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ORGANIZED CRIME

 

The Book of Prohibition Gangsters : From A to Z

 

Joe Petrosino’s War On the Mafia: The Mob Files Series

The Mobs Empire: The US Governments Time Line of Organized Crime

The Mob Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland

Shooting the Mob: Organized Crime in Photographs: Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.

The New England Mafia. Illustrated.: With testimony from Frank Salemme and a US Government time line.

The Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings. Abridged

The Nutmeg Mafia.: An Informal History of Organized Crime in Connecticut.

The Mob, Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Rackets in Chicago.

The Book of Jewish Gangsters

Corleone: A Tale of Sicily

A brief History of Organized Crime on the New York Waterfront.

A Brief History of Chicago’s Mob Bosses Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana.

Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the original 193 edition.

The Mobs Empire: Organized crime in Chicago

Mob History Magazine:  Mobster Across America: New England, New Jersey, New York, Cuba

Mob History Magazine: Prohibition Gangsters. Part 1

Mob History Magazine: Prohibition Gangsters. Part 2

Mobsters Brief Bio’s Volume 2: Four stories: The Murder of Rosy Rosenthal, Guns in the Sun. The Cohen-Dragna War. Killer, The Murky World of Joey Ep.

Mobster Brief Bio’s Volume 4: The Chicago Mobs Crooked Cops: Tubbo Gilbert, the World’s Richest Cop, William Hanhardt, the heartbreaker

Mob History Magazine. The Mob in the Porn industry: Reuben Sturman and Colombo’s

Bugsy & His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill

A Vocabulary Of Criminal Slang. With Some Examples Of Common Usages

 The Threat of Russian Organized Crime.

The Stolen years

When Capone's Mob Murdered Touhy. By John W. Tuohy

The US Governments time line of Organized crime192-1987. Illustrated

The Russian Mafia in America: With one hundred illustrations

The Salerno Report. The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: The report by Mafia expert Ralph Salerno Consultant to the Select Committee on Assassinations

The New York Mob: The Bosses

Early Female Criminals Of New York City

Early Gangsters of New York City.

The Mob Files: Whacked: One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit

The Mob Files. Chicago's Mob Bosses

The Mob Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History.

The Mob Files Series. The Mob Across America

The Mob Files. The Mob in Hollywood

The Mob Files. The Mob in Vegas

The Mob from A to Z. Volume 1. Abatte to Bozic

The Mobs Empire Organized Crime in Chicago

The Mobs Empire : Department of Justice Chronological History of La Cosa Nostra in the United States 1920-1987

The Mobs Empire. New York Families Time Line. 1895-211: Abridged and Illustrated

The New England Mafia

The New York Mafia: The Origins of the New York The New York Mob: The Bosses

The Illustrated Book of Prohibition Gangsters

The Life and Times of Terrible Tommy O'Connor

The Life and World of Al Capone

The Mob and the Kennedy Assassination: Jack Ruby. Testimony by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner

The Best of the Mob Files Series: Illustrated Articles on Organized Crime Vol. 1

The Best of the Mob Files Series: Illustrated Articles on Organized Crime Vol. 1

The Best of the Mob Files Series. Illustrated Articles on Organized Crime Vol. 2

The Best of the Mob Files Series. Illustrated Articles on Organized Crime Vol. 1: Select Feature Articles on Organized Crime from The American Mafia Collection

The Bioff Scandal.: The Mobs Shakedown of the Hollywood Studios

A History of Violence: An Encyclopedia of 14 Chicago Mob Murders 1st Edition

Organized Crime: 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate

Organized Crime. Volume 2: : Jewish–American Gangsters

Shooting the Mob: Organized Crime in Photographs. Dutch Schultz.

Shooting the Mob: Organized Crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo

The Book of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.

Shooting the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.

The Apache’s of New York:  Early Gangsters of New York City

Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime. Abridged

Roger Touhy. The Last Gangster.: The true story of the bootlegger who took on the Chicago mob.

Shooting the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.

Shooting the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.

Mob Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee

Mob History Magazine : Gangsters by Gaslight

Mob History Magazine: Chicago Gangsters Last Days

Mob History Magazine: Chicago Mob Characters

Mob History Magazine. : Volume 1

Mob History Magazine. New York's Jewish Mobster

Mob History Magazine. The US Government’s Time Line of Organized Crime in New England: 1945-23. Special Edition

Mob History Magazine.: Volume 1

Mob Magazine Irish American Gangsters: Special Issue

Mob Magazine: Prohibition Gangsters: Special Issue

Mob Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos

Mob Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos.

Mob Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others: The court testimony of FBI New York Undercover Agent Joe Pistone, Gambino Family Mobster Michael DiLeonardo, Cleveland Mob Boss Angelo Lonardo, Chicago Mob Cop Michael Corbitt

Mobster Brief Bio’s Volume 3: A trio of stories: Joe Petrosino’s War on the Mafia, Murray the Camel, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

The Mob and the overthrow of the Black Policy Rackets in Chicago.

