NYPD
cop accused of raping girlfriend’s teen daughter
By Natasha Velez
An off-duty NYPD sergeant
carried on a sexual relationship with his girlfriend’s underage daughter for a
year and a half before the child reported it to police, cops said Wednesday.
Vladimir Krull, 37, allegedly
carried out the relationship with the girl, 14, in The Bronx, while he was
dating her mother, according to sources.
He and the mother have since
split, a police source said.
The child told police they
started the inappropriate relationship in September 2013 and continued it
through Sunday, when she reported it, according to a criminal-court complaint.
Krull was assigned to the
Midtown North Precinct.
He joined the force in July
2004 and was promoted to sergeant in 2013. Krull earned $112,185 last year,
according to public records.
He was arrested Tuesday
afternoon and has been charged with rape, criminal sex act, sexual misconduct,
endangering the welfare of a child, forcible touching and sex misconduct, cops
said. He is suspended without pay.
Veteran
Miami-Dade officer accused of possessing child porn
James Edwards arrested while on
house arrest from prior case
Author: Andrew Perez,
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. -
A veteran Miami-Dade police
sergeant is back in jail facing charges on 12 counts of possessing child
pornography.
James Edwards was arrested
Thursday and taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
The 27-year veteran officer was
already on house arrest from an open case from August.
According to documents, Edwards
was first arrested after he brought two teen brothers to his home to do some
landscaping.
He allegedly admitted to giving
the teens marijuana, the drug "Molly" and then began touching himself
and masturbating in front of the minors.
It was after that arrest that
detectives began examining his electronics.
Several hard drives and
computers were removed from the residence, according to sources. Several
explicit images and videos of underage boys engaging in sexual acts were
uncovered during the investigation.
The images and videos were sent
to a doctor, who confirmed the boys were underage.
Sources said some of the images
were downloaded from the Internet and others were generated by Edwards himself.
Edwards also faces charges of
lewd and lascivious conduct and exhibition.
Wewoka
police officer sentenced for rape of 15-year-old
OKLAHOMA CITY —A former Wewoka police officer
was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to
second-degree rape.
According to the attorney
general's office, former Officer Trever Blackwell had sex with a 15-year-old
girl while on duty between August 2011 and January 2012.
The crimes, some of which
occurred in a cop car, took place while the girl was taking part in Wewoka PD's
Explorer program.
Blackwell will be required to
register as a sex offender after being released from prison.
Coroner questions police in cop's case
Kimball
Perry,
Cincinnati
police have closed the criminal case of former officer Darrell Beavers, without
doing any DNA testing to determine who else might have been involved in the sexual activity that took
place in his false police substation scheme. Police said the $10,000 cost to do
DNA testing was too expensive – comments Hamilton County's coroner questions.
"We
never said, 'No, we're not going to do this' or 'This is going to cost
$10,000,' " Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco said.
Beavers pleaded guilty in
June to illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and
attempted tampering with evidence and was sentenced to one year in prison. Last
week, a judge allowed Beavers to leave prison to serve six months in the
Hamilton County Justice Center and the rest of his sentence under house arrest.
Beavers,
a Cincinnati police officer since 2002, set up two fake police substations
where police said, and evidence indicated, that frequent sexual activity took
place. After Beavers' guilty plea and sentence, police dropped the case. The
Enquirer asked why, and why no DNA testing was done to see if others,
especially police officers, were involved.
Police
spokeswoman Tiffaney Hardy told The Enquirer on Thursday that the $10,000 cost
to test DNA from the Beavers case was prohibitive. As a result, police closed
the case.
"We're
still processing the evidence, so I don't know why they'd say that,"
coroner Sammarco said of Cincinnati police.
When
contacted Monday, Hardy said she'd look into the issue.
Chief
Jeffrey Blackwell reopened the case last fall. Bedding from the substation was
submitted to the coroner's office for DNA testing. The difficulty, Blackwell
said at the time, is getting police to voluntarily submit to DNA testing if DNA
other than Beavers' is found. The case, Hardy said, was closed "unless
other victims or people come forward."
At
Beavers' sentencing, police said they asked Beavers to talk to them about who
else, including other police officers, might have been involved, but he
refused.
"We
have quite a few stains on sheets, several semen stains," Sammarco said.
Sammarco
admits other samples are needed to compare against the stains, but wonders why
police haven't contacted her recently about this and haven't even passed along
Beavers' DNA which was taken as part of the investigation.
That may
not be an issue now.
Upon
entering prison, all Ohio inmates have DNA taken by having the insides of their
mouths swabbed. Now, Beavers' DNA can be requested by Sammarco from the state
prison system. If anyone other than Beavers' DNA is found at the scene, that
means others were involved.
