12312000 - Officer Tamieka Moorehead - OIDV Victim - Detroit PD

On December 31, 2000, Officer Tamieka Moorehead was punched several times by her husband, Loniel. He was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic violence.

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Officer Tamieka Moorehead: Allegedly assaulted by her husband. June 24, 2003:

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Officer Tamieka Moorehead: Shot her husband, during domestic. August 18, 2003:

http://michiganoidv.blogspot.com/2003/08/officer-tamieka-moorehead-detroit-pd.html

DETROIT COP ARRAIGNED IN HUSBAND'S SHOOTING
REPORT: PAIR ARGUED AFTER WOMAN CALLED
August 20, 2003
BY BEN SCHMITT
DETROIT FREE PRESS

A phone call from another woman began an argument that ended when a Detroit police officer shot and wounded her husband, according to a police report.

After shooting her 25-year-old husband in the neck and shoulder, Officer Tamieka Moorehead called her mother early Monday morning from her west-side Detroit home, telling her, "Mama, I shot him," the report says.

Moorehead, a five-year employee of the department, was arraigned via video Tuesday in Detroit's 36th District Court on a felony charge of assault with intent to murder, which is punishable by up to life in prison. Magistrate Charles Anderson III released her on a $100,000 personal bond at the request of her attorney, John Goldpaugh. Anderson ordered that she have no contact with her husband.

A preliminary exam is set for Sept. 2.

Goldpaugh said after the hearing that Moorehead, 26, was defending herself when she fired her handgun at her husband, Loniel Moorehead.

"My understanding is that he was attacking her, and she defended herself," Goldpaugh said, adding that the couple has had other domestic run-ins.

A police report says the fight began after a woman called the couple's home on the 16500 block of Winthrop asking for Loniel Moorehead.

After the 1:30 a.m. shooting, Loniel Moorehead stumbled next door to a neighbor's house and said, "She shot me," according to a police report filed with the court. Tamieka Moorehead followed, telling her neighbors, "We had an argument. I didn't mean to do it," the report says.

Officers arrived and found Loniel Moorehead sitting on his neighbor's front porch. He was rushed to the hospital.

He is at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, where he was listed in critical but stable condition, Tuesday. Police Cmdr. Craig Schwartz, who heads the major crimes division, said Moorehead is expected to recover.

Goldpaugh said Tamieka Moorehead called the police after the shooting and has been cooperative throughout the process. She was held in police custody until Tuesday's arraignment.

A check of records at 36th District Court show that police arrested Loniel Moorehead on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge for punching his wife several times on Dec. 31, 2000. The case was dismissed March 8, 2001, when Tamieka Moorehead failed to show up to testify at a subsequent hearing against her husband, the records indicate.

A suspension without pay recommendation will most likely be presented Thursday before the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners. Goldpaugh, a lawyer with the Detroit Police Officers Association, said the union does not usually contest suspensions on felony charges.

In July 2002, Police Chief Jerry Oliver, citing a problem with officers and domestic incidents, made it department policy to suspend all cops charged with any kind of domestic violence. The department previously suspended only those accused of felonies. Oliver was out of town and unavailable for comment Tuesday.

12232000 - Officer Brent Smith - Berkley PD

December 23, 2000: Officer Brent Smith, Berkley Police Department.



Berkley Public Safety Building

COP IS CHARGED IN SEX ASSAULT

WOMAN SAYS BERKLEY PATROLMAN FONDLED HER

February 14, 2001 •• 671 words •• ID: 0102140369. Detroit Free Press
A Berkley police officer was charged Tuesday morning with three counts of criminal sexual conduct and suspended without pay, according to a Berkley detective. Brent Smith, 27, allegedly fondled an 18-year-old Royal Oak woman after ordering her to his squad car Dec. 23. Smith, who has been on the force for 3 1/2 years, was suspended with pay Jan. 8 following an internal investigation. The Berkley Public Service Department changed his pay status after the arraignment. Smith, who is

COP FACED EARLIER COMPLAINTS BERKLEY OFFICER ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

April 23, 2001 •• 823 words •• ID: 0104230228. Detroit Free Press
Prosecutors are reviewing a woman's misconduct allegations against a Berkley cop charged with sexual assault in a separate case last month. The woman says Brent Smith searched her four times after an arrest on a drunken-driving charge in 1998, watched her urinate in a jail rest room and made her take off clothing. "You're a pretty girl, and as long as you keep cooperating like you are, it will all be OK," Smith told the woman, according

COP IS ACCUSED AGAIN OF ASSAULTING A WOMAN

May 2, 2001 •• 320 words •• ID: 0105020119. Detroit Free Press
A Bloomfield Hills woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Berkley police, the city, its public safety chief and an officer she accuses of assault. The suit alleges assault and battery, gross negligence, civil rights violations and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Kristin Oliver, 31, claims Officer Brent Smith arrested her May 3, 1998, on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and took her to the Berkley lockup. Records say Smith searched Oliver four times,

BERKLEY COP'S TRIAL TO RAISE POLICE CONDUCT ISSUES

SHE SAYS HE ABUSED HER

September 10, 2001 •• 1141 words •• ID: 0109100141. Detroit Free Press
Brent Smith was either a cop doing his job last December, conducting a pat-down search of an underage woman who had been drinking, or was a predator using his badge as a license to sexually assault her. Trial is set to begin today for the suspended Berkley police officer charged with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old Royal Oak woman during a search at a bar parking lot. Smith, a 3 1/2-year veteran, is charged with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and faces up to 15

BERKLEY COP IS CONVICTED IN DECEMBER SEX ASSAULT

September 18, 2001 •• 488 words •• ID: 0109180436. Detroit Free Press
A suspended Berkley police officer was led away in handcuffs Monday after an Oakland County jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in the back of his patrol car last December. Brent Smith, 27, shook his head, then bowed it as jurors convicted him of three counts of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree. The 19-year-old Royal Oak woman he assaulted smiled through her tears as the verdict was read. Her mother began sobbing and was ordered out of the courtroom by Judge

EX-OFFICER SENTENCED IN BERKLEY ASSAULT

October 25, 2001 •• 491 words •• ID: 0110250178. Detroit Free Press
A former Berkley police officer will spend 4 to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in his patrol car in December. Brent Smith, 27, could have been sentenced Wednesday to as little as one year in the county jail, but Oakland County Circuit Judge Gene Schnelz opted for the higher sentence, noting that Smith, as a police officer, had betrayed the public trust. Schnelz contrasted Smith's behavior with police officers who lost their lives trying to save others in the

CONCERN OVER COPS RISINGJanuary 25, 2002 •• 724 words •• ID: 0201250471. Detroit Free Press
Berkley's police department is confronted with new allegations of mistreatment by a woman, just months after one of its officers was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during a search. A national expert on police procedure said the accusations -- which mark the third time a Berkley cop has been accused in less than two years -- are cause for concern in a department with about 30 members. Mayor Mark Mooney said he couldn't discuss specific allegations but