Crime Time

Grand Prairie officers suspended for racist e-mails

Three Grand Prairie police officers and a dispatcher <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/080609dnmetgpofficers.376706a.html">have been suspended for forwarding racist e-mails</a> about President Obama on city-owned computers.

Document: Fired Fort Worth officer eyed in FBI investigation

Document obtained by the Star-Telegram indicate an officer fired from the Fort Worth Police Department may have tried to use her status to get information to two federal inmates.

The officer, Lucreshia Carey, was fired Tuesday, according to Lt. Paul Henderson, a police spokesman.

The document details allegations against Carey resulting from an internal affairs investigation, and says Fort Worth police were told by federal authorities that Carey may face federal charges.

Read staff writer Deanna Boyd's full report on the case here.

Another Fort Worth officer was also fired this week. He was fired after police completed an internal investigation into a DWI arrest near Lake Worth.

The officer, who at one point was a sergeant in the department, was arrested in May and has been on restricted duty since the incident, Henderson said.

More on that incident here.

-- Andrew Chavez

Watauga officer placed on administrative leave

Watauga police are investigating a citizen's complaint against one of their own officers that accuses him of breaking department policy, officials said today.

Officer Sean Romer, who has been with the department for about a year, was placed on paid administrative leave after the incident, which happened Friday night or early Saturday, police said.

Officials did not release the details of the investigation or the incident.

-- Melissa Vargas