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In a case the Nassau County district attorney called “the most egregious betrayal of the badge imaginable,” a former Queens police officer has been arrested for selling guns from his precinct’s evidence room on the streets of Long Island.

Hubertus Vannes, 30, of Roslyn Heights, was arrested yesterday, shortly after two men accused of working with him were also picked up by law enforcement officials.

“You have a police officer who swore to protect the people he served, and instead he went out and betrayed them,” Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said at a news conference yesterday.

Prosecutors said Vannes, who worked for three years in the NYPD’s 110th precinct in Queens until earlier this year, stole several guns from his precinct’s property bureau and sold them to Anthony Vitta, 44, of East Meadow, who prosecutors say dealt arms and prescription drugs.

An East Meadow pharmacy owner, Howard Brass, 48, of North Bellmore, was arrested for forging prescriptions, then funneling illegal drugs to Vitta to sell, prosecutors said.

Defense attorneys could not be reached for comment.

Prosecutors said they began investigating the case in February after they got a tip that someone was dealing guns and prescription drugs in East Meadow. Undercover investigators bought guns from Vitta, and quickly traced them back to Vannes’ precinct, which had reported them missing.

NYPD spokesman Martin Speechley declined to comment on the stolen guns. He would not comment on the reason why Vannes left the force.

Through Vitta, prosecutors tracked down Brass, the owner of Meadow Drugs in East Meadow. They said Brass fabricated patient names and prescriptions to dispense hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs to Vitta, who resold them.

All three men pleaded not guilty to various drug and weapon charges.

Indiana tax dollars well spent on a bunch of idiots!

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A SWAT team raids the wrong home in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and now the homeowner wants some answers.

Police said they were led to the Village Apartments on the trail of fugitive Sean Deaton.

Convinced he was inside apartment 407G, the Lawrenceburg SWAT unit surrounded the building.

“It looked like they were ready to go to war,” one neighbor said. “Some of the ones out here had AR15’s and shotguns.”

Neighbors said police spent hours ordering Deaton to surrender.

But when that didn’t work, they responded with tear gas and forced entry.

“It looked like my apartment was on fire. The smoke was just blowing out of my windows,” Kayla Irwin, the tenant of 407G said.

Irwin, a single mother of two, said she is unable to live in her apartment and didn’t even know the man police were searching for.

Now, she said, she has been left with the mess and no apology.

“It’s all covered with poison. I don’t know where to start over with two kids,” said Irwin. “How do you start with replacing the items that your kids have had since the day they were born?”

She said one of her pet guinea pigs was also killed during the incident.

Neighbors said the police action was simply overkill.

“Overpowered. In my opinion it looked like they were enjoying what they were doing. They did not need to do all this,” Emanuel Brightwell, an Iraq veteran and neighbor said.

Irwin said she appealed to the police, but hasn’t gotten anywhere.

“They basically just said, sorry for the inconvenience. Go ahead and clean it up. Clean up our mess,” Irwin said.

She said she’s had to borrow everything from family in the week since the incident.

She also said she can’t stay in the apartment because of the acrid gas residue.

An assistant chief and another officer were at the Village Apartments talking to Irwin telling her that they would try to get some money so she could clean her clothes and furnishing on her own.

“This is the first time this has happened. I’m surprised the incident has not been remedied. We will take care of it the best we can,” the assistant chief said.

