It Couldn’t Happen Here?: Deputy has to chase own patrol car

Published 5:04 pm Tuesday, June 27, 2017

The number of teens working a summer job is at a record low this year. And officials like those in Gardenia, Ala., may be part of the reason why. The city requires teens there who wish to pick up a few dollars by mowing a neighbor’s yard to obtain a $110 business license.

In order to promote positive body images, Carleton University in Canada has removed all scales from its gym.

German police staged raids on homes across the nation, arresting 36 people. Were the people they arrested accused of planning terrorism? Being part of a criminal organization? No, they are accused of posting mean things on the internet.

A Miami County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputy was caught on video chasing his own patrol car on foot. The deputy was making an otherwise routine traffic stop when he failed to put the car in park and it rolled away and he had to run after it. The driver he pulled over can be heard saying to him “I bet that don’t happen everyday.”

Former New York City police officer Jonathan Munoz faced up to 16 years in prison after being convicted of four felony charges for illegally searching a woman and illegally arresting a man filming him. Prosecutors asked that Munoz be sentenced to six months in jail followed by five years probation. Instead, the judge sentenced him to 100 hours of community service.

A former police officer in Michigan faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to unlawful imprisonment. Erich Fritz had been charged with rape and kidnapping. He pulled a man over for DUI, then took a female passenger in the car, who was also drunk, to a hotel where sexually assaulted her.

Police in Mason County, Wash., say a dispute over a dead raccoon ended with a man being shot. They say the man was pulling a raccoon that had been killed by a car behind him with a rope. Two vehicles stopped and people got out and confronted him, thinking he was dragging a dead dog. One of the people shot him.

South Carolina’s Cindy Richmond says she’s going to have to shop for some new clothes for her newborn son. The boy was born weighing 14.4 pounds, and Richmond says none of the clothes she bought while she was pregnant will fit him.

Charles Oliver is a staff writer for the Daily Citizen-News.