Louisville
police officer charged in wife’s battery
Louisville Metro Police officer
Jonathan Osborne was arrested Monday morning in Clark County and is preliminary
charged with aggravated battery, domestic battery, battery, resisting law
enforcement, criminal restlessness and public intoxication.
by Gary Popp
JEFFERSONVILLE — A Louisville
police officer believed to have brutally attacked his wife late Sunday night,
causing their vehicle to crash along a Sellersburg roadway, has been charged in
Clark County.
Jonathan A. Osborne, 34,
Louisville, appeared in Clark County Circuit Court No. 1 on Thursday morning.
He has been charged by the Office of the Clark County Prosecutor with level 5
felony battery; level 6 felony attempted battery by bodily fluid or waste on a
public safety official; and class A misdemeanors of resisting law enforcement
and criminal mischief.
The Louisville Metro Police
Department officer was represented at the hearing by Bart Betteau. A not guilty
plea was entered during the proceeding presided over by Judge Drew Adams. Clark
County Deputy Prosecutor Jennifer Harmeyer represented the state at the
hearing.
A spokesman with LMPD said
Thursday that Osborne is suspended from the department without pay until the
disposition of the criminal case.
After the hearing, Betteau said
that Osborne acted like a “completely different person” during the assault than
he has been his entire life.
“He is extremely sorry with
what happened,” Betteau said. “There has never been any allegation any where,
any time, any place that he has been physically abusive to any person.”
He said Osborne has been proud
to serve as a police officer and hopes to have the opportunity to continue
working with at LMPD.
Betteau said the allegations
against his client do not support a “clear-cut case” of culpability.
“We have something that we
could certainly present to a jury which would, in fact, make him not guilty of
these offenses, if we choose to do that,” he said.
Cleveland
police officer is under arrest for several charges including kidnapping,
domestic violence, and intimidation.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland
police officer is under arrest for several charges, including kidnapping,
domestic violence, and intimidation. Officer David Anderson, 51, turned himself
in on Saturday. Anderson has been suspended since December, after his arrest
for felony stalking and domestic violence. He remains suspended without pay
pending a criminal case against him. He has been a Cleveland police officer
since October 2007.
Bond
set for LMPD officer accused of punching his wife while she was driving
Jonathan Osborne, 34, is
charged with aggravated battery (level 3), battery, criminal recklessness,
domestic battery with prior unrelated co., public intoxication and resisting
law enforcement.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – A
Louisville Metro Police Department officer was arrested in Clark County, Ind.
Sunday, Feb. 1.
Jonathan Osborne, 34, of
Louisville, is charged with aggravated battery (level 3), battery, criminal
recklessness, domestic battery, public intoxication and resisting law
enforcement.
Osborne appeared in court
Monday around 1:30 p.m. The prosecutor requested a 72-hour continuance in order
to review paperwork.
The Clark County Prosecutor
said Osborne punched his wife while she was driving, causing a crash; Osborne
then hit and kicked his wife in the face.
Osborne's bond is set at
$30,000.
LMPD issued the following
statement: "We are aware of the charges our officer is alleged to have
committed in Indiana. Officer Osborne is afforded due process and we will await
the results of his case in court. In the meantime, the Chief has initiated a
Professional Standards investigation into this matter and, therefore, in
accordance with KRS 15.520 we are prohibited from speaking further on this
particular case."
Jonathan Osborne was accused of
beating his wife after a Super Bowl party
Police shortly release a
statement on Feb. 4 to give more insight on Officer Osborne's suspension:
"After reviewing the video
of Officer Osborne's actions, which also led to his arrest in Clark County,
Indiana, the Chief has determined to exercise his authority under KRS 15.520
and suspend Officer Osborne without pay pending the disposition of the
charges."
Osborne will be back in court
on Feb. 5 at 10 a.m.
Suspended
Cleveland police officer jailed after domestic incident Saturday; judge revokes
bond
By James F. McCarty, The Plain
Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio - City police
officer David Anderson, who already was facing domestic violence charges, was
arrested Saturday in connection with an incident at a North Olmsted restaurant.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury
returned an indictment earlier Monday charging the officer with aggravated
menacing, menacing by stalking, abduction and other charges involving his
43-year-old live-in girlfriend.
During a hearing Monday in
Common Pleas Court, Judge Michael Jackson ordered Anderson's original $25,000
bond revoked based on the new charges and evidence from prosecutors that the
officer had repeatedly violated a no-contact order with the victim.
Jackson ordered Anderson held
in the County Jail without bond, and set bond on the new case at $200,000.
Anderson pleaded not guilty to the new charges.
