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Plano police officer arrested on child-sex charges

Trumbull Cop Sentenced in Teenage Sex Assault Case

New trial scheduled for ex-cop accused of raping 5-year-old girl

Isle of Wight County School Resource Officer suspended after student complaint

Plano police officer arrested on child-sex charges

By VALERIE WIGGLESWORTH

A Plano police officer has been arrested on felony charges of indecency with a child and possession or distribution of child pornography.

Richard Scott Bradford, 45, of Anna was arrested Thursday by the Collin County sheriff’s office on the child pornography charge. He was released from jail a few hours later on bond.

This is his second arrest in less than a month. Bradford was also arrested Dec. 23 on a charge of indecency with a child by contact. He was released from jail on bond.

Plano police spokesman David Tilley said Bradford was hired in July 1998 and has worked as a patrol officer during his entire career with the department. Bradford has been placed on administrative leave while the charges are investigated by the sheriff’s office. Tilley said Plano police are conducting their own internal investigation.

Bradford could not be reached for comment.

According to the arrest warrant on the indecency charge, a 9-year-old girl reported that Bradford touched her inappropriately on Dec. 22 while she was sleeping. She told police she woke up and saw Bradford with his pants down, the warrant stated. The girl reported what happened to her mother, who contacted authorities, the warrant stated.

According to the court documents, investigators obtained search warrants for Bradford’s cellphone and the contents of that cellphone the same day he was arrested. The report states investigators found multiple images of child pornography stored on the phone.

Collin County court records show Bradford also was found guilty on three separate misdemeanor charges for issuing bad checks in 2012. Tilley said that civil service law states that those class C misdemeanors don’t affect someone’s employment as long as they are taken care of.

Trumbull Cop Sentenced in Teenage Sex Assault Case

William Ruscoe was sentenced after pleading guilty late last year to sexually assaulting a teenage police explorer.

By Rich Scinto

Former Trumbull Police Officer William Ruscoe was sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended after 30 months after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teen in the Police Explorers program.

Ruscoe was sentenced Friday, according to court records. He will also have 10 years of probation once he completes his prison sentence

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He was a 19-year veteran of the force, according to the Trumbull Times.

Ruscoe pleaded guilty in October. He is accused of making multiple advances toward the teenage victim and sexually assaulting her after many protests.

New trial scheduled for ex-cop accused of raping 5-year-old girl

New trial scheduled for ex-cop accused of raping 5-year-old girl Associated Press | 0 comments

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A new trial has been scheduled for Feb. 9 in Vancouver for ex-Beaverton, Oregon, police Officer Christopher Warren whose child rape conviction was thrown out because of a mistrial.

The Columbian reports a Clark County Superior Court judge also doubled his bail Wednesday to $500,000. He remains in jail.

A jury convicted Warren in October of raping a 5-year-old girl with a pencil. His lawyer says he was falsely accused.

The mistrial was declared in December after a juror admitted reading a newspaper article about the case in violation of jury instructions.

Isle of Wight County School Resource Officer suspended after student complaint

Becca Mitchell

Isle of Wight County, Va. – An Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s deputy working as a school resource officer (SRO) has been suspended following a complaint made by a student.

SRO’s are assigned to patrol the schools during the day while school is in session. The student’s complaint has prompted an investigation into possible inappropriate contact with a minor, according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s Office.

The deputy has been removed from school and placed on administrative leave.

Once the investigation is complete, the Isle of Wight County Commonwealth Attorney’s office will decide if criminal charges will be filed

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.