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Post by WaTcHeR on May 31, 2006 13:08:03 GMT -5
Officer Shawn Shelton 5/29/06 - CORONA, CA. - A former law enforcement official was arrested after allegedly posing as a police officer and abducting and sexually assaulting a teenager in Nevada, police said Sunday. Shawn Shelton, 39, of Moorpark, was arrested Friday evening in Corona by officers acting on a tip from Las Vegas police, said police Lt. Tom Weeks. Police said Shelton flashed his old police badge at a 14-year-old boy at a Las Vegas bus stop last Sunday and ordered the victim into his sport utility vehicle. The suspect then allegedly drove to a nearby parking lot, handcuffed the boy and sexually assaulted him, Weeks said. The boy was released two hours later and contacted authorities. Shelton, who was jailed without bail in Corona, was expected to be extradited to Las Vegas, Weeks said. Shelton was a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy for five years before becoming a Manhattan Beach police officer in 1994, authorities said. He was promoted to sergeant in 1999 before taking an extended medical leave and then retiring from the force. |
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Post by WaTcHeR on Jun 3, 2006 14:06:43 GMT -5
06.02.2006 - A former officer accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy could go to prison for life. That's what we learned Friday morning when Shawn Shelton made his first appearance in a Las Vegas courtroom.
Prosecutors say he's a threat to this community, given the serious crimes he's accused of. They say Shelton posed as a police officer -- then raped a teenage boy.
Friday he faced a judge for the first time. The former officer, turned defendant, appeared in court via closed circuit TV Friday morning.
Shelton, who used to work as a police officer in southern California, is accused of kidnapping and raping a 14 year old boy here in Las Vegas in May.
Prosecutors say Shelton flashed a badge to the boy, who was waiting at an eastside bus stop. Investigators say he then lured the boy into his hummer, handcuffed him and sexually assaulted him.
They say that he told the boy that he was investigating a crime and used fear and intimidation to get the boy into his vehicle.
After detectives a sketch to the public -- police arrested Shelton in southern California last week. He was extradited to Las Vegas Thursday.
Shelton's public defender at first asked the judge to set bail at $25,000 -- but prosecutors didn't like that idea.
The defendant fled the state and had to be extradited, so with that in mind, the judge decided to set Shelton's bail at $2 million, meaning he will likely be staying behind bars.
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Post by WaTcHeR on Jun 3, 2006 14:10:24 GMT -5
Ex-MB cop called 'person of interest' in Louisiana death
Shawn Michael Shelton, a former sergeant, was previously accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas.
06.03.2006 - A former Manhattan Beach police sergeant accused of handcuffing and sexually assaulting a teenage boy in Las Vegas is under investigation in the suspicious death of a young Louisiana man, the Daily Breeze has learned.
Shawn Michael Shelton, 39, is considered a "person of interest" in connection with the death of a 19-year-old man in Natchitoches, Natchitoches police Lt. Brad Walker said Friday.
Walker said police became interested in Shelton long before his arrest Sunday in the Las Vegas crime. Shelton's name came up following the man's death Oct. 31.
"He is someone we are interested in talking to," Walker said. "We've been interested in him for the last few months, but he is not a wanted person for us right yet."
The detective lieutenant declined to release any details of the Natchitoches case, including information about the victim or how he died. But he did say that the circumstances of the case in Nevada interest detectives in Louisiana.
Shelton made his first appearance Friday in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, where he is charged with felony counts of first-degree kidnapping with a deadly weapon and sexual assault with a deadly weapon of a victim under 16.
If convicted, he could be sent to prison for two life terms, prosecutors said.
During the brief hearing, Justice of the Peace Karen Bennett-Harron set a preliminary hearing for June 16 and set Shelton's bail at $2 million, Clark County Deputy District Attorney Joshua Tomsheck said.
The court proceeding was the latest in a spiral for the former Manhattan Beach detective, once responsible for putting criminals behind bars. Since he resigned from the force in March 2003 after accusing former Chief Ernest Klevesahl and other officers of harassing him with anti-gay slurs -- as well as slashing his car's tires and poisoning his dog -- Shelton has been arrested three times.
