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Nantucket Massachusetts Police Chief William J. Pittman Promises Overhaul After Officers Beat Black Youths To Get Them Off Sidewalk
July 20th, 2008
NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS - The Nantucket Police Department is implementing sweeping changes after an internal affairs report released this week found that an officer used excessive force and the department responded inappropriately last summer to an incident involving eight black youths and that officers allegedly uttered racial epithets.
Police Chief William J. Pittman issued an apology for the way officers responded and said he is changing the way the department operates.
“The department’s response to what many consider a routine summertime problem certainly resulted in this being a much more significant event than it needed to be,” Pittman said in a news release. “These findings have revealed a need for major changes in the way our police officers are supervised. . . . We have not and will not base our responses to civil or criminal problems in the community on personal biases.”
Read MoreVeteran South Yorkshire Police Officer Anthony Mulhall Who Was Caught On Video Beating A Woman Found Dead (Probably Suicide, Since They Won’t Say) On North Wales Mountainside
July 20th, 2008
SOUTH YORKSHIRE, UK - A police officer, who was cleared of wrongdoing after CCTV cameras showed him punching a woman he was trying to arrest, has died after being found on a mountainside in North Wales.
PC Anthony Mulhall, of South Yorkshire Police, was reported missing from his home in the Rotherham area on Wednesday and died in hospital yesterday after he was found on Mount Snowdon. His death comes just months after Michael Todd, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, was found dead on Snowdon in March this year. The circumstances of the police chief’s death are still being investigated and an inquest has been opened and adjourned.
PC Mulhall was removed from frontline duties in March last year after it emerged that he hit Toni Comer, 21, in order to subdue her so she could be handcuffed. But in December, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided no South Yorkshire officer would be charged over the incident.
Read MoreNantucket Massachusetts Police Response Faulted - Officers Didn’t Want Blacks On Sidewalk, So The Cops Attacked Them
July 20th, 2008
NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS - Adeane Watty is still haunted by memories of the Nantucket police arresting him last summer.
Watty, 18, was one of the eight people involved in an altercation with a seasonal officer who had asked the group of black youths to move from their location on the sidewalk.
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Watty and his friends defended their right to be in a public place and a heated argument ensued. That’s when Watty said he was eventually attacked by a half-dozen officers who smashed his face into the pavement, stepped on the back of his neck and reinjured his surgically repaired knee.
“I was just trying to figure out what was going on,” Watty said. “They just attacked me.”
This week, the police department released a 300-page report detailing its internal investigation of the Aug. 8 incident.
Read MoreDisgraced Joplin Missouri Police Officer Homer Knisley Off The Force After Beating Handcuffed Man - Victim Receives Tiny Settlement - Names Of Other Officers Involved Hidden From Taxpayers
July 20th, 2008
JOPLIN, MISSOURI - The city of Joplin recently paid $5,000 to a 25-year-old black man who was struck in the face by a white police officer while he was handcuffed, according to a newspaper report.
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The incident took place at the city jail April 20 after David G. Neal was arrested for allegedly ramming a police car with his own car in downtown Joplin and resisting arrest.
The officer involved, Homer Knisley, 31, left the Joplin Police Department on Wednesday. His departure and the discipline of two other officers involved were disclosed Thursday in the wake of investigations by the department’s internal affairs division and the Missouri Highway Patrol.
Police Chief Lane Roberts told the Joplin Globe on Friday that Knisley and other officers were reacting to provocation by Neal.
“But the bottom line is: Even if everything (Knisley) says is true, you don’t punch a guy in handcuffs,” Roberts said. “There’s no way to justify it.”
Read MoreFederal Investigation Into Cook County Illinois Jail Finds Guards Regularly Beat Inmates, Lack Of Medical And Dental Care, Sanitation Issues, Three Inmates Sharing One Bed, Gangs Of Guards Conducting Organized Beatings, Dumbwaiter For Moving Weapons Between Floors, Suicides, Etc.
July 18th, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - A federal investigation of the nation’s largest single-site county jail has uncovered serious sanitation and medical care problems, as well as violence against prisoners who clashed with guards or failed to follow commands, officials said.
Chicago inmate flees jail’s maximum security wing in laundry truck
Among the problems cited in the 98-page report: Old or mentally ill inmates struck by guards for dressing too slowly; inmates burning milk cartons to heat food in their cells; and prisoners rigging a dumbwaiter to move homemade weapons.
