Recent News From The Homeland Atrocity Department

Recent News From The Homeland Atrocity Department

NOTICE: Some may marvel at the length of this list, but what amazes me is its brevity. In all likelihood, these news items represent the tip of the iceberg of official crime and corruption. However, please remember that these news items were selected from the Google internet news, and that just because something is reported in the news does not mean it is true. By the same token however, just because something is not reported in the news does not mean it did not happen. For all we know every person mentioned here is completely innocent. By inalienable right, a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, even if the government chooses to ignore this right.


SF officer arrested for sexual assault
San Diego Union Tribune, CA - May 15, 2004
VACAVILLE – A San Francisco police officer has been arrested in connection with a 2002 sexual assault, according to Vacaville police. ...

Child abuse case: US Naval officer refused bail
Daily News, Sri Lanka - May 14, 2004
Colombo Magistrate Kusala Sarojani Weerawardane yesterday refused to grant bail to a retired American Naval officer arrested on charges of engaging in child ...

Dallas Officer Arrested On Bribery Charges
NBC5i.com, TX - May 14, 2004
DALLAS -- A Dallas police officer is out of jail Friday after his arrest on bribery charges. Undercover agents arrested Officer ...

Another Michigan City officer indicted
South Bend Tribune, IN - 7 hours ago
By MATTHEW S. GALBRAITH. SOUTH BEND -- Another Michigan City police officer is facing a federal crime, this time for allegedly lying ...

Former Kenly Police Officer Indicted On Insurance Fraud Charges
WRAL.com, NC - May 13, 2004
KENLY, NC -- A grand jury has decided there is enough evidence to indict a former police officer on insurance fraud charges. According ...

Ex-Police Officer Sentenced for Selling Drugs
Officer.com - 5 hours ago
COVINGTON -- A former police officer accused of selling drugs to undercover agents has been sentenced to six years in prison. Newton ...

Former Police Officer Sentenced For Thefts
NBC5.com, IL - May 15, 2004
CHICAGO -- A former Chicago police officer has been sentenced to 24 1/2 years in prison for stealing drugs and cash from a drug dealer. ...

Dallas Police Group Looks To New Chief To Raise Standards
Officer.com - May 15, 2004
... of offenses this week involving Dallas police have some in the department hopeful that the new chief will raise standards and crack down on officer misconduct. ...

Former Reno charity officer pleads guilty to insurance fraud
KRNV, NV - 6 hours ago
A former officer of The Children's Community Chest of Reno has pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud. 56-year-old Timothy Lockwood ...

Ex-police officer pleads guilty to perjury, theft
Marion Star, OH - May 15, 2004
By The marion star. Randy N. Abraham, 44, of Columbus, pleaded guilty to the felony three perjury and felony four theft charges before ...

Former Raleigh Officer Pleads Guilty To Failing To Discharge ...
WRAL.com, NC - May 14, 2004
RALEIGH, NC -- A Raleigh police officer who shot a suspect as he drove away pleaded guilty in court Friday, but he still feels he did not do anything wrong. ...

Calif. Police Officer Pleads Not Guilty To Assaulting Wis. ...
WISC, WI - May 14, 2004
JUNEAU, Wis. -- A California police officer accused of coming to Wisconsin to have sexual contact with children pleaded not guilty. ...


Police officer pleads not guilty in Beaver Dam porn ring
Duluth News Tribune, MN - May 14, 2004
JUNEAU, Wis. - A California police officer accused of coming to Wisconsin to have sexual contact with children has pleaded not guilty ...


Ex-officer pleads not guilty
Press-Enterprise (subscription), CA - May 14, 2004
By LISA O'NEILL HILL / The Press-Enterprise. Adam James Brown, a former Riverside police officer facing state and federal charges ...

Benton Police Officer Suspended
KATV, AR - May 14, 2004
Benton - A Benton police sergeant has been suspended after police discovered illegal drugs and paraphernalia in his possession. ...

Bessemer police officer suspended without pay
AL.com, AL - May 14, 2004
Bessemer police Chief Nathaniel Rutledge on Thursday suspended an officer for 40 days without pay for abandoning his beat. Rutledge ...

Former Officer Accused Of Murder To Ask For Change Of Venue
Louisville Channel.com, KY - 4 hours ago
LOUISVILLE -- A former Metro police officer charged with murder will ask a judge to move his trial to a different city. A hearing ...

State Supreme Court, Manhattan
Newsday, NY - 8 hours ago
... 34, Rm. 1301, 100 Centre St. Sentencing of Mark McCurdy, an ex-police officer charged with the possession of several pounds of drugs; Judge Hall; Pt. 14, RM. ...

