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CONSPIRACY AT THE GLOCESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT?
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AS YOU CAN SEE THE GLOCESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A HISTORY OF LYING EVEN UNDER OATH IN COURT !
Ex-Glocester officer denied new trial
Relevancy: 36; Author: LINDA BORG Journal Staff
Writer; Date: 07-09-1999; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: B-05 ; Word
Count: 570;
PROVIDENCE - The state Supreme Court yesterday denied a motion
for a new trial sought by Bruce N. Binns, a former Glocester
police officer convicted in connection with the beating of a
suspect in 1984.
Ex-Glocester chief to head back to ACI *His request for a
reduced sentence denied, former Police Chief Richard Tooher will
finish his term for covering
up a suspect's beating by other officers.
Relevancy: 52; Author: TRACY BRETON Journal Staff
Writer; Date: 04-17-1999; Edition: ALL; Section:
News; Page Number: A-03; Word Count: 570;
Former Glocester Police Chief Richard B. Tooher has been ordered
to report to prison Monday to finish serving a two-year sentence
for crimes he was convicted of 13 years ago, related to the
beating of a suspect. On Tuesday, former Superior Court...
Cranston, Glocester settle civil rights suit
Relevancy: 19; Author: PETER HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 11-10-1988; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: Z-01 ; Word
Count: 442;
MEMO: Also supplement to the Metro West edition of the Evening
Bulletin.
A federal law suit that names Cranston and
Glocester as defendants and alleges police officers in the two
communities made false statements to obtain arrest and ...
Grand jury suggests review of charges against
officer who accused superiors
Relevancy: 19; Author: GREGORY SMITH Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 03-03-1986; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: C-01 ; Word
Count: 1082;
GLOCESTER --- The Providence County grand jury that last week
indicted the top two men in the Police Department recommended
that the state consider dismissing criminal charges against their
chief accuser, suspended Ptlm. James N. Williams. ...
Police scandal is the talk of Glocester Shaken
residents wait to see what becomes of jumble of allegations
Relevancy: 24; Author: JOSEPH DRISCOLL and GREGORY
SMITH Journal-Bulletin Staff Writers; Date: 03-09-1986; Edition:
; Section: Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number:
C-01 ; Word Count: 1758;
MEMO: Related story on Page A-01.
GLOCESTER --- It began as a routine late night call. A pair of
fishermen had heard the sound of breaking glass. When they went
to check, they saw a car, its lights off and tires squealing,
race out from ...
Glocester chief, aide guilty of police coverup
Relevancy: 17; Author: PETER E. HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 07-24-1986; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: A-01 ; Word
Count: 772;
PROVIDENCE --- Glocester Police Chief Richard B. Tooher and Lt.
Bruce N. Binns were found guilty yesterday in Superior Court of
obstructing justice and conspiracy in the arrest and beating of a
burglary suspect two years ago.
Binns, who ...
Glocester paid $6,500 to settle suit
Relevancy: 15; Author: PETER E. HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 11-15-1988; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: Z-01 ; Word
Count: 319;
MEMO: Also a supplement to the Metro West edition of the Evening
Bulletin.
The town of Glocester agreed to pay $6,500 of the $17,500
settlement in a federal law suit brought by a man who charged
that police officers in Glocester and ...
Glocester's police chief indicted
Relevancy: 15; Author: GREGORY SMITH and JOSEPH
DRISCOLL Journal-Bulletin Staff Writers; Date: 03-01-1986;
Edition: ; Section: Newspapers & Newswires; Page
Number: A-01 ; Word Count: 634;
Glocester Police Chief Richard B. Tooher and his second-in-command,
Lt. Bruce N. Binns, were indicted yesterday by the Providence
County Grand Jury in connection with the alleged beating of a
burglary suspect and coverup of events surrounding the ...
Defense highlights Raymond arrest record at
trial of two top Glocester police officers
Relevancy: 12; Author: PETER E. HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 07-16-1986; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: A-13 ; Word
Count: 447;
PROVIDENCE --- The lawyer for Glocester's two top police officers
yesterday tried to discredit previous testimony of a prosecution
witness by highlighting his arrest record, which includes
convictions for burglary and assaulting police officers. ...
Glocester police repeatedly slapped, beat him,
Richard Raymond testifies He also describes deal with chief to
keep mum on arrest
Relevancy: 12; Author: PETER E. HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 07-15-1986; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: A-03 ; Word
Count: 542;
Richard R. Raymond, testifying at the trial of Glocester's two
top police officials, said he was repeatedly slapped and beaten
after his arrest for burglary two years ago.
A former Glocester patrolman ground his knuckles into Raymond's
...
Man whom police held as burglary suspect sues
Tooher and Binns, says they beat him up in jail
Relevancy: 11; Author: PETER HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 04-17-1987; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: C-01 ; Word
Count: 513;
A burglary suspect whose case led to the convictions of
Glocester's two top police officers has filed a civil suit in
federal court against the two officers and a suspended patrolman.
Richard R. Raymond, a former Glocester resident who now ...
Ex-Glocester patrolman testifies Chief Tooher
ordered coverup Says he was told to lie after lieutenant
assaulted suspect
Relevancy: 11; Author: PETER E. HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 07-10-1986; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: A-08 ; Word
Count: 525;
PROVIDENCE --- A former Glocester patrolman testified yesterday
that Glocester Police Chief Richard B. Tooher ordered him to lie
after he saw another officer beat a burglary suspect with a
nightstick.
In the third day of the Superior Court ...
Glocester patrolman rebuts testimony on
nightstick assault Former dispatcher says Binns, suspect tumbled
down steps
Relevancy: 10; Author: PETER E. HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 07-18-1986; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: A-08 ; Word
Count: 568;
Glocester police Lt. Bruce N. Binns and a burglary suspect "tumbled"
down concrete stairs leading to the station and "crashed
into the door," a former police dispatcher said yesterday at
the trial of Glocester's two top police officials. ...
Witness to get immunity for trial of top
officers on Glocester police force
Relevancy: 8; Author: PETER E. HOWARD Journal-Bulletin
Staff Writer; Date: 07-08-1986; Edition: ; Section:
Newspapers & Newswires; Page Number: A-06 ; Word
Count: 418;
PROVIDENCE --- The state's star witness in the trial against the
top two men in the Glocester Police Department was granted
immunity in exchange for testimony after a hearing in Superior
Court yesterday.
Presiding Justice Anthony A. ...