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A Customs officer who screened mail for illegal drugs has been sentenced to home detention and community work for dealing methamphetamine and possessing thousands of objectionable pornographic images and movies. David Wale, 26, earlier pleaded guilty to nine methamphetamine-related charges, including procuring and supplying the Class A drug, and six charges of possessing objectionable publications.

Ronnie Neil Lipscomb Original Article04/02/2013By John ShryockWETUMPKA (WSFA) - A former officer with the Millbrook Police Department was sentenced to jail time Tuesday in regards to possession of child pornography.Ronnie Neil Lipscomb, 44, was...

Lane Rees, a 61-year-old GOP committeeman for Walton County, Fla., was arrested Monday night for possession and transmission of child pornography, according to a Northwest Florida Daily News report, since confirmed by other Florida outlets. Police reportedly searched Rees' house after conducting a month-long investigation that began when authorities received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in February about child pornography being traded by an online profile at his address. Walton County Sheriff Mike Adkinson told the Daily News on Monday that police had found "pretty significant images" matching the tip they'd received. Rees has served as a GOP committeeman since 2008, but has held more powerful positions in local Republican politics in the past. His wife, Brenda, currently serves as Walton County's elected state committeewoman. According to his website, Rees was named Walton's "Man of the Year" in 2011 and has been active in the Evangelical community. He faces up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines for each of the child pornography charges.

That's what Craig Strizzi, a veteran correction officer at the Albany County jail, allegedly told two inmates Wednesday afternoon just before he enlisted them to join him in beating another inmate in the jail's recreation yard. Statements from Strizzi (PDF), the victim and the two inmates charged Monday in the beating shed light on the alleged plot, the lengths Strizzi is accused of going to in an effort to cover up the attack and how it unfolded. "We both talked about how we hated child molesters," Matthew Cahn, one of the inmates charged in the beating, said in his statement to investigators. Strizzi, Cahn and Lauterio Santos are accused of attacking [name withheld], a 20-year-old Albany man held at the jail on charges he raped an 8-year-old boy in Albany's Lincoln Park. "I told Strizzi I would like to get a shot at getting [name withheld] if I could do it without getting into trouble."

Steven Kellock Original Article04/04/2013 A police officer who sexually assaulted a 15-year old girl in an Edinburgh cinema during a church trip, has been placed on the sex offenders' register.Steven Kellock, 40, pled guilty to touching the gir...

A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes. Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and "forced the two females to engage in the use of narcotics and sexual acts."

A Clark County official was arrested Saturday on a child prostitution charge. According to Las Vegas Metro Police Department paperwork, Donald Coburn was arrested for so...

A former Somerset County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty Wednesday to molesting four young girls at his wife's former day care center.Horace Barstow, 67, will serve 10 years in p...

A Manatee County Sheriff's Office lieutenant charged with child molestation has resigned from the sheriff's office. In an letter dated May 23 Lt. Dale Couch, charged with three counts of child mole...

There are new allegations against three former Live Oak County jailers who were convicted in 2012 for violating the civil rights of two female inmates and engaging in improper sexual activi...

Michael Maresh Original Article06/19/2013By Scott Patsko Former North Royalton corrections officer Michael Maresh was sentenced to three years in prison June 17 for sexually assaulting a woman while working as a probation officer for Parma Muni...

A former corrections officer at Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail could face hard time for abusing his position of authority to take sexual liberties with two female ...

A now retired Chester County Prison correctional officer was sentenced to three years of probation Thursday for having a sexual relationship with a female inmate. Retired Cpl. Dale Guye...

Lawyers for both the commonwealth and Earnest Grubbs agreed in court that Grubbs will leave the Blue Ridge Regional Jail's custody and be home tonight. The victim in this case read a hand...

The former Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy Phillip Wentzel plead guilty in federal court to six counts of possession of child pornography. A judge handed down a 40 year p...

A Lexington police sergeant was sentenced to unsupervised probation after a jury found him guilty Wednesday of three counts of misconduct. The jury recommended 150 days in jail for Sgt....

Two Texas women are suing after state troopers subjected them to a humiliating and invasive 'roadside body cavity search' that was caught on video. Female trooper Kellie Helleson is seen in the footage aggressively sea...

A jury has found Denver police officer Hector Paez, 33, guilty of felony kidnapping and rape related to a March 16, 2010 case in which he allegedly drove a female arrestee to a secluded sp...

A former detective with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department was sentenced Friday to ten years in federal prison for violating the constitutional rights of five women by sexually abusing t...

A NSW policeman has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman while he was in Perth for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last year.Ian Ronald Sleigh was off duty at a pub in the enter...