Adult Internet Safety Tips www.privateofficer.com

By;Rick McCann MS.CPSO. CPO

Executive Director

The National Association of Private Officers

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For thirty five years I have been involved in every sort of theft, burglary and fraud investigation imaginable. I have worked check scam and burglary cases that were extemely creative and tracked organized gangs, shoplifters and burglars across the country. I thought that I'd seen it all until computers and social networking began to grow by leaps and bounds.

MySpace, Facebook and other social networking websites are increasingly becoming a dangerous and violent place to be! Like any other activity or location that you choose to go, you always have to keep your guard up and be on the look-out for what lurks in the dark and the internet is a dark place. A place of unknowns and pretends and not to scare you, but of very dangerous people!

This week, 2 people were charged with luring minors from the MySpace website for sex crimes.Three people were arrested for threatening and stalking school teachers and a burglary in Arkansas resulted from someone tracking an online "friend"'s every moves!We know that on line can be dangerous for children, but it can also be dangerous for adults.

Here are some tips:

1. Don't give your name in your bio or anywheres on your site! If you say that your name is Susie White, even with an unlisted phone number, people can get your address and phone number by using search engines,information pay sites and friends in the phone company or police business.

2. When posting a picture of your house or vehicle, don't show identifying locators such as a shopping mall in the background of your picture or your license tag or even your place of employment building, sign or street location.

3. People love to show off their family and pets but this is a mistake! Have you ever noticed identifiers in your friends pictures? Kids wearing the school logo on a t-shirt or sweater or the name of your employer on your jersey or polo or baseball cap. Be careful not to list your kids full names, school locations, grades etc. This is very usable information to track someone down. Even pet pictures can give your location away! For instance if you have pictures of a great Dane and someone pinpoints your neighborhood, they could ride around the area looking for a Great Dane or asking neighbors about such a dog. Be careful what you show and who you show it too!

4. Never send a resume or an invitation to a dance, block party or social event to someone that you don't know and have never met!

5. Don't get in the habit of telling "friends" who are total strangers that you work out everyday at Gold's gym or shop at Krogers or stop by your neighborhood Starbucks every morning on the way to work. People are creatures of habit and this information in the wrong hands could lead to someone following, stalking or raping you! It could also lead to an abuduction of your child. someone could see your children, learn about you and then come after the child.

6. Friend's Status is also dangerous. If you put a status that you are at work, an internet predator or an oppurtunist may decide to see what's there and break in. You could be putting your children's safety at risk! At the very least, you could become a victim of burglary as happened in Arkansas this week.If your status is asleep, this might give someone the idea to take advantage of the situation and it might turn out very bad for you.

These are just a few on-line safety tips for grown ups.

I hope that you'll take them to heart and pass them on!

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Man Lures 12 Yr Old Via MySpace www.privateofficer.com

BRISTOL CT. Jan 31 2008 — - A 21-year-old city man used MySpace to lure a 12-year-old girl into sex, state police said.Christopher Griswold turned himself in at the Litchfield barracks late Tuesday morning. He was charged with two counts each of first-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor and enticing a minor via computer.Troopers would not say where or when the encounters took place. The girl attends a Region 10 school, but no other details about her were disclosed.

The girl's mother approached Trooper Mike Burke on Jan. 18 to report a possible Internet relationship involving her daughter. Burke, the school resource officer in Region 10, brought in troopers from the computer crimes unit. Investigators obtained a search warrant for Griswold's home at 45 Ferraro Drive and seized evidence, according to a statement by Lt. J. Paul Vance."The investigation determined that the accused was involved in an inappropriate relationship with the 12-year-old," Vance said.Troopers did say how Griswold used MySpace, a social networking site that has been linked to scores of cases of adults drawing minors into sex. Region 10 Superintendent Alan Beitman said the school system will make counseling available to the girl and may hold a workshop for parents and students about the risks of Internet abuse. Region 10's computers block MySpace, and none of the communications between the girl and the man occurred in the schools, he said. "Parents need to be sure their computer is in a place that's visible" so they can keep some control over their children's activities online, Beitman said. "They don't have to sit with their children — just walk by the computer once in a while." Beitman said he was encouraged that the girl's mother brought the case to the school resource officer. Griswold was released after posting $150,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned today in Superior Court in Litchfield.

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Woman tries to hold up hotel with pen www.privateofficer.com

Appleton Wi. Jan 31 2008
Appleton police say a 24-year-old woman tried to rob the Paper Valley Hotel and take hostages at the downtown hotel Wednesday night. Police say that the woman went to the front desk and told the clerk that she was robbing the place.
According to police, the woman's weapon was a pen, and she wanted the money to post bail for her boyfriend.
Hotel security quickly apprehended her, and took her into custody until officers arrived and they turned her over to police.
This was not her first arrest for attempted robbery at the hotel. Police say she tried to rob the Paper Valley Hotel's front desk on January 17. Her weapon that time was a bar glass.

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Woman gives birth after crash, dies www.privateofficer.com

BOISE ID. Jan 31 2008- A pregnant mother of six is dead after her car hit a semi-truck head-on near her home.
It happened in South Boise on West Lake Hazel near the Charter Pointe subdivision shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday night.
Deputies say extremely icy road conditions led to the crash that killed Jennifer Storch, 30. She was driving her Cadillac SUV when several cars ahead of her began sliding. To avoid the crash, police say Storch swerved – running into oncoming traffic and hit the semi-truck hauling dry wall.
“She was alive at the time and was not restrained by a seatbelt. She was taken to a hospital where she later died of her injuries,” said Sgt Tom Briggs, with the Ada County Sheriffs Office.
The woman’s baby was at 35 weeks – near full term. Doctors at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center delivered the baby via emergency caesarian section before the mother died.
The baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit – and Briggs says it appears the baby will survive.
The people in the semi-truck were not injured.
Deputies say speed may have been a factor in the crash.

