Douchebag Union County New Jersey Police Officer Gives Man Who Saved 5 Year Old Son From Falling Down 35 Foot Ledge Two Tickets

UNION COUNTY, NEW JERSEY – A New Jersey dad got the scare of his life when his 5-year-old son almost ran off a steep embankment, and though the man saved the boy from falling, he couldn’t stop his Jeep from going over the precipice and into a river below.

The reward for his ordeal? Two traffic tickets from local police.

Frank Roder, a construction worker from the town of Winfield Park, had taken his son, Aidan, down to the Rahway River to feed ducks Thursday. But when he stopped briefly before settling on a parking space, the impatient boy jumped out and took off — straight toward a ledge 35 feet above the river, Roder recalled.

“He hopped out, and I thought that was OK, I was just going to park,” Roder, 38, said, but “he just took off, made a beeline for the edge.”

The panic-stricken father jumped out of the cab of his 2006 Jeep Commander and raced after the errant boy, catching him just feet from the edge.

That’s when Aidan, eyes as big as saucers, looked behind Roder and said, “Um, Daddy …”

Roder turned in time to see the Jeep nosedive down the embankment and land in the muddy water.

Roder hugged the boy and waited as Union County police converged on the scene over the next few hours. A crane pulled the Jeep out, and amazingly, it started right up, though Roder is pretty sure his insurance company will count it as totaled.

He was counting his blessings when a young cop approached him and handed him two tickets. One was for failure to produce the insurance card, which was somewhere in the waterlogged cab. The other was for failing to use his emergency brake.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Roder said. “He said, ‘If you would have taken the five seconds to apply the brake, this never would have happened!’

“I say, ‘Really? And if I did and my boy stepped over the edge and fell instead of the Jeep, then were would I be?’ He says, ‘Jail, for child endangerment.’”

Too awful to contemplate is the fact the Roder almost took his six-week-old son Joel along for the ride.

“At the last minute, I told my wife to take him,” Roder said. “I can’t even think about that.”

Union County Police Chief Daniel Vaniska told FoxNews.com that his officers have some discretion about when and when not to write a ticket. But he said he just didn’t have enough information to second-guess what this officer did.

“It probably could have gone either way,” Vaniska said. “I can’t comment on the discretionary practices of an officer, but certainly, the fellow will have an opportunity to tell his story in court.”

Municipal Court is where Roder might get some sympathy — and maybe forbearance on those tickets, which are for $50 and $60. His date is May 30.

“I don’t care, I’ll pay it,” Roder said. “It’s just the principle. When something like that happens so fast, I could give a rat’s a– about the car.”

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Douchebag Pasco County Florida Detention Deputy Brian Pratt Arrested, Suspended, And Charged With Taking Pictured Of Woman Passed Out At Party And Sending Pictures To Her Ex-Husband And Daughter

NEW PORT RICHEY, FLORIDA – A long night of drinking, a naked woman and a 51-year-old man with an ax to grind all ended with the arrest of a Pasco County Jail detention deputy.

Brian Pratt was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon of charges of lewd and lascivious assault and video voyeurism.

According to an arrest report, Pratt helped a woman who’d had too much to drink at a party. She passed out and had no idea she’d been photographed.

But according to the report, Pratt did more than snap a few pictures.

“From there, he printed out some of these photos and mailed them to the victim’s ex-husband and daughter,” according to Kevin Doll, spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.

When investigators confronted Pratt with some of the evidence, he admitted taking pictures of the woman getting sick. When asked if he’d taken the nude photos, he responded “…I don’t remember if I did or not.”

Pratt, however, brought the pictures to work and talked about them.

“He showed them to a fellow detention deputy,” Doll said. “This fellow detention deputy did come forward eventually and along with the victim along with the reports of what happened lead to the investigation.”

The report says Pratt sent the pictures to her ex-husband and boyfriend for revenge. The report does not explain the motive for the revenge. Pratt is on administrative e leave and under internal affairs investigation.

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Douchebag Milwaukee Wisconsin Police Officer Richard Schoen Fired After Attack On Woman Motorist – Punched Handcuffed Woman In Patrol Car, Pulled Her Out By Her Hair, And Ended With Knee To Her Abdomen

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – A Milwaukee police officer has been fired for using excessive force on a woman arrested during a traffic stop, the department announced on a website Monday evening.

