Fairfax County Police Watch: The parade of drunk and drugged up cops continues and no one does anything about it

NOPD officer suspended after DUI arrest

Officer charged with public indecency, wearing gun while drunk

Jackson Township officer suspended

NOPD officer suspended after DUI arrest

NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans Police Department officer has been placed on emergency suspension after he was arrested early Friday.

According to police, Officer Keith Elsensohn was arrested this morning on Interstate 10 near Louisa Street for driving under the influence.

"Around 3:21 a.m., Elsensohn was off-duty and driving eastbound in a department-issued vehicle when he apparently lost control of his vehicle and struck the guardrail. After conducting a field sobriety test, officers placed Elsensohn under arrest for driving under the influence," said a statement from police.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

The Public Integrity Bureau placed Elsensohn on emergency suspension without pay pending the outcome of a criminal investigation. He is a six-year veteran of the NOPD and was most recently assigned to the NOPD Special Operations Division.

Officer charged with public indecency, wearing gun while drunk

WKYC Staff 3:32 p.m. EST January 21, 2015

Pillow said Juliano had been on extended illness leave at the time.

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Police spokesman Ali Pillow confirms to WKYC that Cleveland police officer Paul Juliano, 57, has been charged with misdemeanor public indecency and having a weapon while intoxicated.

Juliano, who was off-duty at the time, was a passenger in a car driven by Howard Kennedy, 54, according to court records.

A Cleveland police officer witnessed the traffic stop after callers said a vehicle was hitting objects on Rocky River Drive and Larchwood Drive about 8 p.m. Saturday.

Pillow said Juliano had been on extended illness leave at the time.

Juliano's hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Feb. 4 in Cleveland Municipal Court, according to court records.

Jackson Township officer suspended

By CantonRep.com staff report

A township police officer has been suspended following a disorderly conduct conviction.

Jacqueline Ecrement-Fusko, 40, pleaded no contest Jan. 9 to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. She was put on administrative leave the same day, Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink said.

The department is investigating whether she violated any internal policies, he said.

Ecrement-Fusko will continue to receive pay — her annual salary is listed as $48,924.30 — and benefits during her suspension, and will continue to do so until the investigation is complete.

“I look for it to go pretty quick,” Brink said.

According to Massillon Municipal Court records, Ecrement-Fusko verbally fought with another woman Nov. 2 at a township bar. She threatened the woman, despite being told to stop by an off-duty bar employee, and threw a plastic cup of liquid at her.

Ecrement-Fusko’s attorney, Frederick Pitinii, declined to comment.

Her husband, Ty Fusko, said his wife cannot comment during the investigation, but that the complaint was “only one side of the story.”

Gerry Hyland killed police oversight after the cops gunned down unarmed citizens...you elected now toss him out,

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.