Read MoreFormer Bridgeton New Jersey Police Officers Carl Holliday And Gregory Willis Both Get A Very Special Plea Deal - Sentenced To Just 3 Years In Prison After Kidnapping And Beating A Mexican And Failing To Arrest A Drunk Driver
July 18th, 2008
BRIDGETON, NEW JERSEY - A Superior Court judge sentenced two former Bridgeton police officers on Friday to three-year prison terms for their involvement in a 2006 incident in which, according to prosecutors, they failed to arrest an obviously drunken driver and also kidnapped and beat a Mexican city resident.
Millville resident Carl Holliday, 30, and Shiloh resident Gregory Willis, 27, each had pleaded guilty to official misconduct charges in exchange for lesser sentences. Holliday was ordered by Superior Court Judge John Waters to serve a prison term of three-and-a-half years while Willis was sentenced to a three-year term.
They were both arrested by their own colleagues on Dec. 1, 2006, after a three-week investigation into the Nov. 10 incident.
Veteran Springfield Missouri Police Officer Morris Taylor Fired, Charged After Brutally Beating Man At Jail - Caught On Video
July 18th, 2008
SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI - A Springfield police officer fired last Friday after allegations that he mistreated an inmate in the Greene County Jail was charged this week with misdemeanor assault in the third degree.
Officer Morris Taylor, an 11-year veteran with the police force, was charged Wednesday after an investigation of the alleged assault on May 29.
During the incident — at least part of which was caught on surveillance video — Morris allegedly struck inmate John Sedersten and had him down on the floor at the jail, according to a probable cause statement in the case.
Chief Lynn Rowe said there is audio of parts that weren’t on video.
“Fortunately, this is an isolated incident,” said Greene County Prosecutor Darrell Moore. “It’s not the norm, people should not believe it’s the norm.”
Police Chief Lynn Rowe said, “Our policy is to fairly investigate any allegation of misconduct and resolve that as swiftly as we can as best we can.
Read MoreEast St. Luis Illinois Police Hire Criminal Officer Felix Arnold - Previously Plead Guilty After Beating A Family Member In Domestic Violence Incident, Twice Convicted Of Driving On A Suspended License, And Operating An Uninsued Vehicle Three Times
July 17th, 2008
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS - — The city swore in another police officer on Wednesday, filling a vacancy after one newly commissioned officer was let go last month for his criminal background and two others had failed the police academy fitness test.
But the newest officer — Felix Arnold, 43, of East St. Louis — has a checkered past of his own.
St. Clair County court documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch say he pleaded guilty to battering a family member, Christine M. Arnold, in 1995. The documents say he punched her in the face in Centreville.
The charge was originally domestic battery but was amended in court to simple battery.
He also has been convicted of driving on a suspended license two times and operating an uninsured vehicle on three occasions. He was arrested a third time for driving on a suspended license and was given court supervision.
Read MoreInnocent Man Attacked By Glenwood Springs Colorado Police Officer For Standing, Beaten While Handcuffed
July 17th, 2008
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO - A police officer was keeping an eye on the Club Roxie closing around 2 a.m. Saturday, but the problem turned out to be somewhere else.
Shane Dustin Cooper, 32, of Silt, was arrested on suspicion of five misdemeanors including assault, obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest after a report of a fight that night at the Loyal Brothers bar downtown.
An officer was in a patrol vehicle watching the Roxie close when someone told him there was a fight on Grand Avenue. The officer saw four or five men pushing each other and yelling in front of Loyal Brothers, according to an arrest affidavit.
He approached Cooper, who was yelling, and asked him to walk away from the front door of the bar. Cooper asked what the officer’s problem was and said he hadn’t done anything wrong, the affidavit says. The officer asked again and Cooper allegedly said no and that he hadn’t done anything wrong.
Read MoreFederal Judge May Block First Kangaroo Court Trial At Bush’s Guantanamo Bay Torture Prison
July 17th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - A federal judge is considering whether to block the first Guantanamo Bay war crimes trial from beginning next week. If he does, it could throw another kink into the Bush administration’s legal strategy in the war on terrorism.
Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, is scheduled to go on trial Monday as the first defendant in a special military commission system set up to prosecute detainees at the Navy base in Cuba. Other detainees, including alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are awaiting trials of their own.
But a Supreme Court ruling last month jeopardized those plans. The court ruled that detainees must be allowed to challenge their detention in civilian courts, a right that the Bush administration said for years did not exist.
