[WA] Ex-Deputy's wife, Deputy Coroner Jane Jeremy

Deputy involved in domestic violence incident
Port Orchard Independent
Oct 31 2000
By Amy Crumley
"No formal charges have yet been filed against Kitsap County Sheriff Deputy Frank Jermy, 41, who allegedly assaulted his wife, a former chief deputy coroner for the county, last Sunday... According to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, Jermy allegedly grabbed his wife Jane by the throat and pushed her onto a bed in their South Kitsap home last Sunday morning.Deputies who responded to a 911 call from Jermy's 43-year-old wife arrested Jermy upon arrival, said Kitsap County Undersheriff Dennis Bonneville. Bonneville said deputies noticed bruising around Jane Jermy's neck, although she didn't require hospitalization. Bonneville said the couple's two minor children were present during the alleged domestic violence incident... Bonneville said officials reportedly first transported Jermy to Harrison Memorial Hospital on Sunday, for an undisclosed medical reason...

Sheriff's deputy charged with third-degree assault
The Sun Link
By Travis Baker, (360)792-9217 or tbaker@thesunlink.com.
11/22/2000
...The court file alleges the incident came at the end of several days of heavy drinking by Jermy. A struggle for the covers in their bed generated into an attack, according to the file, when Jermy grabbed his wife by the throat. After choking her with one hand and then the other to the extent where she couldn't speak, he put his thumb "hard into her wind pipe," she said. She feared he was trying to kill her. The attack ended when she closed her eyes and quit struggling, she told officers. He released her and she was able to scream, bringing their two elementary school-age children to the room...

Deputy accused of assault loses his job
Frank Jermy's termination is the outcome of an internal investigation .
By Julie McCormick
(360) 415-2683 or jmccormick@thesunlink.com.
Published in The Sun: 01/05/2001
Kitsap County Sheriff's Deputy Frank Jermy was fired on Thursday, about two months after an alleged assault against his wife Jane, a former Chief Deputy Coroner. Jermy was on unpaid leave and the target of an internal investigation for undisclosed off-duty violations when deputies were called to the incident at his South Kitsap home Oct. 22... He allegedly strangled her and put her in fear for her life, and at one time had a gun in his hand before deputies arrived...

Ex-deputy coronor died of shot to head, autopsy shows
By Derek Sheppard, Sun Staff
September 25, 2004
...The past few days have been emotionally difficult for the Jermy family, and believe previous coverage about her death reflected poorly on her husband, former Kitsap County Deputy Sheriff Frank Jermy. Frank and Jane Jermy's 15-year-old daughter, Kayla, said her father is a "good person." "He loved her. He cared about her," Kayla said of the 17-year marriage between her parents, "He would have done anything for her." Jermy's daughter Allison said her mother will be remembered for "her humor and her intelligence."...

Former deputy coroner died of gunshot
Thurston County announces autopsy results on Jane Jermy; manner of death still pending details
Posted on Sep 29 2004
By Justine Frederiksen
Although officials have determined former Kitsap County Deputy Coroner Jane Jermy died of a gunshot wound to the head, much of the mystery surrounding her death has yet to be unraveled... determining the manner of death may take weeks. Jermy, 47, was found dead in her home by Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a 911 call... The only other occupant of the home at the time was the deceased’s husband, former Kitsap County Deputy Frank Jermy, 45, who was later transported to the hospital. His medical condition was not released... Frank Jermy was hired as a deputy sheriff in 1983, but was placed on administrative leave after his arrest in a domestic violence incident between he and his wife involving a firearm in October of 2000, according to Wilson. In January of 2001, Frank Jermy was fired from the Sheriff's office for "violation of rules and policies." Three months later, he pleaded guilty to third-degree domestic violence assault in Kitsap County Superior Court...

Coroner: Jermy killed herself
By Derek Sheppard
December 10, 2004
The SUN
Officials said Thursday that the former Kitsap County chief deputy coroner who was found dead inside her Port Orchard home in September took her own life. The Thurston County Coroner's Office, which conducted the autopsy, said Jane Jermy, 47, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Coroner Judy Arnold said contributing factors were chronic depression and prescription drug dependence. The disclosure comes more than two months after the coroner and Washington State Patrol began investigations into the death. Jermy was an enigmatic local figure who was remembered by some as a benevolent, caring person who helped people through the loss of friends and relatives, and by others as a woman who wasn't to be crossed. Her daughter, Allison Butler, told The Sun in September that her mother would be remembered for "her humor and her intelligence." "She was amazing. She could walk into a room and make it light up," she said. "She was just fun to all."...


Jane Anne Evans Jermy
10 Feb 1957 - 22 Sep 2004
Jane Jermy worked as chief deputy coroner of Kitsap County for several years. She was a reserve police officer with the Poulsbo Police Department and a volunteer emergency medical technician with the District 10 Fire Department.
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[UT] Fired Swat Officer Henderson Opens fire - Lt Terry comforts the targeted ex.

January 2006
Arthur (Art) Henderson was fired from the Lehi Police Department in 2004 after being charged with assault and was due back in court on Monday. He's a former amateur boxer proficient in martial arts, had been a use-of-force instructor for the Lehi Police Department and is a former SWAT officer. This week, he chased down his ex-wife's boyfriend in a car chase, rammed his truck into the boyfriends car, shot him twice, shot at his ex-wife and officers - and even a car passing with a family in it took a bullet. Officers shot Henderson.

