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636 Turns in every 22 Mile Lap Tame The Dragon on US 129 between Deals Gap NC and Chilhowee TN - If You Dare NSFW BARBIE CUMMINGS PART 1 INTERVIEW WITH BUBBA THE LOVE SPONGE ON SIRIUS RADIO NSFW BARBIE CUMMINGS PART 2 INTERVIEW WITH BUBBA THE LOVE SPONGE ON SIRIUS RADIO If convicted, he can have all the oral sex he wants Barbie Cummings Quits Porn Biz Read the Indictment BARBIE CUMMINGS GETS TICKETS DISMISSED FOR 29 DEFENDANTS! Grandstanding judge says 150 mph speed ticket cost $1, er, 50 cents Judge threatens Barbie with suspended license and arrest just like billionaire porn star Paris Hilton BARBIE CUMMINGS GETS TICKETS DISMISSED FOR 29 DEFENDANTS! BARBIE CUMMINGS GETS TICKETS DISMISSED FOR 29 DEFENDANTS!
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THP VIDEO: COP VIDEOTAPES HIS DICK DURING TRAFFIC STOP All this over a blow job, and I still got 3 $180 tickets - how outrageous! OVER 44,000 DOWNLOADS! Mirror download Gotta love those tabloid headlines By Matt Lakin
A grand jury has indicted the former Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper accused of having oral sex on duty with a Knoxville porn star. James Randy Moss turned himself in to Wilson County authorities in Middle Tennessee this morning to face a sealed indictment on charges of official misconduct, tampering with evidence and official oppression. Moss, 40, had worked for the state Department of Safety for 10 years when he stopped porn actress Barbie Cummings for speeding as she drove home from visiting an aunt in Lebanon on May 7. Cummings, 21, whose real name is Justis Ellen Richert, said he found out about her profession and asked for oral sex after tossing out some illegal prescription painkillers he found in her pink Honda Accord. She said he shot photos and video of the sex with his cell phone, then wrote her a ticket for driving 92 mph in a 70 mph zone without registration or proof of insurance. Cummings wrote about the traffic stop on her blog and posted the photos and video. The THP suspended Moss, who later resigned. He faces six charges of official misconduct, two counts of official repression and two counts of tampering with evidence. Some of those charges relate to Cummings’ traffic stop and some to another traffic stop of an unidentified woman in September 2006. Moss surrendered to authorities around 10 a.m. CST. His lawyer, Jack Lowery Sr., said he’ll plead not guilty when he appears in Wilson County Circuit Court next month. More details as they develop online and in Wednesday’s News Sentinel.
By Matt Lakin
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Barbie Cummings doesn't see what the fuss is about. The Tennessee Highway Patrol disagrees. The agency suspended one of its troopers this month while it investigates the Knoxville-based porn star's online claims that the trooper had oral sex with her during a traffic stop in Middle Tennessee. "It's no big deal," said Cummings, who asked that her real name not be used out of safety concerns. "I didn't get out of anything. It was not a trade. Just like a guy - he got his, and I still got the speeding ticket." Cummings, who gives her age as 21, lives in Knoxville and visits Los Angeles about once a month to star in adult movies and on Web sites. She keeps a blog that details her work and sex life, complete with photos and video clips. That blog drew the THP's attention - and led to the suspension of Trooper James Randy Moss, who's worked for the agency since 1997 - after a May 7 entry described a traffic stop near Lebanon that took a surprise turn. "We're looking into the allegation as to whether this is indeed true," THP spokesman Mike Browning said Saturday. Cummings says she was headed home early that morning from visiting an aunt when Moss pulled her pink car over. The trooper found alcohol and some prescription painkillers inside, she said. "He proceeded to tell me the punishment," Cummings said. "I wouldn't have been allowed to leave the state. I broke down and started crying. I advised him of my job. Then he wanted to know what I did, so I told him. Then he wanted to know about my Web site, so I told him."
