Greensboro NC November 2 2023 House Bill 140, ratified by Governor Roy Cooper in June, allows North Carolina cities to hire civilian employees to respond to minor traffic incidents, freeing up more officers to investigate criminal offenses. Now Greensboro is doing just that. On October 4, the operational support division of the Greensboro police department […]
McCandless, Pennsylvania, October 27, 2023 It’s been in the works for some time and now it’s official: the North Allegheny School District will establish a school police department. The school board unanimously approved the motion Wednesday. The district’s plan is to hire a police chief and a dozen officers. While it was approved unanimously, some […]
Queens NY October 22, 2023 A woman who worked as a crossing guard for a decade in Queens was struck and killed Friday morning in Woodhaven. Distraught loved ones hugged first responders at the intersection of Woodhaven Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue, where 63-year-old Krystyna Naprawa was struck and killed by a dump truck. “I’m shocked. She […]
New York City NY October 22, 2023 An NYPD officer and her boyfriend are facing charges for allegedly conspiring to distribute dangerous narcotics. Investigators say the officer, Grace Rosa Baez, and Cesar Martinez offered to sell large quantities of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine to an informant. Police say the suspects brought a fentanyl sample in a […]
Hagerstown MD October 21 2023 A judge has died after he was found shot in the driveway of his Maryland home Thursday night, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Around 8 p.m., circuit court Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, was found with gunshot wounds outside his home in Hagerstown. Wilkinson was taken to Meritus Medical Center, […]
Indianapolis IN October 19, 2023 A Fishers man who runs a local traffic control business is facing a felony charge of impersonating police. The investigation started on Shadeland Avenue in September when police believe the suspect pulled his vehicle behind an unmarked IMPD officer and activated what appeared to be emergency lights to get the officer […]
Ringling OK October 15 2023 A Ringling, OK, police captain and school resource officer died in late September after an on-duty accident. Captain John Randolph was reportedly escorting a teacher who was carrying the gate money for a Ringling High School football game when he tripped over some wood debris and fell on a woodpile. He […]
Miami Florida October 14, 2023 For all intents and purposes, it appeared that Lulia Pugachev was driving a Florida Highway Patrol trooper’s Dodge cruiser. Which she was not. Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery, so there’s at least one possible motive to explain why the 28-year-old was driving a black and tan […]
McLean Virginia October 13, 2023 A special grand jury in Virginia indicted a former police officer Thursday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed shoplifting suspect outside a suburban shopping mall. Wesley Shifflett, a Fairfax County police officer assigned to patrol the busy Tysons Corner Center shopping mall at the […]
Philadelphia PA October 13, 2023 A Philadelphia police officer was killed and another wounded when the two tried to thwart a car break-in at the airport late Thursday. The shooting happened just after 11 p.m. when the two officers were parking in the garage before beginning their shift, The Associated Press reports. That’s when they […]