U.S. District Court judge has
released a Baltimore cop Ashley Roane caught in a drug dealing and tax-fraud
investigation from federal custody until trial. Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher
allowed the cop a pre-trial release with conditions. She faces charges of
attempted possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin,
possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, aggravated
identity theft and identity theft.
A Muscle Shoals cop named Greg Scoggins was
found guilty Tuesday of killing a deer on TVA property. Scoggins was charged with killing the deer while on duty in
December and was fired from the Muscle Shoals Police Department. Scoggins was
ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and court costs.
A lawyer for a San Francisco
police officer says his black client was the victim of racial profiling when he
was arrested last week when three white San Francisco cops pulled over cop Lorezno
Adamson they asked whether he was on probation and parole. Adamson said he
replied by saying he should have instead been asked for his driver's license
and registration. Adamson said he was choked, thrown to the ground and arrested
after telling the trio that he was an officer and that he was armed.
Misconduct claims against NYPD
soar 22% between 2011 and 2012: report
Claims against police were up
7% — from 8,941 in fiscal year 2011 to 9,570 in fiscal year 2012 — but a report
released by Controller John Liu’s office said accusations against NYPD officers
of improper conduct, false arrests and using excessive force rose 22%, while
they were down an average of 19% for other city agencies.
Bal Theatre owner Dan Dillman
has filed a federal lawsuit against Alameda County seeking more than $15
million in damages, alleging that he was falsely arrested and beaten last
October by two, out-of-uniform Sheriff’s Department cops Michael D. Carroll and
Terrence H. Montigue as the cops who “severely and mercilessly beat, punched
and kicked (him) while he was on the ground in handcuffs.”
John. P. Wolfinbarger, an
Oswego cop was in custody after a standoff in a plaza off Route 6 in Channahon
New York. He was charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing a police officer
and DUI alcohol. Wolfinbarger is an 11-year veteran of Oswego Police
Channahon police responded to a
call from patrons at Chicago Pizza & Catering Company that a man was inside
arguing with someone and that he had a gun.
Since 2006, the Minneapolis
Police Department has paid out almost $14 million to the “alleged” victims of
police misconduct and abuse. Last month,
the department broke, settled a $3 million suit with the family of a mentally
ill man who died after being forcibly restrained at the local YMCA. It was the
largest payout in the city’s history to the family of a civilian alleged to
have been harmed by the Minneapolis police. But there’s been no discipline. “Attorneys
who have sued the Minneapolis police say the department is reluctant to
discipline wayward officers,” reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.