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They shot him dead for stealing sunglasses while they were in a wooded
area, out of public sight AND THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT
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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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Portland Reviewing Conduct of Police Officers Who Arrested, Handcuffed 9-Year-Old Girl
by
Nick Chiles
A
citizens panel in Portland, Ore., that investigates police misconduct is looking
into an incident from last year during which two officers arrested and
handcuffed a 9-year-old Black girl who had gotten into a fight with two other
girls outside a local Boys & Girls Club.
The
arrest on April 26, 2013, occurred when the mother of one of the girls called
police and demanded that the 9-year-old be arrested for hitting her child in
the face.
A
week later, Officers David McCarthy and Matthew Huspek questioned the girl and
arrested her on a fourth-degree assault charge.
The
girl was taken in handcuffs to police headquarters in a wet bathing suit, where
she was fingerprinted and photographed and put in a cell for an hour.
The
girl’s mother, Latoya Harris, was not allowed to ride in the patrol car with
her.
“When
they put handcuffs on, I thought, ‘Wait a minute, this has got to be a joke,’”
Harris told The Portland Oregonian. “The look on my daughter’s face went from
humiliation and fear, to a look of sheer panic.”
In
an interview with the Daily Mail, Joseph Hagedon, chief supervising attorney
for the Metropolitan Public Defender’s juvenile unit, said the actions of the
officers, who showed up a week later at the girl’s home, “was way over the
top.”
But
police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson told the Daily Mail that Portland officers
use handcuffs as a safeguard, and the two officers were following proper
procedure.
The
now-10-year-old girl was traumatized by the incident and had to change schools
because of teasing. She has been in counseling since last June.
The
girl’s mother last month went to the Citizen Review Committee, an advisory and
monitoring panel that hears complaints of alleged officer misconduct against
Portland police. The committee agreed to hear her testimony and it was first
reported in the weekly Portland Mercury. Harris said she is planning to sue the
department.
Critics
of the department are asking for a change in policy to sharply restrict
officers from taking a child younger than 10 years old into custody.
After
she was held in a cell for an hour, the 9-year-old girl was released.
Prosecutors declined to pursue prosecuting the little girl.
The
fight occurred between two girls because one of them tattled on the other in
school for drawing on a desk. After a staff member broke up the fight, Harris’
daughter continued trying to kick and punch her nemesis — though the girls
eventually apologized to one another and the 9-year-old was suspended from the
club for a week.
But
the parents got involved when the mother of one of the girls in the altercation
called police and demanded that Harris’ daughter be arrested for slamming her
child’s head against a wall and leaving a contusion on her face.
Harris
said the experience has changed her little girl, a gifted student.
“I
didn’t get the same girl back,” she said.
Society of Silurians honors outstanding reporting on police misconduct
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YORK — The Society of the Silurians will honor outstanding reporting
achievements at its semi-annual Excellence in Journalism awards dinner Thursday
evening.
A
nine-month investigation by Newsday into misconduct by dozens of Long Island
police officers will receive two medallions. They are for public service in the
print category and in online investigative reporting.
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St. Pete officer suspended for lying about wreck
By
Stephen Thompson |
ST.
PETERSBURG — A city police officer has been suspended for 60 days after he got
into a wreck with a Pasco County sheriff’s undercover vehicle that his wife,
then a Pasco deputy, was supposed to be driving, and then lied about it,
according to a memorandum issued Thursday by Interim Chief of Police Dave
DeKay.
Officer
Kevin Haskins, 37, had dropped off his wife, Jessica Haskins, at a Home Depot
in New Port Richey on Jan. 19, 2013, while he went to look for a parking space
for her vehicle, leased by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, the memorandum
says.
Haskins
called his wife and, after she showed up, the two spoke privately, the summary
says. According to Shurtleff, Kevin Haskins asked Shurtleff if she were willing
to say Jessica Haskins was driving, rather than Kevin, as she would get into
trouble otherwise, the summary says.
Later,
Jessica Haskins would claim she had the conversation with Shurtleff, in an
apparent effort to protect her husband’s job.
Shurtleff
waited with Jessica for nearly two hours before Pasco sheriff’s deputies
arrived, and they never spoke to Shurtleff to get her input, the summary says.
Sheriff’s Cpl. John Spicuglia gave Shurtleff a crash report, and she left.
When
Shurtleff took her car for repairs, she discovered the sheriff’s office was
paying only for half of the damage, as Shurtleff was deemed half responsible
for the crash, the case summary says.
