A day late again. I appreciate the thoughts and prayers from you all this past week. Hopefully things can start returning to more normal soon.<\/p>\n
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Southern California’s Orange County has agreed to pay $480,000 to an inmate who was pregnant but suffered a miscarriage after sheriff’s deputies stopped at a Starbucks while driving her to a hospital. Sandra Quinones, who is no longer in custody, alleged in a federal lawsuit that sheriff’s staff delayed treatment after her water broke in the jail.<\/p>\n
County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the payment, but Quinones must formally accept the settlement before it becomes final, the Orange County Register reported.<\/p>\n
“That’s a very good result for someone badly treated in the jail,” her lawyer, Dick Herman, told the Register. “This poor woman, she’s in jail having a miscarriage and, instead of calling an ambulance, they take her to the hospital in a patrol car and the cops stop at Starbucks while she’s bleeding.”<\/p>\n
Herman said Quinones is homeless and mentally ill.<\/p>\n
“The Orange County jail is capable of sinking to the lowest depths,” Herman told the Los Angeles Times. “Unfortunately this is not the only occasion.”<\/p>\n
The lawsuit said no jail staff responded for two hours after Quinones pushed a call button in her cell when her water broke on March 28, 2016.<\/p>\n
Then instead of being put in an ambulance, Quinones was given a ride to a hospital in a patrol car, but not until deputies stopped for coffee, the lawsuit alleged.<\/p>\n
Quinones was hospitalized, but the fetus did not survive, according to court filings.<\/p>\n
Sheriff’s officials declined to comment on the settlement.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit accused deputies of acting with “deliberate indifference” toward Quinones’ civil rights and her medical condition, the Register said.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit was initially dismissed by a federal court in 2020 but reinstated by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2021, the Times reported.<\/p>\n
“She doggedly pursued this case, including all of its ups and downs,” Herman told the newspaper. “This was a long, hard fight. We’re glad that this reached a successful conclusion.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source; CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n
Florida woman tries to beat DUI test by Irish folk dancing \u2014 and fails<\/h3>\n
A Florida woman pulled over for alleged drunken driving performed an Irish folk dance for cops in an attempt to prove her sobriety, video shows.<\/p>\n
Amy Harrington, 38, of Madeira Beach, rear-ended another vehicle about a mile from her home on April 27, cops told WFLA. When Pinellas County deputies arrived, officers said her eyes were bloodshot and watery.<\/p>\n
Harrington tried to walk a straight line during a sobriety test along a parking space marker when she gave up and started dancing, the video, which emerged Saturday, showed.<\/p>\n
She \u201cstruggled to follow instructions, and was unsteady on her feet almost falling,\u201d according to arrest documents obtained by the outlet.<\/p>\n
Harrington, clad in a black skirt and white top, danced wildly in the footage, before she was asked to walk the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want to pay attention so I can give you the instructions?\u201d a deputy administering the test asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, well, you sound like my ballet coach, so, sounds about right,\u201d Harrington answered before busting a move, according to the footage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wasn\u2019t good,\u201d the officer quipped.<\/p>\n
She proceeded to break into \u201cmultiple ballet and Irish folk dance moves,\u201d police said, and can be seen waving her arms and dancing around the line in front of the unimpressed cop.<\/p>\n
She later refused testing \u2014 the second time she refused to take a sobriety test after a separate incident in Pinellas County in 2019, officials said.<\/p>\n
In the end, Harrington hoofed her way into a driving under the influence charge, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source; NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n
Man arrested after statements made during pre-employment polygraph for job at the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/h3>\n
Pinellas County is a bounty of riches this week!<\/p>\n
Detectives from the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested 29 year-old Robert Luth of Palm Harbor.<\/p>\n
Luth is facing 5 counts of Possession of Child Pornography and was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.<\/p>\n
On August 17, 2022, detectives began an investigation after Luth admitted to viewing child pornography in a Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office pre-employment polygraph.<\/p>\n
Detectives obtained a search warrant for Luth\u2019s cellphone and found multiple files of child pornography on the device.<\/p>\n
Luth was transported to the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n
The investigation continues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source; IONTB<\/a><\/p>\n
Cartersville Police deputy chief on leave following arrest in Florida on solicitation charges.<\/h3>\n
The deputy chief for administration for the Cartersville Police Department is on leave following his arrested on solicitation in Polk County, Fla.<\/p>\n
A statement from the Cartersville agency says Deputy Chief Jason DiPrima was arrested by Polk County, Fla., Sheriff\u2019s Office on charges of \u201csoliciting another for prostitution, lewdness or assignation. Deputy Chief DiPrima has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
All additional questions were deferred to Florida authorities. We have talked with the agency\u2019s public information office who is attempting to find the files behind the arrest.<\/p>\n
Our check of the Polk County Jail logs for Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and Sept. 2 do not include DiPrima\u2019s name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source; Northwest Georgia News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"