Drug Policy Alliance: Reducing Marijuana Penalties will Improve Lives, Save Taxpayer’s Dollars and Significantly Reduce the Burden on Law Enforcement Resources Santa Fe, NM –(ENEWSPF)–November 28, 2012. Tomorrow, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) will be testifying to the Interim Legislative Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee about the importance of decreasing[Read More…]
Law and Order
Elected Officials, Community Members Rally on Steps of NY City Hall to Call on GOP to Pass Cuomo Decriminalization Bill and End Illegal Marijuana Arrests and Racially Biased Police Practices
New Human Rights Watch Report Confirms that Marijuana Arrests Do Not Increase New York’s Public Safety Illegal Searches and Manufactured Misdemeanor Arrests Make Marijuana Possession #1 Arrest in NYC and 15% of All Arrests; Cost to Taxpayers is $75 Million New York–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. On Tuesday November 27th at 4pm,[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Announces Significant Progress In Crime-Fighting Strategy Targeting Problem Businesses
Multi-department, coordinated effort launched in Spring of 2012 has led to 34 business closures, hundreds of demolitions and new investigations CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 26, 2012. Yesterday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel provided an update on the progress being achieved through the administration’s new crime-fighting strategy targeting problem businesses in Chicago’s neighborhoods that have been[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Reports for November 21, 2012
Park Forest Police Officers Jim Kessler and Chris Mannino. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is[Read More…]
FBI Releases 2011 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Washington-(ENEWSPF)-According to the FBI, 72 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2011. Another 53 officers died in accidents while performing their duties, and 54,774 officers were assaulted in the line of duty. Comprehensive tabular data about these incidents and brief narratives describing the fatal[Read More…]
FBI: Quincy Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough has sentenced Jonathan Dewayne Cashion, 20, of Quincy, Illinois, to serve 40 years in federal prison. Cashion was sentenced November 19 after pleading guilty in May to production of child pornography, as well as distribution and possession of child pornography. Cashion has[Read More…]
FBI: Washington Park Man Pleads Guilty to Firearm Offense
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- On November 15, 2012, Sean J. Redd, Jr., a 23-year-old Washington Park, Illinois man, pled guilty in United States Federal District Court in East St. Louis to unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen[Read More…]
FBI: Chicago Police Officer Indicted on Attempted Extortion and Fraud Charges in Vehicle Towing Investigation
Chicago-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago Police officer was indicted on federal charges alleging that he schemed to defraud two insurance companies by making a false police report of an actual auto accident and, separately, staging a purported auto accident. In both instances, the defendant, Gregory Garibay, allegedly obtained extortion payments totaling $2,200[Read More…]
Law Enforcement Leaders Ask Department of Justice to Respect State Marijuana Laws
Group Cites Public Safety Concerns Created by Illegal Marketplace WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2012. Yesterday morning a former narcotics cop delivered a letter signed by 73 current and former police officers, judges, prosecutors and federal agents to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him not to interfere with the wishes of[Read More…]
South Carolina-based Harmony Care Hospice Inc. and CEO/Owner Daniel J. Burton to Pay U.S. $1.286 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF0–November 21, 2012. Harmony Care Hospice Inc. (Harmony) and Harmony owner and chief executive officer Daniel J. Burton have agreed to pay the United States $1,286,999.32 to settle allegations that the South Carolina-based company submitted false claims to Medicare for patients under care at its hospice facilities, the Justice[Read More…]