Shurtleff
looked into the matter and discovered Jessica Haskins claimed Shurtleff’s car
was moving at the time of the collision. Shurtleff brought the matter up with
the sheriff’s office and told deputies Kevin Haskins was the one driving, not
Jessica Haskins.
The
sheriff’s office began an investigation, during which Jessica Haskins, who was
working as a vice and narcotics detective, resigned on March 28, 2013 instead
of being fired.
In
December, St. Petersburg police learned of Haskins’ deception after his wife
applied for a job with the agency. Investigators did a background check, and
found Kevin Haskins’ potential involvement in the Home Depot wreck.
“Officer
Haskins stated his wife had been dealing with a number of personal issues, and
he could see she was afraid she would get in trouble for allowing him to
operate her work vehicle,” the summary says. “Officer Haskins said he was
trying to protect his wife, and it was then that he suggested the idea to her
that they report the incident as her driving.”
Kevin
Haskins has been with the St. Petersburg police department since 2011.
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Weasel cop
Ex-Nassau
cop accused of on-duty trysts pleads guilty to misconduct charges
May
12, 2014
A
former Nassau County police officer was sentenced to community service Monday
after pleading guilty to official misconduct charges after he was indicted on
more than a hundred criminal charges for allegedly spending hours at his
mistress’ homes while he was supposed to be responding to 911 calls, Nassau
County prosecutors said.
Michael
Tedesco, 45, of Holbrook, pleaded guilty to 75 misdemeanor counts of official
misconduct and was sentenced to serve 100 hours of community service, the
Nassau County district attorney’s office said. Under a plea deal with
prosecutors, Tedesco will forfeit his nearly $195,000 termination package and
will also personally repay the county close to $4,000. He could not be reached
Monday evening for comment.
Tedesco,
who retired from the police force in April 2012, was accused of spending “a
considerable amount of on-duty time” at two women’s homes between 2010 and
2012. Prosecutors said he would travel out of his sector – in the Massapequa
and Seaford area – to stay at the women’s homes extended periods of time during
his shift. When Tedesco was indicted in December 2012, Nassau County District
Attorney Kathleen Rice said he was caught staying at the homes for numerous
hours on several occasions.
The
district attorney’s office said Tedesco would also fail to update his police
communication system – through a computer in his patrol car – and would
“linger” at the women’s homes before he would respond to 911 calls. Those
calls, they say, included reports of alarms, domestic disturbances and a possible
cardiac arrest. Other times, according to authorities, Tedesco would falsely
update his police computer to show he was responding to a call, when GPS
records from his patrol car showed he was really at his mistress’ home.
Prosecutors
said he would also spend at his girlfriend’s home while he was supposed to be
“engaged in strategic crime prevention.” Internal affairs investigators were
tipped off after a neighbor of one of the women reported seeing Tedesco’s
police cruiser in her driveway on a regular basis. He was arrested and charged
in December 2012.
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The epidemic of drunk and drugged up cops and why doesn't Congress act to protect the American public from the cops?
In
narcotics probe, one officer fired, others suspended
By
Mike Newall and Aubrey Whelan, Inquirer Staff Writers
POSTED:
MAY 14, 2014
A
Philadelphia narcotics officer who lied on a search warrant in a drug
investigation and concealed a business relationship with an informant has been
suspended for 30 days with the intent to dismiss, Police Commissioner Charles
H. Ramsey said Monday.
Jeffrey
Cujdik will be fired, and three officers will be suspended and transferred from
the narcotics squad, he said.
Cujdik
and three of his colleagues have been on desk duty for five years, since a 2009
series in the Philadelphia Daily News reported that they had fabricated
evidence, given gifts to informants, and robbed bodegas of cash and
merchandise.
The
newspaper also reported that one of the officers, Thomas Tolstoy, assaulted
three women sexually. A criminal investigation into those allegations is
ongoing.
Ramsey's
actions come after federal and local law enforcement officials declined to
bring criminal charges against the officers.
Federal
authorities spent four years investigating allegations of falsified warrants
and thefts from bodegas, and in March 2013, declined to file criminal charges.
The U.S. Attorney's Office cited a lack of evidence and problems with
witnesses' credibility.
After
it became clear that no criminal charges would be filed in connection with the
alleged thefts and falsified warrants, the department began an internal
investigation to see whether the officers had violated department policy. That
inquiry, which concluded last month, sustained eight findings of misconduct
against the squad.
