BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Connecticut police department spokesman who sent reporters an email joking about creating cartoon mug shots for generic criminals with names such as Miguel the Murderer and Tyrone the Thief has been suspended without pay. Bridgeport Police Department spokesman Tim Quinn joked in Thursday’s email reporters should hire a cartoonist to draw mug shots of fictional characters instead ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — A 19-year veteran of a Tennessee town’s police department is appealing his firing after beer confiscated from minors was given to a fellow officer. According to testimony at a Wednesday hearing, Cpl. Tim Horne was one of several Kingsport officers who responded to a party where there was underage drinking. Officers confiscated three full cases of Natural Lite ...

DETROIT - Police say a 25-year-old Detroit man hired someone to kill his mother, who was fatally shot as she left her apartment complex one morning last month. [photo:602766] Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. announced at a news conference today that Edward Hicks is expected to be arraigned soon on charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation to ...

SANTA CRUZ - An 18-year-old man suspected of beating and sexually assaulting a woman as she walked home from a party in October was arrested Thursday near his home in Watsonville thanks to a DNA hit from a previous crime, according to Santa Cruz police. Octavio Castillo of Watsonville was arrested on multiple felonies including sodomy, kidnapping and battery with serious ...

SAN DIEGO — As San Diego police officials grapple with a spate of officer misconduct cases, Mayor Jerry Sanders — who led the department for six years in the 1990s — said Thursday he is confident Chief William Lansdowne can get the problem under control. “I talked to Bill at length (Wednesday) and told him that we just need to get ...

PONCE, Puerto Rico -- Juan Leonardo Aviles Otero, a Miami-Dade police officer, former soldier, narcotics detective and father of newborn twin girls, died Thursday on the side of a road in a remote part of southern Puerto Rico. Aviles, 34, was found [gate] shot to death at 3:10 a.m. in the passenger seat of the 2009 Toyota Corolla he had rented ...

WASHINGTON — District of Columbia police plan to announce a major break in a cold case death from 1999 that they once believed to be a suicide. Police are expected to reclassify the death of INS lawyer Joyce Chiang as a homicide. Chiang disappeared in January 1999 and her body was found on the banks of the Potomac a few months ...