Former officer charged with child molestation
WLS, IL - May 14, 2004
May 14, 2004 — Former police officer in Itasca and Huntley has been arrested in the molestation of a 10-year-old boy. Gregory ...

Police Officer Charged With 14 Counts Of Child Sexual Assault
NBC4.TV, CA - May 14, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- A California police officer has pleaded not guilty in Wisconsin to 14 counts of sexually assaulting children. Adam ...


Memphis police officer charged with statutory rape
WMC-TV, TN - May 14, 2004
A Shelby County grand jury has indicted a Memphis police officer on charges of statutory rape. Forty-five-year-old Clifford Allen ...

Group strives to unite residents, police
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - 15 hours ago
... That long-standing tension were exacerbated when two police officers fired 28 bullets into a car on March 31, wounding the driver and narrowly missing his wife ...

VA hospital police use of gun probed
Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - May 14, 2004
... The officers fired at the vehicle, striking Mason in the upper body, Rossilli said. He was treated for his injuries and later jailed, officials said. ...

Boyd Family Files $100 Million Claim
KGO, CA - May 15, 2004
... before Boyd died, Oakland police say he was arrested around 10:30 pm following a half-hour pursuit that ended on 54th Avenue where an officer fired a shotgun ...

Deputy Charged with Burglary
WLBT-TV, MS - May 14, 2004
A Hinds County deputy is fired then arrested by his colleagues. He's now charged with business burglary. Forty-eight-year-old LV ...

Attorneys Argue Over Fire Chief's Case
KXAN-TV, TX - May 5, 2004
... guilty of driving drunk. A DPS trooper arrested Lynn Bizzell after a traffic stop outside of Bertram in February. The Round Rock ...

Broker, Former Trooper Arrested On Fraud Charges
NBC 17.com, NC - Apr 16, 2004
RALEIGH, NC -- A man who once made a living putting criminals behind bars may end up serving time himself. Shawn Dwight Davis, 33 ...

2 police officers on paid leave
Chicago Daily Herald, IL - May 16, 2004
... Prosecutors are expected to seek an indictment against the men next week on official misconduct and obstruction of justice charges, law enforcement officials ...

Former Elkhart official charged with theft
WNDU-TV, IN - May 15, 2004
A former Elkhart city police official has been charged with felony theft, official misconduct and criminal conversion. Larry Towns ...

Town Looks For New Police Chief
WKYT, KY - May 14, 2004
In southern Kentucky, the city of Somerset will be looking for a new police chief after Larry Godby was convicted of official misconduct and intimidation ...

CRIMINAL TRIALS
WAND, IL - May 14, 2004
... sexual remarks and improperly touching women. He faces official misconduct and battery charges. The judge agreed to the prosecution's ...

Ex-guard gets jail for prison sex
Oregonian, OR - May 14, 2004
Jeffrey Allen Barcenas, 34, pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of first-degree official misconduct and was escorted to the Washington County Jail in ... (but would have gotten prison had it been jail sex?)

Turning Rhymes Into Votes
Sojourners Magazine, DC - 1 hour ago
... gave voice to frustrations experienced by a majority in the hip-hop generation: joblessness and poverty, paramilitary-like police brutality in primarily black ...

The Black Panthers, framed
Calendar Live (subscription), CA - May 14, 2004
... The group had been formed two years earlier when Newton and Bobby Seale hammered out a 10-point program protesting police brutality and the draft while calling ...

Rally at JFK Building
Axis of Logic - May 14, 2004
... and Latino immigrants. We call for the end of racist police brutality towards Black, Latin and Asian communities. We demand LGBT ...

Iraq prison abuses reflection of US prison culture
The Triangle - May 14, 2004
... The report documents allegations of police brutality, injury and death in police custody, abuse of batons, chemical sprays and electroshock weapons (which are ...

SF Cop Allegedly Breaks Protester's Arm
KRON4.com, CA - 2 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) -- A San Francisco police officer is facing discipline charges this week involving excessive force against a woman whose arm was broken ...

Inmate meal cutbacks assailed
Sacramento Bee, CA - May 15, 2004
... The Prison Law Office, a nonprofit firm that has challenged the use of excessive force by correctional officers and the system's health and mental health care ...

Normal people capable of violence, experts say
Centre Daily Times, PA - May 15, 2004
... and supervision by people with authority." People like prison guards or police need to know that they will be punished if they use excessive force, he said.

Prisoner Abuse: How Different are US Prisons?
Human Rights Watch - May 14, 2004
... corpse bore the imprint of boot marks, and his testicles were badly swollen; guards admitted having struggled with him, but denied they had used excessive force ...

