The man charged with killing a Utah sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop was captured while sleeping in a shed Wednesday, three days after saying in a MySpace posting that he was feeling "crazy" and "ready for whatever is next."
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld former state insurance regulator Joe Ruiz's corruption convictions.
A North Carolina sheriff's deputy responding to a 911 call has been shot to death by an armed suspect.
Shaquille O'Neal is looking to continue a sideline career in law enforcement now that he's in Ohio playing for the Cavaliers.
Prosecutors have declined to press charges against the sheriff's deputy who arrested Mel Gibson three years ago, citing a lack of proof he leaked details about the case.
Faced with the prospect of an election challenge from one of his deputies, Sheriff Paul Parsley of Bullitt County, Ky., fired him for trying "to take my job away from me."
A deputy whose hand was chopped off by a suspect wielding a bush ax had it reattached in two operations, while the background of his attacker — a minister who was fatally shot in the confrontation — left those who knew him perplexed.
A former DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who fled after he was charged with killing his wife and a day laborer has been caught in Central America.
Authorities say a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy has fatally shot an unarmed man he feared was reaching for a gun.
Authorities said they have arrested a 30-year-old Pensacola man for impersonating a law enforcement officer. According to a sheriff's office news release, Michael Gainey was arrested after he approached teenagers in a convenience store parking lot and said he was a deputy. He allegedly searched at least at least one teen and told another to take a urine test.
A former Ohio deputy accused of feeding an inmate a bologna sandwich that been rubbed against another inmate's genitals has pleaded guilty to two health code violations. In a Columbus courtroom on Wednesday, 38-year-old Joseph Cantwell also apologized for the shame and embarrassment that he said he had caused.
A 49-year-old southwestern Michigan woman who asked a sheriff's deputy to lend her money for cigarettes after just being told to stop begging by the deputy ended up behind bars.
Autopsy photos show a 16-year-old boy killed by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was shot in the back. But a pathologist hired by the boy's family says it's unclear how the teen was positioned when the trigger was pulled.
At least 100 explosive devices were found in a southeast Texas mobile home where a deputy was shot and killed, a sheriff said Tuesday.
A 16-year-old boy killed while running from a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was shot in the back without warning and never brandished a gun as authorities contend, an attorney for the teen's father said Tuesday.
A sheriff's deputy and his mother face charges of disorderly conduct after the deputy vomited on people at a Kenny Chesney concert in Fargo and refused to leave, authorities say. Police Sgt. Mark Lykken said Stark County Deputy Justin Krohmer, 26, and his mother, Susan, 47, whose husband is the Ada, Minn., police chief, were arrested after the Saturday night incident.
Authorities have released surveillance video showing a burly sheriff's deputy slamming a man head first into a wall earlier this month, leaving him in a coma. Christopher Harris remains in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center, his family says. The 29-year-old had been pursued by deputies May 10 after a witness wrongly identified him as a suspect in an assault.
A Polk County deputy has turned in his badge after his wife and mother-in-law took his patrol car out for a joyride. Officials said the 44-year-old deputy resigned Monday after serving 21 years with the sheriff's office.
Los Angeles County prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a fourth man in the suspected gang-related murder of a county sheriff's deputy.
A former sheriff's deputy accused of killing his wife and a day laborer has joined the ranks of "America's Most Wanted" after cutting the leather strap of his electronic monitoring device and fleeing from house arrest.
A former top deputy of Saddam Hussein has said he wants good ties with the United States, but only after U.S. troops leave and the Shiite-led government is toppled, according to an audiotape aired Tuesday.
Authorities say a sheriff's deputy has been been fatally shot by a 19-year-old man in a South Dakota farmhouse.
A top United Nations official who once served on the White House National Security Council has been picked for deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, a move that would place two women at the top of the department for the first time.
Los Angeles police say two men have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy who died as he was getting ready to go to work.
A Pinellas County detention deputy was suspended for using the sound of his stun gun to try and wake up an inmate. According to an internal affairs report, the deputy thought the crackling sound of his Taser would rouse an inmate on July 27. It did not.
Investigators said this week that they did not find any evidence of criminal activity by a deputy who committed suicide after pretending he had cancer.
A teen trying to rob an espresso stand in northern Idaho met his match in a gun-toting barista.
A six-year-old girl was hit by an Orange County deputy's vehicle while she was in a cross-walk, on her way home from school. The girl is in critical condition, at Arnold Palmer Hospital.
A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office corrections deputy was arrested Monday for assaulting a man at gunpoint who was having sex with her daughter in the deputy's Belle Glade home.
Deputies Wayne Bartley and Bill Mattingly were arrested Thursday on charges of selling marijuana, official misconduct, theft, tampering with evidence and criminal mischief, according to a news release from the state police West Drug Enforcement unit in Bowling Green.
'Explosive diarrhea' was the excuse a 42-year-old man gave to a deputy for being naked inside his truck in a Walmart parking. It all happened after two different women accused him of exposing his penis while in plain view.
The deputy was investigating a car wreck... found a 1993 Isuzu Rodeo in the ditch. A 28-year-old man showed up and said the car was his, but pointed out that the deputy couldn't prove he'd been driving.
A Broward County sheriff's deputy was arrested Friday on extortion and drug charges.
Sergeant O'nan says she's seen increasing violence during her 16-year career as a detention deputy. Unfortunately this weekend, at the Orient Road Jail, she experienced that violence first hand.
A Belleville man was arrested Saturday morning after a sheriff's deputy spotted him hitchhiking down Illinois 15 while carrying a stolen chainsaw.
Be careful who you say "Boo!" to. A Bandera County jailer was shot in the thigh after he jumped out and roared at a deputy in a darkened room at Bandera County Sheriff's Department office.
A Volusia County deputy is the subject of an internal investigation after WESH 2 News showed a video to the sheriff that allegedly shows a deputy using his Taser gun on a friend for fun.
Police charged an off-duty Sacramento County sheriff's deputy with felony DUI Sunday after she reportedly plowed into an open Starbucks coffee shop in Natomas, injuring an elderly woman.
One man has been charged with murder and another with assault in a baseball bat attack at a western Minnesota church that left a 14-month-old girl dead.
The Jefferson Parish, La., sheriff is investigating pictures posted online and obtained by WDSU that show a scantily clad woman posing on the hood of a deputy's car.
The Citrus County Sheriff's Office has charged a 9-year-old boy with a felony for allegedly hitting a guidance counselor
A Texas sheriff has fired one deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle.
``If you have any interaction with this officer, please inform Father Bob,'' read the flier put up this winter at Oakland Park's All Saints Catholic Mission soup kitchen.
Not only does Arizona have the "Toughest Sheriff" in Mariopa County, there's no impartiality In the Wild Wild West. Not even the Sheriff's Deputies in Pinal County are allowed to slide out of a ticket.
Lee County sheriff's Cpl. Scott Heimlich was viewing porn at work, news-press.com of Fort Myers reports.
A Lee County Sheriff's Office corporal has been fired after his porn-viewing activities at work slowed agency computers.
In Jessamine County, Kentucky a wolf-dog hybrid carried an infant out of a home on July 20, 2009, injuring it critically, according to an early report from the weekly Jessamine Journal's website.
At least 100 explosive devices were found in a southeast Texas mobile home where a deputy was shot and killed, a sheriff said Tuesday.
A man has been charged with public intoxication after authorities said he was walking along Highway 11 with a pair of panties hanging out from his unzipped pants.
A Delaware man who claimed he lost his pants faces drunken driving charges after authorities say the deputy who pulled him over noticed he was in the buff below the waist.