Fairfax County Police Watch: 10/29/13

Durant Police Officer charged with Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol

BRYAN COUNTY, OK -- According to online court records a Durant Police Officer has been charged with "Driving a Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol".

Records show that on Friday a letter was sent to 36-year-old Brandon Carbaugh notifying him of the charge. Nearly two weeks ago, OHP says, while off duty, he crashed a pickup on State Highway 91 in Bryan County. Troopers say he failed a field sobriety test and was arrested and taken to MCSO with arm and leg injuries. Authorities say he was not booked into jail because he did not receive a medical release. At last check, Durant Police told News 12 that Carbaugh was put on paid administrative leave.

Bryant police chief suspended over steak dinner

BRYANT, Ark. — The police chief in Bryant has been suspended for five days for seeking reimbursement for a steak dinner purchased at a Florida strip club.
Bryant Mayor Jill Dabbs says Chief Mark Kizer will begin serving his unpaid suspension next week. This week, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Kizer and school resource officer Lee Ledbetter were each reimbursed for steak dinners from a restaurant connected to an upscale strip club in Orlando, Fla.
They were in Florida for a work conference on school resource officers.
The newspaper reports ( http://bit.ly/19DwDrH) that the council also approved spending $20,000 for an audit of its city finances, including travel expenses.
Kizer had no immediate comment Thursday night but said earlier that he and Ledbetter visited the steakhouse at the recommendation of their hotel concierge.

Three officers suspended over dispute

An internal investigation stemming from a dispute between a supervisor and a patrolman has led to a three-day suspension for a third officer at Vermilion Police Department.

Last month, administrators began probing the rift between Vermilion police Sgt. Aaron Bolton and Officer Craig Howell.

The long-running feud centered on Howell’s relationship with his own girlfriend and Bolton’s disapproval of the relationship, according to internal police documents the Register obtained through a public records request.

Bolton also accused Howell of profiling women by age and appearance during traffic stops, according to the documents.

After speaking to Howell about the allegations, police supervisors determined they were unfounded.

In a formal complaint dated Sept. 10, Howell said his friction with Bolton started in April. That’s when Howell started dating a woman who was friends with Bolton and Bolton’s wife, according to the complaint. Bolton made it clear he didn’t approve of Howell’s relationship with the woman, the document stated.

Other events transpired in the months that followed, but Howell never made a formal complaint — that is, until Bolton sent an email to the commander of Erie County’s Special Response Team. The email suggested Howell wasn’t suited for the unit.

At that point, Howell sent his supervisors a three-page letter detailing his formal complaints against Bolton. In short, he accused Bolton of various misdeeds, such as providing Howell’s private address to a resident during a police ride-along, and making false allegations about misconduct. He also accused Bolton of namecalling and defamation, among other things.

Supervisors interviewed Bolton, Howell and a third officer, David Jones, about the allegations.

The bulk of the investigation’s findings have since been sent to Vermilion law director Ken Stumphauzer for review.

Jones was suspended for three days. Police documents show Jones played a part in driving a police ride-along passenger past Howell’s home. The passenger was previously engaged to Howell’s girlfriend.

“While the lion’s share of the blame for that incident rests on another’s shoulders, you still bear your share of the blame for failing to recognize a malicious and inappropriate act and partaking in it,” police Chief Chris Hartung wrote in a disciplinary letter to Jones. “You and you alone answer for your integrity and cannot allow your actions to be guided by those of questionable character.”

Judge says police emails didn't hurt defense in Indianapolis officer's reckless homicide trial

FORT WAYNE, Indiana — The judge in the reckless homicide and drunken driving trial of an Indianapolis police officer has ruled that police emails with daily summaries of the proceedings didn't reveal anything unduly prejudicial against the defense.
Allen County Judge John Surbeck declined Tuesday to strike the testimony of a police captain who had read the emails before being called as a witness in the trial of David Bisard.
Surbeck also denied a request for a directed verdict by defense attorney John Kautzman after he argued the state failed to prove its case against Bisard.
Bisard is on trial for charges stemming from an August 2010 crash into two motorcycles that killed a man and seriously injured two other people.
Surbeck estimates the case will go to the jury for deliberations on Monday.

