Stupid people of the week
Minneapolis police sergeant accused of using AirTag to track, harass coworker, charges say
A Minneapolis police sergeant is accused of illegally accessing a law enforcement database and then using an AirTag to track and harass a former romantic partner, who is also a coworker.
Gordon Blackey, 59, was charged in Anoka County with four misdemeanors, including harassment, unauthorized use of a tracking device and two counts of unauthorized acquisition of non-public data.
The charges state that Blackey and a fellow Minneapolis police sergeant had a brief romantic relationship last year. Since the breakup, the two had maintained a professional and friendly relationship. Then in March, the woman found an Apple AirTag in the wheel well of her car, which was linked to Blackey’s cell phone, according to the charges.
She confronted him, charges say, and Blackey said he put the AirTag in the car because he “cared about her.”
On April 30, Blackey invited her out for a drink, but she declined. Later that night while out with friends at a restaurant, she noticed Blackey sitting inside the restaurant too, which concerned her, documents say.
She reported the incidents to Minneapolis police and the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office on May 7, expressing concern for her privacy and safety.
An Anoka County Sheriff’s Office investigation revealed that no court order authorized Blackey to place the AirTag in the woman’s car, the charges say.
The investigation also showed that Blackey had accessed the database for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and taken a photo of license plate numbers. The numbers were tied to the woman’s father and coworker, charges say, and Blackey had no law enforcement purpose for looking up their information.
In an interview with an Anoka County Sheriff’s Office detective, Blackey admitted to placing the AirTag in the woman’s car and accessing private information using BCA records without legitimate law enforcement purpose, charges say.
“I am, of course, very concerned about the charges, but I’ll refrain from commenting further to maintain the integrity of the criminal legal process,” said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara.
Blackey is currently employed with the City of Minneapolis.
Source; CBS News
LPD: Revived overdose victim takes off in police unit and crashes into creek
A late Wednesday night overdose call took a chaotic turn when the suspected overdose victim, revived with Narcan, stole a police sergeant’s vehicle and crashed it into a creek, according to Laredo Police.
Officers responded to the scene at Mercer St. and N. Canada Avenue around 11:41 p.m. for an overdose call. Paramedics gave the suspect Narcan when the individual got up, fled the scene, and stole a police vehicle.
Laredo Police reported that the suspect drove the unit off a steep cliff and into a creek before abandoning the vehicle and continuing to flee on foot.
Inv. Joe Baeza, with the Laredo Police Department, explained some of the department’s protocols in these types of emergency situations. He says, “The department will always look at these cases to see if there’s some sort of a protocol, you know, were followed. I noticed that the average layman is, like, why don’t you take the keys with you? But in an emergency situation, it’s like an ambulance –you don’t turn the ambulance off. There’s computers and overhead lights and everything else that take place, and so those vehicles can’t be just turned off every time the officer stops.”
It is unknown if the suspect was found or caught after the incident. We’ll have more information as it becomes available.
Source; KGNS
LAPD raid goes from bad to farce after gun allegedly sucked onto MRI machine
I think this lawsuit might be a tad fanciful, but it makes for good news fodder.
An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department found out the hard way that you can’t take metal near an MRI machine after their rifle flew out of their hands and became attached to the machine during a pot raid gone bad, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.
The incident’s details were described in a lawsuit filed by the owners of a Los Angeles medical imaging center, who allege that their business was wrongly targeted by LAPD during a raid in October 2023 The lawsuit was first reported on by Law360.com.
The owners of NoHo Diagnostic Center are suing the LAPD, the city of Los Angeles and multiple police officers, alleging they violated the business owners’ constitutional rights and demanding an unspecified amount in damages. Officers allegedly raided the diagnostic center, located in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, thinking it was a front for an illegal cannabis cultivation facility, pointing to higher-than-usual energy use and the “distinct odor” of cannabis plants, according to the lawsuit.
Officers raided the facility on Oct. 18, 2023, and detained the lone female employee while they searched the business, the lawsuit said. However, they didn’t find a single cannabis plant and only saw a typical medical facility with rooms used for conducting x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans and MRIs, the owners said.
The officers then released the employee and told her to call a manager, the lawsuit said, while they continued to wander around various rooms of the facility. The plaintiffs say the officers’ behavior was “nothing short of a disorganized circus, with no apparent rules, procedures, or even a hint of coordination.”
At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said. The MRI machine’s magnetic force then allegedly sucked his rifle across the room, pinning it against the machine. MRI machines are tube-shaped scanners that use incredibly strong magnetic fields to create images of the brain, bones, joints and other internal organs.
An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.
Los Angeles police and an attorney for the diagnostic center did not immediately return SFGATE’s requests for comment.
Source; SFGate
Category: Crime, Police, Stupid Criminals
Thousands of liters of gas? Way to go Farva.
An MRI machine using a lot of electricity. Imagine that.
CT scans and MRIs? Pretty high dollar clinic.
“Don’t dip your pen in the Company ink well!”
Dood had to go score hisself another fix. And found hisself in another fix. Speaking of fix…you can’t fix stoopid.
“And the sign says, metal toting people not welcome to come inside…”
That is certainly a nice body on that black clad beauty! The car is nice, too.
Let’s hope the Narcan druggie is like a cat that has used up two more of its lives. He can either learn and fix himself or he’s got seven more bullets to dodge before the end. Hopefully not all of them involve taxpayer dimes.
Classy chassis on that Cougar.
What chassis?
Remember when the LAPD was considered an elite organization? Now they’re more akin to Keystone Kops. Defunding and shitty morale will do that.
Being fresh out of the Louisiana PI course, and confident I scored 100% or better (okay, I won’t be surprised if I missed one or two of the 150 questions) on the exam, let me say this about trackers.
That cop should have known better, but then again when you start thinking with Little Head, you tend to step on the shaft. We covered trackers in the class, and our instructor made it clear that, while he’ll place them himself on rare occasions, he prefers having the vehicle owner install them. He rents the tracker to the client, with two pricing tiers: the client has direct access to the tracker, or he provides periodic monitoring and reports. Being a community property state, my wife can put a tracker on any of our vehicles despite them all being in my name. What we can’t do is place a tracker on property that’s not ours. So, I can tag the hell out of my vehicles, lawnmower, or bike, but the second I try tracking some woman I had a one-night fling with (I haven’t, one woman is expensive enough), I’m violating the law. Having a spouse place the tracker seems like good practice. If that’s not possible, I’ll be sure to have signed consent forms and proof of ownership before placing any form of tracker on a vehicle.
There are a lot of things I’ll have access to soon, but I can’t abuse the privilege. Most of it costs money anyway, like running tags, and no amount of temptation is worth a criminal charge or civil suit. I’ll admit to being nosy, and one of the greatest temptations for me, had I chosen law enforcement as a career, would be having access to official databases and other software. This is why you have to separate work and home. If you wear a badge and are trusted with PII, you need to remain professional. Keep Little Head from poking out, both literally and figuratively, and act like the professional you’re supposed to be.
Somehow we missed the doc who attempted to kill his mother in law by injection of a flesh eating virus.
https://people.com/doctor-allegedly-injected-mother-s-partner-flesh-eating-bacteria-under-guise-covid-shot-8724092