In the early morning hours of April 29, 1995, San Bernardino County Deputy Sheriff Robert Ashton was at a Rancho Cucamonga restaurant when the screams of a waitress caught his attention. Ashton was directed by the waitress toward a group of suspects in a vehicle in the restaurant’s parking lot, […]
Yearly Archives: 1997
Arbitrator Lawrence Corbett recently ruled that Oakland Police Officer Craig Chew was improperly removed from the Canine Unit. He reminded the City that; “not only have there been no complaints sustained with respect to Officer Chew, but there is also no way of retroactively reconstructing and investigating each incident.” The […]
BART Police Officer L.A. Bush represented by LDF panel attorney Gail Kavanagh of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, has been reinstated to her former position in a case that is not only a victory for the officer but also reconfirms the importance of a thorough and impartial investigation in establishing just […]
Almost one year after he was terminated as a Glenn County Sheriff’s Deputy, Todd James received justice. The Board of Supervisors unanimously ordered him reinstated and awarded full back pay and benefits. James was charged with a number of offenses related to his work on the Narcotics Task Force. The […]
In July 1994, 14—year veteran Huntington Beach Patrol Officer Tom Lovin observed a red Ferrari with a license plate which read “L84AD8″. Upon running the plates the vehicle came back registered to Nicole Brown Simpson. Unbeknownst to Lovin, CLETS had issued a statewide bulletin advising local agencies to stop running […]