Posts tagged police

• Speeding Public Officials Face Charges After Fatalities

  Eddie Farah | May 09, 2009 12:44 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  They are sworn to protect the public, but instead these individuals are being charged with endangering it. Criminal charges will be filed against a Jacksonville Sheriff’s officer and a...

• Jacksonville Sheriff Must Keep Roads Safe For The Public

  Eddie Farah | March 05, 2009 11:40 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford is asking the public for patience as a criminal probe tries to uncover what exactly happened that led to a collision between an officer’s car and an...

• Hot Police Pursuit Kills Citizen in Jacksonville

  Eddie Farah | February 27, 2009 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It happened in a split moment. The Florida High Patrol (FHP) says Jacksonville Sheriff’s officer, Marcus Kilpatrick, may or may not have had his lights and sirens on when heran his police...

• Tallahassee Accident Leaves Two in Critical Condition

  Brian W. Smith | November 30, 2008 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsTallahassee, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Six people were taken to a local hospital on Saturday night, after a crash in west Tallahassee, according to the Tallahassee Police Department. Two of the six are in critical but stable condition,...

• Two Tallahassee School Children Injured in Separate Accidents

  Brian W. Smith | October 14, 2008 11:59 AM | 0 CommentsTallahassee, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two children were injured in separate accidents in Tallahassee this morning. Both were on their way to school when they were struck by vehicles. Around 7:30 a.m., the Tallahassee Police Department...

• Taser Gun Death Lawsuit Filed

  Eddie Farah | May 01, 2008 8:08 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  We’ve had a rash of them lately. Law enforcement is fast to turn to Taser Guns or stun guns. The problem is the jolt delivers around 50,000 volts that penetrates the skin and shocks the heart and...

• Police Pursue Suspects With Two Kids In Car

  Eddie Farah | April 25, 2008 5:10 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  High speed chases usually end badly. When law enforcement tries to apprehend a suspect through residential neighborhoods, innocent bystanders are frequently the victims. By NHTSA's estimates three...

• Deputy in Trouble for Dumping Man Out of Wheelchair

  Jenny Albano | February 13, 2008 1:56 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A Hillsborough County Deputy was caught on tape dumping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair when he was being booked into jail. There were three other supervisors in plain view of the incident, but they did nothing.Investigators say Deputy Charlotte Marshall Jones is suspended without pay after the January 29 incident, which involved 32-year-old Brian Sterner, who is a quadriplegic. Video...

• Bradenton Police Misconduct Case to be Turned Over to Outside Agency

  Chrissie Cole | August 16, 2007 1:23 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Bradenton police officials are seeking an outside agency to investigate a police misconduct scandal in which on-duty officers allegedly had sex with a prostitute.Bradenton City Council members have criticized the handling of the investigation and want to turn over further investigating to an independent agency such as FDLE.An admitted drug user and prostitute recently told Bradenton internal...

• Ex-Deputy Banned from Police Work

  Chrissie Cole | June 20, 2007 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A former Lee County Sheriff deputy was given two years probation and banned from being a law enforcement now or in the future, after stealing money from a group of men he stopped last fall.The deputy was charged with two counts of grand theft and one count of official police misconduct last October when he pulled over a car of men and stole their money. The men reported it, and the deputy was...