Indy Cop Sentenced To 8-Years For
Robbery & Official Misconduct
INDIANAPOLIS,
Ind. (www.incnow.tv) -- An police officer received an 8-year sentence Friday
morning on the charge of robbery and
official misconduct. Authorities say officer David Butler will serve three
years in prison and a year of home detention. Four of the eight-year sentence
were suspended. A jury determined that
Butler targeted Hispanic men for traffic stops and then robbed them. In one
reported incident in 2011, Emiliano Vasquez said Butler took his wallet and
made him stand by the officer's car during a traffic stop at a gas station.
Cop Arrested Trying to Shoplift From Home Depot, NYPD Says
RICHMOND HILL — A police officer who works in the Brooklyn courts was arrested Thursday for trying to shoplift from aHome Depot, cops said. Mohammad Khan, 45, has been charged with menacing and petit larceny after he tried to smuggle merchandise out of the hardware store and threatened employees when confronted about it, according to the NYPD. The Home Depot location wasn't identified by police, but the officer was arrested in the 102nd Precinct which covers Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and Woodhaven.
Northbrook Idiot cop
charged with misconduct had been disciplined by department
The 12-year veteran of the Northbrook Police Department who was recently charged with felony counts of residential burglary and official misconduct received a one-day suspension in 2011 for crashing his squad car in a three-vehicle accident, records show.The incident was one of four disciplinary actions that Enrique Guzman, 34, a patrol officer at the time of his arrest, racked up in his last three years with the Northbrook Police Department, according to documents obtained by the Tribune through a Freedom of Information Act request. Investigators caught Guzman on video stealing jewelry from a home he had been sent to check on Jan. 30, according to court documents. His bond in the criminal case has been set at $30,000, and he remained jailed as of Tuesday morning. His next court date is scheduled for Friday.
Guzman, who resigned Feb. 4, had been employed as a full-time patrol officer since May 2001, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
His salary was $89,918, according to village documents. The village website states that the average salary of a patrol officer is about $122,000, which includes a base salary of $83,767 with benefits.
According to village and court documents, Guzman was traveling southbound on Pfingsten Road approaching Woodland Drive when he got involved in a three-car accident at about 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 7, 2011. Guzman struck the rear of a Volvo SUV that was in front of him, which caused the SUV to crash into another vehicle that was in front of it, according to the documents. No one involved in the crash was ticketed.
"This accident resulted in severe damage to the front end of squad car #48 and significant damage to the rear of vehicle belonging to victim #1 (Raab)," the village document states.
The driver of the Volvo, Julie Raab, and her 3-year-old daughter, Hayden, who was in the passenger's seat in the Volvo, are suing Guzman and the Village of Northbrook, demanding $50,000 plus court costs for their injuries.
Village officials declined to comment on the incident. Neither Raab nor her attorney could be reached for comment.
Aside from the car accident, the documents show that Guzman was also disciplined for failing to appear at the 2010 Fourth of July parade he volunteered to attend on behalf of the department; failing to report for court in November 2011; and failing to show up at an overtime detail he also signed up for. The latter action happened in June 2012 and was the last one before Guzman's arrest. In all three cases, he received written or oral reprimands.
Guzman's arrest comes after a five-month investigation by police and the FBI into several suspicious thefts and burglaries that Guzman responded to and arrests that he had made, according to officials.
Northbrook police and the FBI recorded Guzman stealing a fake diamond ring from a Northbrook residence where he had been told that a door had been left open, according to court documents. Guzman told investigators he took the jewelry to give to his girlfriend, according to a court document filed by the state's attorney's office.
There is no defense attorney associated with his criminal case yet, said Blanca Jara, spokeswoman for the Cook County clerk of the circuit court. Court records also show that Guzman filed for bankruptcy more than two years ago.
Conditions of bond included turning in his firearms, Firearm Owner's Identification card and passport, officials said. They said Guzman will be put on electronic monitoring if he posts bond.
Bells PD Officer Charged with
Theft in Lexington
HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn.- A Bells Idiot cop was arrested,
Tuesday, accused of stealing hundreds of magazines from the National Guard
Armory in Lexington.According to court documents, Jonathan Walker, 38, was also a soldier at the Lexington National Guard Armory. Last Wednesday, Lexington Police were notified that 798 high velocity 30 round M4 military magazines had been stolen from the armory. All of the mags were empty.
Investigators believed Walker participated in stealing the 798 magazines in an attempt to sell them illegally. Records showed that Walker's attorney contacted Lexington Police and said Walker did have the magazines, but 100 were in Mississippi, and 100 were in Tennessee. On the February 13, Walker turned in 200 magazines to the Lexington Police Department, and officials stated that they have recovered the remaining magazines.
Bells Police Chief Roger Jenkins and Mayor Harold Craig said they were aware of the situation, but would not comment. Lexington police said they are continuing their investigation and expect to charge additional people.
