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A Pennsylvania police chief who threatened a Facebook critic with a false arrest if he failed to delete negative posts about him on Friday pleaded guilty to committing a federal civil rights violation.

77 A police chief in Pennsylvania has been charged with a civil rights violation after he allegedly made a threat to a man. He informed him that he could “make up a fake arrest” and have him placed in jail after the man wrote social media posts criticizing the police chief and the department he heads. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania had announced late last week that 45-year-old Police Chief Brian Buglio, of Lattimer Mines, Pa., has been charged ...

Last March, West Hazleton, Penn., Police Chief Brian Buglio summoned a man to the police...

A police chief in Pennsylvania is now out of a job and facing prison time after allegedly threatening to jail a man who insulted him on Facebook. In February 2020, East Stroudsburg...

Brian Buglio "threatened to pursue felony criminal charges" against the man even though he admitted they lacked merit, federal prosecutors say.

West Hazleton Police Department Chief Brian Buglio was charged with threatening a man with fake criminal charges in retaliation for critical Facebook posts, federal prosecutors said.

May 29—Brian Buglio must resign as West Hazleton's police chief and plead guilty to violating the civil rights of a citizen as part of an agreement reached with a federal prosecutor, according to court records. Buglio, 45, of Lattimer Mines, allegedly threatened a citizen with criminal charges in retaliation for social media posts that the person created that were critical of Buglio and the ...

Brian Buglio allegedly told a man who published critical social media posts about him that he could "make up a fake arrest" and jail him.

The police chief "said that he was going to arrest me for a crime...Ive never even done or had any part of," according to the Facebook user.

WEST HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — A police chief in northeastern Pennsylvania threatened to...