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Brickbat: Thick as Thieves (opens the original)
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An Oklahoma man is suing the Grady County Sheriff's Office for keeping his stolen property. Stacey McCurry said thieves stole his $6,000 Yamaha four-wheeler from his property in 2020. The sheriff's office recovered it in 2021, but McCurry did not learn about it until earlier this year, when it showed up in a national database for stolen items. When he tried to retrieve it, a deputy told him the department was keeping it, because a judge had awarded it to them after prosecutors advised the agency
Brickbat: Evidence Is Overrated (opens the original)
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Nathaniel Stephens of Grayson, Kentucky, became the subject of a DUI investigation after a teenager backed into his car in his neighborhood. Officer Michael Bell accused him of being impaired, but Stephens recorded 0.00 on a breathalyzer and passed every field sobriety test. But Bell told him that if he hadn't done all the tests, "I had enough to arrest you and place you under arrest for DUI." Stephens replied that he would have sued, to which Bell replied that qualified immunity would have prot
Brickbat: Every Step You Take (opens the original)
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Laurie Moore, a senior investigator with the Albany County, New York, Sheriff's Office, faces misdemeanor charges of official misconduct and falsifying business records after investigators accused her of abusing access to law-enforcement databases. Officials say starting in late 2024, Moore conducted over 4,000 unauthorized searches of the Flock license plate reader database, looking for five people she knew. The total included around 3,000 searches tracking the vehicle of a former girlfriend, a
Brickbat: Pick Up the Phone (opens the original)
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Jody Baer, a former police officer in Odessa, Texas, faces two felony counts of misuse of official information. Investigators say he used phone numbers obtained through his job to send personal and sexually inappropriate text messages to two women he had arrested. According to an affidavit, Baer first contacted one woman on August 5, and his messages soon became sexual in nature. He allegedly contacted another woman starting on August 22, calling her "beautiful" and "sexy"; investigators also sa
Brickbat: California Scheming (opens the original)
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A federal judge sentenced former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Christopher Cadman to 21 months in prison after Cadman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against rights and one count of filing a false tax return. Prosecutors said Cadman used his position to help a cryptocurrency businessman named Adam Iza by intimidating and threatening one of Iza's rivals. Cadman also failed to report more than $40,000 in income he earned from working for Iza on his tax return. Cadman is one of five
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