The boyfriend had to be airlifted to Salt Lake for hospital care. Both will be okay.

In February 2005 his ex-wife wrote down incidents from 14 years of domestic violence while applying for a protection order, like

...being grabbed, having her head put THROUGH a wall, getting hit in the head with a box of bullets, repeately threatening to kill her - with their their kids trying to jump in - kicking her so hard her leg was bruised to the bone, bumps on her head, bruises on her body, holding a gun to her head...

"I went to my knees on the closet floor

and begged him

not to shoot me."

[FL] Arrested 4 times, repeat batterer Officer Currie is on trial

January 2006

JUST SO YOU KNOW:

THIS MAN, Florida International University Police Officer Frederick "Fred" Eugene Currie

-- is on trial for (on-duty)sexual battery and battery of girl parked with her boyfriend in the park
-- is still on the FUI payroll
-- has been reprimanded once
-- has been repeatedly suspended and/or relieved of duty/ put on leave
-- has been arrested three times on domestic violence charges prior to this latest set of charges
-- was also accused of domestic violence while he was with the Marine Corps
-- has been fired by FIU Police Department TWICE
-- has been reinstated TWICE with arbitration from the union
-- Yes, FUI is a real police department.

I think the game is up this time.

NOTE: I updated this - at the end of January Currie was sentenced to ten years.

[PA] Ex Officer Brockenborough killed by Cop ex-girlfriend's son

Ex-Officer Kenneth Brokenborough

January 2006
Retired Philadelphia Police Officer Kenneth Brokenborough was shot and killed in his front yard by, Galvinus E. Thompson, the son of a Philadelphia police officer that Brokenborough dated in "recent years." The motive isn't released yet but police say there is "something" in the past that is being thought to be the motive. Police also say that the mother of the shooter doesn't appear to be involved.
Predominant in the news report descriptions of slain Brokenborough is his relationship to neighborhood children:
"...Throughout his life, Brokenborough looked out for neighborhood kids and encouraged them to focus on healthy activities, like sports..."
"...Neighbors described Brokenborough as protective of local children, taking them swimming or buying them ice cream and candy..."
"...He wanted to do something religious for kids so they could get out of the city..."

[NY] Officer Tammy Mackin broke in, bit & bruised woman

House Officer Mackin broke into

New York, January 2006
New York State Police came up on Potsdam Police Officer Tammy Mackin' after she forced her way into a residence and witnessed her beating the the womand and biting her. The victim was treated for bite wounds and bruises at E.J. Noble Hospital in Gouverneur and has been released. Officer Mackin was in jail, is out of jail, currently on admin leave, and charged with 1st degree burglary. Seems there's no assault charge.

[IN] Police Officer Seufert Cop-on-Cop DV dog-killing case

January 2006
31-year-old St. Joseph County Police Officer Curt Seufert is resigning just before he was about to be fired. He allegedly beat his police officer girlfriend's dog to death. His girlfriend is employed with the South Bend Police Department. Sheriff Canarecci said he heard unofficial reports that the Akita may have suffered a broken back and broken leg. The case has been scheduled for a grand jury.

CBS 48 Hours Producer Paul LaRosa's book on police chief's murder-suicide

CBS 48 Hours Producer, Paul Larosa, has written a book, Tacoma Confidential; A True Story of Murder, Suicide, And A Police Chief's Secret Life. At the core of the story is LaRosa's belief that the Tacoma Police Chief David Brame only ACCIDENTLY shot his wife Crystal in the head after she followed him and got in his face.

According to LaRosa, although the chief's domestic violence was front page news in the daily paper that day, he was just trying to have a nice "normal" day buying candy and shampoo for his kids - that is until that stomping, hysterical, and gobbling-when-she-eats, barely 5'1" Crystal stalked him down and strongarmed her 6'3" husband's hand to keep him from committing suicide - and pop - in effect I guess shoots herself via his hand (?). No matter the movements, according to LaRosa, Crystal in effect caused her OWN death.

That isn't what happened y'all. It's a made-for-men-sites conclusion that disregards and dismisses the indepth investigations of a number of law enforcement entities, journalists, the children's statements of what happened, and anything else that defies how he'd like to think this horrific event happened.
He states that no one doubts that David Brame loved his children. I do. You don't shoot the mom of kids you love
and yourself,
feet away from those same children
leaving them to scream
and cry
and beg strangers to
help their mommy
as she lays in
a pool
of
blood
at
their
feet.

But LaRosa's not seein' that.

Facts? He starts on page one that Tacoma is north of Gig Harbor. We're southeast. It goes from there. Although he sacrifices truth for his uncited, unsubstantiated guesses - and calls them facts (see discussion link below) - this book can no doubt - I believe - save lives, just in the sheer horror of a peek at domestic violence behind the blue wall of power and silence. I am adamantly at odds with this book because I am SO familiar with the details and investigation, and angry that even dead, Crystal is STILL not believed - yet I hope a zillion folks read it. (Suggestion: Until Mr. LaRosa commits to share any of his profits towards domestic violence, SHARE the book with many, or take it out from the library.)

To see the CourtTV discussion forum on the book go here.