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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”
“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

The endless line of drunk and drugged up cops


Phoenix officer charged with for role in Prescott bar fight that left man bloodied, bruised
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — A Phoenix police officer has been charged with assault for his role in a Prescott bar fight that left a man bloodied and bruised.
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office announced the misdemeanor charge Friday against Eric Amato. A preliminary hearing is scheduled Oct. 10 in Yavapai County Superior Court.
Amato and other members of a law enforcement motorcycle club had been holding their Christmas party on Prescott's Whiskey Row before a fight broke out at one of the bars.
Amato has told authorities that he hit Justin Stafford because Stafford made an aggressive move.
The state Department of Public Safety recommended charges against Amato and others. Amato is the only one charged.
Phoenix police say Amato is working a non-enforcement assignment and is under investigation by the department.



CPD Officer Charged With OVI Pleads No Contest
A Columbus police sergeant charge with OVI and having an open container in a moving vehicle pleaded no contest in the Franklin County Municipal Court Thursday.
Sgt. Joshua K. Wagner was permitted to withdrawal a guilty plea and enter a plea of no contest, according to court documents.
Wagner was off duty when he was arrested the morning of Sept. 7.
According to police, Wagner was found slumped over the wheel of his personal car. Another driver spotted Wagner at the intersection of Second Avenue and Summit Street and called 911. The driver told a police dispatcher that it appeared that Wagner was passed out with his foot on the brake at a green light.
The Columbus police report indicates Wagner blew a .181, which is more than twice the legal limit.
"He was sentenced and treated just like anyone else that came through that courtroom. He has to do a three day program, 72 hours of community service, fines and a drivers license suspension, so he is not saying I am above the law or anything like that. He made a mistake, is willing to take responsibility and move forward," said his attorney Mark Collins.
Wagner's drivers license has been suspended for six months, meaning he cannot operate a police cruisers, in addition to his driving his own car.
"He is very good at his job from what I understand, loves his job, this is what he wants to do is to move forward. In order to do that I think this was the right step for him," said Collins.
For now a police officer with 10 and 1/2 years on the job, the same officer who was decorated after being shot in the face during a barricade situation four years ago, will be on desk duty. Collins said he still faces punishment from an administrative process at CPD that is separate from the courts.



Cop charged with DWI
Police busted a fellow officer in Forest Hills for allegedly driving while drunk on Sunday morning.
Armando Urbina, 36, was driving a tan 2002 Saab along the Grand Central Parkway when he crashed the car into a concrete median near the Long Island Expressway intersection at approximately 7:52 a.m.
Officers from the 112th Precinct questioned the 12-year NYPD veteran, who was off-duty at the time of the crash, and when they asked him to take a Breathalyzer test, Urbina refused.
He was arrested at the scene of the accident and has been charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breath test.
There were no other individuals involved in the accident and no one, including Urbina, sustained any serious injuries. Information on which precinct Urbina worked for or his rank in the department was not made available.
The arrest came just hours after a Department of Correction Capt. Grayson Fredericks was charged with DWI and speeding in Queens Village.



Chesterfield Police officer charged with hit-and-run, DUI
COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va (WTVR)–A veteran Chesterfield County Police Officer is on paid leave, after being charged with misdemeanor hit-and-run and DUI.
Jacqueline Conner, 49-years-old, was arrested early Sunday morning, after Colonial Heights Police got a call about a hit and run accident at the intersection of Conduit Road and Ellerslie Avenue.
A short time later, Conner was charged and released on an un-secure bond.
An officer from Chesterfield County, arrived at Conner’s home on Sunday Morning and collected her department issued pistol, badge and her police car.
Steve Neal, a retired Police Officer says, paid or unpaid leave is common practice for departments as is collecting an officers department issued equipment.
Conner joined the department in 1990, just out of Radford University and rose through the ranks to Corporal. For many years, she was the face of the department, serving as their spokesperson for Crime Solvers.
Conner’s current assignment is a Detective in Investigations.
CBS 6 legal analyst Todd Stone says most first time DUI offenders do not serve time, unless they have a very elevated blood alcohol content.
“But when someone leaves the scene of an accident and is actually caught and found to be intoxicated., if that’s what the evidence proves, then it may be active incarceration,” Stone said.


Fort Worth officer charged with DWI fired
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A North Texas police officer has been fired following his arrest for allegedly driving while intoxicated after taking a prescription drug.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (http://bit.ly/1fS30DI ) reports Fort Worth Officer Brian Blue has appealed his termination.
An attorney for Blue, who'd been a Fort Worth officer since 2003, calls it a unique case involving a reaction to a prescribed medication.
Blue was indefinitely suspended last week following an internal investigation into accusations that he took a sedative while at work, then later crashed his personal SUV into another vehicle.
A disciplinary letter filed Monday outlines the June 26 incident. Chief Jeff Halstead says Blue acknowledged taking the prescription drug. Blue allegedly did not seek proper approval to leave work early. A DWI charge was filed in July.

Florida Police Officer Charged With DUI
Local Kendall district police officer, Fernando Villa, 32, was charged with DUI on Tuesday night after another officer found Villa passed out from intoxication inside his patrol car. Unlike most DUI arrests though, Villa was released after signing a notice that promised that he would appear in court to address the charge. Police Director, Jim Loftus noted that
“Someone along the line decided to depart from my specific directions,” He went on to tell reporters that “We’re going to discover the identity of the person or persons and hold them accountable.”
Another officer, whose name was not released, found Villa’s patrol car stopped in the middle of an intersection in West Kendall at approximately 8:20 p.m. Tiesday night. Villa was at the wheel dressed in gym shorts and a T-shirt, according to police reports. No explanation was forwarded to answer how Villa returned to his home or who had made the decision to let him go. Villa has been relieved of duty with pay until this incident has been investigated.
The Villa DUI incident is just the latest in a bizarre list of incidents involving Miami-area law enforcement lately. According to reports, Miami Beach patrolman Derick Kuilan almost killed two people back in July after allegedly running into them while driving his police ATV while carrying a female passenger on a drunken late night joyride. Kuilan was released and is awaiting trial on reckless driving and DUI charges.

