Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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New Texas Crash Reports Sans Victims’ Numbers Aim to Curb Scams
Apr 4 2008 // Police officers in Texas will have one less blank to fill out while investigating traffic accidents this year, the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud reported. The form will no longer contain phone numbers for crash...
New Jersey Governor Sees Crash as Link to People’s Struggles
Apr 4 2008 // As New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine reflects on the year following his near-fatal car crash, he’s quick to discuss practical and public policy changes that go well beyond his physical recovery. The April 2007 accident...
Driver Arrested in Connection with 4-Car Wreck on Georgia Interstate
Apr 3 2008 // Police arrested a man they believe caused a four-car accident in Georgia that killed two children and two adults and injured four others. Cody Rhoden, 20, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday just before midnight, a...
Maine to Start Fining Motorists Caught Not Using Seat Belts
Apr 2 2008 // Maine has a seat belt law, but police have just been issuing warnings to violators since it was bolstered last September. As of this week, it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy. Maine’s Bureau of Highway Safety, its...
Ohio Police: TVs, Motorcycles Changed Hands in Theft-to-order Ring
Apr 2 2008 // The pitch to co-workers or bar patrons, police say, went like this: “Hey, anybody interested in buying a trailer?” Somebody was. Big-screen TVs, riding mowers, motorcycles, frozen food and more exchanged hands...
Arizona Court: Off Duty Officer Injury Qualifies for Workers’ Comp
Mar 26 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
Vermont Police: Property Management Co. Victimized Dozens
Mar 26 2008 // Police in Montpelier, Vermont have identified 61 victims in the case of a property management company that suddenly went out of business, but no charges have been brought. Tenants, landlords, contractors and others who are...
Indiana One of First States to Ban Tax on Insurers for Accident Responses
Mar 24 2008 // Some call it ‘double taxation;’ others easy money Indiana recently became one of the first states in the country to pass legislation prohibiting the practice of municipalities charging fees for accident...
Court: Claim Against Oregon City Valid Even Years After Claim Occurred
Mar 18 2008 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that a claim of sex abuse against a government employee may depend on when the plaintiff discovers the city played a role in the abuse, not necessarily when the abuse occurred. In The Boy...
Maine County Dogged by Police Canine Liability
Mar 10 2008 // Three police dogs that work for the Cumberland County, Maine Sheriff’s Department were being confined to their kennels while off-duty. The issue of liability arose when Jag, a German shepherd, bit a newspaper carrier...
Maine County Dogged by Liability for Off-Duty Police Canines
Feb 29 2008 // Three police dogs that work for the Cumberland County, Maine Sheriff’s Department are being confined to their kennels while off-duty. The issue of liability arose when Jag, a German shepherd, bit a newspaper carrier...
Wilson Joins Virginia State Police Insurance Fraud Program
Feb 25 2008 // Daniel Wilson, a former insurance defense attorney, has been named legal specialist for the Insurance Fraud Program of the Virginia State Police in Richmond. Wilson’s responsibilities include acting as a liaison...
Corpus Christi, Texas, Police to Impound Uninsured Drivers’ Cars
Feb 4 2008 // The Corpus Christi Police Department will start impounding the cars of uninsured drivers, officials said. About one in three Nueces County, Texas, drivers are uninsured, compared to about one in five statewide, Chief Bryan...
Former Wash. Mayor, Ex-state Trooper Convicted of Fraud
Jan 31 2008 // A former Westport, Wash., mayor and ex-state trooper has been convicted of involvement in a scheme to commit insurance fraud, a case involving a nonexistent 1949 Chevrolet Woody and a dead State Patrol sergeant. Douglas...
Police: Volunteer Set Fire to Texas Radio Station Over Playlist
Jan 30 2008 // A volunteer at a community radio station in Austin, Texas, set fire to the station because he was upset that his song selections for an overnight Internet broadcast were changed, police said. Paul Webster Feinstein, 24,...
Two Ex-police Officers in La. Acquitted of Insurance Fraud Charges
Jan 22 2008 // Two former Monroe, La., police officers have been acquitted in federal court on allegations they committed insurance fraud. A 12-person jury returned the verdicts in the case against Brandon Brooks and former police union...
Police Update: Fire that Gutted Kentucky Courthouse was Arson
Jan 7 2008 // Officials in western Kentucky now say arson is to blame for the fire last week that nearly destroyed the Carlisle County Courthouse. The investigation is still under way. The fire started early on the morning of Dec. 26....
NYC Police Nab 2 for Selling Stolen Equipment to Business Owners
Dec 31 2007 // The New York City Department of Investigation says two men hawking stolen fire extinguishers have been arrested on charges of grand larceny and reckless endangerment. Sergey Vishnev and Maxin Ilim, both of Brooklyn,...
Police: Jailed La. Couple Had Home Torched to Get Bail Money
Dec 10 2007 // A Monroe, La., couple already jailed on drug charges now face more trouble over an alleged scheme to have someone set fire to their home so they could collect insurance money to make bail. Orrell M. “Red”...
Mass. Police Officer Indicted for Insurance Fraud
Dec 7 2007 // A grand jury has indicted a Springfield, Mass. police officer in connection with insurance fraud and larceny. Prosecutors say Anthony Trabal was charged with motor vehicle fraud and two counts of attempted larceny for...
