A Texas police officer fatally shot a woman as he was trying to defend himself against a charging dog. Per the New York Post, the Arlington police released a statement about an officer-involved shooting on Thursday. According to the statement, police had responded to a welfare check request for a woman who was seen passed …
Master Trooper Barbara Ehrhart signs off for the last time after 36 years on the Florida Highway Patrol.
Authorities in South Carolina say an off-duty sheriff’s deputy was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of driving his personal vehicle while under the influence. According to WPDE, Richard Powell has been placed on administrative leave from his position with the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office. He had reportedly been an employed by the law-enforcement agency …
Authorities in New York say they have arrested three men on multiple criminal charges and are seeking to identify another suspect in a pair of incidents involving water poured on local police officers. According to CNN, the first occurred on Saturday when a cop was doused with liquid on Saturday as he worked in Brooklyn. …
A police officer in California has been arrested after his DNA was linked to the rapes of two women, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Los Angeles Police Department officer William Rodriguez, 33, was charged with two counts of forcible rape for attacks which occurred in November 2018 and August 2015. Citing investigators, KABC reported that the attacks …
A California sheriff’s investigator has admitted to raping a 15-year-old girl in 2017, after she reported being sexually assaulted and he was assigned to her case. The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced that Neil David Kimball, 46, pleaded guilty last week to a lewd act with a child and unlawful sexual intercourse. The Los …
Police in Missouri are speaking out days after video surfaced apparently showing officers arrest a man as he holds an infant. The Riverfront Times reported that the footage was first posted to Facebook Sunday but a repost of the two-minute video quickly went viral. In it, two St. Louis County police officers are seen trying …
Lawyers representing a former Texas police officer facing murder charges for September’s shooting death of her neighbor have requested a change of venue due to the media attention the case has received. The Dallas Morning News reported that Amber Guyger’s attorneys cited “media hysteria” as the reason why they want the high-profile trial moved out …
Authorities in Colorado say a missing 12-year-old girl has been located because a local police officer and her K-9 partner happened to be in the area on an unrelated dispatch. According to Fox News, Brianna Weinart’s family said she disappeared on Monday morning. As confirmed in a statement by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy …
Authorities in Manchester, England, say they recently took a 93-year-old woman into custody — but not for any crime she was accused of having committed. Instead, Josie Birds’ family says she’d long wanted to experience an arrest and local cops were willing to help her cross the item off her bucket list. Her granddaughter, Pam …
An off-duty cop who died in an apparent suicide Wednesday is reportedly the fourth NYPD officer to has taken his own life in the past three weeks. Sources told the New York Daily News that Kevin Preiss, 53, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head at his Nassau County home. Preiss was …
A young police officer in Sacramento has been killed after she responded to a domestic call on Wednesday. ABC 7 reports that Sacramento Police Officer Tara O’Sullivan, 26, was fatally shot in North Sacramento after police reported to a residence regarding a domestic disturbance. According to CBS 13 Sacramento, O’Sullivan was accompanied by her training …
