Oswego
cop charged with selling drugs was sued, suspended
Oswego, NY – Troy Martin retired Oswego police officer charged Thursday
with selling drugs has faced suspension as well as accusations of excessive
force and misconduct during his career. Martin, was charged with third-degree criminal
sale of a controlled substance and fourth-degree conspiracy. Oswego police
confirmed Martin is retired from the department and said that he was not part
of the department while the drug investigation he was swept up in was under
way.
According to Post-Standard archives, Martin and Officer
Michael Kearns were accused of raping a woman in 1993. The woman, who at the
time was 25, filed a $36 million lawsuit in July 1994 against the city, Kearns
and Martin.
Criminal charges were never filed against Martin or Kearns.
The woman didn't file charges because she didn't want to appear before a grand
jury or in criminal court, said one of her lawyers at the time.
The city settled the lawsuit out-of-court in 1997 for
$50,000.
In 1997, the city also settled another case in which Martin
was accused of causing personal and emotional injuries. That case was settled
for $27,000 according to newspaper archives.
In 1993 Martin and Kearns were suspended without pay for 30
days.
When Martin was a campus police officer at the State University
College at Oswego, the state Court of Claims determined that he and another
officer used excessive force in arresting a college student in 1985. The
student was awarded $1,200 in damages.
Martin retired from the Oswego Police Department in 2006 and
receives an annual pension of $24,333, according to state records.
St.
Louis cop gets probation in drunken driving case
Michael Schinner, a t. Louis police officer, was sentenced
to five years probation for driving while intoxicated and causing injuries. l
Schinner, then 27, was off-duty and speeding the wrong way on a one-way street
early in the morning on Dec. 24, 2011, when his vehicle collided with a St.
Louis patrol car. On-duty Officer Darryl Monroe suffered hip and leg injuries,
according to officials.
A passenger in Schinner’s vehicle, Brian Cole, then 28,
sustained serious head trauma, including bleeding on his brain, but has since
recovered. Schinner, who had been a member of the police force for three years,
claimed no memory of the crash, but he appeared disoriented and had a strong
alcoholic odor on his breath, according to court documents.
There were two empty beer bottles in his car — one on the
driver’s side floorboard — and he refused to submit to a blood test to
determine his blood-alcohol content, according to the documents. Police did not
apply for a search warrant to force him to provide a blood sample.Schinner was
suspended from the force without pay after the crash, and resigned in August
2012.
Police
officer charged with DWI, resigns
RALEIGH, N.C. — A
senior officer in the Cary Police Department resigned her job after an arrest
early Thursday on charges she was driving while impaired.Tiffany Dawn Silsbee,
of 2600 Broad Oaks Place in Raleigh, sideswiped four vehicles along Raleigh's
Boylan Avenue, according to police.After the crash, she had a .09 blood alcohol
content.
FBI:
Pa. police officer arrested on drug charges
-- The FBI says a Pennsylvania police officer has been
arrested and charged with distributing drugs. Agent Edward J. Hanko says in a
release that Robert F. Evans, a Hughestown Borough Police officer, was arrested
without incident Friday morning and charged with the distribution of oxycodone.
That's just outside Scranton. According to an affidavit Evans admitted
obtaining oxycodone pills from a friend and through a prescription, selling the
pills over the past year, and driving a client to Wilkes-Barre in a Hughestown
police cruiser so the client could buy illegal drugs. Evans couldn't be reached
for comment.
TEXAS
COP ARRESTED FOR FELONY DWI WITH KIDS IN TOW
A Texas police officer has been arrested and charged with
felony driving while intoxicated, the Houston Chronicle reported recently. The
officer was arrested in Beaumont, Texas, about 80 miles outside of Houston.
According to the report, the charges were increased from standard DWI to state
jail felony DWI because the driver's three children were allegedly present in
the vehicle at the time of the incident.
A
Prichard police officer has been arrested on some serious drug charges.
PRICHARD, Ala. (WPMI) A Prichard police officer has been
arrested on some serious drug charges.
Officer Edmond Burke was arrested during a Mobile County Sheriff's
Office sting. Deputies say Burke tried
to buy five kilos of cocaine from an undercover officer. Burke has been charged with trafficking
cocaine, possession of a controlled substance, and marijuana possession. Trafficking is a class-A felony that carries
a sentence of up to life in prison. Burke is a Prichard native, and has been on
the force about a year and a half. He
has been on the other side of the law before.
He was arrested in 2006 for possession of a controlled substance, and in
2000, for interfering with custody.
State
trooper blames Chan for crash that killed off-duty cop
WOBURN Off-duty
Lowell Police Officer Patrick "P.J." Johnson was drunk as he rode his
Harley Davidson Road King at speeds between 75-80 mph when he collided with a
Honda Accord -- a crash that took his life -- a State Police accident
reconstructionist testified it wasn't Johnson's speed that cause the crash, it
was the other car crossing his path.
In Middlesex Superior Court on Friday, Roderick, an accident
reconstructionist, testified that based on his calculations, the 31-year-old
Johnson, a six-year veteran of the Lowell Police Department, was barreling down
Princeton Boulevard during the early-morning hours of Sept. 11, 2010 at a
minimum speed of 75 mph and perhaps as fast as 80 mph based on the motorcycle's
broken speedometer.
Roderick testified that at the same time, Chan, 28, of
Lowell, who police allege was also legally drunk, was at the intersection of
Foster Street and Princeton Boulevard when he drove into Johnson's path.
Johnson hit the brakes, leaving a skid mark 32.5 feet long, Roderick testified.
Johnson and his motorcycle slammed into the right front quarter of Chan's car.
The impact tossed Johnson, a husband and father of two, more than 100 feet
where he landed two houses down.
He died within minutes of the crash, state Medical Examiner
Marie Cannon testified Thursday. The cause of his death was blunt trauma to the
head, torso and lower extremities, Cannon said.