On-Duty Miami Police Officer Charged With DUI
A Miami Beach police officer who severely injured two people while driving an ATV on the beach has been charged with a DUI in Miami Beach and reckless driving causing serious bodily injury.
Derick Kuilan, 30, was in uniform on July 3 with fellow Miami Beach police officer Rolando Gutierrez when they visited South Beach hotel club. The two officers were allegedly drinking and taking pictures with a group of women.
According to a Circuit Court affidavit, the five women were attending a bachelorette party and “did not believe [Kulian and Gutierrez] were real police officers” since “the behavior of both officers was so unprofessional.” After leaving the hotel club, Kuilan and one of the women mounted an ATV for a ride along the beach. Two witenesses described Kuilan’s ATV as “driving fast on the sand” and without headlights in the pre-dawn hours. The two witnesses heard the ATV and caught a glimpse of it seconds before they heard “a loud impact” as the ATV struck a man and woman walking on the shore.
The woman remains hospitalized after suffering a broken femur and having her spleen removed. The man suffered a broken bone that required surgery. Both victims are 29 years old.
Kuilan and Gutierrez have been fired from the Miami Beach Police Department. Kulian was booked July 26 on four felony counts into the Miami-Dade County Jail before being released on $30,000 bail.

Double standard for Waterloo cop who smoked pot, lawyer says
KITCHENER Waterloo regional police used different standards when they disciplined six officers who smoked pot off-duty, a Cambridge lawyer charged Monday.
Lawyer Bernard Cummins accused police of applying a double standard by laying criminal charges against only one of the officers — his client, Jeremy Borda.
Cummins's comment came Monday at a police disciplinary hearing for Borda at police headquarters. Borda is being sentenced under the Police Services Act for numerous incidents of smoking pot with other officers and civilians at parties, and buying marijuana from a former girlfriend who was a drug supplier.
He's one of a group of officers in Cambridge who have faced disciplinary charges for smoking pot off-duty.
A police prosecutor has recommended Borda be fired. Cummins is fighting to keep the 33-year-old officer's job.
He slammed police management for treating Borda differently from other officers, particularly Const. Jason Gamble. Gamble avoided being fired at a police disciplinary hearing in 2011 because he was the first officer to come forward, resulting in discipline against other officers.
Gamble said he smoked pot with fellow officers because he wanted to fit in. He said he didn't report officers drug activity because he feared being labelled "a rat." He was demoted to fourth-class constable from first-class, the stiffest penalty before dismissal.
Cummins argued Gamble's misconduct was similar to that of Borda. But Borda was treated more seriously by being charged criminally, he said.
He also said Borda's case was also not much different from that of Const. Jennifer Falsetto who was demoted four ranks, but got to keep her job because she was suffering from a mental illness at the time she smoked and bought marijuana.
By charging only one officer criminally, Cummins said police management is practising a "grossly unfair application of the criminal code."
Prosecutor Lynda Bordeleau acknowledged the hearing officer will have to consider "the management approach to misconduct. You'll have to carefully review the decisions of Const. Gamble and Falsetto," she said.
But she said it was not within the hearing officer's powers to "examine the police exercise of criminal authority."
Bordeleau called for Borda's firing because of the totality of his offences, which included trying to persuade a fellow officer to "take care of" a speeding ticket the officer had given to Borda's friend.
Borda was angry at the officer for issuing the ticket after his friend made it clear that he knew Borda and wanted to become a police officer, Bordeleau said. Borda told the officer later that she should not charge fellow officers and their friends, Bordeleau said.
Believing police officers and their friends should receive preferential treatment "strikes at the heart of policing," which is to apprehend offenders and lay charges, Bordeleau said.
Cummins said there was never any allegation that Borda tried to obstruct justice.
Earlier this year, Borda pleaded guilty to 11 police act charges of discreditable conduct and one of insubordination. He will be sentenced Dec. 9.
Police also charged him criminally with trafficking marijuana after he bought pot from an ex-girlfriend and gave it to Gamble.
In court, he pleaded guilty to simple possession and was given a conditional discharge, a fine and community service. No conviction was registered.
Cummins noted that Justice K.E. McGowan said during Borda'sentencing that she found it "extraordinary" to see someone charged with trafficking for providing just one joint — something she hadn't seen in 30 years.
Bordeleau pointed out the judge also said she was troubled by the fact that Borda had used pot for 1 ½ years before being caught. The judge also said it was known among some of his colleagues that he kept a small baggie of marijuana — something that wasn't true of Gamble or Falsetto, Bordeleau said.
Bordeleau said Falsetto wasn't fired because she was diagnosed as suffering from major depressive disorder. That counts as a disability which must be taken into account as a mitigating factor.
Cummins presented a letter from a psychiatrist who diagnosed Borda with substance dependence disorder. It began with alcohol and progressed to marijuana.
But Bordeleau noted the psychiatrist didn't think there was a connection between his illness and his misconduct.
Cummins said Police Chief Matt Torigian has said he's in favour of people being ticketed for simple possession of marijuana, rather than charged criminally.
"How does that not apply to Jeremy Borda?" Cummins asked.
Borda apologized to the tribunal.
"I'm truly sorry for my actions and conduct," he said. "I'm deeply embarrassed, ashamed, regretful and remorseful. I do not blame anyone but myself."
He's taken treatment for addictions plus counselling.