Recent News From The Homeland Atrocity Department

Recent News From The Homeland Atrocity Department

NOTICE:  All persons, except those whom the government decides to secretly detain, torture or assassinate, are presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law, even if there is a videotape and many eyewitnesses, especially if the accused actually works for the government.

Dallas officer arrested on bribery charges
WFAA (subscription), TX - 4 hours ago
Hasty, who works in the Southwest Division, has had previous problems with the department. In 1995, he was fired for driving a stolen ...


Double duty: officer arrested for other work
News 9 San Antonio, TX - 6 hours ago
A grand jury indicted a San Antonio Police sergeant Wednesday for moonlighting on city time. Sgt. Dale Sanders was accused of being ...


Officer accused of using city gas card for his personal car
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 16 hours ago
... City Court. That is a day after the scheduled preliminary hearing for another Pittsburgh police officer arrested this week. Robert ...


Police officer arrested for string of violent incidents in Asian ...
CourtTV - May 12, 2004
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Hmong-American police officer was arrested on suspicion of carrying out two drive-by shootings that were ...


Memphis Police Officer Indicted For Statutory Rape
WREG, TN - 8 minutes ago
MEMPHIS, TN – The Shelby County Grand Jury has indicted a Memphis Police officer for statutory rape. Clifford Allen, 45, was indicted ...


Correctional officer indicted in murder-for-hire plot
Boston Globe, MA - May 12, 2004
BOSTON (AP) A correctional officer in the Bristol County Sheriff's Office has been indicted in an alleged plot to kill the mother of his 3-year-old son. ...


LMPD Officer Indicted on Rape Charges
WDRB, KY - May 11, 2004
A Louisville metro police officer has been indicted on charges he raped a woman in early January. Billy Ray White is accused of ...


Former Nashua Street Jail Officer Sentenced For Beating Of ...
PR Newswire (press release) - 21 hours ago
BOSTON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- A former Nashua Street Jail officer was sentenced today for a violation of criminal civil rights law related to the deliberate ...


Second Fleas officer sentenced
Allentown Morning Call, PA - May 12, 2004
By Tom Coombe. Russell Hixon came to court Tuesday prepared to receive a jail sentence. And federal Judge Franklin Van Antwerpen ...


Former officer sentenced to 8 years in prison
Quad City Times, IA - May 10, 2004
By Kay Luna. MORRISON, Ill. — A former Whiteside County juvenile probation officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison ...


Juvenile court officer pleads guilty to shooting self; blaming ...
WHAS 11.com (subscription), KY - 9 hours ago
A Louisville juvenile court officer will spend the next five years on probation. He pleaded guilty to false reporting. Wednesday ...


Chelmsford officer pleads innocent in DARE thefts
Lowell Sun, MA - May 11, 2004
By TOM SPOTH, Sun Staff. CAMBRIDGE A Chelmsford police officer pleaded innocent yesterday to charges that he stole at least $30,000 ...


Reading Officer Charged in Fraud
WPVI, PA - 7 hours ago
READING, PA-May 13, 2004 — Officials have charged a veteran Reading police sergeant with bilking his elderly father out of $48,000. ...



Attack charge brings loss of police powers
Chicago Tribune (subscription), IL - 10 hours ago
CHICAGO -- A Chicago police officer charged with aggravated battery in an attack on a man in Lake Geneva, Wis., two weeks ago was stripped of his police powers ...


Metro Briefs
Louisville Courier Journal, KY - May 12, 2004
... investigating. A suspended Louisville Metro Police officer charged with rape was indicted yesterday by a Jefferson County grand jury. ...


City police officer charged with sexual assault on girl
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - May 11, 2004
A veteran Pittsburgh police officer was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl over an 18-month period. ...



Police officer charged with harassment, suspended
Kingston Daily Freeman, NY - May 11, 2004
By William J. Kemble , Correspondent. SHANDAKEN - Town police Officer Douglas Hoyt has been suspended after being charged with aggravated ...


State Supreme Court, Manhattan:
Newsday, NY - May 11, 2004
... Continued hearings in case of Edguardo Rodriguez, NYPD officer charged with stealing a credit card from an inmate; Justice Blumenfeld; L4; 125-01 Queens Blvd.


