Officer quits after lying over ‘pig’ on coffee cup
Kansas: A police officer has resigned after he admitted making up a story that a Mcdonald’s employee wrote an expletive and the word “pig” on a coffee cup.
Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said at a news conference that the officer had “completely and solely fabricated” the allegation.
Mr Hornaday said the officer told him the incident was “meant to be a joke”.
He did not name the 23-year-old officer but said he had been with the department about two months after spending approximately five years in the army.
The police chief also “applauded” Mcdonald’s for conducting its own investigation and for cooperating with the department’s.
It is “absolutely a black eye on law enforcement,” Mr Hornaday said, also calling the incident an “obvious violation” of the public’s trust.
Seoul: South Korean prosecutors have indicted a key ally of President Moon Jae-in on a dozen charges, including bribery.
The move over former justice minister Cho Kuk comes as investigators concluded a months-long probe into a political scandal which has rocked Seoul’s liberal government and sparked huge protests.
In a rare public response to an ongoing criminal case, Mr Moon’s office released a statement accusing prosecutors of pushing an excessive probe into Cho and questioned whether it was politically motivated.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said Cho was charged for receiving 6 million won (£4,000) in bribes, in the form of scholarships his daughter received from a medical school in Busan from 2017 to 2018, when he served as Mr Moon’s senior secretary of civil affairs.
A prosecution official said Cho Kuk faces 11 other charges, including working with his wife to manipulate official documents and create fake materials to help their daughter’s admission into the school.
He is also charged with obstructing justice and attempting to tamper with evidence regarding his family’s dubious private equity investments.
Wuhan: Chinese experts are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness in the central city of Wuhan which some have likened to the 2002-2003 Sars epidemic.
The city’s health commission said 27 people had fallen ill with a strain of viral pneumonia, seven of whom are in serious condition.
It said most had visited a seafood market in the sprawling city, apparently pointing to a common origin of the outbreak.
Unverified information online said the illnesses were caused by Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), which emerged from southern China and killed more than 700 people in several countries. Sars was brought under control, but not before causing a virtual shutdown to travel in China.