Stacy Knutson, a server at the Fryn' Pan Restaurant in Moorhead, got the tip back in November from a customer who left a takeout box inside the restaurant.
Knutson followed the customer out to parking lot and tried to give her the box but the woman told her to keep it. When Knutson opened it, she found $12,000 in cash.
Knutson, a mother of five, called local police and turned in the cash as lost property.
At first, police said the cash would be hers if it remained unclaimed for 60 days, according to the lawsuit Knutson filed against the department.
At the end of the 60 days, however, the department told Knutson she would have to wait another 30 days to get the money.
Then police told her she would not receive the money at all because it smelled of marijuana and had been seized under a state law.
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Showing posts with label police corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police corruption. Show all posts
Friday, April 06, 2012
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Scotland Yard implicated in Rupert Murdoch scandal
For nearly four years they lay piled in a Scotland Yard evidence room, six overstuffed plastic bags gathering dust and little else.
Inside was a treasure-trove of evidence: 11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars, police officials and crime victims whose phones may have been hacked by The News of the World, a now defunct British tabloid newspaper.
Yet from August 2006, when the items were seized, until the autumn of 2010, no one at the Metropolitan Police Service, commonly referred to as Scotland Yard, bothered to sort through all the material and catalog every page, said former and current senior police officials.
During that same time, senior Scotland Yard officials assured Parliament, judges, lawyers, potential hacking victims, the news media and the public that there was no evidence of widespread hacking by the tabloid. They steadfastly maintained that their original inquiry, which led to the conviction of one reporter and one private investigator, had put an end to what they called an isolated incident.
Read more here.
Inside was a treasure-trove of evidence: 11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars, police officials and crime victims whose phones may have been hacked by The News of the World, a now defunct British tabloid newspaper.
Yet from August 2006, when the items were seized, until the autumn of 2010, no one at the Metropolitan Police Service, commonly referred to as Scotland Yard, bothered to sort through all the material and catalog every page, said former and current senior police officials.
During that same time, senior Scotland Yard officials assured Parliament, judges, lawyers, potential hacking victims, the news media and the public that there was no evidence of widespread hacking by the tabloid. They steadfastly maintained that their original inquiry, which led to the conviction of one reporter and one private investigator, had put an end to what they called an isolated incident.
Read more here.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Some Toronto police have been scummy for decades
And here you thought Toronto police misdeeds were a modern phenomenon.
Don't think it as corruption, think of it more as Tradition.
Secret recordings obtained by CBC News offer proof that Toronto police conducted illegal eavesdropping on a former police board chair.
There have been allegations for years that police began spying on their civilian boss, Susan Eng, beginning in May 1991, days after she was sworn in.
Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino — superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner — have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance.
But now CBC News has obtained the tape recordings of Eng talking to her confidant and friend, Peter Maloney, about everything from police business to the very personal.
At the time, police had gone to a judge claiming Maloney may have ties to drug dealers.
The judge granted officers authority to wiretap his phone, but they were ordered to shut down the wiretap after a minute if the calls involved anyone, such as Eng, not listed on the paperwork.
Police ignored the order and recorded Eng, with some recordings lasting 20 or 30 minutes.
Read more here.
Don't think it as corruption, think of it more as Tradition.
Secret recordings obtained by CBC News offer proof that Toronto police conducted illegal eavesdropping on a former police board chair.
There have been allegations for years that police began spying on their civilian boss, Susan Eng, beginning in May 1991, days after she was sworn in.
Then police chief Bill McCormack and Julian Fantino — superintendent of detectives at the time and later police chief and OPP commissioner — have repeatedly refused to say whether they requested or were aware of the surveillance.
But now CBC News has obtained the tape recordings of Eng talking to her confidant and friend, Peter Maloney, about everything from police business to the very personal.
At the time, police had gone to a judge claiming Maloney may have ties to drug dealers.
The judge granted officers authority to wiretap his phone, but they were ordered to shut down the wiretap after a minute if the calls involved anyone, such as Eng, not listed on the paperwork.
Police ignored the order and recorded Eng, with some recordings lasting 20 or 30 minutes.
Read more here.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Police crime during Katrina
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Montreal police ordered to pay $60,000
Like that will ever happen.
Gemma Raeburn's black friends no longer willingly help her clean out her garage after a couple of recruits were mistaken by police for robbers.
"I had to get a couple of white friends to do it," the Dollard des Ormeaux woman said, only half-joking.
Six white police officers roared up to Raeburn's home on a Saturday morning in November 2004, and accused her, Peter Charles and Frederick Peters - all black - of robbing the place.
"It was so, so humiliating," Raeburn, 57, recalled yesterday. "We're the only black family that lives on this street.
"I had to go to all my neighbours and tell them that it wasn't a drug bust."...
...Last year, the Police Ethics Committee found that during the November 2004 incident, Constable Roger Carbonneau insulted and scared Raeburn when he told her that "bullets don't see colour" after she asked him whether the officers would have come as quick if it were white people cleaning out the garage.
He might not have intended the remark to be racist, the committee said, but it was an indirect reference to Raeburn's skin colour and unacceptable coming from an officer with 18 years' experience.
Constable Isabelle Nault overstepped the bounds of proper police behaviour even more severely when in the heat of an argument with 60-year-old Peters, she told him: "If you don't like it here, why are you here? Why don't you go back to your country?"
Nault's statements were offensive and inappropriate, the committee said.
It's good to see that the present police are keeping alive traditions Montreal police have had for decades.
Read more here.
Gemma Raeburn's black friends no longer willingly help her clean out her garage after a couple of recruits were mistaken by police for robbers.
"I had to get a couple of white friends to do it," the Dollard des Ormeaux woman said, only half-joking.
Six white police officers roared up to Raeburn's home on a Saturday morning in November 2004, and accused her, Peter Charles and Frederick Peters - all black - of robbing the place.
"It was so, so humiliating," Raeburn, 57, recalled yesterday. "We're the only black family that lives on this street.
"I had to go to all my neighbours and tell them that it wasn't a drug bust."...
...Last year, the Police Ethics Committee found that during the November 2004 incident, Constable Roger Carbonneau insulted and scared Raeburn when he told her that "bullets don't see colour" after she asked him whether the officers would have come as quick if it were white people cleaning out the garage.
He might not have intended the remark to be racist, the committee said, but it was an indirect reference to Raeburn's skin colour and unacceptable coming from an officer with 18 years' experience.
Constable Isabelle Nault overstepped the bounds of proper police behaviour even more severely when in the heat of an argument with 60-year-old Peters, she told him: "If you don't like it here, why are you here? Why don't you go back to your country?"
Nault's statements were offensive and inappropriate, the committee said.
It's good to see that the present police are keeping alive traditions Montreal police have had for decades.
Read more here.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Undercover Cops Allegedly Frame 4 On Drug Charges
Undercover police officers who arrested four men on drug charges are under investigation after surveillance video proved the men they arrested committed no crime.
Drug charges against brothers Jose Colon and Maximo Colon, along with two of their friends have been dropped.
The undercover NYPD officers are seen on video dancing in the street, then attempting to frame four innocent men.
"I asked police officer why are you arresting me," said Maximo Colon. "Never did I get an answer."
And you never will...
Read more here.
Drug charges against brothers Jose Colon and Maximo Colon, along with two of their friends have been dropped.
The undercover NYPD officers are seen on video dancing in the street, then attempting to frame four innocent men.
"I asked police officer why are you arresting me," said Maximo Colon. "Never did I get an answer."
And you never will...
Read more here.
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