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Jury convicts 2 for murder of security officer www.privateofficer.com

Miami Fla. Jan 31 2008

Security guard Luis Brito was killed by a shot to the heart, fired as he tried to protect a Coral Gables jewelry store from masked robbers in 2003.
A Miami-Dade jury decided Wednesday that two men who didn't shoot Brito, and weren't even in the Merrick Park Mayor's jewelry store when Brito was killed, should be held responsible for his murder.
Prosecutors said Shird Myrick and Andre Williams took part in the robbery and therefore should be convicted of the murder that resulted. Two other men, Ehren Witt and Milton Hall, also are charged in the case and will be tried at a later date.
Police say Witt is the man who shot Brito.
They also say Williams was the getaway driver, and Myrick and Hall had intended to help with the robbery, but Myrick ran away when he saw Brito had a gun. Hall stayed to help Witt grab Rolex watches, police say.
The two-week trial was complicated by claims of witness tampering and allegations of perjury. Two witnesses testified they were threatened. One was arrested after police said she lied on the stand. A third witness was also arrested on perjury charges after she claimed she forgot everything she had told police and prosecutors earlier. A fourth also said he had forgotten his earlier testimony.
Assistant State Attorney Gail Levine spent much of her closing arguments Wednesday trying to help the jury sort out the conflicting testimony from those witnesses.
Two were scared, she said.
Both women felt ''so scared, they didn't think they could go home that night, or any night afterward,'' Levine said.
One decided to testify truthfully; the other lied on the stand the first time she testified, Levine said. The second woman was arrested.
In a holding cell, the witness changed her mind and was brought back into court. At that point, she told the jury her original story: she saw the defendants in a silver BMW in Coconut Grove shortly before the robbery. They asked her about security at the Merrick Park mall, she said. A little while later, she saw them ditch the BMW in the Grove.
A third witness was different, Levine said.
Marquita Wilcox also claimed to have forgotten everything.
She wasn't threatened, Levine said. Wilcox just didn't want to help send Myrick, her ex-boyfriend, to prison.
Wilcox has a tattoo of Myrick's nickname on her ankle.
The other witness with memory problems is Wilcox's brother, also a friend of Myrick's, Levine noted.
Levine presented evidence that Myrick's and William's DNA was found in or near the silver BMW. And she noted both fled the area right after Brito was killed.
''That screams guilty,'' she said.
Myrick's attorney, John Weinberg, countered that his client's DNA could have ended up on a towel police found in a bag of burglary tools at any time, and that it didn't prove Myrick was involved in the robbery.
Levine also showed a frame-grab from a surveillance video that she said shows Myrick; Weinberg argued that the man doesn't look like his client.
Williams' attorney, Terry Lenamon, argued that crime-scene analysts may have mishandled the latex gloves found in the silver BMW, putting his client's DNA inside them. He pointed out that Williams never even went inside the jewelry store and questioned whether prosecutors had proved that he drove the car.
Jurors didn't buy it and convicted Williams and Myrick of murder and burglary.

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NYPD Detective Accussed Of"Pimping" Minor Girls www.privateofficer.com

New York City NY Jan 31 2008

A veteran New York police officer has been charged with pimping out two underage girls into prostitution.
Detective Wayne Taylor was arrested alongside his girlfriend after a girl aged just 13 said they were making her have sex with men.
They were then arrested as the allegedly drove another underage girl to a hotel for a strip party and sex with several men, police said.
“This case is every parent and every child’s worst nightmare made even more frightening by the fact that one of the defendants is a police officer who swore to uphold the law and protect the community he serves,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
The 13-year-old girl who first went to police had been a runaway when she met a madam named ‘Drama’ who started her dancing for money, according to the charges.
Drama took the girl to a madam named “Mommy Z” who allegedly “bought” the teen for $500. Officers say Mommy Z is Taylor’s girlfriend, Zelika Brown, 28.
Taylor, 35, a cop since 1994, and Brown, began bringing her to strip and bachelor parties, and the officer told her to say she was 19 if anyone asked, the DA said.
Prices at the sordid soirees ran from $40 for oral sex to $80 for intercourse. Brown, who has a tattoo on her back that reads “Wayne”, allegedly told police she was running the prostitution business and Taylor would “watch out” for her while her girls were working.
Taylor told cops that Brown just ran an “exotic dance” business. The alleged madam at least once chastised the 13-year-old for not earning enough money and slammed her head into the floor, prosecutors said.
Taylor allegedly told the victim that if she failed to earn more money or tried to leave his home he would force her to work on the streets. It was only after the pair allegedly sold the teen to another pimp that she ran away and eventually spoke to police. She described Taylor’s van, in which she’d been driven from party to party, and when cops spotted it they made the arrest.
Sources said Taylorhad long been a target of Internal Affairs which was probing allegations he was involved in drug activity.
His girlfriend was also already under investigation - by the FBI for “human trafficking,” law-enforcement sources said. Taylor and Brown are charged with promoting prostitution, endangering the welfare of a child, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment. They were held last night in lieu of $250,000 bail each. Lawyers for both denied the charges.

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Police Training May Go Private www.privateofficer.com

Edmonton Canada Jan 31 2008

The government is open to the idea of a private company training future Edmonton police officers.
Earlier this month, the province issued an appeal to the private sector to find out whether businesses are interested in buying into a $100-million police training centre to be built in Fort Macleod.
"The Government of Alberta will not own, lease or operate the new facilities," the document says. "Respondents are asked to provide ideas and approaches aimed at establishing self-sustaining, commercially viable facilities where the departments of the Government of Alberta ... are users of the facilities and purchasers of services along with city police services and other law enforcement agencies."

