It took just seconds for Ronin to find it.
His reward? A nice, big, chew toy.
Just another day in the life of a K-9 police officer.
Ronin and his human partner, Upper Southampton police Officer Robert Ungurean, along with Lower Southampton K-9 Officer Kyle Heasley and Arrow, are the newest members of a small number of Bucks County police departments with police K-9 units.
Department leaders say police dogs have proven to be important crime fighting and investigative tools. But in a time of slim budgets, few departments have the ability to invest the time and the tens of thousands of dollars it may take to train and keep them.
Experts are raising doubts that artificial intelligence was used to create a video that police are calling a “deepfake” and is at the center of an ongoing legal battle playing out in Pennsylvania.
The incident made international news last month after the mother of a high school cheerleader was accused of manipulating images and video in an effort to make it appear as if her daughter’s rivals were drinking, smoking, and posing nude.
The mother, 50-year-old Raffaela Spone, reportedly sent the doctored content from an anonymous number to three cheerleaders and their coaches.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, which charged Spone with three counts of cyber harassment of a child and three counts of harassment, referenced the term deepfake when discussing the images as well as a video that depicted one of the alleged victim’s vaping.
Carey was charged with 122 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, statutory sexual assault, official oppression and related offenses. The incidents noted in the court filing allegedly took place between 1996 and 2009.
The charges followed a grand jury investigation into multiple allegations against Carey, who was a Warminster police officer from 1989-2009. He had previously worked briefly for the North Wales Police Department and the Warwick Police Department in the late 1980s. Carey ingratiated himself into the lives of minor children, in particular, those who were already facing challenges in their lives, the presentment said. He used his position and authority to groom, not only the children, but their adult caregivers. The grooming tactics he used were pervasive, manipulative and calculated such that he not only lowered the minor s guard but also attempted to provide an assurance that his crimes would go unreported and if reported,
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A former police officers that worked with children in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania, in the D.A.R.E. and Fire Explorers programs is accused of sexually abusing at least four boys over several years.
James Carey was arraigned Wednesday in Bucks County on 122 charges, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and statutory sexual assault.
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub urged anyone else who may have been victimized to come forward.
A former police officer who worked to keep children from abusing drugs and resisting violence is accused of sexually abusing several teens and faces more than 100 counts of assault and abuse in a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, court.
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