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November 5, 2009
12 Dead, 31 Wounded!
13 killed in Fort Hood shootings
Thirteen killed (including gunman); 31 wounded
• Source: Slain gunman was Nidal Malik Hasan
• He was a psychiatrist, worked at Walter Reed
• Spokesman: 2 suspects released; 1 held
Stephen James Tonello
October 28, 2009
GRAND JUNCTION (WCJB)- More trouble for law enforcement on the Western Slope.
The Mesa County Sheriff's Office arrested a Palisade police officer on Friday on allegations he harassed his ex-girlfriend. 26-year-old Stephen James Tonello (pictured below) is the third Grand Valley law enforcement officer accused of criminal conduct in the past two months.
According to the Mesa County Sheriff's Office inmate inquiry system, Officer Tonello is out of jail after posting bail.
The sheriff's office is investigating the case. We've obtained the arrest affidavit and will have more information for you.
Officer Courtney Crooks
In August 2009, Grand Junction police officer Courtney Crooks (pictured below) was arrested on charges of harassment while off-duty. Crooks’ wife allegedly told deputies that her husband grabbed her by the back of the neck on Aug. 18, 2009 during at incident at the family’s home, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
According to police, Crooks was born in Hartford, Conn., attended Pensacola Christian College in Florida, received his associate degree in law enforcement in May 2006 and became a police cadet in Grand Junction two years ago. In a letter recently sent to the District Attorney’s Office, Crooks’ wife asked prosecutors to drop the case and expressed fears her husband would lose his job.
“It has gotten blown way out of proportion,” she wrote in the letter. “I never wanted this to happen and my husband does not deserve this.”
Facing domestic violence charges Crooks later resigned from the police department. Crooks, 24, wrote in a letter of resignation that he’ll seek career opportunities elsewhere. Crooks’ last day was Sept. 16, 2009. He had been on unpaid leave from the department since his arrest Aug. 28, 2009 on misdemeanor allegations of physical harassment related to the August 18th incident involving his wife.
City Attorney John Shaver on Friday denied access to Crooks’ letter of resignation. When questioned, city officials said Crooks was no longer with the department but refused to say whether he resigned or if he was fired. Crooks is free on bond and scheduled to return to court this month.
Police have said two internal investigations focused on Crooks were closed by the department last week after Crooks’ departure. Shaver said Crooks will get no post-employment compensation, or severance pay. Per city policy, Crooks could be paid for unused leave, Shaver said. It wasn’t immediately clear if Crooks was owed such monies.
Officer Glenn Coyne
Just a few weeks later, Officer Glenn Coyne was arrested Oct. 1, 2009 on suspicion of first-degree burglary and first-degree sexual assault. Coyne was working under probationary status, which was punishment handed down after an internal investigation found that he had violated department policy during another incident involving a separate woman that Coyne encountered while off duty in December 2008. The District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute the case criminally, citing a lack of evidence.
Grand Junction Police Officer Glenn Coyne was fired by the department in a face-to-face meeting at the jail with Deputy Chief John Zen. He was being held on suspicion he sexually assaulted a woman in her home earlier this week. Coyne, 35, said little before he was ordered held on $250,000 bond in a brief hearing before County Court Judge Bruce Raaum, who advised Coyne of possible penalties, including lifetime supervision or prison, if convicted of first-degree sexual assault and first-degree burglary.
A "stressed" Glenn Coyne on Saturday had little to say but was eager to defend himself against sexual assault allegations that ended his 10-year career in law enforcement, according to a Montrose bail bondsman.
Coyne was later found dead in a Jefferson County hotel room, authorities said. His body was found about 1:35 p.m. Tuesday by a staff member of the Days Inn hotel in the 15000 block of West Colfax Avenue. Coyne worked for the Santa Rosa County, Fla., Sheriff’s Department from November 2002 to February 2006, when he resigned. Coyne was the subject of extensive checks by the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department, where he worked before he joined the Grand Junction Police Department.
Coyne was married with two children; the family has a home on Orchard Mesa.