Richard Schoen, 42, punched the woman in her face while she was handcuffed in his squad car before pulling her out by the hair and striking her with his knee, according to a posting on a department website, The Source.

Police Chief Edward Flynn fired Schoen on May 1, according to the website. Schoen had been with the department nine years.

Schoen pulled the woman over about 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 in the 4100 block of N. 51st Blvd. The reason she was pulled over was not disclosed. The woman was arrested after becoming argumentative and using profanity and was taken to the District 7 police station, the website states.

After arriving at the station’s garage the woman began to stomp on the floor of the squad, complaining that her left leg hurt. Schoen opened the rear passenger door and tried to pull her out by the bottom of her shirt.

He then entered the rear passenger compartment and struck the woman in the face before pulling her out of the car by her hair. When the woman was on the floor of the garage, Schoen struck her in the abdomen with his knee, according to the website posting.

The posting also did not identify the woman nor state whether she was charged with any offense as a result of her arrest.

It cited the department’s code of conduct, which states, “We use the minimum force and authority necessary to accomplish a proper police purpose. We demonstrate self-discipline, even when no one is listening or watching.”

The department posted the announcement at 6:13 p.m.

Although the posting did not state whether Schoen would be charged criminally, the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office did not file charges, according to Anne Schwartz, spokeswoman for the Police Department.

Contacted by email Monday night, Schwartz said she was not at her office and could not provide more information.

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Douchebag Summit County Ohio Deputy Sheriff Dominic Martucci Fired After Forcing Jail Imates To Dance To Usher Song Yeah In Order To Use Microwave

SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO – Was it wrong for a sheriff’s deputy to force jail inmates to dance to Usher? “Yeah!,” an internal investigation has found.

R&B artist Usher’s song “Yeah!” hit the top of the charts in 2004. But it wasn’t a hit at an Ohio jail, where a deputy allegedly forced inmates to dance to “Yeah!” in order to use the jail’s microwave.

Another inmate was forced to “do the robot” in order to use the phone after he learned a family member had died, an internal investigation found, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Summit County Sheriff’s Deputy Dominic Martucci, 35, was initially suspended, and then fired for mistreating the inmates and having a cell phone in the jail. Martucci blasted Usher’s “Yeah!” from his phone, and called other deputies over to watch the inmates’ forced dance moves, the Beacon Journal reports.

“Stop and watch this, it’s going to be funny,” Martucci said to a fellow deputy at the jail, the sheriff’s report said.

The forced dancing took place April 11, when five inmates were under lockdown — forced to remain in their cells.

Martucci “told the inmates that if they wanted out of lock up and the microwave back, that they would have to dance for him,” an internal investigation found.

The five inmates were forced to dance to Usher’s “Yeah!” One tore up the floor with “the worm,” a popular hip-hop dance move. At least three other sheriff’s deputies watched — and stood watch to make sure no supervisors were around, investigators said.

When one of the dancing inmates “messed up,” Martucci demanded the inmate dance for another minute “to my liking,” the sheriff’s report said.

All five inmates were eventually released from lockdown. But one of the dancing inmates snitched on Martucci, triggering an investigation.

Martucci — whose father ran unsuccessfully for Summit County sheriff in March — admitted to wrongdoing, but said he only wanted to “lighten the tension,” the Beacon Journal reports. The deputies who watched were given disciplinary notices, Cleveland’s WEWS-TV reports.

As for how the forced-dancing inmates reacted to Deputy Dominic Martucci’s firing, we can only speculate. Our best guess, it was something like: “Yeah!”

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Douchebag Pierce County Washington Sheriff Paul Pastor Used Crimestoppers Funds To Buy Burial Sites To Keep Man From Being Burried Next To His Children

WASHINGTON – A sheriff and his sergeant in Washington state have bought burial plots next to Josh Powell’s boys in order to block family members from burying him next to them, according to a media report Wednesday.

“The bottom line is, Josh Powell will not be near those two boys,” Pierce County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ed Troyer said in an interview with a Seattle-area radio program called the Ron and Don Show.

Josh Powell’s surviving relatives wanted him to buried at the same cemetery as the two sons he killed, the city manager in Puyallup said earlier Wednesday.

But that does not look like it is going to happen.

