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Jackson Police Officer Thomas Tinklepaugh was sued in 2017 by a Jackson resident, Tracy Smith, who claimed his civil rights were violated during an August 2015 arrest. Smith had been approached by Tinklepaugh over a minor dispute, and Smith repeatedly directed a profane insult at the officer. Tinklepaugh arrested Smith after the outburst, allegedly slamming […]
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Former Blackman-Leoni Township Public Safety officer David Lubahn was on duty when he conducted an illegal search and seizure during a 2019 incident. He then filed a police report and warrant affidavit containing false and misleading statements about his actions, an incident that was recorded on his body camera. After an investigation by the Michigan […]
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Jonathan Debczak, a 10-year veteran of the Jackson Police Department, was arrested in October 2024 on multiple felony charges stemming from an off-duty domestic incident. Deputies from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office took Debczak into custody after responding to a 911 call about a domestic dispute and finding him driving away. He was charged with […]
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Jackson Police Officer Thomas Tinklepaugh was sued in 2017 by a Jackson resident, Tracy Smith, who claimed his civil rights were violated during an August 2015 arrest. Smith had been approached by Tinklepaugh over a minor dispute, and Smith repeatedly directed a profane insult at the officer. Tinklepaugh arrested Smith after the outburst, allegedly slamming […]
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Jackson County Sheriff Steven Rand was embroiled in scandal after secret recordings in 2017 captured him making racist remarks about Black people, using homophobic slurs, and insulting women and people with disabilities. In 2018, two of his officers filed lawsuits alleging Rand created a hostile work environment and engaged in egregious racism and bigotry. Rand […]
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Sgt. Toby Lafave (New MexicoSP) was put on administrative leave in Feb 2025 after being implicated in Albuquerque’s DWI dismissal scandal; he is accused of collaborating with officers from APD and BCSO in a scheme to accept bribes in exchange for not pursuing DWI charges, becoming the first state police officer swept up in the […]
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Officer Isaiah Cheromiah (New MexicoSP) was arrested in 2023 on charges of sexual assault after a woman reported he had raped her; an investigation revealed that in July 2022, while he was serving with Grants PD and off-duty on a National Guard deployment, Cheromiah gave alcohol to a 20-year-old female soldier and sexually assaulted her […]
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Officer Daniel Capehart (New MexicoSP) was arrested in 2018 and federally charged with drug trafficking crimes; prosecutors say he stole seized drugs while on duty and gave them to women he was romantically interested in, including delivering marijuana to a 16-year-old in exchange for dropping her friend’s citations, all while using his position as a […]
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Undersheriff Johann Jareno (BCSO) was named in the FBI’s DWI bribery probe and resigned in Feb 2025 amid allegations he was involved in the long-running enterprise to corrupt the DWI prosecution process; his departure came shortly after the scandal became public, marking the fall of a high-ranking official linked to the scheme:contentReference[oaicite:30]{index=30}.
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Officer John Roskos (Rio Rancho PD) is the subject of a civil rights lawsuit alleging excessive force and unlawful conduct during a 2020 incident: the complaint states Roskos failed to identify himself, immediately pepper-sprayed the plaintiff in the face, trespassed on private property without a warrant, and grabbed the man by the shirt and dragged […]
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Officer Simon Drobik, a former APD spokesman, was found to have abused the overtime system by claiming extraordinarily high hours; an oversight investigation in 2019 determined he violated policy over 50 times in one year (billing the city for more than 24 hours in some days), and he abruptly retired in July 2020 amid an […]
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Deputy Jeffrey Bartram (BCSO) was placed on leave in March 2025 as a third deputy implicated in the DWI case dismissal scandal spanning multiple agencies:contentReference[oaicite:27]{index=27}; he had previously been sued for excessive force in a 2019 traffic stop where he allegedly became enraged during a DWI investigation and struck a driver (Adrian Avitia) with punches […]
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Deputy Jeff Hammerel (BCSO) resigned in Feb 2025 and accepted a plea deal for his role in the DWI bribery scandal; he admitted to participating in the scheme to fix DWI cases (known as the “DWI Enterprise”) and was one of the first officers from BCSO to be charged and convicted in the federal investigation:contentReference[oaicite:29]{index=29}.
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Det. Keith Sandy (APD) was one of two officers charged with murder in the March 2014 shooting of James Boyd, a homeless man with mental illness who was camping illegally; Sandy was allowed to retire months after the incident, and although his 2016 trial for second-degree murder ended in a hung jury (with jurors leaning […]
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Officer Dominique Perez was the second officer indicted for James Boyd’s shooting in 2014; he faced charges including second-degree murder alongside Sandy, but their case resulted in a mistrial in 2016 when the jury deadlocked (9-3 for acquittal), and the new District Attorney ultimately dropped the charges rather than retrying the case:contentReference[oaicite:23]{index=23}:contentReference[oaicite:24]{index=24}.