Tutwiler, MS June 1 2017 The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics has arrested a Tutwiler prison guard in a continuing heroin investigation, MBN Director John Dowdy said in a news release. MBN agents arrested Cynthia D. Smith, 37, of Clarksdale over the weekend at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, a private prison in Tutwiler run by […]
Placer County CA June 1 2017 Three Placer County sheriff’s officials were arrested Wednesday on charges involving allegations of excessive force against at least six jail inmates and falsifying evidence, the result of what Sheriff Devon Bell is calling “an extensive investigation” that included video recordings and other evidence. The arrests of corrections Sgt. Megan […]
Baton Rouge LA May 29 2017 A shakedown at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola this morning resulted in the arrest of a prison employee for allegedly trying to bring contraband into the prison. Louisiana Department of Corrections investigators were conducting a routine shakedown of 26-year-old Kaelyn D. Franklin of Baton Rouge. She was a corrections […]
New York City NY May 25 2017 An off-duty New York City Corrections Officer accidentally shot himself and an unidentified woman inside a Hell’s Kitchen bar Tuesday night, after inadvertently discharging his weapon – according to police. The shooting occurred inside the Mamasita Bar & Grill on Tenth Avenue shortly after 8 p.m., while the […]
Orange County VA May 24 2017 Two people are facing multiple charges of child neglect after a 4-year-old Orange County boy got ahold of a gun and shot himself to death. On Monday, an Orange County grand jury issued indictments of child neglect and reckless handling of a firearm against 25-year-old Nicholas Joseph Stoia, a […]
Newton County, Ga. May 22 2017— A Stone Mountain police officer and her son were arrested on numerous charges after an alleged road rage incident involving a gun in Newton County. Randy Foster said he was headed to the Dungeon Gym on Brown Bridge Road May 13 when a female driver cut him off […]
DES PERES, Mo. May 19 2017 A St. John police sergeant is off of the force after police arrested him for shoplifting hamburger meat at a Des Peres grocery store. On April 21, Des Peres police say Sgt. Matthew Barthelmass walked up to the meat counter at the Dierbergs on Manchester Road. The security officer […]
Los Angeles CA May 13 2017 Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced to three years in federal prison Friday, two months after a jury found him guilty of obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from an FBI probe into inmate abuse inside the Men’s Central Jail. Baca sat still and without […]
SHREVEPORT, La. May 12 2017 – A Mississippi woman was sentenced Monday to 94 months in prison for being part of a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities and causing the refunds to be mailed to post office boxes in Louisiana. Shannon A. Brumfield, 50, of Byram, was sentenced to more […]
Seattle WA May 9 2017 A veteran Seattle police officer has been charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana along with three other people federal agents say were part of a large-scale drug-smuggling operation responsible for delivering at least 100 kilograms of marijuana to the East Coast. According to a 15-page complaint unsealed Monday in U.S. […]