Read MoreOcoee Florida Police Officer Sgt. Tom Maroney Fired After His Arrest For Beating Woman With His Belt - Prevously Accused Of Sexual Harassment By A Police Intern, And Admitted To Giving The Underaged Police Intern Alcohol
July 15th, 2008
OCOEE, FLORIDA - A Central Florida police sergeant has been fired after being arrested on suspicion of throwing a female to the ground at a party, pulling her pants down and spanking her with a belt, Local 6 reported.
Ocoee police Sgt. Tom Maroney was fired on Tuesday. He was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges of attempted sexual battery, false imprisonment and battery.
Maroney has five days to appeal the firing, Local 6 News reported. His attorney had no comment about the decision.
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The alleged victim said she met Maroney at a party last week and did not know that he was a police officer. Sources told Local 6 News that a fellow police officer hosted the party.
The victim told authorities early the next morning that Maroney sexually battered her by pulling off her pants and spanking her with a belt and his hand.
Read MoreUpdate: Woman Awarded $115,000 After Beating By Seattle Washington Police Officer Aaron Parker For Giving Legal Advice To A Friend
July 15th, 2008
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - The city of Seattle will pay a University of Washington graduate student $115,000 to settle the lawsuit she filed after her cheekbone was broken when a Seattle police officer slammed her to the ground, according to her lawyer.
Brittany Beaulieu claimed in her federal lawsuit that the officer used excessive force in the 2006 episode near KeyArena. Beaulieu later underwent extensive surgery for a complex fracture of her facial bone.
On the evening of the incident, Beaulieu had been at a bar with friends. After they left, police arrested one of the friends on suspicion of drunken driving after he backed his truck down a one-way street.
Beaulieu shouted at the friend not to submit to a breath test without a lawyer.
Read MoreNutcase Jacksonville Florida Fire Captain Michael Braddock Arrested, Suspended, Charged After Beating Senior Citizen Motorist In Road Rage Incident
July 15th, 2008
NASSAU COUNTY, FLORIDA - A captain in the Jacksonville Fire-Rescue Department is accused of hitting a 75-year-old man and pulling him out of his car.
Nassau County deputies arrested Michael Braddock, 44, Friday night after investigating what was described as a road-rage incident.
The victim, Ralph Stangle, told investigators that Braddock reached into his car and punched him in the face, and then pulled him out and yelled and cursed at him.
According to deputies, the incident began when Stangle was trying to pass Braddock in his truck in a no-passing zone because the captain was driving slowly.
“When he was able to get to a passing zone on the road, he pulled up next to Mr. Braddock and blew his horn at him, and Braddock gave Mr. Stangle the finger,” said Nassau County Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief Hank Martinez.
Read MoreAutopsy Finds That Handcuffed Man Was Beaten To Death By Suffolk New York Police, Brutalized, And Terrorized
July 15th, 2008
SUFFOLK, NEW YORK - The Bay Shore man who died after a violent struggle with Suffolk police was beaten with his hands cuffed behind him, choked and bludgeoned as his face probably rested on a hard surface, the attorney representing Kenny Lazo’s family said as he released new details on the death from a private autopsy.
The new information surfaced on the same day police and county officials announced that the officers’ use of force against Lazo on April 12 was justified.
Lazo, 26, fought with police and reached for an officer’s gun as they tried to arrest him for selling drugs, Suffolk police say. Officers said they struck Lazo with flashlights to subdue him. He died later from his injuries.
“The investigation indicates that the officers did not violate police department policies and procedures or New York State law, and we stand behind their actions in defending themselves,” Police Commissioner .Richard Dormer said in a statement released Monday afternoon.
Read MoreThree Witnesses To Eugene Oregon Police Officer Sgt. Bill Solesbee And Jud Warden’s Attack On Peaceful Anti-Pesticide Protester Want Them Prosecuted For Assault
July 14th, 2008
EUGENE, OREGON - Three witnesses to the controversial stun-gun arrest of anti-pesticide protester Ian Van Ornum say a pair of Eugene police officers should face assault charges for roughing up the University of Oregon student after breaking up a downtown rally.
Eugene residents Josh Schlossberg, Samantha Chirillo and Amy Pincus Merwin announced Wednesday that they had filed a formal criminal complaint alleging that police Sgt. Bill Solesbee and officer Jud Warden assaulted Van Ornum on May 30 near Kesey Square.