The Mob Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 19 to 2

The Mob Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts

The Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We Only Kill Each Other"

The Mob Files: The Book of Jewish Gangsters Of The Midwest From A to Z

The Mob Files: The Illustrated Guide to the Mob in Vegas

The Mob Files: The Mob Across America

The Dutchman's Soliloquy.: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of Gangster Dutch Schultz.

More Mob Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos.

Jewish Gangsters of New York. From A to Z 19-2

Joe Petrosino’s War On the Mafia

Joe Valachi's Testimony on the Mafia. Abridged.

Mafia Testimony: State and Federal Hearing testimony on Organized Crime.: Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Kansas City.

Gangland Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)

Gangs of New York City

Gangsters Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated

Glamour Gangster: : The Mob in Hollywood.

Chicago’s Mob Bosses: From Accardo to Zizzo

Brief Mob Bio’s Volume 5: A Trio of Stories:: The Eastman Gang, Joe the Boss, Hollywood’s Call Girl

Brief Mob Bio’s Volume 6.: The Mob, the Kennedys, and Frank Sinatra Jake Guzik, Capone’s Numbers Man

Brief Mob Bio’s Volume 7: Four Stories: Tony the Hat: The real founder of Las Vegas, The Gangster of Brighton Beach, Little Moey, Potatoes Kaufman Mob pioneer.

Brief Mob Bio’s. Volume 8 Terrible Tommy O’Connor. Chicago Gangster

An Illustrated Chronological History Of Organized Crime Volume 1. 1863-1949

An Illustrated Chronological History Of Organized Crime. Vol1. 1863-1949

An Illustrated Chronological History of Organized Crime. Vol. 2.

 An Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line

 An Illustrated Chronological History of the New York Mobs 1895-2 Vol. 1

An Illustrated Chronological History Of the New York Mobs TimeLine 1895-2

And that's how it was, Officer : A short novel about disappearing gangsters

The White Moll: With Novel and film summary and author Biography.

 

They shot him dead for stealing sunglasses while they were in a wooded area, out of public sight AND THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT

 

 

Two FCPD leaders dropped from wrongful death lawsuit over fatal police shooting

August 11, 2025

 

Two Fairfax County Police Department commanders have been dropped from a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of the victim in a fatal police shooting.

A federal judge on Friday (Aug. 8) granted the removal of both Deputy Chief Wilson Lee and Major Scott Colwell from the civil lawsuit initiated by the mother of Timothy Johnson, who was killed by a police officer during a chase in February 2023.

Melissa Johnson filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against former FCPD Sgt. Wesley Shifflett, who fired the fatal shot, and 12 other FCPD employees “who should have supervised him properly, given his existing record of recent excessive recourse to firearms when dealing with persons suspected of non-violent offenses,” the Jan. 16 complaint alleges.

On Feb. 22, 2023, Shifflett and other officers chased Timothy Johnson after he was accused of shoplifting sunglasses from a Nordstrom store at Tysons Corner Center….they gunned him down for stealing sunglasses.

In a wooded area outside the mall, Shifflett and another officer drew their weapons and fired at Johnson after allegedly seeing him tug at his waistband. The 37-year-old Johnson died at a hospital from his injuries.

Before Shifflett’s trial last year, prosecutors argued that three previous incidents where he pointed a gun at unarmed Black individuals while investigating shoplifting allegations at Tysons Corner Center illustrated a pattern of aggression. However, the circuit court judge presiding over the case prohibited those incidents from being presented as evidence to the jury, determining that they had “negligible” value.

A jury acquitted Shifflett of manslaughter on Oct. 4, 2024, but he was convicted on one count of recklessly using a firearm and sentenced on Feb. 28 to three years in prison, followed by five years of probation.

Shifflett had his penalty commuted by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin in March — mere days after he began serving his prison time.

Melissa Johnson and Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano criticized Youngkin for intervening, with Johnson calling the commutation a validation of Shifflett’s “rogue action.”

The civil lawsuit is ongoing, with Johnson seeking a trial by jury. Police Chief Kevin Davis is named among the defendants, along with Shifflett, Arnest and others. Judge Nachmanoff advised both parties of settlement options at Friday’s hearing, according to court documents.

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And the Fairfax County cops were there

 

I used to believe in the American dream. Then the police killed my son

Twenty-five-year-old Bijan Ghaisar was unarmed when he was shot in his car by two officers. Charges against the men were dismissed – but seven years on his mother Kelly is still fighting for her boy

 

Annie Kelly

Kelly Ghaisar never thought to teach her son, Bijan, to fear the police. She didn’t see the need. After arriving in the US as a young girl fleeing the Iranian revolution in 1979, she had led a charmed life in her adopted country, building a prosperous and happy family with her husband and raising her two children – Bijan and his older sister, Nageen – to believe in the American dream.