Companies answering the appeal are asked to outline the nature of their "high-level financial and economic options" -- for example, whether ownership of the facility should be private or shared.
The college is expected to train about 400 Alberta police recruits a year and as many as 1,000 peace officer recruits. It will also provide professional development to the province's current officers.
Since plans for the training centre were announced by former solicitor general Harvey Cenaiko in 2005, government officials have always described the project as a "P3," a public-private partnership. The invitation to the private sector, available on Service Alberta's government website, appears to change the nature of the college's financing.
"I think in this day and age, with Alberta being the province that it is, it's a great opportunity for them to take the lead on training public police officers," said Edmonton police association president Peter Ratcliff.
"The question that I would have is, who's going to do the training?"
Additionally, Ratcliff questioned who would pay for trainees to get to the Fort Macleod college, and who would benefit.
"Who gets that money? Where does that money rightfully belong?"
But Solicitor General spokeswoman Christine Wronko said Wednesday it's too early to say whether the centre will be privately run.
"The decision to build the training centre as a P3 is still an option," she said. "Basically the (expression of interest) that we put out on the 14th of January is the first step in the process in order to move this project forward.
"So we just want to go out there and we want to sort of gauge that interest from the private sector to build the facility."
Wronko could not say what kind of company the government wants, but said it is looking for someone interested in more than just putting up a building in Fort Macleod. The Alberta government will set the curriculum, she said. But who will teach the classes has not yet been determined. "We're just so early on in the process that we're just looking for what kind of interest is even out there from the private sector," Wronko said. "We're just going to wait and see the kind of submissions that come in."
Having private companies weigh in on how the college will be financed, built and managed will provide "out-of-the-box thinking," she said.

The president of the Alberta Federation of Police Associations, which represents the province's police unions, said Wednesday he understood the project will be a public-private partnership.
"My understanding was that they would be bringing people in from different agencies," said Edmonton police Det. Bob Walsh. "I'm certainly hoping it doesn't go the other way into the private sector." Information sessions for business applicants are expected to be held in Calgary and Fort Macleod next week. The deadline for applications is April 3.

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Students Rally To Free Cop Killer www.privateofficer.com

KIRKWOOD, MO Jan 31 2008 – A group of over 40 current and former Kirkwood, Missouri, high school students have created a Facebook page called “Free Kevin” in an effort to rally support to free convicted cop killer Kevin Johnson.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, on July 5, 2005, Johnson brutally, and without provocation, gunned down Sergeant William McEntee of the Kirkwood Police Department as he spoke with a 13-year-old boy while on a call. Johnson, who had nothing to do with the call, approached Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car from the passenger side and opened fire, striking him several times. After Sergeant McEntee’s patrol car traveled a short distance and hit a tree, Johnson again approached the patrol car and shot him several more times.
Johnson’s first trial ended in a mistrial. In November 2007 Johnson was finally convicted of murder and was sentenced to death.
The “Free Kevin” Facebook campaign is reminiscent of the absurd, but seemingly undying, “Free Mumia” efforts underway across the country to portray convicted cop killer Wesley Cook (aka Mumia Abu-Jamal) – whom we’ll refer to as Pennsylvania DOC inmate #AM8335 – as some sort of victim of a corrupt justice system. For those who don’t recall, #AM8335 has been on death row since murdering Philadelphia Policeman Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. In one of the most sickening displays of anti-cop liberalism ever displayed, #AM8335 was even honored by the Evergeen State University as the keynote speaker for their graduating Class of 1999.

The father of three former Kirkwood High School students, who asked that his name not be used, was outraged when he learned about the “Free Kevin” group from one of his sons – one of whom is now a police officer: “It blows my mind that they can support a convicted cop killer. The facts of the case overwhelmingly prove it was cold blooded murder, yet they are defending him despite the overwhelming murder conviction. I don’t understand it.”
An officer from a neighboring agency who was one of the first officers on the scene following Sergeant McEntee’s murder, had this to say: “I’m all for the death penalty, and I think we should send this scum to hell as soon as possible. To want to free a confessed and convicted cop killer is total ignorance on the part of every one of the 42 “group members.”
It has been reported that Dr. Dave Holley, principal of the Kirkwood High School, has intervened to curtail students’ Facebook activity in the past, however, he did not respond to requests for comment on this article.
Another Kirkwood-area officer familiar with the situation commented: “I am incredibly offended and disgusted by the material these students have posted. What is most disturbing about this whole thing is not just the fact that a group of teenagers wants to free a convicted murder; the administration at Kirkwood High School would rather ignore the situation than deal with a serious issue. Dr. Holley needs to take a moral stand.”

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Bush to meet New Life Church security officer www.privateofficer.com

Denver CO. Jan 31 2008

President Bush today will meet the security guard who stopped a deadly rampage at New Life Church when she wounded a gunman who had already fatally shot two people at the church.
Jeanne Assam, a member of the Colorado Springs church and a former police officer, was acting as a security guard when Matthew Murray, 24, began shooting at congregants as they left a Sunday service Dec. 9.
Assam shot Murray, who then shot himself in the head. Earlier, Murray had fatally shot two others at a youth mission in Arvada.
"I saw him . . . and I took cover. And I waited for him to get closer. . . . I identified myself, and I engaged him, and I took him down," Assam, 42, said.
Bush, who will be in Denver for a fundraising event, also will present the President's Volunteer Service Award to Cherie Yager when he lands at Buckley Air Force Base.
Yager is a volunteer at the Stout Street Eye Clinic, which provides eye care for the homeless.
Yager, an optician, has volunteered at the clinic for seven years.