Cummings said the trooper ended up viewing her site from his in-car laptop as she sat beside him in the front seat of his cruiser. "He kept asking me, 'Are you hiding anything on your person?' Now that I look back on it, I see what he was hinting toward," she said. "I kept thinking, this would be such a great story for my blog." A visit to a secluded spot followed, she said, with photos and video shot by the trooper. "He asks me, 'What does it cost for someone like me to get anything like you,' " she wrote on the blog. "I said to him, 'If you weren't working ' And he said, 'Don't worry about me working!' " Moss tossed the pills into the bushes and let her go afterward, she said. She went home with the speeding ticket. "He called the next night and asked if I was OK with him telling all his friends and referring them to my blog," she said. "He's like a kid in high school. He just wanted to brag. Apparently one of his co-workers told on him." Cummings met with THP investigators a little more than a week ago and said she turned over the photos and video. She said she's got nothing to hide. "I didn't do anything wrong," she said. "I have sex for a living. I want to feel remorse for him, but he was the one who said let's proceed with it. He's the one who made all the decisions. I didn't make those decisions for him." She still plans to appear in court in Wilson County next month with her ticket. She said she wonders if she'll see Moss there. He couldn't be reached for comment Saturday. Matt Lakin may be reached at 865-342-6306. ![]()
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So Trooper Moss was effectively fired, waived his appeal, and cannot collect any more paychecks. His lawyer will argue that cops have discretion to destroy evidence, and that it's okay for cops to have sex during traffic stops "that aren't traffic stops". Won't that be a lovely legal precedent? Courts call that an "unpublished opinion", when they routinely decide cases that violate The Law. Prediction: Witness will be granted immunity for her testimony to grand jury, with the speeding ticket dismissed. She will file a million-dollar "negligence" lawsuit against the State of Tennessee Municipal Corporation and the commanders at Tennessee Highway Patrol Bureau, for failure to properly train and superviser this copster. No matter what you say, at least she had the guts to get an official police taperecording of her traffic stop (even though it was literally cumstained). Most folks are too skeert to do that. But that's the best way to win in traffic court, since it shows all the crimes perped by the cop. UPDATE: DEALSGAPDRAGON.COM PREDICTION COMES TRUE! "When porn actress Barbie Cummings takes her speeding ticket to court, the trooper who wrote it won't be there. The Tennessee Highway Patrol fired Trooper James Randy Moss on Thursday, two weeks after he came under scrutiny for Cummings' claim that she gave him oral sex during a traffic stop near Lebanon in Middle Tennessee. Cummings, 21, whose real name is Justis Ellen Richert, lives in Knoxville and makes a living appearing in adult films and on Web sites. She said Moss, a married man and 10-year veteran of the THP, stopped her pink car May 7 as she drove home from visiting an aunt. He found painkillers in her car but tossed them into the bushes after learning about her job, Cummings said. The traffic stop turned into a tryst, complete with a visit to her Web site from his state-issued laptop, oral sex and photos and video shot by the trooper, she said. "I didn't think it was a good decision by him," Cummings said. 'But I thought he knew something I didn't.'He still wrote her a ticket - for driving 92 mph in a 70 mph zone and driving without registration or proof of insurance. The agency suspended Moss with pay on May 10, three days after the traffic stop. Investigators have talked to Cummings, who turned over the photos and video, and reviewed the video from Moss's in-cruiser camera, Browning said. 'What was in the video was disturbing,' he said. Now questions have surfaced about two other traffic stops by Moss, Browning said. The first happened in March 2000 when a woman trucker said he asked her to flash him during a traffic stop. 'He denied the allegation, and there wasn't enough evidence to substantiate it,' Browning said. Since then another woman has come forward with a complaint about a traffic stop by Moss in 2005. Officials won't give details about that complaint but said it also involves "serious misconduct." She'll appear in court in Wilson County with her speeding ticket June 29." "A porn actress who claimed she performed oral sex on a state trooper who stopped her for speeding lost her chance to avoid the ticket he issued because she failed to appear in court Friday. Justis Richert, 21, of Knoxville, must pay the $159 ticket within two weeks, but she could have avoided it altogether because the trooper has resigned and wasn't in court, officials said. Traffic charges were dropped against the 16 motorists who did appear in court for tickets issued by Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper James Randy Moss. 'Had she been here, the ticket would have been dismissed,' said Linda Neal, general sessions court clerk. Under her porn film name 'Barbie Cummings,' Richert did not immediately return a call Friday. Moss, 40, resigned, and prosecutors have said they would seek an indictment charging him with official misconduct and tampering with evidence. 'He's voluntarily resigned,' Moss attorney Jack Lowery Sr. said Friday. 'It appears to me a situation that should be concluded, but we'll have to see where it goes.' Investigators also are looking into more than 25 other traffic stops by Moss; they said women came forward with their own complaints after hearing publicity on the actress' stop. Prosecutors have said some of the women complained that Moss asked to see their breasts when he stopped them. Richert has continued with her blog, writing this month that she has married, is moving to Los Angeles and plans to continue working in the porn industry there. She also said she plans to sell the pink Honda she was driving when Moss stopped her." "The Tennessee Highway Patrol today fired a trooper accused of having oral sex with a Knoxville porn actress during a traffic stop. The agency plans to seek criminal charges against James Randy Moss, 40, who stopped porn star Barbie Cummings for speeding on May 7 near Lebanon in Middle Tennessee. 'We'll be aggressively pursuing a charge that he destroyed narcotics,' THP spokesman Mike Browning said. 'There could be other charges.' The THP suspended Moss on May 10 after an internal complaint alerted them to a blog kept by Cummings. He'd been a trooper since 1997. Cummings, whose real name is Justis Ellen Richert, lives in Knoxville and blogs about her work and personal life. An entry on her blog describes the traffic stop and oral sex with a state trooper. Cummings said Moss found prescription painkillers in her car and tossed the pills into the bushes after propositioning her. That claim could translate to a charge against Moss of destroying evidence, Browning said. Cummings also said Moss gave her oral sex, shot photos and video of the encounter, and referred all his friends to the entry on her blog. She told her story to the News Sentinel in an exclusive video interview." If porn star Barbie Cummings takes the witness stand, it won't be to point any fingers.