Troyer and Sheriff Paul Pastor used their personal money and funds from Crimestoppers Tacoma-Pierce County to buy plots that are on either side of the boys, according to a report on the radio station’s website that was confirmed by Troyer on Twitter:

Crimestoppers is soliciting money on its website for the purchase of the plots.

“It’s disgusting that a murder suspect would be buried next to his victims,” Pastor said in a statement posted on Twitter.

Powell’s relatives visited the public Woodbine Cemetery and selected a plot about 25 feet from the boys, City Manager Ralph Dannenberg told The Associated Press earlier Wednesday. They haven’t paid for it yet, and any sale is being put on hold because the parents of Powell’s missing wife have promised legal action.

“We don’t have any rules or procedures regarding refusing plots to anyone,” Dannenberg said. “We’re going to wait to see what the outcome is in court.”

Powell was a suspect in Susan Powell’s 2009 disappearance from their home in West Valley City, Utah. He later moved with his sons to near Tacoma, Wash., to be close to his parents. On Feb. 5, he attacked his sons with a hatchet and set his rental house on fire, killing himself and his sons, Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5.

The boys were laid to rest at Woodbine on Saturday. Attorney Anne Bremner, who represents Susan Powell’s parents, Charles and Judy Cox, says she would seek a temporary restraining order to block Josh Powell from being buried there.

“For him to be buried near those kids is just unthinkable,” Bremner said. “For God’s sake, for them to lose Susan first, and then the boys, and now this? Just give these people a break.”

Powell’s sister Alina did not return an email from the AP seeking comment.

Meanwhile, Powell’s father, Steve Powell, who is awaiting trial in Pierce County, Wash., on voyeurism and child pornography charges, filed a motion with the court saying he does not wish to speak to the FBI or other law enforcement about his son’s case or the disappearance of his daughter-in-law.

Mark T. Quigley, Steve Powell’s attorney, told the Salt Lake City Tribune that the notice, filed Tuesday, was common in criminal trials to protect rights against self-incrimination. It was prompted by a visit last week in which Steve Powell reportedly rebuffed FBI agents.

“It’s simply a statement to law enforcement that says my client doesn’t want to talk,” Quigley told the paper. “That’s [Steve Powell’s] right. I don’t think belligerent has anything to do with it.”

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Montgomery County Virginia Police Officer Jason Cokinos Fined Just $185 For Speeding – Off Duty Cruiser Wreck Left 14 Year Old Boy Brain Damaged And A Quadriplegic

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA – A Montgomery County police officer who hit and paralyzed a Clarksburg boy with his cruiser received a $185 speeding ticket and is now canvassing neighborhoods that show spikes in crime.

Meanwhile, 14-year-old Luis Jovel Jr. is a quadriplegic with permanent brain damage who needs around-the-clock medical care for the smallest of tasks, including eating and getting dressed.

State officials won’t say whether Officer Jason Cokinos was disciplined following the April 2008 incident in Clarksburg.

“Personnel information is subject to [state] confidentiality laws,” said Patricia Via, who represented Montgomery County in the Jovel family’s civil lawsuit against the county and Cokinos.

Cokinos’ case qualified under the state’s confidentiality laws once the county police department’s internal affairs division became involved, said Lt. Paul Starks, spokesman for Montgomery police.

“When the case is referred to the Internal Affairs Division, it’s considered a personnel matter,” he said.

Cokinos, who was 23 at the time, was speeding at 56 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone when he struck Luis — who was crossing Springtown Road in front of his home.

Seven months later in November, a Montgomery County District Court judge found Cokinos not guilty of negligent driving or contributing to an accident.

Cokinos then pleaded guilty to driving 26 miles-per-hour over the limit and he paid a $185 fine, including a $25 court fee.

A police investigation concluded that the boy would not have been hit had Cokinos been traveling at the speed limit, however.

The county will pay the Jovel family $400,000 in damages. The amount of damages the family could request was limited to $200,00 per case by a state law that restricts the legal liability of local governments.

Cokinos was traveling to an off-duty job when he struck Jovel.

Starks said the case qualifies for limited liability because he was in his police cruiser and wearing his uniform.

“If you are in the [cruiser] you are not considered off duty,” Starks said. Cokinos is now serving on one of two “community action teams,” which ramp up patrols in areas of the county where officers identify an uptick in criminal activity.