“We had just lived our life in this bubble, this very lovely bubble,” she says. “Even though we’re both from Iran, we never felt we had to teach our kids that they were different. They were American and we taught them to believe that they were equal and free, the values we thought this country stood for. I never thought that Bijan, a young man of colour, would need to know what to do if he encountered the police. We taught him they were there to protect him, not that he would ever have to protect himself from them.”

Now, she says, she knows better. “But of course, it’s too late.”

Over the years, the details of Bijan’s death have been told again and again: in court documents, newspaper articles and TV news broadcasts. Online, there are dozens of photos of Kelly, standing on courthouse steps surrounded by family members holding pictures of her son. Yet every time she recounts the details of the night he was killed, she tells it as if she were there, right next to him, watching helplessly as the final, tragic chapter of his young life played out.

On Friday 17 November 2017, 25-year-old Bijan, who worked in his father’s accounting firm, was in his Jeep Grand Cherokee driving along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in northern Virginia, just across the river from Washington DC, when he was rear-ended by an Uber driver. After the accident, Bijan didn’t stop – Kelly doesn’t know why – and the passenger inside the Uber called 911 to report the incident and said that Bijan had fled the scene.

The 911 dispatcher put out a call identifying his vehicle and he was spotted by Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya, two DC park police (a federal law enforcement agency) officers, who started a pursuit. They were joined by a police car from Fairfax county, Virginia, which recorded what followed.

The park police officers pulled Bijan’s car over, got out of their vehicle and approached him, their guns raised and pointing into his car.

Kelly thinks that Bijan panicked. “Before he was killed, he had never been in trouble, had never even had a speeding ticket,” she says. “And suddenly he was in this very frightening situation and he was very, very afraid of guns. He had an almost pathological fear of them. I know my child and I know he would have been terrified.”

In the video footage of the encounter, which Fairfax county police released a few months after Bijan’s death, you can see Bijan’s Jeep driving away and then stopping a second time and Amaya running to the vehicle with his gun drawn, banging it against the window. Bijan drives off again and there is a short chase before he pulls over again and the park police stop in front of his Jeep.

As Bijan’s car rolls slowly forward, Amaya jumps out of his car with his gun unholstered and fires repeatedly through the windshield. Bijan’s car begins to roll into a ditch as Amaya is joined by Vinyard and then they shoot into the car again. After the car stops, Amaya reholsters his gun, before pulling his weapon out again and firing through the windshield. “They just kept firing,” says Kelly quietly. “They shot my son, who was unarmed, 10 times in the head at close range. The whole incident from start to finish took less than 10 minutes.”

Across town, Kelly and her husband, James, were at home with no idea that their lives as they had known them had come to an end. “Everything was great, the kids were great, it was all perfect,” she says. “I was an interior designer, James was an accountant, we had a beautiful home.” That night, “the whole thing fell apart.”

At 1am two park police officers knocked on the front door. From the very first interaction, Kelly knew things were wrong. They told the couple that there had been a shootout and Bijan was in the hospital. “Like some gangster thing happened,” says Kelly. “And I said: ‘A shootout? That’s not possible.’ Because Bijan was so anti-gun, he would never have had a gun in his car. So from those very first moments they were lying to us.”The officers gave the Ghaisars their card and told them to call them when they got to the hospital. “And we never saw them again,” says Kelly. “They never, ever picked up the phone when we tried to call.”

When they arrived at the hospital, they were told that Bijan was in a coma, hovering between life and death.

“I said: ‘I want to see my son.’ And the doctor said: ‘I’m sorry, you can’t,’” says Kelly. The hospital staff told them they had received an email from the park police saying nobody should be let into Bijan’s room.

“We were all so shocked. The hospital said it had never happened before. Nobody in the police told us what had happened to our child but they had armed officers guarding his body.”

Kelly says: “100% there was racism there, all the way through. It just felt like: ‘He’s this Middle Eastern guy, we shot him, end of story. You don’t have the same rights as everybody else.’”

Kelly and her husband and daughter stayed at the hospital, sleeping on air beds in a waiting room for the 10 days it took Bijan to die. During that time they were only allowed to see their son once an hour for a few minutes at a time and they were never allowed to hold him. “He was in a coma but they said that he was evidence and we couldn’t touch him.”

 

Photos of Bijan published after his death show a relaxed young man, grinning into the camera. “He was a special person,” says Kelly, with maternal pride. “Everybody thought so. He had this huge heart, was so considerate and generous and so handsome. His whole life was ahead of him.” Her last memories of her son are of “his beautiful face just completely destroyed. When they took off the bandages, they had shot off one of his ears, his nose was severed, his eyes were swollen. He was unrecognisable.”