"This is just stupid," she said Thursday. "I'm not a victim. I guess I'm going to get up in that courtroom and say I (gave him oral sex) because I wanted to. I'd give him a high five." Cummings, 21, whose real name is Justis Ellen Richert, said she can't believe prosecutors want to file felony charges against James Randy Moss, the former Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper who she says she gave oral sex during a traffic stop May 7 near Lebanon in Middle Tennessee. "I've been doing this for a long time," she said. "I know how to say no. I offered it myself. I understand taking the whole sex thing seriously, but it's just a (sex act) to me." Prosecutors said the decision's not up to her. "She can say what she wants to, but we've got all the evidence," said Tommy Thompson, 15th Judicial District attorney general. "He violated his oath as an officer and his duty to the people of Tennessee. There's no excuse for what he did, but she's not the most innocent victim in the world." Moss, 40, resigned from the THP last week, 18 days after he stopped Cummings for speeding on state Route 840 as she drove home to Knoxville from visiting an aunt. He'd worked for the state Department of Safety since 1997. Cummings said Moss wrote her a ticket for driving 92 mph in a 70 mph zone, threw away illegal Vicodin tablets he found in her pink Honda Accord and took her up on an offer of oral sex after she told him what she did for a living. She said he used his cell phone to shoot photos and video of the encounter and e-mailed her copies, which she posted on her blog. "He was an idiot to do what he did," Thompson said. "But he could work a cell phone better than I can." Moss has admitted to Cummings' claims, according to THP records.
Thompson plans to ask a Wilson County grand jury to indict Moss on charges of official misconduct, destroying evidence and possibly sexual battery. The investigation could lead to additional charges, he said, as more women have come forward with complaints about the former trooper. "They may be bogus, or they may be solid," Thompson said. "That's a position of trust. You can't have that kind of thing going on." The most serious potential charge could be destruction of evidence, which could carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. Cummings said seizing the pills would have been a waste. "It was $28 worth of pills," she said. "It would have cost more than that to go to court and punish me." Moss's lawyer has challenged prosecutors to prove the pills were narcotics. "We can't prove what it was," said Thompson, the prosecutor. "All I know is that it was evidence. An officer has a duty to keep up with evidence." PDF: Speeding Ticket for Justic Richert PDF: Speeding Ticket for Justic Richert PDF: Suspension Letter to Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper James Randy Moss PDF: View of copy of James R. Moss' resignation letter ("Resign or be fired" is the same as being fired in Unemployment Insurance Court)
"The troubles keep coming for the Tennessee Highway Patrol. A state trooper accidentally shot one of his fellow troopers in the foot Monday while cleaning his gun at the THP Training Center, authorities said, making for a trifecta of troopers recently suspended and under investigation. Trooper John Warren was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the Department of Safety's Office of Professional Responsibility, THP spokesman Mike Browning told The Tennessean.
Officials said Warren, a trooper since 1996, shot Trooper Tracy Tyler while cleaning his gun. Tyler was treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Warren joins the ranks of Trooper Terry Rainey, accused of shooting his mother in the foot during an argument Saturday night in Madison County in West Tennessee, and Trooper James Randy Moss, suspended after Knoxville-based porn actress and blogger Barbie Cummings wrote about giving him oral sex during a traffic stop May 7 near Lebanon in Middle Tennessee. Cummings, who gives her age as 21 and whose real name is Justis Richert, has made headlines and news broadcasts around the country with her story since she told it to the News Sentinel over the weekend. She says she offered Moss sex after he wrote her a ticket for driving 92 mph in a 70-mph zone. The trooper accepted, then shot photos and video footage of their encounter with his state-issued cameras, she said. Cummings said Moss shared the photos and video clips with her, and she posted them on her Web site. The site was down Tuesday afternoon, with a note saying it was under construction. Cummings believes the boasts by Moss to co-workers led to his suspension. 'This police officer went ahead and told (all) his coworkers, other police officers, and was bragging about it,' she wrote. 'He isn't in trouble because of the act itself, but that he chose to let it happen while he was on duty. There was no bribing, no (coercing) or convincing.' Gov. Phil Bredesen said he's waiting for the results of the internal investigation before drawing conclusions about a department he overhauled following allegations in 2004 of ticket-fixing and political cronyism. 'I really believe they will take the appropriate action, and if they don't, I'll make them do it,' Bredesen said." "This gives a totally new angle to the 'Why are there no prostitutes in Tennessee? They’re all volunteers' smack. And, of course, 'You can’t spell ’slut’ without UT,' and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention, 'Nothing sucks like a Big Orange.'" See also:
PNTV BLOG: THP Trooper Extorts Rape During Traffic Stop PNTV Forum: THP Trooper Extorts Rape During Traffic Stop - State prosecutor and worshippers of the Police State demand Big Brother immediate rape all females, and males, during traffic stops
Porn Star Barbie Cummings Gives Trooper A Blowjob Then Blogs About It - Trooper James Randy Moss found illegal painkillers in porn star Barbie Cummings’ car, but instead of arresting her, Moss did what every porn-loving man would do: he asked for a nice blowjob. Nobody would have known. Except Moss is one well-hung, kiss-and-tell macho man, while Barbie Cummings is an avid, no-holds-barred blogger. The woman, who in an interview with ABC News would only reveal her actual first name, Justis, posted the entry on May 7, the date of the alleged offense. She said she was pulled over around 1 a.m. on a Tennessee highway for driving 92 mph in a 70 mph zone. In the blog, Justis writes that after pulling her over, the trooper found her “happy pills” — painkillers — while searching her car. Justis does not specifically name Moss. The trooper explained that the punishment for the narcotics possession would likely prevent her from leaving the state, at which point Justis said she became upset and started to cry. “He wanted to know why,” Justis told ABC News. She said she told him that as a porn star under contract, she must travel from Knoxville to Los Angeles once a month to shoot scenes. She said the two then moved inside Moss’ cruiser where she said he asked about Web sites on which she might be featured. She gave him the domain name for her blog, and the two of them watched clips from two of her movies on the laptop in his cruiser, she wrote on the blog. Then the trooper took “the hand full (sic) of pills and scatters them in the brush next to the interstate,” she wrote in the blog. After that, she claims he asked her to follow him to a secluded place, where she performed oral sex while he allegedly took photographs and short video clips using a hand-held camera from his cruiser. Justis said she didn’t want to get Moss into trouble and suspects he incriminated himself by talking about the incident. She said he called her the day after the traffic stop to ask if he could share the tale with his co-workers. She said the trooper also e-mailed her the photos and video, which she promptly posted on her blog.
Trooper Suspended Over Porn Star Claims - WRAL - A porn star claims a state trooper who stopped her on a highway let drug charges slide in exchange for oral sex. And she says she's got proof - the trooper's own video images of the roadside tryst. The allegations have led to a Tennessee Highway Patrol investigation and the trooper's suspension. The trooper, James Randy Moss, declined to comment Tuesday. Highway Patrol spokesman Mike Browning confirmed investigators have interviewed the porn star, who is identified on a citation by her real name, Justis Richert. Richert, 21, who lives in Knoxville, did not immediately respond Tuesday to messages left on her cell phone or e-mail requests for an interview. But on her blog, written under the screen name "Barbie Cummings," she goes into explicit detail about the encounter. She says she has photos and video footage of the encounter sent to her by the trooper, as well as a speeding ticket, to back up her story. The blog had been taken down by Tuesday afternoon, with a note saying the Web site was under construction. Moss stopped Richert's pink Honda Accord for speeding outside Nashville on May 7, according to the citation. Cummings wrote that when the officer, whom she does not name, asked her if she had drugs in the car, she admitted to having some "happy pills." "I sometimes have these pills as I may take one or two before going to a club," Cummings wrote in an entry dated May 7. "It was a small amount of pills, nothing major." Moss' citation does not mention finding any illegal narcotics in the car. When the officer told her a drug charge would mean she could not leave the state, Cummings replied that would be a problem because she frequently travels from Tennessee to Los Angeles for her work. "I tell him I make dirty movies," Cummings wrote. "He says he wished he had gotten into that industry." The pair then watched sex videos from her Web site using Moss' laptop computer in his patrol car, she wrote. He took the pills and scattered them in the brush beside the highway. "Then he asks me, what does it cost for someone like me to get anything like you," she wrote. She describes performing oral sex on the officer outside his car in a secluded area. Photos that appear to be video stills she said he took during the incident and posted on her blog show her face but nothing that identifies the man as a trooper. Browning said he could not confirm whether Richert gave the Highway Patrol pictures or video, but he said Moss did have a video camera in his car. Cummings blames the officer for making trouble for himself. "This police officer went ahead and told (all) of his co-workers, other police officers, and was bragging about it," she wrote. "He isn't in trouble because of the act itself, but that he chose to let it happen while he was on duty. There was no bribing, no (coercing) or convincing."
