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Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Yahoo
Youngstown officer convicted of lesser charge in OVI case
GIRARD, Ohio (WKBN) – A Youngstown police officer received his sentence Thursday in a case where he had been accused of driving while intoxicated. Read next: Man sentenced in Trumbull County crash that injured 3 Joshua Rivers was convicted of a lesser offense of physical control while under the influence as part of a plea agreement. Charges of improper handling of firearms in a motor vehicle and speeding were dismissed, according to Girard Municipal Court records. Court records state that the gun seized during the traffic stop, a Sig Sauer P320, will be returned to Rivers. His driver's license suspension was also lifted, court records state. Rivers was ordered to pay fines and court costs, as well as attend a 72-hour driver intervention program in lieu of serving three days in jail. He will be on non-reporting probation for two years, court records state. A trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol pulled over the vehicle Rivers was driving on state Route 11 in Liberty Township just before midnight March 15. The trooper reported that River was speeding and driving erratically and that Rivers refused to undergo field sobriety tests. Rivers had been working at the police department but was taken off the road following his arrest. Youngstown Police Staff Lt. Brian Butler said Rivers' status remains unchanged and that he has been working with judicial driving privileges but now that the case has been adjudicated, he will face administrative disciplinary action. Gerry Ricciutti contributed to this report. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Yahoo
Police union boss urges CPD to stop using service weapon alleged to misfire
CHICAGO (WGN) — The president of Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police said Friday that more than 1,000 officers are using a service weapon that could accidentally discharge, putting themselves and others at risk and opening the city up to legal action. The Sig Sauer P320 is popular with local and federal law enforcement and personal gun owners but in the past few years has become the focus of dozens of complaints nationwide over claims it can accidentally misfire. 'I believe all of our members carrying this gun should ask for administrative duty, effective immediately,' FOP Lodge 7 president John Catanzara told WGN. 'If I'm on the street, is it going to go off and hurt me, hurt my partner, hurt a citizen? What about my kid at home while I'm getting ready to go to work? It's just so many concerns.' In 2023 WGN's Nexstar partners at NewsNation obtained videos of the weapon allegedly misfiring. Juries last year sided with gun owners in Pennsylvania and Georgia in their lawsuits against the manufacturer. NewsNation: Gun owners sue Sig Sauer over misfiring pistol Catanzara said the Chicago Police Department's arsenal committee voted weeks ago to ban the Sig Sauer P320 but it remains in use. In a Friday letter to police Supt. Larry Snelling, Catanzara asked him to cover the costs of the switch for each of the roughly 1,200 officers using the weapon. That's about 10 percent of the force. 'You are personally and morally going to be subjecting yourself to some major traumas should you have one of these incidental misfires because the department was too lazy or too cheap to solve it faster,' the union leader said. Milwaukee's police department has already ceased use of the weapon. Catanzara said Chicago's force is the largest using the P320 and that once they're pulled, 'it's going to be a snowball down the hill. Everybody's going to have to ban it nationwide.' Sig Sauer denies the gun has a safety problem. 'The P320 cannot, under any circumstances, discharge without a trigger pull – that is a fact. The allegations against the P320 are nothing more than individuals seeking to profit or avoid personal responsibility,' the company said in a statement last month. Catanzara acknowledged that there are differences of opinions about the dangers of the gun within the department but said that if the department has already made moves to ban the weapon, it should proceed with urgency due to liability concerns. WGN's request for comment from the Chicago Police Department and Mayor Brandon Johnson's office about the weapon went unanswered. Catanzara's full letter to Supt. Snelling: Catanzara-Letter-to-Snelling-Re-SIGSauer-P320-04182025Download Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
17-04-2025
- Miami Herald
Suspended deputy didn't ask man accused of killing his wife about his guns