With everything that has happened since, Kelly says what seemed at the time like pointless cruelty now makes sense. “They wanted us to suffer,” she says. “They wanted us to be scared. They wanted us to know their power.”

Switching off Bijan’s life support was “the hardest decision that I will ever make in my life, even though we knew that there was nothing we could do to bring him back, that he was never going to recover,” she says. “But I did not want my son, whatever was left of him, to be in the grip of these people. They weren’t allowed to be near him any more.”

Bijan’s death was, Kelly says, “not just a loss. It was an absolute catastrophe. An obliteration.” The family lost more than their son that day: “We lost our faith in our country, our government. We saw that nothing, absolutely nothing we had believed about our country was true. That the system we thought was there to protect us was now going to fight us to protect their own people and we would be the only ones calling for justice for Bijan.”

In the seven and a half years since Bijan’s death, Kelly and her family have relentlessly fought the US government for accountability. She says that at every turn it has been denied.

“When you are fighting the federal government and they close ranks, there is nowhere to go,” she says. “The park police are federal police. The FBI is a federal department. The courts are there to protect the federal government. There is no way to get justice if the justice department is against you.”

The family spent two years waiting for an FBI investigation into Bijan’s shooting before the justice department announced it would not file federal charges against the two officers.

For 16 months, Kelly says, the park police refused to identify the officers who shot Bijan or release any information about the case until the Ghaisars filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit in 2018. When Amaya and Vinyard eventually took the stand, they said they shot Bijan in self-defence. In 2023 the civil suit was settled for $5m.

The Ghaisars’ long fight has not been without flares of hope. In 2020 a Fairfax grand jury indicted Vinyard and Amaya for manslaughter, which Kelly says “felt like a turning point”. Then, in October 2021, a federal judge dismissed all criminal charges against the officers on the basis of qualified immunity laws, which protect government workers from prosecution for actions taken within their official capacity if it can’t be proved that they violated constitutional or statutory rights or acted with “malicious intent”.

“The judge said that these two men were fine police officers and what they did was ‘necessary and proper’,” says Kelly. “This is how our system works, that a judge can write these words about the killing of an unarmed 25-year-old man. That it was necessary and proper.”

Amaya and Vinyard were put on paid leave after Bijan’s death. In January this year, in a huge blow to the Ghaisar family, they went back to work at the park police. “Which didn’t surprise me but did disgust us all,” says Kelly. She says she will never accept that this is the end. “I will not stop fighting for Bijan, not while I still live and breathe.”

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A vigil for Bijan Ghaisar in Washington DC in 2018. Photograph: Washington Post/Getty Images

In 2018 the family started the Bijan Ghaisar Foundation to support organisations fighting gun violence and police brutality, and to lobby for stricter gun protection laws. In particular, Kelly has become an impassioned campaigner against qualified immunity. “This is my number one goal, my life mission,” she says. “I’m not naive any more – I know this probably won’t happen in my lifetime – but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop for a second.”

Although Bijan’s photos are still all over their house and Kelly visits his grave every day, the old family traditions – the movie nights, the identical festive pyjama sets – have gone. “When my daughter and son-in-law are around for the holidays, we all sit down, get out our laptops and strategise the next steps for our foundation,” she says. “This is what we do together now.”

She is no longer the same person, she says. “The person I was before Bijan was killed has completely gone. She is gone. When you bring a life into the world and nurture that life and watch it grow into something as special as our son was, to see it just taken away so thoughtlessly, so pointlessly – it could have broken me for good. But I’ve found a fire and a strength within me that I never thought was there, and that is down to Bijan and my love for him.”

She has survived thanks to her friends, her family and her activism. “But number one is Bijan. He is the force holding me up, giving me strength and light and love to do what I’m trying to do.” People ask her how she hasn’t been corroded away by bitterness, grief or rage. “And I say: Bijan would not want that. Any negative energy was wrong to him, so I’m just channelling his spirit every day, and every day I get stronger. Because this is what Bijan would want me to do. Never give up.”

'Zoey's Law' would limit police chases following tragic death of toddler

 This issue needs federal attention...essentially ,we're allowing  the dumbest people on our payrolls to drive at any speed they like while chasing someone who may or may not be worth a high speed chase

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. - On Tuesday, Prince George’s County Councilwoman Krystal Oriadha is introducing a bill that would restrict a police officer’s ability to initiate a car chase.

Zoey’s Law — named after the 3-year-old girl who was killed last March in a deadly District Heights police pursuit — would create an internal pursuit review board and require the Prince George’s County police chief to deliver an annual report on all police-involved vehicle chases.

Zoey’s family stood alongside Oriadha today in support of the bill.

"This tragedy was preventable," said Gina Pryor, Zoey’s grandmother. "Had the officers made a different decision — one rooted in sound judgment and concern for public safety — Zoey would still be here today. I miss her every single day."

