Sergeant Oconnor News Today

Heartbreaking testimony from the families of slain police officers in Philadelphia Friday, as federal lawmakers from the House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing on violent crime in Philadelphia.

Sergeant Andrew O’Connor received an excellence award at the AGSI conference in Killarney.

Suspended sentence for streaking excrement at Kilkenny Garda Station Reporter:  ); A two-month suspended sentence was handed down to a man who admitted being intoxicated in a public place and to criminal damage. Thomas Harty, 7 Steeple Court, New Building Lane, Kilkenny admitted being intoxicated in a public place at Johns Green on July 14, 2020 and to criminal damage at Kilkenny Garda Station at the same date. Sergeant Morgan O’Connor told the court that on July 14, 2020 gardaí were on pa...

Man extradited from the US on a charge of dangerous driving causing death, appeared in Castlebar Court this morning Published: Thursday, 17 December 2020 11:57  A man extradited from the US overnight, appeared at Castlebar District Court this morning on a charge of dangerous driving causing death following a fatal car crash in Tourmakeady in 2017. Francis Carr, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, was the driver of a car which was involved in a road crash some three and a half years ago which claimed ...

Friday, December 11, 2020 The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania released the below information: PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that an Indictment was unsealed today charging four defendants with the murder of Philadelphia Police Corporal James “Jimmy” O’Connor (seen in the above photo), posthumously promoted to Sergeant, and related drug trafficking and firearms offenses. The defendants charged in the Indictment are Hassan Elli...

OConnor, 46, was attempting to execute an arrest warrant on Elliott in the Frankford section of Philadelphia when he was shot in the shoulder above his bulletproof vest as he climbed the stairs of the groups alleged drug stash house.  U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain unsealed an indictment Thursday against the four defendants, allegedly members of a violent drug-trafficking group known as "1700 Scattergood." The group sold cocaine and marijuana and collected several firearms, including semi-a...