Tag Archives: sexual assault

The lewdness charges brought against a Tucson fire captain for allegedly harassing a subordinate were dismissed last week. The Pima County Attorney's Office dropped three misdemeanor charges against Captain Roger Tamietti last Monday. The charges were brought after paramedic firefighter ...

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There has been a new legal twist in the Leonia Fire Department story we reported on last week. Recall that after a prospective member allegedly inappropriately touched a firefighter’s three year old in the fire station, the borough ordered the ...

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  Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse… The story we covered a few days ago about a sexual assault in a volunteer fire station in New Jersey just got a bit worse with news that the victim of ...

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The mystery surrounding the closure of a Leonia, New Jersey firehouse last week to all but emergency activities has been solved with the arrest of an 18 year old man described a developmentally challenged who has been charged with sexually ...

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On the third day of testimony before a federal jury, a settlement has been announced in the Sacramento Metro sex scandal coverup case. The suit was brought by Fire Captain Mark Thomsen, a 19 year veteran who claims he was ...

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A seven-year-old wrongful termination suit arising out of a nasty sexual misconduct scandal is finally headed to a federal jury. The suit was brought by Fire Captain Mark Thomsen, a 19 year veteran with the Sacramento Metro Fire Department who ...

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Four DC firefighters have been placed on administrative duties following allegations by a female firefighter that she had been assaulted in her sleep. The female firefighter alleges that while she was sleeping in the quarters of Engine 1  at 2225 ...

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  Here is a follow up to a story we covered two weeks ago. The Tucson captain who was accused of committing lewd acts on a subordinate that led to a $125,000 settlement, has had his rank restored by the ...

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An Illinois deputy chief is facing serious criminal charges after a bizarre off-duty incident that occurred over the weekend. Gary M. Swiercz, 49, of the  Chicago Ridge Fire Department, is accused of breaking into a neighbors apartment, threatening to slit ...

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A female firefighter and her husband have filed a $7 million suit against the City of Utica, two city attorneys, and a firefighter over what they claim was an attempted rape in a fire station. The sordid details were set ...

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A Virginia firefighter has pled guilty to reduced charges in a sexual assault case involving a minor firefighter. Matthew Thomas Jones, a firefighter with the Read Mountain Fire and Rescue, pled guilty Monday to two misdemeanor counts of contributing to ...

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A Wisconsin fire captain has been charged with sexual assault following a 13 month long investigation into allegations made by a minor female seizure patient. Jodin D. Froeber, 37, of the Somers Fire Department has been charged with one count of ...

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The Paris, France Fire Brigade is reeling following the revelation that a recruit on the department’s elite gymnastics team had been sodomized and sexually assaulted by teammates. The incident allegedly occurred May 6, 2012 as the team was returning from ...

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A 20 year old volunteer firefighter from Pennsylvania has been charged with indecent assault for sexually assaulting a junior firefighter last year.  Joseph Traino, of the Chambers Hill Fire Company, was in court yesterday on charges that date back to ...

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