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Escambia County Sheriff's OfficeEarly Saturday morning, Roy Middleton was rummaging through his mother's car in the driveway of his Warrington, Florida, home, looking for a cigarette, when he heard someone bark, "Get your hands where I can see them!" Middleton initially thought it was a neighbor playing a joke on him, but when he turned his head he saw Escambia County sheriff's deputies standing in his driveway. The next thing he knew, he says, they were shooting at him. "It was like a firing squad," Middleton told the Pensacola News Journal. "Bullets were flying everywhere." Middleton was lucky the deputies...

Mayor Bill VanSuch has asked the Campbell Police Department to investigate how a handgun discharged in the police chief’s office. The incident happened April 17 as Chief Gus Sarigianopoulos was checking the gun to see if it was loaded. Van Such said he intended to ask a detective-sergeant to investigate, and he is asking the chief to cooperate. In a letter to VanSuch dated Thursday, Sarigianopoulos said he was attempting to clear the gun, which was pointed down toward the floor, when it discharged. The police department had recently acquired the Vietnam-era handgun from state-government surplus. The gun, one of...

Two cops were hit by flying shrapnel Thursday afternoon when an instructor at the police academy accidentally fired a gun, police said. Police spokesman Officer Dave Hartman said during a Whitney Avenue press conference the incident took place “just minutes past noon” at the academy at 710 Sherman Parkway. “One of the training instructors accidentally discharged a live round inside a classroom at the police academy,” Hartman said. The bullet, from a 40-caliber handgun, struck a concrete wall. “Particles from the bullet ricocheted off of that wall, striking two officers,” Hartman said. Officer Ryan Przybylski was hit on the forehead...

Direct link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2FAbUZd3zoMSynopsis Excerpt: A Melbourne, Florida cop turned off his audio and video equipment before beating a 66-year-old man suffering from dementia "for no apparent reason," WFTV reports. The officer turned off his video and audio equipment before the beating. The department was able to extract the video from the hard drive, but not the audio. The only disciplinary record the officer received for the incident was a written reprimand for turning off the recording equipment. Flowers was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer. "It's ridiculous. Clearly from this video there was no assault on...

SACRAMENTO - A statewide lobbying group for police officers said Thursday it will pursue legislation next year that would allow officers to keep assault weapons after they retire, seeking to overturn an opinion issued last year by the state Attorney General's Office. Officers can own assault weapons that are illegal for civilians to buy, even for officers' off-duty use. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that more than 7,600 officers have bought such firearms since the state began allowing the practice a decade ago. The weapons must be registered with the state Department of Justice. Officers who buy assault weapons must...

A Kalamazoo Valley Community College Public Safety officer faced disciplinary action last month after he left his personal handgun inside a Subway restaurant restroom while off duty. “It violated policy and it was dealt with administratively,” KVCC Public Safety Chief Ken Colby said of Mark Bensinger, a part-time officer for KVCC since April. “It was immediately dealt with.” Colby declined to say specifically what discipline Bensinger received. Bensinger's .40-caliber Glock 27 pistol was found just after 1 p.m. on Nov. 10 by an employee at Subway, 3025 Oakland Drive, according to a Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety report obtained by...

MILAN TOWNSHIP — Former Highway Patrol trooper Eric Wlodarsky pleaded no contest on Monday to charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and was found guilty in Erie County Municpal Court, according to court records. Wlodarsky was sentenced to one year of a probation, a six-month driver’s license suspension, $550 in fines, and must attend a driver intervention course. Charges of having a weapon while intoxicated were dropped during the hearing. Wlodarsky, 33, was charged for drunk driving on Oct. 30 after he drove a pickup truck off the road while heading southbound on SR 13 and struck a tree,...

A Lauderhill police officer fired 10 shots at another officer, but missed... The officer who was shot at was working an off-duty detail at the time, but police said she was in a marked cruiser and in uniform. The shooter pulled up in his personal car and quickly fired 10 shots at the other police officer, and then took off... sources say that the shooting stems from a domestic situation between the two officers; allegedly, the officer who was targeted had broken up with the shooter on Friday. Police would only confirm that the two worked the same shift and...

HOPEWELL - A state trooper made a surprising discovery while surveying a flood-damaged area last Friday morning. An assault rifle. The state trooper was a part of the emergency response team surveying the western portion of Cumberland County, and discovered the rifle on Beebe Run Road in Hopewell. The rifle belongs to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department and was accidentally left in the road by the officer, according to Sheriff Robert Austino. “The officer was cleaning out his trunk when he got sidetracked by some trespassers,” Austino said. “Once the trespassers left, the officer got in his car and accidentally...