Fairfax County Police Watch: Somerset police officer charged with DUI

Fairfax County Police Watch: Somerset police officer charged with DUI: SOMERSET, Ky. (WKYT) - A Somerset police officer has been suspended, after being arrested on a DUI charge. Kentucky Fish & Wildl...

Somerset police officer charged with DUI

SOMERSET, Ky. (WKYT) - A Somerset police officer has been suspended, after being arrested on a DUI charge.

Kentucky Fish & Wildlife officials tell us one of their officers stopped Somerset Police Officer Jason Griffith on Highway 80 Sunday night.

Police say the Fish & Wildlife officer smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Griffith, but Griffith refused field sobriety tests.

Police say Griffith was not on duty at the time. He's been suspended with pay, pending the outcome of court proceedings.

Decision Weeks Away on Police Officer's Suspension

A decision on whether or not the suspension of a Dothan police officer was justified is more than a month away.

In Judge Butch Binford’s courtroom today, Corporal Raemonica Carney went up against the City of Dothan. In May, Carney was suspended for 10 days and put on desk duty after the personnel board found controversial Facebook posts made by Carney violated the Police Department’s social media policy.

The posts made by Carney were about former Los Angeles Police Officer Christopher Dorner who went on a killing spree in February before killing himself.

Carney’s attorney, Sonya Edwards, stated that the suspension was a violation of Carney’s first amendment rights, while the city’s attorney Kevan Kelly argued that substantial evidence was presented at the personnel board making the suspension fair.

Judge Binford did not rule today, he gave the city 21 days to submit a case brief. Then Carney’s attorney will have 14 days to respond. Once the response is in, Judge Binford will decide if the personnel board was equipped to make the ruling or if the case should go before an appeals court.

Hattiesburg police officer suspended for not apologizing to mayor

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - A Hattiesburg police officer is on suspension indefinitely for reportedly refusing to apologize to Mayor Johnny DuPree regarding a traffic incident last week.

Sources both inside and outside HPD tell News Seven that the officer apparently sounded his siren after pulling up behind a car blocking the right-of-way on Hall Avenue . The driver of the car was talking to an occupant of another car that was pulled off on the shoulder of the road. We're told the occupant of that second car was Mayor DuPree. We're also told the driver of the car blocking the road pulled onto the shoulder allowing the officer to pass.

According to individuals with knowledge of the case, Chief Frazier Bolton suspended the officer after he refused an order to apologize to the mayor. HPD spokesman, Lt. Jon Traxler, confirmed the officer was suspended for insubordination but refused to discuss details of the incident. Traxler says the officer will remain suspended until internal affairs completes their investigation.

PEPPER SPRAY COP AWARDED $38,000?

Remember pepper spray cop? He's the campus police officer at the University of California, Davis who decided to handle a seated line of peaceful, non-threatening Occupy demonstrators in the most rational way he could: by calmly firing a stream of pepper spray directly into their eyes from close range, like a landscape gardener squirting pesticide at some overgrown flowerbeds.
At first, everyone was outraged at Officer John Pike's blasé manner of temporarily blinding peaceful protesters, then the internet got involved, turned the image into meme—photoshopping Pike into basically every pop culture image ever created—and everyone kind of forgot about it. Until last week, when it emerged that he has been awarded $38,000 in workers compensation by California's Department of Industrial Relations—more than the $30,000 each of his victims received—for the "psychiatric injuries" he's experienced since that day in November of 2011. UC Davis will foot the bill, in addition to the $70,000 the school paid him in salary while he was on adminstrative leave.

Funeral held for Detroit cop who died 6 months after hit by idiot cops bullet

The funeral for Patrick Hill, a 37-year-old father According to police, Joseph opened fire on officers on April 2, and they returned fire, killing him. Sgt. Jeffrey Pacholski was wounded but recovered. Investigators said a pellet from an officer's shotgun ricocheted off the hood of a car and struck Hill.

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