Police found a one-pot methamphetamine lab inside a White Castle restaurant Friday in Hobart, Ind.
Police say they were called to the restaurant to check out a suspicious person and found a man with a "suspected one pot" meth lab, the department said in a statement. One man was taken into custody.
Four officers were treated for exposure to chemicals. Indiana State Police were called to safely contain the lab, WGN reports.
A one-pot meth lab is a bottle filled with chemicals. The lab is dangerous because there is often only a thin layer of plastic covering the chemicals, police have said.
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A Tampa Police officer was shot and another injured early Monday morning while serving a warrant in the Drew Park neighborhood.
Police say Officer Rich Lehr and Officer Leigh Smith were serving the warrant around 2:39 a.m. when 35-year-old Walter Jeziorski fired several shots from the doorway.
Officer Lehr was struck in the arm by one of the shots, according to Tampa PD. That same bullet also hit his torso.
The 10-year veteran was transported to a local hospital for his injuries and later released, WFTS TV reports.
Police say Officer Smith sprained her ankle and was also released after treatment at the hospital.
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The Mecklenburg County (NC) Sheriff's Office said one of its deputies suffered a medical problem while working off-duty Friday and died at the hospital Sunday afternoon.
The department said Deputy Sheriff Sylvia Deese was affectionately known as "Mama Deese," WSOC reports.
"Deputy Deese will be missed by her MCSO family, the community she served and her Carolina Panthers family as she spent many years working off-duty for the team, the agency said.
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Multiple people are charged with hindering prosecution in connection with Pikeville officer Scotty Hamilton's murder case.
Kentucky State Police say Michael and Greg Slone are both charged with hindering prosecution. Greg Slone is also charged with promoting contraband.
According to their arrest citations, police say Amanda Dotson, and Jeanne Blackburn helped transport and hide John Russell Hall from police following Officer Hamilton's shooting.
Police said John Russell Hall contacted Amanda Dotson and Michael Slone and asked for transportation to a different location. Police said Dotson provided the vehicle and she and Michael Slone picked up and drove John Russell Hall to Greg Slone's house.
John Hall is charged with murdering Hamilton Tuesday night. He pleaded not guilty and is being held in the Pike County Detention Center on no bond, WKYT reports.
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Documents show some officials were so concerned about the mental stability of Nikolas Cruz, the former student accused of last month's Florida high school rampage, that they decided he should be forcibly committed in 2016. But the recommendation was never acted upon.
The documents in the criminal case against Nikolas Cruz, which were obtained by The Associated Press, show school officials and Broward Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson, who has been accused of cowardice for failing to act during the shooting, recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.
The documents are part of Cruz's criminal case in the shooting. They also show that he had written the word "kill" in a notebook, told a classmate that he wanted to buy a gun and use it, and had cut his arm supposedly in anger because he had broken up with a girlfriend. He also told another student he had drunk gasoline and was throwing up. Calls had even been made to the FBI about the possibility of Cruz using a gun at school.
Cruz, 19, is charged in a 34-count indictment with killing 17 people and wounding 17 others in the attack. He faces the death penalty if convicted, but his public defender Melisa McNeill has said he would plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence.
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The man accused of shooting four York County, SC, law enforcement officers, killing one of them, waived extradition Friday afternoon in Charlotte and was taken to South Carolina Friday night.
Christian McCall, 47, was booked into the Mecklenburg County, NC, jail Thursday morning after being at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte since the shooting on Jan. 16.
His bond was denied Friday night in York County after a judge read the murder and attempted murder charges against him, WSOC TV reports.
McCall is charged with killing York County Sheriff's Detective Mike Doty and wounding three other officers: Deputies Buddy Brown and Randy Clinton and York police Officer Kyle Cummings.
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Austin police on Sunday called on whoever is responsible for the recent string of deadly package bombings at East Austin homes to come forward and share their “message.”
