Follow Law Officer, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/law-officer Mon, 05 Dec 2022 05:39:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8SWPCxSUSC6--bbeigX9oC HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. – Two former Hennepin County information technology employees have been charged related to alleged theft and fraud schemes that spanned years and profited them nearly $4 million from stolen equipment and timecard fraud, charges say. Nguyen Cong Le, 41, and Samantha Marks, 37, both of Columbus, Minn., have been separately charged in […]]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:55:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8SWPCxSUSC6--bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8SWPCxSUSC6wO5yOwvVe_2 LOS ANGELES – Robert Luna traded one uniform for another as the former Long Beach police chief was sworn in Saturday as the next sheriff of Los Angeles County after defeating incumbent Alex Villanueva in November’s election. “Today I stand before you wearing this brand-new uniform — and now I have a badge to go […]]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:04:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8SWPCxSUSC6wO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8SWPCxSUSC67G7Iy_4u0x9 MODESTO, Calif. — A California police officer who faced death and survived, is back on the job performing the work he loves. Michael Rokaitis, a gang investigator with the Modesto Police Department, cherishes the chance to follow in his father’s footsteps of being a cop. Yet those steps in the real world have become more […]]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:12:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8SWPCxSUSC67G7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8leObzQks0v1w3HFUzDTIP We’ve seen the ACAB (All Cops Are Bad) protest posters and have heard the shouts amid riots and protests claiming racism and brutality. We tend to think, and have been led to believe, that these voices spontaneously arose out of righteous indignation and the ACAB view caught on with a few vocal politicians who thought […]]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2022 19:43:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8leObzQks0v1w3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz9HQZxXCoXfAum6srrLMsqK SEATTLE – A radicalized Seattle man who aspired to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison following a plea agreement. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams, 21, was taken into custody in June of 2021 as he prepared to board an international flight to Cairo. He was […]]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:11:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz9HQZxXCoXfAum6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-gkSymV_o6g31d0VB8z-7c NEW YORK – Shocking video shows a hostile attacker pull a baseball bat from his pants and bash an unsuspecting man in the back of the head on a Manhattan sidewalk last Tuesday. The violent attack occurred at 8:06 a.m. in front of 1770 Amsterdam Ave. in Hamilton Heights. The victim, 47, is knocked to […]]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:03:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-gkSymV_o6g31d0VB8z-7c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_NMw1GyybLFy3FFO_xyF25 CORNING, Calif. – A California man is in custody after authorities accused him of throwing a Molotov cocktail toward a police officer, not once but at least two times. The Corning Police Department in Northern California said officers were investigating a loud banging noise coming from just outside the department’s building Wednesday at about 5:39 p.m.. During […]]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2022 01:32:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_NMw1GyybLFy3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_oCZSzBN_WgwSngkwrdsok Matt Taibbi, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, released what Elon Musk has referred to as “The Twitter Files” Friday afternoon detailing how the social media platform suppressed a New York Post story regarding a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. The NYP story revealed an email — which was verified soon after by the Daily Caller News Foundation — that […]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 22:56:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_oCZSzBN_WgwSngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz81H3wVcT5dE3CrAHWlao0B ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. – A Georgia man with warrants issued for his arrest foolishly brought attention to himself after he commented on the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office’s “most wanted” post on their Facebook page, which ultimately led authorities to take him into custody. When RCSO released their “Most Wanted List” for November, Christopher Spaulding was […]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 21:26:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz81H3wVcT5dE3CrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8BU_c3_Y0xBm0dX84dnP8Y GREENBELT, Md. – The dean of students at a Washington, D.C. area elementary school was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with indecent exposure after multiple women accused him of publicly flashing his private parts, according to reports. Two women accused Jamie Lee White, 45, of exposing his genitals in public. Following a preliminary […]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 