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Yet another drunk cop
Port Chester cop charged with
drunken driving in crash
Will David
HARRISON – An off-duty Port
Chester police officer was arrested, accused of drunken-driving Wednesday
morning after a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 287 in Harrison, state
police said.
Jose A. Nieves, 40, an
eight-year Port Chester police veteran, was turned over to his own department
after being booked by state troopers at the Thruway barracks.
Trooper Jason Jones, a
spokesman for Troop T, said the accident happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Nieves was driving west when he rear-ended a parked construction vehicle that
was apparently unoccupied. Nieves' vehicle was then rear-ended by a Big Apple
Taxi cab.
Emergency medical personnel and
state troopers were on the scene. The cabdriver and Nieves refused medical
attention, Jones said.
A chemical test showed that his
blood-alcohol content was 0.13 percent, more than 1.5 times the legal limit,
police said.
Nieves is charged with
misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and issued an appearance ticket. He is
due back in Harrison Town Court at 9:30 a.m. June 3.
Port Chester police Lt. James
Ladeairous said the department had no comment on the incident, referring
questions to state police.
Nieves remains on the
department's payroll and his job status remains unchanged at this point,
Ladeairous said.
Staff writer Hoa Nguyen
contributed to this report
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Suspended Hobart cop avoids trial
By Ruth Ann Krause
A Hobart police officer charged
last year with financial fraud, theft and official misconduct in two separate
incidents has entered into a pre-trial agreement with Lake County prosecutors
that could avoid a criminal conviction.
A misdemeanor charge of
conversion was filed Wednesday against Officer Kirk Homoky, and the felony
charges filed in the two cases were dismissed.
If Homoky has no other criminal
charges filed against him for one year, the cases will be dismissed, according
to the agreement. Superior Court Magistrate Kathleen Sullivan scheduled a May 21,
2015 hearing for disposition of the cases.
Under the agreement, Homoky
paid $492 in restitution to a business that overpaid him by mistake for
off-duty security work.
In March 2013, Homoky was
placed on unpaid leave from the police department after he was accused of
keeping the overpayment and of taking a $20 bill from a car that was stopped by
police in September 2010.
City attorney Anthony DeBonis
said it’s unclear what the city will do regarding Homoky’s status with the
police department if the cases against him are dismissed after one year.
Meanwhile, Homoky’s federal
lawsuit against the city, filed in November 2012, is pending. He contends the
police department violated his rights when he was suspended without pay and the
former chief tried to fire him.
Send em home on a paid vacation, that'll teach him.
Haines City police sergeant
suspended with pay
HAINES CITY --
A Haines City police officer
has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of an internal affairs
investigation, City Manager Jonathan Evans told The Ledger of Lakeland.
Sgt. Heriberto "Herb"
Hernandez was actually suspended last Thursday, three weeks after the start of
the police department's investigation.
Police and city officials have
not discussed the reason for the investigation, which also is looking at Sgts.
Ron Brown and Mick Harrison, Lt. Keith Hammond and Cpl. Shawn Mobre, Chief Rick
Sloan told The Ledger.
Hernandez started as a patrol
officer in May 2005 and has been promoted four times. He earns $46,585 per year
Officer keeps his job despite alleged break-in
“We were looking at $100,000 in
attorney fees and a high probability that he would have gotten his job back
with back pay”
Courtney Astolfi
An embattled Vermilion police
officer kept his job, even after commanders suspended him for allegedly
entering an unauthorized area and then being dishonest about it during an
ensuing investigation.
Vermilion officials initially pursued firing
Patrolman Dale Reising but dropped their grievance a week ago, most likely
because his bosses didn’t want to fight an uphill battle.
Officials didn’t release their
conclusion to the media until Tuesday, despite the Register asking for an
update earlier this month.
“We were looking at $100,000 in
attorney fees and a high probability that he would have gotten his job back
with back pay,” Vermilion police Chief Chris Hartung said.
In exchange, however, Reising
must:
•Sign a last-chance agreement,
a document permitting him one more shot to shape up or get shipped out.
•Agree police commanders or
city officials can fire him for any other similar misconduct he commits.
•Accept an unpaid suspension
lasting 160 hours, losing out on about $3,700.
•Attend at his cost several
training courses revolving around ethics.
•Acknowledge his conduct “was
inconsistent with the standards of a sworn officer” at no less than one
official Vermilion police meeting.
Past incidents involving law
enforcers nationwide getting terminated but later coming back to work after
lengthy, costly court battles in similar situations to Reising’s case made
Vermilion officials reluctant to fire him.
“We spent a lot of time
researching this case, and I believe that this was an internal issue and the
best recourse for this case,” Vermilion Mayor Eileen Bulan said.
Reising, suspended since early
April, should return sometime in June. During this ongoing period, Reising
stands to obtain about $4,200 while on paid leave, according to city financial
data.
Reising has worked as a
full-time officer in Vermilion for about four years.
Alleged misconduct
An internal investigation, obtained
by the Register through a public records request, sheds light into two alleged
acts of misconduct Reising committed:
•Entering a police
administrator’s locked office.
•Showing signs of dishonesty
when interviewed about his actions.
On Feb. 10, Vermilion police
Capt. Mike Reinheimer noticed ceiling tile debris on a cabinet in his office.
The investigation indicates a supervisor assigned Reising to a cruiser with the
keys locked in Reinheimer’s office over the Feb. 8-9 weekend.
Reising originally told Reinheimer
he never entered Reinheimer’s office during initial questioning.