Officer's bribery trial gets underway
Allentown Morning Call, PA - May 11, 2004
Opening arguments are set to begin today in a case against a former Lansford police officer charged with accepting a $3,500 bribe for not filing drunken ...


New York Officers Ask for Jobs Back After Broomstick Attack
Officer.com - 4 hours ago
Two police officers fired after the brutal broomstick attack on Abner Louima meet with an NYPD hearing officer today, and they'll set a date for a departmental ...


Officer fired for second time
Allentown Morning Call, PA - 13 hours ago
By Chuck Malinchak. A Bedminster Township police officer who was fired last year and then reinstated by an arbitrator's decision ...


Police officer fired; criminal acts cited
Cape Cod Times, MA - May 12, 2004
MASHPEE - A 10-year veteran of the Mashpee Police Department was fired for "pervasive and severe" conduct that not only violated department rules but "on more ...


Accounts of shooting don't match
Kentucky.com, KY - May 11, 2004
Investigators are trying to sort out conflicting accounts of what happened when a Lexington police officer fired his gun in a crowded Lexington nightclub ...


Deputy suspended pending criminal trial
St. Petersburg Times, FL - May 11, 2004
By JUSTIN GEORGE. Sheriff Jeff Dawsy suspended acting Sgt. Maurice McDaniel without pay on Monday, pending the outcome of McDaniel's criminal case. ...


Former Richland Co. Sheriff's Deputy charged with criminal sexual ...
WIS, SC - May 12, 2004
(Richland County) May 12, 2004 - A former Richland County Sheriff's Deputy was arrested Wednesday and charged with criminal sexual assault. ...


Deputy pleads down to misdemeanor
Oneonta Daily Star, NY - May 11, 2004
DELHI — A Delaware County deputy charged with three sex crimes pleaded down to a misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child in Delhi Town Court ...


Deputies fired for 'ignoring' card games at Fuller's house
Baltimore Sun, MD - 22 hours ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Two veteran sheriff's deputies have been fired for guarding the home of Ravens cornerback Corey Fuller while ...


Ex-FBI agent lied about sexual affair with a spy
PakTribune.com, Pakistan - 8 hours ago
LOS ANGELES, May 13 (Online): A former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent charged with allowing classified documents to fall into the hands of his lover ...


Ex-constable sentenced to 8 years
SunHerald.com, MS - May 12, 2004
A former Forrest County constable has been sentenced to eight years in prison, with five years suspended, for his driving under the influence in a 2003 car ...


Ruling to have impact on former chief's lawsuit
Bordentwo Register News, NJ - 6 hours ago
... year position. The city, in turn has pending administrative charges alleging official misconduct on the former chief's behalf. The ...


Somerset police chief says he wasn't bribed
Kentucky.com, KY - 13 hours ago
... to him; intimidated a witness by threatening a police officer over his statement in an internal investigation; and committed official misconduct by violating ...


Ex-state worker accused of stealing welfare funds
Chicago Tribune (subscription), IL - May 12, 2004
Natshun Thompson, 27, of the 1800 block of South 58th Court, Cicero, has been charged with theft and official misconduct for allegedly taking the funds from ...


Judge lets verdicts stand for court clerk
Stuart News, FL - May 12, 2004
... Lucie County Courthouse for 23 years, was arrested in July 2003 on two counts of official misconduct for relieving her son of $700 in fines. ...


Grand jury indicts officer
WHAS 11.com (subscription), KY - May 11, 2004
... the investigation. He's also charged with tampering with a witness and tampering with evidence, plus official misconduct. A spokesperson ...


Toll authority to sell helicopter
Chicago Tribune (subscription), IL - May 11, 2004
... Former Executive Director Robert Hickman, who was convicted for official misconduct, was criticized for using the toll authority helicopter for personal use. ...


Black Gloom Rising
AlterNet - 3 hours ago
... likely to include a host of topics absent from the current presidential debate: Reparations, AIDS, criminal justice system reform, police brutality and racial ...


The dark side of law enforcement
San Francisco Bay View, CA - 19 hours ago
... Brown’s contingent, while the October 22nd Coalition Against Police Brutality activists silently held the "Stolen Lives" banner on the very edge of the rally ...


