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. […]
ATLANTA Ga May 8 2017 — DeKalb County Sheriff Jeffrey Mann was arrested in Atlanta Saturday night on charges of indecency and obstruction. The Atlanta Police incident report states that at about 11 p.m. the reporting officer, identified only as Officer Snell, was in an area of Piedmont Park along 10th Street, NE, […]
Balch Springs TX May 6 2017 Roy Oliver, the fired Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards as he was driving away from a party, was arrested on a murder charge Friday night. Oliver, 37, turned himself in at the Parker County Jail. Bail was set at $300,000. He posted bond […]
Madison VA May 5 2017 A detective with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office has been charged with four counts of sexually exploiting minors. Bruce A. Harvey, 40, has been charged with two counts of transporting minors across state lines with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and two counts of interstate travel with […]
NASHVILLE TN May 5 2017 — Former Rutherford County sheriff Robert Arnold will spend four years in prison for illegally selling electronic cigarettes to Rutherford County inmates, U.S. Judge Marvin Aspen ruled Thursday. Arnold’s sentencing comes nearly two years after the FBI and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation raided Arnold’s home and office to investigate his […]
Melbourne FL May 3 2017 Investigators are conducting a criminal investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of a Sebastian Police Department K-9 Unit dog in the officer’s car in Melbourne on Friday. The Sebastian officer found the German shepherd’s remains in the sweltering vehicle about 7:30 p.m. Friday. Sebastian Police Department’s dispatchers contacted Melbourne’s, who […]