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Security officer shoots two during dispute www.privateofficer.com

GASTONIA NC Jan 31 2008 — Gastonia Police say a 26-year-old security guard shot his girlfriend and another patron at a Garrison Boulevard bar early Thursday morning.

Police allege that Joshua Javon Butler of the 900 block of Riverview Trial in Lowell shot Holly Elizabeth Pollard, 27, of the same address, with a 9 mm Lugar handgun around 1 a.m. at Boulevard Beer & Ice on West Garrison Boulevard, according to arrest warrants.

Pollard was shot in the upper right thigh. The same bullet went through Pollard and struck another woman, Carrie Lynece Jung-Keown of the 2400 block of Hawk Ridge Road in Gastonia, in her right knee, according to warrants. “A girl he talks to was apparently talking to another group of guys and I think he got upset about that,” said Sgt. Jeff Clark. “He got in shoving match with these guys and a fight broke out.” At some point Butler left to get a gun and the fight resumed, Clark said. “He pulled out the gun and fired a round and shot his girlfriend in the leg,” Clark said. “It went through her leg and struck another women in the knee — bounced off her knee and gave her a good bruise. The round was actually there on the floor when we got there.” Both women were transported to Gaston Memorial Hospital with non life-threatening injuries, Clark said. Police went to Butler’s house when the part-time security guard came back to the bar and told officers the shooting as unintentional, Clark said. “He said he didn’t mean to shoot anybody, much less his girlfriend,” Clark said. “He still had the gun in his pocket.” Clark said there was a large crowd leaving when police arrived. Police took the gun and charged Butler with one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and one count of assault with a deadly weapon, according to arrest warrants.

Butler was booked into Gaston County Jail on $5,500 bond.

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Missing College Student Found Dead Near Interstate www.privateofficer.com

RALEIGH NC Jan 31 2008 -- Drivers on I-540 made a gruesome discovery Wednesday morning, just west of the Buffalo Road interchange.
At least four vehicles pulled over after spotting a woman's body in the grass next to the highway.
The woman is identified as 21-year-old Latrese Matral Curtis of Raleigh
She was a student at North Carolina Central University in Durham.

"The entire university community is saddened by the death of this student and we offer sincere condolences to her family at this difficult time," Chancellor Charlie Nelms said. "The safety and security of our students is of utmost importance and we have a number of strategies in place to ensure the safety of our students on campus."
University officials say they have no reason to believe Curtis' death is directly linked to campus.
The NCCU counseling staff will be available to provide grief counseling to any students, faculty or staff who desire assistance.
Deputies are continuing their investigation, trying to figure out what happened and are pretty sure about one thing.
"It doesn't appear to be a hit-and-run, or anything like that," Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said. "We're treating it as a homicide right now."
Durham Police officers are also assisting with the investigation.

Curtis was reported missing from Durham early Wednesday.

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Man sues security, metro trains for injuries www.privateofficer.com

St.Louis MO. Jan 31, 2008

Anthony Morgan of East St. Louis claims he was pushed onto the tracks at the 5th and Missouri MetroLink station while exiting a train on Oct. 28, 2007. Morgan, represented by Steven Katzman of Belleville, filed a 10-count suit against Bi-State Development Agency, Whelan Security, St. Clair County, St. Clair County Sheriff Mearl J. Justus, deputy sheriff John Pea and the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department.According to the suit filed Jan. 25, Morgan was "quietly and peacefully" exiting an eastbound train at approximately 10:48 p.m. at which time he was chased, pushed onto the tracks, forecfully thrown to the ground and jumped on by Whelan Security employees Steve Jones and Anthony Newton, and by deputy Pea. Morgan claims he suffered serious injuries to his neck, back, head, knees, legs and other body parts. He is seeking in excess of $500,000 in damages.He claims he has missed numerous working days and opportunities and has become obligated for medical and hospital bills. Among other things, the suit claims Metro failed to properly supervise its security guards. Defendant Whelan Security, through its employees, is allegedly negligent for chasing Morgan without proper cause, for using excessive force and for harassing Morgan.Morgan claims Justus had a duty to provide adequate training, supervision and guidance to deputies, but breached that duty.Morgan also claims his civil rights were violated in that he was willfully and maliciously pushed onto the tracks and suffered severe injuries.

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Bill would bar school security from using force or handcuffs www.privateofficer.com

Seattle Wa Jan 31 2008 School security guards would be barred from using handcuffs, pepper spray or bodily force to subdue misbehaving students, under a bill that state lawmakers are considering.
A hearing was scheduled for Wednesday in Olympia for Senate Bill 6418, which would limit the use of "mechanical, chemical, and physical restraints," and mandate that such school security measures be allowed "only in emergency situations after other less intensive alternatives have failed."
Commissioned law enforcement officers, including school resource officers, would still be able to restrain students.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Claudia Kauffman, D-Kent, also would require school districts to give an annual report to the Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction, detailing their use of restraints on students.
Supporters include the Seattle/King County Branch of the NAACP, which has objected to security practices in some King County public school districts.
The group unsuccessfully sued Kent School District officials in 2004 on behalf of 15 families, alleging that the district's school security guards violated state and federal law by discriminating against black students and using unreasonable force in administering discipline. The case was later moved to U.S. District Court, and was dismissed in May 2005.
Though several years have passed, members of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People continue to be concerned about school security practices and about the relatively higher numbers of black students being disciplined, NAACP President James Bible said Tuesday.
He questioned whether handcuffs or other physical restraints -- or school resource officers, for that matter -- are appropriate in school settings.
"We don't want the makings of a police state," he said.
But others argue that such measures are necessary to protect students and staff. In the Kent School District, "our officers use a wide variety of tools to ensure students' safety," said spokeswoman Becky Hanks.
"When officers are unable to de-escalate a situation, they sometimes need to restrain a student in order to prevent that student from hurting themselves or someone else. This bill would prohibit officers from using that tool in those rare situations it's needed."

