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The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureaus investigating death

The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating the death of Kyam Livingston in Brooklyn Central Booking Jail. Inmates’ pleas for help were ignored for hours as Livingston complained of stomach pains and diarrhea, according to witnesses.Kyam Livingston died in a cell at the Central Booking Jail in Brooklyn. A 37-year-old woman died in a crowded cell at the Central Booking Jail in Brooklyn as inmates’ pleas for help were ignored for hours by cops, a witness told the Daily News Monday.Fellow inmate Aleah Holland, 38, a registered nurse, told The News that Livingston died needlessly. Police at Central Booking ignored her complaints of stomach pains and diarrhea, Holland said. She said that when she and other inmates banged on the bars calling for help, officers told them Livingston was an alcoholic.“They said, ‘Shut up before we lose your paper work and you won’t be seen by a judge,’ ” said Holland, who was jailed on an assault charge stemming from a fight with a roommate.

SPD detective arrested, threatened to ruin ex-lover’s life

Acting on a complaint from a woman, Seattle police arrested Detective David N. Blackmer for allegedly posting salacious photographs of the woman on a phony Facebook page after their relationship ended.

NYPD officer charged for threatening woman

Officer Christopher Harris was suspended without pay for harassing a woman, who reportedly told cops that 'she feared for her safety.' What Harris said to her has not been revealed.

Tallahassee Police Officer Suspended

A Tallahassee police officer has been suspended for illegally accessing his estranged wife's email account.  An internal affairs report indicated he intended to use the emails against her in a divorce and custody case. David McKenna was suspended for one month without pay after an internal investigation revealed he and his girlfriend accessed his wife's work email from a home computer. The internal affairs report indicates there were more than 23-thousand emails and documents downloaded from her email account at the Mag Lab. It also shows McKenna took copies of some of those to his lawyer because, he told investigators, he thought "there would be stuff in there."

Bronx cop who allegedly flirted with woman he arrested indicted for official misconduct

An NYPD highway cop was arraigned on official misconduct charges Friday in connection with his romantic pursuit of a Bronx woman he had arrested for drunk driving. Officer Carlos Becker, 36, pleaded not guilty to the one count indictment in Bronx Supreme Court and was released on his own recognizance. Becker exchanged more than 600 text messages with Noonan almost immediately after her arrest last March -- offering to cook for her, go out drinking and travel together to Atlantic City.

Authorities learned of Becker's alleged shenanigans after Noonan blacked out in the off-duty cop's car and woke up fully clothed in his Long Island bedroom with a swollen black eye. Becker claimed she injured herself, but Noonan believes she was assaulted.

Police Officer Allegedly 'Wiped' His Cell Phone of 'Harassing' Texts

The trial of suspended Barrington Police Sgt. Joseph Andreozzi moves into its third day; he is charged with cyber-harassing his ex-wife and obstructing a State Police investigation.

The trial of the suspended Barrington police officer accused of cyber-harassing his ex-wife with text messages continued in Superior Court on Monday and Tuesday, July 15-16.

It is expected to resume today, July 17, on the charges of felony obstruction of justice and misdemeanor cyber-harassment.

Sgt. Joseph Andreozzi allegedly harassed his ex-wife with the text messages before using some type of electronic eraser that wiped his cell phone clean while it was impounded in an evidence box with the RI State Police, according to a story in the Providence Journal.

A Verizon employee testified on Tuesday that he helped Andreozzi through the process because the officer said he had left the phone at his girlfriend's home and needed to delete private information, including photos of other women, according to WPRI.com.

A State Police officer has testified that Andreozzi used the Lookout program to log into an email account and “wipe” the texts from his cellular phone while it was stored in the State Police barracks in Lincoln. Andreozzi purchased the device on Aug. 30 last year at the Barrington Verizon store, the State Police officer said.

Andreozzi had been taken to the barracks earlier that day after he was arrested for allegedly scaring his ex-wife, Christine, with the texts and phone calls.

Andreozzi’s ex-wife gave her phone to the State Police, which contained his messages. The State Police said they also obtained by court order Andreozzi’s messages and calls from Verizon in New Jersey.

Andreozzi’s attorney, John Harwood, said the exchanges between him and his ex-wife were part of a “marital disagreement” – not cyberstalking or harassment.

And Harwood said Andreozzi went into the Verizon store on Waseca Avenue simply to get some help to remove personal and medical information about his children. That’s whey he reportedly refused to let State Police officers seize his phone.

Prosecutor Stephen Regine recited numerous messages Andreozzi sent to his ex-wife. Included among them was one that said simply “die,” Regine said.

Harwood, in turn, said Andreozzi’s text message also included: “I still love you” and “wish I could take it all back, I’m sorry.”

 

 

Jury convicts Metro cop of official misconduct

A Davidson County jury has convicted decommissioned Metro Police officer Jeffrey Poole of official misconduct and acquitted him of four counts of raping a prostitute in December 2009.

Poole, who will be sentenced next month, faces up to six years in prison.

He faces six other pending charges, including one of sexual assault and one of aggravated child abuse, the latter stemming from an incident involving his 16-year-old son.

Prosecutors accused Poole of raping a former prostitute at a motel on Dickerson Road. Over the course of the trial, it was established that Poole, 42, had given the woman rides when he was off duty.

Assistant District Attorney Rob McGuire noted in court that the woman had originally reported that she was robbed, not raped, after investigators interviewed the woman in connection with allegations that Poole had inappropriate conduct with other women while on duty.

The woman, according to McGuire, thought she was about to be arrested. Instead, Poole took his gun out of his holster, set it down, then demanded that the woman perform sex acts, McGuire said.

