Stop for cops. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri has a new plan for dealing with motorists who flee from the police: Seize their car. The new policy, which went into effect this week, is aimed at reducing the number of dangerous, high-speed police chases. Gualtieri has addressed this concern before; in 2014, he raised the […]
A 4-year-old boy was found crying outside a locked room where his mother was found dead in Washington, police said. Police responded to an apartment at 9:30 p.m. June 11 in the 500 block of Eastmont Avenue for a welfare check, the East Wenatchee Police Department said in a news release. The apartment was locked, […]
Read the full story on Backfire News Motorcycle Cops Chase Down A Stolen Ford F-150 Motorcycle cops absolutely have their place on police forces, just usually for running traffic enforcement. While their bikes can catch up to a speeder quickly and they’re harder to see, making it more likely they’ll catch offenders, they’re not quite […]
A person barricaded themselves inside a South Miami-Dade apartment complex, catapulting a tense standoff with police officers and a SWAT team. Around 1:20 p.m., officers — and Miami-Dade Police’s SWAT team — were called to a home in the area of Southwest 138th Road and 260th Street near Naranja, Homestead police told the Miami Herald. […]
A poacher shot a pregnant deer with an arrow and left it to die slowly and painfully in Washington, police said. Now, police are trying to find the person who killed the animal. The doe was killed on or before May 29 in the Suncrest area of Stevens County, the Washington Department of Fish and […]
Two Denville Police officers are suing the township and its top ranking officers in two lawsuits, peppered with allegations they were retaliated against for reporting other officers’ misconduct that involved “double dipping” and theft of time. Sgt. Richard Duda, hired in 2004 as a patrol officer and promoted in 2019, and Patrolman Christopher Ordway, hired […]
Cops have identified the bully who robbed a 10-year-old boy of $8 as he and his younger sister walked home from a local pizzeria, police said Tuesday. Six-foot-one Demba Ba, 24, “towered over” young Alex Medina and his 7-year-old sister as the crook snatched cash from the boy’s hand on Sterling Place near Utica Ave. […]
In little more than a 24-hour span this past weekend, three pedestrians were killed in separate crashes on Midlands roads, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The most recent collision involving a pedestrian happened at about 11 p.m. Sunday in Sumter County, said Master Trooper Gary Miller. Sumter County crash A 2018 GMC pickup […]
Cops have nabbed a homeless man who randomly slashed a stranger on a ritzy East Village street corner, police said Sunday. Steven Johnson, 35, was charged with attempted murder and assault in the terrifying, unprovoked Thursday attack by the Astor Place Cube. The 30-year-old victim was standing on the corner of Astor Place and Lafayette […]
Read the full story on The Auto Wire California Cops Arrest Over 50 Violent Street Takeover Participants It seems like law enforcement in many parts of the country are finally cracking down on street takeovers. While they might not be going as hard against the illegal events as we and many others would like, we’ll […]
One man was killed Saturday and another is wanted on a murder charge, South Carolina officials said. Tarrence Eugene Robinson, a 36-year-old Greenwood resident, died after being shot in the head, the Greenwood County Coroner’s Office said. A search is underway for 40-year-old Tony Matthew Landron, who was called “armed and dangerous,” by the Greenwood […]
One man was killed Saturday and another is wanted on a murder charge, South Carolina officials said. Tarrence Eugene Robinson, a 36-year-old Greenwood resident, died after being shot in the head, the Greenwood County Coroner’s Office said. A search is underway for 40-year-old Tony Matthew Landron, who was called “armed and dangerous,” by the Greenwood […]