Boynton police sergeant on leave pending investigation into ...
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, FL - May 14, 2004
By Nancy L. Othón. BOYNTON BEACH -- A police sergeant who hit and kicked a handcuffed man in the stomach nearly three months ago ...

Audit criticizes police reviews
The Register-Guard, Oregon - May 14, 2004
... The 17 completed files Lankford reviewed included all 12 allegations of excessive force or discrimination the department received last year. ...

Four guards busted
Albuquerque Tribune, NM - May 14, 2004
... with the Violent Crimes Unit interviewed 40 witnesses to corroborate distorted images on the surveillance tapes and confirm use of excessive force, White said. ...

Secret US jails hold 10000
Granma International, Cuba - May 14, 2004
... Taleban. Last week the US admitted that two guards at the camp had been disciplined for using "excessive force" against prisoners. ...

Man arrested at city park enters plea of not guilty
Amarillo Globe News, TX - May 14, 2004
... People who said they saw Mason's arrest in the mostly black neighborhood claimed three white police officers used excessive force. ...

Ruling challenged Southern way
Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - May 16, 2004
... Mississippi," his widow said. Shortly after that in 1963, he was shot in the back in the driveway of his Jackson home. "He knew the ...

Off-duty trooper charged with assault
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 4 minutes ago
Lt. Danny Webb, 42, was off-duty when he pulled out a gun and pointed it at a man, according to a sworn statement from a State Law Enforcement Division agent. ...

Key events in the police-misconduct cases
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 18 hours ago
Oct. 19, 2003: Officer Jon Loretz, an eight-year veteran, was off duty at Lucy's Saloon when a brawl broke out. Witnesses said Loretz ...

2 police officers on paid leave
Chicago Daily Herald, IL - May 16, 2004
... Lombard. Authorities are investigating whether an off-duty Scales fired his weapon during the dispute while outside of the business. ...

DRINKING PROBLEM?
1010 Wins, NY - May 15, 2004
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) An off-duty firefighter was arrested on drunk driving charges Saturday after his car rear-ended another vehicle, police said. ...

Law officers may face charges
Record-Searchlight, CA - May 15, 2004
... Criminal charges could be filed against an off-duty Tehama County sheriff's deputy, his correctional officer wife and a Red Bluff police officer reportedly ...

Officer who hit suspect investigated
WPTV, FL - May 15, 2004
... disciplined at least nine times, for minor infractions such as leaving his post without permission, and serious violations such as a 1991 off-duty DUI charge. ...

Ear-Biting by Agent Not Battery, Jury Decides
Los Angeles Times (subscription), CA - May 15, 2004
A Superior Court jury ruled that an off-duty US Secret Service agent did not commit battery when he bit off part of another man's ear outside an Encinitas bar ...

REGION in brief
Mansfield News Journal, OH - May 14, 2004
... ASHLAND -- A Shelby police officer pleaded innocent to charges he punched an Ashland University student in the face this year while off duty. ...

Rash action may end in firing
Gary Post Tribune, IN - May 14, 2004
... That’s the way I was trained,’’ he added. Fleming, a retired Gary officer, said Horton’s version of an off-duty arrest wasn’t believable. ...

Ex-cop's likely jury to be tough, fair
AZ Central.com, AZ - 13 hours ago
With public confidence waning in many professions, jury consultants agree that jurors will not give a free pass to a former Chandler police officer when he ...

Ex-Cop Cries At Sentencing For Drug Dealer Shakedowns
WBBM, IL - May 15, 2004
CHICAGO -- A former Chicago Police officer cried Friday as he read an extensive apology prior to being sentenced to a maximum penalty of 294 months in prison ...

Wide sentencing range possible for ex-cop
The Grand Rapids Press, MI - May 14, 2004
By John Agar. The attorney for a former Kent County sheriff's sergeant convicted of soliciting a teenager for sex over the Internet ...

Akron police's logging of all public complaints leads to more ...
Akron Beacon Journal (subscription), OH - May 16, 2004
... merit, he said. ``Every time there is a citizen's complaint, you take three cruisers off the street,'' Hlynsky said. In addition ...

VPD chief tries to beat the calendar
Venice Gondolier, FL - May 14, 2004
... It's an ongoing process at VPD," Black said. Hanks got into trouble with Black for mishandling a citizen complaint against one of his officers. ...

Officials want LA police officers ’ convictions reinstated
Reno Gazette Journal, NV - May 15, 2004
... court should reinstate the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers tried in connection with the Rampart police corruption scandal, prosecutors argued ...

Bucks prison investigator sentenced for drug sales
philly.com (subscription), PA - 29 minutes ago
... to set up the deals. In return for the plea, prosecutors dropped bribery, extortion and other charges. Schuck had been charged with ...

