The Texas cop who unlawfully searched the car of a PINAC correspondent while he was incarcerated for recording a police memorial last year was indicted on a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge Thursday.
Galveston Police Sergeant Archie Chapman faces up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The folks in Louisiana love St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Captain Clay Higgins and his viral Crime Stopper videos. They love his tough talk and criminal shaming delivered to his audience with a Cajun flair and a compassion for both the victim and the suspects he profiles.
In an embarrassing Constitutional setback for the American judicial system, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled on Friday that citizens do not have the First Amendment right to record police in public.
That is, unless those citizens are telling the cops to go fuck themselves.
Then it’s protected speech.
That’s the twisted logic coming from Judge Mark A. Kearney, a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, who’s been on the bench a little more than a year.
A Pennsylvania cop let his dog out and the results weren’t pretty, demonstrating the danger of police K9s interacting with cops who aren’t trained to work with dogs.
Butler City Officer Dave Vilotti‘s K9 partner – a German Shepard named Blade – bit Butler Township Officer Justin Welton in the leg while serving a criminal warrant, because Officer Vilotti let his dog off the leash while serving a warrant.
PINAC reporter Jeff Gray conducted a public records audit at the town hall of Penney Farms last month, a tiny town in North Florida known more for its retirement community than its farms that describes itself as “one of the best kept secrets” in the state.
And judging by town clerk Anita Cooper’s refusal to comply with one of his request, it’s certainly living up to that promise.
The basic premise of Florida’s Public Records Act is that the public has a right to access any records dealing with official government business. Its purpose is to promote public awareness and knowledge of government actions to ensure the government remains accountable to the people.
Law enforcement officers are still not saying much about shooting the wrong man during a botched raid on the wrong mobile home over the weekend, but now we’re learning they confiscated a phone from the victim’s little brother who witnessed the shooting.
United States Marshals shot and killed the wrong man in the wrong trailer before turning their attention to the right trailer and arresting the right man early Saturday morning in New Mexico.
But now they are not admitting any wrongdoing.
However, 23-year-old Edgar Alvarado was shot dead before they eventually nabbed 25-year-old murder suspect George Bond.
Alvarado lived in trailer number 26 in the West Central trailer park in Albuquerque.
Bond was hiding out in trailer number 29, which was three trailers down.
Ramsey Orta stands ironically accused of “criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation” under New York Penal Code 121.11 as well as two felony counts of armed robbery and weapons charges plus two new misdemeanors, according to
An NYPD cop was busted for pimping women across state lines while employed on Staten Island as a cop.
Veteran New York cop Eduardo Cornejo was fired on January 15 for failing a drug test and smoking weed, before being picked up for his activities running a prostitution ring.
Cornejo is reportedly a military veteran, his wife is a sergeant with NYPD too.
The couple is recently separated.