Barbie Cummings and the Highway Patrol -- A New Way to Get Web Traffic - Could it be the title of her next movie? Barbie Cummings is a clever, clever girl. The porn star based out of Knoxville was pulled over by a Tennessee Highway Patrolman outside of Nashville and engaged in an exchange of favors with the officer. Actually, she still got the ticket, so there actually wasn’t an exchange. This genius took photos and videos and bragged to his fellow patrolmen about it and has subsequently been suspended. All Barbie did was write about it on her blog. Very clever. Hope all of you SEO masters are paying attention. This is TRUE viral marketing. The story has caused such a stir in Tennessee and presumably created so much traffic to her blog that it, ahem, went down last night. No worries, they got it up again. :) I was able to go there and do some fact checking. Don’t visit it from the office, but if you want to see free speech in action, it’s worth a look.
Semen now a happiness drug for women - The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals. My belief is that this in the most important study in the history of the internet. Got Semen? God's Natural Antidepressant - Psychology Today: Gallup's survey of 293 college women also found that those who did not use condoms were most likely to initiate sex and to seek out new partners as soon as a relationship ended. "These women are more vulnerable to the rebound effect, which suggests that there is a chemical dependency," says Gallup. Semen contains hormones including testosterone, estrogen, prolactin, luteinizing hormone and prostaglandins, and some of these are absorbed through the walls of the vagina and are known to elevate mood.
"And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
Also in the news: Tennessee lawman faces charges: Former Hamblen deputy accused of molesting women - A former Hamblen County lawman was arrested Wednesday by the FBI on charges that he allegedly forced women to perform sexual acts after traffic stops. Dexter L. Morris Jr., 34, was a Hamblen County Sheriff's Office deputy when the incidents occurred in 2005, court records show. He is accused of two counts of violating the civil rights of the women he allegedly molested and one count of lying to FBI agents. Morris was released on bond after a hearing at the federal courthouse in Greeneville. He could face life in prison if convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. An affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent Lane Rushing outlined Morris' law enforcement career and detailed the allegations against him. Morris was hired by the Hamblen County department in 2002 as a jailer and was promoted to the rank of patrol officer the next year. Morris, as a jailer, was accused by an inmate of molesting her while she was incarcerated in the county jail, but he denied the incident happened and the matter apparently didn't lead to any action being taken against him, according to Rushing's affidavit. On Aug. 24, 2005, Morris pulled over a woman and a male friend on Old Kentucky Road. Her friend had been drinking and Morris eventually got the woman to admit there was a small amount of marijuana in the car. Morris told the woman's friend to walk home and then told her that she would go to jail for possessing the marijuana, court records show. Morris then ordered the woman, who was now alone, to "drive up the street and wait for him there." Morris eventually had her drive to a nearby cemetery and had her get into the back of his cruiser, the FBI affidavit said. Morris allegedly ordered her to perform oral sex on him and then used a condom to have sexual intercourse with her. Also, on Sept. 18, 2005, Morris pulled over a different woman and made her "expose her breasts in exchange for Morris not filing a charge for a traffic offense," records show. The victim from the August 2005 incident held on to her clothing, although she was afraid to report the incident. She contacted an attorney in early 2007 who in turn called the FBI. During an April 2007 interview with FBI agents, Morris allegedly said "he could not recall whether he had ever had sexual contact with any woman he encountered during a traffic stop," according to the release. The FBI collected "bodily fluids" from Morris through the use of a federal search warrant and the DNA was found to match semen found on the first victim's panties and shorts, according to Rushing's affidavit. Morris resigned from the Sheriff's Office the same month that he was questioned by the FBI, court records show. Criminal complaint
THP Trooper fired for "improper relations" with inmates - A Tennessee Highway Patrol sergeant accused of engaging in inappropriate relations with female inmates and receiving oral sex while on duty is being fired from his job, according to information from the Department of Safety. In a memo to Sgt. Timothy Holloway obtained by The Tennessean, THP Colonel Mike Walker said he was recommending Holloway's termination because of insubordination, conduct unbecoming of a state employee, gross misconduct and other rule violations. Holloway had been placed on administrative leave with pay in May as safety officials investigated claims that he had sex with female inmates on a work detail at the patrol's Memphis office. