A Tennessee police officer was arrested on Monday on child pornography charges involving a 5-year-old girl. Police in Scott County, Virginia, received a tip about a minor sending explicit photos online. An investigation revealed that Knoxville police officer Dan Roark, 47, had correspondence with that juvenile and their mother, according to WATE. The victim’s mother …
The son of a Tennessee police chief was found dead on Tuesday, days after he allegedly shot two officers and fled the scene. John Drake Jr., 38, was wanted for Saturday’s non-fatal shooting of officers Ashely Boleyjack and Gregory Kern outside a Nashville Dollar General. Drake Jr. — who is the son of Nashville police chief …
On Tuesday, a jury began deliberating the fate of two Colorado police officers charged in the 2019 death of a man who was reportedly filmed being put in a chokehold and injected with ketamine during an arrest. Aurora police officer Randy Roedema and former officer Jason Rosenblatt are facing charges of reckless manslaughter, criminally negligent …
A man and a woman arrested last month at a Wisconsin Applebee’s were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after Kenosha police officers learned they were not the couple they were looking for in a hit-and-run accident. The couple involved in the vehicle crash were hiding in the restaurant’s restroom. Kenosha police said the …
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty this week to federal charges in the beating and sexual assault of two Black men earlier this year. Five ex-Rankin County Sheriff’s Deputies and a former Richland police officer, all white, appeared in court Thursday and entered guilty pleas to 13 felonies, including civil rights conspiracy, deprivation …
A Daytona Beach Shores public safety lieutenant and his wife, a detective sergeant with the department, twice put their 3 1/2 year-old son in jail during potty training last year. Lt. Michael Schoenbrod bragged to a Department of Children and Family Services that he “was getting the response I expected from him” when the boy …
Georgia’s non-profit organization, Blue Thanksgiving, will be holding a first-ever golf tournament in Cobb County in August and they need your help. Founders Kimberly and Douglas Hill established Blue Thanksgiving in 2013, when negativity toward law enforcement in the area began increasing. In support of local police precincts, they started delivering homemade holiday treats to …
An 18-year-old Michigan man pretending to be a Detroit police officer pulled over an off-duty cop from another jurisdiction earlier this year, and now he’s going to spend a year in jail. Christian Mansoor flashed red and blue lights on his silver BMW after 11 p.m. on April 3 in Rochester Hills in an attempt …
Two Mississippi police officers were shot Thursday morning, one fatally, during a hostage situation that turned into a standoff. Randy Tyler, a retired Ridgeland police chief who has worked with the Madison Police Department for seven years, was shot and killed at about 9:30 a.m. after hours of negotiations and tense waiting, WLBT reported. A …
A 58-year-old South Carolina woman was found dead outside her home early Monday, and police shot and killed her suspect boyfriend while trying to subdue him. Landrum Police and Spartanburg County deputies responded to the home at about 4 a.m., the Tryon Daily Bulletin reported. They found Shana McClain dead in her wheelchair of apparent …