His arms were raised, but they kept shooting"
Socialist Worker, IL - 22 hours ago
... Stelley Foundation, an organization that supports families whose children have been beaten, disabled or killed as a result of police brutality, is sponsoring ...


Eugene teenager claims police brutality
Coos Bay World, OR - May 12, 2004
EUGENE (AP) - A teenager claims four deputies pummeled him in front of more than 20 witnesses at the Lane County Jail. Dustin Raymond ...


It's Not Hard to Act Like an Animal When in the Company of Beasts
Common Dreams - May 11, 2004
... The president's attitude speaks loudly. He is the police chief under whose command police brutality is implicitly condoned in the name of the mission. ...


Taylor police officer shown hitting suspect in video
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription), TX - 1 hour ago
Taylor police have reprimanded an officer after he was videotaped while hitting a suspect with a flashlight and using other excessive force in making an arrest ...


Soldiers in the abuse spotlight: From small towns to global ...
AZ Central.com, AZ - 1 hour ago
... In lawsuits brought by inmates, he was accused of using excessive force and of planting a razor blade in a plate of potatoes, causing an inmate to cut his mouth ...


Taylor police officer shown hitting suspect in video
Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription), TX - 7 hours ago
AUSTIN - Taylor police have reprimanded an officer after he was videotaped while hitting a suspect with a flashlight and using other excessive force in making ...


Lockyer defends state prison abuse record
Stanford Daily - 11 hours ago
... that he “saw the videotape, probably 15 times. I agree that excessive force was used.”. Lockyer’s claim that there was “no ...


Bush taps three agency chiefs
Tallahassee.com, FL - 12 hours ago
... events occurred during Bankhead's tenure, including two deaths, allegations of sex between guards and locked-up girls, excessive force when restraining ...



Teacher Says Dallas Police Beat Him
CBS 11, TX - 17 hours ago
By CBS 11's JD Miles. The department has had recent complaints and protests from the black community over allegations of excessive force and brutality. ...


Cammerin Boyd murdered by SFPD in the Fillmore
San Francisco Bay View, CA - 19 hours ago
... window. “The police should never have used that excessive force since they didn’t see a weapon,” she said. “It was a shock.”. ...


Chief plans tighter limits on Taser use, added police training
Oregonian, OR - May 12, 2004
... not conform to police policy. The city recently paid the woman $145,000 to settle an excessive force lawsuit. When told that case ...


Kent school security panel delays report
King County Journal Newspapers, WA - May 12, 2004
... Recent claims by the NAACP allege that school security officers used excessive force on 12 Kent elementary, junior high and high school students, and that ...


Cop seen as role model for youth
Pioneer Press, MN - May 11, 2004
... He was accused of using excessive force while making an arrest at a junior high school and was removed from school-related duties. ...


NAACP Files 3 More Claims Against Kent Schools
KIROtv.com, WA - May 11, 2004
... Earlier this month, the insurance company for the district rejected previous claims that school security guards used excessive force to discipline black ...


Judge Rules Police Used Excessive Force
KOIN, OR - May 11, 2004
PORTLAND -- A family speaks out about their son's death after a federal judge rules that six Portland police officers used excessive force. ...


State cites 'humiliating discipline' at Youth Home
Macomb Daily, MI - May 11, 2004
... a second, 6-month "provisional license" — because of three state violations revealed last month, including two instances of excessive force by staff. ...


Abuse not only problem for US-run prison system in Iraq
Duluth News Tribune, MN - May 11, 2004
... The 24-page Red Cross report describes a pattern of excessive force used by US soldiers during raids at homes or businesses, frequently occurring after midnight ...



President tells Rumsfeld: 'You're doing a superb job'
Seattle Times, WA - May 11, 2004
... The 24-page Red Cross report describes a pattern of excessive force used by US soldiers during raids at homes or businesses, frequently occurring after midnight ... (Daily Show, 5/12: "Does Bush even know the meaning of the word 'superb'?")


A View from the Bay Bridge
CounterPunch, CA - May 12, 2004
... Many of the nearly 50 people injured were shot in the back, including 9 longshoremen on their way to work. Several required hospital emergency room treatment. ...


