El Paso Texas Police Officer Zake Rivera Arrested, Charged With On Duty Sexual Assault

EL PASO, TEXAS — A 29-year-old El Paso police officer has been arrested after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her.

A police department statement says Officer Zake Rivera and another officer responded to a domestic disturbance call on Jan. 23. After separating the two parties involved, Rivera was left alone with the victim, who later reported the alleged assault.

Internal Affairs detectives investigating the case received evidence on Thursday that prompted them to obtain an arrest warrant for Rivera, a 4-year department veteran. He was booked into the El Paso County Jail and released after posting a bond of $25,000.

The statement says the department has begun termination proceedings for Rivera. Jail records show no attorney listed for Rivera.

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Montgomery Alabama Police Officer Phillip T. Moultrie Pleads Guilty After Robbing Motorists

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – A former Montgomery Police Officer pleaded guilty to crimes he committed while behind the steering wheel of his patrol car.

28-year-old Phillip T. Moultrie was arrested back in April for pulling over Hispanic males at traffic stops and robbing them. He was alleged to have committed the crimes at least four time between March 16 and April 28, when he was arrested.

Moultrie pleaded guilty to four counts of theft of property from a person in the first degree. Each count carries a penalty of 2 to 20 years in prison.

The first complaint came on March 16, the last at 4:20am Wednesday. Within hours of the last complaint, Moultrie found himself in handcuffs.

A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.

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Former Boscawen New Hampshire Police Officer Daniel Ball Arrested, Charged With Beating Man At Merrimack County Jail – Falsely Charged His Victim With Denting Patrol Car With His Head

BOSCAWEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE - A former Boscawen police officer is facing accusations of using excessive force against a man already handcuffed and on his way to jail.

The incident was recorded by security cameras at the Merrimack County House of Corrections.

Last July, when Officer Daniel Ball arrested Chris Smith of Boscawen after a domestic incident, cameras at the jail showed Ball putting on a pair of gloves and taking Smith out of the back of his police cruiser.

The video showed what looked like an exchange of words. For a few moments, Ball holds Smith in place, and then in a whirling motion, Ball slams Smith onto the hood of the cruiser and back into the wall.

Smith is now filing a civil lawsuit against Ball, the Boscawen Police Department, the jail and Officer Nick Emery. Smith claims Emery corroborated Ball’s version of what happened.

“Chris Smith was knocked unconscious by this. He had blood on his face. The video reflects that there was a pool of blood that formed underneath his head,” said Rick Lehmann, Smith’s attorney.

Smith was charged with two crimes for what was seen in the video: resisting arrest and criminal mischief for denting the police cruiser with his head.

A jury found him not guilty on the latter charge but convicted him of resisting arrest.

Efforts to reach the Boscawen Police Department, the town of Boscawen and the Merrimack County Jail for comment were unsuccessful.

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$750,000 Lawsuit Charges FBI And Justice Department With Hiding Public Documents After Destruction Of Ferrari F50 – FBI Agent Frederick C Kingston And Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson Crashed During Joyride

ROSEMONT, PENNSYLVANIA – The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice have landed themselves in hot water over the destruction of a Ferrari F50. According to The Detroit News, the vehicle was reported stolen from a dealership in Rosemont, Pennsylvania in 2003, and the dealer made and insurance claim for the sum of $750,000 at that time. Michigan-based Motors Insurance Corp. shelled out the cash, and in August 2008, the FBI recovered the vehicle in Kentucky. At that time, the FBI stored the vehicle while waiting to prosecute the thief, at least until someone at the bureau decided to use it for a little local arbor work.

The Ferrari F50 lost control and struck a tree with an FBI special agent behind the wheel in May of 2009, and Motors Insurance Corp. subsequently filed a claim to both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice for the full $750,000. Both parties rejected the claim under the pretense that the Ferrari was being detained by the FBI at the time of the incident.

The insurance company then set about submitting Freedom of Information Act requests for documents pertaining to the storage, transportation and handling of the Italian exotic, most of which were denied under federal exemptions or outright ignored. The company did manage to get a hold of one email that said that U.S. Assistant Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson rode with Special Agent Frederick C. Kingston on the day of the accident and that the vehicle fishtailed and slid sideways shortly after leaving the FBI storage warehouse.

Motors Insurance Corp. is now suing both the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI to release the rest of the documents pertaining to the vehicle.

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Wisconsin Governor Pisses Away Tax Dollars Sending State Troopers After State Senators To Beg Them To Return To Session

WISCONSIN – The budget impasse continues in Wisconsin, and the Associated Press reports that “state patrol officers are being dispatched to the homes of multiple Democratic Wisconsin state senators in the hopes that will force them to come back in session.”

But, the wire service adds, while Republican Gov. Scott Walker may hope that sending the troopers out will put some pressure on the Democrats to return to the state capital, “police can’t arrest absent members” of the Senate.

Frank’s been following the news from Wisconsin and other states where intense budget battles are underway over at It’s All Politics.

Update at 8:50 a.m. ET: The Associated Press says that “Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach says all 14 [of the missing Democrats] are out of state and won’t be returning Thursday.”

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Out Of Control TSA Agents Search Passengers AFTER Their Train Trip – Harass 9 Year Old Boy

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA – After going down in a spiral of paranoid stupidity—called out for saving body scan images, ridiculed for patting down an almost-naked woman or nailed for harrassing a kid at airport security—the TSA has reached a new low. It’s surreal.

Here’s what a traveler recorded on February 13, after his train trip to Savannah:

The only bad thing on our trip was [the] TSA at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area after you got off the train. This made no sense! Poor family in front of us! 9-year old getting patted down and wanded. They groped our people too and were very unprofessional. I am all about security, but when have you ever been harassed and felt up getting off a plane? Shouldn’t they be doing that getting on? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.

Indeed, this doesn’t make sense at all. Why search people after the train trip? What’s the logic here? Did the TSA get an alert that dangerous 9-year-old terrorists were coming in a train to Savannah? Perhaps it was TSA Surprise Training Time? Or maybe it was TSA Let’s Piss Off People Day again?

We will never know, but it doesn’t matter at this point. Just, keep up the great work, TSA. You are winning American’s heart one unnecessary pat down at a time!

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