Investigations
The Investigations topic area furnishes cops with the latest news, information and strategies used in closing a case and putting bad guys behind bars. This touches on everything that happens between the suspect’s crimes to the final conviction.
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Zack King and Levi White were charged with using excessive force during an August 2022 arrest
They weren’t able to “definitively confirm or refute the presence of Santa,” but agreed that “something magical may be at play”
The attack stemmed from an ongoing gang dispute, police said, and an 18-year-old has been charged
$85M in damages was thrown out after a judge said the jury may have been influenced by outside factors such as sympathy for Lucky Phounsy’s family or anger at the sheriff’s department
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Ed Mullins reneged on his promise to look out for thousands of sergeants by stealing “hundreds of thousands of dollars from them”
Prosecutors are also charging a weapon’s specialist with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal 2021 shooting, citing a “criminal disregard for safety”
The prosecutor found that the officers acted “reasonably and lawfully,” because the suspect created a “life-threatening situation” when he drove toward them
The killer shot the young mother and her child “assassination-style,” along with a grandmother who was shot as she slept
“The level of violence … this was not your run-of-the-mill, low-end gang member,” Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said
The AG’s office has never found an officer-involved shooting in Maine to be unjustified
“The facts support a finding that Deputy Feller made a mistake that a reasonable officer could have made in the same situation,” a prosecutor said
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The officers are charged with second-degree reckless endangerment and cruelty to persons
“These same micro hot spot locations that are disproportionately impacting residents and business owners in these locations also negatively impact our officers.”
The 35-year-old man died from compressional and positional asphyxia, which a coroner said was a result of being placed face down on a stretcher
“I can’t answer without payment. Even a small payment I can get you your answers,” the LEO is accused of writing
“His conduct during this encounter with a citizen of the community is unacceptable,” Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo said
An investigator used the incorrect search code, which would have disqualified Austin Lee Edwards from employment
Legal experts said the shooting likely falls under the state’s self-defense law, but some questions remain
Some of the infractions reportedly occurred while on duty and on city property
Police were able to narrow down what was at first known only as a white sedan to a 2015 Hyundai Elantra registered to Bryan Kohberger
In one incident, LEOs fatally wounded an armed suspect who pointed a gun at a driver before leading officers on a pursuit
An FBI surveillance team tracked Bryan Kohberger and his father on a cross-country road trip from Washington State to Pennsylvania
The officer’s decision to open fire in the direction of a crowd was “reckless, unreasonable and unnecessary,” according to the indictment
“This officer resorted to using pepper spray during a confrontation with a civilian in a manner that was unnecessary and contrary to his training,” AG Matthew Platkin said
Police ran DNA left at the scene through a public database, then used genetic genealogy techniques to connect the DNA to Bryan Kohberger through his family members
The suspect “specifically traveled to New York from Maine in order to begin carrying out his crimes of murder of government officials”
“CHP investigators worked throughout the night interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence from the scene,” police said
The court order gives authorities 10 days to extradite, and he is currently being held at a jail in Pa. until transport
The deputy was found dead in the driver’s seat of his wrecked vehicle after “some type of argument that escalated to the gunfire”
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