ND deputy accused of vomiting at concert arrested

FARGO, N.D. – A sheriff's deputy and his mother face charges of disorderly conduct after the deputy vomited on people at a Kenny Chesney concert in Fargo and refused to leave, authorities say. Police Sgt. Mark Lykken said Stark County Deputy Justin Krohmer, 26, and his mother, Susan, 47, whose husband is the Ada, Minn., police chief, were arrested after the Saturday night incident.

Lykken said Justin Krohmer was asked to leave the Fargodome about 11 p.m. Saturday after vomiting on people in front of him, but he refused to do so.

Susan Krohmer is accused of pulling and pushing officers, screaming profanities and of trying to prevent an officer from escorting her son out of the concert.

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NYPD Fabricates Drug Arrest

When undercover detectives busted Jose and Maximo Colon last year for selling cocaine at a seedy club in Queens, there was a glaring problem: The brothers hadn't done anything wrong.

But proclaiming innocence wasn't going to be good enough. The Dominican immigrants needed proof.

"I sat in the jail and thought ... how could I prove this? What could I do?" Jose, 24, recalled in Spanish during a recent interview.

As he glanced around a holding cell, the answer came to him: Security cameras. Since then, a vindicating video from the club's cameras has spared the brothers a possible prison term, resulted in two officers' arrest and become the basis for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.

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The revelations in New York have triggered internal affairs inquiries, transfers of commanders and reviews of dozens of other arrests involving the accused officers. Many drug defendants' cases have been tossed out. Others have won favorable plea deals.

The misconduct "strikes at the very heart of our system of justice and erodes public confidence in our courts," said Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson.

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The moment Jose walked out of the holding cell, he made a beeline for Delicias and asked for a copy of the security tapes from the night they were arrested, Jan. 4, 2008.

"I knew it would be the only way to defend myself, because I knew the police would not believe me," he said.

The owner of Delicias queued up the tapes and the two waded through an entire day's worth of surveillance — until they found the two hours the men spent in the club that night — supposedly selling drugs.

Jose quickly got the tape to defense attorney Rochelle Berliner, a former narcotics prosecutor. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"I almost threw up," she said. "Because I must've prosecuted 1,500, 2,000 drug cases ... and all felonies. And I think back, Oh my God, I believed everything everyone told me. Maybe a handful of times did something not sound right to me. I don't mean to sound overly dramatic but I was like, sick."

What the tape doesn't show is striking: At no point did the officers interact with the undercovers, nor did the brothers appear to be involved in a drug deal with anyone else. Adding insult to injury, an outside camera taped the undercovers literally dancing down the street.

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Life quickly deteriorated for Max and Jose after their arrest.

They owned a successful convenience store in Jackson Heights, but lost their license to sell tobacco, alcohol and lottery tickets. The store closed a week before their case was dismissed.

"My life changed completely," Jose said. "I had a life before, and I have a different existence now. ... Now, I'm not able to afford to live in my own house or care for my children."

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The brothers have filed a $10 million false arrest lawsuit against the police department, the officers involved and the city.

"I'm angry because, why'd it happen to me? I know a lot of people ... they don't go the right way and they can get away with it," Max said. "I'm young and I try to go the right way and boom, this happened to me. So I'm angry with life, too."

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The Would-Be Car Thief with Terrible B.O.

The stench left behind by Joshua Graden, who police say they found naked in a Bradenton woman’s car, was almost too much for the owner to bear.

The 35-year-old woman said she got her Chevrolet detailed the day after officers found Graden, 21, of Osprey, nude in the vehicle parked in her driveway.

“I got it sprayed down because it smelled terrible,” the victim told the Bradenton Herald. “I have never seen him in my life. It is kind of creepy.”

At around 2 a.m., Monday, Bradenton police responded to a call for service in the victim’s neighborhood, in the 4900 block of 34th Avenue West. Another resident in the neighborhood had called police after a man he did not recognize was banging on his door demanding to come inside, according to a police report.

When officers arrived, the man had moved on, but police found clothes in the middle of the street, according to the victim.

“The person who first called lives across the street from me, and I guess the police found clothes in the road,” she said.

An officer then noticed a man sitting in the driver’s seat of the Chevrolet across the street from where the call originated. The victim said her Chevrolet had been locked.

“I always lock the car because my kids are always in it,” she said.

The officer confronted Graden in the Chevrolet, who repeated over and over “he didn’t know where he was, or what was going on,” the police report stated.

When the officer asked Graden his name, he began to swear. The owner of the vehicle said an irate Graden threw an umbrella, as well as towelettes and snacks for her two infant children, from the Chevrolet all over her yard.

Police reports say Graden resisted being handcuffed, but officers eventually arrested him on charges of felony burglary of a conveyance and resisting arrest without violence. He has since been released from the Manatee County jail on supervised release on $1,000 bond.

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Cowardly Cop Who Beat Up Barmaid Heads to Court

Fox Chicago News first showed you the dramatic video of an off duty Chicago police officer beating a barmaid more than two years ago.

A security camera caught the incident at Jesse's Shortstop Inn. Anthony Abbate is charged with the beating. Karolina Obrycka is the barmaid who got the beating. She says it’s because she stopped serving him.

“It stays in your head to the end of your life. You’re not able to forget about that,” aid Obrycka.

Cook County prosecutors originally charged Abbate only with battery for his part in the February 19, 2007 beating.

When Fox Chicago News aired the tape a month later, prosecutors upped the charged to felony aggravated battery and arrested Abbate at his Northside home.

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After that video tape was seen by everyone, this cop now plans to plead self-defense.