Until the incident is remedied, the manager of the apartment complex said he has put Irwin, her kids and her pets in another apartment.

as much as i would love to believe that there are only a few bad apples out there (police forces) i know that would be so naiive, most of the time police officers consist of narcicisstic, insecure, control freaks, who felt inadequate at some point and want to make up for it by enforcing laws on someone.i used to ALWAYS cheer for the police and hope they caught the “bad guys”, but now i see more and more that the “bad guys” are regular law abiding folks, such as myself that get picked on when they must meet ticket quotas, this is where they mess up because when you pick on LAW ABIDING citizens you just reinforce into the law abiders what they’ve been hearing from criminals all along THEY ARE UNFAIR, CROOKED, CORRUPT, AND LOW DOWN, i don’t root for cops anymore because now i know how they really are, now when they get shot i laugh! that may sound wrong but i never believed others because i always thought they brought police brutality/ rought treatment on theirselves by doing something wrong but never again will i doubt the words of anyone else about police, i’m a law abider and i’ve been mistreated, so i know they tell the truth about those pigs. the disgust me, they’ve perverted law enforcement so much they’re getting shot by the droves in cities across america- they ask 4 it!!!!!

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NEW YORK

A New York City Police detective assigned to the Bronx Courthouse was arrested Friday for allegedly delivering shipments of cocaine to drug dealers in Virginia.

NYPD Internal Affairs Detectives and Drug Enforcement agents arrested James Calderon, a 13-year veteran of the NYPD.

Investigators said Calderon transported multi-kilogram shipments to drug traffickers as part of his secret role in helping a Bronx-based cocaine and heroin drug organization. The investigation into the drug ring has been ongoing for more than two years.

Investigators said they first learned of Calderon’s involvement when he showed up at the 44th precinct to try to retrieve an impounded Honda Odysseyon April 30, 2006. Police did not give him the car and on May 1 the car was searched. Police said they discovered more than a kilogram of cocaine hidden under a rear seat. They then launched an investigation into Calderon, according to investigators.

The NYPD is expected to announce his arrest and suspension Friday afternoon. Calderon’s police duties included working security at the Bronx courthouse.

Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said Calderon, 40, was hired by the drug gang to make numerous runs to Virginia. Calderon and his attorney could not be reached for comment.

Calderon will be arraigned on state trafficking and conspiracy charges in Manhattan State Supreme Court. If convicted, Calderon faces up to 25 years in prison.

Prosecutors said other members of the drug ring are also charged including Jorge Mendoza, 37 and Patricia Vargas, 31. Police said the investigation is ongoing and more arrests are expected.

VALDOSTA, Ga. –

A southern Georgia sheriff faces federal charges accusing him of billing inmates for room and board and interfering with an FBI investigation of local judges.

An indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court accuses Clinch County Sheriff Winston Peterson of perjury, obstruction of justice, using forced labor and extorting former jail inmates.

Peterson, 62, pleaded not guilty to the charges Thursday and was released on $10,000 bond.

Investigators say the sheriff charged jail inmates $18 per day for room and board. County officials agreed in April 2006 to return $27,000 to hundreds of inmates who paid the fees between 2000 and 2004. Peterson also used an inmate to do work at a business run by his wife, investigators say.

The sheriff is charged with obstructing justice by alerting an unindicted co-conspirator about the identity of an FBI informant he believed was part of a criminal investigation into courthouse activities. He is also accused of lying during a grand jury investigation of a Superior Court judge.

Neither Peterson nor his attorney could be reached for comment Thursday night. An after-hours call to his attorney’s home went unanswered, and the sheriff could not be reached through the dispatcher.

Peterson is the latest Clinch County official to be caught up in investigations into the rural county’s practices.

Superior Court Judge Brooks E. Blitch III and Chief State Court Judge Berrien Sutton face allegations by the Judicial Qualifications Commission, a state agency that investigates Georgia judges and has power to recommend removing them from office. They have not been charged with any crimes.

Blitch, 72, is accused of ordering illegal payments to county employees, ordering the early release of imprisoned felons and presiding over a case involving his son.

Blitch’s attorneys have said an investigation will prove he is innocent.

Sutton is accused of appointing non-lawyers to hear criminal cases, pressing a magistrate judge to help one of his business associates and signing an illegal order to collect court fees that were later distributed to county officials.

Thomas Whithers, an attorney for Sutton, said Wednesday the judge looks forward to his day in court. “Judge Sutton has done nothing wrong and will vigorously defend these allegations,” he said.