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by Robert J. Lopez (LA Times)
March 15, 2010
A former Redondo Beach police officer was sentenced Monday to three months in County Jail after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $70,000 from a police officers association, authorities said.
Glen Tomatani, 40, was also sentenced to three years probation and one year of Gamblers Anonymous, the Los Angeles [...]
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By Scott Glover and Andrew Blankstein (LA Times)
March 14, 2010
Neil Thomas Gunn Sr. wheeled his pickup truck to the curb in a quiet hillside neighborhood in Burbank, about a mile from the police department where he’d worked for 22 years.
He got out toting a 12-gauge shotgun, walked to a grassy area and turned the weapon [...]
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By Richard Marosi (LA Times)
March 11, 2010
Reporting from San Diego – It was a stakeout gone bad, featuring jumpy police officers, human traffickers, a roughed-up federal agent, and a multimillion-dollar twist of an ending.
Sergio Lopez, an undercover U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, was tracking smugglers in October 2006 when Chula Vista police officers pulled [...]
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March 5, 2010
(updated: March 8, 2010)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A former Milwaukee County sergeant was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for punching a suspect in the face several times as the man sat in the back of a squad car with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Prosecutors played a video recording of the incident [...]
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from KTLA News
March 5, 2010
SANTA ANA — An off-duty Orange County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on suspicion of DUI after a crash that sent an elderly woman to the hospital just 30 minutes after being involved in another accident.
Investigators are looking into why the deputy was allowed to drive from the first accident scene [...]
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By Thomas Himes (Pasadena Star-News)
March 1, 2010
Sheriff’s officials Monday remained tight-lipped about a domestic dispute that led a veteran LAPD reserve officer to shoot and kill his 17-year-old son inside their Monrovia area home.
Los Angeles Police Department Reserve Officer Fernando Macias shot and killed his son, Brian Macias, Thursday after the teen allegedly attacked him [...]
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from Associated Press
February 25, 2010
NEW ORLEANS – A former police lieutenant pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to obstruct justice after federal officials say he helped cover for officers who killed two people on a bridge in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina.
Federal investigators say former lieutenant Michael Lohman knew two people shot to death as they [...]
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By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Richard Winton (LA Times)
February 21, 2010
At least 11 Los Angeles County juvenile probation officers have been convicted of crimes or disciplined in recent years for inappropriate conduct involving current or former probationers, including several cases of molesting or beating youths in their care, a Times investigation has found.
Additionally, two other officers [...]
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from BBC News
February 18, 2010
Former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik, hailed as a hero after the 9/11 attacks, has been sentenced to four years in jail.
Kerik pleaded guilty in November to eight charges, including lying to the White House and tax evasion.
He lied while being vetted for the post of homeland security chief [...]
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By David Kelly (LA Times)
February 18, 2010
Just a few hours before crashing his city-owned vehicle last week, former Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach had been drinking at a strip club in Colton, according to a lawyer for the club and surveillance video.
Leach went into the topless Club 215 at 10:24 p.m. Feb. 7 and drank [...]
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Gates, 83, a controversial figure who presided over the department from 1978 to 1992, is being treated at an Orange County hospital, Chief Charlie Beck announced.
By Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein
February 17, 2010
Daryl F. Gates, whose controversial tenure heading the Los Angeles Police Department continues to make him a polarizing figure 18 years after his [...]
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By David Kelly (LA Times)
February 12, 2010
Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach stepped down Thursday just three days after he crashed a city-owned car under circumstances that have raised questions about his behavior and his department’s response.
City Manager Bradley Hudson said Leach’s retirement for “medical reasons” was effective immediately. He also announced a “sweeping Internal Affairs [...]
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