Tag: Sex Crimes: Page 8

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SCOTUS To Decide Whether Officers Need Warrant To Conduct Sex Abuse Interviews at School

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Camreta v. Greene, an Oregon case centering on a whether a child protective services caseworker and deputy sheriff violated the Fourth Amendment when they interrogated a child who alleged sexual abuse in a private office at the child's school for two hours without a warrant, exigent circumstances or parental consent.

October 20, 2010

Technology

L.A. County Sends Backlog of 4,763 Rape Kits Out for Testing

The department still needs to test and process the kits, which should be done by the stated goal of June 2011.

October 17, 2010

Special Units

New York Gang Tortured and Sodomized Gay Man and Teens

Eight members of the Latin King Goonies stand accused of torturing and sodomizing a gay man, his older brother, and two teenagers in a savage anti-gay torture spree.

October 10, 2010

Patrol

Video: Rhode Island Officer Gets 40 Years for Substation Rape

A judge sentenced Providence (R.I.) Police officer Marcus Huffman to serve 40 years in prison for raping an intoxicated, 19-year-old woman in the bathroom of a South Providence substation.

September 8, 2010

Patrol

California Parole Agency Breaks Up Sex-Offender Encampment in Anaheim

On Wednesday, officials with the Parole Department relocated 30 to 40 paroled offenders who had been living in cars and RVs outside its office in Anaheim, Calif., police say.

May 11, 2010

Patrol

Cop In Roethlisberger Case Resigns

The Georgia police officer who took the initial report from the woman who accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault has resigned.

April 15, 2010

Patrol

California Cop, Corrections Officer Arrested in Kidnap, Rape Case

According to Sgt. David McBride of the Ontario Police Department, the woman was walking to her car in the parking lot of Ontario Mills Mall when Westminster police Det. Anthony Nicholas Orban and California Corrections Officer Jeff Thomas Jelinek approached her.

April 4, 2010

Patrol

U.S. Marshals Launch G8-Wanted Child Sex Offender Web Site

The Department of Justice via the U.S. Marshals Service has launched a Web site highlighting the 10 most wanted sex offenders in the United States. Seven other countries have also launched similar sites.

March 23, 2010

Patrol

Ohio Officer Fatally Shot Responding to Disturbance Call

Elyria (Ohio) Police officer James Kerstetter was fatally shot during a neighborhood disturbance call after he located a suspect who may have exposed himself to a child, the agency announced.

March 15, 2010

Technology

Stopping Sexting at Its Source

Local law enforcement is joining forces with Farmer's Telecommunications Cooperative (FTC) to combat the growing problem of teen "sexting" in DeKalb County, Ga., with an educational DVD.

March 1, 2010

Training

Investigation of Vermont Academy Trainer Continues

A probe into the suicide of a Vermont Police Academy trainer could take weeks, as investigators seek to learn the details of why Dave McMullen shot and killed himself after being suspected of possessing child pornography.

January 25, 2010

Training

Memphis Recruit Made Sex Tape With Minor

Gregory Marshall, 26, has been charged, following an investigation that began Monday when a supervisor at the academy got a complaint about Marshall's X-rated activities.

January 6, 2010