The backstory:

The deadly crash happened in March, when a District Heights police officer and a Capitol Heights police officer chased 39-year-old Timothy Naylor, who was fleeing a traffic stop in an Infiniti.

According to police, Naylor collided with four vehicles on the 1200 block of Addison Road South — one of them carrying 3-year-old Zoey and her mother, Tanishia. Zoey was killed in the crash. Her mother survived.

Maryland’s Independent Investigations Division is reviewing the incident as a police-involved death.

What they're saying:

Councilmember Krystal Oriadha says she’s introducing Zoey’s Law in hopes of preventing future tragedies.

"Sadly, when this happened, a lot of you in this room know there were multiple cases within a month’s timespan where we saw a tragic incident where a police chase led to the death of an individual who had no involvement with what was going on," Oriadha said.

Right now, the legislation would only apply to the Prince George’s County Police Department — so it would not directly address the pursuit that killed Zoey, which involved municipal officers.

But Oriadha says her goal is to get buy-in from municipalities through memorandums of understanding — or by passing similar laws at the city level.

FCPD adopts new policy on foot pursuits two years after fatal shooting

 WTF took them so long?

Fairfax Co. police launches recruiting push targeting laid-off federal workers

 That's how bad it is fo0r a department of gunslingers

and once again Fairfax County cops get away wth murder

 

RICHMOND, Va. (DC News Now) — The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus released a statement condemning Gov. Glen Youngkin for commuting a former Fairfax County Police Department sergeant’s sentence.

Sgt. Wesley Shifflett was sentenced on Friday, Feb. 28, to serve three years in prison for fatally shooting Timothy Johnson during a police pursuit. He was accused of shoplifting at Tyson’s Corner Center.

“I am convinced that the court’s sentence of incarceration is unjust and violates the cornerstone of our justice system—that similarly situated individuals receive proportionate sentences. I want to emphasize that a jury acquitted Sgt. Shifflett of the more serious charge of involuntary manslaughter, a conviction for which the sentencing guidelines recommend no jail time or up to six months’ incarceration,” Youngkin’s statement read in part.

Following Shifflett’s conviction for the reckless handling of a firearm, Johnson’s mother acknowledged “that most Black and Brown families that find themselves in this situation do not get this far … Today’s verdict has provided Mr. Shifflett a second chance-a benefit that my son, Timothy McCree Johnson, was not afforded.”

Members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus believe this pardon is reckless and a gross misuse of power that threatens public safety. We will not allow him to use the chaos his friends are causing in Washington as cover to evade consequences as he places a recently convicted, violent criminal back in our communities.

Melissa Johnson, Timothy Johnson’s mother, said on Monday that she found out about the commutation from media reports, and the governor’s office had not reached out to her in advance of the announcement.

“It felt like I could hear my son’s voice crying out from the dirt at Tysons Corner mall again, saying, ‘Why did you shoot me? I didn’t have anything.’ That’s what it felt like,” she said.

 

 

 

 

 

And the cops kill another citizen

  

Fairfax County police officer Shifflett gets 3 years in prison for fatal shooting of shoplifter

A former Fairfax County police officer was sentenced Friday to three years behind bars for his conviction in the deadly shooting of a fleeing shoplifter.

Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy Bellows handed down the three-year prison term to former sergeant Wesley Shifflett, 36, after a jury found the ex-cop guilty of reckless handling of a firearm in the fatal February 2023 incident outside Tysons Corner Center.

Shifflett was acquitted of his most serious charge — involuntary manslaughter — in the shooting that killed 37-year-old thief Timothy Johnson.

 

The former sergeant expressed his “deepest and heartfelt condolences to the Johnson family” shortly before his sentence was delivered in the crowded courtroom.

“This is a victory for everyone, and I don’t say ‘victory’ as any kind of loose term, because it will not bring our son back. But I do want to acknowledge that this is historical and unprecedented, and for that I am grateful,” Melissa Johnson, Timothy Johnson’s mother, said in a statement after the hearing.

Shifflett was booked into jail Friday night. The former cop’s defense attorneys told WRC-TV they will appeal the ruling.

Police union reps previously accused Fairfax County’s top prosecutor of pushing a “politically motivated” case that was determined to secure a conviction.

Fairfax County's proposed budget

 

Fairfax County's proposed budget for 2026 includes nearly $60 million in cuts. Among the proposed reductions are $11.5 million from the police department.

Thank God Fairfax County has finally come to it senses and gutted this bloated pig, especially when we take into account the millions of dollars the county has had to pay off for murders committed by the Fairfax County Police Department.   

Thank you FCPD, for trying to hire this clown back.......

 

Virginia court blocks reinstatement of former Fairfax County officer

A Virginia Court of Appeals has blocked former Fairfax County police officer Wesley Shifflett's attempt to get his job back.

