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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Sixth Circuit Upholds $45 Million Verdict for Wrongfully Convicted Former Ohio Prisoner by Chuck Sharman A $45 million wrongful conviction award to an exonerated Ohio prisoner was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on May 2, 2025. Miami Township and its Police Department (MTPD) had …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Fourth Circuit Revives Wrongful Conviction Claim of Exonerated Maryland Prisoner, State Pays Him $3.1 Million by Chuck Sharman On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reinstated the claim of a now-exonerated Maryland prisoner against a trio of Baltimore cops who allegedly coerced a confession …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Two Exonerated Illinois Prisoners Win Settlements Totaling $14.5 Million by Chuck Sharman A pair of former Illinois prisoners, each exonerated after spending 23 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit, accepted a total of $14.5 million in settlements from the City of Rockford, which voted in April 2025 …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Arkansas Ex-Police Chief Known as “Devil in the Ozarks” Re-Captured After Prison Escape by A former Arkansas police chief who was convicted of rape and murder was recaptured on June 6, 2025, two weeks after escaping prison. The state Department of Corrections said Grant Hardin escaped dressed as a prison …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Corruption Charges Dropped Against Maryland Sheriff, Former Virginia Sheriff Headed to Trial by On November 12, 2024, federal prosecutors dropped their criminal case against Sheriff Chuck Jenkins of Maryland’s Frederick County, for allegedly obtaining weapons fraudulently from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Meanwhile, on the other …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Two Former Georgia Sheriffs Sentenced for Misconduct, Related $5 Million Settlement Approved by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Sheriff Chad K. Nichols (R) of Georgia’s Rabun County was sentenced on September 13, 2024, to five years of probation and fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to violation of oath by …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Alabama Warden and Wife Busted for Making “Magic” Mushrooms by Warden Chadwick “Chad” Ray Crabtree, 45, of Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility (LCF), was behind bars at Limestone County Jail on April 19, 2024, after agents from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) joined local and state cops to execute five …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Mistrial for Vermont Sheriff Who Kicked Shackled Detainee by On July 24, 2024, a Vermont jury hung on an assault charge against Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore, who is accused of kicking a shackled detainee at the county jail in 2022. That followed a report from the Impeachment Committee of …
Kentucky Parole Officer Gets Three Years for Sexually Assaulting Probationers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Former Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) parole officer Ronald R. Tyler, 57, was sentenced to three years in federal prison on March 21, 2024, for sexually assaulting three probationers. Victims Stephanie Logsdon Smith, Cammie …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Tennessee Sheriff Indicted for Massive Prisoner Work-Release Fraud by On June 12, 2024, the Sheriff of Tennessee’s Gibson County was arrested and booked on a $25,000 bond into Nashville’s Davidson County Detention Center on a pair of indictments with a total of 22 counts related to his alleged scheme to …
“You Are Not Above the Law”: Former Indiana Sheriff Jailed for Contempt of Court by A $4.8 million embezzlement scheme involving his wife and daughter. A collection of cars and cigars purchased with the ill-gotten gains. More of the money diverted to a former county councilwoman for child support payments …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Virginia Sheriff Sued After “Catfishing” Deputy Kills Family of California Teen Victim by A lawsuit filed on November 26, 2023, lays out the bizarre story of a Virginia Sheriff’s deputy who “catfished” a California teen and murdered her family before abducting her and then turning his gun on himself as …
Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Dept., NY, Presentation on Excited Delirium, 2024 Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Department Psychological behaviors • Paranoia • Delusional • Agitation • Cannot follow commands • Emotional changes • Disoriented • Hallucinations • Looks like \\just snapped" …
“Sugar Daddy” Pennsylvania Constable Accused of Recruiting “Sugar Babies” at Jail by Perhaps Timothy Raye “Timbo” Heefner was confused over his role in life. On one hand he was an elected Pennsylvania State Constable—part of the law enforcement community. He was also a self-described pimp and “sugar daddy,” and according …
Arizona Sheriff Accused of Misusing Detainee Funds to Buy Guns, Ammo by Since Mark Lamb became Sheriff of Arizona’s Pinal County in 2017, at least $217,000 from a jail commissary fund intended for the benefit of detainees has been diverted to buy weaponry and ammunition, in apparent violation of state …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Was There a Plot to Discredit Former Missouri Sheriff Investigating Corruption? by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Jeff Burkett resigned as Sheriff of Missouri’s Iron County on January 31, 2024, saying if he stayed to defend a civil suit filed to remove him from office, his testimony might undermine his …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Georgia Sheriff Resigns After Groping TV Judge’s Breast by Nearly two years after Sheriff Kris Coody of Georgia’s Bleckley County publicly groped television Judge Glenda Hatchett’s chest, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery in state court on August 21, 2023. Coody, 59, was then sentenced to 12 months of …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Virginia Sheriff Indicted for Selling Auxiliary Deputy Sheriff Credentials by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke A federal indictment handed down in June 2023 accused Scott H. Jenkins, 51, Sheriff of Virginia’s Culpeper County, of taking bribes totaling more than $72,500 from three local businessmen to make them auxiliary deputy sheriffs—issuing …
Wrongfully Imprisoned for 26 Years, Chicago Brothers Sue Cop Who Framed Them by A year after their murder convictions were tossed and they were freed from an Illinois prison where they’d spent 26 years, a pair of brothers got a certificate of innocence from a state court on May 31, …
Publication • October 2, 2023
New York State Police, Sgt. Eric P. Lovgren and Trooper Elias E. Strickland Letter of Censure and Notice of Suspension, 2023 PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS BUREAU PERSONNEL COMPLAINT TRACKING DCN: 2023-0020 CTV: F5664 REGIO : SRO Subject(s): Sergeant Eric Lovgren, Trooper Elias E. Strickland Investigated by: CaQtain Mark A. Nielson Staff Inspector: …
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