Copper, Rocker and Author?

September 9, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, added the Johnny Barnes, the Copper, Rocker and Author.

Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Johnny Barnes attended boarding school in the Berkshires and played harmonica in a weekend blues band in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the late ‘60’s. After 2 years at U-Mass Dartmouth, Johnny moved to Boston where he drove a taxicab, attended Berklee School of Music and Harvard University Extension School majoring in Zen Buddhism.

Johnny Barnes sang and played guitar in all of the famous nightclubs in Boston with many of rock and roll’s legends, producing and releasing a dozen records. Local airplay and intense record company interest led to a hit song in England and work with legendary producer, Jimmy Miller (The Rolling Stones, Blind Faith with Eric Clapton, Traffic with Steve Winwood.) Barnes moonlighted, helping manage Boston’s largest live music nightclub, The Channel, where his band opened for numerous major acts through the ‘80’s and early 1990’s. Barnes was a paralegal investigator for law firms, and an operative and operations manager for Boston area private detective agencies. Johnny worked for Massachusetts’s Legal Services, the Mass. ACLU, and was a subcontract homicide investigator for the state’s Committee for Public Counsel. Since 1991 Barnes has been a full time Police Officer for the Rochester Police Department.

Johnny Barnes has also written three murder mysteries, “Dead Men Talk,” “Sleep When I’m Dead” and “Dead on the Internet” Dead on the Internet is scheduled to publish late in 2006.

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