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A city police officer charged last year with stealing more than $300 worth of Harry Potter merchandise from Universal Studios Florida returned to the force Friday, after completing a diversion program for first-time offenders. As part of an arbitration panel's 2-1 vote to reinstate him, Officer Henry A. Rogowski, 50, will not receive back-pay and will be monitored through the city's Track 3 program for rehabilitation, police union attorney Bryan Campbell confirmed. Assigned to the warrant office, Officer Rogowski risks termination if he receives discipline within a two-year probation period.

PHOENIX (CN) - A homeowner says a Phoenix police officer shot him six times in the back during a 911 home-invasion call, and the 911 tape recorded the officer's partner saying, "That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?" The family says the officers were not aware that the 911 call was still recording as they spoke about covering up the shooting. In their complaint in Maricopa County Court, Anthony and Lesley Arambula say an armed intruder "crashed through the front window" of their home on Sept. 17, 2008 and ran into one of...

TERRELL - Former Kaufman County District Attorney Louis "Bill" Conradt Jr. killed himself as police tried to serve an arrest warrant for soliciting sex with a minor, authorities said.Conradt, 56, was chief felony assistant attorney for nearby Rockwall County at the time of his death Sunday.Police forced their way into Conradt's Terrell home after hearing a gunshot when he refused to answer the door, a police spokesman said. The officers found Conradt with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He later died at a hospital in Dallas, about 30 miles west of Terrell.Police in the town of Murphy in nearby Collin County...

4 Tijuana cops accused in assault on U.S. touristBaja California's top state law enforcement official yesterday called for strict punishment of four Tijuana police officers accused in connection with the rape of a U.S. tourist. "Anybody who breaks the law in Baja California should pay for what they do," Attorney General Antonio Martínez Luna said. "In this case, the punishment has to be more severe. Police officers are the first ones who should obey the law." A Baja California state judge has until next week to decide whether to hold the officers for trial or drop the charges. The four...