Royal Oak police Officer charged with porn possession will stand trial
police officer charged
with destroying hard drive in child porn investigation
Redding CHP officer charged with having child porn
Officer
who married 15-year-old charged
“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”
The Fairfax County Police
Sweeping it under the carpet for over fifty years
Monday, July 30, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Police Officer and Church Pastor Charged In Child Abuse Scandal
CORONA, CA -- An officer from
the Corona Police Department is facing a charge of failing to report suspected
child abuse of a 13-year-old boy by three men affiliated with a local church.
Tuesday the Riverside County
District Attorney’s Office filed the single misdemeanor count against Corona
police corporal Margaret Bell.
Bell surrendered herself and
appeared at the Hall of Justice in Riverside today and was arraigned on the
charge. She entered a plea of not guilty and now has a trial readiness
conference scheduled for Aug. 7, 2012.
“The Corona Police Department
requested that the DA’s office investigate any possible criminal culpability by
Bell after the department was told that she had been advised of suspected child
abuse of a 13-year-old boy by three men affiliated with a church in Corona,
including its pastor, Lonny Lee Remmers,” the DA’s office reported today.
Bell allegedly had been told
of the suspected abuse prior to Corona police being advised on March 29, 2012.
“The investigation determined
that Bell was told by at least one church member of the suspected child abuse
but she failed to report it to law enforcement authorities as she is required
to do under the law,” the DA’s office reported today.
Remmers and the two other men
affiliated with the Heart of Worship Community Church, Nicholas James Craig and
Darryll Duane Jeter Jr., were arrested by Corona police and have been charged
in case. All three have pleaded not guilty. The trio had a felony settlement
conference today and now have a preliminary hearing scheduled for Sept. 7,
2012.
Craig and Jeter drove
the boy to the desert on March 18 and “forced him to dig a grave, threw dirt on
him and beat him with a belt.”
Remmers later used a pair of
pliers to inflict pain on the boy, according to the Press-Enterprise report.
The boy’s mother turned her
son over to the three Heart of Worship Community Church members “for
intervention" because she believed her boy had been involved in
"sexual misconduct,” The Press-Enterprise reported.
Remmers, who served federal
prison time prior to his arrest this year, had applied to be a Corona police
chaplain last year and was involved in the city’s mayor’s task force on youth
safety, The Press-Enterprise reported.
MT police officer charged with child molestation
Taylon Bain, a former Glendive and Malta police officer who
once ran for Dawson County Sheriff, has been arrested on child molestation
charges.
Bain, 27, faces four counts of sexual intercourse without
consent, two counts of sexual abuse of children, and one count of solicitation
of tampering with physical evidence, all felonies.
Bain appeared in Dawson County Justice Court on Tuesday and
was bound over to District Court.
The arrest was the culmination of at least two years of
investigation.
The charging documents identify four female victims between the
ages of 13 and 16 between 2004 through 2009.
The documents allege that Bain saved pictures of his alleged
victims on his computer and phone.
They say that reportedly met the girls through community
groups he was involved in including two through 4-H, one through a dance class,
and one through Special Olympics.
Bob Norbie, the president and CEO of Special Olympics
Montana, said, "We are deeply saddened to learn that Taylon Bain has been
charged with violating an underage volunteer of Special Olympics and others in
the Glendive community. As a volunteer, Mr. Bain passed all required volunteer
registration and screening processes. Although we have not been contacted by
the authorities, Special Olympics will do anything it can to support the
investigation into these serious allegations."
Since leaving law enforcement several years ago Bain has
worked as DJ and sound man and for oilfield service companies.
Bain is now held in the Dawson County Correctional Facility
on $50,000 bond.
Court records involving another possible suspect are sealed.
Police officer charged with sexual exploitation of a minor
Authorities are looking for a LaFollette Police
officer who is accused of having inappropriate contact with an underage girl
from Georgia.
A Campbell County grand jury returned a 44 count
indictment against Michael Baker, 39, on July 11.
According to a press release from the LaFollette
Police Department, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation contacted them several
months ago about the allegations against Baker. LPD notified the Knoxville
Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children Division to assist in the
investigation.
Baker is believed to be living in the New Tazewell
area of Claiborne County, but so far, authorities have not been able to locate
him to arrest him.
If you have any information about Baker's location,
please call the LaFollette Police Department at 423-562-8331 or the TBI at
1-800-744-4000.
Friday, July 13, 2012
2 cops use sex for favors
Jacinto City Police Capt. Thomas Harmon DeMont, 49, was arrested Wednesday after he was charged with indecency with a child.
A Jacinto City police captain and a former Brazoria County sheriff's deputy both used their authority as law enforcement officers to commit sexual assaults, officials said.
Capt. Thomas Harmon DeMont, 49, was arrested Wednesday after he was charged with indecency with a child.
On Tuesday, ex-sheriff's deputy Joe Garcia, 37, surrendered at the Brazoria County Jail after a grand jury there indicted him on sexual assault and official oppression charges.
DeMont, now on administrative leave from the department, is accused of exposing himself in April to a 13-year-old girl, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.
The girl had been having problems with a boy at her school, and her mother had sought help from a police officer she knew only as "Sgt. Tom" of the Jacinto City Police Department.
On April 11, DeMont met with the girl at her uncle's apartment. Her mother remained outside.
The teenager later told investigators DeMont gave her a blue pill that he claimed would help her relax.
"She took the pill and began to feel dizzy and sleepy," according to the criminal complaint.