After the hearing, Assistant
County Prosecutor Christopher Schroeder said Anderson and his girlfriend caused
a scene during a loud dispute at a Chili's restaurant where they had gone to
eat dinner Saturday. Anderson followed his girlfriend into the women's lavatory
and forcibly led her out of the restaurant while gripping her arm, Schroeder
said.
Restaurant employees were
concerned for the woman's safety, and called police, Schroeder said. Anderson
later surrendered to police and was arrested.
In court documents filed with
Jackson last week, Schroeder said he had obtained evidence that Anderson had
committed 240 violations of a no-contact order with the victim since his arrest
Dec. 15 on domestic violence charges. Schroeder said he suspected Anderson of
witness-tampering, and of threatening the victim, and asked the judge to revoke
the officer's bond.
On Dec. 23, a grand jury
indicted Anderson on charges of menacing by stalking, aggravated menacing and
domestic violence. Anderson pleaded not guilty to the charges on Jan. 8, at
which time Judge Dan Gaul delivered the no-contact order.
Anderson, however, immediately
began calling the victim - essentially every day, several times a day -
Schroeder said in the motion. The calls lasted for a total of more than 35
hours, he said.
Defense attorney Henry Hilow
said Anderson's girlfriend supports the officer.
"She has made it clear
from the beginning that she wasn't a victim, and she maintains that to this
date," Hilow said.
According to the original
charges, Anderson attacked his girlfriend three times on consecutive days,
beginning Dec. 13, when he shoved her to the ground, causing her head to strike
the pavement and knocking her unconscious. In the ensuring days, Anderson
shoved her to the ground outside their home on South Hills Avenue in Cleveland.
And on the following day, he kicked in her bedroom door, chased her down the
stairs and shoved her to the landing, where her head was bloodied, prosecutors
contend in court documents.
Former
Chicago-area police officer charged with trying to hire hitman
By Robyn Turner
CHICAGO (WKOW) -- Drew
Peterson, the former Bolingbrook, Illinois police officer convicted of killing
his third wife, has now been charged with trying to hire someone to kill the
prosecutor who put him behind bars.
Monday, state and local
prosecutors stated Peterson is charged with solicitation of murder for hire and
for murder after allegedly trying to hire someone to kill Will County State's
Attorney James Glasgow while Peterson is imprisoned.
Peterson,
61, is serving 38-years behind bars after his 2012 conviction in the 2004
drowning death of Kathleen Savio.
The
investigation into Savio's death was reopened after Peterson's fourth wife,
Stacy, disappeared in 2007. Authorities
have stated they believe Stacy is dead and that Drew is a suspect, however, he
hasn't been charged in that case.
Philly
Cops Charged in Brutality Incident After Victim’s Girlfriend Did Some
Investigating of Her Own to Get Authorities Started
A year and a half after the
incident, the two cops were charged and suspended with intent to dismiss.
Ed Krayewski|
Two Philadelphia police
officers, Sean McKnight and Kevin Robinson, were arrested last week on charges
of assault, criminal conspiracy, reckless endangerment, tampering with public
records, making false reports, obstructing the administration of law, and
official oppression. The charges stem from a May 2013 incident in which pulled
over resident Najee Rivera while he was riding a motorized scooter. Rivera
allegedly fled, and cops are accused of pursuing him without using their sirens
or lights and then violently beating him after catching him.
The Philadelphia police
accepted the cops’ version of events, which accused Rivera of assaulting them
and resisting arrest, and that would’ve been that but for his sleuthing
girlfriend.
Philly.com reports:
"As soon as I picked him
up, we went right over there," [Rivera's girlfriend Dina] Scannapieco
said. He was in a hospital gown covered in blood.
Eventually the couple made it
to the 2700 block of North Sixth Street, where he had been arrested the night before
- and where two officers were saying Rivera had thrown one of them into a brick
wall.
The two, she said, saw where he
was arrested.
"You seen all his blood
all over the pavement," she said…
After seeing the blood,
Scannapieco began asking questions.
She eventually found
surveillance video, at a barber shop-auto detailing business on the block, that
would exonerate Rivera and lead to the arrest of the officers who prosecutors
say beat him without provocation and then falsely arrested him.
By August 2013, charges against
Rivera were dropped and the cops began to be investigated. A year and a half
later, after a grand jury found the bulk of their statements false and they
face formal charges, the police department has suspended McKnight and Robinson
with “intent to dismiss.” Police say
they could not have started an investigation against themselves immediately at
the time absent an official complaint. That hurdle has now been removed, and
the Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey says in hindsight police
should have canvassed the area after Rivera’s arrest.
At least one of the officers,
Robinson, has been previously accused of police brutality while making a false
arrest. He was sued in 2012 and the city settled for $125,000. He remained on
the force.
