CCJA Quickfire Recap: Second Week of September

Sept. 13, 2014
Officer.com and the Commonwealth Criminal Justice Academy present this week's top stories.

It can be hard to keep up with all of the news that occurs on a daily basis.

Because of this, Officer.com and the Commonwealth Criminal Justice Academy present the "Quickfire Weekly Recap."

Here are some of the stories you may have missed that ran on our site this week:

Weekend (Sept. 5-7)

A Merrillville, Ind. police officer who was shot Friday night by a man who later committed suicide died Sunday morning.

Officer Nickolaus Schultz, 24, was taken off life-support and pronounced dead at 9:47 a.m. on Sunday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

A Topeka, Kan. police officer was fatally shot and his suspected killer was later apprehended on Sunday.

Cpl. Jason E. Harwood stopped a in East Topeka at around 4:45 p.m. when officials say that Ross P. Lane opened fire.

California Gov. Brown late Friday rejected a parole panel recommendation that he free a man convicted for the 1978 killing of an on-duty San Diego police officer.

Brown overturned the panel's recommendation that Jesus Cecena be paroled in the killing of Officer Archie Buggs.

A 17-year-old girl is accused of leading authorities on a high-speed chase for over 100 miles Friday while allegedly transporting more than a dozen undocumented immigrants.

Authorities said Selena Amanda Huitron was transporting 15 people, two of them children, who were in the country illegally.

Monday (Sept. 8)

A Charleston County, S.C. deputy was killed after a gunman opened fire from behind a closed apartment door and another deputy was wounded.

Deputy Joseph J. Matuskovic was fatally shot, Deputy Michael Ackerman suffered a wound to his leg and 38-year-old Michael Oswald was dead inside following a standoff.

NYPD officers will get three days of annual training on how to properly use force following the custody death of an unarmed man this summer

Police Commissioner William Bratton announced the initiative in an effort to repair community relations and change the culture of the department.

The U.S. Border Patrol used to be the only law enforcement agency monitoring the border along the Rio Grande.

Now the area has been flooded with hundreds of state troopers, National Guardsmen and civilian militia members; all heavily armed and often wearing tactical vests and camouflage.

The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo. has refocused the country on the racial balance between police forces and the communities they protect.

An analysis found that while the racial gap between black police officers and communities has narrowed, there is a much larger disparity in the low number of Hispanic officers in police departments.

Tuesday (Sept. 9)

Investigators say a man was shot dead after his pickup truck slammed into the front entrance of a South Texas sheriff's office and he opened fire.

The incident happened Monday morning at the San Patricio County sheriff's office in Sinton.

More than three years after she disappeared from her West Tennessee home, the remains of a missing woman were found.

The director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation called a press conference to confirm that the skull found over the weekend in Decatur County is that of Holly Bobo, who disappeared in April 2011.

Days before the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, elected officials from New York called on Congress to reauthorize federal legislation to compensate first responders who became ill working at ground zero.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand led the bipartisan push to renew the Zadroga Act, which provides medical treatment and compensation for the workers.

The police agency that oversees Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border will remain intact.

U.S. District Judge James Teilborg rejected the latest request from the Arizona attorney general to disband the department.

Wednesday (Sept. 10)

Since the opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in May, victims' families, survivors, rescue workers and others have come forward to add about 135 new gifts to its collection.

Relatives have brought new photos or recorded new remembrances to profiles of the nearly 3,000 victims.

Protesters intent on shutting down a highway in St. Louis County were met by a large contingent of law enforcement intent on stopping them.

Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman Al Nothum said there were 32 arrests for unlawful assembly and four arrests for assaults on law enforcement officers.

Soon, about half of St. Louis County police officers will be recording every call for service using video cameras on their chests, glasses or collars.

Several companies are lending free technology to police departments in hope of landing lucrative contracts in an industry that surged following the Ferguson police shooting.

One month after a prison break at Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison in Haiti, only about 75 of the 329 escapees have been recaptured.

About 255 men, many accused of serious crimes such as kidnapping and rape, remain at large, leaving residents worried and frustrated.

Thursday (Sept. 11)

A toll of a bell and a moment of silence marked the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Family and friends of those who died read the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in New York, at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pa.

A Charleston County, S.C. deputy was wearing protective body armor but not the right type to stop a spray of bullets from an AK-47.

Officials say that at least one round went through Deputy Joseph Matuskovic's vest.

A man was charged with capital murder in connection with the killing of a Topeka, Kan police officer during a traffic stop.

Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor said that the death penalty will be sought for Ross Preston Lane in the shooting death of Cpl. Jason Harwood.

Raids in the fashion district of Los Angeles led to the seizure of $90 million in a massive crackdown on Mexican cartels' attempts to use international trade to launder money from U.S. drug sales.

The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering.

Friday (Sept. 12)

A teenager convicted of killing three students at an Ohio high school was recaptured by law enforcement officers after he scrambled over a fence to escape a state prison with two other prisoners.

Officials say that 19-year-old T.J. Lame was caught nearly six hours later as he hid by a nearby church.

Police in Roseville, Minn. severed their contract with a body shop after two of their marked squad cars were pitted in an unauthorized street race.

Officials say that at least the two joy riding employees waited until after morning traffic eased up last Thursday before getting behind the wheels of the Dodge Chargers.

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