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Shoplifter charged with robbery www.privateofficer.com

NEWARK NJ Jan 30 2008-- A Newark man is accused of fighting a store security agent Friday evening during an attempted shoplifting.
James W. Daugherty Jr., 26, last known address 979 Grafton Road, Apt. 1, was charged with robbery, a second-degree felony, during a bond hearing Monday at the Licking County Municipal Court.
On Friday, while allegedly attempting to steal a pair of gloves and a license-plate frame, Daugherty was confronted by a Wal-Mart loss-prevention officer outside the front doors of the store, according to a Newark police report.
The security guard claims he grabbed the defendant when he tried to run and Daugherty elbowed him in the face multiple times. The two men then fell to the ground and continued to struggle, until Daugherty was subdued with the help of another employee, the report reads.
When police arrived, Daugherty allegedly resisted arrest and denied stealing any items from the store, according to the report.
Judge David Branstool set Daugherty's bond at $25,000.

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Pawnshop Owner Guilty of Selliing Shoplifted Merchandise www.privateofficer.com

Charlestown W.V. Jan 30 2008

A man accused of using his Charleston pawnshop to sell stolen goods over the Internet pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to money laundering.
Toney Lee Corey admitted that he earned roughly $350,000 between May 2004 and June 2006 by selling stolen goods on the eBay Web site.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Forbes said that investigators from the Charleston Police Department, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation all contributed to the investigation into illegal activity at the Trading Post, Corey's East End pawnshop.
Corey routinely paid 25 percent of the value of stolen merchandise, including electronics, from a loosely organized shoplifting ring that lifted goods in West Virginia, Ohio and Virginia, she said.
The items were unopened with retail price tags still on them, allowing him to market them online as in-the-box new, Forbes said.
Using his "tradingpost987" eBay account, Corey sold the merchandise online, then transferred the proceeds into his bank account using PayPal, an online payment processor, according to court documents.
As part of his plea deal, Corey agreed to provide information about other individuals and make restitution of $350,000.
During the hearing, Forbes said Corey's cooperation had been helpful. She declined to comment on whether any other people involved in funneling stolen goods through the pawnshop were facing additional charges
Last month, federal authorities moved to seize seven East End properties owned by Corey, including the pawnshop. The government alleged that Corey either conducted illegal activity in the properties or bought them with proceeds from his illegal activities.
In an agreement entered on Jan. 16, Corey agreed to forfeit more than $2,800 seized in his bank account in October 2006 and to pay $77,000 within 10 days.
The property at 600 Ruffner Ave. will be sold, and the proceeds will be put towards his court-ordered restitution, the order states.
In exchange, prosecutors released the six other properties from forfeiture.
Earlier this month, Corey testified as a prosecution witness in the murder trial of Michael Merrifield in Putnam County. Merrifield was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 2-year-old Logan Goodall in 2005.
Corey faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge David A. Faber on July 28.

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Walmart Employee Brutally Beaten By Shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

KERNSERVILLE, N.C. -Jan 30, 2008 - A Wal-Mart employee trying to obtain the license plate number of an shoplifter was brutally beaten when the suspect turned on him, Kernersville police said Tuesday.
Kenneth Lehman, a customer service manager at the Kernersville Wal-Mart, said he wasn't trying to be a hero, just help police catch a culprit who had run out of the store with a boxed home theater system.
"It was pretty frightening," Lehman said in an exclusive interview with local news. "It was something you're not expecting -- never happened before. It was an experience.
The robber fractured Lehman's skull, and left him with a black eye and other bruises during the beating.
"When I was on the ground, and he was stomping on me -- he was yelling at me, and cussing at me, and daring me to get back up, and I didn't know when he was going to stop," Lehman said.
Police, who said the man fled the area in a two-door red hatchback, are studying store surveillance video to look for clues.
"As far as the general public is concerned, they can be a good witness," said James Osborne of the Kernersville Police Department. "And by being a good witness they can observe the person -- see if there's anything unique about the person -- scars, tattoos, and see the type of vehicle they get in."
Anyone with information is asked to call the Kernersville Police Department.

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ATLANTA GA Jan 30, 2008

The beginning of tax season is the beginning of scam season - and scam artists are already on the prowl, plotting to get your money. A new e-mail scam promising a tax refund is making the rounds online.
The e-mail, which looks like an officical IRS-issued e-mail, says the government wants to give you money. It claims, "After the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to recieve a tax refund of $134.80..."

It goes on to request that you click on the link and submit your tax refund request - in the process, submitting your Social Security number and other personal information that could lead to identity theft.