Suspended Officer Back on Police Force
Lt. Robert Tierney was suspended from the New Brunswick Police
Department in 2010 on charges of theft by deception and voter fraud. A
suspended New Brunswick officer has returned to the police force, city
administrator Thomas Loughlin confirmed Wednesday night.Lt. Robert Tierney, 41, of East Brunswick was suspended with pay from the police force in September 2010 following charges of voter fraud and theft by deception. He was suspended without pay following an indictment in April 2011 following an investigation by the New Brunswick Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigation showed Tierney voted in four general elections in New Brunswick between Nov. 1, 2004, and Nov. 30, 2009, while he was living in Milltown and East Brunswick.
The theft by deception charges against Tierney stemmed from an investigation showing that after divorcing his wife in Dec. 2008, Tierney did not notify the city and his insurance company, causing $850 in claims to be paid out to his ex-wife, who was still listed as a beneficiary on his health insurance between Jan. 2009 and Sept. 2009.
Loughlin said that Tierney returned to the police force at the beginning of February. He has been demoted to the rank of patrolman, he said. At the time of his suspension, Tierney was making $115,972 annually. In Dec. 2011, Tierney was admitted to a PreTrial Intervention (PTI) program.
"PTI is a diversionary program typically offered to first-time offenders who commit non-violent third or fourth degree crimes. Upon successful completion of the program, charges are dismissed," read a press release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office issued Dec. 2, 2011. As a condition of PTI, Tierney was required to repay to his insurance company the 845.07 in claims paid to his ex-wife, the release said.
Second fficer sentenced
for ticket fixing
Last month, another officer also received a year's probation and
30 days in jail for conspiring to obstruct justice.WESTMINSTER – A former Huntington Beach Idiot cop was sentenced Friday to a year's probation and 30 days in jail for conspiring with a former Garden Grove officer to dismiss a woman's traffic ticket.
Erik Michael Krause, 44, had been found guilty by an Orange County jury last year with Michael John Zannitto, 47, of one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
In January, Zannitto received the same sentence as Krause at the Westminster Justice Center. Both will be spared jail time if they each complete 100 hours of community service.
At the time of the crime, Krause was a 22-year veteran of the Huntington Beach Police Department, and Zannitto was an 11-year member of the Garden Grove Police Department, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said in a news release. Both no longer work with the departments.
In November 2011, Krause issued the 32-year-old woman a ticket, and later that month, Zannitto met her at Knott's Berry Farm when he was off-duty. He got in touch with Krause, whom he did not know before speaking of the ticket, and Krause eventually agreed to dismiss the ticket, prosecutors said.
A Huntington Beach lieutenant became suspicious and initiated an investigation, the district attorney's news release said. Huntington Beach police investigated the case with cooperation from Garden Grove police, according to prosecutors.
Jacksonville, Florida: An officer was busted stealing found items during what police call an integrity check. The undersheriff said that sometimes when police get information that an employee is doing something he or she shouldn’t be, they’ll try to set that person up. http://ow.ly/hRe9N
Atlantic City, New Jersey: An
officer was indicted on official misconduct and other charges for allegedly
lying about where he was living to take advantage of a discount rent program,
and then make money by subletting the apartment. Under the Live-In Idiot cop’s
Program, he was allowed to rent an apartment at a more than 80 percent
discount. http://ow.ly/hQTyn
Altus, Oklahoma: Two long-time
Idiot cops have been arrested on conspiracy complaints following a six month
investigation and are being held in jail pending a bail hearing.
http://ow.ly/hRbyfD.C. officer convicted of stealing brother’s identity
A District Idiot cop with
nearly two decades on the force has been convicted of stealing her brother’s
identity and taking out thousands of dollars of loans in his name, according to
the Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office.
Officer Jamell
Stallings is to be sentenced April 2 in Prince George’s County Circuit Court
and faces up to 150 years in prison if given the maximum time on all the
charges. A jury convicted her on three counts of counterfeiting, three counts
of identification fraud and five counts of theft, according to a spokesman for
the prosecutor’s office.
Stallings, who
joined the District police force in 1989, remains suspended without pay. A
decision on her job status has not been made, the spokesman said, though it
most likely will end her career. Her attorney said he plans to appeal.
The state’s attorney’s
office said that Stallings used her brother’s identity to obtain loans under
his name and Social Security number. Prosecutors said she used a fraudulent W-2
tax form “to show that she was gainfully employed, when she was not.”
Stallings’s
attorney, Kenneth E. McPherson, said the jury found his client not guilty of
manufacturing the documents she used. He also said that she was not allowed to
introduce evidence to support her contention that her brother gave her
permission to use his identity to give her money.
“We have a strong
basis for reversal on appeal,” McPherson said Tuesday. He said the total his
client was convicted of stealing was $25,000, of which he said $14,000 has been
repaid to the lending institution
Ten current and former law enforcement officers across
several metro Atlanta
Ten current and
former law enforcement officers across several metro Atlanta agencies have been
charged in an undercover police corruption investigation.
