The popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” prompted a Florida sheriff to reopen a cold case involving the missing former husband of the big cat sanctuary owner featured in the show.
Read moreThe conviction of a former sheriff’s department captain for his role in the overseas money laundering of a notorious New England fishing magnate known as “the Codfather” was upheld by the First Circuit late Friday.
Read moreIn a workers’ compensation case stemming from the death of on off-duty deputy sheriff in a car accident, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the officer was “engaged in a law-enforcement activity” at the time of his death because he was operating a marked patrol car with the county’s permission.
Read moreDescending from unmarked cars, four sheriff’s officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, shot Daviri Oseanus Robertson to death, though he was unarmed and merely sitting in a rental car outside a restaurant, Robertson’s family claims in a federal complaint.
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A group of Illinois sheriffs sued the state attorney general Monday over a law prohibiting police from arresting anyone based solely on their immigration status, which the sheriffs argue forces them to choose between enforcing state or federal law but not both.
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Joe Arpaio, self-proclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff,” struck out with the Ninth Circuit on Thursday in his bid to toss a criminal contempt conviction after President Donald Trump pardoned him in 2017.
Read moreA federal court in California granted a preliminary injunction to two members of Black Lives Matter, ordering the Sacramento County Sheriff to “unban” them from his Facebook page, finding that the plaintiffs have demonstrated that the page is a public forum and the sheriff “engaged in viewpoint discrimination” when he banned them.
Read moreJane Doe claims in federal court that Grundy County, Tenn., sheriff’s Officer Mark Nunley — who has been fired — sexually assaulted her repeatedly while she was an inmate.
Read moreA former employee sued St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith and two of his officers in federal court, claiming they falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted him after he criticized the sheriff’s department, accusing him of “criminal defamation,” though the Louisiana Supreme Court has thrown out that law.
Read moreNearly three years after his conviction on federal obstruction charges, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was ordered to begin serving his three-year prison sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take his appeal.
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A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy already facing a wave of civil lawsuits appeared in criminal court Friday to hear a 44-count indictment accusing him of charges ranging from reckless driving to stalking to sexual battery and rape.
Read moreAn 18-year-old white man has been arrested after a popular black sheriff in Alabama was shot to death Saturday evening, and condolences poured in to Lowndes County from law enforcement officers nationwide.
Read moreA former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department captain was indicted Friday on charges he allegedly ran an illegal firearms-trafficking business in part to cultivate future donors for his anticipated campaign for sheriff of San Diego County.
Read moreA federal judge ruled late Tuesday that Georgia sheriff’s deputies cannot place “no trick-or-treat” warning signs in the yards of three registered sex offenders this Halloween.
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A South Carolina sheriff faces up to a year in prison and will lose his job after a jury found him guilty Thursday of misconduct in office.
Read moreA naturalized U.S. citizen claims in a federal complaint that the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office jailed him for three days because of his Latino last name and falsely classified him as an out-of-state fugitive, though it had in its possession his U.S. passport, Social Security card and certificate of naturalization.
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Investigators believe a gunshot that wounded a deputy outside a Los Angeles County sheriff’s station Wednesday was fired from a nearby building complex that provides housing to people with mental health issues, authorities said.
Read moreThe sheriff of a remote Oregon county closed an investigation Wednesday that began when local officials accused newspaper reporters of harassment for emailing them after office hours.
Read moreJane Doe sued Los Angeles County, its Sheriff’s Department and Det. Neil David Kimball, claiming Kimball raped her when she was 14 and he was a member of the Sex Crimes Unit, in Superior Court.
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