Brian Michaels, a Eugene attorney representing the three residents, said he hopes the complaint spurs investigators toscrutinize the actions of Solesbee and Warden.
“These police officers need to be held accountable,” Michaels said during a news conference held at City Hall to announce the complaint’s filing. “We’re hoping this keeps the light shining on these officers … for assaulting and nearly killing” Van Ornum.
Read MoreCook County Illinois Judge Says Chicago Illinois Police Officer William Cozzi Can’t Be Fired After Beating Elderly Handcuffed Man In A Wheelchair - Caught On Video
July 14th, 2008
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - The Chicago Police Board made the correct decision in suspending — and not firing — an officer who was videotaped beating a 60-year-old man handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair, a Cook County judge has ruled.
Officer William Cozzi still faces criminal charges in federal court in the beating of Randle Miles on Aug. 2, 2005 at Norwegian American Hospital in Humboldt Park.
A hospital surveillance tape shows Cozzi hitting Randle Miles about 10 times, prosecutors said. Miles does not appear to resist, but he was charged with resisting arrest — a charge that was later dropped.
On Friday, Cook County Circuit Judge William Maki upheld the Chicago Police Board’s two-year, unpaid suspension of Cozzi, 51. In November, the Chicago Police Department had appealed the board’s suspension, asking the court to fire Cozzi.
Read MoreWoman Awarded $100,000 After Being Beaten By A Seattle Washington Police Officer For Offering Legal Advice
July 14th, 2008
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - The City of Seattle will pay more than $100,000 to settle a complaint of excessive police force.
A young woman sued the city, saying an officer kicked her legs out from under her during an arrest and sent her face-first to the ground.
Before Brittany Beaulieu’s first run in with the law, she was working in marketing and excited about the next phase of her life.
Her encounter with Seattle Police left her face swollen, her cheekbone broken in three places.
“She was seriously injured, she was emotionally injured,” said Allen Ressler, Beaulieu’s attorney.
Ressler says the 30-year-old was with friends on Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood on April 21, 2006. They had just left a bar when Beaulieu saw one of her friends get pulled over for DUI. Trying to help, she walked up to her friend and offered legal advice.
Read MoreUpdate: Woman Brutally Beaten By Yonkers New York Police Officer Wayne Simoes Acquitted Of Bogus Charges Prosecuted By Westchester County District Attorney’s Office - Prosecutor Demoted - Simoes Faces Federal Trial For The Videotaped Beating
July 12th, 2008
YONKERS, NEW YORK - Irma Marquez, a 44-year-old home-care aide, wanted to entertain her niece, who was visiting from Boston, and so she invited her for a nightcap at a local restaurant, La Fonda.
There, early on the morning of March 3, 2007, the niece, Anna Jacquez, shot pool and flirted with a young man. She somehow angered the man’s friend, however, and he threw a beer bottle at her head, knocking her out cold. When the police arrived, they were concerned about the niece’s shallow breathing, and so was Ms. Marquez. According to her lawyer, she leaned over the crouching officers treating the niece, but other officers nudged her out of the way.
What happened next is the subject of some dispute. But a security video in the bar shows Ms. Marquez brushing off two officers with flailing gestures before one of them, Wayne Simoes, hoisted her off the ground and hurled her face-first onto the tile floor.
Read MoreNothing Says “I Love You” Quite Like A Parking Lot Beating: Shelby Township Michigan Police Officer David Essad Fired After Beating His Wife And Threatening Her With A Gun While Celebrating Her Birthday
July 12th, 2008
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN - A Shelby Township police officer has been discharged from the force amid allegations that he assaulted his wife in April.
Shelby Township Police Chief Robert Leman officially notified David Essad of his termination via a memo dated June 26. The termination was the result of an administrative investigation conducted by Leman and Shelby Township Police Capt. Steven Stanbury concerning Essad’s April 12 arrest in Rochester Hills.
Essad, who had served in the department for eight years, was arrested following an incident involving his wife, Julie Essad, on April 11. The couple had been celebrating Julie Essad’s birthday at a bar in downtown Rochester and left the bar at approximately 11:30 p.m. On May 13, in 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills, Julie Essad testified that the couple left the bar because her husband was intoxicated and had become angry when Julie Essad spoke to an ex-boyfriend.
