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HENDERSON, Texas — Timothy Michael Randall was on the phone with his mother when a police car pulled up behind his Nissan Altima with its lights flashing. It was just after 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 14, 2022, and Randall was heading to his cousin’s house after a night out. “He had called to let me know that he was going to be home a few minutes later,” Randall’s mother, Wendy Tippitt, recalled. “So I wouldn’t worry.” Randall, 29, pulled over and hung up with his mom. Sgt. Shane Iversen of the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office walked up to the Altima...

ZACHARY, La. (WAFB) - The head of the Zachary Police Department is speaking out in response to social media rumors about a traffic Bingo game some officers allegedly played. In a statement released on Tuesday, March 25, Zachary Police Chief Darryl Lawrence Sr. confirmed that some officers created a Bingo game as a competition between shifts two years ago, but he denied a quota system or breaking of any laws. “The officers did not receive any incentives or awards for this game,” he stated. According to the chief, the police administration did not create or approve this game, and he...

'Based on the totality of the circumstances here, and along with our core value of being compassionate, this is the best outcome for everybody involved in this case.' In a twist amid the recent and widespread rash of attacks against Tesla vehicles, a Minnesota police chief is following his department's "core value of being compassionate" and won't be charging a Tesla vandalism suspect. What's more, Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges earlier this week declared that "the suspect in this case may have been a victim — and I mean victim in terms of the rhetoric that is being spewed out...

Bloomington, MN police Dept put out a video asking for help identifying an individual who keyed a Tesla and promised consequences. A few hours later she was identified. She FA. Now she’s gonna FO. (Except she's not.)

BELINGTON, W.Va (WDTV) - An Elkins police officer was arrested Sunday after assaulting a woman. Christian Mayle, 25, of Belington, has been charged with domestic battery, according to the Belington Police Department. According to an official with the Barbour County Sheriff’s Department, Mayle left their department in September 2024 before joining the Elkins Police Department. Elkins Police Chief Travis Bennett said their department is aware of Mayle’s arrest and that he is on administrative leave pending an investigation into the matter. At approximately 2 a.m. Sunday morning, police responded to a home on Centre Avenue in Belington after a woman...

The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for possible Second Amendment violations. The DOJ posted that it is looking at a potential "pattern or practice" of the department purposely, "depriving ordinary, law-abiding Californians of their Second Amendment rights." The Department pointed to a recent federal lawsuit where the court found the facts and the law went against the county for imposing delays of up to 18 months to process concealed handgun applications. The DOJ Civil Rights Division said it has reason to believe other LA county residents have been similarly affected by...

Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Wednesday that he has turned down numerous requests from “various different federal agencies” to use the Metropolitan Police Department for immigration enforcement outside the agency’s limited role at the Clark County jail. “And I just won’t do that,” McMahill told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, adding that his agency doesn’t have the resources to do so. “I’ve got a lot going on when it comes to crime here,” he added. He noted that crime has continued to decrease in the last three years. As President Donald Trump’s administration moves to fulfill his campaign promise of carrying out...

PATERSON, N.J. ( — A Paterson police officer has drawn attention for wearing a Palestinian flag patch on his official uniform, raising questions about the appropriateness of displaying foreign national symbols while in service with a U.S. based law enforcement agency. Officer Adeeb Iqnies, who has served with the Paterson Police Department for three years, appeared in a video interview proudly displaying the Palestinian flag and speaking about his heritage. “I’m a Palestinian who loves my country as well as Palestine,” Iqnies said.

Pamela Geller is reporting an American police officer in Paterson, NJ, was wearing a Palestinian flag on his uniform instead of an American flag while on the job

An amended lawsuit against Sean 'Diddy' Combs has named Maui's police chief as a co-conspirator, alleging the officer helped the music mogul cover up a woman's rape in 2018. Maui's Police Chief John Pelletier, 52, is one of several new defendants, including NFL wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and Drew Desbordes, a comedian known as Druski, added to the damning lawsuit on Friday. The documents, filed by a woman and two additional plaintiffs, accuses Pelletier of posing as a Contra Costa, California sheriff in order to deter a woman from filing a rape charge against the disgraced rapper. At the...