When a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy knocked on Nathan Gingles' door to serve him with a restraining order, he didn't ask Nathan whether he had guns on him, despite a judge ordering Nathan to surrender his weapons, body camera footage obtained by the Miami Herald shows. On Jan. 6, Civil Division Deputy Joseph Sasso served Nathan with the restraining order at his apartment, just over five minutes away from his estranged wife Mary Gingles' home. The weapons remained in Nathan's possession. Sasso is suspended as the Broward Sheriff's Office investigates at least seven other deputies for their handling of the case. Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony slammed deputies for not collecting Nathan's weapons and not seeking a judge's order to temporarily seize the weapons. BSO could have done so under Florida's red flag law, enacted after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High mass shooting in Broward. 'When we rectify this situation I'm going to send the fear of God amongst this entire agency,' Tony said last week. Weeks after the interaction, on Feb. 16, a Sig Sauer P320 semiautomatic handgun equipped with a silencer belonging to Nathan was used to kill Mary, her father David Ponzer and neighbor Andrew Ferrin, deputies say. Nathan, accused of the triple murder, has pleaded not guilty and is facing the death penalty. During their three minute interaction, Nathan was friendly with Sasso and even fist-bumped the deputy. However, Nathan's tone shifted — and he appeared bitter and infuriated — as he spoke about the domestic violence petition filed by Mary. READ MORE: Terrorized by her husband, she warned police he would kill her. They failed to stop him In several court documents, Mary detailed how she feared that her husband was plotting to kill her. She told police about Nathan's increasingly unhinged behavior, including putting a tracker on her car, breaking into her home wearing gloves, disabling the home's security cameras and leaving behind a backpack containing suspected murder supplies. '...Here we are again' When Nathan opened the door, Sasso remarked that Nathan was 'ready to go,' according to the footage. Nathan was holding a pen and quickly handed over his driver's license. 'You've done this before,' Sasso said. 'Once. It was enough,' Nathan responded. 'But here we are again.' Sasso then told Nathan about an upcoming Zoom hearing and urged him to attend. Nathan said he was familiar with Zoom hearings because he and Mary had been going through a divorce for a year. 'Again, with the restraining order, same as the last restraining order,' Sasso said before being interrupted by Nathan. 'No guns, no contacts, 500 feet or some s--- like that,' Nathan said, shaking his head. 'So you already know how it's going to go,' Sasso replied. 'You hit the nail on the head.' At this point of their interaction, Sasso repeats the conditions of the restraining order, the video shows. But Sasso didn't ask Nathan whether or not he had weapons at his apartment. In the video, Nathan accused Mary of kidnapping Seraphine. He rolled his eyes and smirked as he eluded to how Mary had filed for a previous domestic violence restraining order. A judge granted that restraining order on Feb. 9, 2024, and Nathan's weapons were seized that day by BSO. 'I didn't do s--- to her,' Nathan said, laughing. He also accused Mary of having mental health and substance abuse issues: 'And I'm the one they f--- with.'
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Yahoo
More law enforcement agencies reconsider use of popular Sig Sauer P320 handgun
A person holds a Sig Sauer P320 handgun at a Delray Beach, Fla., gun store in 2023. Since at least 2017, several law enforcement agencies in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Wisconsin have pulled the P320 from their arsenals due to concerns over misfirings. (Photo by) As safety concerns over the Sig Sauer P320 handgun continue to mount, a growing number of police departments across the United States are rethinking their use of the popular semiautomatic firearm. Released in 2014, Sig Sauer's P320 model has become one of the most popular guns in America, with more than 2.5 million units sold. The P320 also has been the standard sidearm for the U.S. military since 2017. But the firearm has been linked to a series of unintentional discharges. The Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission is now the latest to permanently ban the P320 from its training facilities. The agency offers training to police and correctional officers in the state. The agency's decision came after a four-month investigation prompted by an incident last year in which a police recruit's P320 discharged while being drawn, injuring both an instructor and another recruit. This incident is part of a larger pattern of complaints from more than 100 people who have reported similar issues with the firearm since its release, with at least 80 injuries linked to accidental discharges, according to a 2023 joint investigation by The Trace, a news outlet dedicated to covering gun violence, and The Washington Post. Following the 2023 investigation, Sig Sauer has faced lawsuits from at least 15 more plaintiffs, and new evidence has surfaced linking the firearm to at least one death and 20 additional injuries, The Trace reported in December. Since at least 2017, several law enforcement agencies, including the Milwaukee Police Department, the Dallas Police Department and the SEPTA transit police in Philadelphia, as well as other agencies in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Wisconsin, have pulled the P320 from their arsenals