Fairfax County Cop Convicted of Forcibly Sodomizing Ex-Girlfriend

Fairfax County Cop Convicted of Forcibly Sodomizing Ex-Girlfriend
As we've been saying for years, the Fairfax County Police are out of control

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Accuser's directions match GPS tracking of former cop accused of raping arrestee


By Patrick McNamara

The trial of a former Tucson Police officer accused of raping an arrestee continues today in Pima County Superior Court.
The internal affairs detective who investigated Benjamin Gaballa testified Friday that the woman who accused the former officer of rape in 2013 was able to guide investigators directly to the location where the alleged assault occurred. Her directions corresponded with GPS information taken from Gaballa’s squad car.
A police crime lab analyst testified that palm and fingerprints of the woman, whose identity the Arizona Daily Star has protected, were found on the rear passenger side of Gaballa’s squad car as well as on the side of the prisoner screen that separates arrestees from officers.

The detective testified that when he inspected Gaballa’s car, it was covered with dirt and dust except for portions of the rear passenger side quarter panel, which appear to have been wiped clean.


Thursday, May 22, 2014

SC cop charged with fondling


CHARLESTON, S.C. — A Charleston police transportation officer has been arrested after a woman said he fondled her while she was being taken to jail.
Forty-three-year-old Kermit A. Jenkins has been charged with second-degree sexual misconduct. Jenkins is being held in the Charleston County jail. It was not clear if he has a lawyer.
Police spokesman Charles Francis says Jenkins is accused of reaching under a woman’s skirt early on May 4. The woman filed a complaint the next day.
Jenkins was placed on administrative duties with pay May 5. Francis says Jenkins’ pay was stopped May 14, and he was fired after his arrest.

Francis says Jenkins had been with the department since 2012. He was not a sworn police officer. 

Trial begins for former TPD officer accused of sexually assaulting inmate


Justin Schecker


TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - The trial began today for a former Tucson Police officer accused of sexually assaulting a woman while transporting her to the Pima County jail.
TPD fired 24-year-old Benjamin Gaballa in August of last year after investigating claims he had inappropriate contact with an inmate.
 A month later after continuing its investigation, police arrested Gaballa on charges of sexual abuse and sexual assault.
 Gaballa has pleaded not guilty.
 During opening statements, Gaballa's defense attorneys said they plan to call on a DNA forensic expert who will provide evidence the sexual encounter never happened.
 The former police officer sat in court Wednesday and listened as prosecutors called on the now 29-year-old woman accusing him of rape.
 "I've been arrested other times and they know I'm going to jail," she said. "They never put me in the car and take me somewhere and took off my handcuffs, it never happened before."
 Gaballa and another officer, who was the first witness of the trial, responded to a domestic violence call at an apartment complex near 1st Ave. and Prince on the morning of Aug. 20.
 After verifying the woman had violated a court order of protection, Gaballa handcuffed her and placed her in his patrol car. She told the jury Gaballa made her an offer while driving away from the apartment complex.
 "You're looking at a lot of time," she said. "I know you don't want to go to jail for at least a year, almost a year, so I said no i don't, and he was like well I can help you, something for something."
 She continued by saying Gaballa drove to a parking garage at Grant and Campbell. After taking off her handcuffs, she says Gaballa pressed up up against his cop car and raped her.
 She ran and made it all the way to the road before he took her into custody again, she said.
 Before arresting him on the sex abuse charges in September, the police department says it fired Gaballa on Aug. 22 for falsifying a police report, mishandling evidence and lying to his supervisor.
 Police say Gaballa lied about his location. His statements about where he was after the apprehension on Aug. 22 did not match up with his car's GPS tracker.
 The trial continues Thursday morning. 



Suspended officer resigns from San Diego Police Department


SAN DIEGO - A San Diego police officer accused of sexual misconduct on the job has resigned from the department.
In February, Officer Donald Moncrief was placed on paid leave because a woman claimed he sexually assaulted her and exposed himself as he was taking her to jail. Moncrief was suspended but has not been charged.
His attorney says he reluctantly resigned "in order to avoid having to give a compelled statement in the SDPD's administrative investigation."


