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6 days ago
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Woman charged after allegedly hiding Mifflin police shooting suspect at her home
OBETZ, Ohio (WCMH) – A woman is facing charges after she allegedly hid the man wanted for shooting two police officers earlier this week. Court records show Jayla Call, 31, was arrested Saturday and charged with felony obstructing justice and tampering with evidence. She is being held in Franklin County Jail. Manhunt ends with person accused of shooting two Mifflin Township police officers in custody Daveonte Dixon, 21, was on the run for about two days after allegedly shooting two Mifflin Township police officers Wednesday evening. The U.S. Marshals Service and the Franklin County SWAT officers arrested Dixon Friday at an apartment complex in the 4300 block of Thelma Drive in Obetz. Following Dixon's arrest, according to court records, Call approached law enforcement and was taken into custody; during an interview, Call allegedly admitted to knowing Dixon was a fugitive while he was inside her apartment and she allegedly deleted text messages on her phone that were between Dixon and his girlfriend. Dixon was taken to a local hospital for treatment from a self-inflicted gunshot wound; his condition is not known. Man charged with attempted murder for shooting of Marysville police officer Dixon is charged with attempted murder and felonious assault. Online court records do not list his next court date. Call is scheduled to appear in Franklin County Common Pleas Court on Monday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CNA
16-05-2025
- CNA
Driver, passenger each get jail after lying about who was at the wheel in traffic accident
SINGAPORE: A male driver whose car collided into a traffic light pole, and his female passenger, who offered to take the rap for the accident, were each handed jail terms on Friday (May 16). Yuen Zheng Wen, 36, and the passenger, Chin Wei Yeeng, 31, were each given three weeks' jail. Yuen was also given a two-year driving ban. Yuen pleaded guilty to one count each of obstructing justice and careless driving, and Chin to one count of obstructing justice, with a charge of providing false information taken into consideration for her sentencing. Yuen, a Singaporean, and Chin, a Malaysian and Singapore Permanent Resident, were friends and colleagues. In earlier proceedings, the court heard that both were having dinner with other colleagues on Feb 16, 2024 before the incident. Yuen had three to four glasses of red wine while at the restaurant, located at 190 Keng Lee Road. After dinner, Yuen offered to drive Chin home. At about 10.35pm, as Yuen turned from Moulmein Road onto the Central Expressway, he lost control of his car, which accidentally mounted the kerb on its left. The car struck and damaged a traffic light pole. The cost of repairs for the traffic light pole amounted to S$991.57 (US$760). The car also sustained damage to its windscreen, front bumper, left tyre and front headlight. After the accident, Chin suggested to Yuen that she take the blame on his behalf and offered to swap seats with him. Yuen accepted the offer. Chin later claimed to traffic police officers who arrived at the scene that she was the driver of the vehicle and that she had consumed one glass of wine before driving. Yuen substantiated her account. Yuen was afraid of coming clean as he feared losing his licence. The traffic police officers administered a Breathalyzer test to Chin, who failed it. Chin was placed under arrest and escorted to the traffic police headquarters for further tests. Yuen was allowed to leave with no breath analysis test. At the traffic police headquarters, a test revealed that the proportion of alcohol in Chin's breath was 49 micrograms of alcohol in every 100ml of breath, above the prescribed limit of 35 micrograms. A statement was recorded from Chin at about 2.12am on Feb 17, 2024. In this statement, Chin maintained the same story - that she had been the driver. However, Yuen felt remorseful over the lie and confessed to his offences on the same day. The prosecution sought five to eight weeks' jail for Yuen and four to eight weeks' jail for Chin. Deputy Public Prosecutor Ryan Lim cited Yuen's "conscious decision" to drive after drinking as an aggravating factor. The prosecution also sought a 24-month driving disqualification for Yuen. In respect of both, Mr Lim said that their lie had caused the police to neglect conducting a breath analysis test on Yuen. "This rendered it impossible to prove in a court of law that he was driving while above the legal limit. Given that (Yuen) had downed three or four glasses of wine prior to driving, this was a real possibility," Mr Lim said. Pointing to Chin's charge of false information, which was taken into consideration, Mr Lim said that Chin had maintained her lie even after being hauled in for questioning, showing a degree of persistence. "There is a strong public interest element in deterring such 'scapegoat' offences ... a 'strong message' must be conveyed to individuals who shield traffic offenders," the prosecution added.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
