COLUMBUS, Ga. -- A Columbus patrol officer was placed on administrative leave after the FBI accused her of aiding a bank robbery.
Shatoya Wright was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with making false statements to the FBI.
Agents said a man charged with robbing a Wachovia Bank in Oct. 2007 told them Wright helped him steal $8,000 during the heist. Accused bank robber Odis Christopher Hallstock said Wright also helped him pass counterfeit $100 bills through the bank.
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LEESBURG, Fla. -- Former Leesburg police officer Charles Pinkston was booked into the Lake County Jail on Wednesday. Investigators say he tried to buy crack cocaine while he was still an officer.
Detectives began investigating him about three weeks ago, when they said Pinkston showed up to buy $300 worth of crack. Pinkston saw a fellow office at the pickup location, so he took off. The dealer turned out to be an informant.
"The agents didn't think a whole lot about it at
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Chicago's police superintendent was scolded by a federal judge and compared to one of literature's most famous criminals after initially balking at turning over a list of officers who have faced repeated complaints.
"Robin Hood may have been a noble criminal," U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman told Superintendent Jody Weis. "But he still was a criminal."
Gettleman held Weis in contempt of court Wednesday for refusing to turn over the list. Two days later, Weis relented
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Case filed against NYC cops 14 years later
By Colleen Long
Associated Press
NEW YORK — In 1995, two detectives staking out a Bronx apartment unleashed a deadly barrage of 28 bullets on a pair of young robbery suspects, setting off angry protests against then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the NYPD.
The victims were face-down on the ground when they were killed, one shot eight times in the back and the second hit with 14 bullets, mostly in the back.
Now, 14 years later, the case is finally seeing a…
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Hundreds of people hit the streets in Hartwell, Ga., on Saturday calling for justice.
The crowd marched Saturday morning in support of Jimmy Lee Blackwell. Blackwell lost his eye in a fight with a police officer Feb. 16.
About 200 people attended the march, and some came from as far away as New York.
"He went in with two eyes and came out with one eye," a protester said. "That's bad."
Blackwell was walking and had been stopped by a police officer.
"We need the police t
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The murderous "Mafia Cops," sentenced to die behind bars for eight mob-ordered executions, received a venomous sendoff Friday from the son of one victim: "Rot!"
A packed Brooklyn federal courtroom erupted in cheers as Vincent Lino unloaded on Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa - the corrupt detective duo convicted o
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Officers: Are you sick and tired of excessive force lawsuits? Well cheer up. Taser has a plan to give your police department its own CYA reality TV show.
The less-lethal weapons company has launched a wearable computer, called Axon, that will let c
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Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority is investigating a confrontation between a police officer and bus passenger after video of the incident was posted on the Internet by the co-founder of
the city's chapter of 'Copwatch,' an activist network that observes police activity and reports abuses of power.
The video, captured Feb. 13 at 10:14 p.m., "shows Chicago police
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Los Angeles Police Department fingerprint examiners who falsely implicated at least two people in crimes have been linked to nearly 1,000 other criminal cases that authorities say must now be reviewed to ensure that similar errors weren't made.
Nearly two dozen of those cases are awaiting trial in the Los Angeles court system, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for Dist. Atty Steve Cooley.
Prosecutors began a review of the cases as part of their work with a multi-agency t
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I am a police skeptic and a former Sheriff’s Deputy. I am increasingly
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland intends to fire 11 police officers for allegedly lying to obtain search warrants in drug cases, officials said Thursday.
The two sergeants and nine officers face dismissal in a scandal that has thrown into jeopardy the prosecutions of dozens of suspects. At least 12 have already had their cases dismissed because warrants that police used to obtain evidence were obtained on the basis of lies by officers, according to attorneys involved in the cases
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Embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate "violently and viciously" grabbed his bleeding girlfriend's arm and dragged her from a neighbor's door as she screamed for help, prosecutors charged Friday.
The scuffle came after Monserrate slashed Karla Giraldo in the face with a broken glass in a fit of jealousy, Domestic Violence bureau chief Scott Kessler said at the lawmaker's first court appearance since his Dec. 19 arrest.
"She got to the bottom of the stairs … (and) rang a do
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. --
Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik has pleaded not guilty to a rewritten indictment in the criminal case against him.
Kerik entered the plea Monday in U.S. District Court. The new plea was necessary because federal prosecutors recently added charges against him.
The new charges stem from allegations that he lied to his accountant about his taxes and made false statements about a loan application.
Kerik is a
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A veteran San Jose police officer is facing serious charges Tuesday night stemming from allegations of the inappropriate pat-down search and arrest of an 18-year-old woman earlier in December.
Police say the patrol officer -- 41-year-old Julio Morales -- has been charged with false imprisonment and sexual battery over his detention and physical search of the alleged victim several weeks ago.
According to the victim, what Morales did during the incident wasn't a pat down;
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CORPUS CHRISTI - A Navy Corpsman was arrested and tasered for fleeing from police, and now the Corpusman is claiming he was the victim of excessive force and brutality.
A Navy Corpsman had been rushing home to get his fiance her emergency asthma medicines when police tried to pull him over. Police said he violated some traffic laws and refused to pull over.
However, the couple said the department owes them an apology and they have hired a lawyer.
"Her breathing became wo
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HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Houston police says it has no evidence any of its officers beat up a local man last month. So is it case closed? Not if you ask the police union.
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The man who claimed he was beaten, Houstonian Marvin Driver, is the father of NFL wide receiver Donald Driver. And now, the Houston Police Officers' Union is on the offensive, talking about the claims it says and has said all along are false.
The union has
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ATLANTA (AP) - A Florida physician has won his day in court on a claim of police brutality stemming from an overheated car in the parking lot of his walk-in clinic.
A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a federal judge wrongly granted qualified immunity against the lawsuit to Hillsborough County Sheriff's Officer Henry Bruce.
Dr. Adolfo Galvez claimed his rights were violated when Bruce handcuffed him and slammed him into a wall, cracking t
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Man Filed Lawsuit Thursday
SALINAS, Calif. - A man who was mistaken for a robber and ended up with a face broken in six places filed a lawsuit against the city and two officers on Thursday.
Ryan Favila said that on Oct. 18, 2007 he was mistaken for a car thief, thrown to the ground and then kicked in the face by Salinas police officer Michael Cupak.
Favila sustained a fractured nose and bones in his face broke in six places.
Favila is now suing the city, Cupak and Offic
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a survey of a random sample of U.S. emergency physicians, virtually all said they believed that law enforcement officers useexcessive force to arrest and detain suspects.
The sample included 315 respondents. While 99.8 percent believed excessive force is used, almost as many (97.8 percent) reported that they had managed cases that they suspected or that the patient stated had involved excessive use of force by law enforcement officers.
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DALLAS — A former Utah state trooper who quit the force this year is the preliminary suspect in a flurry of drive-by shootings that killed two drivers here on Monday evening, the authorities said Tuesday.
Police officials said early ballistics analyses pointed to the former trooper, Brian Smith, 37, who, hours after four separate attacks, shot himself in the head when confronted by officers.
Mr. Smith, who faced burglary and robbery charges in Texas and remains on life su
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