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A-Hole Brooklyn New York Police Officer Alfonso Mendez Suspended After Stopping And Delaying Woman Rushing Dying Child To Hospital, Saying He Didn’t Know CPR, Not Providing Immediate Escort To Hospital

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – The NYPD has suspended a cold-hearted Brooklyn cop who failed to help a woman as she frantically drove her dying daughter to a hospital, police said.

Police Officer Alfonso Mendez, 30, who is assigned to the 84th Precinct in downtown Brooklyn, had his gun and badge taken and will likely face a departmental charge for failing to take proper police action, cops said.

The stunning announcement – which vindicated the grieving mother of Briana Ojeda, 11 – was a quick and surprising turn of events.

Tuesday morning, as the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau hunted for the mystery officer whom Carmen Ojeda blamed for her daughter’s death, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters not enough was known to determine if the man was an NYPD cop.

The probe suddenly came together within a few hours Tuesday afternoon – and Mendez, who was suspended without pay, later copped to having been the man in uniform who pulled over Ojeda in Cobble Hill Friday.

“It’s a shame that it took four days for this officer to reveal himself. And it should never happen to any other child,” said Briana’s father, Michael Ojeda, as he and Carmen left their daughter’s wake.

Briana, whose funeral is today, suffered an asthma attack while playing at a Carroll Gardens park.

Her mother called 911, but opted instead to drive Briana to Long Island College Hospital.

Mendez, who has been on theforce for five years and hadnot had a major disciplinary issue, stopped Ojeda after she turned the wrong way down a one-way street a few blocks from the hospital.

Ojeda, 35, of Boerum Hill, had insisted she was pulled over by an NYPD cop who acted surly and claimed not to know cardiopulmonary resuscitation – althoughall NYPD cops receive such training.

She said the officer followed her to the hospital, where Briana died about an hour after arrival.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said Internal Affairs Bureau investigators showed Ojeda and witnesses pictures of cops in the 76th Precinct, where the incident took place. No cop was identified as the culprit.

They next began reviewing gasoline purchases because cops from two neighboring commands routinely fuel up their vehicles at stations within the 76th Precinct.

Those records confirmed that following a court appearance, Mendez had stopped to fill up his vehicle before heading to the Brooklyn Bridge to relieve a cop at a fixed posting, Browne said. Mendez’s NYPD photo was then placed in a photo array for witnesses, who fingered him.

Browne said that, under NYPD regulations, Mendez should have reported he stopped Ojeda and escorted her to the hospital.

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Douchebag Baltimore Maryland Police Officer Salvatore Rivieri Finally Fired – Three Years After Videotaped Verbal And Physical Attack On A Child – Feels Blindsided :)

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The Baltimore police officer fired three years after a rant toward a teenage skateboarder spoke out Saturday morning, saying he feels devastated and blindsided by the firing.

Officer Salvatore Rivieri, a 19-year veteran, is no longer with the department, officials said in confirming the dismissal.

A video posted on YouTube, apparently shot in the summer of 2007, shows Rivieri putting a youth, Eric Bush, into a headlock and pushing him to the ground. Bush was 14 at the time. The clip received millions of views on YouTube and was picked up by national news channels.

On Saturday morning’s Kendel Ehrlich Show on WBAL 1090 AM, Rivieri said of the 2007 confrontation the he warned the boy and his friends that skateboarding at the Inner Harbor is illegal.

Bush has said he did not hear an order that the officer gave him about skateboarding at the Inner Harbor. Rivieri repeatedly got upset at being called “dude” in the video.

“I’m not ‘man.’ I’m not ‘dude,’ I am Officer Rivieri,” he told the teen. “The sooner you learn that, the longer you are going to live in this world. Because you go around doing this kind of stuff and somebody is going to kill you.”

On Saturday, Rivieri said the video does not show him and Bush shaking hands after the confrontation.

Rivieri was suspended and sent back on the streets in November 2008. Earlier this month, the city police trial board dismissed the most serious charges against him but found him guilty of failure to submit a police report and recommended a six-day suspension without pay; however, days later, Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld overruled that decision and fired him.

Rivieri is appealing the case. Bob Cherry, head of the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police, said Wednesday that the union is outraged by the firing. Cherry said the officers in the FOP have supported Rivieri’s actions.

The Police Department has declined comment citing a personnel matter.

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