Raytown police officer charged with stealing

Raytown police officer was charged Friday with stealing drugs and jewelry from the department’s evidence room. Jackson County prosecutors charged Justin M. Pool, 35, with three counts of stealing a controlled substance and two counts of theft of property. All five charges are felonies.
He allegedly stole the items, including oxycodone pills and gold jewelry, in January, when still a member of the department, according to prosecutors.
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Black Actor Says Cops Arrested Him After Macy's Watch Purchase

New York suddenly has a list of “Shopping While Black” scandals unfolding. After high-end department Barneys was accused of racial profiling by a pair of young people, a rising Hollywood actor had a similar situation happen to him over the summer at Macy's. Rob Brown, 29, says that after buying his mother a $1,350 watch for her graduation, plainclothes officers accused the star of HBO's Treme for possessing a fake card back in June.

With the recent slamming of Barneys by Trayvon Christian and Kayla Phillips for being accused of grand larceny as Brown was, things aren't going well for the retail giants in the big city. Brown sat down with the New York Daily News, and spoke on the incident that landed him in cuffs and late for his mother's graduation.

The Finding Forrester actor is suing Macy's for unspecified damages, and also reached out to Christian regarding his case. From the Daily News: Brown, who made his movie debut starring opposite Sean Connery in 2000's “Finding Forrester,” says he'd been shopping at Macy's flagship store because he wanted to buy a graduation present for his mother, Myra, who received a degree from Metropolitan Community College. He settled on a $1,350 silver Movado watch with gold trim.

Brown said he purchased the last one, the display model, and strolled over to a Sunglass Hut in the store while he was waiting for it to be cleaned. He said he saw some $350 Prada shades he liked and was also going to buy those — but while he was waiting for them to be tightened, he was suddenly swarmed by “at least three” plainclothes officers. Brown, a Brooklyn native, thought at one point he was being robbed before he says the cops paraded him around the store, and taking him to a holding cell where he was held for 45 minutes.

After the cops checked Brown's records, the actor says an officer took him to his mother's graduation which he says he was late for. “To be late for my mother's graduation ceremony — that was devastating,” Brown said. Brown vented on Twitter in June after the incident, clearly angered for getting fingered for a crime he didn't commit. On Wednesday (Oct. 23), Brown reached out to his followers to connect him Christian. Hit the gallery to see photos of Brown speaking with the Daily News, and showcasing some of his acting roles. -- -

Hollywood police officer arrested on DUI charges

HOLLYWOOD — DiIvory Edgecomb, a Hollywood cop and former star running back for the Florida Atlantic Owls, was arrested by his own department on DUI charges in September and immediately relieved of duty with pay. Edgecomb, 27, was placed on administrative leave Sept. 30, the day of his arrest.
As is customary, he was forced to turn in his badge, department-issued gun and squad car, said Lt. Osvaldo Perez.

Chemist testifies blood test showing Indianapolis police officer was drunk was accurate

FORT WAYNE, Indiana — A chemist who ran the Swedish government's forensic lab for 30 years testified Friday that the blood test that indicated a suspended Indianapolis police officer was legally drunk at the time of a fatal accident was accurate.
Alan Wayne Jones estimated that David Bisard, who faces reckless homicide and other charges, probably had eight to 10 drinks the night before the crash and perhaps two more in the morning to "steady his nerves," The Indianapolis Star reported (http://indy.st/169xVdu ).
The blood tests on Bisard after the crash in his patrol car that killed Eric Wells and badly injured two others in 2010 have been central to the case. Prosecutors were allowed to present test results from two vials of blood taken from Bisard after the crash, despite defense arguments that one wasn't properly drawn according to Indiana law and the other was mishandled by police evidence technicians who removed it from refrigerated storage.
Tests showed Bisard had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, which is more than twice Indiana's legal limit of 0.08 percent. The Indiana Supreme Court in ruled in December that the blood tests could be admitted into evidence.

Prince George’s officer suspended from duty after police say he crashed cruiser while drunk

PALMER PARK, Md. — Prince George’s County police say an officer has been suspended from duty after he crashed his cruiser while under the influence of alcohol. Police say Cpl. Rodney Lewis was off-duty and wasn’t acting in a law enforcement capacity at the time of the crash, which occurred early Friday morning on the Capital Beltway in northern Virginia.