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents reported that while they did not find that criminal actions occurred involving Holloway and the female inmates, there was evidence of inappropriate conduct by Holloway. During that investigation, Trooper Anthony Sherron, a subordinate of Holloway's, told authorities in a sworn statement that Holloway had led him and another trooper in an unmarked patrol car to an adult nightclub. Sherron told investigators that after Holloway spent 30 to 45 minutes in a room with a woman, he told the other troopers that he had received oral sex and warned them, "What's in here, stays here," according to the memo. He also was one of two sergeants who testified to get a drunken-driving charge dismissed for the grandson of West Tennessee Democratic Party operative Gladys Crain, who later served as a reference for his promotion. The department's top three officials left office in December after news reports of troopers with criminal backgrounds, allegations of ticket-fixing, and a culture of cronyism and political arm-twisting. Officials planned fake reprimand for THP trooper, to mollify media - Top officials of the Tennessee Highway Patrol discussed a phony punishment for a trooper who fixed a speeding ticket for Deputy Gov. Dave Cooley, The Tennessean reported Tuesday. The newspaper report came from notes it said described a meeting between the highway patrol's then-commander, Lynn Pitts, and Safety Commissioner Fred Phillips. The notes, which the newspaper got from an unnamed source, appear to have been taken by Lt. Col. Larry Rucker, then the No. 2 man in the highway patrol. The notes say Pitts planned to reassign Lt. Ronnie Shirley from Rutherford County to Wilson County so "the media will be satisfied thinking we did something to him." But the notes say the reassignment would be only "on paper" and that Shirley already lives in Wilson County - just east of Nashville in Mt. Juliet. In February 2004, the deputy governor was cited for going 87 mph in a 70 mph zone on Interstate 24. His ticket was dismissed after Shirley approached Rutherford County General Sessions Court Judge David Loughry. Cooley said he didn't ask for any special consideration, but a videotape of the traffic stop from the patrol car showed Cooley handed the trooper his business card, which Cooley said he did reflexively as a courtesy. Pitts was forced to resign from the patrol last month after he won an online auction to buy a fishing boat that had been confiscated by the Department of Safety. State law forbids state employees from bidding on or buying items seized by their own agencies. An investigation by The Tennessean found that the THP has a history of cronyism in promotions and lawbreaking by troopers. State trooper found guilty of ordering couple to strip - An Illinois State Police trooper was jailed Monday immediately after a Cook County jury convicted him of ordering a young man and woman he found parked along Interstate 94 to strip. Trooper Jeremy Dozier sat stoically as jurors found him guilty of eight felony counts of bribery and official misconduct for ordering the couple to take off their clothes during a bizarre, early-morning confrontation last June near Northbrook. Ex-Cop Sentenced To 12 Years For Rape - A former Louisville Metro Police Officer is headed to prison for 12 years after being convicted of raping a woman in front of her 9-month-old daughter at gunpoint. Billy Ray White will be eligible for parole in about eight years, but he will not be eligible for shock probation. The jury could have recommended a sentence of up to 45 years. Cop gets probation for extortions at traffic stops - A former Elm Springs police officer who had a 10-year history in law enforcement will serve two years of supervised probation and pay $5,000 in restitution after pleading guilty Thursday morning to theft for taking money from three motorists. Timothy Lee Payne, 40, who had been scheduled to be tried Thursday, entered the plea in Washington County Circuit Court. The plea stems from a July 30 traffic stop in which Payne used his police cruiser to stop Sergio Herrera at the intersection of Arkansas 112 and Sabatini Drive in Tontitown and took a $200 cash payment from Herrera without giving him a ticket. As part of the plea arrangement, Payne will never be able to expunge the felony conviction. Payne initially faced a charge of aggravated robbery, which is a Class Y felony punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison, and up to a $15,000 fine. A Class D felony theft of property charge was the one Payne ended up pleading guilty to, and he will have to pay $4,800 in county restitution and $200 to one of the victims, Sergio Herrera. There are two similar allegations in Benton County, where Payne stopped Herrera again -- two days after the Washington County incident -- on the same road and demanded another $200 for failure to stop at a stop sign. Herrera gave Payne $100, according to court documents. Payne also stopped Eddie Ricardo Herrera, Sergio Herrera’s cousin, on Arkansas 112, according to the allegations. When Eddie Herrera said he did not have a driver’s license, Payne asked him to pay a $100 fine. While at the traffic stop, Javier Herrera wrote down the license plate number and police car number of Payne’s car. Javier Herrera also insisted Payne write a receipt for the cash payment, which Payne did, according to the allegations. Payne’s arrest came after Javier Herrera and Sergio Herrera went to the Elm Springs Police Department to investigate the legality of police officers collecting roadside bonds. Cop accused of rape gets probation, house arrest - The woman who accused a state trooper of rape says she is angry he was allowed to plead guilty to misconduct in office and sentenced to probation and house arrest. Harold Long, who retired in January on a disability claim, also was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and must put $3,500 in an escrow account to pay for counseling as needed by the victim -- an illegal immigrant from Mexico who speaks no English. "What happened to him wasn't justice," the woman said through an interpreter. "Justice was not served in this case [she said ironically]. I just hope one day the justice of God is what he's facing." The woman says she went to a convenience store north of Gaffney about 3 a.m. on Aug. 3, 2005, to call her sister after a domestic assault. The woman says Long offered to help but drove her to an isolated area and raped her. She claims he drove her back to town, threw $15 at her and laughed. [Police never did arrest and deport this illegal alien, which is what the trooper should have done in the first place.] No jail for policeman who coerced women into sex - A former Buffalo police officer who forced at least two women to have sex with him or face being arrested was spared a jail term Thursday. Gregg O'Shei, 43, told City Judge Craig D. Hannah he wanted to apologize to everyone he has embarrassed by his actions, including