Tag: Catching Speeders: Page 5

Patrol

Video: Texas Grandma Arrested After Refusing To Show ID

Keene (Texas) Police Chief Rocky Alberti has cleared one of his sergeants in the arrest of a 77-year-old grandmother who was pulled out of her SUV after she refused to show her driver's license.

September 12, 2012

Patrol

Texas Toll Road Gets 85 MPH Limit, Fastest In Nation

The Texas Transportation Commission last week approved the new posted limit last week for the soon-to-open segment of toll road Texas 130 from just south of Austin to Interstate 10 in Seguin.

September 6, 2012

Weapons

Small Arsenal Seized From Maine Suspect

A Maine man who was pulled over Sunday on the Maine Turnpike with an AK-47 assault rifle, several semi-automatic handguns, ammunition and news clippings about the Colorado theater shootings in his car remained in jail Monday on $50,000 cash bail.

July 23, 2012

Vehicle Ops

States Scale Back Aircraft for Catching Speeders

New York, California, and Virginia are among several states to scale back the use of aircraft for traffic enforcement in recent years because of budget cuts or concerns about cost-effectiveness

July 1, 2012

Patrol

Texas Woman's 'Speed Trap' Sign

Houston Police arrested Natalie Plummer, after she held a "Speed Trap" sign near a traffic-enforcement operation. Read the full story here.

June 27, 2012

Special Units

Pa. Cops Cite Several Dozen Pagans for Speeding

Manheim, Pa., Police officers handed out several dozen speeding tickets to Outlaw Motorcycle Gang members during a mass stop Saturday afternoon along Route 222.

April 8, 2012

Patrol

Video: Speeding Miami Cop Gets Community Service

The Miami Police officer who was caught doing more than 100 mph on the Florida Turnpike by a Highway Patrol trooper accepted a plea deal in court on Thursday.

April 5, 2012

Patrol

Report: The 'Troubling Practices' of Fla. Police Speeding

The Sun Sentinel reported other "troubling practices" such as officers not being cited for speeding, off-duty speeding that goes unchallenged unless someone complains, and punishment that can be as slight as a verbal or written reminder to obey the speed limit.

February 13, 2012

Patrol

Ill. Cop Sued After Asking for Date From Speed Violator

A suburban Illinois police officer tracked down a woman he ticketed for speeding to ask her out on a date. Instead of declining the offer, the woman sued him for causing "great fear and anxiety."

January 2, 2012

Vehicles

Arizona Troopers Pick Kawasaki for Highway Patrol

The Arizona Department of Public Safety became the third state law enforcement agency in the western United States to adopt Kawasaki's Concours 14P as its primary motor unit.

December 28, 2011

Patrol

Blue on Blue: The Speeding Miami Cop

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper's decision to pull over a speeding Miami PD cruiser on Florida's Turnpike sparked blue-on-blue tensions that verged on childishness.

December 5, 2011

Patrol

Miami Chief Says Speeding Officer 'Will Pay'

In an interview with Local 10 on Monday, Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa said, "He was endangering everybody around him, and he, like my predecessor used to say, he did a knuckle-headed move, and he will pay for it."

October 31, 2011