Cop by day, drug lord by night, sounds about right. This fool even had his mother involved in his operation. Why did he do it? He told the judge he was just being stupid. I guess that sounds a bit better than just being greedy and corrupt.

Akron -Former Cleveland police officer Zvonko Sarlog #2343,  police officer, 2nd district, Cleveland,  was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday (2/2008)for moonlighting as a drug trafficker while wearing the badge.

A contrite Sarlog told U.S. District Judge David Dowd during his sentencing hearing that his actions were born of “stupidity, naivety, and foolishness.” The six-year police veteran also said he feared imprisonment because of his law enforcement past.

Sarlog, 37, was arrested in August after a federal investigation exposed his role in a drug ring that brought cocaine and marijuana to Northeast Ohio. Sarlog served as a bagman and coordinator for ring leader and longtime friend Ljubomir Rkman.

Federal prosecutors originally asked Dowd to give Sarlog between 12 and 15 years because the officer breached the public’s trust.

“He’s the only person in the conspiracy who raised his hand and swore to uphold the law,” said U.S. Assistant Attorney Robert Patton.

Dowd, however, gave Sarlog the mandatory minimum of 10 years, mostly because Rkman received a five-year sentence after a plea bargain. Five other co-defendants received sentences between one and four years after plea deals.

Sarlog’s expressions of remorse and shame to Dowd were a far cry from the roguish rhetoric Sarlog used as a drug dealer. During Wednesday’s hearing, prosecutors — in an effort to demonstrate Sarlog’s work as a lieutenant in the ring — played several phone conversations during which Sarlog nervously bossed around his drug-trafficking associates.

Those underlings included his mother Stefanija. After the woman failed to successfully deliver money to a drug courier, Sarlog became agitated and ordered her to try again. “You go and do it,” he said sternly in a phone conversation recorded by investigators.

Stefanija Sarlog, 60, of Parma, was never charged in the conspiracy. Zvonko Sarlog bought a house across the street from his mother’s house and planned to use it as a stash house, according to prosecutors.

FBI Special Agent Brian Young also testified that Sarlog once displayed a gun to an undercover agent and boasted “I run this [expletive]. Over time you’ll see what I’m all about.”

Story from the Cleveland Metro blog

The Lagunajournal website has a great deal of information on Orange County Sheriff, now ex sheriff Mike Carona. Looking through it, I found this story that I have never heard of before today.

This really angers me, as it should all of us. How is this a justifiable shooting?

The Orange County Sheriffs yesterday, were testing a new type of gun. The gun has a camera built into it so there is a record of the shooting from the officers perspective. The crying from the cops over this technology is a post in itself, seems they believe a camera to be unfair and biased… yes, the camera has a point of view that can not be twisted, the suspect either had a gun or did not… that seems to scare them. Why?

The writer of this Commentary is a minor. Name is withheld.

Off Duty U.S. Customs officer shoots unarmed 19-year old Arab-American in head and face according to eye witness’s. Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona ’s spokesmen stated that officer committed no wrong-doing and did not even take him in for questioning.

This incident happened about 15 minutes from my house in the Madrid apartment complex in Mission Viejo, CA on Feb 5, 2005.

As far as a political discussion, this would probably fall under the same category as Amadou Diallo Case, and Abner Louima in an example of law enforcement brutality bordering on outright criminality. Here are the relevant facts:

Early in the morning on Saturday February the 6th around 1:30 am, Bassim Chmait along with three other friends were walking through an apartment complex heading towards a college house party. As they were walking through the apartment complex one of the neighbors threw a soda can at them from above. In frustration, one of the young boys threw the can into the street, and continued walking down the pathway of the apartment heading to the party. At that point Douglas Bates, an off duty U.S. Custom’s officer, left his home with his badge in hand and gun drawn confronting the group of 4 to 6 friends. . he started to yell at them, and when the group of boys turned around, they saw the provoker yelling at them about laughing and being too loud, he was heading towards them pointing his gun a them with a badge in the other hand, yelling “You don’t want to fuck with a cop, do you?” Apparently he was upset at the noise and commotion. Mr. Bates then pistol whipped one member of the group. The aggressor was an off duty border patrol/homeland security officer who was not in uniform, his name is Douglas Bates. The four unarmed boys were questioning him, asking why he was pointing his gun at them and begging him to put it down. One of the four boys that were there kept asking the gunman to stop pointing the barrel of the gun in his friends direction. Because of that, the aggressor pistol-whipped his friend on the forehead w/ the gun. Anticipating that the provoker was going to hit his friend again Chmait Bassim got in front of his friends telling the man to please put the gun down. Almost instantly the off duty cop shot Bassim in the head and face by Douglas Bates. After shooting Bassim, Mr. Bates simply walked back into his apartment. While friends were screaming about what happened to Bassim, neighbors dialed 911. About 5 minutes later the murderer opened his door, with the gun still in hand and yelled at neighbors to shut up, and he want back inside his apartment.

