All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 6 2012 // The Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska will pay more than $5.5 million to 11 women who claimed they were sexually assaulted by a police officer now serving 87 years in prison for rape, Mayor Dan Sullivan’s office...
Sep 5 2012 // A federal lawsuit says Nogales, Arizona police wrongly used a stun gun on a disabled man after officers mistook his seizure for criminal activity.The Nogales International reported that 40-year-old Diego Lerma claims in a...
Sep 5 2012 // An Albuquerque police lieutenant is accusing the department and top city leaders of passing over him and others in order to promote lesser-qualified officers. The reverse-discrimination claim filed by Lt. Gregory Callaghan...
Sep 4 2012 // Delaware State Police are looking for a man who robbed an insurance agency in Wilmington at gunpoint. It happened about 4:30 p.m. last Thursday at Muncie Insurance on North Market Street. Troopers say a man entered the...
Aug 31 2012 // “A drunk driver killed someone I love,” reads a sign on the Interstate 80 East exit ramp onto Route 611 in Stroud Township.It’s the same area where Raymond Gelormini Jr., 49, of Hackettstown, N.J., was...
Aug 30 2012 // A senior executive at Deutsche Bank has filed a $50 million claim against the city of Los Angeles, alleging he was beaten by two officers during a bizarre incident after they dropped him off at a motel where they ordered...
Aug 24 2012 // Two law enforcement officers form the New Orleans area have been sentenced for their roles in a plot to make a fraudulent insurance claim. U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced 43-year-old former New Orleans Police...
Aug 24 2012 // A man with HIV who said he was denied a position with the police force has reached a settlement with the city of Atlanta, his lawyers said.The city would pay $250,000 under terms of the agreement, Lambda Legal said. The...
Aug 24 2012 // Philippine police say they have rounded up 357 foreigners accused of duping Taiwanese and Chinese citizens in an online scam.National police investigation chief Samuel Pagdilao said the mostly Chinese and Taiwanese...
Aug 22 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that a Hinds County judge erred in determining how the much the city of Jackson was liable in a case involving a police chase.Last December, the state Court of Appeals...
Aug 20 2012 // Money from a $2.2 million court settlement over the death of a 29-year-old man who was fatally shot by a Michigan police officer in 2010 will go to charities and police departments, including the one that employed the...
Aug 14 2012 // A man has sued a security company after one of its guards pepper-sprayed him last month on the sidewalk in downtown Santa Fe, N.M.The Albuquerque Journal reported that 26-year-old Justin LeVan filed a lawsuit on July 31...
Aug 13 2012 // A federal jury has awarded a Madison resident more than $93,000 in a lawsuit against three city police officers for excessive force and for violating his constitutional rights.The Clarion-Ledger reported that the verdict...
Aug 10 2012 // A former police officer claims in a lawsuit that Greenville, South Carolina officials violated her free speech rights by firing her over comments on a social networking site.The Delta Democrat Times reported that former...
Aug 9 2012 // A $10 million federal lawsuit claims Honolulu police used excessive force in restraining a man who suffocated. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Tuesday Tassa Torres filed a lawsuit on behalf of her brother Aaron Torres. The...
Aug 9 2012 // In recent weeks, “hot trucks” have made headlines as Indiana State Police found numerous food transport trucks driving with improper refrigeration for their loads.A new Indiana law that took effect in July...
Aug 9 2012 // A New York man accused of helping his father try to fake his own death by falsely reporting that the elder man had disappeared while going for a swim was arraigned Tuesday on conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and other...
Aug 9 2012 // A North Carolina appeals court said a car passenger wounded during a police chase on Asheville roads five years ago can continue to seek damages against officers involved in the pursuit but not the city’s now-retired...
Aug 9 2012 // Crashes happen every day.Most of the time, they are simple fender benders and those involved own up to their mistakes. Sometimes, there are witnesses who can fill in the blanks. Other times, however, drivers disagree about...
Aug 7 2012 // New York’s top bank regulator threatened to strip Standard Chartered Plc of its state banking license, saying the British bank was a “rogue institution” that hid $250 billion in transactions tied to Iran,...