A pair of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies followed the sounds of moans inside a burning Florida home to find and save a trapped 9-year-old boy. “Hearing that someone was inside intensified things,” said Deputy Kevin Reich, the first lawman ...
An Indiana correctional officer who allegedly released a murder suspect from an Indianapolis jail on Thursday, May 19, has been fired. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office told Coffee or Die Magazine that Detention Deputy Elwin Emery failed to ...
As the boss, Charleston Police Department Animal Control Supervisor Courtney Bayles often gets to pick who’ll grapple with a cantankerous South Carolina gator. On Friday, May 20, she chose herself, which meant wrestling and cuffing a 9-foot ...
At the Kentucky funeral of Jody Cash, the slain chief deputy of the Calloway County Sheriff’s Office, Jody Adair urged mourners to laugh a little. “We would do him a great disservice today if we were here and we didn’t laugh,” Adair said at the ...
The Texas gunman who killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde was shot to death by an agent from US Border Patrol's highly elite BORTAC unit. In a statement released to Coffee or Die Magazine, officials said ...
An armed Missouri man who speared a stolen truck into a police cruiser before turning part of the city of Independence into a demolition derby is going back to prison. On Monday, May 23, in Kansas City, US District Judge Greg Kays sentenced Isaiah ...
A chief deputy in an Ozark Mountains sheriff’s office sold a sniper rifle stolen from the property room, used bogus firearms and ammo sales and the power of his badge to repeatedly and flagrantly defraud taxpayers, and then cheated an Arkansas bank ...
When New York State Police troopers and Evans Mills Fire Department personnel arrived at the crash near the US Army’s Fort Drum on May 7, they saw a woman alone in an SUV, close to drowning. It was 8:50 p.m. and her 2010 Ford Explorer was sinking ...
An Illinois man enraged at the outcome of the 2020 presidential election falsely posed as a terrorist-slaying Marine in a string of telephoned threats to federal lawmakers, and now he gets to stay in prison. On Wednesday, May 18, in Chicago, ...
A western Tennessee fugitive with links to a white supremacist gang is going back to prison after nearly running over a pair of lawmen trying to nab him. Chief Judge S. Thomas Anderson in Jackson sentenced Anthony Ray Phoenix, 37, of Decatur ...
An Iowa man hopped up on meth who attacked a Waterloo cop is going to spend the next seven years in a federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm. On Monday, May 16, in Cedar Rapids, US District Judge C.J. Williams sentenced 36-year-old ...
An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, resulted in 10 deaths on May 14, 2022, with the teenage suspect allegedly targeting Black shoppers in a prominently African American neighborhood. Mass public shootings ...
An Alaska man who shot, killed, and butchered a harbor seal and then lied to investigators about it has been sentenced in federal court. On Friday, May 13, in Anchorage, US Magistrate Judge Kyle F. Reardon sentenced Paul Gil, 41, to two years of ...
A Florida cop who used his authority while in uniform to sexually abuse multiple women in late 2014 and 2015 is going to prison for three years, the maximum penalty under federal law. On Thursday, May 12, in Miami, US District Judge Kathleen M. ...
Adrift on a dead sailboat in the North Pacific, his engine gone, the rigging tangled, alone with two dogs, the Hawaiian beekeeper with an injured hand got an emergency call out just after dawn on May 9. And the US Coast Guard answered. ...
To cap off National Police Week, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund holds a candlelight vigil in Washington, DC, every year to honor the men and women who died in the line of duty. But this year is special. Organizers have etched ...
Four Florida men masquerading as cops preyed on drug dealers in four counties during a violent robbery spree that lasted three months in early 2021 and triggered three shootouts, according to a federal grand jury indictment unveiled Thursday in ...
A convicted Texas drug dealer who shot a Houston cop during a May 4 narcotics bust now faces federal charges, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. Federal prosecutors charged Jimmy “Jimbo” Caston Bryan, 23, of Pasadena, with ...
When an 8-year-old Florida boy ran away from home on Sunday, May 8, the cops knew they needed the urgent services of Maverick and his super sniffer. Maverick, the Cocoa Police Department’s 2-year-old Western shepherd working dog, found the kid 45 ...
Federal officers on May 6 in Texas seized what they suspect is $18.3 million in methamphetamines that was hidden in the diesel tank of a big rig arriving from Mexico. Homeland Security Investigations agents say Mexican semitrailer truck driver ...
A Wyoming woman who lied about a police officer sexually assaulting her is now a convicted criminal. In Cheyenne on April 26, US District Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced Benita Louise Smith, 56, of Riverton, to time served, plus two years of ...
The crew of the Domani didn’t know that the sun rising off the coast of Washington on May 7 was going to shine on a disaster, but 20 minutes after dawn they were watching the Pacific Ocean rush through the yacht’s transom door. The hatch was ...
A key figure in a 2020 Chicago riot that triggered mass looting and led to the injuries of 13 cops is going to prison. On Tuesday, May 10, in Chicago, US District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly sentenced James Lamont Massey, 23, to 15 months behind ...
It took three gunshot wounds and nearly six years in and out of comas before East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Motorman Sgt. Nick Tullier died. He took his last breath on Thursday, May 5, at Louisiana’s Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. He ...
An ex-California sheriff’s deputy who bamboozled a string of investors out of nearly $5.7 million to fund his casino debts, Louis Vuitton luggage purchases, luxury cars, and private plane trips is now a convicted fraudster. Christopher Lloyd ...
A man who helmed a crew that illegally trapped thousands of turtles in Georgia and South Carolina to sell to Chinese pet collectors is going to prison. US District Judge William M. Ray II in Atlanta sentenced Nathan Horton on Tuesday, May 10, to a ...
Runaway Alabama inmate Casey Cole White is in custody and the woman accused of freeing him, Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Deputy Vicky White, is dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head during a police pursuit in ...
Despite the release of what he called a “disturbing” video detailing the “tragic” Jan. 23 death of a 17-year-old driver of a stolen car in Missouri, St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar insists the two cops at the scene did nothing ...
Cornered during a DEA sting in Texas, an accused Dallas drug dealer tried to escape by slamming his luxury vehicle into a police cruiser, according to a federal indictment unsealed last week. On May 3, federal prosecutors charged Angel Manuel ...
Investigators have found the getaway car driven by runaway Alabama inmate Casey Cole White and the woman accused of freeing him, Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Deputy Vicky White. Purchased by Deputy White shortly before she escaped with inmate White ...
