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#police-officer

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A San Fernando police officer has been charged with stealing money from a domestic violence suspect who was being arrested, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Thursday.Officer Jeffrey King was responding to a domestic violence call at a San Fernando home on June 21, 2022, when he allegedly took a cellphone and cash from the man's pockets while he was restrained, according to prosecutors.

A three-year-old boy and a girl, 11, have been found dead alongside two family members in a flat in west London.Metropolitan Police officers forced their way into the home in Staines Road, Bedfont, Hounslow, at just after 3pm on Friday after being called to concerns about the family.They found four bodies, a man and woman, both aged in their 30s, an 11-year-old girl and a three year-old boy.

The city is investigating after police were called Thursday night on volunteers serving food to asylum-seekers outside a temporary shelter at the YMCA in West Ridge.The three volunteers said the shelter's city-contracted security guards threatened and harassed them and told them to leave the premises before calling police as the volunteers passed out food to the migrants, who told them they'd only been served "bread and apples" inside the shelter.

A man accused of murder and attempted murder after three people were killed in Nottingham has appeared in court.Valdo Calocane, 31, has been remanded in custody by magistrates following a series of knife and van attacks in the city on Tuesday.The former university student is accused of killing University of Nottingham students Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber and school caretaker Ian Coates in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Three current and former Police Scotland officers have been recognised for their dedication to public service in the King's Birthday Honours list.Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham and retired assistant chief constable Kenny MacDonald were awarded the King's Police Medal.Retired detective inspector Simon Broadhurst becomes an MBE for his service to the police force.

Toni Dezomits' advanced ovarian cancer responded well to earlier rounds of chemo, but this spring, her doctors told her there was a shortage of a key chemo drug.Toni Dezomits Toni Dezomits is used to facing death.She served in the Gulf War and later as a police officer, becoming a police chief in North Carolina before retiring.

Ontario's police watchdog says three Toronto police officers did not commit any wrongdoing after a 16-year-old boy suffered a broken wrist "in and around" the time of his arrest in Etobicoke in February.In a report released on Wednesday, Joseph Martino, director of Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, said he found no evidence to support charges against the officers in connection with the arrest on Feb. 13 in the area of Long Branch Avenue and Lake Promenade.

A 44-year-old man has appeared in court charged with stalking and impersonating a law enforcement officer while threatening to arrest former education secretary Sir Gavin Williamson.Simon Parry, of no fixed address, persistently followed the Conservative Party MP on two occasions between May 24 and June 14 of this year, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

A 44-year-old man has appeared in court charged with stalking and impersonating a law enforcement officer while threatening to arrest former education secretary Sir Gavin Williamson.Simon Parry, of no fixed address, persistently followed the Conservative Party MP on two occasions between May 24 and June 14 of this year, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Five members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have been listed in the King's Birthday Honours.Three have been awarded a King's Police Medal (KPM), one a British Empire Medal (BEM) and one has been given the title of Member of the British Empire (MBE).Detective Superintendent Ewan Anderson who has nearly 30 years' service in the PSNI became an MBE.

A Chicago Police sergeant charged with two counts of official misconduct and one count of aggravated battery for grabbing a Park Ridge 14-year-old and pinning him down on the sidewalk last summer was found not guilty on all three counts Friday by Judge Paul Pavlus in Cook County Circuit Court.Asked if he had a comment on the ruling as he left the courtroom, Sgt.

Actor Treat Williams attends the world premiere of Second Act in New York on Dec. 12, 2018.Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP DORSET, Vt.Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series Everwood and the movie Hair, died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said.

A romance fraudster who conned three women out of more than 200,000 has been jailed for five years and four months.Sajad Hussain, 45, of Haydon End, Swindon, Wiltshire, pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud relating to a seven-year period between 2013 and 2020.Swindon Crown Court heard Hussain used a false name when communicating with the women, from the West Midlands, whom he met on online dating sites and spun a web of lies to in order to swindle money out of them.

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A little more than four decades have passed since Paul Verna's final day as a police officer.The 35-year-old motorcycle cop thought he was making a routine traffic stop on June 2, 1983, prosecutors said.But he had pulled over a vehicle occupied by four people who'd committed a string of armed robberies in the San Fernando Valley in recent weeks.

A woman accused of posing as a man to prey on a short-sighted teenage girl has been found guilty of sexual assault by kissing and cleared of 16 other sex offences.Georgia Bilham, 21, was cleared by a jury of all but one of the alleged offences after about three hours of deliberations following an eight-day trial.

A woman accused of posing as a man to prey on a short-sighted teenage girl has been found guilty of sexual assault by kissing and cleared of 16 other sex offences.Georgia Bilham, 21, was cleared by a jury of all but one of the alleged offences after about three hours of deliberations following an eight-day trial.