Chief's Use Of Van Draws Questions
Turn to 10.com, RI - 4 hours ago
... golf vacation. The driver was an off-duty police sergeant who' is also the son of East Providence Mayor Rolland Grant. Chief Hubert ...


Man Beaten In Police Video Files $6 Million Lawsuit
Officer.com - 4 hours ago
... Attorney Ken Lawson said the officer who initially approached Campbell at Kroger was hired by the store for security. "Here's an off-duty officer who hasn't ...


Officer found guilty
York Dispatch, PA - 4 hours ago
... Police alleged McDanel, who was off duty, was intoxicated that night and was being escorted out of the bar after an altercation when he was seen with a weapon ...


Officials Ruled Liable in '98 Incident
Washington Post, DC - 15 hours ago
... against the newspaper. The 4th Circuit decided that Fritz, Voorhaar and the off-duty deputies had acted under color of law. In an ...


Cop accused of sex talk with teen girl
Lorain Morning Journal, OH - May 12, 2004
... In August 1998, Sandusky police investigated whether Paiz acted inappropriately while off-duty at a security detail in a local McDonald's restaurant. ...


Freeport police speak up on probe
Brazosport Facts, TX - May 11, 2004
... force. Officer Javier Guillen was accused of kicking a man in the head during an off-duty investigation about 3:25 am April 18. ...


A ‘ Real ’ lose - lose predicament
The Trentonian, NJ - May 12, 2004
... Two of the men who were talking trash and punching out the cop on duty? They were off-duty police officers themselves. What were they thinking? ...


Off-duty firefighter arrested on DWI charge
Newsday, NY - May 12, 2004
NEW YORK (AP) _ An off-duty firefighter formerly assigned to the Staten Island firehouse where an alchohol-fueled brawl erupted on New Year's Eve has been ...


Target 5: Local Police Beating Caught On Tape
Channel Cincinnati.com, OH - May 11, 2004
... Lawson: "Here's an off-duty officer who hasn't even clocked in yet to his off-duty detail at Kroger, in shorts and a really not identifiable shirt, arguing ...


Mac officer cited for hit-and-run
McMinnville News-Register, OR - May 11, 2004
... Brad Hessel were notified of the incident. Stirling, off duty at the time, had three small children with her. Pekarek had an adult female with him. ...


Officer’s altercation
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - May 11, 2004
The Honolulu police Internal Affairs Division is investigating an off-duty officer who allegedly fought with a man who had just been released after posting ...


Firefighters arrested in connection with theft Pair placed on ...
San Mateo County Times, CA - May 11, 2004
By Amy Yarbrough, STAFF WRITER. Two Bay Area firefighters -- brothers who live in Colma -- were arrested last month after detectives ...


Theft, fraud trial moving very slowly
San Jose Mercury News (subscription), CA - May 11, 2004
More than two months have passed since jurors began hearing evidence against six defendants -- including a cop and an ex-cop -- accusing them of swindling ...


Police scandals often more than `bad apples'
Toronto Star, Canada - May 8, 2004
... In Toronto, Fantino has promised the force will introduce whistle-blower protection and dedicated phone lines where officers can report on dirty cops. ...


History Of Gangs
NBC 17.com, NC - 21 minutes ago
... Points. The newly formed gangs would rob homes and stores. Authorities turned a blind eye because of wide-spread police corruption.


Former Mayor: I Fear For My Life
NBC4.TV, CA - 18 hours ago
... Bradley said that change disrupted police corruption in Compton. "Guess what? Murder is down. Crime is down. The sheriffs have made those things dissipate. .


On the Job: Chasing the Ghouls
Newspaper Tree, TX - May 11, 2004
... She also wrote that “police corruption at all levels” and involvement by the cartel are critical to explaining the continuation of the murders. ...


Good cops , bad cops — and us
Toronto Star, Canada - May 10, 2004
... The evidence is damning: Police corruption isn't endemic to just big, bad American cities. Identifying and eliminating police corruption must take priority. ...


Accumulate This
Dissident Voice, CA - May 2, 2004
... The “testilying” before the 9/11 panel about the invasion and occupation of Iraq is a kind of distraction from the centuries-long conflict between elites ...


