FREEPORT A Freeport man has been cited for allegedly intimidating voters.
Dell Wasso, 53, of Freeport, is accused of pressing a vote Democratic sign against the window of a vehicle as it was being parked outside of a polling location and attempting to intimidate the occupants as they were exiting the vehicle, Freeport Police Chief Matt Summers said Thursday.
Summers called the offense a city ordinance violation and said Wasso was issued a notice to appear.
Police are also investigating complaints that political campaigning took place too close to several polling locations Tuesday in violation of state election laws.
The majority of the complaints involved individuals handing out election-related materials and displaying signs in close proximity to voting sites.
Texas police officer removes opossum family from under truck s hood
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FREEPORT, Texas - A South Texas police officer was praised by his colleagues for removing an opossum family from under the hood of a truck in Freeport, despite his reluctance.
The Freeport Police Department shared a video on Facebook that shows Officer Chuck Willard reaching in under the hood of a parked truck on Sunday, March 14, and pulling a mother opossum out by the tail before releasing it a few feet away.
Officer Willard also removed her babies from under the hood.
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Long Island’s two county police departments are among a small minority of America’s largest local law-enforcement agencies that have spurned broad use of body-worn cameras, even as deadly encounters between officers and unarmed Black people increased calls for greater police transparency and accountability.
A Newsday survey of the nation’s 50 largest law-enforcement agencies found just three that had not equipped large numbers of officers with body cameras before 2020: The Nassau and Suffolk police departments and the Portland Police Bureau, in Oregon.
Deployment of body cameras as standard police equipment extends from the nation’s largest force, the 35,000-member New York Police Department, to smaller agencies, including Freeport’s 100-officer department. It has occurred as law-enforcement authorities and the public have come to rely on video recordings to document crimes and police conduct.
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