Tag: Domestic Disputes: Page 19

Weapons

Arkansas Officer Tasers 10-Year-Old Who Refused Shower

The incident brought calls from the town's mayor for an investigation of the department by the state police or FBI; both agencies have declined. The girl was apparently not hurt.

November 17, 2009

Patrol

Man Kills Girlfriend, Drives Her Body to Sheriff Substation

Guillermo Marinero allegedly strangled his girlfriend, then drove her body to a local sheriff's substation, the Los Angeles Times reports.

October 18, 2009

Patrol

Shots Fired: Brownsville, Oregon 02•16•2008

Sgt. Lawler popped up over the hood of the Pontiac just as Thompson's upper torso rose off the pavement, his gun again swinging in Lawler's direction.

October 13, 2009

Special Units

Man Arrested In RV After 8-Hour Standoff

The wife of the suspect told police their two children (ages 9 and 12) may be with the man. Police were not able to convince the man to surrender, despite phone calls, public-address messages and flash-bang grenades.

October 11, 2009

Patrol

Families Show Solidarity For Ambushed Winston-Salem Officers

Families and the police chief of the two Winston-Salem police officers who were ambushed at a Bojangles restaurant on Wednesday by an armed gunman kept a vigil for the men, one of whom was gravely injured when he was shot in the face, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.

October 7, 2009

Patrol

Birmingham Chief Says Officers Made Proper Decision Not To Arrest Tigers' Cabrera

Birmingham police officers who released drunken Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, following a domestic violence call, followed department policy by not arresting the ballplayer, according to Chief Richard Patterson, the Detroit Free Press reports.

October 6, 2009

Patrol

Minn. Officer Killed While Responding to Domestic Call

Officer Richard Crittenden of the North St. Paul Police Department, was shot and killed on Monday morning, while responding to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment that officers had visited a day earlier, the Star Tribune reports.

September 6, 2009

Patrol

Murdered Pittsburgh Officers Reportedly Responded to a Domestic Dispute Over a Dog

Richard Poplawski, the suspect in the killing of three Pittsburgh police officers yesterday, emerged from his Stanton Heights home after shooting two of the officers and fired additional shots into one of the victims, who was sprawled on the ground near the front stoop, a report says.

April 4, 2009

Patrol

Hundreds of Bullets Fired in Lethal Pittsburgh Shootout and Ambush

Here is a timeline of the incident this morning in Stanton Heights in which three Pittsburgh police officers were killed and another two were injured:

April 4, 2009

Patrol

Police Say Four-Year-Old Ohio Boy Shot Teen with Shotgun

Deputies were astonished to learn that a 4-year-old boy was the triggerman in the 7:24 p.m. shooting at his grandmother's house along Spriggs Road, about 6 miles south of Jackson.

January 5, 2009

Patrol

Responding to Civil Disputes

Here you are being thrust into the middle of a situation that took years to deteriorate. Now you are expected to solve it in five minutes or less because you are, in fact, the police department, right?

April 10, 2008

Patrol

The Murder of Sara Tokars

The homeowner and a friend went to where the boys pointed to a van across the field and made a horrifying discovery. When they opened the door, the body of a young woman, her head almost completely blown apart, fell out.

March 31, 2007