To avoid the fraudulent trap, police and financial advisors say to pay attention to the details: the IRS would not send out a request or unsolicited e-mails. And before sending out any personal information, make sure you confirm the source of the e-mail. If in doubt..check it out! Call the IRS and verify that they are trying to reach you before giving any information to anyone!
Authorties also urge you to realize that as appealing as offers like this are, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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Base Security Help Nab Copper Thieves www.privateofficer.com

CONCORD CA Jan 30, 2008 -- Sheriff's deputies arrested two men this morning suspected of pilfering copper from abandoned buildings at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, police said.
Security officers on the base heard suspicious activity emanating from inside one of the warehouses about 1:45 a.m., said Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hebel.
"They could tell by the sounds that there might have been metal theft going on," Hebel said.
The officers contacted the Sheriff's Office, and deputies arrived with a canine unit. Shortly deputies announced their presence, one of the suspects ran out of the warehouse.
The dog gave chase and latched onto the thigh of the man, later identified as 50-year-old Hayward resident Matthew Apodaca. He was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Concord for treatment.
Deputies also detained 49-year-old Oakland resident Terry Harding, who was with Apodaca. They found nearby a 1986 Ford pickup truck believed to have been the intended transport for the copper haul.
Both men were turned over to the custody of Concord police, which has jurisdiction over the inland base of the weapons station. The Sheriff's Office patrols the unincorporated areas adjacent to the station.
Harding was booked into County Jail on suspicion of burglary and grand theft and held on $40,000 bail. Apodaca is awaiting medical clearance before being taken to jail.

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Police, federal agents, 3000 private security to guard Superbowl www.privateofficer.com

PHOENIX AZ. Jan 30, 2008 - It's been nearly six and a half years since the tragedies of 9/11, but the security presence at this week's Super Bowl makes it difficult to forget the impact of that day.
Flanked by a small army of high-ranking local and national security officials, NFL VP of security Milt Ahlerich yesterday detailed a protocol that seemed fit more for a presidential motorcade than a football game. According to Secret Service special agent Ken Huffer, Sunday's game has been deemed a Level 1 national security event by the Homeland Security Department, a designation normally reserved for events such as State of the Union addresses and visits from foreign dignitaries.
Along with Secret Service and FBI personnel, police forces from Glendale and Phoenix, and 3,000 private security guards hired by the NFL, will monitor the ground and air at the University of Phoenix Stadium. The airspace surrounding the stadium will be restricted - not even the Goodyear blimp will be allowed to fly.
"We take this kind of event extremely seriously," said FBI special agent-in-charge John Lewis, adding that the threat of terrorist activity at the game is "very low."
There has never been a terrorist attack - or credible threat of one - at an American sporting event, but Lewis said the extreme precautions were still warranted.
"We cannot let our guard down," he said, adding that there had been no threats "of any sort" received this week.
Fans attending the game should expect delays getting into the stadium, and thorough searches of their belongings, Ahlerich said.
"This is not a Super Bowl of security," he said. "(But) deterrence is extraordinarily important."
While the extra measures may cause some inconvenience for fans, Ahlerich says it will be worth it in the end.
"(Fans) will be safe. We are very, very confident of that."

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Court dismisses wrongful death case www.privateofficer.com

GASTONIA NC Jan 30 2008— A federal court judge dismissed a civil case against Gaston County last week in connection with a 28-year-old woman who died in Gaston County Jail in 2004. Yolanda Evett Patterson, formerly of 408 Juipter St., died Aug. 20, 2004, after being taken to jail on a charge of shoplifting. She had been detained by security at Westfield Eastridge mall and then Gastonia Police took her to jail. While being detained at the mall, Gaston Emergency Medical Services treated her after she complained of trouble breathing, according to a State Bureau of Investigation documents. An autopsy report indicates Patterson died of cocaine toxicity, according to the Office of the State Medical Examiner. The lawsuit, filed in Gaston County Superior Court by Patterson’s mother, claims several agencies, including Gastonia Police, Gaston County Sheriff’s Office, and its health care provider “ignored the decedent’s pleas for at least 20 minutes after her arrival at the Gaston County Jail.” Gaston County is no longer named in the lawsuit, said Gaston County attorney Chuck Moore, however the Gastonia case is still pending, said Gastonia attorney Ash Smith. “Our motions to dismiss were procedural in nature and the judge’s opinion was quite lengthy,” Moore said. “I haven’t had the chance to read it in detail.” “We’re confident we’ll be out soon,” Smith said Tuesday. The lawsuit does not seek a specific dollar amount. Some of those named in the suit were served with the lawsuit last week. Deputies found Patterson unconscious in a holding cell about an hour after being transported from the mall, according to emergency dispatch records. Medical workers pronounced Patterson dead after her arrival at Gaston Memorial Hospital. Jail officials had asked that the same paramedics who examined Patterson while at the mall be sent to the jail, but another unit was dispatched, according to state investigation documents. Two GEMS paramedics who originally responded to the call for service at the mall were later suspended for a week for filing improper paperwork, but the SBI found their diagnosis of Patterson at the mall to be accurate, according to SBI documents. Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger has since added additional cameras in the jail and an additional nurse to work the jail during peak hours since the incident.

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Police officer shoots boyfriend, kills self www.privateofficer.com

WALDORF, Md. -- Jan 30, 2008
Charles County sheriff's deputies said an off-duty Prince George's County police officer shot a man multiple times before fatally shooting herself on Sunday afternoon, News4’s Darcy Spencer reported.
The officer involved has been identified as Tora Lynn Coates, 38. The incident happened at about 12:30 p.m. at a home in the 5800 block of Opaleye Court in Waldorf.
Police said Coates shot her fiance several times before turning the gun on herself.
Coates died but her fiance survived, police said.
The 45-year-old man was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, where he is in critical condition.
Coates worked in the internal affairs department for Prince George's County police. “Our police department family is deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic death of Sgt. Tora Coates, a 15 year veteran of the Prince George’s County Police Department," the department said in a statement issued on Monday. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Sgt. Coates’ family, even as our own hearts are filled with sadness.

