via: Daily Record Chatham Borough police Sgt. Roy George is facing department disciplinary charges by allegedly leaving a backpack containing a loaded handgun on a sidewalk in Westfield after a night of drinking.
Westfield police at 11 p.m. on Oct. 12, 2009, got a call about an intoxicated person walking around Elm Street. This person, later identified as Roy George of Clark, was released to the care of a responsible adult, a Westfield police spokesman said Thursday.
The following morning, Oct. 13, at 7:20 a.m., police got a call from a Sinclair Place resident in the Union County municipality of Westfield. The caller said he found a backpack on the sidewalk in front of his home that contained a handgun and identification. Inside the pack, police discovered police credentials belonging to Roy George of the Chatham police department and a loaded, .45-caliber handgun.
A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense - doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.
Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said. "I love my friends Abby and Faith," the girl wrote, adding the phrases "Lex was here. 2/1/10" and a smiley face.
But instead of simply cleaning off the doodles after class, Alexa landed in some adult-sized trouble for using her lime-green magic marker.
She was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours, she and her mother said.
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They say their three-year-old grandson might have survived if a Wichita police officer hadn't made them stop CPR. Isaiah Jones drowned in his grandparents' above-ground pool last week.
The boy's grandmother, Pam Jordan, was taking care of him as part of her daycare. She says just moments after seeing the boy playing on her locked back patio, he was gone. Thinking the boy might have sneaked back into the home, Jordan yelled Isaiah's name and called 911 to report a missing child.
Shortly after, she found him floating in the backyard pool.
Jordan says she scooped the boy up, took him into her kitchen, and the CPR she did on him was working. Jordan says the boy vomitted, regained a pulse, and color was returning to his blue lips. She says her grandson still wasn't breathing, though.
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The family says they're upset because the first officer on the scene told Jordan to back away and didn't continue CPR. They say when two other officers arrived minutes later, they immediately grabbed equipment and restarted CPR.
"I trusted him to take over," says Pam Jordan, a former medical assistant. "That's why I specifically asked him, 'Are you going to take over?' It's a life and death situation."
The boy's grandfather, Mark Jordan, is an 18-year veteran of the Wichita Fire Department. He wasn't at the house when the boy drowned, but he says he's upset his grandson went minutes without CPR.
"He had a duty to act," says Mark Jordan. "Now, if he did not want to act at that point, he should have told my wife, 'You come on and you continue CPR.' Those were the options he had."
The Jordans admit they can't be sure if Isaiah would have lived under different circumstances.
"Isaiah probably could be home now," says Mark Jordan. "We don't know that, but what we do know is that whatever chance he had in that three to five minutes, it was taken away from him."
The Jordans have not filed an official complaint with the Wichita Police Department.
Police say they're investigating Isaiah Jones' death, the circumstances surrounding it, and statements made. There is currently no internal investigation into officer conduct.
A deputy chief with the department says right now there is no evidence the officer did anything wrong. The chief says some officers are trained in CPR while others aren't. The first officer to respond to Jones' drowning is a 20-year veteran of the police department, but Eyewitness News does not know if he is trained in CPR.
