NEW YORK -- A fugitive from upstate New York who taunted police on his Facebook page to 'catch me if you can. I'm in Brooklyn' has been arrested. The Daily News says U.S. marshals and NYPD detectives tracked Victor Burgos down to an apartment in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood Monday night, sitting at his computer with his Facebook page open. The 29-year-old ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded into San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. They wanted to do something, but a policy strictly forbade them from trying to save the 50-year-old, officials said. A witness finally pulled the apparently suicidal man's lifeless body from the 54-degree water. Interim Alameda Fire ...

CINCINNATI, OH - Authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was struck by a police cruiser in a Cincinnati park. State Highway Police Sgt. Matt Hamilton says a Cincinnati police officer was patrolling Washington Park on Tuesday when he hit 48-year-old Joann Burton, who was lying under some blankets on the grass. She was taken to a local hospital, ...

WASHINGTON -- A federal board has ordered the reinstatement of a U.S. Park Police chief who was fired in 2004 after complaining publicly that her department was understaffed and underfunded. The Merit Systems Protection Board, in a decision Tuesday, also ordered that the U.S. Department of the Interior pay Teresa Chambers back pay, interest and other benefits. Chambers had contended ...

LEWIS COUNTY, WA - A firearms instructor has sued Lewis County Sheriff Steve Mansfield alleging defamation of character after Mansfield was quoted in a June 2009 news story as using the phrase “What a bunch of morons.” Without naming names, Mansfield’s quote in The Seattle Times alluded to allies and experts who surrounded Barb Thompson, the mother of Ronda Reynolds. He ...

WINNIPEG, Canada — Winnipeg's police chief says he would rather have his police officers on the streets fighting crime than in the gym being paid to pump iron. Police say paid workout time is becoming an issue across Canada as they increasingly face criminals coming out of jail bulked up and trained in mixed martial arts. But Chief Keith McCaskill said ...

SAN JOSE, CA - An African-American San Jose police officer who says he was repeatedly passed over for a promotion because of racial discrimination has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Police Department, the city and Chief Rob Davis. Glenn Harper, 48, contends that he was passed over for promotion to lieutenant for less-experienced, lower-ranked nonblack candidates by Davis, ...

WEBER COUNTY, UT - A Utah civil rights attorney says a religion-laced post on the Weber County sheriff’s office Facebook page violates state and federal laws separating church and state. In a letter sent Wednesday, Salt Lake City-based attorney Brian Barnard asks Weber County Sheriff Terry Thompson to remove the post from the social networking site. The letter to employees and ...

SHREVEPORT, LA - The 12-year-old Shreveport girl who went missing for several days is home safe after her father picked her up from a convenience store early Wednesday. After pushing for the public's help in finding Amber White, police are being tight-lipped about the facts of the case. However, they confirmed the girl's father picked her up and never contacted authorities. ...

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) has announced the selection of Officer Matthew Medeiros of the Boynton Beach (FL) Police Department as its Officer of the Month for January 2010. The Medal of Valor is the highest honor a police department can give one of its officers for gallantry in action. It is only fitting that the first ever ...

DETROIT - He says he remembers little of the crash. His patrol car collided with [gate] a truck and hit a wall. "That's all I really remember," Detroit Police Sgt. Lemuel Wilson told the Free Press on Thursday, hours after he was in a fiery crash. The patrol car burst into flames after Wilson lost control on I-96 near Martin Luther ...

DELAWARE COUNTY, PA - A two-year investigation into allegations that municipal police officers cheated on a routine recertification exam has resulted in 15 officers in Delaware and Chester Counties being stripped of their law enforcement powers. The case began after officers in one Chester County department reported that answers were circulated in advance by e-mail to a 10-question, multiple-choice recertification test ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, addressing a recent rash of investigations into alleged wrongdoings by his officers, unveiled a seven-point plan Tuesday to reduce such misconduct. The program comes on the heels of at least eight investigations into San Diego officers accused of crimes such as rape, domestic violence, drunken driving and sexual battery under the color ...

WELLS, Maine — The longtime sheriff of Middlesex County, James V. DiPaola, was discovered dead yesterday from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in a resort in this coastal town, authorities said. DiPaola, a 57-year-old Democrat with more than 30 years in public service, had announced abruptly a week ago that he would retire in January, after being questioned by the Globe ...

ANNE ARUNDEL, MD - Faced with a big, barking enforcer pushing toward him under a bed, a Shady Side man with open warrants surrendered to police. That was the fifth apprehension by Grim, one of two "deputy dogs" of the Anne Arundel County sheriff's office, said his handler, Deputy Jason Jett. The team was leaving work after 9 p.m. June 30 ...

MEXICO - About 3,200 Mexican federal police officers, nearly a tenth of the force, have been fired this year under new rules designed to weed out crooked cops and modernize law enforcement, officials said Monday. The housecleaning is part of President Felipe Calderon's crackdown on drug cartels, which includes overhauling the 34,500-strong federal police force. An additional 465 federal officers have ...

ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis police officer was shot with his own gun in a scuffle with a suspect early Tuesday, police say. The 30-year-old officer suffered a graze wound near the top of his leg, police say. He was treated at a local hospital and released. The suspect, Vernon Lamont Collins, was arrested a short time later. Police said ...

UPPER TOWNSHIP — Nearly two years ago, State Police Trooper Robert Higbee was acquitted of criminal charges for killing two teenage sisters while speeding through an intersection in his squad car. In his defense, Higbee argued he was only doing his job while chasing a speeder when the accident occurred in Cape May County’s Upper Township. But State Police Superintendent Rick ...

San Francisco, CA (AP) -- In the wake of at least three recent officer-related shootings — including the video-recorded wounding of a knife-wielding man in a wheelchair — the San Francisco Police Department is reviving efforts to equip officers with less-lethal electric stun guns. It comes nearly a year after the Police Commission narrowly rejected the department's proposal to even explore ...

MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ - Faced with an investigation that uncovered deceit, intimidation and other misconduct at the highest levels of his office, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced a plan to reorganize the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in hopes of restoring public confidence in the agency. His announcement Tuesday came the same day that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu released his complete investigation ...