Monday, May 19, 2014

Statesboro Officer Charged with Public Indecency


By Ansley Christain, Producer -

BULLOCH COUNTY, GA - A Statesboro Police officer has been fired from the department after he was allegedly caught exposing himself in a parking lot.
Officers were called just before 10 a.m. Wednesday morning to the Statesboro Crossing shopping center about a male exposing himself in a vehicle.
Matthew Kyle McMurray, 27, was arrested on the spot.

Statesboro Police Corporal Justin Samples says McMurray was off-duty at the time of his arrest and was terminated after he was taken to the Bulloch County Jail.

San Jose Police Officer Accused Of Raping Woman On Duty Charged With Assaulting Ex-Girlfriend


SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A San Jose police officer accused of raping a woman while on duty pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two new felony assault charges filed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, a prosecutor said.
Prosecutors charged Geoffrey Evatt Graves, 38, with assaulting and leaving visible injuries upon an ex-girlfriend on Dec. 26, 2012 as well as sometime between March 1 and June 30 of last year, Deputy District Attorney Carlos Vega said.
The district attorney’s office learned of the alleged incidents involving Graves’ former girlfriend while investigating a separate case in which he is accused of raping a woman inside a San Jose hotel room last Sept. 22 while working as an officer.
Graves, who pleaded not guilty to the rape charge on April 14, entered the same plea in Superior Court in San Jose to the two new counts of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse.
Judge Hector Ramon set a hearing for July 1 to consider a defense motion for discovery in the case. The judge also granted Graves’ request for a 977 wavier, which will not require the defendant, who is free on $100,000 bail, to appear in person at future court proceedings in the case.
Vega, who filed an amended complaint Tuesday, claimed that Graves’ former girlfriend, identified only as “Laura Doe,” reported that on Dec. 26, 2012, she sustained injuries to her hands while she and Graves struggled for a set of keys.
Then on an occasion between March 1 and June 30, 2013, during a verbal fight with Graves, the girlfriend attempted to escape and closed a door behind her, but Graves allegedly “kicked” in the door and “it busted open and slammed into her face,” Vega said.
“In both of these occurrences, the victim was visibly injured,” Vega said.
When the door allegedly hit the woman, she suffered cuts to her head and lip, Vega said.
The two new counts of felony assault were within the three-year statute of limitations to file the charges, Vega said.
“Our investigation is ongoing and we are constantly seeking new leads as they arise,” Vega said.
Graves is still on paid administrative leave from the police force, Vega said.
Graves left the courtroom in the Hall of Justice Tuesday without comment while accompanied by his attorney Darlene Bagley.
In the alleged rape case against Graves, prosecutors claim that around 2 a.m. on Sept. 22, the officer and a second officer responded to a call about an argument between the victim and her husband.
The husband and wife had been consuming alcohol at their San Jose residence. The woman told the officers she wanted to spend the night at a hotel where she used to work and Graves drove her there around 2:30 a.m.
According to prosecutors, Graves returned about 15 minutes later, knocked on the door, went into the room, threw the woman on the bed, took off parts of his uniform and her clothing and raped her.
According to Vega, the officer had phoned in his position at the hotel to police earlier and then left for about 35 minutes.
Vega said that prosecutors have forensic evidence that a rape occurred and “our victim is very credible.”
Graves’ accuser in the rape case, who has not been identified, did not report the alleged sexual assault until Oct. 15, when she related the incident to police while she was being booked on suspicion of DUI in San Jose, according to Vega.
The woman pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor DUI charge in January, received a standard sentence of serving weekends with a work detail and her report of the rape charge had no impact on how the district attorney handled the DUI case, Vega said.