Read MoreBradenton Florida Police Officers Chase Down And Beat Man Who Rode A Bicycle Without A Light - Our Tax Dollars At Work
July 11th, 2008
BRADENTON, FLORIDA — Authorities have charged a 56-year-old Bradenton man with battery on a law enforcement officer.
Robert Smith, who was stopped for riding a bike without a light at night, is accused of biting the leg of an officer who chased and confronted him.
Smith said he was scared the night in May when he ran from the officer in the 800 block of 28th Street Circle East in Bradenton. Police said Smith was riding his bike about 1:20 a.m.
Smith reportedly punched the officer several times during the struggle. An officer said the bite on his leg caused a “pinching sensation.”
Read MoreHillsborough County Florida Deputy Sheriff Christine Lynn Napoli Arrested, Suspended, Charged With Domestic Battery After Attacking Her Husband
July 11th, 2008
TAMPA, FLORIDA - A Hillsborough County reserve deputy was arrested Wednesday afternoon, charged with misdemeanor domestic battery.
Pasco County deputies arrested Christine Lynn Napoli, 36, at 5:04 p.m.
Napoli has worked with the sheriff’s office since December 1997, sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.
Napoli and her husband were involved in a dispute over money, and she pushed him in the chest, a Pasco County complaint affidavit states.
He shoved her, and she later punched him “on and about the head several times,” according to the affidavit.
Napoli was being held today without bail in Land O’ Lakes Jail.
Napoli volunteers a minimum of 20 hours a month as a deputy, said Sgt. Todd Anthony, who is in charge of the sheriff’s office’s special incident management section.
She will be suspended pending the outcome of an investigation, he said.
Update Ocoee Florida Police Officer Sgt. Thomas T. Maroney Stripped, Fondled, And Spanked (Beat) Woman Against Her Will - Second Incident Involving This Officer And Attacks On Women
July 11th, 2008
OCOEE, FLORIDA - An Ocoee police sergeant was arrested Thursday after an investigation concluded that he stripped, fondled and spanked a woman against her will, leaving welts on her rear and legs.
It was the second time similar allegations have been made against Sgt. Thomas T. Maroney, 35, investigative documents show — although the woman who made the previous claim escaped without being touched.
In this week’s case, the woman, 30, told Orange County sheriff’s investigators that another Ocoee police officer invited her and a friend to a party Monday, and Maroney “bet her” on card tricks he performed and said she owed him on the bet, a sheriff’s report says.
According to the report:
Maroney appeared drunk, the woman told investigators, and asked her to walk with him around a retention pond at the apartment complex. When they were alone, he asked her for oral sex, pulled down her pants, touched her genitals, pinned her across his legs as he sat on the ground and spanked her about a dozen times on her bare butt.
Read MoreEdmonton Canada Police Officers Sgt. Jamie Ewatski And Sgt. Giovanni “John” Fiorilli Receive Less Than A Slap On The Wrist After Beating Man In His Home After Warrantless Entry
July 11th, 2008
EDMONTON, CANADA - Two high-ranking Edmonton police officers were given conditional discharges Friday for assaulting a man inside his home in 2004.
Provincial Court Judge Vaughn Myers ordered Staff Sgt. Jamie Ewatski and Patrol Sgt. Giovanni [John] Fiorilli to each perform 60 hours of community service over the next six months. Once that is completed, the discharges will be absolute, the judge said.
Ewatski and Fiorilli were convicted of assault Tuesday in an incident on Dec. 2, 2004.
Police entered a house in north Edmonton to arrest a man who had 17 outstanding warrants. They did not have a warrant, and they weren’t asked to step inside.
The man’s uncle, homeowner Herve Dubois, became upset that police were in his home. He demanded to see a warrant and asked the officers to leave.
Read MoreDrunk Fayetteville Arkansas Police Officer Jared Cypert Suspended But Not Arrested And Jailed After Invading An Apartment, Attacking A Resident
July 11th, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS - A Fayetteville police officer accused of public intoxication has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.
Afternoon shift Officer Jared Cypert, 26, of Fayetteville, was arrested while off duty Wednesday morning.
Police were dispatched to The Cliffs, 78 Aqua Crossing, at 7: 30 a.m. Wednesday for a reported burglary in progress. The suspect, described as a white man wearing swimming trunks and no shirt, was later identified as Cypert. He was issued an arrest summons for public intoxication but was not booked into the Washington County Detention Center.
