Fairfax County Police Watch: The epidemic of mentally ill cops

Dalton police officer charged with child molestation

Bryan reserve officer charged with indecency with a child, 58 counts of child pornography

Daniel Guadalupe: Retired NYPD officer accused of raping teenage girl for years in Palm Beach County

Las Cruces cop gets lengthy prison sentence for sex with minor

Irwindale Cop Pleads No Contest To Sex Charges Involving 2 Teenage Girls

Dalton police officer charged with child molestation

Jon Gargis

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A recently sworn-in Dalton police officer is off the job following his arrest Thursday on a child molestation charge.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Officer Daniel Tolbert just after 5 p.m., Dalton police spokesman Bruce Frazier said Thursday night. The arrest came nine days after the department placed Tolbert on administrative leave immediately after being informed by the GBI and the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office that he was under investigation on suspicion of child molestation.

“I am very disappointed to hear about this allegation, and upset about the discredit this will surely bring on our department and officers,” Dalton Police Chief Jason Parker said in a news release Thursday. “We would never condone or support the kind of behavior that would warrant this charge. The men and women of this department hold ourselves to a very high standard of behavior, and we know the community we serve expects our behavior to be beyond reproach.”

Though police officials did not have specifics on the allegations against Tolbert, Frazier said the alleged incident did not occur while Tolbert was on the job. At the time of his suspension, he was in the department’s field training program, and as a trainee, he was never unsupervised or alone while on duty. Probationary trainees, Frazier added, ride with an experienced training officer for at least four months after completing the police academy.

Tolbert, 32, completed the police academy in September and was sworn in as an officer on Sept. 16. Though Tolbert is currently on administrative leave, the city will begin the termination process immediately, Frazier said.

Prior to joining Dalton’s police force, Tolbert served in the U.S. Army, the U.S. Border Patrol in California and was a jail deputy with the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, according to the police department’s blog.

Former Bryan reserve officer charged with indecency with a child, 58 counts of child pornography

By ANDREA SALAZAR andrea.salazar@theeagle.com |

A former Bryan reserve police officer was indicted Thursday on 58 counts of child pornography and one count of indecency with a child.

Dennis Fraley, 62, was among 34 people indicted by a Brazos County grand jury during its bi-monthly meeting to determine whether there is enough evidence to move forward with prosecution. Texas Rangers and Brazos County sheriff’s deputies took him into custody Thursday evening.

Fraley was out on $45,000 bail at the time. He had been arrested in September on three counts of possession of child pornography, which is a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, after a friend noticed inappropriate photographs on Fraley’s phone while helping him install an application, according to the probable cause affidavit for the arrest.

Fraley resigned from the Bryan Police Department following his September arrest, during which he told investigators he had “arrested people like him” and that he “had been sick for a couple of years,” according to the court document.

The grand jury also indicted two men Thursday accused of robbing a College Station Holiday Inn in November 2012.

Denzel Neal, 21, and Christopher Elmore, 22, were each charged with one count of first-degree felony aggravated robbery in connection with the 2012 incident in which the men reportedly emptied a hotel cash register after threatening the clerk with a gun, according to the probable cause affidavit for their arrest.

The clerk told police the men had asked for jumper cables before one revealed a pistol in the waist of his pants when the clerk said he could not leave the front desk, investigators said in the report.

Both admitted to robbing the hotel two years ago while on their way to Austin, police said.

Other offenses on this week’s indictment list included state jail felony drug charges and second-degree felony aggravated assault and burglary.

Daniel Guadalupe: Retired NYPD officer accused of raping teenage girl for years in Palm Beach County

A retired NYPD officer is under arrest, accused of raping a teenage girl over several years in suburban Boynton Beach.

Daniel Guadalupe, 56, is facing charges of sexual battery, lewd or lascivious molestation and false imprisonment. He is being held on $250,000 bail at the Palm Beach County Jail.

According to an arrest affidavit, Guadalupe sexually assaulted the now-17-year-old victim beginning when she was in eighth grade, and continuing though the summer between her freshman and sophomore year.

The victim told investigators that the situation escalated from inappropriate touching to Guadalupe forcing her to have sex with him. She said that she has been suppressing her memories of the abuse.

She described to investigators about one incident in which he held her down and sexually assaulted her, during which time she struggled to get away. She recalled he said to her afterwards, "Did you really have to put up that much of a fight, it doesn't really have to be that way," and to "just get over it."

She said that over the years she would give in to his demands just to get him to stop.

On Wednesday, one of the victim's relatives confronted Guadalupe in a controlled phone call with PBSO investigators present. On the call he made numerous admissions and apologized for getting "carried away playing around."

Former Las Cruces cop gets lengthy prison sentence

LAS CRUCES (AP) – A former Las Cruces police detective faces a lengthy prison term after being sentenced in a sex case involving minors.

State District Judge Fernando Macias on Monday sentenced former Detective Michael Garcia to 30 years in prison but suspended 10 years of the sentence.

Garcia was convicted of multiple counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor.

He was initially arrested in August 2013 and accused of sexually assaulting a minor and then arrested again in September 2013 on additional charges involving another victim.

Garcia has already received a nine-year federal sentence in a case involving a teenage girl who was an intern with the Police Department in 2013.

The sentences will run at the same time, with Garcia serving the federal sentence first.

Former Irwindale Cop Pleads No Contest To Sex Charges Involving 2 Teenage Girls

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A former Irwindale police officer pleaded no contest Friday to sex-related charges involving two girls in the department’s Explorer Program.

Daniel Camerano, 27, pleaded no contest to three felony counts, including using a minor for sex acts, oral copulation of a person under 16 and contact with a minor for sexual offense.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Georgina Torres Rizk ordered Camerano not to have any contact with the two girls.

Camerano, who is free on bond, is expected to be sentenced Jan. 20 for two years and eight months in state prison and to be ordered to register for the rest of his life as a sex offender.

Three other charges filed against him earlier this year are expected to be dismissed when he is sentenced.

Camerano, who served as an adviser to the department’s Explorer Program, resigned from the police department in June after eight years on the force.

Prosecutors say Camerano began a sexual relationship with the 14-year-old girl between May 2009 and December 2010 and sent suggestive text messages to 17-year-old girl in November 2012. Both girls were in the department’s Explorer Program.

The charges against Camerano is the third case against a former Irwindale police officer in just over a year.

Former officer David Paul Fraijo pleaded no contest Oct. 3 to one count each of oral copulation under color of authority and sexual battery by restraint involving a woman he pulled over during an October 2012 traffic stop. He is facing up to nine years in state prison, with sentencing set Jan. 12.

Another former officer, Dennis Alva, pleaded no contest last September to a felony grand theft charge. He was sentenced in November 2013 to one year in county jail and ordered to repay $250,000 in cash to his elderly father.

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.