due to concerns over misfirings. In November, a Philadelphia jury awarded $11 million to an Army veteran who was injured when his P320 discharged while in his pocket. Jurors concluded that Sig Sauer was liable for the veteran's injury because the firearm did not have an external safety, like those used on Glocks and other pistols. External safeties generally prevent a gun's trigger from moving backward when dropped or when indirect pressure, such as from a holster, is applied. An Oklahoma civilian in December also asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive his suit against Sig Sauer after his P320 discharged in 2018 while in a holster he was wearing. In 2018 — a year after the U.S. Army announced its 10-year, $580 million contract with Sig Sauer — a U.S. Department of Defense report revealed that during testing, the military found the P320 could discharge without a trigger pull if dropped at certain angles. Sig Sauer in 2017 modified the gun's trigger mechanism. The company also redesigned the civilian version of the P320 and offered owners of older models the opportunity to voluntarily return their guns for upgraded components. Despite the rise in reported incidents, Sig Sauer has steadfastly maintained that the P320 is safe for use. The company has denied claims that the gun is defective and insists that the reported discharges are due to improper handling. 'The P320 is trusted by the U.S. Military, law enforcement professionals, and responsible citizens worldwide. SIG SAUER is extremely proud of our outstanding safety record and quality firearms,' Samantha Piatt, the company's director of communications, said in a statement posted to its website last year. Stateline is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Stateline maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Scott S. Greenberger for questions: info@
Miami Herald
07-03-2025
- Miami Herald
Army vet accused of slaying wife, her father and a neighbor in Tamarac, pleads not guilty
The Army veteran accused in the chilling murder of his wife, her father and a neighbor — as the couple's 4-year-old daughter watched — made a brief appearance in court Friday morning and pleaded not guilty. Nathan Gingles, 43, dressed in gray-striped prison garb, didn't utter a word during the hearing at the Broward County Criminal Courthouse. When asked during the arraignment how he would plead, Gingles' attorney Kaitlin Gonzalez said not guilty before Broward County Circuit Court Judge Marina Garcia-Wood. The suspected gunman was then escorted back to the Broward County Jail. His next appearance in court is scheduled for May 15, said Aaron Savitski, a spokesman with the Broward State Attorney's Office. Earlier this week, a grand jury indicted Gingles on three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Mary Catherine Gingles, 34, her father David Ponzer, 64, and neighbor Andrew Ferrin, 36, whose Tamarac home Mary Gingles ran into as her husband stalked her before she was killed. Court records also show Nathan Gingles is facing two counts of child abuse, and single counts of kidnapping and violating a domestic violence injunction. After the early-morning killings on Feb. 16, the Broward Sheriff's Office said Nathan Gingles kidnapped his daughter, which set off an Amber Alert. He was taken into custody a short time later at a Walmart in North Lauderdale. His daughter Seraphine, who followed her father barefoot as he hunted down Mary, was not hurt. The triple murder set off alarms with BSO that led to Sheriff Gregory Tony suspending eight deputies and demoting a top officer in the Tamarac division, all believed to have been involved one way or another in the dozens of calls to the family's home over the years. In December, a Broward judge signed a restraining order in which a deputy failed to take custody of Nathan Gingle's weapons. Police believe one of those weapons was used in the murders. Court records show that a BSO dive team recovered a black Sig Sauer P320 and a suppressor in a body of water less than half a mile away from the slayings. A Sig Sauer and suppressor with the same serial numbers were on the list of weapons deputies seized in February 2024, when Nathan Gingles was served an earlier restraining order. Broward Sheriff's deputies were well aware of the couple's rocky relationship. Besides more than a dozen calls to service at their Tamarac home the past few years, Mary Gingles was so worried about her husband's arsenal and his stated desire to kill her, that she obtained at least two restraining orders against him. The first was in February 2024. In her divorce petition that month, she described Nathan as 'heavily armed' with 'semi-automatic, handguns and more sophisticated firearms' with silencers that she believed he would use to kill her. Nathan served in the U.S. Army from February 2011 to January 2019, leaving as a captain, according to Army records. He was deployed to Afghanistan from July 2013 to January 2014. Mary, too, served in the Army from 2016 to 2020, also leaving as a captain. She had no deployments. Nathan Gingles' most recent job was as a contractor with the U.S. Southern Command in Doral.