his victims. Under terms of his probation, O'Shei must complete professional counseling, including treatment as a sex offender. At the time of his arrest, law enforcement sources said O'Shei, an 11-year veteran of the force, had been accused of using his position as a police officer to benefit himself in exchange for agreeing not to arrest the women. O'Shei was allowed by prosecutors to plead guilty Sept. 14 to misdemeanor official misconduct and coercion charges and forced to resign from the police department. During the brief mid-morning sentencing proceeding, one of O'Shei's victims told the judge her 8-year-old daughter told her she believed O'Shei "should be treated like a criminal" for the way he would frequently force his way into their house to have sex with her mother. Cop charged with child pornography for photos of naked underage girlfriend on squad car's hood - Nude photos that produced a child pornography charge against a married Vidor policeman were taken of his 17-year-old girlfriend, according to a suspension letter The Enterprise obtained Wednesday. An Orange County grand jury last month indicted Chad Everette Bourque, 32, on the third-degree felony charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. An April 4 letter, which Vidor Police Chief Steve Conroy wrote and Bourque signed, states there were three photos of the nude 17-year-old sitting on the hood of a marked patrol vehicle. The photos, which Bourque turned over to the chief, were taken at the Vidor school district's bus barn. The girl, who has not been identified, was not considered an adult by Texas and federal standards. Both state and federal law state a 17-year-old can consent to sexual acts but cannot consent to nude photos, which are considered to be a form of contract. Five women file suit against Oakland cop - Five women of Asian descent who were harassed by an Oakland police officer during illegal traffic stops filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the city of Oakland, alleging the police department violated their civil rights. The plaintiffs, who were not identified in the lawsuit, said the city should have done more to stop Officer Richard Valerga from pulling them over and touching them inappropriately. The suit alleges Valerga targeted the women because of their race. After resigning from the force last November, Valerga pleaded no contest in January to four misdemeanor counts of false imprisonment and violating the women's civil rights after three other charges were dropped as part of a plea bargain. Valerga is serving three years probation, and was ordered to undergo counseling. The suit, which seeks punitive damages, was filed by attorneys James Chanin and John Burris, who also represented the 119 Oaklanders who claimed that a group of rogue police officers known as the "Riders" beat and framed them. In each case, Valerga ordered the woman to get into the front seat of his police cruiser, commented on her appearance asked personal questions and demanded her phone numbers. One plaintiff said Valerga took pictures of her with his cellphone camera, and told her to open her sweater for one snapshot. Valerga let her go without a ticket or citation after another police cruiser pulled alongside. During another incident, a plaintiff's children were left alone in their car while Valerga touched the woman's hands and commented on their softness. A third plaintiff said Valerga kissed her twice while he was detaining her in his police cruiser, despite her protestations. Later, he called her and asked her out to lunch, according to the lawsuit. Valerga followed another plaintiff to her home, while her children were in the car, and after ordering her into his cruiser, attempted to touch her and asked her out on a date. Gay cop accused of forcing man to engage in sex act - A Philadelphia police officer was arrested yesterday for allegedly having forced another man to take part in a Fairmount Park tryst. Officer Michael Paige, 40, was charged with unlawful restraint, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and related offenses stemming from the incident, which occurred last month, police said. Commissioner Sylvester Johnson suspended Paige for 30 days with the intent to dismiss. He allegedly then took one of the male occupants from the Lincoln to a secluded section of the park and engaged in "non-consensual sexual activity," police said. Cops 'investigate' prostitution by having sex with hookers, taxpayers pay the bill - They enter the massage parlors as undercover detectives. They leave as satisfied customers. In Spotsylvania County, as part of a campaign by the sheriff's office to root out prostitution in the massage parlor business, detectives have been receiving sexual services from "masseuses." During several visits to Moon Spa on Plank Road last month, detectives allowed women to perform sexual acts on them on four occasions and once left a $350 tip, according to court papers. But numerous police and legal experts said they were not aware of any law enforcement agency in the Washington region, or the country, that allows sexual contact in prostitution investigations. Police should not break the law to enforce it, they said. "It's insane," said Charles J. Key Sr., a retired Baltimore police lieutenant who trains police officers and federal agents across the country. "If you allow officers to go through with the act, they've violated the law. You don't get an exception for participating in a violation of law." Typically, a verbal agreement to provide services and an overt act such as undressing or producing a condom will support a charge of soliciting prostitution, according to prosecutors, defense lawyers, police officials and law professors. Small-town police chief, wife in drug, sex scandal - A small Arkansas town has been rocked by the arrests of the police chief, his wife, the mayor, and several others on a wide array of crimes -- from conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and burglary, to having sex with jail inmates. Arrested on Monday were Ronald Jay Campbell, the now-former Lonoke police chief, who faces multiple felony