Ex-Felon Sheriff Can Already Carry Gun Legally
NBC13.com, AL - 1 hour ago
... Norris served 32 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal racketeering, bribery and income tax charges as part of a bootlegging investigation, but ...


Federal judge to hear motions in Minor, Diaz judicial bribery ...
Biloxi Sun Herald, MS - 1 hour ago
JACKSON, Miss. - US District Judge Henry T. Wingate will hear motions June 2 in Mississippi's judiciary bribery case. Among the ...


Senator Guy Vellela reportedly to plead guilty to bribery charges
News 12 Long Island, NY - 4 hours ago
(05/13/04) THE BRONX - State Senator Guy Vellela (R-Bronx) is reportedly planning to plead guilty to one felony bribery charge and accept a year in jail. ...


Dallas officer arrested on bribery charges
WFAA (subscription), TX - 5 hours ago
Hasty, who works in the Southwest Division, has had previous problems with the department. In 1995, he was fired for driving a stolen ...


George W. Bush has 5000 BMW motor cars to be won
The Spoof (satire), UK - 12 hours ago
... Kidnapping, bribery and threats of violence are allowed but murder, rape and income tax evasion will be frowned upon if you are caught". ...


Head Start spending detailed
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO - 13 hours ago
... The controller, Andrew Nyakatura, pleaded guilty in February 2002 to bribery and money laundering, and was sentenced to 51 months in prison. ...


City Labors To Pay Off Debt From LaBrake Era
Tampa Tribune, FL - 16 hours ago
... LaBrake, indicted in November on federal charges of bribery and conspiracy, oversaw a development agreement between the city and the nonprofit Tampa Bay ...

Concessions-for-votes probe under way
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 17 hours ago
... Zappala had previously described his review as an informal inquiry that focused on bribery at elections, seeking improper influence and accepting improper ...


Former Federal Drug Agent and Author of:
Drugwar.com, NY - May 12, 2004
... of his death, something would be done "that was proper and honorable and nothing wrong in any way," denying that the investment account was bribery by Hakim. ...


To NY Judge's Bribery Case
NY Lawyer, NY - May 12, 2004
Acting Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey G. Berry will take over as the judge presiding in the bribery case against Brooklyn Justice Gerald P. Garson. ...


Jury deliberating bribery
Honolulu Advertiser, HI - May 12, 2004
A federal jury will resume deliberations today on bribery charges against two former Honolulu Liquor Commission investigators accused of taking cash from ...


AROUND SOUTH FLORIDA
Miami Herald (subscription), FL - May 12, 2004
The former head of the Bayfront Park Management Trust pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal bribery charge and agreed to pay the city of Miami $200,000 as ...


Pasadena court clerk guilty of bribery, dismissing traffic ...
Pasadena Citizen, TX - May 11, 2004
By HEATHER L. NICHOLSON, Citizen staff. Violeta Ann Perales, 29, worked at Municipal Court Judge Lester Rorick's office for more than a year. ...


'All remains the same' in terror war
Oregon Daily Emerald, OR - 3 hours ago
... Wilderness Publications. "Ladies and gentlemen, what you witnessed today, on every major network, was perjury -- a felony.". There ...


Three Mothers ’ Quest for Justice
Black World Today, NY - 8 hours ago
... Yet at his trial, while stating that "there is a nest of perjury in this trial,"after hearing the officers' give testimony which has put some of them behind ...


Judge Accuses Local Juvenile Officer Of Perjury
KTVO, MO - 17 hours ago
(HANNIBAL, Mo.) A federal judge's order is not favorable toward a juvenile officer from Northeast Missouri. The ruling handed down ...


US District Court judge upholds suit against DA, county
Lompoc Record, CA - May 11, 2004
... The lawsuit, seeking punitive, compensatory and special damages, stems from Dunlap's acquittal last June on six charges, including perjury, witness intimidation ...


Officer is guilty of wire fraud
Belleville News-Democrat, IL - May 11, 2004
... O'Gara introduced into evidence fact that the victim had, in 1993, been charged by the Madison County state's attorney with perjury because of untruthful ...