The following from the Mobile Press-Register…
A former Mobile police officer, due in federal court today to face accusations of child pornography, shot himself in the head Tuesday evening at his home while federal agents were there to arrest him, police said.
Fredrick Renfroe, 44, was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center with a single gunshot wound, police spokesman Officer John Young said. Renfroe was in critical condition late Tuesday, a nursing supervisor said.
FBI agents and U.S. marshals were at Renfroe’s Dunlop Street residence — which he shares with his parents in Mobile — to arrest Renfroe and revoke his probation for removing his electronic monitoring device, Young said.
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Renfroe, who was once named an officer of the month in 2003, was arrested last January after authorities said a search of his home turned up images of child pornography on his computer. He was on the Mobile police force for nearly four years but resigned the day before he was arrested.
The search was prompted by a complaint that he had used a hidden video camera to film a 12-year-old female relative taking a shower, authorities said at the time.
Assistant District Attorney Steve Giardini has said the alleged tape was not found and Renfroe “was not charged with anything regarding” the 12-year-old girl.
In the process of the search, Giardini said, investigators hauled away computers, discs and other related information belonging to Renfroe.
Renfroe was under house arrest pending trial.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bert Milling Jr. tightened the requirements of that house arrest earlier this month after prosecutors reported that the defendant on Dec. 29 went to the workplace of his estranged wife, who intended to testify in the case.
Milling ordered that Renfroe could not leave his home except to go to work, unless he got permission from the Office of Pretrial Services.
As of Thursday this slime bucket was still somewhat above room temperature. He screwed up his life, no telling how many kids, and then screwed up his own suicide. This guy is a complete waste. With any luck, however, he will soon slip off to whatever awaits such useless pieces-of-shyte in the Afterlife.
I hope that, (whatever it is), it is even worse than this guy would have had going to prison as a “Short-Eyes Cop”
Rot in Hell, Fredrick Renfroe.
Bull, out.
