TEMPLE, Texas Feb 12 2020 Temple police officer Carmen DeCruz, 52, was charged with manslaughter Monday connection with the death of Michael Dean, 28, whom DeCruz shot and killed on Dec. 2 during “an altercation of some sort” following a brief pursuit. “The Texas Rangers investigation developed facts and evidence which support the elements of manslaughter,” Bell […]
Yonkers NY Feb 10 2020 Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay — even if it technically belongs to the Yonkers Police Department. A Yonkers police officer has been arrested on grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing Department property and selling it online. Christian Carrasco, 41, was arraigned today in Yonkers Criminal Court […]
COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. Feb 5 2020 — A Cottage Grove police officer assigned to Park High School has been charged in Dakota County District Court with multiple counts of sexual misconduct involving seven female students. School resource officer Adam Pelton, 40, of River Falls, Wis., faces three counts of second degree criminal sexual conduct and four […]
Prince George County MD January 30 2020 A police officer in Maryland was charged with murder after authorities say he shot an unarmed man seven times while he had him handcuffed inside his police cruiser. Prince George’s County Police Cpl. Michael Owen Jr. is also facing manslaughter and associated weapons charges in the fatal shooting of […]
URBANA IL December 22 2019 — A University of Illinois police officer was arrested Friday on seven counts of official misconduct, a Class 3 felony, for allegedly using police resources to target women between February 2017 and January 2018. An arrest warrant for Jerald Sandage, 48, who has been a UI police officer for 12 years, […]
St Augustine FL November 26 2019 An intoxicated Flagler County Sheriff’s Office detective was arrested early Saturday for trying to start a fight with a bouncer at a St. Augustine bar and for slapping the hand of the officer who tried to detain him, authorities said. Detective Richard Petkovsek, 37, was suspended without pay and the […]
Dallas TX November 24 2019 Two Dallas County sheriff’s officers are accused of stealing from the Home Depot store in Texas that one of them was supposed to be guarding after a tornado ravaged the building, authorities say. Deputy Joseph Bobadilla, 25, was hired to guard the store on Forest Lane in Dallas during his off-duty […]
Lincoln, R.I., November 12 2019 A Rhode Island Capitol Police officer was arrested after he allegedly walked off with another Twin River Casino patron’s lost wallet containing $1,700 in cash, Rhode Island State Police said Saturday. David J. Bradley, 59, of North Providence was allegedly seen in security footage picking up the wallet from the floor […]
LITTLE ROCK AR November 11 2019— An Arkansas police officer has been suspended after he was recorded dancing naked at a Little Rock nightclub last month. Conway Police Officer Cebron Hackett was suspended without pay for 30 days and ordered to complete remedial training—whatever that is. He was off-duty and appeared to be “highly intoxicated” […]
Pima County AZ November 6 2019 A Pima County Sheriff’s deputy arrested last month on suspicion of shoplifting in an Oro Valley Walmart resigned on Monday, sheriff’s officials said. The Oro Valley Police Department arrested Ryan Fuller, 35, on October 21 on one count of organized retail theft and four counts of fraudulent schemes. That same […]