Plano
police officer arrested on child-sex charges
Trumbull
Cop Sentenced in Teenage Sex Assault Case
New
trial scheduled for ex-cop accused of raping 5-year-old girl
Isle
of Wight County School Resource Officer suspended after student complaint
Plano
police officer arrested on child-sex charges
By VALERIE WIGGLESWORTH
A Plano police officer has been
arrested on felony charges of indecency with a child and possession or
distribution of child pornography.
Richard Scott Bradford, 45, of
Anna was arrested Thursday by the Collin County sheriff’s office on the child
pornography charge. He was released from jail a few hours later on bond.
This is his second arrest in
less than a month. Bradford was also arrested Dec. 23 on a charge of indecency
with a child by contact. He was released from jail on bond.
Plano police spokesman David
Tilley said Bradford was hired in July 1998 and has worked as a patrol officer
during his entire career with the department. Bradford has been placed on
administrative leave while the charges are investigated by the sheriff’s
office. Tilley said Plano police are conducting their own internal
investigation.
Bradford could not be reached
for comment.
According to the arrest warrant
on the indecency charge, a 9-year-old girl reported that Bradford touched her
inappropriately on Dec. 22 while she was sleeping. She told police she woke up
and saw Bradford with his pants down, the warrant stated. The girl reported
what happened to her mother, who contacted authorities, the warrant stated.
According to the court
documents, investigators obtained search warrants for Bradford’s cellphone and
the contents of that cellphone the same day he was arrested. The report states
investigators found multiple images of child pornography stored on the phone.
Collin County court records
show Bradford also was found guilty on three separate misdemeanor charges for
issuing bad checks in 2012. Tilley said that civil service law states that
those class C misdemeanors don’t affect someone’s employment as long as they
are taken care of.
Trumbull
Cop Sentenced in Teenage Sex Assault Case
William Ruscoe was sentenced
after pleading guilty late last year to sexually assaulting a teenage police
explorer.
By Rich Scinto
Former Trumbull Police Officer
William Ruscoe was sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended after 30 months
after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teen in the Police Explorers
program.
Ruscoe was sentenced Friday,
according to court records. He will also have 10 years of probation once he
completes his prison sentence
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He was a 19-year veteran of the
force, according to the Trumbull Times.
Ruscoe pleaded guilty in
October. He is accused of making multiple advances toward the teenage victim
and sexually assaulting her after many protests.
New
trial scheduled for ex-cop accused of raping 5-year-old girl
New trial scheduled for ex-cop
accused of raping 5-year-old girl Associated Press | 0 comments
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A new trial
has been scheduled for Feb. 9 in Vancouver for ex-Beaverton, Oregon, police
Officer Christopher Warren whose child rape conviction was thrown out because
of a mistrial.
The Columbian reports a Clark
County Superior Court judge also doubled his bail Wednesday to $500,000. He
remains in jail.
A jury convicted Warren in
October of raping a 5-year-old girl with a pencil. His lawyer says he was
falsely accused.
The mistrial was declared in
December after a juror admitted reading a newspaper article about the case in
violation of jury instructions.
Isle
of Wight County School Resource Officer suspended after student complaint
Becca Mitchell
Isle of Wight County, Va. – An
Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s deputy working as a school resource officer
(SRO) has been suspended following a complaint made by a student.
SRO’s are assigned to patrol
the schools during the day while school is in session. The student’s complaint
has prompted an investigation into possible inappropriate contact with a minor,
according to the Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s Office.
The deputy has been removed
from school and placed on administrative leave.
Once the investigation is
complete, the Isle of Wight County Commonwealth Attorney’s office will decide
if criminal charges will be filed