DeMont then exposed himself to the girl and asked her to commit a sex act, the complaint stated. The girl ran outside.
She later told investigators DeMont threatened to kill her family if she reported what happened, the complaint stated. He also sent the girl several text messages telling her that her family members were now in danger.
Houston police juvenile sex crimes detectives contacted Jacinto City police and asked if a "Sgt. Tom" worked there.
DeMont, the officer they talked to, told them there was no "Sgt. Tom' on the rolls. But, the HPD detectives checked the girl's cellphone records and confirmed he sent her several text messages after the alleged assault. She also identified DeMont in a photo lineup, according to the criminal complaint.
DeMont, a Missouri City resident, remains in custody at the Fort Bend County Jail with bail set at $50,000, officials said.
Garcia, the since-fired Brazoria County deputy, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met at the scene of a March 30 vehicle accident, Brazoria sheriff's officials said.
They said Garcia volunteered to drive the 24-year-old woman to her friend's home in Brazoria. Sheriff's officials said he assaulted her soon after they pulled up to the house.
A sheriff's deputies investigation corroborated the woman's account of the incident. Garcia was fired April 10.
On Monday, Garcia surrendered after a Brazoria County grand jury indicted him on charges of sexual assault and official oppression.
He was released from the Brazoria County Jail after posting $50,000 bail.
child pornography charges against a CHP officer
REDDING — The Shasta County
District Attorney's Office wants additional information from California Highway
Patrol investigators before deciding whether to file possession of child
pornography charges against a CHP officer already charged with having a cache
of illegal guns, explosives, drugs and stolen driver's licenses at his Anderson
area home.
But Redding defense attorney Joe Gazzigli, who represents CHP officer Gerald "Gary" Roland Harris, 45, said today prosecutors have told him child porn charges are sure to be filed later this month.
"They told me they are filing," he said following a brief court proceeding for his client, who remains on leave from the CHP.
Although Gazzigli said he has not been provided with evidence in the pending child porn case since it's not been filed, he said a photo of a young girl in a "compromising position" and another photograph depicting a sex act among a young boy and a young female apparently were found by investigators on one of Harris' computers.
Deputy District Attorney Rachel Donahou declined after court to reveal the nature of the pending charges or to confirm that new charges will definitely be filed.
"I intend to (file additional charges), but I can't guarantee it," she said.
Harris was in Superior Court today for the setting of a preliminary hearing on his already filed criminal case, but retired Superior Court Judge Anthony Anderson agreed to put it off for the third time. Scheduling was reset for July 23.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
NYPD cop busted for allegedly having sex with teen
An NYPD officer was arrested upstate for having a sexual
relationship with a teenaged boy, authorities said.
Rosandre Burgher, 26, an officer with the 46th precinct in
the Bronx, was picked up on Tuesday in the Town of Wallkill, a court official
said.
"It is alleged that this officer had a relationship
with a 16-year-old male, a consensual relationship. This person [the
16-year-old victim] calls directly to Internal Affairs Bureau, makes
allegations,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a press conference today.
“Internal Affairs Bureau goes and meets with Wallkill police
department and works in conjunction with them and an arrest was made,” Kelly
said.
Burgher was charged with criminal sexual act, unlawfully
dealing with a child and endangering the welfare of a child, said a spokeswoman
with the Wallkill Court. He was released on $35,000 bond on Wednesday and is
due back in court on June 26.
“The officer was suspended,” Kelly said.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Former police officer appeals rape conviction
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A former
Jackson police officer sentenced to 75 years in prison for statutory rape
involving his girlfriend's daughter has appealed his conviction. The case of
Jeffery Webb Sr. is among dozens of appeals before the state Court of Appeals
in its July-August term. The Appeals Court will not hear oral arguments in the
case. Webb was convicted in 2011 in Hinds County for statutory rape, sexual
battery and gratification of lust. Prosecutors
said Webb sexually abused the child from the time she was 11 until she was
14-years-old. A judge sentenced Webb to 30 years for statutory rape, 30 years
for sexual assault and 15 years for gratification of lust. The sentences are
running consecutively.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Aurora cop sentenced for sexual exploitation of a child
A former Aurora police officer has been sentenced for having sexually explicit photographs of a teenager on his cellphone.
Michael Mangino, 51, who was dismissed from the police
department after the March 9, 2011, incident, was sentenced Thursday to three
years in the Colorado Department of Corrections, according to an Adams County
District Attorney's Office media release. The execution of the sentence was
"stayed" for five years when Mangino agreed to immediately serve 90
days in the county jail and comply with terms of a sex offender management
board treatment program.
Mangino pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child, a
felony, on April 24. The victim in the case was in Mangino's custody when he
was a DARE officer with the department.
"Mr. Mangino, by his perverse and sexually deviant
actions, did great harm to the image of the Aurora Police Department,"
Police Chief Daniel J. Oates said in the release. "His violation of trust
caused great harm to our community, making it harder for the most vulnerable
victims to trust the police."
Mangino drove a runaway suspected of smoking pot to
Children's Hospital for a urine analysis so she could be medically cleared to
go to the Arapahoe County Juvenile Assessment Center.
According to an arrest affidavit and testimony during a
preliminary hearing, the girl told investigators that Mangino said he had
started taking photos of all the people he arrested. The girl told
investigators that she thought Mangino wanted her to take photos of her naked
body using his personal cellphone, and so she did.
Investigators found the photos on Mangino's cellphone,
according to the arrest affidavit and testimony.
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