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MOTORCYCLE POLICE NEWS & EVENTS.
Here are a few recent headlines that have appeared in newspapers around the United States which relate to police motorcycle officers. 3/5/2010 Motorcycle cop hospitalized after crash - Hialeah, FL A Miami-Dade police officer has been transported to the hospital after a serious accident Friday morning. Hialeah Police and Fire Rescue responded to the accident around 7:15 a.m. at West 37th Street and Eighth Avenue. According to police, the motorcycle officer collided with another vehicle. It appears, the woman in the other vehicle may have ran a red light. The front tire blew off the car as a result of the impact. The cop has been airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where his condition is unknown.... Read the full story. 2/23/2010 Family of Dallas Police Officer Killed in the Line of Duty Sues City, Hillary Clinton - Dallas, TX The family of a Dallas police officer killed in a Hillary Clinton campaign motorcade is suing the city and former presidential candidate. Senior Cpl. Victor Lozada died Feb. 22, 2008 while escorting Clinton during her presidential campaign trip to Dallas. Lozada's motorcyle ran up a sidewalk at the Houston Street viaduct, hit a concrete railing and was thrown from his motorcycle. The suit, filed in Dallas County's 298th District Court this week, claims Clinton and her campaign "gave Dallas short and inadequate notice of the motorcade." It also claims the city did not adequately train or prepare Lozada, who had recently become a motorcycle officer. "The City of Dallas had not required any kind of run through, special training or a practice run for Officer Lozada or any of the officers," the lawsuit states. City of Dallas spokesman Frank Librio said the city does not have a comment about the lawsuit.... Read the full story. 2/15/2010 Suspect Identified in Officer Injury - Lafayette, LA Lafayette Police have now cited the person accused of running into one of their officers while he was escorting floats to a Mardi Gras parade. The officer was hospitalized Saturday after a car knocked him off of his motorcycle. The driver of the car that hit him is now cited with failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and no child restraint.... Read the full story. 2/10/2010 Service remembers deputy killed in crash - Houma, LA After 25 years, Timothy Bergeron finally got his oak leaves. The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office veteran took a final ride among fellow motorcycle deputies Wednesday, escorted to his resting place with a major’s insignia pinned on his uniform, Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois said. Earning the rank before retiring was a goal he reached only in death. “It was his dream,” Bourgeois said. “He definitely earned it.” Bergeron, 49, promoted to captain last year, was killed Sunday in an on-duty crash while escorting Mardi Gras floats. Hundreds showed up at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center for his funeral Mass, moved to the large venue because of the anticipated attendance. Stephen Bergeron, who followed his father into a Sheriff’s Office career, told officers, friends and relatives that Bergeron was the one person he always worked to impress. He thanked Bourgeois for posthumously promoting his father to a major. “By the end of my career,” he said, “I want to at least be half the cop my dad was.” Bergeron supervised the agency’s DARE program — Drug Abuse Resistance Education — part of a long-running national campaign. He visited schools to warn students against smoking tobacco, abusing drugs and folding to peer pressure. Most remembered the elaborate graduation ceremonies he created for students who completed the program, employing music, slide shows, smoke machines and strobe lights into the event — just one outlet for the officer’s creativity. “He loved to wow people,” Bourgeois told those in attendance. “And he was good at it.” Bergeron’s identical twin, Thomas, who shares his brother’s swept-back gray hair, tried to channel what he thought his brother’s words might be to relatives and officers. “I know you’re grieving,” he said. “But pick up your lives, move on and ... make an art of it.” Outside the Civic Center, deputies prepared a route to Holy Rosary Cemetery in Houma. Officers escorting the funeral procession were among those with Bergeron when he was fatally injured moving the Mardi Gras floats.... Read the full story. 2/9/2010 DPS officer hurt in crash on I-17 - Phoenix, AZ A Department of Public Safety officer was seriously hurt after his motorcycle was struck on Interstate 17 near Indian School Road on Tuesday afternoon, the second such collision for the day involving a DPS motorcycle. Officer Randall Wilson was finishing up a traffic stop on the right shoulder of the freeway when a Crown Victoria in the far right lane slowed down suddenly about 12:30 p.m., setting off a chain of events, Lt. Steve Harrison said. The pickup behind it, which was pulling a trailer, swerved into the center lane to avoid a collision. At the same time, a blue car tried to change into the same lane, colliding with the truck. The truck's trailer swung into the right lane, hitting the white Crown Victoria, causing the vehicle to strike the officer's motorcycle. The motorcycle hit Wilson and pinned him against the concrete barrier, Harrison said. Wilson was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, likely including a broken leg, Harrison said.... Read the full story. 2/9/2010 Reno off-duty police officer faces DUI charge - Sparks, NV A Reno police officer was arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of driving drunk and possessing a firearm while under the influence, officials said Tuesday. Derek Cecil, 42, of Sparks was arrested by the Washoe County sheriff’s deputies about 4:30 a.m. on Pyramid Highway near the Tierra Del Sol development, Deputy Brooke Keast said. Reno police spokesman Steve Frady said Cecil, a motorcycle officer, was off duty at the time of the arrest. “We have requested a copy of the report and will be reviewing that to determine how to proceed,” Frady said.... Read the full story. 