On June 9, 2015, officers responded to a home burglary. The victims stated they had returned home after vacation to find their house had been broken into while they were gone. Officers discovered entry into the house was made through a kitchen window. After making entry the residence was ransacked and several items including several guns were removed without permission of the victim. Later the victim contacted the detective assigned to the case; she stated pictures had been downloaded to their goggle account from their stolen lap top computer. The picture was of three subjects, a female and two male, in various poses, including one of the subjects holding a camera which appeared to be the victims. The victim recognized the background …show more content…
When officers arrived Charles Johnson’s mother stated they had been arguing over two safes that she had discovered in Mr. Johnson’s room. Inside the safes the officers located personal items belonging to the victims. Mr. Johnson had left the residence before the officers had arrived; so he was not available at that time for questioning. The safes and the personal items were taken into custody for evidence and recovery. On July 18, 2015, detectives went to the home features in the photos provided by the victim. They made contact with the female subject in the photograph. She claimed Steven Wahl, Kawika Gedge, and Damarrio Brown had come over to her house and bragged about committing a burglary with Mr. Johnson. After talking to the female subject, the detectives reviewed Mr. Wahl’s Facebook page and discovered pictures of the victims’ personal items were posted by Mr. Wahl. Detectives attempted to located Mr. Wahl, Mr. Gedge, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Johnson; they were unable to locate any of the subjects at that …show more content…
Gedge at his residence. After being shown one of the pictures downloaded from the victims’ internet account. He confessed to his involvement to committing the Burglary with Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wahl. Mr. Gedge knew the victims when he was younger and his Facebook friends with their daughter. When he saw that the family was on vacation; he, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wahl agreed to burglarize the victims’ residence. Mr. Gedge claimed he took clothing, some jewelry, and a video console. The detectives asked about the missing guns; Mr. Gedge stated Mr. Wahl took the guns. Mr. Gedge also admitted he and Damarrio Brown had pawned the PS4 and the watch at Metro Pawn. The detectives asked if Mr. Brown was involved in the burglary. Mr. Gedge stated “no but he knew the watch and PS4 were taken in the burglary when he pawned it for me.” The detectives went next to Mr. Johnson’s residence. Mr. Johnson stated he was not surprised to see the officers after the other officers retrieved the safes from his room. He then admitted to committing the burglary. His version of the events on the day of the burglary match what Mr. Gedge had already stated. The detectives conducted a pawn check on Damarrio Brown. They discovered Mr. Brown had twice pawned property which had been taken from the victims’
On March 24, 2016, officers were dispatched to a scene where a male subject was trying to gain entry into a vehicle using a hammer. Upon arrival officers made contact with a male subject who was later identified as Keith Hunt, the defendant, and the victim. The victim explained to the officers she was standing near the trunk of her vehicle when Mr. Hunt approached, He attempted to keep into her vehicle without permission; so she confronted the defendant and tried to secure her vehicle. Mr. Hunt demanded she give him the keys and her wallet. The victim stated the defendant had a hammer in his hand and was threatening her with it while he was telling her to hand over the property. They began to struggle over the keys and the victim screamed
On Feb. 23, the Holmes County Sheriff's Office was called at 9:56 a.m. to a residence along North Railroad Street for a burglary in progress. He had reportedly forced entry to
In the Lexington, Kentucky a drug operation occurred at an apartment complex. Police officers of Lexington, Kentucky followed a suspected drug dealer into an apartment complex. The officers smelled marijuana outside the door of one of the apartments, as they knocked loudly the officers announced their presence. There were noises coming from the inside of the apartment; the officers believed that the noises were as the sound of destroying evidence. The officers stated that they were about to enter the apartment and kicked the apartment door in in order to save the save any evidence from being destroyed. Once the officer enters the apartment; there the respondent and others were found. The officers took the respondent and the other individuals that were in the apartment into custody. The King and the
The police responded to a tip that a home was being used to sell drugs. When they arrived at the home, Gant answered the door and stated that he expected the owner to return home later. The officers left and did a record check of Gant and found that his driver’s license had been suspended and there was a warrant for his arrest. The officers returned to the house later that evening and Gant wasn’t there. Gant returned shortly and was recognized by officers. He parked at the end of the driveway and exited his vehicle and was placed under arrest 10 feet from his car and was placed in the back of the squad car immediately. After Gant was secured, two officers searched his car and found a gun and a bag of cocaine.
