officer charged with stealing drugs from dead man gets hearing
West Valley City police has been charged with stealing morphine pills from a deceased cancer patient. Officer Ryan M. Humphrey was charged in 3rd District Court with possession of a controlled substance, a third-degree felony, as well as theft, a class B misdemeanor. If convicted, Humphrey would face up to five years in prison for the drug charge and up to six months in jail for the misdemeanor.
Humphrey, 34, who is accused of stealing 22 morphine pills, has no prior sustained disciplinary history with the West Valley City Police Department, according to Deputy Chief Mike Powell in response to a Salt Lake Tribune public records request.
Cottonwood Heights Police Chief Robby Russo said Humphrey responded about 7 p.m. on June 5 to the death of a terminally cancer patient in West Valley City when a colleague, backing him up, allegedly saw Humphrey place 22 morphine pills that belonged to the patient in his pocket.
The backup officer called a supervisor, who arrived and confronted Humphrey.
"He admitted doing it and was remorseful," said Russo, whose department was asked to investigate.
Police
Officer Charged with DUI After Car Accident
(CHARLESTON, S.C.) --
South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers arrested a North Charleston officer
accused of driving under the influence. The 27-year-old officer, identified as
Stanley Tucker, was off duty. Officials responded to an incident in which
Tucker's pickup truck struck another man's vehicle at around 1 a.m.
Tucker was making a right turn onto Highway 78 and collided
with a driver attempting
Former
police officer charged with faking DUI reports, collecting overtime pay
SALT LAKE CITY — A former Unified police officer has been
charged after allegedly faking DUI reports and illegally collecting thousands
of dollars in overtime.
Stephen F. Hall, 43, was charged Tuesday with theft by
deception, a second-degree felony; and three counts of falsifying a government
record, all class B misdemeanors.
In 2012, Hall reported to his supervisors that he had made
27 DUI arrests, issued 398 citations and impounded 27 vehicles while working
shifts funded by the state as part of a DUI grant. The grant allowed officers
to work overtime hours to conduct DUI patrol, and the state would later
reimburse the department for those hours.
Earlier this year, Unified Police Department supervisors
discovered that their own records did not match Hall's grant sheets. According
to department records, Hall made just one DUI arrest in 2012 and issued only
four citations, according to charging documents. He also fabricated as many as
50 cases, the charges stated.
"None of the manufactured cases involved a real person
but contained fictitious information," according to the charges.
Further investigation and comparison of various timecards
showed that, dating back to January 2010, Hall reported he was working his
regular Unified police shift or at his part-time job doing security at a local
hospital or state liquor store, at the same time he claimed to be working a DUI
shift, the charges state. In some cases, he was "clocked-in" at three
jobs at once, according to prosecutors.
Because of that, prosecutors say from 2010 to 2013, he was
"double paid" approximately $14,000 for overlapping shifts."
Hall was placed on administrative leave in January. The
20-year veteran eventually retired in May during the investigation.
sheriff
fires officer over DUI, theft charges
KNOXVILLE — Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones fired a
veteran officer charged over the weekend with drunken driving and theft at a
West Knox nightclub.
Jones fired Jason Hugh Williams, 40, who is accused of
swiping a bag with two cellphones and car keys belonging to a couple while they
were on the dance floor at Cotton Eyed Joe’s, 11220 Outlet Drive, on Friday
night, according to arrest warrants.
Williams then allegedly used the car keys to gain access to
the victims’ Lexus and drive off in it