“We try not to take people to jail and pay the $ 50 if we don’t have to,” police Chief Greg Tabor said. “That’s why he was issued an arrest summons. The ticket is the charging instrument. It means you’ve been officially arrested, but you cited out before going to jail.”
Read MoreOcoee Florida Community Affairs Police Officer Sgt. Thomas T Maroney Arrested, Charged With Pulling Down Woman’s Pants And Beating Her At A Party
July 11th, 2008
ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA - Orange County Deputies have arrested an Ocoee Police officer after allegations were made that he committed a sex crime against a woman he met at a party this past Monday.
According to the arrest affidavit the woman met Sgt. Thomas T Maroney at a party and believed that he was intoxicated because she could smell the odor of alcohol on his breath.
After agreeing to walk outside with him according to the affidavit she stated she got nervous because the conversation between the two of them became about him wanting something sexual.
The woman alleges that Maroney pulled her pants down to her ankles and pulled her down to the ground as well. When Maroney pinned her down he began to strike her buttocks with his open hand and then later with his belt.
The whole time she said she was crying and screaming.
Read MoreClacton UK Police Officer Gary Jay Convicted Of Beating Couple In Their Home, Killing One - Sentenced To Less Than A Slap On The Wrist
July 11th, 2008
CLACTON, UK - A police officer has today been convicted of assaulting a husband and wife in their Essex home.
The husband died hours after the incident in June last year.
PC Gary Jay had gone to the house in Berkeley Road, Clacton, after hearing shouting.
It was here that Ronnie O’Reilly and his wife Moira were assaulted.
Mr O’Reilly then collapsed in the kitchen and died on his way to Colchester General Hospital.
At Southend Magistrates’ Court today judge Kevin Gray convicted Jay, 41, of assaulting Mr and Mrs O’Reilly.
Jay was given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, must carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £2,000 towards costs.
The judge said the assault was aggravated by Jay’s position of trust, in that he was a police office and was trespassing in the house. Appeared Here
Suspended Edinburg Texas Police Officer Santos Leal Admits To Bogus Court Documents, Civil Rights Violations, And Breaking Other State And Federal Laws After Informant Reports Being Kidnapped And Beaten By Leal
July 11th, 2008
EDINBURG, TEXAS - A police sergeant suspended indefinitely in March admitted to fabricating court documents, possible civil rights violations and breaking other state and federal laws, according to public records obtained this week.
Edinburg police uncovered the staggering list of suspected abuses in an internal investigation launched last year when a confidential police informant claimed he was kidnapped and beaten after Sgt. Santos Leal, 42, revealed his identity.
No charges have been filed against Leal, who admitted during a lie detector test earlier this year that he falsified warrants and probable cause affidavits to search suspected drug houses, according to the documents, which were obtained this week following an open records ruling from the Texas attorney general.
Efforts to contact Leal at his family’s home Thursday evening were unsuccessful. A man who identified himself as his brother refused to provide any contact information and said a lawyer would call The Monitor. No such call was received.
Read MoreNorwich Connecticut Police Officer Warren Knight Due In Court - Charged With Beating And Choking His Son
July 10th, 2008
NORWICH, CONNECTICUT - A Norwich police officer facing criminal charges based on claims he struck and choked his 17-year-old son is scheduled to appear today in New London Superior Court.
Officer Warren Knight, 45, is charged with third-degree assault and disorderly conduct. Knight was referred to a family relations program at his arraignment in court in May.
The charges stem from an April 28 incident in which Knight’s son claims Knight slapped and choked him and threw him to the ground, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. Knight and his son were in an argument over a detention his son served that day for cheating on a homework assignment, the warrant states.
Knight told police he was disciplining his son. Through his attorney, Richard Jaquin, Knight said he was “acting in a parental intervention role.” Appeared Here
Trespassing High-Ranking Edmonton Canada Police Officers Staff Sgt. Jamie Ewatski and Patrol Sgt. John Fiorilli Found Guilty After Beating And Pepper Spraying Man In His Home
July 10th, 2008
EDMONTON, CANADA - Two high-ranking Edmonton police officers are guilty of assaulting a man in his own home, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Provincial Court Judge Vaughn Myers ruled Staff Sgt. Jamie Ewatski and Patrol Sgt. John Fiorilli entered the home without a warrant, refused to leave when asked to, then assaulted the man after he legitimately used physical force against the two “trespassers.”
Herve Dubois was doused with pepper spray and suffered a broken rib.