Portrait of an Asshole (oh yeah, he'll get what's coming to him)

Prison Guard Accused of Killing Wife While Police At Door

A TDCJ guard was arrested Thursday and accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife. 38-year-old Samuel Vanparys is being held in the Walker County jail on a two million dollar bond. Vanparys is charged with first degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Ellen Buffington.

"I don't think I've ever been to a homicide where a victim was shot this many times before," said Lt. Kevin Lunsford. "It was very brazen with police standing just outside the door."

"Heard about three knocks and heard 'em say Police Department, open up," said Eloy Santistevan, who lives nears Vanparys' apartment.

"He said I can't come to the door right now and immediately began firing bap bap bap bap" said Lunsford.

"I just kept hearing 'em over and over and over again," said Santistevan.

"Literally within 10-15 seconds he had emptied his pistol, shot her 10-15 times, tossed out the gun and surrendered," said Lunsford.

27-year-old Ellen Marie Buffington died minutes later at the hospital. Police said Vanparys admitted planning to kill her because of a Child Protective Services investigation involving the couple's 4-year-old daughter.

Investigators said Vanparys lured Buffington to the apartment under the pretense of discussing child support, then told her his plan.

"That she needed to call her loved ones and tell them goodbye and she did," said Lunsford.

Those calls led police to the apartment, but not in time to stop what police consider to be a deadly plan already in motion.

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"Ooo... does prison sex hurt?"

Tickets pile up on van with dead driver

NEW YORK - A New York City woman says her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle.

Jennifer Morales of Manhattan told the Daily News on Thursday that she believes her father, George Morales, died of a heart attack.

A city marshal found the body of George Morales on Wednesday while trying to tow the minivan from beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overpass.

Parking tickets and dust covered the vehicle.

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Veteran detective's arrest in 1986 killing stuns the LAPD

Murder Victim, Sherri Rasmussen, 29
Police allege Det. Stephanie Lazarus, 49, shot her ex-boyfriend's wife, then harbored the secret for more than two decades.

Shortly after she sat down at her desk on the third floor of LAPD headquarters Friday morning, Det. Stephanie Lazarus was told a suspect in the basement jail had information on one of her cases. The 25-year police veteran went quickly downstairs.

As Lazarus removed her firearm to pass through security, she unknowingly walked into a trap. There was no suspect -- only questions about a terrible secret police believe she has been harboring for more than two decades.

Now disarmed, Lazarus, 49, was confronted by homicide detectives and arrested on suspicion of the 1986 slaying of a woman who had married Lazarus' ex-boyfriend. The dramatic break in the decades-old case sent shock waves through the tight-knit LAPD community, marking one of the few times in the department's history that one of its own officers has been accused of murder.

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The murder victim, Sherri Rasmussen, was director of critical-care nursing at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Her slaying stunned colleagues, who referred to her as a vital member of the staff, according to news reports.

Anti-DUI chief accused of DUI

The man who runs Sonoma County's program that combats drunken driving has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs, police said.

Thomas Newell, 53, was arrested in Santa Rosa about 3 p.m. Friday after an off-duty firefighter spotted a Mercedes-Benz driving recklessly on Bodega Highway, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officers concluded that Newell was under the influence of a drug, authorities said.

Newell was arrested and booked into Sonoma County Jail.

Newell did not return a call seeking comment Tuesday, but his supervisor said in a written statement that Newell is on leave.

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Ex-NY policeman gets 32 years in ex-wife's killing

NEW YORK - A retired New York City police sergeant has been sentenced to 32 years to life in prison for killing his ex-wife, a well-known 1960s singer.

Sixty-three-year-old John Galtieri (gal-tee-EHR'-ee) was convicted by a Staten Island jury in February of murder and weapon possession. He shot 58-year-old Jeanne Kane in January 2007 while she sat in her car in a parking lot waiting to pick up her daughter.

Kane was a member of the singing group the Kane Triplets, who performed regularly on TV variety shows including the Ed Sullivan and Jack Benny programs.

Galtieri was caught in South Carolina the day after the shooting. His lawyer had claimed cell phone records and video showed Galtieri wasn't in Staten Island at the time of the shooting.

Prosecutors say the couple's divorce followed years of domestic violence.

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Cops Try to Arrest EMT for Taking Patient to Hospital

I surely do hope these police officers are reprimanded and fired for their extremely inappropriate behavior with the paramedic who was trying to rush a sick woman to the nearest Emergency Room. The video is shocking.

This isn't even a case of "mistaken identity" where a husband is rushing a pregnant wife to the hospital in a family car. This was an AMBULANCE driven by two paramedics IN UNIFORM and they had sirens and lights flashing.

So why did the cops pull them over? Because the cops now claim they were also in a hurry to get somewhere on the MULTI-lane highway and they'd flashed their lights, too, and ran their sirens, too, and the ambulance merely went to the right side of the road but did not completely pull over and stop because they were dealing with their own patient's emergency.

There was room for both vehicles to attend to their respective emergencies.

When the female patient in the ambulance begins to scream, the paramedic decides the patient is now being endangered by the cops' nonsense so he turns to attend to his screaming patient and that's when the cops throw him up against his ambulance and throttle the paramedic with a hand around his throat and they actually tell the paramedic he needs to "calm down." I didn't see the paramedic choking anyone.

When the cops finally realize they are being videotaped, the whole scene goes away and the paramedics are allowed back onto their ambulance and they continue on their way to the hospital. The patient was treated and released.

I would really like to see the follow-up story to this: do the goons get punished or not?

So... you might be wondering about now... what happened to the cops' emergency that they were rushing to since they had so much time on their hands to choke a hard-working paramedic? GOOD QUESTION.