Posted October 17, 2024 9:42pm EDT

The FCPD 2024 “Road Shark” Shark campaign issued nearly 35,000 citations and warnings to drivers.

 ....here's what the cops don't tell you, in half the cases the cops won't show up in court and more than one third of all the cases will be dismissed by the judge

Wanted Suspect Arrested After 5-Hour Barricade in Merrifield

 Remeber the last guy who barricaded himself against the FCPD? Yeah, a cop who was arguing  with wife on the phone....while we were paying him......shot the barricaded guy dead.

And FCPD has the budget of a small South American Nation

 

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — The increase in violent crime in Fairfax County is among the highest in the country, according to a new report that tracked violent crimes in 2023.

D.C. saw the largest increase of any major city in the country for violent crime while Fairfax County ranked seventh in the country with an 8.7% increase in violent crimes which is a larger increase than nearby Prince George’s County and it’s a larger increase than Montgomery County, Maryland.

This is all according to a Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) report which collected homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault crime data from 69 police departments across the country for the first nine months of this year and compared crime trends to the first nine months of last year.

MCCA found that Fairfax County saw a sizeable increase in the number of rapes and aggravated assaults. 

On Friday, 7News requested additional crime data from the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD).

According to FCPD, shoplifting is up 40%, assaults are up 14%, auto thefts are up 9.6% and Fairfax County police citations for offenses are up 54%.

This comes as several county leaders have downplayed the crime increases in Fairfax County in recent years by making comments like this:

“We are still the safest jurisdiction of our size all across the country,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano told 7News Reporter Nick Minock in March 2022 during an interview.

“Our residents are smart they know they are living in a county that is the safest of any jurisdiction of its size in the country!” Chair Jeff McKay told 7News Reporter Nick Minock in February 2022 during an interview.

McKay reiterated this talking point in a September 6, 2023, message to the community, saying “Fairfax County is still the safest place of its size to live in America. Keep that in mind the next time you see something concerning on NextDoor or talk to a friend or family member about national trends.”

Its called "The balls of an alley cat" welcome to the Fairfax county police

 

Former MPD officer sues police chief, city for defamation, wrongful termination

Tyler Timberlake is seeking over $250,000 in damages

BY: DEENA WINTER - DECEMBER 22, 2023 4:49 PM

 

A former Virginia police officer who was hired by the Minneapolis Police Department in January despite being involved in a highly publicized excessive force case is now suing Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara and the city for terminating him.

Tyler Timberlake alleges in the lawsuit that the Minneapolis police chief has repeatedly lied about what he knew about Timberlake’s past before signing off on his hiring. 

Just days after Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd by pressing his knee into his neck on a south Minneapolis street, Timberlake, then a Fairfax County police officer, made headlines when he repeatedly used a stun gun on a disoriented, unarmed Black man wandering a residential street. Body camera video shows Timberlake jamming his knee into the man’s back and shoulder while the man said he couldn’t breathe. 

Timberlake was later acquitted by a jury of assault and battery, was not formally disciplined and was reinstated to his job.

After the Reformer first reported on Timberlake’s hiring in April, O’Hara released a statement saying he was “extremely concerned” about the hire and ordered a thorough investigation into MPD’s background checks and hiring processes.

Timberlake alleges the chief and city caused the loss of his reputation and career after they “induced” him to resign his job as a Virginia police officer and take a job at MPD, assuring him that the use-of-force case wouldn’t affect his employment.

But he says shortly after his hiring came to light in the press, “those assurances turned to smoke.” He was put on limited duty status and later fired while still on probation, when he had no civil service or union protections.

Timberlake is suing for defamation and wrongful termination, seeking over $250,000 in damages, plus attorney’s fees, reinstatement, back pay and compensatory damages. The suit says he has no job and no prospects, with “his reputation in tatters.”

MPD and O’Hara deferred comment to the City Attorney’s Office, which released a statement saying it is reviewing the complaint.

The lawsuit alleges that “in O’Hara’s panicked efforts to evade responsibility for Timberlake’s hiring, he told a series of lies to the public, including that Timberlake had failed to disclose, or had misrepresented, the incident in Virginia during the hiring process, that O’Hara did not know about the incident in Virginia, (and) that something was wrong with the MPD hiring process because it had failed to identify the incident in Virginia.”

The suit says MPD Officer Craig Johnson fully investigated the Virginia incident, and wrote a summary of his findings in his background report, which was given to hiring personnel.

Timberlake said he disclosed the incident on his MPD application and during “every phase of the overall onboarding process,” offering to provide all video and audio footage of it.

Before being offered a job, he had a final interview on Nov. 8, 2022, in Minneapolis, where he met with O’Hara, Deputy Chief Troy Schoenberger, Chief of Staff Christopher Gaiters, and Human Resources Representative Heather Rende. They discussed the Virginia incident “in great deal,” according to the suit. 

