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State police said in a press release that 34-year-old Trooper John Kelly of Troop G in northwest Louisiana faces a charge of felony abuse of office.
In a letter to the editors of The Advocate, Louisiana State Police Superintendent Kevin Reeves said that the newspaper has unnecessarily made mention of an incident that occurred more than 20 months ago in news coverage unrelated to that event.
Geller said the suspect continued firing at the state police vehicles and "one of the suspect's bullets pierced a K9 trooper's back passenger window and struck a state police canine riding in the back seat compartment."
A Massachusetts State Police trooper has admitted receiving free guns from a state-contracted firearms dealer and is cooperating with prosecutors in an ongoing criminal investigation into the sale of department weapons.
Retired State Police Sergeant Charles Salaway, who was assigned to New York City to work on the search and recovery effort at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 attacks, is the seventh trooper to die from a 9/11-related illness.
A Minnesota State Patrol trooper continues to recover from multiple broken bones after a speeding car hit his patrol vehicle head on in a crash in Lakeville, MN, Tuesday afternoon.
A Texas-based training program, called Interdiction for the Protection of Children (IPC), teaches law enforcement officers how to spot indicators of child-sex trafficking and conduct roadside investigations.
Troopers were already in the mall's parking lot doing motorcycle training, so they set up a perimeter to support the responding police officers.
According to a trooper dispatch, the responding trooper was incapacitated after Yakunin attacked him and additional troopers were dispatched for backup.
A Massachusetts State Police trooper was injured in a multi-car crash on Tuesday as a snowstorm barreled across the state.