Monday, May 12, 2014

Fired Memphis officer charged with rape


MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say a former Memphis police officer who was fired last year for intimidating a motorist has been indicted on unrelated rape charges.
The Shelby County district attorney's office says 27-year-old Darrell Malone is charged with raping a 20-year-old woman he met at a Memphis mall.
Malone is accused of raping the woman at his apartment in the Cordova suburb.
Online court records do not show if Malone has a lawyer. He is free on $50,000 bond.
Malone was fired in February after a motorist said Malone flashed his gun at him after the two exchanged words in traffic.




Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Ex-girlfriend of cop she accused of rape testifies at his department trial



The woman took the stand against Officer Arthur Roldan, who she accused of raping her in a parking lot in Staten Island while he held a gun to her. Roldan’s department trial could lead to him losing his job, though he’s been on paid suspension since the 2012 incident.

BY TINA MOORE

A petite woman said she fought back against her cop ex-boyfriend, but the brawny officer raped her at gunpoint in the back seat of his car in testimony at his departmental trial Monday.
"I pulled, but I couldn't pull more than he was pulling," the woman said in Spanish through an interpreter at the hearing for Officer Arthur Roldan, 29. "I would have liked to do a lot of things, but I didn't because I was afraid of the gun."
Roldan made headlines when he was accused of raping the woman on July 31, 2012, in his car in a Midland Beach, Staten Island parking lot. But a grand jury declined to indict him.
Roldan, who lives on Staten Island, has been on paid suspension ever since but could lose his job if found guilty of the departmental charges against him, including having sex without the woman’s consent and threatening her with a gun.
A source said a disciplinary trial can move forward despite the grand jury’s decision so the NYPD can determine if an officer did anything against department standards.
The woman testified that Roldan pulled her from the front seat into the back seat by her arms and forced her on top of him as he sat with his pistol in one hand.
Despite her fears, she said she was able to scratch his face.
She reported the incident to police only 20 minutes later.
Outside the courtroom at 1 Police Plaza, Roldan defended himself, saying the woman was his girlfriend for two years and that the sex was consensual.
 “There was no sign of any trauma at all,” he said, adding that he never took his gun out of its holster and that he drove her home afterward.
He also said he had frequently given the woman money, including helping her with rent, and that the two had been texting about having sex right before they met.
“We were going to go to a hotel,” he said.
He questioned how she had the money for a long list of plastic surgeries, including breast augmentation, buttocks injections, full-body hair removal and a nose job.
Roger Blank, Roldan’s lawyer, said there are inconsistencies in the woman’s version of events.
Roldan is an eight-year veteran of the force.





Former Newport News cop sentenced to 12 years, all suspended



Christopher Roush exposed himself to people passing by his home in April 2013
Former Newport News master police officer Christopher Roush was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in jail -- all suspended -- for exposing himself and performing an "obscene sexual display" to people passing by his home last year. (Newport News Police / May 10, 2013)