Timberlake said he asked O’Hara whether he had any concerns about how he would be treated because of the Virginia case, and O’Hara indicated “he did not care about the prior critical incident, and that if Timberlake is doing the right thing and meeting community expectations, he would not have any problems from the chief.”

Timberlake says he was then offered the job less than 15 minutes after the interview ended, while he was walking to his car. He resigned his job and moved to Minnesota, where he began the job in January.

O’Hara has previously said it was his second day on the job when he sat in on Timberlake’s interview as an “observer,” not a “participant.”

The Reformer first inquired about the hiring on April 12, after which Timberlake alleges O’Hara “began to change his story after media scrutiny,” and wrote in an April 19 internal email that he “was completely and totally unaware of his history.”

Timberlake wrote a May 15 letter to Mayor Jacob Frey, O’Hara and Human Resources Chief Nikki Odom accusing O’Hara of defaming him, and asked for an investigation into the matter.

On July 5, he was summoned to a meeting with Schoenberger and two lieutenants, and was told he was being terminated but not given a reason. Timberlake says he asked if his termination was related to political pressure, and Schoenberger said, “I’m not going to answer that.”

Months later, the city sent Timberlake a memo by O’Hara outlining his reason for the termination, saying Timberlake “engaged in conduct that would not meet our standards when he stepped into another officer’s call, failed to de-escalate, and used unreasonable force during a critical incident.”

O’Hara’s memo said he didn’t know about the conduct prior to viewing a video of it that wasn’t revealed during the hiring process. The chief wrote that he also took into account “concerns raised by community members following the media’s publication of the video.”

Timberlake alleges O’Hara harmed his reputation and defamed him multiple times by implying he concealed the Virginia incident during his background investigation. And he claims O’Hara disclosed information to the public that is supposed to remain private under state law.

He’s seeking compensation for loss of employment, mental distress, humiliation, embarrassment and an inability to find a job afterward “even at police departments that previously expressed interest in working with him.”

Timberlake also claims the city violated the Minnesota Whistleblower Act and he’s entitled to reinstatement, back pay, compensatory damages and the expungement of adverse employment records.

Timberlake gives a detailed description of how and why he responded to the Virginia man the way he did, noting that he was called to a “high-crime area” frequented by a violent felon and PCP user with warrants out for his arrest. Timberlake admits he mistook another man for the felon, and that the man was later found to be under the influence of PCP and cocaine.

After being acquitted by a jury of three counts of misdemeanor assault and battery, Timberlake was reinstated as a police officer in Fairfax County. Their internal affairs unit found he violated their de-escalation policy, and issued a written reprimand. Timberlake appealed the finding, and it was reduced to an oral reprimand, which is not considered formal disciplinary action.

In the lawsuit, Timberlake also says he held the man down by his back and shoulder, not his neck, and disagreed with Chauvin’s “knee-on-neck restraint tactic” on Floyd. 

Of course

 

Surprise,  surprise Sgt. Wesley Shifflett, the Fairfax County cop who gunned down a man for s shop lifting has been found not guilty despite the fact that Shifflett’s body camera video showing the moments after the shooting, where Shifflett told a couple of officers how he told Johnson to show his hands during the chase. However, Shifflett had actually yelled for Johnson to “get to the ground.”

Killer cop to go on trial

 

Fairfax County cop Wesley Shifflett, charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a weapon in the killing of 37-year-old unarmed Timothy McCree Johnson over a pair of sunglasses on Feb. 22, 2023 is finally going before a court of law.

Shifflett and another Fairfax County cop chased Johnson, during the night, on foot after receiving a report from security guards that Johnson had stolen sunglasses from a Nordstrom department store in Tysons Corner Center.

Shifflett told another cop that he saw Johnson reaching for a weapon in his waistband but no such weapon was found.

A woman is dead after a welfare check by Fairfax County Police.

 

 

A woman is dead after a welfare check by Fairfax County Police.

A cop knocked on the woman's door, the woman answered the door, and immediately slammed it in the cops face. The cop kept knocking. A few minutes later, the woman answered the door armed with a knife and began slashing at the cop hitting him in the face.

So, of course, he shot her death.

No punches, wrestling, stun guns or batons.

Oh give him his job back, what's one more gun crazy prick on the force going to do to make things worse?

 Former FCPD officer seeks to get charges in fatal Tysons shooting dismissed

By Angela Woolsey

Published September 9, 2024 at 2:30PM|Updated September 10, 2024 at 12:51AM

The Fairfax County Courthouse (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

The former Fairfax County Police Department officer who fatally shot a D.C. man suspected of shoplifting two pairs of sunglasses from Nordstrom at Tysons Corner Center might not face a trial after all.