During the trial, Scruggs introduced evidence from vehicle location technology, which tracked Poole’s patrol car. The data undercut the state’s assertion that Poole had gone to the motel.

Dickerson Road was Poole’s assigned patrol area, and he was familiar with a number of the prostitutes who worked in the area.

The Tennessean does not identify victims of sexual assault.

Scruggs, during the trial’s opening arguments, said the victim was a career criminal whose recall could not be trusted. For example, she could not recall which day the alleged rape occurred — only that it happened sometime in December 2009.

"I'm disappointed that they didn't convict him of the rapes because I believe with every fiber of my being that he was guilty," McGuire said Thursday. "But the official misconduct charge says to me that they obviously thought he was doing something wrong."

Police arrested Poole in August 2010 on a 12-count indictment. He was acquitted of sexual battery and official misconduct in a trial involving another woman the following November.

Poole was decommissioned and ordered to stay away from police department facilities three months before a grand jury leveled the indictment, in which he was accused of sexually assaulting four women, three of them with histories of prostitution, while on duty.

Officer Charged For Assaulting Random Female Pedestrian, Knocking Her Teeth Out

A Texas police officer has been jailed after a police affidavit revealed he allegedly battered, without provocation, an innocent female pedestrian who happened to be walking near the scene of an unrelated late-night traffic stop.

The affidavit, written by another police officer who reviewed documentation of the May 29 incident, alleges Cpl. James Palermo of the San Marcos Police Department had stopped a car at about 1 a.m. for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. As he questioned the driver, he noticed the pedestrian — whom the affidavit alleges didn’t look at or talk to either Palermo or the stopped motorist and didn’t exhibit any “suspicious” behavior — and called her over to the scene, where he began questioning her about walking near the scene.

The woman, 22-year-old Texas State University student Alexis Alpha, told Palermo she didn’t believe she had done anything wrong. Their interaction became more acrimonious when she couldn’t immediately produce the identification Palermo allegedly had demanded.

As the officer dialed up the verbal heat, the victim allegedly advised him to conduct traffic stops elsewhere if he didn’t like where she was walking, called him a “dick” and observed that he appeared to simply be exorcising his pre-existing bad mood on her.

She had no idea.

Palermo allegedly responded by grabbing her, pushing her against the stopped motorist’s Toyota Prius, and then slamming her to the concrete, where he sat on her back. He allegedly cuffed her and placed her in his patrol vehicle, telling her she was being arrested for obstruction.

The assault knocked out two of Alpha’s teeth. Palermo took her to Central Texas Medical Center, where medical staff advised her she also had sustained a concussion and would need follow-up care, which could involve multiple surgeries. So Palermo took Alpha to the jail and slapped on two more charges: resisting arrest and public intoxication.

Alpha never filed a complaint over her assault. In fact, the police themselves discovered Palermo’s attack after reviewing footage from his patrol car’s dashboard video camera. The department obtained warrants for his arrest following an internal investigation and booked him into the Hays County Law Enforcement Center on July 16 for aggravated assault with serious bodily injury by a public servant — a first-degree felony that carries a possible maximum sentence of life in prison. He had been on paid administrative leave since the internal investigation had begun in early June, and is now on indefinite unpaid leave as the legal process unfolds.

San Marcos Police Chief Howard E. Williams told the San Marcos Mercury:

I won’t prejudge the [internal] investigation. I have not heard what the officer has to say yet and I’ll reserve judgment until that happens. But there are standards and I think it’s fairly obvious what we think about his conduct that night in that we were the ones that went down and filed the criminal charges. … I believe what he did was criminal.

Palermo, who had worked for the department since 2000, was the subject of a complaint two years ago alleging excessive use of force, but that complaint was dismissed.

Closing Arguments Today in Suspended cops Trial

Closing arguments are expected to be made today, July 19, in the trial of a suspended Barrington police officer charged with harassing his ex-wife with text messages and obstructing the investigation by the RI State Police.

Sgt. Joseph Andreozzi was on the stand in Superior Court again on Thursday. His 16 years as a police officer were brought up to bolster his defense of using a software program purchased at the Verizon store on Waseca Avenue in Barrington to delete the text messages from his cell phone, according to the Providence Journal.

Andreozzi said he assumed that the State Police would get the messages from his former wife’s cell phone based on his experience in law enforcement. His attorney, John Harwood, said that the sergeant also knew that the State Police could get the information from other sources, such as Verizon.

Andreozzi said a day earlier that he “wiped” his phone while it was in State Police custody to delete other personal information, such as personal photos and emails and psychiatric records, that he did not want in the hands of the investigators.

“I knew that by wiping out my phone, that Verizon still had my information,” he testified.

Andreozzi said he was worried that the State Police would go on a so-called “fishing expedition” and, perhaps, pass around this confidential information stored on his phone.

Prosecutor Stephen Regine countered that Andreozzi should not have assumed that the State Police would fish around on his phone as a reason for deleting the so-called harassing text messages. He also asked Andreozzi if he had ever had a defendant in a case delete the contents of a phone; the sergeant’s response was that he had not.

Andreozzi also said he did not think wiping the phone at a friend’s house on the day he was arrested and arraigned, last Aug. 30, with a Verizon store employee’s assistance was a big deal. He saw it as protecting his personal information while knowing that the State Police could get the text messages to his former wife elsewhere.

Humboldt officer charged in domestic assault

UNION CITY (AP) — Humboldt police officer Eric Jones has been charged with domestic assault of a family member after police were called to a home on Jones Seymour Loop about 12 a.m. Friday, according to a news release from the Humboldt Police Department.Jones was transported to the Gibson County Correctional Complex in Trenton. A bond or court date has not yet been set.Jones has worked for the Humboldt Police Department for about four years in the Patrol Division, the release said.He has been suspended without pay.