Prosecutors announced on Thursday that an Arkansas police officer has been cleared in last month’s fatal shooting of a man who was reportedly wielding a large knife. According to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Green Forest officer Frank Pedraza fired three shots that hit Maung Tway, 34, after police were called to Tway’s apartment by three …
Deputies in north Georgia are searching for an “extremely dangerous” man who has fled from his vehicle into woods in Lumpkin County and has been shooting at officers. The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as Gerardo “Jerry” Jonathan Flowers and said the Georgia State Patrol is assisting in the search with aviation and …
“Your DoorDash guy got arrested, so I brought your food to you,” Jonesboro, Arkansas, Police Officer Tyler Williams told the surprised residents who answered his knock last month. Williams nabbed the unidentified driver on June 29, charging him with driving with a canceled, revoked, or suspended license and driving without proof of insurance. The driver …
A suspended Maryland police officer allegedly hid his 15-year-old stepson’s body in a hole in the wall in his loft, telling police officers searching for the boy the area was his “gun safe.” Baltimore Police Officer Eric G. Banks Jr, 34, was suspended without pay on Tuesday after his arrest on charges of assaulting a …
Last month, police in Ohio rescued a 4-year-old boy who vanished and was found in a local fishing pond. Painesville police said in a Facebook post that Paolo Moctezuma was initially reported missing from a relative’s residence located north of Painesville’s Recreation Park on June 12. He was believed to have escaped through a sliding …
An FBI Task Force Officer was killed in Indiana on Wednesday after a gunman ambushed a federal building. As ABC News reports, FBI Task Force officer Greg Ferency was “ambushed and fatally shot” at the FBI Indianapolis Resident Agency in Terre Haute, Indiana, at about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday. Another FBI agent reportedly shot the unidentified …
A Tennessee man is in jail after Nashville police say he pretended to be a police officer during a road rage incident and threatened to shoot the other driver. Clifford Polly Jr., 34, drove a personal vehicle equipped with a public address system and red and white “wig wag” lights on the front and back …
A police officer in a tiny town in far northwest Arkansas was killed Saturday when he was struck by a suspect vehicle and run over. Just after noon on Saturday, Pea Ridge Police Officers Kevin Apple and Brian Stamps spotted a late model Jeep, parked at a convenience store’s gas pumps, that police officers in …
A “good Samaritan” who shot and killed a suspect who had just shot a Colorado police officer was killed by a police bullet. Arvada police would not confirm that John Hurley was shot by an officer, but Denver7 said three “informed, ranking sources — including two law enforcement sources” confirmed the information. Arvada Police Officer …
A Colorado police chief claimed an officer who was fatally shot on Monday was “ambushed” by a suspect who had negative views about law enforcement. Suspected gunman Ronald Troyke, 59, reportedly killed Arvada police officer Gordon Beesley and John Hurley, 40, at a shopping district in the Denver suburb. A witness who was working at …
A Georgia police officer died Thursday after a driver tried to escape a traffic stop and dragged the officer until the vehicle crashed. Holly Springs Police Officer Joe Burson, 25, fired his service weapon at the driver, identified as 29-year-old Ansy Dolce, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Officers on the scene rendered first aid …
On Tuesday, a Georgia police department publicly denied allegations that officers outwardly ignored a drive-by that occurred in January. “Inaccurate” was the word Atantla police used in a statement to describe a Daily Mail story that accused their department of disregarding the January 3 shooting in Buckhead, an affluent commercial and residential district in Atlanta. The …