“On October 21, 2012 Sergeant William Butler and Officer Samantha Brown stopped a car in the 2000 block of East Street for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. In the course of the car stop it was determined the driver was Jeffery Cox. According to the DMV registration information, Mr. Cox owned the car. Sitting in the car front passenger seat was Amanda Watson. When the officers checked on any outstanding warrants on the occupants of the vehicle, they received a positive response on Ms. Watson. Police arrested her based on an outstanding arrest warrant for misdemeanor shoplifting. When Ms. Watson was ordered out of the vehicle to be handcuffed Sgt. Butler noticed a plastic bag of a substance he suspected to be crack cocaine lying on the front seat where Watson had been sitting. Incident to the arrest on the warrant, Sgt. Brown searched Ms. Watson and found $650 in small denomination bills but no devices with which to ingest crack cocaine.”
After arriving at Miss Mapp’s residence and failed to gain permission to enter the residence the three Cleveland police officers should have gone to the DA and retrieved a real search warrant. The fact that they tried to pass off a piece of paper as a search warrant is useless and everything that they find cannot be used against her in court. All of the paraphernalia regarding the bombing that they found is useless because of the pursuant search warrant. Because Miss Mapp did not answer the door when they came back they forced their way into the house and conducted an illegal search. When Miss Mapp’s attorney arrived the police officers would not let the attorney into the house. When Miss Mapp grabbed the purported search warrant the police officers struggled with her to retrieve it and did. Miss Mapp was then placed under arrest as the police conducted a widespread search of the residence wherein obscene materials were found in a trunk in the basement. Miss Mapp was convicted of possessing these material...
On June 26, 2006, a Sheriff Officer of the State of Florida, William Wheetley and his drug detection dog, Aldo, were on patrol. Furthermore, Officer Wheetley conducted a traffic stop of the defendant Clayton Harris for expired tags on his truck. As Officer Wheetley approached the truck, he noticed that Harris was acting nervous/anxious, more than he should have, and he also noticed an open can of beer in the cup holder next to him. At that moment, Officer Wheetley knew that he was hiding something, he requested to search
Photos taken of the victim by Officer Acosta #0044, which was later uploaded to VeriPic.
(Purdon’s, 166). Also in 1989 in addition to what sections officers could arrest for they also had to “observe recent physical injury or other corroborative evidence and the victim is a spouse of the suspect or a person with whom the suspect resides or has formally resided with.” (Zimmerman, 30).
This paper will go through the first arrest that a new police officer did while responding to a house break in. It will show what a FTL would say to the new officer on how they did with the situation after the arrest. We will identify four issues during the arrest that related to the Miranda Laws. Then, we will try and relate these issues to a historical case. Later, we will carefully analysis the situation and see if we could resolve the issues or not. We will then go over how these issues could have been prevent from happening.
... of that, the closet should not have been opened. No matter the validity of the defense statement, the state will argue that the investigating officer was not attempting to find the refrigerator and opened the closet in effort to discover “suspect A”. The State would also agree in terms of noting the reasonableness of the officer’s action to be supported by “suspect A’s” location (Baker 7). Unfortunately, the judges may side with the defense. If the other stolen kitchen appliances had been out in plain view of near the refrigerator, there would be a strong possibility that there wouldn’t be any argument (Baker 7). This is another example of how the fourth amendment may help the criminal in their trial. The investigating officer clearly discovered evidence of illegal actions, but still had to go through complications in order to find “suspect A” guilty.
In this paper, I will discuss and give details as to what is needed for police to get a warrant and under what circumstances they are allowed to enter a home without a warrant. I will also provide an analysis as to whether the police had the legal right to access the Ellis home and their bedrooms. Additionally, I will explain the exclusionary rule and its importance and how it relates to this scenario. Lastly, I will also describe the steps in conducting this investigation while ensuring that individual’s rights were being protected and the evidence that was gathered would be admissible in a court of law. In the following paragraph, I will discuss what it takes for the police t...
Denise Moore 's criminal report starts the investigation. A police investigation of a crime is the entryway into the criminal justice system, once Denise Moore reported the crime, Detective Riley and Detective Clay conducted a photo lineup, an investigative tool used when the suspect is unknown and not in custody, to identify the suspect (Burns, 194).
Razzaq, N. Z. (2008). Visual Documentation in Crime Scene Investigations. Retrieved June 3, 2011, from http://policelink.monster.com/training/articles/17221-visual-documentation-in-crime-scene-investigations
Technology has opened new encounters and opportunities for the criminal justice system. There are so many new practices of criminal activity, such as computer crimes. There are different types of computer crimes that many people become victims of every day. Computer crime is any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target ("Computer Crime: Chapter 2: What Are the Crimes?", n.d.). Crimes such as data diddling, pump and dump, social engineering and spoofing are computer crimes. Even though these crimes are difficult by privacy issues, the new technology has made investigations and prosecutions well organized and effective. Though views are different on the pros and cons of specific technological changes in the criminal justice system, there is an agreement the system has changed affectedly ("Effects of Technology in Criminal Justice | eHow", n.d.).