Defense attorneys for Wesley Shifflett filed a motion in Fairfax County Circuit Court on Friday (Sept. 6) seeking to “quash” the grand jury indictment that charged the former police sergeant with involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm for killing Timothy Johnson on Feb. 22, 2023.

Shifflett’s attorneys hope to convince a judge to dismiss the indictment at a hearing on Sept. 16, which would eliminate the need for a trial if the motion is granted.

“That’s going to be our case,” Simms Showers LLP partner Caleb Kershner confirmed to FFXnow, though he couldn’t share details of the argument since it contains information presented to the grand jury that’s sealed by a court order.

The defense team also filed motions on Friday that would exclude mentions of Johnson being unarmed, an expert witness called by prosecutors and evidence related to the police pursuit that preceded the shooting from the potential jury trial.

Previously scheduled for Sept. 16, the trial has been pushed back a day to allow for the additional hearing.

Per court records, the motions were filed around 2:45 p.m. after a roughly three-hour-long hearing where Judge Randy Bellows prohibited prior incidents of Shifflett drawing his gun from being discussed at the trial, while allowing evidence related to Johnson’s conviction of a misdemeanor assault in 2004.

Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Barry Zweig argued that the jury should know about three incidents on Feb. 17, 2022, Oct. 25, 2022 and Feb. 10, 2023 where Shifflett pointed his gun at an unarmed person while investigating shoplifting reports at Tysons Corner Center.

“These incidents highlight Shifflett’s attitude towards those who are suspected of committing non-violent, low-level crime at the Tyson’s Corner Mall,” Zweig wrote in his motion. “On at least one occasion Shifflett drew his firearm on an individual who had been engaged in absolutely no criminal conduct.”

On Feb. 10, 2023, Shifflett pointed his gun at a passenger in the vehicle of a man who allegedly took a pair of sunglasses from a store, tried them on and then returned them. Shifflett wrote in a July 6, 2023 incident report that he pulled his gun when the passenger “began reaching in her waistband when she was instructed not to.”

Prosecutors also brought up a Sept. 25, 2022 incident involving an alleged theft at Nordstrom, but according to Kershner’s team, the officer in question was a different sergeant with the last name of Shifflett.

In his motion, Zweig noted that all of the targeted individuals were Black. However, he said at Friday’s hearing that he would leave that information — and the implication that racism played a role in the shooting — out of a trial to avoid creating unfair prejudice.

Even if race isn’t mentioned, Bellows said the prior incidents had “negligible” value in helping prosecutors prove their case, noting that they didn’t involve use-of-force or criminal allegations against Shifflett.

“I can’t make the assumption the Commonwealth was making that an officer chasing a fleeing individual who’s engaged in shoplifting should not pull a gun on these individuals,” Bellows said, adding that “redacting race would reduce, not eliminate prejudice.”

Kershner welcomed the decision, calling prosecutors’ argument “largely speculative in nature.”

“I think the judge rightly pointed out that you would have to show all the good acts and all the times that force wasn’t showed on larceny victims,” he said. “Even the Commonwealth admitted when they got up to argue that race really shouldn’t be an issue here, and I was glad to see they said that, because I think that’s absolutely the right thing.”

A spokesperson for the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office said they’re unable to comment because the case is ongoing.

Prosecutors argued Johnson’s assault conviction in 2004 should be excluded from the trial because of “the substantial time gap and the lack of relevance in circumstances.”

According to Zweig, Johnson was attempting to steal a vehicle at the home of an ATF agent in Maryland on May 19, 2003. When the agent confronted him, drawing his gun while standing behind the vehicle, Johnson backed up. The agent jumped out of the vehicle’s way and fired his gun, hitting Johnson.

Johnson was initially charged with first-degree attempted murder, though it’s unclear why the charge was later reduced. He served three years in prison as a juvenile, Zweig confirmed at the hearing.

Prosecutors also sought to exclude a 2019 involuntary manslaughter conviction stemming from a crash in Maryland. Johnson was reportedly intoxicated and speeding when he hit another vehicle, killing the driver, Zweig told the court.

“DWI resulting in death…is an act of recklessness rather than intentional violence,” Zweig said in his motion. “As such, it does not involve the kind of deliberate, aggressive conduct that would typically characterize the victim’s behavior in a situation where self-defense might be justified.”

However, defense attorney Matthew Noel argued both cases showed a “propensity for violence” and a tendency to flee from situations involving the police, suggesting Shifflett’s claim that he shot Johnson out of fear for his own safety “was reasonable.”

Bellows deemed the circumstances of the 2004 assault conviction similar enough to justify inclusion in a trial, but he said the DWI posed more of a challenge, stating that he will issue a decision this week.

About the Author

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Angela Woolsey

Angela Woolsey is the site editor for FFXnow. A graduate of George Mason University, she worked as a general assignment reporter for the Fairfax County Times before joining Local News Now as the Tysons Reporter editor in 2020.