Two weeks after Shelton left Manhattan Beach, Long Beach police arrested him for allegedly obtaining prescriptions for painkillers with forged prescriptions.
In December, Shelton was arrested when he allegedly trespassed with an 18-year-old companion onto a Ventura County ranch. Sheriff's deputies arrested him because he allegedly identified himself as a law enforcement officer and displayed a badge purportedly stolen from the Manhattan Beach Police Department.
The latest arrest, however, is far more serious and could send the former sheriff's deputy and Manhattan Beach police officer to prison for the rest of his life.
According to Las Vegas police, Shelton is suspected of being the man who drove up to a 14-year-old boy sitting at a bus stop near Desert Inn Road and Mojave Avenue on May 21.
The driver told the boy he was a police officer, showed the youth a badge and told him to get into his Hummer H2.
Shelton allegedly drove to a nearby parking lot, handcuffed the boy, and continued to a desert area on the east side of the city. Shelton sexually assaulted the boy and released him two hours later, police said.
Disturbance was key
Police had no suspects in the crime until employees at the Venetian hotel saw news reports and recognized the man. Las Vegas police officer Chris Jones said Shelton had caused a disturbance at the hotel a few days earlier, identifying himself as a police officer.
That surveillance video, along with other information from witnesses who recognized the Hummer, led Las Vegas detectives to identify Shelton as a suspect.
Shelton was arrested Sunday in Corona when officers in the Riverside County city found his black 2005 Hummer H2 in the 1100 block of Blossom Hill Drive. Police found several badges in the back of the sport utility vehicle, Jones said, but it was unclear if they were real or fake badges.
Shelton was extradited to Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Following his resignation from Manhattan Beach, Shelton moved from his Long Beach home to Moorpark. He later relocated to Louisiana for work before Hurricane Katrina struck.
In an e-mail to the Daily Breeze following his December arrest, Shelton wrote that his lawsuit against the city of Manhattan Beach was settled in August.
Impersonation denied
Shelton denied misusing his badge in Ventura County and said he did not impersonate a police officer.
The badge, he said, was a discarded "star" badge, one of many given to officers after Manhattan Beach switched from stars to shields 12 years ago.
Klevesahl, Shelton said, pressed the stolen-badge case against him out of vindictiveness.
This incident may very well have cost me an excellent new career which I've worked so hard to transition into," he wrote. "I might have to fight the politics and prove to my new employer and our massive customer base whom know me, so they're not publicly humiliated as I've been."
In the Dec. 23 e-mail, Shelton said he was "honorably retired" and was receiving a city pension. "People as far as New York that I've known for years have called me wondering why I was fired and why I would be stupid enough to present a stolen badge to an on-duty sheriff's sergeant," he wrote. "I'm simply not that infatuated with being affiliated with law enforcement and I'm most certainly not that damn stupid."
City officials have repeatedly denied Shelton's charges about discrimination since he filed his lawsuit.
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Post by KC on Jul 5, 2006 21:14:47 GMT -5
July 05, 2006 - A former California police officer accused of sexually assualting a valley teen was in court today. Channel 8 Eyewitness News has learned that Shawn Shelton is HIV positive. Police say Shelton lured a 14-year-old boy into his Hummer SUV in May by posing as a police officer before sexually assaulting the teen. The information was uncovered through DNA evidence. In court today, Shelton's attorney tried to lower his bail, but the judge kept Shelton's bail at $2 million. www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5115435&nav=168Y |
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Post by KC on Jul 5, 2006 21:30:58 GMT -5
Officer Shawn Shelton is Aids infested Son of a Bitch |
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Post by up yours on Jul 8, 2006 3:04:30 GMT -5
so..........even though this guy hasn't been a police officer for over 7 years. this still means that all police officers are dirty?
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Post by sup on Jul 8, 2006 17:24:47 GMT -5
so..........even though this guy hasn't been a police officer for over 7 years. this still means that all police officers are dirty? You think this cop just over night just started butt fucking kids? How corrupt of a cop was he, when he was a cop I wonder? I think "up yours" needs something up his ass, for sticking up for this cop. Probably related to the cop. |
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Post by up yours on Jul 8, 2006 19:58:42 GMT -5
what with the butt fucking sup.
from what it sounds like, you might like some butt fucking yourself.
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