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Police Catch Pair With 99 ID's www.privateofficer.com

TAMPA Fla. Jan 29 2008 - Airport police are investigating what a Chicago man and a homeless woman traveling with him planned to do with 99 driver's licenses stolen from people across the country and doctored with their pictures.
Kenneth Blake, 39, and Theresa Hensle, 39, were traveling under different names from Tampa to New Orleans on Southwest Airlines, but Transportation Security Administration employees did not recognize their identification were tampered with to show their pictures, airport spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said
This is real identification of other people that they are using," Geoghagan said.
Christopher White, a TSA spokesman in Washington, was not concerned, however, that the employee had not noticed the fraudulent licenses. "While travel document checkers are an important layer of security, they are one layer of many," White said.
TSA considers document checks one part of a 20-layer system that includes baggage checks, bottled liquids scans and air marshals, he said.
About six months ago, TSA replaced contract workers with document checkers, who have black lights to look for the holograms imprinted on driver licenses and photographer's loupes to check ink quality, White said. The checkers' efforts have led to more than 100 arrests for fraudulent documents nationwide, he said.
In Tampa, airport police arrested Blake and Hensle at a Chili's Too restaurant at Airside C about 8:50 p.m. Sunday after a woman reported prescription medication and credit cards missing from her purse, Geoghagan said.
"They had a 30-minute window before they departed and I guess they couldn't help themselves," Geoghagan said.
As police officers searched the restaurant, other diners pointed out Blake and Hensle, who had left behind a large shopping bag and who had been sitting near the woman who was robbed, Geoghagan said.
The couple at first denied owning the bag, then acknowledged it was theirs, she said.
In the bag were doctored driver's licenses, driver's license blanks, partially completed counterfeit licenses, stolen credit cards, checks and gift cards, she said.
The couple had a real check for $10,000 payable to someone else and the identification in the other name to support cashing that check, she said.
Blake and Hensle were in Orient Road Jail on Monday. Blake's bail was set at $215,500 and Hensle's at $220,000. Each is charged with multiple counts of felony possession of counterfeit identification and felony dealing in stolen property, among other charges. A national criminal data search shows Blake was convicted in Illinois for felony theft in 2004, 2006 and 2007.
Geoghagan said police plan to add charges as they unravel the case. "Detectives have been calling victims all around the country to verify what's missing."


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Club Security Officer Forced To Shoot Gang www.privateofficer.com

Austin TX. Jan 29, 2008

An Austin security officer was on suspension Monday after a weekend shooting at a Northeast Austin night club.
I yelled at stop, get back. They still advanced toward me,” said Marc Chappelle. “I fired three shots."
Chappelle is a certified, commissioned security officer in Austin. He is licensed to carry a gun. The ex-Air Force cop has used his weapon before, but never while working security.
"The thought of having to use it, that's always in the back of your mind, but it's always the last thing I'd ever want to do," said Chappelle.
Chappelle has worked weekends at Club Navegante for the past month. But early Saturday morning, he found himself in an altercation with several men who he says were intoxicated.
One of the men had vomited in the parking lot. As Chappelle confronted another man who was urinating in the parking lot, a third man hit him in the head.
Chappelle then used pepper spray.
"At that point, all of the group started charging the security guard. The security guard, in fear for his life, started taking off running," said Det. James Mason, Austin Police Department.
The men began throwing rocks at Chappelle. That's when he told them to stop.
"Had I gotten caught by those individuals, I would have been the one at the hospital or worse," said Chappelle.
When the men did not follow his orders to stop, he fired his weapon, hitting one man in the shoulder.
Police say charges are pending against the man who was shot.
The rest of the group drove away, but police caught up with Jose Benjamin Cabrera-Diosdado, 18, and Luis Enrique Ortega-Vazquez, 26. They are charged with aggravated assault against a peace officer.
Chappelle says using his weapon is always the last option..
"Once I saw that he was responsive, still breathing, it wasn’t a very serious injury, I was relieved after that," said Chappelle.
The man who was shot suffered non life-threatening injuries.
Police are looking for two more men who were involved in the assault on Chappelle. They could also face charges.
Chappelle is suspended from his security job while the shooting is under investigation.

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Security, local police coordinate drug bust www.privateofficer.com

Covington LA. Jan 29 2008

Six drug arrests were made recently by the Covington Police Department Street Crimes Unit, bringing the total drug arrests made since April 2007 to 68, according to Lt. Jack West, spokesman for the Covington Police Department.

In one recent arrest, the suspect, Pierre C. Crandle, a parking valet at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, was arrested by Street Crimes Unit officers who pulled up to the hospital in an unmarked SUV.

West said when Crandle approached the car, thinking he was going to be parking it, the officers swiftly leaped from the vehicle, grabbed him and handcuffed him.The arrest had been planned in advance with the hospital security department in order to avoid endangering members of the public or hospital staff.

The hospital security guards, who had coordinated the arrest with the unit, removed his hospital ID card as the arrest was made."The Street Crimes Unit officers made their arrest and were gone in 60 seconds before anyone knew anything was happening," West said.Crandle, 20, of 318 W. Edwards St. in Covington, was charged with one count of transactions involving proceeds for drug offenses; one count of possession of marijuana; and one count of possession of drugs in a drug free zone.

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Alert Casino Officer Prevents Fire Disaster www.privateofficer.com

MASHANTUCKET CT. Jan 29 2008 -

Fire officials say that an alert casino security officer who noticed a fire burning in the roof line of the hotel probably prevented the fire from spreading and a major fire and property damage from occurring. Firefighters and police evacuated three floors of the Great Cedar Hotel at the Foxwoods Resort Casino this afternoon after a small fire broke out on the roof, a casino spokesman said.

No one was injured in the blaze, which firefighters extinguished within a half hour.

