A routine inspection for illegal contraband turned into a tragedy for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) last month. On Monday, October 4th, DEA Supervisory Agent Michael Garbo (pictured) and another agent were conducting a routine drug inspection at the Amtrak Station in Tucson, AZ. The agents detained a man and were escorting him from the […]

Tragedy struck officers at both ends of their careers last month. On September 15th, at around 11:30 am officers in Independence (MO) received a call that a wanted man was wandering around in a residential area. Independence PD Officer Blaize Madrid-Evans and his Field Training Officer were dispatched. Twenty-two-year-old Officer Madrid-Evans was only two-months out […]

A 29-year-old Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer and mom was shot dead on Chicago’s streets. Officer Ella French had recently returned to patrol duty from maternity leave. On Saturday night August 7th, Officer French and her partner, Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., stopped a car for a minor traffic violation—expired license plates. Officer French contacted the […]

Ambushed! Early Wednesday morning, on July 7th, a Chicago Police Department (CPD) undercover officer and two federal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents were ambushed shortly after leaving the CPD’s Morgan Park District station. The officer and agents were fired upon while en route to a joint investigation. Two of the three law enforcement officers (LEOs) […]

Two juveniles (a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl) ran away from a group home on June 1st in central Florida. The staff at the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home reported to law enforcement that the girl assaulted a staff member with a stick just before the duo fled. The girl was at the facility because […]

Pastor Dave Coleman checked his phone and then interrupted the Thursday morning staff meeting at Watersprings Church, “Pastor Ty and Tim, did you hear there’s a reported shooting at a Rigby school?” We had not. Rigby is a small community in Jefferson County, ID, the adjacent county north of Bonneville, where the Law Enforcement Chaplaincy […]