On Monday, November 21, 2016 Chief George Carado, Cindy Shpakovsky, Trooper Christopher Keppel, Patrolman David Stamets and I met with a Confidential Informant (CI) to make a controlled purchase of heroin from Kaitlyn Collins. Keppel and Shpakovsky would be undercover and accompany the CI for the transaction.
The CI messaged Collins on a cellular phone, in presence of Carado, and arranged to purchase a "b" also known as a bundle, which consists of ten (10) glassine bags that contain heroin for $50.00. Carado copied and provided me with $50.00 in confidential funds, which was then handed to Shpakovsky by me. Collins messaged the CI telling her to hurry, that her supplier will soon be there with the heroin.
Stamets and I followed Keppel, Shpakovsky
and the CI in a separate vehicle. At 1742 hours Keppel, Shpakovsky and the CI arrived and parked on West side of S. Chestnut St. Stamets and I parked on the North side corner of W. Oak St. which intersected with S. Chestnut St., giving Stamets and I a clear view to observe. Shpakovsky provided the CI with the $50.00, the CI and Shpakovsky crossed the road and entered 21 S. Chestnut St. utilizing the front door, Keppel remained in the vehicle. Shortly after, Stamets and I observed a vehicle enter onto S. Chestnut St. from W. Centre St. The vehicle drove South on S. Chestnut St. passed Keppel to the end of the block making a left turn into an empty parking lot on the East side of S. Chestnut St. The vehicle reversed back onto S. Chestnut St., then parked on the East side of S. Chestnut St. facing North. The vehicle was displaying Pennsylvania registration HNX5215, which was observed by Keppel. Stamets and I observed a male exit from the driver's door of the vehicle, leaving the vehicle running with its lights turned on. The male walked to and entered 21 S. Chestnut St. utilizing the front door. That male was identified as James Colosimo Jr by the CI and Shpakovsky. Colosimo removed the heroin from his hat and handed it to Collins' boyfriend Kurtis Sargent. The CI handed the $50.00 to Sargent, Sargent handed the heroin to the CI. The CI and Shpakovsky exited 21 S. Chestnut St. from the front door, walking back across the road and getting back in the vehicle with Keppel. CI handed the heroin to Keppel, they drove away from S. Chestnut St. at 1750 hours. Stamets and I followed them directly back to the Shenandoah police station. Keppel handed the suspected heroin to Carado upon returning to the police station. Custody of the suspected heroin then transferred to me by Carado to be photographed, field tested, and entered into evidence. The suspected heroin was in ten (10) separate glassine bags. I then field tested the substance from inside a glassine bag with a Nark II kit for the presumptive identification of fentanyl, acetyl-fentanyl, and heroin. Upon testing the suspected heroin I did receive a positive indication for the presence of fentanyl. The glassine bags were photographed, assigned a property number and secured in evidence. The suspected fentanyl will be sent to the Pennsylvania State Police Crime Lab in Bethlehem, PA for drug analysis testing.
For example, in his article “Fighting Police Corruption”, Krauss states, “The 911 call could hardly have been more routine. A man wearing a denim jacket and fatigue pants was reported to be selling drugs outside a housing project in southern Brooklyn. Two plainclothes officers responded to the call on a mild night last month, frisked the man and found $400 under the seat of his bicycle. But finding no drugs, the police let him go. The officers were unaware that they had just taken "a walk on the dark side": police talk for an Internal Affairs Bureau sting. The "drug dealer" was actually an undercover officer wired for sound, and the interchange was videotaped from a van parked a block away to see if the officers would rough up the supposed dealer or steal his money. These officers did neither”. Sting operations like this one are a central part of the Police Department 's efforts to overcome the damaging corruption scandals that engulfed the 75Th Precinct in NY between 1986 and
In the two-day trial of fellow officer Detective Jason Arbeenie, Stephen Anderson who testified for the prosecution regarding “flaking” in the police units he was assigned to, stated in his testimony that his partner police officer Henry Tavarez "was worried about getting sent back [to patrol] and, you know, the supervisors getting on his case". He then added, "As a detective, you still have a number to reach while you are in the narcotics division".
In July 2003, Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Shanks of Multnomah County Oregon was performing a routine traffic stop on a vehicle driven by William Barrett. During this stop, Shanks arrested Barrett because of an outstanding warrant and then searched the car. A pressure-cooker found in the trunk was believed to be used in the making of methamphetamine. Barrett informed Shanks that the owner of the pressure-cooker was “Gunner Crapser,” and that he could be found at the Econolodge Motel in a room registered to a woman named Summer Twilligear (FindLaw, 2007, Factual and Procedural Background section, para. 2). Deputy Shanks quickly learned that there was an outstanding warrant for a “Gunner Crapser” but to not confuse the wanted man, whose name was not actually “Gunner Crapser,” with someone else using this name.
In the fact pattern provided, Mark Quickdraw, a detective is conducting an investigation case whose main mission is to capture a drug dealer named Sally Martin. Detective Quickdraw relies on what he heard about the drug dealer. That leads him to believe that she will be selling cocaine in the street she lives in. In connection to his belief, that shows the reasonable suspicion he had towards the drug dealer. Followed by reasonableness, he sends an informant Sneak Pete to her residence with police money in attempt to buy cocaine. The informant comes back and hands over a small bag of cocaine he obtained from a man in the residence. He also informs the detective that he suspects the drug dealer to be having amounts of drug since he observes a white plastic bags and digital scales. Not satisfie...