San Bernadino Police
October 27, 2009
Cop trys to get witness ID and info on what they had seen during the incident but, witness does not give in. (See: Criminal Cops! - Part I)
Miguel Mejia
October 15, 2009
The District Attorney is weighing possible criminal charges for an off-duty sheriff's deputy accused of hitting a man in the head with his service pistol during an argument in Glendora. Glendora Police say Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Miguel Mejia struck 23-year-old Cal Poly Pomona student Chad Phillips on Sunday during a fight over a relative's unpaid utility bills. Phillips required nine stitches to close a cut over his eye and another on his forehead."The situation escalated from verbal to physical to eventually guns being displayed on both sides," Glendora Police Lt. Tim Staab said.
The case was submitted to the District Attorney's office for review on Thursday. Mejia declined to comment after he answered the phone at Sheriff's East Los Angeles Station. He is a sergeant who oversees the station's detective bureau.
The disagreement arose over a $70 share of a utility bill owed by Mejia's niece, which was left unpaid when she moved out of the house she shared with Phillips and several other roommates, authorities said. Phillips, whose girlfriend is also a roommate in the house, allegedly sent the Mejia family nasty messages about the bill.
The woman paid her debt to the landlord a few hours before Mejia arrived at the home in the 1000 block of East Dalton Avenue, according to roommate Tiffany Triplett. But the Mejias were still angry about the tone of the messages. Phillips and friends who were at the house said Mejia was violent from the moment he arrived. Triplett said the incident started when she cracked the front door open for him at about 4 p.m.
"He started pushing his way through the door," Triplett said. "He was yelling `I'm a sheriff, I lock up pieces of (expletive) like you all day."' Triplett said Mejia knocked her head into a brick wall and punched a female roommate in the face. Phillips came running. Almost as soon as he arrived, the deputy pulled out a gun, he said. "I went to the front door and saw him punch my girlfriend in the face," Phillips said. "When I ran out to help her, he reached to his right, grabbed a gun, pointed it in my face and said `I'm going to kill you."' Phillips said that's when Mejia hit him repeatedly with the gun.
Triplett said she retrieved an air rifle to help fend off Mejia. She said she hit him in the head with it. After she did so, the deputy turned his gun toward her, she said. "He pointed it right in my face," Triplett said.
Mejia eventually left for the Glendora Police Station, where he reported the incident and surrendered his gun. Investigators say Mejia told them he pulled his gun only after Triplett produced the air rifle.
"We've got statements from both sides," Staab said. "What we have to determine is who broke the law and who started the fight." A spokesman for the District Attorney said she did not know when a decision on criminal charges would be made.
Meanwhile, Mejia was back at work on Thursday.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the department assigned him another gun to use while the investigation is pending.
David Hendrick
October 13, 2009
New York City Police officer was suspended without pay Monday following his arrest Sunday on charges that he pointed his gun at a group of passengers on a Long Island Rail Road train while off duty, law enforcement officials said. Officer David Hendrick, 38, of Brentwood pleaded not guilty Monday, October 12, 2009 in Nassau District Court in Hempstead to charges of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, and second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor. He was held on $2,500 bond or $1,000 cash. If convicted, Hendrick faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. Nassau District Court Judge Andrea Phoenix issued orders of protection for the four passengers. Hendrick’s attorney did not return a call for comment.According to MTA Police, Hendrick was riding a Ronkonkoma-bound train that left Penn Station at 9:17 p.m. Sunday, MTA police said. MTA police said Hendrick was attempting to quiet down a group of unruly passengers on a train containing several hockey fans returning from a New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden. MTA and Nassau police removed Hendrick from the train at the Mineola station and arrested him, MTA police said. The train was delayed for nearly a half-hour at the station.
NYPD officials declined to comment Monday other than to say Hendrick had been suspended without pay. They would not say how long Hendrick had been on the department or where he was assigned.
Cops with Multiple Shootings or Homicides!
• PA State Trooper Samuel J. Hassan, Murderous(March 15, 2009 Murder of Unarmed motorist. Previously shot and killed 12 year old African-American boy!!)
• Officer Pat Gonzales: Racist, Murderous Oakland Police Officer - 3 Killings; 1 Shooting!