This story comes straight from four witnesses, and neighbors that were there when the murder took place, they saw and heard everything that occurred that night.

You would think that this would be an easy case to prosecute. You would think that Douglas Bates is in jail right now. But he’s not, he’s a free man, he was never arrested, he was never charged, he was never even asked to come to the police station to give a statement. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman, Jim Amormino stated, “We treated this the same as we would any case. There was no clear evidence of a crime being committed, so there was nothing to book him on.”

Here are the reports that this information was taken from:

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So today I see that Nancy Pelosi (speaker of the house) got a bail out for salmon fisherman put through using her power as speaker and bypassing vote (see earmark reform).

174 million dollars for Salmon fisherman who now need to stoop to catching other fish because the Salmon are low… wait a minute…

This smells a bit foul, here’s why

the fisherman are getting 6 figure checks based on work they do not need to do.

The fisherman are picking a “GREAT” season between 2002 and 2005 and are allowed to be reimbursed for the highest season’ s earnings. Talk about living the American dream.

They are not out of work, they just have to catch other fish in the meantime, but they are still getting a paycheck for the boats they did not run, hands they did not employ, gas they did not use, in trying to catch Salmon… so they get 2 paydays this year. 1 for the Best Catch Ever (from US TaxPayers) and one for this seasons(if they feel like working since they already are getting paid for their best catch in years).

Sounds like a great gig, and… they got a part of this last year also for smaller catches. I do not want my kid to go to college, hell NO, he needs to get a farm or fishing boat! Why work if you don’t need to.. right? that seems to be Nancy Pelosi’s argument.

Can someone reimburse me for the years of diminished tech wages? I mean, my engineering degrees mean shit nowadays when most Tech and programming jobs have been outsourced to India at 1/10th our pay.

I don’t even bother with programming anymore since all I even hear is “the guys in India will do it for 50 cents”, So its not done right… but hey, at those prices they can come back and pay Americans to fix it saving thousands.

Anyway, the fisherman are going to Aruba on me, getting their biggest payday in 5 years having never worked at all… and if they would like to work, then they can. I mean, a fish is a fish is a fish… OK, they may not pay as well per pound, but isn’t that a fact of life?

Nancy says it’s a national emergency, These boys can’t keep the kids in private schools without it! The news reported the average check was 100k…. for not working! When I get laid off I get unemployment that caps out at $420 or so a week in California.

BTW, Katrina victims who lost all due to city levy issues got about $2500 a piece… Those fools should have bought a boat and fished for salmon in the flooded river. Today, they would be sitting phat!

Nancy and friends, go buy some salmon, its not an expense… its just money back into your own pockets.

Yesterday, something horrible happened in a high school. 3 boys were accused of drugging and raping 3 girls in a park, a public restroom until stopped by on lookers. Because of a few very very bad eggs 1000’s of other boys get the same punishments for never even having committed a crime.

News like that causes hysteria and panic, the lawmakers trying to boost popularity make harsher laws to treat the good, bad and every one in between in the same manner as the worst offender.

You see, you can’t get a whole bunch of tax money over a few bad eggs, but you can get it in truck loads if you scare the public into believing it’s an epidemic.

Read this letter and think twice before judging or voting on more money towards tracking these perverts of society. (BTW, less than 15% of the registry is even considered serious or violent but all get the same treatment from the serial rapist/murderer(.0001%) to the high school sweetheart). If you don’t believe me, it’s public and you can count how many for yourself.

I was born 22 years ago to a middle class family. We lived in the suburbs, my dad a carpenter and my mom waited tables part time. We had money for most things, not rich, but able to afford yearly vacations and such.

Growing up, I was never the cool or popular kid. I was shy I guess. I got bullied a bit in school as most kids do at some point or another. In Jr. High, the girls never liked me, I was a bit geeky I guess. I loved math and science and that wasn’t the coolest thing to be into.

In high school, my luck with girls didn’t improve much until my senior year when I met a girl who thought I was great. I thought she was incredible, funny, brilliant and HOT. We dated all through my last year of school, I was a senior and she was a freshman. That did not matter, we had a great time together.

