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Devin: A DETROIT JUDGE SLAMS
AN EX-POLICE OFFICER WHO TOOK
THE LAW INTO HIS OWN HANDS AND
WHY HE SAID HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT
TO SEND HIM OFF TO JAIL.
FORMER ST. CLAIR SHORES POLICE
OFFICER MICHAEL NOTARIANO WAS
SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN JAIL.
Karen: FOR A VIOLENT
CONFRONTATION WITH A GROUP
DETROIT MEN WHO STOLE HIS
DAUGHTER'S CELL PHONE.
LAUREN PODELL WAS IN COURT AS
THE JUDGE DELIVERED A STRONG
MESSAGE ALONG WITH A STIFF
SENTENCE.
Lauren: HERE'S BACKGROUND: A
FORMER ST. CLAIR SHORES POLICE
OFFICER UP AGAINST ONE
MISDEMEANOR CHARGE HERE TODAY AT
FRANK MURPHY HALL OF JUSTICE.
AFTER A JURY FOUND HIM NOT
GUILTY OF TEN OTHERS CHARGES,
INCLUDING ARMED ROBBERY AND
RACIAL INTIMIDATION.
HE THOUGHT AT SENTENCING
PROBATION OUT THE DOOR.
BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE JUDGE
HAD IN MIND.
I DO DEEPLY REGRET THIS
INCIDENT.
Lauren: EX-ST. CLAIR SHORES
POLICE OFFICER TODAY BEFORE
JUDGE KENNY WITH AN APOLOGY.
THERE WAS NO WINNERS AT ALL
IN THIS SITUATION, NOT ONLY FOR
MYSELF AND MY FAMILY, BUT FOR
ALL OF THOSE INVOLVED.
EVERY SINGLE THING HE'S DONE
AS A POLICE OFFICER EXEMPLIFIES
EVERYTHING WE WANT IN A POLICE
OFFICER.
Lauren: BUT THIS FATHER,
HUSBAND, AND 20-YEAR POLICE
VETERAN WILL SPEND 6 MONTHS IN
THE WAYNE COUNTY JAIL, JUDGE
KENNY SETTING AN EXAMPLE AFTER
18 MONTHS PROBATION WAS THE
PROSECUTOR'S RECOMMENDATION.
MAY HE BE A DETERRENT TO
OTHERS WHO MAY THINK TO ACT THAT
WAY.
Lauren: A JURY FOUND HIM
GUILTY OF WILLFUL NEGLECT OF
DUTY BY A PUBLIC OFFICIAL AFTER
HE AND A DETROIT POLICE SERGEANT
POINTED A GUN AT TWO MEN AND
CALLED THEM THE N-WORD AT THIS
CITGO GAS STATION IN DETROIT IN
JULY OF 2013.
PHOTOS SHOW THE OFFICERS BOTH
OFF-DUTY AT THE TIME.
THE MEN THEY CONFRONTED
ALLEGEDLY STOLE HIS DAUGHTER'S
CELL PHONE.
ONLY THE MISDEMEANOR CHARGE
STUCK.
HIS ATTORNEY SAID HIS CLIENT'S
ACTIONS NEARLY THREE YEARS AGO
WERE OUT OF CHARACTER.
HE IS NOT THE SAME MAN HE WAS
ON JULY 21ST 2013.
Lauren: BUT WHEN THE
PROSECUTORS SAY RACIAL
SENTENCED HIM TO MORE THAN
PROBATION.
Karen: THE CO-DEFENDANT,
DAVI POMEROY, PLED GUILTY TO
FAILURE TO UPHOLD THE LAW AND