Ramsey
said he took into account "the seriousness of the accusations" and
also the time that had elapsed.
"This
is a black mark on the department," he said. He stressed that the
wrongdoing did not reflect on the "overwhelming majority of officers"
on the force, but rather on "a few who lost sight of the values of the
department."
Cujdik,
a 17-year veteran and the scandal's most public face, will receive the most
severe punishment.
Two
other officers were suspended for 30 days, the harshest punishment Ramsey could
levy other than termination, he said. Another officer and a supervisor also
face suspensions.
Efforts
to reach Cujdik and the other officers were unsuccessful Monday. John McNesby,
president of Lodge 5 of the Fraternal Order of Police, said, "We are aware
of the pending discipline and will be speaking to the commissioner in the
coming days."
Tolstoy
will be suspended for 30 days for giving gifts to informants and lying to
investigators about it, Ramsey said. Tolstoy could not be reached for comment.
The
District Attorney's Office is reviewing two sexual assault allegations against
Tolstoy. Ramsey said Monday that the officer would not return to street duty
while that investigation is pending.
The
department investigated three allegations by women who said Tolstoy sexually
assaulted them during drug raids. In two of those cases, Ramsey said, Internal
Affairs found insufficient evidence to support the women's accounts.
In
the third case, which was reviewed by a federal grand jury, DNA evidence did
not match Tolstoy, the commissioner said.
Officer
Robert McDonnell will be suspended for 30 days and transferred to a different
squad for fabricating evidence on a search warrant, Ramsey said.
Officer
Richard Cujdik, Jeffrey Cujdik's brother, will be suspended for two days and
transferred to another squad for searching a bodega owner's van without a
warrant, he said. His supervisor at the time, Capt. Joseph Bologna, will be
suspended for three days for failure to properly supervise.
Jeffrey
Cujdik's misconduct was the most extensive and thus his punishment the most
severe, Ramsey said.
According
to people familiar with the inquiry, investigators found that Jeffrey Cujdik
and McDonnell intentionally fabricated evidence on one warrant.
Investigators
say they believe Jeffrey Cujdik often attributed buys to an informant who was
renting a house from him so he could use his reward money to pay rent. The
department found Cujdik had violated guidelines by allowing the informant to
live in his house, and cited Cujdik for lying about it.
Internal
Affairs investigators also found that Cujdik and Tolstoy gave informants
cigarettes, money, cellphones, and prepaid phone cards, sources said.
One
informant called Cujdik a "true friend" who had made several small
loans to the informant's girlfriend, according to investigators.
Another
informant said Cujdik have him clothing, alcohol, and money for cases he had
not worked on, investigators said.
A
third informant said Cujdik gave her mother $300 to bail her out of jail,
sources said.
The
investigators concluded that both officers lied when asked about the gift-giving.
Richard
Cujdik admitted to investigators that he had searched a van without a warrant
in the raid of a bodega. The department cited Bologna for failing to supervise
him.
One
bodega owner captured video of the officers cutting wires to security cameras
during a raid, according to sources. Bologna, the supervisor, told
investigators the camera was dismantled for safety reasons - to protect
plainclothes officers' identities.
The
cameras were seized as evidence and placed on a property receipt - standard procedure,
the officers told investigators.
There
was no department policy at the time on dismantling security cameras, so
investigators concluded the officers had not violated any departmental
policies. Investigators did, however, recommend that the department establish a
clear policy on such practices.
Former Centerville police officer charged with burglary, heroin possession
BY SCOTT BEVERIDGE
CENTERVILLE – A former Centerville police officer was arrested by state police Tuesday on charges he broke into his grandmother’s house and stole $275 from a pouch on her walker while she was asleep.
Joseph Impiccini Jr., 36, of 230 Low Hill Road in Centerville, became a suspect in the case after the woman awoke and found his ball cap on a chair in her residence, state police noted in the affidavit supporting the charges.
Police said it appeared a piece of metal was used to pop off a lock on a sliding glass door to enter the victim’s Centerville residence. It was about the same time, 11 p.m. Monday, when another relative noticed him in the victim’s driveway, the court record indicates.
When a trooper went to Impiccini’s residence Tuesday, he confessed to stealing the money in order buy heroin, police say. He allegedly had three stamp bags of the drug in his possession at the time.