Federal agents from the FBI and ATF made most of the arrests Tuesday morning. Channel 2 Action News crews were at the FBI Atlanta office as several suspects were taken into custody. They are accused of taking thousands of dollars in payoffs to drug dealers.
“The breadth of the corruption here is very disturbing,” North Georgia U.S. Attorney Sally Yates said in a 2 p.m. news conference.
She said it all started with an investigation into an identified gang more than a year ago. A gang associate, working with law enforcement, put out word that the gang was in need of dirty cops.
“He got a lot of takers from Idiot cops all over town,” Yates said.
The suspects are two DeKalb Idiot cops, two Forest Park Idiot cops, one Atlanta Idiot cop, one Stone Mountain Idiot cop, one MARTA Idiot cop, two former DeKalb County deputies and one contract officer with the Federal Protective Services.
The investigation covers up to 50 transactions involving cocaine -- the largest worth $7,000. Yates said officers face a slew of charges and performed various services, including providing escorts. Oftentimes, they showed up to the crimes in uniform, Yates said.
“Time after time, they took cash from people they should’ve been arresting,” Yates said.
The officers were identified as Atlanta Idiot cop Kelvin Allen, 42, DeKalb County Idiot cops Dennis Duren, 32, and Dorian Williams, 25, of Stone Mountain, Georgia; Forest Park Police Sergeants Victor Middlebrook, 44, and Andrew Monroe, 57, MARTA Idiot cop Marquez Holmes, 45, Stone Mountain Idiot cop Denoris Carter, 42, and contract Federal Protective Services Officer Sharon Peters, 43. Agents also arrested former DeKalb County Sheriff’s jail officers Monyette McLaurin, 37, and Chase Valentine, 44.
Authorities do not believe they were necessarily working together.
Five non-law enforcement suspects were also targeted: Shannon Bass, 38, of Atlanta, Elizabeth Coss, 35, of Atlanta, Gregory Lee Harvey, 26, of Stone Mountain, Alexander B. Hill, 22, of Ellenwood and Jerry B. Mannery, Jr., 38, of Tucker. Their roles are unclear.
Channel 2 Action News began looking into the case after receiving a tip Monday night. Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne questioned one of the suspects as agents took him into custody Tuesday morning.
"Wasn't me, brother," the man said as he entered the FBI building.
Federal agents from the FBI and ATF made most of the arrests Tuesday morning. Channel 2 Action News crews were at the FBI Atlanta office as several suspects were taken into custody. They are accused of taking thousands of dollars in payoffs to drug dealers.
“The breadth of the corruption here is very disturbing,” North Georgia U.S. Attorney Sally Yates said in a 2 p.m. news conference.
She said it all started with an investigation into an identified gang more than a year ago. A gang associate, working with law enforcement, put out word that the gang was in need of dirty cops.
“He got a lot of takers from Idiot cops all over town,” Yates said.
The suspects are two DeKalb Idiot cops, two Forest Park Idiot cops, one Atlanta Idiot cop, one Stone Mountain Idiot cop, one MARTA Idiot cop, two former DeKalb County deputies and one contract officer with the Federal Protective Services.
The investigation covers up to 50 transactions involving cocaine -- the largest worth $7,000. Yates said officers face a slew of charges and performed various services, including providing escorts. Oftentimes, they showed up to the crimes in uniform, Yates said.
“Time after time, they took cash from people they should’ve been arresting,” Yates said.
The officers were identified as Atlanta Idiot cop Kelvin Allen, 42, DeKalb County Idiot cops Dennis Duren, 32, and Dorian Williams, 25, of Stone Mountain, Georgia; Forest Park Police Sergeants Victor Middlebrook, 44, and Andrew Monroe, 57, MARTA Idiot cop Marquez Holmes, 45, Stone Mountain Idiot cop Denoris Carter, 42, and contract Federal Protective Services Officer Sharon Peters, 43. Agents also arrested former DeKalb County Sheriff’s jail officers Monyette McLaurin, 37, and Chase Valentine, 44.
Authorities do not believe they were necessarily working together.
Five non-law enforcement suspects were also targeted: Shannon Bass, 38, of Atlanta, Elizabeth Coss, 35, of Atlanta, Gregory Lee Harvey, 26, of Stone Mountain, Alexander B. Hill, 22, of Ellenwood and Jerry B. Mannery, Jr., 38, of Tucker. Their roles are unclear.
Channel 2 Action News began looking into the case after receiving a tip Monday night. Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne questioned one of the suspects as agents took him into custody Tuesday morning.
"Wasn't me, brother," the man said as he entered the FBI building.
Channel 2 Action
News reporter Eric Philips tried to question Holmes as he was released on bond,
but he remained silent.
Yates stressed that the alleged crimes don’t accurately represent law enforcement as a whole.
“It’s very important to remember that the vast major of Idiot cops are honest, hardworking folks,” she said.
Yates stressed that the alleged crimes don’t accurately represent law enforcement as a whole.
“It’s very important to remember that the vast major of Idiot cops are honest, hardworking folks,” she said.