Six former law enforcement officers in Mississippi — five of whom were in the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office’s self-titled ...

Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff's Department. A group of the agency's former officers — who called themselves the "Goon Squad" — pleaded guilty last year to a series of charges for ...

The officers included Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department and Joshua Hartfield, a Richland police officer.

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey has overseen a department in Mississippi with a disturbingly ... Those deputies called themselves the "Goon Squad" for their willingness to use excessive force.

The Justice Department will investigate whether the Rankin County Sheriff ... the southern district of Mississippi, Todd Gee, said text messages between Goon Squad members, including officers ...

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has broadened its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi, where a notorious “Goon Squad” of deputies has been ...

The meetings are being held to hear testimony from potential victims as part of an investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office following the conviction of members of “The Goon Squad,” a ...

The undersheriff of a Mississippi ... man whom Rankin deputies shot to death in February 2019 outside his home, is also suing the sheriff's department. Two of the convicted "Goon Squad" officers ...

The man accused of kidnapping a Rankin County teenager has been extradited back to Mississippi. Investigators with the Rankin ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi after several of its former officers known as the "Goon Squad" were ...