AUBURN, Washington -- Two police officers were hit in an accidental shooting at a gun range in Auburn on Thursday afternoon, the Auburn Police Department said. Both officers are OK and their injuries are not considered serious. Auburn police Commander Mike Hirman said a Renton police officer was hit in the thigh and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and is in stable condition. A Tukwila police officer was hit "superficially" in the abdomen, just below his vest and was taken to Auburn Regional Hospital. It's possible the Tukwila officer was hit by debris, rather than a bullet....

Houston police and federal officials are looking into how a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer left his gun inside a restroom at Bush Intercontinental Airport. An airport cleaning crew found the Sig Sauer pistol about 9:10 p.m. Wednesday inside the restroom, located in a secure area of Terminal E, and they notified security officers, Houston police spokesman Kese Smith said. As Houston police were investigating the incident, the ICE officer approached and said he had left his gun in the restroom, Smith said. After he showed his identification, the Houston police officers returned the weapon to him.

This is the shocking picture of a fully loaded assault rifle left unattended on the trunk of patrol car in a busy Seattle street. The bungling officers were nowhere to be seen after leaving the AR-15 on the trunk of their patrol car outside a busy hotel and shopping street on Monday night. Shockingly, after the officers returned, they failed to notice the menacing rifle and drove off. It was only after a woman chased the car as it drove away, that the officers realised their mistake. Passer-by Nick Gonzales, who photographed the shocking scene above, also alerted two bike...

SAN MATEO -- A San Pablo man thought he was being a good Samaritan on Wednesday afternoon when he pulled a gun on a man he saw assault a woman near a busy downtown street corner, police said. Instead, he was nearly shot by officers who rushed to Third Avenue and San Mateo Drive about 3:15 p.m., said San Mateo Deputy Police Chief Mike Callagy. The armed man, 23-year-old Ashley Viola, was still holding his .45-caliber pistol when police found and arrested him. No shots were fired. "(Officers) have a split second to decide whether to shoot or not to...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A Salt Lake City police officer was breathing a sigh of relief Friday after his lost-and-loaded duty firearm was recovered. The officer had lost the matte black Glock semi-automatic handgun on Wednesday after leaving the weapon on the trunk lid of his car and then driving off. Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said the firearm was turned in at the Pioneer Precinct late Thursday by a man who had seen the weapon tumble off the officer's car. "The citizen had pulled over and recovered it with the intent to return it to the...

The King County Sheriff’s office said late Friday it can’t account for 113 firearms. Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the department, said the inventory discrepancy came to light because authorities were updating their records as part of an accreditation process. The probe began in August of 2009 and is continuing, he said. ”This was the first time the Sheriff’s Office completed an independent physical inventory,” Urquhart said. ”Previously, inventory records were kept by King County’s Fleet Administration, which keeps records of all assets held by County departments, from computers to desks, chairs and firearms.” The unaccounted for weapons – dating...

GALESBURG — A Florida resident told police early Monday that a handgun of his was stolen after he left it in the men’s bathroom at McDonald’s. Keegan L. Bussey, 31, reported at 8:24 a.m. accidently leaving the Glock 19 handgun on the baby changing station in the bathroom at McDonald’s, 1158 E. Main St. Bussey is an employee for a U.S. prisoner transport agency, according to the police report. Police were unable to locate the weapon. They did, however, view surveillance video that shows a male employee allegedly taking the weapon.

Oxon Hill, Md --- A D.C. police officer, who stopped at a filling station to get gas, had her purse stolen on New Year’s Day. The purse contained, among other items, her department-issued Glock handgun and police ID. She says she had been pumping gas at the filling station at Saint Barnabas Road and Livingston Road in Oxon Hill. That is where the thief removed her purse from her vehicle.

A Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority officer accidentally fired a bullet yesterday, sending a colleague to the hospital, authorities said. She was taking her gun out of her locker when the firearm accidentally discharged a round, sources said. It hit a locker, and a flying piece of metal hit the other officer in the stomach during the 3 p.m. mishap in the service building of the RFK/Triborough Bridge.

n the past 14 months, 23 Tulsa police officers have run afoul of the law or department regulations, resulting in actions ranging from unpaid leave to resignation to criminal charges, a World review of police personnel records indicates. The list includes a fired officer who allegedly lied to the FBI and Tulsa Police Department Internal Affairs officers, an officer who was dismissed after choking a fellow officer until she was unconscious, and an officer who lost 20 hours of vacation time after allegedly head-butting a handcuffed prisoner. Seven of the 23 officers have been named in an ongoing federal grand...

Dallas police release embarrassing footage of one of their own. Dallas police say an intoxicated, off-duty officer discharged her weapon in a squad car while fellow officers were trying to take her home. Officer Kelly Beemer was released from jail Thursday night after posting bond. She is charged with one count of discharging a firearm in a municipality. Police said Beemer, a 27-year-old patrol officer, was at a Dallas bar Wednesday night while off-duty and was too drunk to drive. Two on-duty officers came to pick her up. Investigators said Beemer got belligerent as officers were driving her to her...