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Idaho jury finds man in viral police incident guilty. Officer criticized, too
On Wednesday evening, a jury found Samson Allen guilty on charges of resisting arrest and obstructing justice during a police encounter last June that culminated in the arresting officer pressing his knee to the young Meridian man's neck. Videos of the incident went viral and sparked concerns over then-Meridian Police Officer Bradley Chambers' use of force, which became subject to an internal review, the department announced in October. During the trial Wednesday, jurors considered video footage of the incident, including from police body cameras and patrol cars and videos captured by Allen's brothers. They also heard testimony from Meridian police officers, Chambers and Allen himself. Prosecutors argued that Allen failed to comply with Chambers' commands on June 30, 2024, namely for Allen to remove a dirt bike from the bed of his truck for Chambers' investigation and to step back from the truck. Allen's attorney, Ryan Black of Boise, argued that the commands were not lawful and that Allen was not given adequate time nor the clarity needed to comply. Jurors sided with the prosecution after just over an hour of deliberation. And while Black failed to convince jurors that Chambers acted outside of his 'course and scope of his duties as a law enforcement officer,' other Meridian officers' testimony revealed concerns about Chambers' actions. Allen's arrest began with a dirt-bike accident involving his younger brother, Parks, 16, who had spun out of control in a residential neighborhood in Meridian. While Parks was transported to the hospital, Allen and another brother, Gannon, 18, loaded the over-200-pound bike into Allen's truck. Chambers approached the brothers, telling them, 'That's not gonna work,' according to police body-cam footage. 'Take it out of the truck.' Allen asked Chambers if he wanted to take photographs of the bike and refused to unload the bike, while Gannon filmed the interaction. Roughly one minute into the interaction, Chambers approached Allen from behind, ordered him to step back, grabbed his right wrist and eventually forced him to the ground, where Chambers pressed his knee to Allen's neck for nearly a minute. Though the findings of the internal review have not been released, two Meridian officers involved in the review took the stand during Allen's trial. Sergeants Brandon Fiscus and Justin Dance stated that while Chambers did not violate Meridian policy or standards, or Idaho law, his actions raised red flags on a few fronts. Fiscus, the head of the Meridian Police Department's Office of Professional Standards, noted that Chambers didn't use many deescalation tactics and that the situation could've gone differently had Chambers better explained why he needed the bike. Fiscus also expressed that Chambers could have waited for more officers to arrive on the scene and said that he is sometimes concerned when officers 'want to resolve things so quickly.' Fiscus was also concerned by the 'truthfulness' of some of Chambers' statements to his sergeant, Bryan Albers, after the incident, though he said he believed the officer was not intending to mislead anyone but rather made an 'excited utterance' while still energized from the interaction. Fiscus testified that the internal review did not find any wrongdoing, but that Chambers' actions could not be considered 'best practices.' Chambers left Meridian Police in September and was quickly hired by Boise police. In February, Haley Williams, a Boise police spokesperson, told the Idaho Statesman in an email that Chambers was 'separated' from Boise police on Jan. 17. Williams declined to say why. Chambers testified Wednesday that he is now employed as an officer in Napa County, California, where he worked before moving to Idaho. The judge presiding over the case, Ada County Magistrate Judge Michael Lojek, sentenced Allen to three months of unsupervised probation and entered a sentence withholding judgment. If Allen successfully completes his probation, he may apply to have the guilty verdict removed from his record and the case dismissed, which Lojek said he has 'every expectation' will happen. Lojek declined to order Allen to perform community service or take any behavioral class, as was advocated by the prosecutors, saying he believed Allen has 'learned (his) lesson.' Lojek also told the courtroom he 'thought it was shocking to say the least' that Chambers struggled on the witness stand to articulate his training in deescalation and that he 'can imagine several scenarios' in which Chambers could have acted differently and potentially created a different outcome. Lojek called Allen a 'smart young man who was put in a difficult situation' and said he hoped Allen could 'get past this' without 'animosity.' 'When I was 22 years old, I was arrested in the city of Boise for resisting and obstructing,' Lojek told Allen and the court. 'You'll never forget it, but I hope that you can find some peace with it.'
