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US Park Police spend $343,000 on mobile surveillance cameras in Washington DC

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Cameras reportedly set up near site for Trump’s proposed arch, Arlington Memorial Bridge and reflecting pool The US Park Police are spending $343,000 to lease mobile surveillance cameras from a company that also supplies Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , federal contract records show. The deal comes as Donald Trump has insisted that vandals damaged the reflecting pool, one of Washington’s best-known landmarks – charges that have since been dismissed. The Department of the Interior, which oversees the Park Police, awarded the lease to the…

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Officer who found man dead in Florida home allegedly moved in, renovated and assumed his identity for years

Dennis West was found dead in his Florida home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the responding officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators. Brian Louis Sguros, 35, an officer with the Lauderhill Police Department, was arrested Tuesday and faces several felony charges: official misconduct, criminal use of deceased person’s identification, criminal use of personal identification information, offense against a computer user, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.

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