NEWPORT NEWS — A former Newport News master police officer was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in jail — all suspended — for exposing himself and performing an "obscene sexual display" to people passing by his home last year.
Christopher Roush, 42, was found guilty in January of the 12 misdemeanor charges against him — with the judge throwing out a felony charge that was filed on the basis that one of the passing car's passengers was a 14-year-old girl.
In the April 2013 incident, several people testified they saw Roush standing "completely naked" in his doorway on Harpersville Road about 9 a.m. one Saturday morning. Several witnesses said Roush appeared to be masturbating with one hand and holding the glass storm door open with the other.
Roush — who lost his job over the incident — testified he has no memory of what happened. He said he came home from work at 1 a.m. after working the night shift and "started to drink liquor." When Roush woke up the next afternoon and was told what he had done, he said, he "couldn't believe it."
On Thursday, Roush faced up to 12 years in prison, or up to a year on each of the 12 charges.
The outside prosecutor, Suffolk Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney James E. Wiser, asked the judge to send Roush to jail.
"As public officials and certainly law enforcement officials, prosecutors and police officers should be held to a higher standard," Wiser said in an interview. "We've sworn an oath and are entrusted by the public to uphold the laws of the commonwealth," and to make sure that people are "not unfortunately exposed to this type of behavior."
Roush's lawyer, Robert W. Lawrence, pushed for a suspended sentence, saying police officers are no different than others in their limitations. "They're human beings, too," he said in an interview. "They have all the frailties that all humans have."
Circuit Court Judge Ted Markow, the retired Richmond judge substituting on the case, suspended the entire jail term, saying "he couldn't do anything more to hurt (Roush) than he's already done to himself," Lawrence said.
Wiser added: "He just felt in this particular factual scenario, the defendant had lost enough, and he didn't think active jail time would help."
Roush, who testified at Thursday's hearing, now lives with his brother in Maryland and is getting alcohol and mental health treatment.
In January, Roush said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of several serious on-duty incidents between 2004 and 2012, and turned to alcohol to cope.
That included, for example, a 2005 fire in which he saw a little boy trying to get out of an upstairs window. Roush was unable to get up the stairs to save him. Another little girl who was heavily burned in that fire also died, he said.
In 2010, when Roush was known as Christopher Miner, two juries acquitted him on charges that he sexually assaulted two women in 2009.
The suspended sentence imposed Thursday is conditioned on good behavior. Roush must refrain from alcohol and drugs, have no contact with the people he exposed himself to, and can't work in law enforcement. He was also put on supervised probation for two years.
Roush was happy with the sentence, Lawrence said. "It worked out well," Lawrence said. "He knows what he did was totally inappropriate, and acknowledges very candidly that alcohol was the root of his problem. He understands that he cannot drink at all."

Dujardin can be reached by phone at 247-4749.

No jail time for former Newport News police officer




Newport News, Va. – A former Newport News police officer was sentenced to suspended jail time on 12 counts of indecent exposure and obscene sexual behavior charges Thursday.
Several of Christopher Roush’s neighbors called police in April 2013 when they saw him fondling himself while naked on his front porch.
Roush’s attorney said the judge felt Roush needed mental health and substance abuse treatment and not hard jail time.  His 12 year suspended jail time is contingent on his continuation of mental health and alcohol abuse counseling.
Roush first made headlines in 2009 when he was charged with sexually assaulting two women he dated.  The Newport News Police Department suspended him without pay after his arrest, but they gave him his job back in 2010 when two juries acquitted him of the charges.
He was again fired when he was arrested again in April 2013.

His attorney told NewsChannel 3 Roush is in Maryland with family members and is continuing his treatment there.

Rifkin attorney wants rape charge dropped




By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI -

SYCAMORE – An attorney for the former NIU police officer accused of raping a student off-duty and off-campus in October 2011 wants prosecutors to stick with a position once they adopt it. Even if they are different prosecutors.
Defense Attorney Bruce Brandwein filed a formal request this week asking a judge to toss the charges against Andrew Rifkin, 26, of Northbrook, because former State’s Attorney Clay Campbell dropped them after a judge found NIU police had mishandled evidence in the case.
After he defeated Campbell in the November 2012 election, State’s Attorney Richard Schmack reinstated the case, stating Campbell had not consulted the alleged victim before dropping the charge.
In his motion, Brandwein cites a legal concept called judicial estoppel.
“Under the judicial estoppel doctrine, where a party assumes a certain position in a legal proceeding and succeeds in maintaining that position, he may not thereafter, simply because his interests have changed, assume a contrary position,” Brandwein wrote in the motion.
But Schmack said the judicial estoppel doesn’t apply to this situation, as Campbell did not make a legal argument when he dismissed the charges.
Campbell made a statement before doing so, but prosecutors have the authority to drop or file charges without providing an explanation, Schmack said. Schmack’s office cannot be pursuing a legal position contrary to Campbell’s, because Campbell didn’t present one to begin with, Schmack said. Rifkin’s case is next due in court July 1. If convicted of criminal sexual assault, Rifkin could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison; probation would not be an option.