The article, “Looking Through the Gaps: A Critical Approach to the LAPD’s Rampart Scandal” by Paul J. Kaplan is about corrupt officers in the Community Resource Against Street Hoodlums special units for Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Perez pointed out seventy officers that were breaking the law. The main issue behind this scandal was that police officers was the misconduct of using probable cause to arrest suspect. They were framing innocent people when they encounter them and putting evidence next to a person when a they shot someone. Officer Mack had “convinced his girlfriend that work in at a bank in Los Angeles to help him rob over $700,000 in November 1996” (Kaplan 2009, 63). He was arrested a year later and investigators found
Totalitarianism describes a Political system where the sate holds all the authority over the society and controls all aspects of public as well as private life. So to do this they would need an organization to enforce anything they want. This is where secret police step in, the role of secret police is to do the dirty that the public doesn’t need to know about.
On Friday, 09/23/2016, at approximately 0830 hours, I, Deputy Stacy Stark #1815 met with the reporting party, James R. Boucher (M/W, DOB: 07/25/1959) at the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. I requested James R. Boucher to come to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office to review the Wal-Mart video footage I collected and identify the suspect, James Roy Boucher (M/W, DOB: 03/16/1978) on the video footage.
The “War on Cocaine” has been trying to fight a battle on two fronts. The first objective of the American government is to deter the consumer from using illegal products. The genesis of punishment against users is sited in the 1914 Harrison Act, in which addicts and others that possessed drugs were punished for buying or possessing cocaine or heroin without a prescription (Bertram, 26). This act began a trend that still today allows law enforcement to arrest the user along with the supplier. The supplier (drug trafficker) is the key in this type of police action, because most of the time the user will be unaware of the exact origin of the substance or have any knowledge as to where it was purchased or manufactured. The main problem with this type of arrest is that 70 to 75 percent of the narcotic arrests per year are for possession and only 25 to 30 percent are for actual drug trafficking offenses. Although the user should not be overlooked, a greater emphasis ought to be focused on the supplier in order to reach the actual manufacturer of the illegal substances.
The main factor that exemplifies entrapment in this case is the persistence. As mentioned earlier, it was shown in Mr. Jacobson’s defense that the government’s surveys and mailings continued on for over two years, often without response. Referring back to Sherman v. U.S the court had stated that law enforcement should not manufacture crime but prevent it from occurring. This exemplifies the root of the controversy. Hypothetically, what if the government did not make Mr. Jacobson a target of their sting operation? In this scenario Mr. Jacobson still purchased the Bare Boys magazine, which flagged officials, and as time passed the authorities realized that Keith Jacobson was frequently buying child pornography. In this situation, the violation
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The presentence investigation report is considered one of the most important documents in the criminal justice field. The presentence investigation report is the central source of information to sentencing judges ever since 1920. The original purpose of the presentencing investigation report was to provide information to the court on the offender’s personal history and criminal conduct in order to promote individualized sentencing. The presentence report is also intended to assist the probation office in supervising defendants during any subsequent terms of probation, parole or supervised release.
According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, deputies observed the defendant speeding northbound on the Florida Turnpike and executed a traffic stop. A K-9 officer sniffed the car and indicated there might be drugs in the vehicle. Deputies then searched the car and allegedly found almost 6 ounces of heroin stored in a bag on the back seat.
A various points throughout the night we came across other officers who were dealing with accidents and various other tasks. Unless there was a rush to respond to a call, Officer Crutchman would slow his cruiser down and check to see if his fellow officers required assistance. Furthermore, after assisting multiple officers from his unit in a potential trespass violation at a local school, instead of driving going about their separate ways the officers began swapping arrest stories and offering their opinions on the progression of the resulting criminal cases. Afterwards, between some hilarious joke telling, the talk moved to personal and professional concerns and issues; one officer had a badly fitting bullet-proof vest that was on loan. Officer Crutchman offered to give his extra armor to his fellow officer since they were around the same
The interrogation room is seen from two opposite views. The suspect sees it as the end. The place where their life either comes crashing down, or a place to provide information that could lead to an arrest. The detective sees it simply as his work space. Both views see the Out, however. The imaginary window to the outside world somewhere in the room. The suspects see this as the thing that will help them through this time of their life. It is what will help them answer every question in a believable manner, and every excuse that will come off as legitimate. Most guilty suspects are looking for the Out the moment they walk into the interrogation room. Detectives wait for suspects to try and find a way to use the Out to their advantage, and then they start asking the real questions. They ask the questions that someone would only answer truthfully if they were truly innocent, or if they were looking for a way to ease some of the potential consequences they might face. The intended audience of this passage ranges from those that are fascinated by criminal law and the interrogation process, to psychologists studying the behaviors of suspects while they are in the interrogation room. The purpose of this passage is to inform readers of the different behaviors of suspects in interrogation rooms, and how many suspects seek the Out before being asked questions
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