I graduated and she went into the next grade. It was summer. I applied at a few colleges to study law and she was so proud of me. The school I chose was only a few hours away so we could see each other on weekends.

We had never had sex, but discussed it, she wasn’t ready and I was not gonna push her. One summer night we ended up at the beach, we dismissed the “close at dusk” signs and went anyway. We were caught making out and charged with trespassing. It was kinda awkward but funny. Her parents picked her up from the station and I was just allowed to leave with a ticket being an adult now.

About a month later, my parents (who I live with) got a call asking me to come into the station for an interview, I did. The police asked me what we were doing on the beach. I told them it was a date, we thought it was romantic. They asked me if I knew her age. I said of course, we had been dating for a year now. We met in high school , 2 semesters back. They asked if we had sex. I replied “is that your business? but no, we haven’t yet. They wanted to know what we had done and I told them we kissed and played around a bit, but that is all.

To make a long story short, I got charged with child molestation and spent the next 6 months in jail. I am now a registered sex offender and my college education is but a dream. I am not allowed to live at home with my family because I have a younger brother who is 13. I am classified a violent predator, a child molester and my photo is on the sex offender website. My parents have now become separated over this and how much money has been spent on making sure I am not homeless since I can not get a job nor live at home. My college scholarships were revoked over this and my parents took out a loan for my college tuition that they still have to pay interest on.

My little brother keeps running away and if I even go near him to talk to him, I can go to prison for 3 to 7 years. My now ex girlfriend is over 18 and has become addicted to meth. I have not seen her in years but I hear this from others. My life is over, I can never have a family since I can never be around kids and what woman would want me now anyways, jobless, homeless and a status of violent child predator? Another law in my state is getting passed that says registered offenders can not live within a few miles of a school or park. There is one of each in every community so I have no idea where to go. Like most in my situation I will go where they would like us to be, in prison.

The difference between you and this sorry fool, he got caught doing what every teen does.

The laws in many states say that a 3 year age difference, even when both are juveniles is a “sexual predatory” offense and molestation with life long consequences. So why do most schools open the door by being 4 to 5 year schools? Do they expect high schoolers to alienate themselves from junior classes? WTF? sick ass unjust shit.

I wish that boy luck, but I know he will never get any luck nor justice. The witch hunt for the high (state dollars) paying predator incarcerations continues. Especially now since marijuana is becoming legal in many states and the 2 to 5 year jail sentences for possession are but a memory of money lost to corrections unions… the money has to come from somewhere … and there are tons of teens. The few horrific crimes in recent years also put them into the “public safety above all” clause allowing a persons rights to fly out a speeding cop cars window. Basic human rights, living in a home, privacy(address not published unless crime involved violence), having family, kids and FREEDOM. Do you smell that, I do, Our  Beloved Constitution Burning.

more than most…

In not many professions can you screw up badly and get a paid vacation as punishment, however, if you are in law enforcement it seems to be your right.

Steal a few kilos of dope, rape, rob and pillage and you will in fact be suspended with pay. Now, if the story gets out and people are angry that you are in fact not working for the taxpayers yet still getting paid, you will get the worst, un-paid leave, but to make up for the loss of pay, the Union will step in and pay your salary. So, no harm no foul, We really “punished” law enforcement that crossed the line to criminal.

Wow, I wonder if I can steal some shit, murder a few “SUSPECTS“, get caught and get a long paid vacation to boot! Vacation on a Mexican resort(maybe Europe or Bahamas), not San Quentin, mind you.

This political cartoon says it all!

Seems a state social worker got very lazy one day and decided to go on an extended sick leave. Now, she really wasn’t sick (well, maybe just sick in the head), so she made up a cancer, forged the papers and collected taxpayer money for doing so.

Sandra Dee Martinez, 40, never was diagnosed with brain cancer and instead faked letters from phony doctors to get paid sick leave, work half-days and land certain duties in the department, according to court documents.

State Social worker accused of faking cancer to steal from state and how did she get caught? her own stupidity. She typed one of her forgeries on someone else’s computer and did not delete it.

Every doctor’s name was made-up and all documents were forged. The woman since then has moved out of state and I gotta wonder if she will be allowed to get away with her cancer scam.

The woman received $21,000 in paid leave after forging letters from doctors, prosecutors allege.

By Diana Hefley, Herald Writer, the story from the Herald

ARLINGTON — When a state social worker announced she had malignant brain tumors, she received $21,000 in paid leave, lots of time off from work, and extra sick days generously donated by co-workers pulling for her in her fight against a terrifying disease.

