Cop
from chase video suspended in unrelated case
Baton Rouge cop David
K. Stewart has been suspended amid an internal investigation. Stewart was
placed on administrative leave although cops refused to say what prompted the
investigation and also would not say when it began. Stewart’s suspension came
on June 21, two days before The Advocate newspaper published a video of a
traffic stop in which Stewart pulled over another off-duty cop for speeding and
driving erratically in Livingston Parish. Both cops were “verbally counseled”
after the traffic stop, which took place outside Stewart’s jurisdiction.
Send
him on a paid vacation in the summer, that’ll teach him
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) —Kernersville cop S.P. Senor has
been suspended with pay and
found in contempt of court for a causing a disturbance after a man was found
not guilty of misdemeanor possession of marijuana. After the hearing, Senor
confronted the man and used profanity. Senor apologized to the court and to the
man. Senor testified during the trial that he stopped the man for a broken
license plate light and found marijuana while searching the car. The man denied
that the marijuana or the car belonged to him, and prosecutors couldn't prove
otherwise.
Cop
involved in wrong-way chase suspended
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (WSVN) -- Opa-Locka Cop Sergio Perez has
been suspended from the force. He has a spotty past with the department and a
history of reckless behavior.Perez was involved a high speed chase that ended
with a wrong way wreck on Interstate 95 in Aventura back in April He was
pursuing a driver who started heading north in the southbound lanes and crashed
into a van killing all four passengers.Department policy statescops cannot go
against the flow of traffic in an effort to catch someone.
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workers suspended at MPD after probes
Suspensions ranging from one to five days were ordered for
seven Maui Police Department employees as part of internal investigations .Five-day
suspensions were ordered for a cop for inappropriate conduct toward another
employee and being untruthful and for a cop for sending threatening messages to
an acquaintance and being untruthful during the investigation. A cop was
suspended for three days for failing to properly complete an internal
investigation report on time in September 2011. Another three-day suspension
was ordered for inappropriate conduct toward another employee in July. Another cop
was suspended for two days and transferred for failing to properly report the
custody of evidence in March 2012.
The other written reprimands were for:
* Contempt of court for a personal matter in April 2010.
* Failing to enforce a protective order in July.
* Making derogatory and unprofessional comments about his
supervisor in September.
* Hitting a parked vehicle in a motor vehicle accident in
December.
* Reversing into a tree in a motor vehicle accident in
January.
* Operating a patrol vehicle without a valid driver's
license in February.
Port
Authority cop gets PTI for allegedly stealing iPhone at Rockaway Townsquare
Mall
Rommel DeLeon, a now-suspended cop for the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey was admitted o the Pre-Trial Intervention program to
resolve charges of stealing a woman’s Apple iPhone at Rockaway Townsquare Mall
and then trying to use his law enforcement position to get out of trouble. Judge Robert Gilson’s order admitting DeLeon
into PTI, he will be supervised on probation for one year and must perform 50
hours of community service. He also must pay $55 to the victim to replace the
protective cover of her iPhone. DeLeon was accused of stealing an Apple iPhone
from another customer at the Toys ‘R’ Us store at the Rockaway Townsquare Mall
in Rockaway Township on July 2, 2010. A woman who was ahead of DeLeon in line
placed her phone on the counter and accidentally left it behind and he
allegedly swiped it, according to the charges. While being questioned by police
a few days later about the alleged theft, DeLeon said he was a police cop and
inquired “how he could make the case go away,” Weber has said.
Houston
police cop indefinitely suspended from police force
Brandon Crissmon-Stewart,
a rookie HPD cop accused of failing to properly report and turn in a
piece of stolen property has been indefinitely suspended from the police
force.Sources said the 23-year-old failed to properly report and turn in an
iPhone that someone reported stolen from a plane at Bush Intercontinental
Airport. Crissmon-Stewart, according to police sources, found the stolen cell
phone on the side of the road not far from his home near Humble. He was off
duty and out riding his horse.
Park
Police cop charged with stealing from ATM
MINNEAPOLIS - A Three Rivers Park Police cop is charged with
stealing funds from an ATM at the park where he worked. Investigators say
Jonthomas Cross took money from the ATM inside the Chalet at Elm Creek Park
Reserve on two separate occasions in January of 2013. The revenue manager told
police that the two thefts totaled more than $1,200.
Jail Workers Charged in Assault
Eliseo Perez Jr a high-ranking New York City Department of
Correction employee and nine other cops pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges
stemming from an alleged assault in 2012 of a Rikers Island inmate and an
attempt to cover it up.
Perez is accused of ordering cops at the jail to kick in the
teeth of an inmate, Jamal Lightfoot on July 11, 2012, inside a search room in
the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island. Six additional workers were
arraigned on attempted gang assault and other assault charges.
Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Piergrossi, who is
prosecuting the case. Piergrossi told Supreme Court Justice Steven L. Barrett
that the alleged beating took place as Mr. Lightfoot was being turned over into
the custody of Emergency Services Unit (ESU) cops to be searched following a
slashing inside the jail.
“Eliseo Perez turned to Capt. Michael Pollard while pointing
to inmate Jamal Lightfoot and said, ‘This guy thinks he’s tough. When you get
him down to intake, I want you to kick his…teeth out,”‘ he said. The prosecutor
said that Capt. Vaughn agreed, saying he wanted to see the inmate’s ‘”teeth on
the floor.’”
Mr. Piergrossi then alleged that five of the
defendants—Pollard, Parker, Rivera, Rodriguez and Parra, all of whom were ESU cops—repeatedly
punched and kicked the inmate, including about his face and testicles, and
slammed his head against the concrete floor of the pen.
Mr. Piergrossi showed the court photographs of Mr. Lightfoot
before and after the incident, during which he sustained orbital fractures to
each eye and nasal fractures. “This was a brutal attack on a defenseless inmate
who posed no threat to the cops inside that search pen with no cameras,” he
said.
Fort
Lauderdale, 3 cops sued over traffic arrest
The city and three of its police cops are being sued in
federal court by a man who claims he was stopped for trumped-up reasons two
years ago, mainly because he was driving through the "inner city"
after midnight in a Mercedes Benz.
Anthony Munden, 40, said he was forced from his car at
gunpoint and handcuffed while police illegally searched his car. He was then
arrested for possession of a concealed weapon after police found a gun in his
car's glove box – even though Munden had a valid concealed weapons permit.
Munden was forced to spend almost ten hours in custody and his concealed
weapons permit was suspended because of his arrest
The police report of the June 10, 2011, incident says cops
initiated the stop in the 500 block of Northwest Ninth Avenue after observing
Munden drive through two stop signs without stopping. Carita, with his high
beams on while Munden's car came to a rolling stop, reported he observed Munden
"reach to his waistband and reveal a firearm which he placed into the
glove box."
The suit claims the detectives made up their official
version of the incident to hide their violation of Munden's civil rights,
including constitutional guarantees to be free from unreasonable search and
seizure and from excessive force.
Officials:
Washington Cop Charged With Insurance Fraud
Officials confirm a Washington Police cop was arrested
Tuesday for insurance fraud after the new pickup truck he reported stolen 5
years ago was recently found at the bottom of a creek. 38-year-old Jerry Davis
of Brick Kiln Road in Washington was arrested Tuesday and charged with 2 counts
of felony insurance fraud and conspiracy to obtain property by false pretenses.
The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office says Davis was the owner of the truck.