2/7/2010 Deputy killed escorting Mardi Gras float - Houma, LA A captain with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office was killed when his motorcycle collided with a car today while escorting a Mardi Gras float, authorities said. Bergeron, a 25-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office, was assigned to the agency's motorcycle unit in 1999. He was promoted to captain last year and supervised school resource officers and deputies in the D.A.R.E. program. He leaves behind a wife and five children. His duties also extended to public relations, said sheriff's Maj. Malcolm Wolfe. Bergeron represented the agency at neighborhood watch meetings, gave presentations and took photographs at special events. "He was very dedicated to the office," Wolfe said. Bergeron died at Terrebonne General Medical Center. Sheriff Vernon Bouregois, who had been in Miami to attend today's Super Bowl game, returned to be with deputies and the officer's family. According to preliminary accounts from Terrebonne officials, Bergeron was escorting a float from the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center parking lot to the Southland Mall, on his motorcycle. His blue lights, they said, were flashing and he was using his siren, what police call "running code." The reports from the scene, which have not yet been confirmed with State Police, who are investigating the crash, are that Bergeron was northbound on La. 311, coming around the float so that he could block traffic as it passed Polk Street. The float stopped short of Krumbhaar, according to the Sheriff's Office account, where a driver was waiting to make a left turn onto La. 311 so that she could travel south. A float rider or driver -- officials were not sure which -- signaled the woman to cross in front of him, according to the preliminary information. The car allegedly made the left around the front of the float, entering the southbound 311 lane. Bergeron, officials said, was traveling around the float in the same lane and was struck head on. The driver of the car, who has not yet been identified, was reported uninjured physically. Officers and paramedics, deputies said, worked frantically to keep Bergeron alive and he was transported to Terrebonne General Medical Center where lifesaving measures continued to no avail.... Read the full story. 2/2/2010 Berkeley police motorcycle officer hit by car - Berkeley, CA A Berkeley police motorcycle officer was taken to a hospital after being struck by a car this afternoon, police said. The name of the officer and her condition were not immediately available. Lt. Andrew Greenwood said her injuries were not life threatening. Police said she was struck on her motorcycle at the intersection of Ashby Avenue and Benvenue Avenue at 4:21 p.m. The driver stayed on the scene and cooperated with investigators. Under department policy, the California Highway Patrol was called to the scene to investigate. Greenwood said he did not have details on what happened before the collision, but he said he did not believe the officer was involved in a pursuit.... Read the full story. 2/1/2010 Officer hit by truck during Mardi Gras - Mobile, AL A Mobile police officer is recovering from serious injuries. Officer Michael Beadnell was struck while on his motorcycle in downtown Mobile shortly before Sunday night's Mardi Gras parade. Police spokesperson Christopher Levy said it was an accident that could have been avoided. "What should have been fairly routine, just checking the parade route for parked vehicles, could have turned life threatening for this officer," Levy said. Officer Michael Beadnell was driving his motorcycle south down Royal Street around 5:30 Sunday night. Police said as he crossed through the Government Street intersection, he was hit broadside by a pickup truck driven by Rudolph Agnew. "Mr. Agnew actually ran the red light and collided with Beadnell," Levy said.... Read the full story. 1/25/2010 Woman hits deputy in funeral procession - Plant City, FL A Hillsborough County motorcycle deputy who was escorting a military funeral was injured after a truck cut into the procession line. The sheriff's office reports that deputies assisted with the military funeral procession through Plant City on Saturday. Sgt. David A. Croft Jr. was killed in Iraq on Jan. 5 after insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. Authorities say 40-year-old Shannon Lima-Jones darted out of the parking lot of a Dairy Queen and cut into the procession line. She then turned left to get out of the line, driving into the path of the motorcycle deputy.... Read the full story. 1/25/2010 25 years on, fallen officer’s daughter throws party - Tacoma, WA Emily Nollmeyer of Tacoma doesn’t remember her father’s funeral. She was 4 years old when Tacoma police officer Craig Nollmeyer was shot to death Jan. 24, 1985, on a domestic violence call in the North End. A fight between a man and his wife escalated into gunfire. The man killed both his wife and Nollmeyer, who was walking down an alley toward the home. