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Photograph the Police: Here's why

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Yet another drunk cop

Port Chester cop charged with drunken driving in crash

Will David

HARRISON – An off-duty Port Chester police officer was arrested, accused of drunken-driving Wednesday morning after a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 287 in Harrison, state police said.

Jose A. Nieves, 40, an eight-year Port Chester police veteran, was turned over to his own department after being booked by state troopers at the Thruway barracks.

Trooper Jason Jones, a spokesman for Troop T, said the accident happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday. Nieves was driving west when he rear-ended a parked construction vehicle that was apparently unoccupied. Nieves' vehicle was then rear-ended by a Big Apple Taxi cab.

Emergency medical personnel and state troopers were on the scene. The cabdriver and Nieves refused medical attention, Jones said.

A chemical test showed that his blood-alcohol content was 0.13 percent, more than 1.5 times the legal limit, police said.

Nieves is charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and issued an appearance ticket. He is due back in Harrison Town Court at 9:30 a.m. June 3.

Port Chester police Lt. James Ladeairous said the department had no comment on the incident, referring questions to state police.

Nieves remains on the department's payroll and his job status remains unchanged at this point, Ladeairous said.

Staff writer Hoa Nguyen contributed to this report

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Suspended Hobart cop avoids trial

By Ruth Ann Krause

A Hobart police officer charged last year with financial fraud, theft and official misconduct in two separate incidents has entered into a pre-trial agreement with Lake County prosecutors that could avoid a criminal conviction.

A misdemeanor charge of conversion was filed Wednesday against Officer Kirk Homoky, and the felony charges filed in the two cases were dismissed.

If Homoky has no other criminal charges filed against him for one year, the cases will be dismissed, according to the agreement. Superior Court Magistrate Kathleen Sullivan scheduled a May 21, 2015 hearing for disposition of the cases.

Under the agreement, Homoky paid $492 in restitution to a business that overpaid him by mistake for off-duty security work.

In March 2013, Homoky was placed on unpaid leave from the police department after he was accused of keeping the overpayment and of taking a $20 bill from a car that was stopped by police in September 2010.

City attorney Anthony DeBonis said it’s unclear what the city will do regarding Homoky’s status with the police department if the cases against him are dismissed after one year.

Meanwhile, Homoky’s federal lawsuit against the city, filed in November 2012, is pending. He contends the police department violated his rights when he was suspended without pay and the former chief tried to fire him.

Send em home on a paid vacation, that'll teach him.

Haines City police sergeant suspended with pay

HAINES CITY --

A Haines City police officer has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation, City Manager Jonathan Evans told The Ledger of Lakeland.

Sgt. Heriberto "Herb" Hernandez was actually suspended last Thursday, three weeks after the start of the police department's investigation.

Police and city officials have not discussed the reason for the investigation, which also is looking at Sgts. Ron Brown and Mick Harrison, Lt. Keith Hammond and Cpl. Shawn Mobre, Chief Rick Sloan told The Ledger.

Hernandez started as a patrol officer in May 2005 and has been promoted four times. He earns $46,585 per year

Officer keeps his job despite alleged break-in

“We were looking at $100,000 in attorney fees and a high probability that he would have gotten his job back with back pay”

Courtney Astolfi

An embattled Vermilion police officer kept his job, even after commanders suspended him for allegedly entering an unauthorized area and then being dishonest about it during an ensuing investigation.

 Vermilion officials initially pursued firing Patrolman Dale Reising but dropped their grievance a week ago, most likely because his bosses didn’t want to fight an uphill battle.   

Officials didn’t release their conclusion to the media until Tuesday, despite the Register asking for an update earlier this month.

“We were looking at $100,000 in attorney fees and a high probability that he would have gotten his job back with back pay,” Vermilion police Chief Chris Hartung said.

In exchange, however, Reising must:

•Sign a last-chance agreement, a document permitting him one more shot to shape up or get shipped out.

•Agree police commanders or city officials can fire him for any other similar misconduct he commits.

•Accept an unpaid suspension lasting 160 hours, losing out on about $3,700.

•Attend at his cost several training courses revolving around ethics.

•Acknowledge his conduct “was inconsistent with the standards of a sworn officer” at no less than one official Vermilion police meeting.

Past incidents involving law enforcers nationwide getting terminated but later coming back to work after lengthy, costly court battles in similar situations to Reising’s case made Vermilion officials reluctant to fire him.

“We spent a lot of time researching this case, and I believe that this was an internal issue and the best recourse for this case,” Vermilion Mayor Eileen Bulan said.

Reising, suspended since early April, should return sometime in June. During this ongoing period, Reising stands to obtain about $4,200 while on paid leave, according to city financial data.

Reising has worked as a full-time officer in Vermilion for about four years.

Alleged misconduct

An internal investigation, obtained by the Register through a public records request, sheds light into two alleged acts of misconduct Reising committed:

•Entering a police administrator’s locked office.

•Showing signs of dishonesty when interviewed about his actions.

On Feb. 10, Vermilion police Capt. Mike Reinheimer noticed ceiling tile debris on a cabinet in his office. The investigation indicates a supervisor assigned Reising to a cruiser with the keys locked in Reinheimer’s office over the Feb. 8-9 weekend.

Reising originally told Reinheimer he never entered Reinheimer’s office during initial questioning.

