A former Colorado police officer was sentenced on Friday to 14 months for his role in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, who was filmed being put in a chokehold and injected with ketamine during an arrest. Ex-Aurora cop Randy Roedema was also ordered to complete work release and four years of probation. During the …
A Louisiana police chief admitted “infidelity” led to one of his officers shooting him and his wife before Christmas. Opelousas Police Officer Savannah Butler surrendered to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on January 1 and was charged with two counts of negligent injury and one count each of obstruction of justice and illegal dscharge …
An out of control high speed chase resulted in the death of a Georgia police officer who was struck by another officer’s vehicle in Alabama. Police were reportedly chasing an alleged stolen vehicle at around 2 a.m. Thursday, beginning in Georgia along Interstate 85, WTVM reported. The chase crossed into Chambers County, Alabama, where the …
New York police shot and killed a man who was allegedly holding his mother at knifepoint in their Bronx apartment Saturday morning. The 30-year-old man, who has not yet been publicly identified, reportedly told his family he was going to kill them and then himself. A 19-year-old family member made the 911 call that brought …
Heavily armed police have surrounded an apartment building in South Miami, just blocks away from City Hall and the police headquarters. WPLG said there was a report of a shooting Wednesday night next to the nearby US Post Office. No actual information was released, but WPLG said officer appeared to be looking for someone. Detectives …
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 …