• Officer Hector Jimenez: Racist, Murderous Oakland Police Officer - 2 Killings!(As of October 2009, Officer terminated w/1 yr. pay; City of Oakland has settled civil suits.)
• Homicide from OPD to LASD!
• Miami Beach Police Department - Murderous!(Officer Adam Tavss kills two citizens in 1 week!!)
• Brian Smith, Killer Cop!(Killed four (4) unarmed civilians during homicide spree; committed suicide upon arrest!!)
Murderous Police Officers
• B.A.R.T.+L.A.P.D.=187(P.C.)(LAPD Detective arrested for cold case homicide; and B.A.R.T. Transit Killer-Cop!)
• Cops or Killers?
• Five - "O" Homicide(White Cop kills black cop after "mistaking" black cop for criminal!)
• NYPD - A History of Homicidal Cops(A history of NYPD Officers committing murder!)
• Arthur Tessler, Jason R. Smith & Gregg Junnier(Alanta Police Officers lie to obtain search warrant; murder 90-year old woman; and then plant drugs to cover-up murder)
• PA State Trooper Kevin Foley, Murderous(Convicted March 18, 2009 of First-Degree Murder. Killed girlfriend's ex-hubby (Dentist)!!)
• Homer Police Department(February 20, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, 73 year old black man by two white police officers in Homer, Louisiana!!)
• Taser Deaths by the Police!
• New Orleans Police Department(January 1, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, shot nine (9) times in the back!!)
Oakland, California Police Department
• Captain Edward Poulson, OPD(Beating Death of Suspect (2000) Promoted in 2008)
• Investigator interfered in police probes of former bakery CEO
• Oakland Police Department, Corrupt, I
• Oakland, California Police Department, Corruption, II
• Oakland Police Department, III
• Oakland Police Department, IV
• Oakland Police Department, V - Major Corruption
• Jeff Loman, Deputy Chief, OPD(Updated: Re-instated as a (demoted) Lieutenant)
• Deborah Edgerly, Corrupt former Oakland City Administrator
Oakland, CA Transit Cop Shooting
• Mehserle Makes Bail!!!(Updated October 16, 2009) January 1, 2009 Murder of Unarmed Black Man, shot once (1) in the back!!)
• Tony Pirone, B.P.D.(Mehserle Accomplice - Jan. 1, 2009 Homicide)
• Johannes Mehserle, Killer Cop(Oakland's New Year's (2009) Transit Killer Cop)
• The B.A.R.T. Shooting Investigation(The Investigation of Oakland's New Year's (2009) Transit Killer Cop)
• The B.A.R.T. Aftermath (The Oakland Riots New (2009))
• B.A.R.T. Police, Racism, Homicide(Video of The Oakland New Year's Day (2009) Transit Shooting )
Cops that Sexually Offend
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part I)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part II)
• Sexually Offensive Cops! (Part III)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part IV)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part V)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part VI)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part VII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part VIII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part IX)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part X)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XI)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XIII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XIV)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XV)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XVI)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XVII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XVIII)
• Cops that Sexually Offend! (Part XIX)
Sexually Offensive Judges
• Perverted Judges! - Part I
• Judge Jack Gifford, Retired, Solicitation
• Judge Ronald C. Kline, Child Pornography
• Chief U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham, Solicitation
Judicial Miscreants
• Corrupt Judges & Prosecutors
• Corrupt Judges, Frame-ups & Graft
• Corrupt Judges! - Part II
• Judges of the Regents of the University of California
Judges of Interest
• James J. Marchiano, Corrupt Judge
• Stuart Hing, Corrupt Judge (Recent Appointment)
• Douglas E. Swager, Corrupt Judge
• Martin Jenkins, Corrupt Judge ("Uncle Tom")
• David Bernard Flinn, Corrupt Judge
• John T. Noonan, Corrupt Judge of the 9th Circuit
• Former Judge Ralph B. Robertson, Racist
• Judge Kenneth R. Kingsbury, Ret., Racist, Corrupt
Cops & Domestic Violence
• Wife Killing Cops! - Part I
• Wife Killing Cops! - Part II
• Blue Spousal Abuse! - Part III
• Deputy Paul R. Kovacich, Wife Killer
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