But the patroller did claim he
went to Ace Hardware, where employees later helped Reinheimer pinpoint the sale
of a key to the morning of Feb. 9 — right in the middle of Reising’s shift and
just a day before Reinheimer realized someone entered his office, according to
the report.
A hardware store employee said
Reising had entered the store in full uniform on that day, according to the
report.
Reinheimer then interviewed
Reising a second time, pointing out the apparent inconsistencies between his
previous statements and what Reinheimer learned during the investigation.
Reising again stuck to his
story: He made a copy of the key while he was off duty and never broke into the
office.
When Reinheimer confronted
Reising again about the inaccuracies, Reising asked for his union
representative, but he then admitted to the theft, according to the report.
Commanders determined Reising
had violated two department rules regarding the incident: He allegedly gained
unauthorized entry to a restricted area, and he allegedly provided false
information during a disciplinary investigation.
While entering unauthorized
areas usually warrants a written reprimand, showing signs of dishonesty
generally calls for dismissal, police documents stated.
Reinheimer ended his report
with this: “My recommendation for this infraction would be dismissal from his
position as a patrolman for the Vermilion Police Department”
More drugged up cops.....you ever wonder if the cops are the American drug problem?
Former Pooler cop sentenced to
17 months in federal prison
By Jan Skutch
Former Pooler police officer
John William “Billy” Stanley on Monday was sentenced to 17 months in federal
prison for knowingly attempting to hide a drug conspiracy while on the police
force.
Stanley, 36, also must serve a
year on supervised release once he completes his prison term and perform 40
hours of community service, U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. ordered.
He was allowed to remain free
until June 23 when he must report to the federal prison designated for his
incarceration.
Stanley admitted his role on
March 28 in connection with a Pooler-based “pill mill” prescription
distribution ring headed by Donald Fowler and his wife, Martha, between 2004
and 2011.
Stanley, who resigned from the
Pooler force in June 2013, has been allowed to remain free on his pre-trial
bond. He is a former police sergeant in Pooler, a former Pooler councilman and
a businessman, court documents show.
Defense attorney Michael
Schiavone, in a sentencing memorandum to Moore, called the defendant “a
kind-hearted person and officer, always willing to help everyone. He made a
terrible mistake, not for financial gain but based on caring for people who he
thought of as family.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian
Tanner, in the plea agreement filed with Moore, said the government would not
object to a recommendation by probation officer that Stanley receive a
two-level reduction for accepting responsibility.
Stanley was named in a
three-count indictment on Jan. 9 on charges of conspiring to possess with
intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substances on or about July
14, 2011.
Federal prosecutors contended
the Fowlers were running a pill-mill operation out of their home in Pooler and
were using “mules” to drive prescriptions to pill-mill doctors in Georgia and
Florida beginning in 2004.
Stanley, who was friends with
the Fowlers, became aware of the drug scheme and when one of their “mules” was
arrested by Pooler police in mid-2011, he became concerned the mule would give
up the Fowlers, prosecutors said.
Stanley then alerted the
Fowlers, hoping they would remove any drugs from their home.
The indictment also charged him
with being an accessory after the fact — that he knew the crime was being
committed but did nothing to hinder or prevent the offenders — and that he
concealed his knowledge from authorities.
Former Jackson Police Department Officer Sentenced to 25 Months in Prison for Bribery
U.S. Attorney’s Office May 13,
2014 • Southern District of Mississippi (601) 965-4480
JACKSON, MS—Former Jackson
Police Officer Tony Davis, of Clinton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court
today to 25 months in federal prison for bribery, announced U.S. Attorney
Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. He was also
ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
Davis pled guilty to the
bribery charge in December 2013, admitting that, while employed as a patrol
sergeant with the Jackson Police Department in 2010, Davis advised another
Jackson Police officer that he would pay the officer $10,000 if he would assist
Davis in disposing of an outstanding drug charge against a defendant Davis
knew.
This case was investigated by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jerry Rushing.
Officer's suspension tied to bee-sting death
By Shawn Regan
HAVERHILL — An arbitration
appeal hearing will begin tomorrow for a police officer suspended over an
incident involving a man who died from bee stings.
Officer Rick Welch, who is also
president of the patrolmen’s union, was suspended without pay for 15 days last
year for mishandling a call from an elderly woman who was concerned about her
son — a 57-year-old Silsby Farm beekeeper later found dead from bee stings.
Police Chief Alan DeNaro had
previously suspended Welch for five days without pay and recommended that Mayor
James Fiorentini suspend the officer without pay for another 175 days. A
five-day suspension is the maximum the chief can impose on his own.
In his Dec. 3, 2013 ruling, the
mayor upheld DeNaro’s original five-day suspension and added 10 more for a
total of 15 suspension days. Fiorentini said he relied on Welch’s otherwise
clean record in rejecting DeNaro’s recommendation to suspend the officer for
six months.
Welch appealed to an outside
arbitrator, who will hear the city’s case against the officer starting
tomorrow. The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. in City Hall.
The case focuses on Welch’s
decision not to send a patrol car to check on beekeeper Alan Schwartz, after
his mother called police at 2 a.m. on June 11, 2013, to report her son did not
come home that night and was not answering his cell phone.
While he was working in the
public safety dispatch center, Welch took the mother’s call, which was made to
the Police Department’s non-emergency line.
Police said Ina Schwartz told
Welch that her son was working with bees, that she feared for his safety, and
that she wanted Welch to send an officer to check on him.
Instead of dispatching a
cruiser to the farm on Salem Street in Bradford, Welch sent an email-style
message to the patrolman assigned to patrol that part of the city that night.
Welch told him to be on the lookout “during his travels” for Schwartz’s white
Tacoma truck, according to the message
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