Turns out the tumors were only a sick ploy to steal from the state Department of Social and Health Services, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.

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This is from a few years back in Washington, I believe, but I gotta say I wonder how this got resolved. It sickens me that anyone else would have been charged with something… involuntary manslaughter, disturbing the peace… something. I wonder if anyone was, unfortunately we have no way to know because the killers name was withheld.

The story goes as so, an optometrist was being investigated for illegal gambling. The police went to arrest him, an unarmed optometrist leaving his home, and one of the cops shot him dead.

They claim it was accidental and the gun went off due to an act of God or something. There are a few problems with the story… like, why are they even pulling guns on an unarmed man who poses no risk and if they were not holding him at gunpoint, how does a holstered gun pointing down shoot the man. hmmm.

The point is why does this go, unnoticed. The more this type of thing happens, the wider the door is opened towards complete corruption by being “protected” and above “every regular man’s” law.

Can we have a friendly competition at everyone else’s expense? sure you can if you are an LA Sheriff. What do you get if you win? Who knows but they say its bragging rights only. So our rights get sacrifised to ego boost and bragging rights at the cop bar (BTW, the only bar in town no one EVER gets a DUI out of)?

So basically, they get to “blow off steam” for the day by fucking with people and looking for any reason to do so. This is done for what? to boost ego and make a sport out of peoples lives?

Before some fool reads this and says… but they are only targeting criminals, I can say, totally not true. When bored, they can screw with anyone. I may have felt the same way except an odd thing happened to me last year.

Where I live is paroled by the LA Sheriffs, this is a low crime area and they are normally seen on the side of the canyon road running license plates at random.

My 7 year old son and I went to the store, Upon leaving the store, I put the kid in the backseat, put on the seatbelt and walked around to the drivers side. At that time, the Sheriffs pulled in the lot and saw that my tags were expired. They stopped. before they even told me about the tags, I told them “I know the tags expired and the paperwork for the new tags is in the passenger visor”. I was behind my trunk and started walking back to the passenger side to get the DMV papers. I took a step and the Sheriff started yelling at me and reached for his gun. They ordered me against my trunk, and to put my chin on the trunk with my hands behind my back. I did.

They asked if they could search my purse and car, I said why? They said they do not need to explain anything to me. I said, no. My son is in my car and at this point I could hear him crying. I asked if I could go talk to my son and they said NO.

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Sheriff’s academy halts training for cadets as questions of cheating arise.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s cheating, incompetence and lack of intelligence  blamed on Fox Reality.

Yes, It seems that Fox filming the reality series The Academy distracted the cadets so much that the instructors had no choice but to allow them to cheat to pass the exams. Some of the instructors had such little confidence that the class would pass that they actually gave the cadets the answers to the tests before they took them… to make sure they would pass, sadly, even then many failed and were allowed to re-take the test unill they did pass.

Of course, none of this was going on before the Fox camera crew got there.. hmmm.

The report also said inspectors heard anecdotal reports about students who were not required to pass the physical-conditioning sessions and who failed firearms and driving tests and were retested multiple times.

Well maybe that explains some of those “accidental” suspect shootings. Actually, I can now see that excuse used at the next trial for shooting an unarmed suspect or some police brutality issue. “Your Honor, It was not my fault, I was not properly trained and my instructor passed me even though I missed the broad side of the barn…. 37 times”

Anyway, they have a month to fix the cheating issue.

Did I mention, glad to see they are teaching them to lie and cheat right out of the gate, or before they even reach the gate, in order to protect their own ass and get what they want.

I bet the Orange County Sheriffs are breathing a sigh of relief that it wasn’t them getting busted this time.

from the Daily News, the full story on the LA Sheriffs new problem

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has ordered training for new recruits at the Sheriff’s Training Academy halted for a month amid questions raised by state inspectors over equipment, crowding, testing-security procedures and whether filming of a reality TV show at the academy is distracting cadets from training.

The temporary halt came May 6 after Baca recently received a copy of the inspection report from the state Commission on Peace Officers Standards & Training, which certifies law enforcement academies and reviewed the sheriff’s facilities last June and July.

Among the findings, POST inspectors cited some instructors who gave cadets answers to test questions and allowed others to retake driving tests multiple times in order to pass, according to a copy of the confidential 29-page report obtained by the Daily News.

“Significant test security issues were identified during the certification review,” the authors wrote. “In one instance, the (training officers) staff was reportedly directed to take a test into the classroom and give the answers to the students.”

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