Cop Sentenced in Cargo Theft By Go
By
Truck News+ Updated: January 20, 2015 A former police officer from Jersey City,
N.J., will spend the next three years in jail. Mario “Mad Dog” Rodriguez, was
sentenced earlier this month for his role in a cargo theft and extortion
scheme. Rodriguez pleaded guilty to the charges. He must also serve three years
of supervised release and pay a fine of $2,000. Rodriguez was charged after he
and another individual, who unbeknownst to Rodriguez was an FBI confidential
informant, broke into a trailer parked at a warehouse in Secaucus, N.J. The
trailer had been left there under surveillance by law enforcement. The pair
stole 600,000 cigarettes and six televisions from the trailer then drove to
Staten Island, N.Y., where they sold the cigarettes to another individual, who
was an undercover police officer, for $5,000. Rodriquez kept $3,000 of the
money and three of the TVs. Over the next several weeks, Rodriguez collaborated
with the FBI informant and other undercover agents to plan the robbery of a
drug dealer. Rodriguez and Anthony Roman, Jersey City, who was not a law
enforcement officer, met the dealer in a mall parking lot. The dealer, another
undercover officer, was driving an SUV equipped with surveillance and
containing a plastic bag with $20,000 in cash. Rodriguez and Roman identified
themselves as police officers and said they had to inspect the vehicle. That’s
when they stole the cash. After leaving the parking lot, Rodriguez, the
informant and another undercover agent met in a hotel room to split the money.
- See more at:
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE
COPS, NOT ENCOURAGE THEIR AWFUL BEHAVIOR
Boycott the following
companies for hosting the Fairfax 2015 World Police & Fire Games
Apple Federal Credit Union,
LMI,
Noblis,
B.F. Saul Company,
Galls LLC,
Sage Communications,
Macerich,
Glory Days Grill,
Reston Limousine,
City of Fairfax, Karin’s Florist,
NOVA Media Services,
Clyde’s Restaurant Group,
Level3 Communications,
Verizon
Globe, Dewberry,
IMC, ESPN 980,
Serco,
Loudoun County,
Grant Thornton,
Prince William Convention and Visitors Bureau and
Booz Allen Hamilton.
Want to change the murderous arrogance and indifference of the
Fairfax County Police? Then fire the
people who hire the cops and watch how quickly things change. Start with tossing Gerry Hyland out of
office. He basically works for the cop’s best interest and not yours.
Bottom line, if politicians don’t fear that you can harm their
careers, then you don’t exist. They don’t see you, they don’t hear you. You
don’t matter.
Register to vote, form a political action committee. Run a
candidate. Take back your government.
Middlefield police officer charged with falsifying a report appears in court
By Andrew Ragali Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN — A veteran Middlefield police officer accused of falsifying a police report is working with the town on a separation agreement.
Officer Scott Halligan, a 26-year veteran, was arrested Sept. 15 by state police and charged with filing a false incident report, a misdemeanor. The report said his personal vehicle was damaged in a collision with a deer. Halligan, one of two officers in Middlefield, has been suspended with pay since his arrest, Town Attorney Bruno Morasutti said.
Halligan was scheduled to appear Monday morning in Superior Court, though he initially didn’t show. His attorney, Daniel Esposito, appeared on his behalf before Judge Philip Scarpellino.
Halligan is attempting to apply for accelerated rehabilitation, a special form of probation for first-time offenders that would remove the charge from his record after a probation period set by the judge.
Morasutti told Scarpellino Monday that the town supports Halligan’s application for accelerated rehabilitation and is working toward a separation agreement with Halligan that will end his employment.
“It doesn’t mean he’ll get accelerated rehabilitation,” Scarpellino said of the proposed separation agreement.
At Morasutti’s request, the case was continued until March 5. Middlefield First Selectman Jon A. Brayshaw couldn’t be reached for comment Monday.
Scarpellino was upset that Halligan didn’t initially appear in court Monday morning.
“I’m sure when he was a police officer, if he told you to stay somewhere, you would stay, and if he told you to go somewhere, you would go,” Scarpellino said.
At Scarpellino’s urging, Esposito left the courtroom to find Halligan. Less than an hour later, Halligan appeared before the judge.
“You need to be in court when you have a court date,” Scarpellino said.