18:54:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz8BU_c3_Y0xBm0dX84dnP8Y https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_tIu1nFbisoOifqJurszLU WISE COUNTY, Texas – Athena Strand, a 7-year-old Texas girl who was missing for several days in Wise County has been found dead, officials said. She vanished Wednesday afternoon after she left home following an argument with her stepmother and her body was discovered on Friday. Law enforcement authorities have arrested a FedEx delivery driver […]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:21:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_tIu1nFbisoOifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-oyWgmOqQySq7VFky8BpXO The city of Minneapolis has agreed to a settlement involving a dozen people who were allegedly injured during the protests and riots after the death of George Floyd in 2020. In a Wednesday press release, the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced that Minneapolis will pay $600,000 to be split among the 12 […]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 15:46:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-oyWgmOqQySq7VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz9U9WBcKiwWjAO5yOwvVe_2 Naturally, the worst-case scenario for any police agency is when one or more of their own are killed in the line of duty. An obscure situation arises when colleagues of the fallen confront aspects such as attending funeral services while also bearing the 24/7 responsibility of ensuring continuous police services in their sovereign jurisdiction. What […]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:19:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz9U9WBcKiwWjAO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_f8_Mj8RZ2xAaB2UxGNFpJ YONKERS, N.Y. – A police sergeant in Yonkers died in a crash Thursday when a 16-year-old driver lost control of his sports car, according to law enforcement authorities. The teen had just recently obtained his learner’s permit. Sgt. Frank Gualdino was killed in the crash. The 24-year police veteran was scheduled to retire next summer. […]]]> Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:17:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz_f8_Mj8RZ2xAaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-xago5Sm5ozAX50KYzL9tX BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. – Five family members were discovered dead inside an Illinois home by law enforcement authorities on Wednesday. According to a local news outlet, the man reportedly stabbed his wife, their two young daughters, his mother, and the family pet to death before taking his own life. Officers in Buffalo Grove responded to […]]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 23:44:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-xago5Sm5ozAX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-dPceCe1u1BiuZukmJ4mr4 GROVETOWN, Ga. – Seth Brandon Spangler was convicted of murdering Polk County Police Department Det. Kristen Hearne during an ambush in 2017. He died by suicide in prison on Thanksgiving, according to his attorney. Spangler was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in March as a result of Hearne’s murder. She […]]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:13:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-dPceCe1u1BiuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-j05nlCNlGGnHnycKeoCpf AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas attorney who was arrested after reportedly aiming a pistol at his ex-girlfriend in the bar she worked at was found dead Wednesday. Gavin Rush, 41, was arrested Saturday and had been out on a $40,000 bond following the ordeal. He was discovered dead on Wednesday at 4:25 p.m. by police […]]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:36:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-j05nlCNlGGnHnycKeoCpf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-4OXlq1mjt9THgrmwRGUK6 It appears imminent that U.S. air marshals will balk at President Biden’s order to leave their posts aboard commercial flights and take up positions at the U.S. southern border, according to the president of the Air Marshal National Council. The Federal Air Marshal Service previously asked marshals to volunteer to spend a 30-day stint at […]]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:29:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-4OXlq1mjt9THgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-T2VUh-YfTOkFW8UNEQjUn NEW YORK – A detective with the New York Police Department fell from a helicopter while fast-roping during a demonstration at the police academy in Queens Thursday morning, and “snapped his leg in half,” police said. The rope was not properly secured, causing the devastating fall. Video of the shocking incident shows the detective dressed […]]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:44:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz-T2VUh-YfTOkFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz99bFAe3PFL9zHgrmwRGUK6 MINNEAPOLIS – The ex-boyfriend of a Minneapolis police crime scene investigator has been found guilty in her attempted murder outside a supervised parenting center last spring. Timothy Allen Amacher, 41, along with his current girlfriend Colleen Purificacion Larson, 24, were both charged with first-degree attempted murder after Nicki Lenway was shot outside the FamilyWise Service building at 3036 University […]]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 14:41:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/77wITmurZz99bFAe3PFL9zHgrmwRGUK6