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Three police officers and a prison guard arrested, and another prison guard gets sent to prison. Once again, we present the corrosive impact of the drug war on police ethics and morality in all its mundane banality. Let's get to it:
In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the former police chief is charged with leaking word of an impending drug raid. Former Chief Rolf Garcia and his 17-year-old son were arrested April 19 on charges Garcia told his son about a looming raid in February 2006, and his son called four other people to warn them. As a result, two men escaped the residence that was th... Read more
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Marshalltown Times Republican
10 December 2007
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Marshalltown police accused of
A former resident is accusing some officers in the Marshalltown Police Department of misconduct during the course of his arrest last month.
Joe Leavy, presently of Ankeny, said that he was unnecessarily treated roughly when police arrested him on an outstanding warrant from Polk County.
It all started when Leavy and a female companion were at a bar and decided to go back to her apartment, he said.
According to the female companion, Angie Hamilton, “Officer Rick Bellile saw me and ended up bringing me home on this evening.”
Once arriving back at her apartment, Leavy approached the officer and they “exchanged words,” according to Leavy. He asked the officer how he made the determination in who to arrest for driving while intoxicated and who he simply gave rides home.
Apparently, Leavy insinuated that the leniency may have had something to do with the attractiveness of the person involved.
“After that, we went inside and went to bed,” Leavy told the Times-Republican. “The next thing I know, they are busting through the door.”
Leavy believes the officer was mad over his accusations and performed a background check on him.
He then claims the officer, along with several others surrounded him in the bedroom and used pepper spray on both him and Hamilton.
Eventually, he claims he was dragged out of the apartment naked and made to wait outside for several minutes on a very cold night.
In addition to the outstanding warrant, he was arrested for resisting arrest and false imprisonment, charges that he and Hamilton both deny.
“I did not go with Joe against my will,” Hamilton wrote in a letter. “It was clear.”
Further, Hamilton claims “Joe did not attempt to resist arrest as I was there and he had no time to react.”
When asked about the incident, Chief Lon Walker claims the truth of the matter is somewhat different than what Leavy and Hamilton are claiming.
“Mr. Leavy’s and Ms. Hamilton’s stories have changed significantly since the incident,” he said, but declined to go into details because the case is pending in court.
Still, the chief reiterated, “You are not being told the real story. If Mr. Leavy wishes to make a complaint about how he was treated, there are procedures to do that, but we won’t try the case in the newspaper. He needs to contact Capt. [Brian] Batterson to start a complaint process rolling.”
The chief also suggested a court case earlier this week might provide some insight into Leavy’s character.
In that case, Leavy was charged with approximately 40 violations of a no-contact order against his ex-wife. Numerous text messages were read in court, along with a voice mail recording, in which Leavy used language that could be considered abusive and inappropriate.
His family alluded that the abusive language went both ways.
Despite the messages, the cases against Leavy was dismissed on a technicality.
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