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It is a new twist on an old story: a jilted woman lashes out at the woman who she blames for taking away her man.  She beats and shoots her to death, leaving trace DNA evidence at the scene of the crime.  Years later, the DNA is compared to a sample taken secretly from the suspect and it is a complete match.  The twist is that the suspect is a seasoned detective with the LAPD.

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Wonder how she'll look in prison orange?

Shortly after she sat down at her desk on the third floor of LAPD headquarters Friday morning, Det. Stephanie Lazarus was told a suspect in the basement jail had information on one of her cases. The 25-year police veteran went quickly downstairs.

As Lazarus removed her firearm to pass through security, she unknowingly walked into a trap. There was no suspect — only questions about a terrible secret police believe she has been harboring for more than two decades.

Now disarmed, Lazarus, 49, was confronted by homicide detectives and arrested on suspicion of the 1986 slaying of a woman who had married Lazarus’ ex-boyfriend. The dramatic break in the decades-old case sent shock waves through the tight-knit LAPD community, marking one of the few times in the department’s history that one of its own officers has been accused of murder…

Technorati Tags: Corrupt Cop, Police Officer Murderer

Sounds like this guy was the type of predator he was supposed to protect the public from.  He was searching for a robbery suspect whom he believed to be in a specific home, arrested the kid knowing he was innocent, then blackmailed the kid’s mom in to performing oral sex.  Not really the concept of ‘to protect and serve.’

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The badge doesn't entitle you to free blowjobs.

A Cincinnati Police officer now faces ten charges in the intimidation and alleged sexual assault of a woman. 46 year old Julian Steele allegedly imprisoned a teen falsely, then threatened and raped the teen’s mother when she tried to get her child out of jail.

Today, the Hamilton County Prosecutor announced Steele is facing a ten count indictment including two counts of abduction, two counts of intimidation, three counts of extortion, two counts of rape and one count of sexual battery. All the charges have a firearms specification but prosecutor’s say, Steele did not point a gun directly at the teen or his mother.  The gun remained in Steele’s holster during the alleged incident.

Prosecutors say Steele believed someone in the teen’s household had committed a series of street robberies.  In an attempt to get the teen to give up information, Steele allegedly arrested him, knowing that he had not committed a crime.  Four of the charges Steele now faces related to that action…

Technorati Tags: Corruption of Public Officials, Rape

Everybody loses whenever a cop goes bad: society and other police officers.  These guys tried to claim they were using this drug dealer for information yet they helped him firebomb a rival’s house.  The judge and jury weren’t buying it.  Look at the fear in the eyes of the cop on the left.  He must know what happens to police in prison.

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This is as happy as these guys are going to be for the next 9 years.

Former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers Gerald Holas and Jason Ross, accused of protecting a drug dealer, were each sentenced Wednesday to nine years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine.

Federal authorities say the sentences are the longest imposed on Charlotte law enforcement officers they can recall.

The officers admitted they shielded a drug dealer’s cocaine operation but said they did so in an effort to gain information they could use to arrest his suppliers and customers, according to court documents.

In a packed courtroom at Charlotte’s federal courthouse, Holas apologized to family and friends…

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I imagine this girl was rather popular with the regulars at this dive.  The owner denies knowing she was underage as does the girl who drove her there.  Maybe he should have given out t-shirts instead.

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Want to know why today's youth are so messed up? Just ask these two clowns.

A Lilburn pool hall owner is accused of running an illegal strip club and hiring an underage dancer.

Gwinnett County police began investigating Lucky Billiards on Indian Trail-Lilburn Road weeks ago after getting a tip that a 15-year-old Acworth girl was performing as a stripper.

Officers raided the pool hall Friday and arrested owner Jay Kim, 45, of Norcross, and a dancer, Whitney Blackburn, 21, of Acworth. Both were charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Police said Blackburn allegedly knew about the girl’s age, yet drove the underage dancer to the pool hall anyway…

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Boy, did this guy’s life unravel.  It sounds like a desperate, pathetic little man who wanted to take someone with him on his downward slide toward the drain of life.  Of course, this guy lacked the balls to finish himself off.  It further states that this guy was corrupt and the ring of corrupt cops in which he participated led to the vacating of 280 convictions.  That is the ultimate irony: cops who are supposed to protect the public are responsible for freeing multiple convicts AND at least one murder.  This is a black eye to all the decent, hard-working cops out there.

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A former New York City police officer was arrested on Monday and charged with fatally shooting his 28-year-old former companion and wounding another woman in a Brooklyn apartment on Sunday, the authorities said.

The ex-officer, Jerry Bowens, 43, was alone in a car when heavily armed officers intercepted him at 3 a.m. about a block from the 120th Precinct station house, on Staten Island, where he was headed to turn himself in, a police official said.

He was taken to the 94th Precinct police station in Brooklyn and then to Kings County Hospital Center to undergo psychiatric evaluation, officials said.

Mr. Bowens is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

Mr. Bowens, a former undercover narcotics officer who is a potential cooperating witness in a police corruption case, pleaded guilty on Feb. 5 to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, a felony, and resigned from the Police Department, officials said. He was arrested in January 2008 after having been accused, along with another officer, of taking drugs and cash they had recovered and using them to pay informants, according to the authorities and court papers…

Technorati Tags: Dirty Cops, Love Gone Bad