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of her father’s passing, Emily Nollmeyer hosted a dinner Sunday night in downtown Tacoma. More than 100 colleagues, friends and family members of Craig Nollmeyer gathered to celebrate the soft-spoken, devout man who played band in high school and made cabinets before becoming a police officer. The officer’s widow, Patty Rubottom, and son Trevor – now a Spokane police officer – were also in attendance. “A part of me always wanted to meet these people who knew my father,” Emily Nollmeyer said. Her own memories are hazy; she recalls the smell of leather, pine sap and shoe polish, the sound of her father reading the Bible at bedtime. Washington’s six law enforcement deaths in recent months stirred up painful memories for Nollmeyer, who feels for the officers’ loved ones: “I’ve been on this journey for 25 years, and they’re just at the beginning. Knowing what they’re facing, it makes your heart hurt.” At the Sunday dinner, guests lined up for heaping servings of lasagna, salad, cake, cookies and Craig Nollmeyer’s favorite dessert, apple pie. A table decorated with blue balloons carried old photographs, Craig Nollmeyer’s motorcycle helmet and a sign reading “Nollmeyer Lane,” a 300-foot-long walkway that runs from Yakima Avenue to the County-City Building, named in honor of the fallen officer. Patty Rubottom described her husband as a popular, steady friend who served in 10 weddings, either as best man or groomsman. They met at Lake City Community Church in Lakewood and married in June 1976, despite his protest on their first date that he was “a bachelor forever.” Richard Karman attended Lakes High School with Craig Nollmeyer and remembered his longtime friend as a good problem solver—thoughtful and forgiving. After Karman went into law enforcement in the mid-1970s, he got a call from his old high school buddy, asking if he’d recommend police work. Karman, now a crime analyst with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon, said yes. That conversation still haunts him, over 30 years later. “I told him it was a good job,” Karman said, briefly choked with emotion. “It’s still a good job, it’s just painful to remember.”... Read the full story. 1/21/2010 Metro officer injured in collision with truck - Las Vegas, NV Neither of the motorcycle officers involved in a 2:30 p.m. accident today have life-threatening injuries, Las Vegas police confirmed. Both officers, brothers who are in the department's traffic bureau, are conscious and responsive, spokesman Jacinto Rivera said. One of the officers was taken to University Medical Center reporting a head injury. The other was transported as a precaution. The officers were traveling north on Nellis Boulevard at Harris Avenue, near Bonanza Road, when the female driver of a southbound pickup truck lost control of the vehicle, crossed over the median and struck at least one of the officers, Rivera said.... Read the full story. 1/18/2010 Motorcycle escort lands sergeant in trouble - New Haven, CT A police sergeant faces unpaid suspension for disobeying orders and sending the Police Department’s entire motorcycle unit as escorts for the procession for a Hamden motorcycle cop’s funeral. New Haven Sgt. Vincent Anastasio, a 15-year veteran, twice disobeyed orders from a superior officer when he sent four motorcycles to the funeral of Officer James Mills, who died off duty from a heart condition. Anastasio was under instructions to send two. “The issue is really an issue of insubordination. When you’re in a police department, when you get a lawful order, you have to follow it,” said Chief James Lewis, who transferred Anastasio from the traffic unit that day and later brought him up on administrative violations. The funeral was in November. At the time, the department had four motorcycles, and Anastasio was instructed by Capt. Leo Bombalicki to send two of them for the procession. The department also had dispatched officers to staff Hamden patrol cars so the town’s officers could attend the services. On the morning of the funeral, Anastasio sent the whole unit, and later allegedly disregarded instructions from the same supervisor to recall two of them to the city. Lewis has not yet determined the final punishment. Initially, the administration had signaled it might send Anastasio before the Board of Police Commissioners for possible demotion, but Lewis has since indicated a willingness to handle the issue at his level, said Sgt. Louis Cavaliere, the police union president. Cavaliere stressed that he doesn’t condone insubordination but, given the circumstances, thought the punishment was extreme.... Read the full story. 1/14/2010 Arlington officer killed in crash loved motorcycle duty - Arlington, TX Three months ago, Craig Story achieved his longtime dream of becoming a motorcycle officer. That dream ended Wednesday morning when the 34-year-old Arlington police officer died in a fiery collision with a school bus on one of the city's busiest roadways. Story, a seven-year veteran of the force and proud father of a 2-year-old son, died at the scene. "This is a very difficult time for me personally and for this police department," said Arlington Police Chief Theron Bowman during a media briefing outside police headquarters. "It is very painful to have to announce that early today we lost one of our own." The school bus driver and the nine students aboard escaped injury. The students, ages 6 to 13, were immediately taken to nearby Arlington High School to meet with grief counselors, officials said. Story was described as a devoted father and husband, and a fitness buff. He had a black belt in jujitsu and was an amateur wrestler and weightlifter. He also spoke Spanish and was working with another officer to learn Vietnamese. He and his wife, Danielle, grew up down the street from each other in Wichita Falls and were married almost 10 years ago. Fellow officers said he liked to refer to his son, John, as the "most handsome young man ever born." Danny Story, his father, said his son was a man of few words who "always shot straight with everybody." He said his son long wanted to be a motorcycle officer. He fulfilled that dream when he joined the 17-member motorcycle squad in October. "He liked the adventure, the thrill of it," said Story, who lives in Oklahoma.... Read the full story. 1/13/2010 Arlington Motorcycle Cop Killed in School Bus Crash - Arlington, TX An Arlington motorcycle police officer was killed in a traffic accident with a school bus this morning. The wreck happened at Cooper Street at Inwood Drive in Arlington around 7:15 a.m., just south of Arlington High School. It's not yet known exactly how the accident happened. Video from Sky 4 showed damage to the side panel of the bus, but it's not clear if that's where the motorcycle collided. Police investigators were working to determine who was at fault.... Read the full story. |
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