Rockland Maine July 23 2021 Two former Maine police officers were sentenced to prison for beating porcupines to death while on duty. The shocking behavior was reported to Rockland police bosses in August by another officer and both were fired from their jobs in September. Addison Cox, 28, and Michael Rolerson, 31, pleaded guilty in Knox […]
EAST CLEVELAND OH July 12 2021 The FOX 8 I-Team has learned two East Cleveland police officers were arrested and charged for allegedly stealing from a citizen during a traffic stop. The officers were arrested Friday and charged with one count of theft, but the investigation is ongoing. The officers, Alfonzo Cole and Willie Warner- Simms, […]
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD July 11 2021 A Baltimore City police officer arrested in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore tried to grab the gun of an Anne Arundel County police officer trying to arrest him after officers found his stepson dead inside a bedroom wall, according to charging documents. Anne Arundel County police arrested Baltimore […]
GREENSBORO NC July 10 2021 — The U.S. Department of Justice says a Highway Patrol trooper from Browns Summit sold decommissioned firearms, often from the trunk of his patrol car while on duty. Trooper Timothy Jay Norman, 47, allegedly sold some of those firearms to 33-year-old felon Tommy Lee Hudson of Reidsville, someone Norman had known […]
GAFFNEY, SC June 3 2021- Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested a former Gaffney police officer on Tuesday, according to a release. SLED says that 33-year-old Theodore Robert Martin is charged with misconduct in office and breach of trust after he took ammunition from the Gaffney Police Department armory and sold it for […]
LAS VEGAS NV May 26 2021 An organized theft ring targeted home improvement stores for two months before the suspects were caught, according to an arrest report from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. Alejandro Delacruz, Edward Silvestre, Enrico Ronquillo, Kristine Quijano, Ranjit Quijano and Samuelito Quijano were all arrested in connection with the ring. They collectively face […]
Annapolis MD May 8 2021 An Annapolis police detective who moonlights at a Walmart in Baltimore County was charged with stealing five TVs and more than 60 other items from the business. Gerrard Lamont Williams Jr. was charged with one count of a felony theft scheme for stealing more than $3,600 from an Arbutus Walmart Supercenter […]
ST PETERSBURG, Fla. May 1 2021 A Florida police officer was fired after authorities said he tried to use a Texas woman’s credit card information to make purchases from Walmart. St. Petersburg police fired, 25 on Wednesday after he was arrested on fraud charges. Cain had been hired by the department in August. “Due to his […]
HENDERSON, N.C. April 29 2021— Three Vance County deputies have been indicted on charges that they illegally seized a suspected drug dealer’s car and then tried to cover it up. Stephen O’Neal Staton Sr., 52, of Creedmoor, Purav Jitendrakuma Patel, 25, of Sharpsburg, and Mitch Taybron Pittman, 47, of Tarboro, are each charged with embezzlement […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio April 28 2021 A retired Cleveland police officer has been accused of tax violations in a federal indictment that involves his security business. Harry Gant, 70, of Mentor will appear for an arraignment Thursday before U.S. District Judge James Gwin on four charges of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. […]