A Spotsylvania County sheriff’s deputy opened fire and shot a man that reportedly rushed at him with a large sword.
27-year-old Nicholas Gene Howell lives in Spotsylvania, Virginia.
On July 18, Howell was at his parents’ home. His parents and other family members were also at the house.
A mother in Texas lost her job as a deputy and is facing felony charges after being accused of using a taser to abuse her three children.
34-year-old Xochitl Ortiz resides in a home in Houston, Texas. She lives with and financially provides for her three sons, ages 11, 12, and 16.
Ortiz has worked in law enforcement as a deputy constable at the Harris County Constable’s Office for the past two years.
A Lee County deputy is one of three people facing charges for allegedly working together to plant drugs on a suspect to set him up for an unlawful arrest.
Niko Irizarry began working for the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in 2018. The sheriff reported that Irizarry had never been reprimanded in his time with the agency.
On December 16, 2021, Irizarry and two other men identified as 36-year-old Charles Custodio and 29-year-old Scott Snider allegedly orchestrated a plan to target a real estate agent for drug crimes.
A man who spent his career as a sheriff’s deputy in Southern California has been fired and taken into custody for allegations that he continuously sexually abused an underage boy.
50-year-old Jeremie Russell Cox is from Yucca Valley, California. He has worked as a deputy in San Bernardino County for 25 years. Since 2005, he has been on an assignment as a deputy at the Morongo Basin Jail.
According to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office public release regarding the matter, a male accused Cox of sexually abusing him on more than one occasion when he was under the age of consent.
A woman who was reportedly intoxicated was arrested after allegedly emerging from a Circle K bathroom without any pants or underwear on.
Early in the morning on June 3, a clerk was working his shift at a Circle K store in Umatilla, Florida, when a woman entered and went into the bathroom.
A deputy from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office was in the store when the woman came out of the restroom. He and the clerk reportedly saw she was not wearing any clothing from the waist down, and her body parts were on display.
A former deputy who worked for a Florida middle school is facing felony charges for alleged abuse after his ex-wife and current spouse reported him, asserting that they saw him hurt his child and that they were mistreated by the man.
Timothy Crane resides on the West Central Florida coast.
Crane has a 3-year-old son with his former wife, Samantha Crane, and he is currently married to Michelle Frome.
Beth Ann Franchak is a 52-year-old woman who lives in a condominium in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.
On October 1, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department reported that Franchak notified them and asked if they would send had one of their deputies to her dwelling.
The grandmother of a man with a warrant was reportedly tazed three times with a stun gun when she tried to prevent law enforcement from entering her residence.
On the morning of December 24, deputies from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a home listed as the current address of a man who was reportedly in violation of the terms of his probation.
When they knocked on the door, the woman who answered was identified as the suspect’s grandmother, Barbara Pinkney, who was celebrating her 70th birthday.
An ex-Wisconsin deputy has been accused of combing through the obituaries in an alleged attempt to locate homes she reportedly intended to burglarize while the residents were attending funerals for their loved ones.
29-year-old Janelle Gericke worked as a deputy for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office for a period of 15-months beginning in February 2016 before she was reportedly fired from her position.
In 2018, between February and June, at least seven residences were allegedly chosen by Gericke with the intention of burglarizing them during times she believed that the inhabitants would not be home.
A sheriff’s deputy in Texas allegedly took female suspects of criminal activity to remote areas and reportedly strip-searched them without legal cause.
49-year-old Floyd Berry has worked in law enforcement in Bexar County for the past 9-years.
Beginning on November 4 and spanning over the following 10-days, Berry allegedly performed traffic stops on several vehicles holding women who were in legal trouble, such as having active warrants.
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