On October 1, 2017, shots rang out all over the Las Vegas Strip as concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival fled to safety. In total, 59 people were killed and over 500 injured during the chaos that erupted from above on the country music gathering. John Pelletier, then a captain with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, was the incident commander and was tasked with managing the extensive crime scene. After an incredibly controversial investigation, it was determined that Stephen Paddock, 64, was the lone gunman who opened fire on the crowd from the Mandalay Bay hotel, positioned...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – As the FBI continues its investigation into the Albuquerque Police Department’s DWI Unit, now also including the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and New Mexico State Police, KRQE News 13 has looked into the first person to plead guilty to charges related to the case. With cases at both the state and federal levels, court records show Ricardo Mendez’s criminal history dates back to 1990 and includes representation by his boss, attorney Thomas Clear III. He was arrested for DWIs and drug possession but wasn’t always found guilty. Mendez is a convicted felon though and according to...

For nearly 30 years, Albuquerque attorney Thomas Clear III says he led a criminal racketeering enterprise that paid off generations of law enforcement officers to get his clients’ DWI cases thrown out. The admission came Wednesday as the 67-year-old Clear, at an unannounced hearing in U.S. Magistrate Court, pleaded guilty to bribery of Albuquerque Police Department officers, racketeering conspiracy, aiding and abetting, and interference with commerce by extortion. A sentencing date hasn’t been set. “Today, Thomas J. Clear III admitted to leading a decades-old criminal enterprise wherein he abandoned his own ethical duties as a lawyer, corrupted generations of law...

Here’s another big win for DEI hiring—Mark Brave, New Hampshire’s first black sheriff, just pled guilty to a laundry list of felonies. Shocking? No, not one bit. This is what happens when you focus on checking diversity boxes instead of hiring the best person for the job. Sadly, we see this happening everywhere these days. Brave’s fall from grace is nothing new. Sadly, it follows a very familiar pattern if you’ve been paying attention to the left’s DEI circus. Back in August 2023, Brave was arrested for stealing nearly $19,000 in county funds. This “stand-up guy” used taxpayer money to...

A grand jury said the Hanceville Police Department, which had eight officers as of August, “has recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency.”The mayor of a city in Alabama has placed its entire police department on administrative leave, a day after officials announced that a grand jury had recommended the small department be abolished, saying it had “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency” and is “an ongoing threat to public safety.” Jim Sawyer, the mayor of Hanceville, a city of about 3,200 roughly 45 miles north of Birmingham,...

An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers, including its police chief.Five Hanceville police officers were arrested and charged amid a probe into the department, Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker said. The spouse of one of the officers was also charged, he said."This is a sad day for law enforcement, but at the same time, it is a good day for the rule of law," Crocker said during a press briefing on...

Lavish trips to Dubai and designer clothing for a federal border agent's wife were allegedly funded by his suspected membership of a Mexican drug cartel, sources told DailyMail.com. Prosecutors allege Manuel Perez Jr., an agent with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in El Paso, Texas, had been bankrolled to the tune of $300,000 to $400,000 a year by 'La Linea,' the armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel, El Paso Times reported. In stunning court testimony, Perez was accused of getting paid to let illegal immigrants and drugs into the US, but also of being a member of the...

A US Customs and Border Protection officer accused of smuggling migrants across the El Paso border was allegedly moonlighting as a member of a Mexican drug cartel, according to a federal agent’s testimony. CBP Officer Manuel Perez Jr., a 32-year-old US citizen originally from California, is allegedly a member of the La Linea, more commonly known as the Juárez drug cartel, investigators said during his arraignment hearing last Thursday. “Multiple witnesses said he belonged to La Linea cartel in Mexico,” a special agent with the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility testified at the hearing, as reported by the El Paso...

A Mercer County grand jury has indicted Christopher Chad Butler, a former officer with the Princeton Police Department, on multiple charges related to sexual abuse and child neglect. The charges stem from incidents that allegedly occurred while Butler was working as a school resource officer at Princeton Senior High School. Authorities accuse Butler of engaging in or attempting to engage in sexual activity with a minor student under his temporary supervision between August 2023 and January 2024. Under West Virginia law, individuals in positions of trust, such as school officials and law enforcement officers, are prohibited from such conduct. In...

Meet Pitkin County, CO Sheriff Michael Buglione. He says ICE is “not welcome” in his district and he may even post on social media to warn criminal illegal aliens if ICE is in the area. He would LEAK info on ICE’s operations and raids @TheJusticeDept