Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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State Police Investigating Plane Crash in Vermont
Aug 28 2018 // A plane has crashed in northern Vermont, killing its sole occupant. WCAX-TV reports the Vermont State Police are investigating the crash in Island Pond. The crash happened Saturday afternoon, near the John H. Boylan...
Washington City, Insurer Settle with Utility over Fire Started by Police
Aug 27 2018 // A city in eastern Washington state has agreed to a settlement with a power company after a large fire started last year during a gun-shooting training exercise for local police officers. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports...
Ex-Alabama Police Officer Sentenced to 10 Years for Insurance Fraud, Theft
Aug 17 2018 // A former police officer in Alabama who pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and burglary has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Montgomery Advertiser reports 51-year-old Leon Todd Townson was sentenced Aug. 13. The...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau to Help Buy Bulletproof Vests for Law Enforcement
Aug 16 2018 // Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says the state’s injured worker fund is setting aside a portion of its safety grant funding to help local police agencies pay for bulletproof vests. The Republican gubernatorial...
South Carolina City Settles Suit Over High-Speed Chase Death for $1M
Aug 16 2018 // An upstate South Carolina city will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit involving a bystander who died when hit by a wrong-way driver pursued by police. The Greenville News reports a municipal insurance fund will pay...
Special Police Unit Seeks to Curb Thefts From Indiana RV companies
Aug 15 2018 // A special police unit is seeking to curb burglaries and thefts from businesses including recreational vehicle companies in northern Indiana. Police in the Elkhart County city of Goshen say their unit was formed to deal...
Another Use for Drones: Investigating Car Wrecks
Aug 13 2018 // When police investigators tried to figure out what caused a multi-vehicle crash that killed an elderly woman in Morton, Illinois, last month, they looked to the sky for help. Like a growing number of police agencies...
Sicilian Gangsters Crushed Limbs to Fake Car Accidents in Insurance Fraud: Police
Aug 10 2018 // Sicilian gangsters dropped 25-kilo (55-pound) cast-iron weights on the limbs of drug addicts, alcoholics and other vulnerable people to obtain insurance payments for fake car accidents worth hundreds of thousands of euros,...
Kentucky City Settles Police Shooting Lawsuit for $1.8M
Aug 8 2018 // Louisville officials have settled a lawsuit over a 2017 police shooting for $1.8 million. The Louisville Courier Journal reports the city’s chief financial officer, Daniel Frockt, announced that the lawsuit filed by...
$265K Settlement over Autistic Man’s Arrest in Alaska
Aug 7 2018 // Kodiak officials have agreed to pay $265,000 to an autistic man who was forcibly detained and pepper-sprayed by police. The city is settling the lawsuit filed in February 2016 by the guardians of 30-year-old Nicholas...
Judge Tosses Pulse Nightclub Survivor Lawsuit Against Orlando Police
Aug 6 2018 // A judge has dismissed a lawsuit which claimed police officers didn’t do enough to stop the gunman responsible for a massacre at a Florida nightclub, but he gave survivors and family members two weeks to file another...
Over 500 Citations Issued in Ohio Move Over Law Enforcement
Aug 3 2018 // Ohio’s State Highway Patrol says its recent enforcement and awareness effort focused on the Move Over law resulted in 586 citations issued to motorists. The law requires drivers approaching any vehicles with flashing...
Mississippi Police Officer Awarded $20K by Jury in Mold Complaint Suit
Jul 27 2018 // A police officer in Mississippi has been awarded $20,000 in damages after a federal jury ruled his police department retaliated against him for complaining about mold in his office. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal...
Louisiana State Police Arrest 5 in Staged Crash Case
Jul 24 2018 // Louisiana State Police detectives with the Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit have arrested five people for violations of Louisiana insurance fraud laws in relation to an alleged staged crash in Evangeline Parish. The LSP...
Police Close to Decision on Charges in Fatal Wisconsin Blast
Jul 18 2018 // Police say they’ll soon decide whether to recommend prosecutors file charges in connection with a natural gas explosion that killed a Wisconsin firefighter. Authorities say a construction crew struck a gas main in...
Former Hawaii Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Jul 16 2018 // A former Honolulu, Hawaii, police officer suspected of staging a home burglary pleaded guilty to two charges of insurance fraud related to the incident. Travis E. Copeland faces up to five years in prison for each count....
Wrongly Named Suspect in Texas Police Shooting Files Lawsuit
Jul 13 2018 // A man wrongly identified by Dallas, Texas police as a suspect in the 2016 fatal shooting of five officers has sued the city and its police department. The federal lawsuit filed Monday alleges Dallas police detained Mark...
Police Say Pilot’s Body Found, Raising Virginia Helicopter Crash Toll to Two
Jul 12 2018 // An official from the National Transportation Safety Board says emergency responders have recovered the body of the pilot of a small helicopter that crashed into a Virginia condominium. NTSB Air Safety Investigator Doug...
Colorado Campaigns Aim at Curbing Vehicle-Pedestrian Deaths
Jul 9 2018 // Twice in a week this month in unrelated collisions, cars barreled into pedestrians on East Colfax Avenue, in Aurora, Colorado, killing one man and seriously hurting another. And investigators say those two crashes are far...
Media Faces Challenge in Keeping Online Threats from Escalating
Jul 5 2018 // After a Florida radio station’s general manager told hosts they didn’t have to put an obnoxious repeat caller on the air a couple of months ago, the man stood on the sidewalk outside and vented his irritation...