Myers said Ewatski was in charge of the operation and “did absolutely nothing to ascertain that a lawful arrest or entry had been made. “The court finds his lack of diligence and negligence does not offer a defence and finds him guilty of assault,” he said.
Myers also rejected Fiorilli’s claim that he was obliged to follow a younger officer into the house, even though he knew the entry was unlawful.
Read More$10 Million Lawsuit Charges Metro Washington DC Airport Police Officer Michael Urbina And Others With Brutally Beating Innocent Woman Executive, Filing Bogus Charges
July 10th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - A New York woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit stemming from her arrest at Washington’s Reagan International Airport last year, an arrest she says was unwarranted and abusive.
Police say 31-year-old Robin Kassner was obstructing justice.
Security cameras captured the incident and the video has now been made public.
Surveillance video from inside Reagan National Airport shows Robin Kassner standing with a TSA agent who sorts through her bag.
Moments later, a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police officer steps in and pulls Kassner to the ground.
Robin Kassner says “I was thrown across the room, into a metal chair and into a lady, and I was on the floor and realized I was being beat up.”
Kassner says police officer Michael Urbina then used excessive force in handcuffing her.
Read MoreMentally Ill Merrillville Indiana Police Officer Daniel Venegas Arrested, Jailed, Suspended, Charged After Beating His Wife
July 8th, 2008
VALPARAISO, INDIANA - Merrillville police officer Daniel Venegas, who served two tours of duty in Iraq, is on administrative leave without pay after being charged with battering his wife.
The 25-year-old was expected to be released Monday afternoon from the Porter County Jail where he has been held since the Wednesday incident at his Portage home.
Venegas is charged with a felony count of strangulation and misdemeanor domestic battery with injury, according to police.
Anyone convicted of domestic battery is prohibited by federal law from having a firearm — so a battery conviction for Venegas could spell the end of his career in law enforcement.
The incident involved an argument over finances and his wife’s use of Internet, said Portage police spokesman Sgt. Keith Hughes.
Police removed five weapons from the home and turned three over to the Merrillville police department, according to a report.
Read MoreFormer Fremont California Police Officer Nick Mauer To Be Arraigned After Attack On A Richmond Firefighter After Concert
July 7th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A 26-year-old former Fremont police officer is expected to be arraigned today on seven misdemeanor counts stemming from an assault on a Richmond firefighter last month after a country music concert at AT&T Park.
Nick Maurer, who at the time of the June 8 incident was employed by the Fremont Police Department, was cited by BART police and released from custody after a fight with a 41-year-old firefighter at the Embarcadero BART station.
Maurer, who is out of custody, is expected to be arraigned on three counts of assault with force possibly causing great bodily injury, three counts of battery on a transportation passenger and a single count of public intoxication.
Prosecutors announced the charges Friday afternoon, nearly a month after the incident happened. Fremont authorities wouldn’t comment on the case Friday, stating only that Maurer is no longer employed by the city.
Read MoreWaterbury Connecticut Police Officer Capt. Michael Edwards Arrested Again On Domestic Violence Charges - Attacked Same Woman Hours After His First Attack And Arrest
July 7th, 2008
WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT — Police arrested one of their own again after a second domestic dispute.
Late Wednesday, Police Capt. Michael Edwards was re-arrested on domestic violence charges. He is being charged with third-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace and second-degree unlawful restraint. He was being held on $250,000 bond and was due in Waterbury Superior Court today.
Police initially responded to a 911 call at 229 Platt St. at 1:28 a.m. on Sunday, where a 22-year old woman told police Edwards, who is 40, had slapped her in the face. Edwards and the woman have had an ongoing relationship, police said.
About two hours after that first assault, Edwards returned to the Platt Street home and physically assaulted the woman a second time, police spokesman Lt. Christopher Corbett said. The new charges stem from the second assault, Corbett said.
Read MoreWife Beating Sarasota County Florida Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Rober Kiefer Not Charged After Witness Sees Him Attack His Deputy Wife Deborah Bowman-Kiefer - Evidence Not Turned Over To Prosecutors For Review - Both Suspended For Lying
July 6th, 2008
SARASOTA, FLORIDA — A deputy and his wife were suspended after they fought in public and lied about it during an internal inquiry, according to documents released by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.
An eyewitness told deputies that he saw Sgt. Robert Kiefer pull his wife, Sgt. Deborah Bowman-Kiefer, from a car and throw her to the ground. The couple told investigators that they quarreled, but the argument never t