“These events in Austin have garnered worldwide attention, and we assure you that we are listening,” interim Police Chief Brian Manley said at a news conference. “We want to understand what brought you to this point, and we want to listen to you.”
He pleaded with community members to share information that could lead to an arrest, and he said $50,000 has been added to the pot of money available in exchange for information about the attacks, which killed two people and seriously injured an elderly woman.“We don’t know what the ideology is behind this or what the motive is behind this,” he said.
Manley said more than 500 federal agents are assisting the Police Department in the investigation, including officials from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Authorities have followed up on 435 leads that led to 236 interviews, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
The fourth bombing was reportedly triggered by a trip wire, and it seriously injured two men walking on a sidewalk.
In the television interview Monday, Manley also addressed speculation that the bombings, which killed two African-Americans in neighborhoods east of Interstate 35, could be a hate crime.
“The victims in this incident were two Anglo males,” the chief said. “We’ve said from the beginning that we're not willing to rule anything out, just because when you rule something out you limit your focus.”
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo must remove the state Board of Parole members who voted to free cop-killer Herman Bell, state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has demanded.
“Herman Bell is a callous and depraved cop-killer who took the lives of two police officers just because they wore the uniform. He has forfeited his ability to live outside of the four walls of a prison cell,” Flanagan said in a statement.
“The members of the Parole Board who made this decision should be removed immediately.”
Bell — one of three Black Liberation Army members who killed NYPD Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones in 1971 — was granted parole by the board following an interview with him earlier this Monday.
The trio lured the officers to a Harlem housing project with a phony emergency call and then opened fire, the New York Post reports.
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Four billboards have appeared in Wichita, Kansas; all of them bearing the same somber message: “Andy Finch is dead. If you believe in justice, it’s time to file charges.”
In December, a Wichita police officer fatally shot Andy Finch after a fake emergency call directed law enforcement to the 28-year-old victim’s home. A man in California has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter for the so-called “swatting” hoax call, but the family of the man who was killed and community activists have repeatedly called for the officer who killed Finch to come under greater scrutiny.
The billboard campaign seems to be inspired by the film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” which revolves around a distraught mother’s crusade for justice following the murder of her daughter.
Like the billboards in the film, the ones in Wichita featured bold black letters on a plain red background, Yahoo reports.
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A 34-year-old would-be cop killer was sentenced Friday to 60 years to life in prison for shooting a Fullerton, CA, police officer, who suffered leg and arm wounds, but had his life spared by a bullet-proof vest.
Marcos Allen Bush, who had been acquitted of attempted murder in a separate case about a week-and-a-half prior to the shooting of the officer, was convicted March 15, 2017 of attempted murder, possession of a weapon by a felon and shooting at two inhabited dwellings. Jurors also found true various sentencing enhancement allegations for the personal discharge of a weapon, the OC Register reports.
According to Senior Deputy District Attorney Gary Logalbo, the Fullerton officer spotted a 2002 Grand Prix “kind of weaving” just after midnight on the day of the shooting and pulled the driver over at Woods and Knepp avenues.
The officer noticed the rear windows were tinted and he could not see in, but Bush told the officer the window didn’t work and he couldn’t open it, the prosecutor said. The officer asked Bush to show his hands, which he did several times, but then Bush withdrew back into the car, Logalbo said.
Bush also seemed to be lying when he said he was in the area to see a girlfriend because he didn’t know her last name, and when he was asked for her address, he paused before looking around at street signs and settling on an address within eyesight, Logalbo said.
Bush then “came up with a .45, semiautomatic Glock,” and the officer “feels the gun hit him in the chest,” Logalbo told jurors in his opening statement.
A round slammed into the officer’s chest, which was protected by body armor, Logalbo said.
The officer staggered back as the defendant fired off a total of seven rounds, the prosecutor said.
The officer sustained wounds to his leg and arm and a graze wound to a hip, Logalbo said, but managed to get behind his patrol car and fire off two rounds using his wounded arm as the defendant raced away in the car.
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