Another officer noticed damage to the front of Halligan’s Nissan Maxima in early July, according to an arrest warrant. Halligan told the officer that he struck a deer on Cider Mill Road when it jumped out in front of his car. He told the officer that he didn’t report the incident but would do so later, the warrant states.
After getting a quote from a local auto body shop to fix the damaged car, Halligan sent a text message to the other officer on July 8 asking that he create a car versus deer incident report, which is required of law enforcement officials to report the killing of any deer.
After noticing the incident report on Halligan’s desk July 11, a state trooper inspected the damage to his personal vehicle in the parking lot and found no evidence of a deer strike. He also found that the damage observed wasn’t consistent with the report.
When questioned by state police, Halligan admitted that the accident didn’t involve a deer but occurred at the intersection of Main Street and Reeds Gap Road when he collided with metal debris in the road, the warrant states.
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE COPS, NOT ENCOURAGE THEIR AWFUL BEHAVIOR
Boycott the following companies for hosting the Fairfax 2015 World Police & Fire Games
Apple Federal Credit Union,
LMI,
Noblis,
B.F. Saul Company,
Galls LLC,
Sage Communications,
Macerich,
Glory Days Grill,
Reston Limousine,
City of Fairfax, Karin’s Florist,
NOVA Media Services,
Clyde’s Restaurant Group,
Level3 Communications,
Verizon
Globe, Dewberry,
IMC, ESPN 980,
Serco,
Loudoun County,
Grant Thornton,
Prince William Convention and Visitors Bureau and
Booz Allen Hamilton.
Want to change the murderous arrogance and indifference of the Fairfax County Police? Then fire the people who hire the cops and watch how quickly things change. Start with tossing Gerry Hyland out of office. He basically works for the cop’s best interest and not yours.
Bottom line, if politicians don’t fear that you can harm their careers, then you don’t exist. They don’t see you, they don’t hear you. You don’t matter.
Register to vote, form a political action committee. Run a candidate. Take back your government.
Officer suspended over falsified traffic
ticket count
SPEEDWAY,
Ind. (Jan. 26, 2015)– FOX59 News has learned that a Speedway police officer was
suspended for 35 days in 2014 for falsifying traffic ticket statistics while
working on a federally funded traffic safety program.
Officer
Mike Clupper was found to have lied about his role in the Marion County traffic
safety partnership.
Local
officers, working overtime, typically are assigned four-hour shifts when they
are expected to write four tickets, or confirm a similar number of traffic
contacts, per hour.
The
$400,000 federal grant program is aimed at jailing drunk drivers, patrolling
high-incident intersections and enforcing speed limits.
Clupper’s
falsified ticket count was uncovered by an audit by the Indiana Criminal
Justice Institute and IMPD, the lead agency in the partnership.
“During
this audit we recognized there was a descrepancy in the number of tickets that
were scheduled to be in court versus the number of tickets on the stat sheet,”
said IMPD Deputy Chief Mike Bates. “He was basically over reporting the number
of (tickets) that he had written during a particular time.”
“I
was told it was six separate times.”
Clupper
and Chief James Campbell, who recommended the suspension to the Speedway police
merit board, were not available for comment.
Earlier
in the day, Campbell spoke to the 10th IMPD leadership academy which trains low
ranking officers in department management.
“You’ve
heard the message and I think in 2015 there is nothing more important than the
quality of leadership within a police department.”
Bates
said that while it is the responsibility of each department’s supervisors to
monitor the work of their patrol officers in the program, Speedway police
commanders were not aware of the discrepancy until it was pointed out by the
Partnership.
The
partnership deferred to Campbell’s authority when it came to disciplining his
officer and Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry’s office refused to charge
Clupper with theft.
“He
actually made arrests during this period, too,” said Bates, “so it was actually
just a ticket issue. So really it was just more of a performance issue there
was no criminal charges involved in it.
“I
know there was discipline involved and the officer was removed from any future
partnership grant work. He’s not allowed to do that anymore.”
Bates
said that while the program has been an overall success, Clupper’s
falsification was discovered only through a “random” audit.
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE
COPS, NOT ENCOURAGE THEIR AWFUL BEHAVIOR
Boycott the following
companies for hosting the Fairfax 2015 World Police & Fire Games
Apple Federal Credit Union,
LMI,
Noblis,
B.F. Saul Company,
Galls LLC,
Sage Communications,
Macerich,
Glory Days Grill,
Reston Limousine,
City of Fairfax, Karin’s Florist,
NOVA Media Services,
Clyde’s Restaurant Group,
Level3 Communications,
Verizon
Globe, Dewberry,
IMC, ESPN 980,
Serco,
Loudoun County,
Grant Thornton,
Prince William Convention and Visitors Bureau and
Booz Allen Hamilton.