Impiccini, who rose to the rank of corporal after working for Centerville police for three years, was removed from the police schedule in May 2003 after wrecking a cruiser. Four months later, he was arrested by the state attorney general’s office and later sentenced in Fayette County Court to its Intermediate Punishment Program for possessing $80 worth of heroin. He also was sentenced in Washington County Court to three years of probation after pleading guilty in 2008 to forging six checks written out to laid-off employees of Impiccini School Bus Lines in Centerville.
State police on Tuesday charged him with burglary, drug possession, theft and receiving stolen property. He was placed in Washington County Jail on $25,000 bond set by District Judge Joshua Kanalis.
Ex
Rockford Cop Sentenced To 8 Years After DUI Crash
Alexis
McAdams
Daniel
Cruz came face to face with the women he ran off the road while driving drunk
back in 2012. Women he tried to run away from, when they needed the then police
officer's help the most.
ROCKFORD
- Daniel Cruz, the former Rockford Police officer who pled guilty to aggravated
drinking and driving, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison. Police say in
May 2012, Cruz was passing an SUV in a no-passing zone southbound on Beloit
Road when he struck a pick-up truck and collided with the SUV near Townhall
Road. All four passengers of the SUV were taken to the hospital, one of the
passengers 61 year old Suzie Danielson was paralyzed from the neck down as a
result of a spinal cord injury. Following the crash, Cruz began walking away
from the scene and was stopped by a firefighter approximately ¾ of a mile from
the accident scene. Cruz refused all chemical testing. A search warrant was
then obtained for an involuntary blood draw. Lab results later revealed Cruz’s
blood alcohol content to be .14 grams per deciliter. Cruz was a 13 year veteran
of the Rockford Police Department who was off duty at the time of the crash. He
is no longer with the Department. His ex wife pled with the judge to give Cruz probation,
so that he would be able to see his children.
On
the stand, Sarah Cerenhous remembers May 2, 2012. She was on the way home with
three friends, when they were run off of Beloit Road. “We went to the right
Suzie flew over me to the left and I grabbed her so she did not fly out of the
car.”
The
three car crash would leave one of her friends paralyzed. The man that caused
the crash was Rockford police officer Daniel Cruz. The victims testified that
Cruz checked on them. “Oh cool, you guys are all okay…at which point, Suzie’s
head was on my lap and her body was laying across the back seat, and I started
screaming; we are not okay, we are not okay!" said Cerenhous
Dash
Cam video then shows Cruz leaving the scene. You can see him on the Right side
of the video walking away, phone in hand. He also lied to a firefighter about
being the driver. “Stop right there, you lied to me, you are the driver of the
car that we have been looking for.” Said Frank Perez
Through
tears, Cruz’s ex-wife asked the judge for probation so could be around for his
kids. “The kids are his world, and he is there world. Their dad is their
superman.” Said Angela Cruz.
Cruz proceeded to ask the judge to show him mercy, saying he has changed since
crash. “Your honor, please show me mercy.”
The
judge sentenced to eight years in prison, a sentence prosecutors agree with.
“He
left the scene of that accident, and he could have provided those people help.
He made that choice, and we believe that this punishment meets the crime.” Said
Michelle Courier, Boone County States Attorney
HPD
officer found guilty of DUI
Haskel
Burns
A
Hattiesburg Police Department officer involved in a 2013 vehicle accident that
left a 3-year-old injured has been found guilty of driving under the influence
and one count of endangering a child by DUI.
Petal
court clerk Michelle Strebeck said Zachary Rooke was adjudicated May 6 and has
been ordered to pay an undisclosed fine with no jail time.
“He’s
got fines on each one of those charges to pay,” Strebeck said. “Of course, as
you would anywhere, he has the opportunity to appeal his case, and he’s got 30
days to do that.”
Rooke
was charged with first-offense driving under the influence July 7, when
officers responded to an accident on the Evelyn Gandy Parkway near the Leeville
Road intersection.
Then-Petal
Police Department Detective Mitch Nobles said Rooke was allegedly driving a
utility task vehicle, or four-wheeled side-by side motorized buggy, at the time
of the single-vehicle accident.
Rooke
had at least one other passenger with him — a 3-year-old who was transported
from the scene to receive medical treatment. Nobles declined to release the
condition of the child as well as the injuries the child sustained, citing an
ongoing investigation into the incident.
Rooke
was honored two years in a row at HPD’s annual awards ceremony for leading the
department in misdemeanor arrests, with 129 in 2011 and 203 in 2012.
HPD
Maj. Hardy Sims declined to confirm whether Rooke is still employed with the
police department.
“That’s
a personnel matter, and that’s where we’re going to leave it,” he said.
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