jury. Studies have shown that all-white juries have the tendency to convict ethnicities that are not caucasian.