Former New York state senator pleads guilty in bribery case
San Francisco Chronicle, CA - 1 hour ago
A former state senator who was a force in the Legislature for nearly 30 years pleaded guilty to conspiracy Monday, admitting he helped people get lucrative ...

The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money
Democracy Now - 7 hours ago
... and corruption than any other Iraq contractor, with allegations ranging from overcharging for tens of millions of dollars for fuel and meals to outright bribery ...

DESPERATE MEASURES
Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription), TX - May 16, 2004
... The bribery that flourished in the prison's muddled visitation program is just another example of how corruption in Abu Ghraib undercut America's moral ...

Gentlemen for the defense
Charlotte Observer (subscription), NC - May 16, 2004
... of former Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green. (Green was acquitted on bribery charges but later pleaded guilty to tax evasion.). "When I retire ... (are there any honest politicians or does the job description require lying?)

Big Numbers for '60'
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription), PA - May 16, 2004
... Jan. 20, 1991. 42 million viewers. Bribery in South Carolina legislature; Italian politicians protecting the Mafia. Jan. 17, 1993. 39 million. ...

Ex-state official will get her speedy trial
The Tennessean, TN - May 15, 2004
... Joanna Ediger, who was indicted in March on charges of fraud, bribery and lying to federal agents, has invoked her right to a speedy trial — a trial that is ...

San Antonio to vote on charter
Houston Chronicle, TX - May 14, 2004
... The four proposals came from a commission Garza appointed to analyze factors that led to a 2002 bribery scandal, which tainted several council members and ...

Kevin Pastrick pleads guilty
Munster Times, IN - May 14, 2004
FEDERAL COURT: EC mayor's son admits to bribery in Coffee Creek deal, will aid corruption probe. BY BILL DOLAN. HAMMOND -- East Chicago ...

Dallas officer is charged with bribery
Houston Chronicle, TX - May 14, 2004
DALLAS -- A Dallas police officer is on administrative leave after his arrest this week for allegedly taking a bribe from a confidential informant. ...

[Editorial note: anyone heard from Ken Lay recently?]

Ex-Official Called to Testify in Conn. Corruption Case
FOX News - May 14, 2004
... search) inquiry. Both stem from allegations of bribery by contractors and contract steering by government officials. The governor ...

Sentencing delayed for ex-Abita Springs police chief
Times Picayune, LA - May 14, 2004
... 11 to bribery and malfeasance. ... Kondylis is charged with public bribery, two counts of malfeasance in office, theft of public property and drug possession. ...

Former Connecticut official called to grand jury in corruption ...
San Francisco Chronicle, CA - May 14, 2004
... impeachment inquiry. Both stem from allegations of bribery by contractors and contract steering by government officials. The governor ...


Judicial bribery case motions to be heard June 2
SunHerald.com, MS - May 14, 2004
JACKSON - US District Judge Henry Wingate will hear motions June 2 in Mississippi's judiciary bribery case. Among the motions are ...

New juvenile prisons deputy already criticized
Access North Georgia, GA - May 15, 2004
... job at the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice on Monday, resigned earlier this month from Florida's youth prisons system after a teenager died in custody. ...

Rumsfeld's actions speak louder
Boston Globe, MA - May 14, 2004
... He should publicly reveal the results of the investigations into the deaths of all detainees who have died in custody in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere. ...

Ex-police officer pleads guilty to perjury, theft
Marion Star, OH - May 15, 2004
Randy N. Abraham, 44, of Columbus, pleaded guilty to the felony three perjury and felony four theft charges before visiting Common Pleas Judge Lawrence Grey. ...

Ex-police chief, wife ordered to stand trial
NewsOK.com (subscription), OK - May 15, 2004
EUFAULA -- Former Police Chief Larry Osmond and his wife, Carol, were ordered to stand trial on felony charges of child stealing and perjury, court officials ...

Congressman appeals in vote fraud case
Houston Chronicle, TX - May 14, 2004
... Coleman, 44, faces three charges of aggravated perjury for allegedly lying on the witness stand in March 2003 during a hearing related to four Tulia defendants ...

Change of venue request filed in perjury trial of Tulia agent
Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription), TX - May 14, 2004
... Coleman, 44, faces three charges of aggravated perjury for allegedly lying on the witness stand in March 2003 during a hearing related to four Tulia defendants ...

Convictions of Three in Rampart Case Not Tainted by Instructional ...
Metropolitan News-Enterprise, CA - May 14, 2004
... He noted that all three were also convicted of perjury, and urged the justices to look at a videotape of the incident which he asserted would show the officers ...