But the patroller did claim he went to Ace Hardware, where employees later helped Reinheimer pinpoint the sale of a key to the morning of Feb. 9 — right in the middle of Reising’s shift and just a day before Reinheimer realized someone entered his office, according to the report.

A hardware store employee said Reising had entered the store in full uniform on that day, according to the report.

Reinheimer then interviewed Reising a second time, pointing out the apparent inconsistencies between his previous statements and what Reinheimer learned during the investigation.

Reising again stuck to his story: He made a copy of the key while he was off duty and never broke into the office.

When Reinheimer confronted Reising again about the inaccuracies, Reising asked for his union representative, but he then admitted to the theft, according to the report.

Commanders determined Reising had violated two department rules regarding the incident: He allegedly gained unauthorized entry to a restricted area, and he allegedly provided false information during a disciplinary investigation.

While entering unauthorized areas usually warrants a written reprimand, showing signs of dishonesty generally calls for dismissal, police documents stated.

Reinheimer ended his report with this: “My recommendation for this infraction would be dismissal from his position as a patrolman for the Vermilion Police Department”

More drugged up cops.....you ever wonder if the cops are the American drug problem?

Former Pooler cop sentenced to 17 months in federal prison

By Jan Skutch

Former Pooler police officer John William “Billy” Stanley on Monday was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison for knowingly attempting to hide a drug conspiracy while on the police force.

Stanley, 36, also must serve a year on supervised release once he completes his prison term and perform 40 hours of community service, U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. ordered.

He was allowed to remain free until June 23 when he must report to the federal prison designated for his incarceration.

Stanley admitted his role on March 28 in connection with a Pooler-based “pill mill” prescription distribution ring headed by Donald Fowler and his wife, Martha, between 2004 and 2011.

Stanley, who resigned from the Pooler force in June 2013, has been allowed to remain free on his pre-trial bond. He is a former police sergeant in Pooler, a former Pooler councilman and a businessman, court documents show.

Defense attorney Michael Schiavone, in a sentencing memorandum to Moore, called the defendant “a kind-hearted person and officer, always willing to help everyone. He made a terrible mistake, not for financial gain but based on caring for people who he thought of as family.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Tanner, in the plea agreement filed with Moore, said the government would not object to a recommendation by probation officer that Stanley receive a two-level reduction for accepting responsibility.

Stanley was named in a three-count indictment on Jan. 9 on charges of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substances on or about July 14, 2011.

Federal prosecutors contended the Fowlers were running a pill-mill operation out of their home in Pooler and were using “mules” to drive prescriptions to pill-mill doctors in Georgia and Florida beginning in 2004.

Stanley, who was friends with the Fowlers, became aware of the drug scheme and when one of their “mules” was arrested by Pooler police in mid-2011, he became concerned the mule would give up the Fowlers, prosecutors said.

Stanley then alerted the Fowlers, hoping they would remove any drugs from their home.

The indictment also charged him with being an accessory after the fact — that he knew the crime was being committed but did nothing to hinder or prevent the offenders — and that he concealed his knowledge from authorities.

Former Jackson Police Department Officer Sentenced to 25 Months in Prison for Bribery

U.S. Attorney’s Office May 13, 2014         •           Southern District of Mississippi (601) 965-4480

JACKSON, MS—Former Jackson Police Officer Tony Davis, of Clinton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 25 months in federal prison for bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. He was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

Davis pled guilty to the bribery charge in December 2013, admitting that, while employed as a patrol sergeant with the Jackson Police Department in 2010, Davis advised another Jackson Police officer that he would pay the officer $10,000 if he would assist Davis in disposing of an outstanding drug charge against a defendant Davis knew.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Rushing.

Officer's suspension tied to bee-sting death

By Shawn Regan 

HAVERHILL — An arbitration appeal hearing will begin tomorrow for a police officer suspended over an incident involving a man who died from bee stings.

Officer Rick Welch, who is also president of the patrolmen’s union, was suspended without pay for 15 days last year for mishandling a call from an elderly woman who was concerned about her son — a 57-year-old Silsby Farm beekeeper later found dead from bee stings.

Police Chief Alan DeNaro had previously suspended Welch for five days without pay and recommended that Mayor James Fiorentini suspend the officer without pay for another 175 days. A five-day suspension is the maximum the chief can impose on his own.

In his Dec. 3, 2013 ruling, the mayor upheld DeNaro’s original five-day suspension and added 10 more for a total of 15 suspension days. Fiorentini said he relied on Welch’s otherwise clean record in rejecting DeNaro’s recommendation to suspend the officer for six months.

Welch appealed to an outside arbitrator, who will hear the city’s case against the officer starting tomorrow. The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. in City Hall.

The case focuses on Welch’s decision not to send a patrol car to check on beekeeper Alan Schwartz, after his mother called police at 2 a.m. on June 11, 2013, to report her son did not come home that night and was not answering his cell phone.

While he was working in the public safety dispatch center, Welch took the mother’s call, which was made to the Police Department’s non-emergency line.

Police said Ina Schwartz told Welch that her son was working with bees, that she feared for his safety, and that she wanted Welch to send an officer to check on him.

Instead of dispatching a cruiser to the farm on Salem Street in Bradford, Welch sent an email-style message to the patrolman assigned to patrol that part of the city that night. Welch told him to be on the lookout “during his travels” for Schwartz’s white Tacoma truck, according to the message

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