charges relating to drug and theft allegations, and his wife, Kelly Harrison Campbell, who was charged with having sex with two inmates. The arrests forced a special city council meeting Wednesday night, when Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett accepted the chief's resignation. "Nobody is above the law, nobody," Lonoke County Prosecutor Lona McCastlain said. Killer Rapist Cop Craig Peyer - 1986 was the year Highway Patrolman became a term of fear for San Diegans — especially women. “Don’t stop for a cop unless you’re under a light or there are people around” was the advice I remember being given to women. San Diego Magazine ran a story called The Killer Cop. In 1986, Peyer was a 13-year patrol veteran so amped up by his power that he liked to brag, “There are two people you don’t piss off in this world: God and a Highway Patrolman–and not necessarily in that order.” He was a hot pencil who kept CHP brass happy by writing more tickets than anybody. Secretly, he was using his highly polished Badge 8611 to stalk young women for weird, sexually tinged power games. He’d order them to his “favorite spot” off the I-15 freeway, and chat them up about their love lives, often for hours at a time. He’d get into their cars and fondle their handbrakes. He’d take them on little rides deeper into the desolate dead end of Mercy Road. “It was like a grenade went off in a crowd of innocent people, and some people got killed, but everybody got hit with shrapnel to some degree,” says Paul Pfingst, former San Diego district attorney, of the lasting effects of the Peyer case. “Peyer did more to ruin the reputation of law enforcement in San Diego than anyone in history,” says Pfingst. In fact, he was assigned by the agency to present public safety tips in a TV news segment immediately following the discovery of Cara Knott’s body off the I-15. As seen on Court TV's Forensic Files "Badge of Betrayal". "Mercy Road" song by John Katchur. Killer Rapist Cop George Gwaltney - As seen on TV: "The F.B.I. Files" - "Above the Law: George Gwaltney Case". After three trials and sophisticated lab work, California Highway Patrolman George Gwaltney was finally convicted of rape and murder. Testing of hair, fiber and tool markings led investigators to his gun and then to Gwaltney, who received a 99-year sentence. State DA got 2 hung juries, so FBI got a hangin jury. Killer Rapist Cop Gerard John Schaefer - Gerard John Schaefer (March 25, 1946 - December 3, 1995) was a serial killer from Florida, USA. He was imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed as a police officer. While he was convicted of two murders, he was suspected of many others. On December 3, 1995, Gerard Schaefer was found stabbed to death in his cell. He had been killed by a fellow inmate named Vincent Rivera. Schaefer's sister claimed that his murder was some sort of cover up related to his attempts to verify the confession to the killing of Adam Walsh that Ottis Toole had made. Two schoolgirls, nine-year-old Peggy Rahn and eight-year-old Wendy Stevenson, vanished in late 1970 after being seen in the company of a man fitting Schaefer's description. Schaefer denied being involved when he was publicly accused of the crime but in a letter to London in 1989 he boasted of killing and cannibalizing the two children. BTK Killer Rapist Cop - Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered at least 10 people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler), which stands for Bind, Torture and Kill, an apt description of his modus operandi. Rader would often calm his victims by pretending to be a rapist who needed to work out some sexual fantasies on them. Many of his victims were more cooperative after he said this, and even helped him, thinking that once the rape was over, he would leave them alone. Instead, Rader would kill them. Rader bound, tortured, and killed his victims. Rader would strangle his victims until they lost consciousness, then let them revive, then strangle them again. He would repeat the pattern over and over again, forcing them to experience near-death, becoming sexually aroused at the sight of their struggles. Finally, Rader would strangle them to death and masturbate to ejaculation into an article of their clothing, usually underwear.
Killer Rapist Cop Tim Harris - Florida Highway Patrol stalked women, raped them, killed them. THP Trooper charged with shooting his mommy in foot - A state trooper has been charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment after shooting his mother in the foot during a domestic dispute, authorities said Monday. Terry Rainey was being held at Madison County Jail after the shooting on Saturday night, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. Rainey was placed on administrative leave with pay pending the investigation, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. THP Trooper shot in foot by fellow lawman - A state trooper accidentally shot one of his fellow troopers in the foot on Monday while cleaning his gun at the Tennessee Highway Patrol Training Center. Trooper John Warren was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the Department of Safety's Office of Professional Responsibility. Warren was sitting across from Trooper Tracy Tyler in the gun-cleaning area at the range when the gun went off and struck Tyler in the foot. The center has a required safety procedure before cleaning guns: removing the magazine, making sure the weapon's chamber is clear, then pulling the gun's trigger while pointed into a barrel to be sure it is unloaded. "The fact that a bullet was fired leads to one conclusion," that policy wasn't followed, Browning said.
"There's a report out tonight that 24-years ago I was apprehended in Kennebunkport, Maine, for a DUI. That's an accurate story. I'm not proud of that. I oftentimes said that years ago I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much and I did on that night. I was pulled over. I admitted to the policeman that I had been drinking. I paid a fine. And I regret that it happened. But it did. I've learned my lesson."
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