Want to change the murderous arrogance and indifference of the
Fairfax County Police? Then fire the
people who hire the cops and watch how quickly things change. Start with tossing Gerry Hyland out of
office. He basically works for the cop’s best interest and not yours.
Bottom line, if politicians don’t fear that you can harm their
careers, then you don’t exist. They don’t see you, they don’t hear you. You
don’t matter.
Register to vote, form a political action committee. Run a
candidate. Take back your government.
Dispatcher charged with aiding officer
accused of burglaries
By
Sanford Schmidt
EDWARDSVILLE
— A Madison County grand jury Wednesday charged an Edwardsville police
dispatcher with two counts of obstructing justice and a count of theft in
connection with burglaries allegedly committed by an Edwardsville police
officer.
The
jury handed up an indictment of Keri L. Knight, 41, of the 8100 block of
Moreland Road, Bethalto, who is accused of lying to a Madison County deputy
about officer Brian Barker’s alleged crimes. Barker has been suspended without
pay.
She
allegedly told the deputy that she was unaware that money from the alleged
burglaries were in a plastic container in her possession.
She
is also accused of removing money from her home to prevent investigating
officers from finding it. The theft count is a misdemeanor in which she was
accused of obtaining control over stolen property.
The
Madison County Sheriff’s Office conducted the investigation to avoid the a
potential conflict of interest. Knight’s bail has been set at $15,000, but she
was released on her own recognizance.
Multiple
charges were filed in December against Barker for a series of burglaries that
were discovered as a result of a burglary at an Edwardsville salon, a release
from Madison County State’s Attorney Thomas D. Gibbons said.
Barker
was originally charged Dec. 23 with burglary and official misconduct after an
investigation into a burglary at Reality Salon and Spa.
The
burglary was discovered through the owner’s security system. Upon learning that
an Edwardsville officer was suspected in the burglary, Edwardsville Police
Chief Jay Keeven contacted Sheriff John Lakin and the Madison County Sheriff’s
Department and requested that they handle the investigation, Gibbons said in a
news release.
After
the initial investigation into the Reality Salon and Spa, the Madison County
State’s Attorney’s Office charged Barker with one count of burglary and one
count of official misconduct. He is accused of stealing approximately $450
while on duty.
Further
investigation into unsolved burglaries in Edwardsville led to additional
burglary charges that were filed later in December. Baker is now facing eleven
additional burglary charges and one count of residential burglary, for crimes
committed between May 2012 and November 2014, the release said.
Additionally,
Barker is charged with aggravated unlawful possession of stolen firearms, a
Class X felony. The burglaries occurred at various businesses in the
Edwardsville area including several law firms, retail establishments and
another salon. The residential burglary occurred in Moro.
The
State’s Attorney’s Office has been advised by Keeven that Barker will be placed
on administrative leave without pay. Barker’s bond was set at $100,000 on
Friday’s charges and $75,000 on the original charges. He was released after
posting $17,500 cash on the initial charges.
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE
COPS, NOT ENCOURAGE THEIR AWFUL BEHAVIOR
Boycott the following
companies for hosting the Fairfax 2015 World Police & Fire Games
Apple Federal Credit Union,
LMI,
Noblis,
B.F. Saul Company,
Galls LLC,
Sage Communications,
Macerich,
Glory Days Grill,
Reston Limousine,
City of Fairfax, Karin’s Florist,
NOVA Media Services,
Clyde’s Restaurant Group,
Level3 Communications,
Verizon
Globe, Dewberry,
IMC, ESPN 980,
Serco,
Loudoun County,
Grant Thornton,
Prince William Convention and Visitors Bureau and
Booz Allen Hamilton.
Want to change the murderous arrogance and indifference of the
Fairfax County Police? Then fire the people
who hire the cops and watch how quickly things change. Start with tossing Gerry Hyland out of office.
He basically works for the cop’s best interest and not yours.
Bottom line, if politicians don’t fear that you can harm their
careers, then you don’t exist. They don’t see you, they don’t hear you. You don’t
matter.
Register to vote, form a political action committee. Run a
candidate. Take back your government.