The hotel security officer noticed the fire at around noon on the corner of the roof above the VIP lounge, Saverio Mancini said. A 911 call was immediately place which dispatched multiple fire agencies, law enforcement, EMS and joint efforts prevented disaster.

Mashantucket Pequot fire fighters responded to the scene, along with fire fighters from Norwich, Mystic and Ledyard.

The 6th, 7th and 8th floors were evacuated as a precaution. Fire fighters are ripping up the roof to make sure they got all the fire, Mancini said.

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Shoplifter tries to steal shopping cart of baby goods www.privateofficer.com

WILKES-BARRE TWP. PA Jan 29 2008 – A Philadelphia man was charged Monday with attempting to steal diapers, infant formula and paper towels from the Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Tyrone Sapp, 38, was charged with retail theft, conspiracy to commit retail theft and possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $5,000 bail.
According to the criminal complaint:
Loss prevention officers at Wal-Mart detained Sapp after he was seen leaving the store with a shopping cart filled with diapers, 89 cans of infant formula and paper towels just before 8:30 p.m. Police said the value of the merchandise totaled $1,213.
Police said surveillance video showed an unknown male signaling to Sapp to leave the store with the merchandise. After he was arrested, police said they found a pipe and a small bag containing white powder, the criminal complaint says.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 5.

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Security officer killed walking home www.privateofficer.com

New York City NY Jan 29 2008

Police are looking for suspects who they say shot a young South Jamaica father in the head Monday morning.
Darkim Spellman, 23, of 111-41 157th St., was found dead outside a furniture store on Supthin Boulevard and 107th Avenue around 4:30 a.m., police said. His mother Kim Spellman of Jamaica said she found out about the shooting before police informed her because an unidentified person called her son's landlord and informed her where to find the body.

"I last spoke with him last night around one o'clock. He told me, 'Mommy, I'll see you in the morning,' " she said. Darkim Spellman worked as a security guard in southeast Queens and police say he was walking home. He also had a 2-year-old son who lived in California with his mother, according to Kim Spellman.

No arrests were been made and the investigation was ongoing.

Police said they are looking for more than one suspect.

Anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). All calls will be kept confidential

Police officer charged in on duty sex assault www.privateofficer.com

Charlotte N.C. Jan 29 2008

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer was indicted Monday on a charge of first-degree sexual offense in connection with a Nov. 27 incident that occurred while he was on duty and responding to a call.
Officer Joseph D. Anthony III, 39, turned himself in Monday night and bond was set at $10,000, said police officials. The officer is a nine-year veteran of the force and was most recently assigned to the Eastway Division.
Specifics of what occurred Nov. 27 were not disclosed, but investigators said the case did not involve rape.
Investigators say the officer and alleged victim, an adult female, came into contact on Nov. 27 when Anthony was responding to a missing person call. The victim was said to have information about the missing person case, officials said. Anthony and the victim were together for about 45 minutes, officials said.
Investigators say they began investigating Nov. 28, after an officer reported overhearing the woman discuss the alleged offense with someone else.
Detectives interviewed the woman and within three hours of learning the accusations, Anthony was removed from service and placed on paid administrative leave, officials said.
The case was then presented to the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office, which deemed there was enough evidence to seek an indictment on first-degree sexual offense and first-degree kidnapping. The kidnapping charge involves moving the alleged victim to different locations within her residence, officials said.
A separate, internal investigation by the department is nearing completion, officials said.
In a news conference Monday, Police Chief Darrel Stephens said the charges are appalling.
"As difficult as it is for any police department to have charges against one of their own, the CMPD aggressively pursues any allegations of misconduct because nothing is more important than the integrity of the force," Stephens said.
"These charges sicken me and all of the other men and women of this department. In fact, it is due to the integrity of fellow officers that we got information that enabled us to pursue the investigation."

Son charged in grisly death of mother www.privateofficer.com

JACKSON, Tenn. Jan 29 2008

Gibson County Sheriff's officials said some grisly details are coming out about the slaying of a missing Humboldt woman.
They said the woman's son has admitted decapitating and dismembering her.
Gibson County Sheriff Chuck Arnold told area news reporters that David Climer Jr. used a power saw to cut off the limbs of Dorris Deberry in the kitchen of the home they shared.
Arnold said Climer admitted in a videotaped confession to burning his mother's head and throwing the remains in a dumpster.
He was charged Saturday with first-degree murder.
Her body was found Friday in a corn field in north Madison County.
Climer still claims he is innocent of murder, and that his mother was dead when he chopped up her body.

Police and medical examiners now are tasked with the job of finding out how the mother died and it's an ongoing investigation still authorities said.

One investigator remarked that it was the most gruesome case that he ahd ever been involved with. Something out of a horror movie he said.

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OFFICER DOWN....Indiana Trooper www.privateofficer.com

FULTON COUNTY, Ind.Jan 29 2008 - Flags fly at half-staff across Indiana as state police mourn the loss of a rookie trooper.
Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Barrett died Sunday night after his cruiser crashed into a tree on US 31 in Fulton County.
What caused the crash is a bit of a mystery. According to investigators, Trooper Barrett was on duty and heading north on 31 when his vehicle left the highway and hit a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 25-year-old graduated from Logansport High School in 2002. Prior to joining the Indiana State Police, Barrett worked as a correctional officer for the state of Indiana. He received his squad car during a special ceremony last October. He was a member of the 67th Indiana State Police Recruit Academy and graduated July 6, 2007. Barrett was assigned to patrol primarily in Fulton County.
"As you can imagine, this is an on-going investigation and a lot of the facts related to this crash are not known at this time," said Trooper Tony Slocum.
Trooper Barrett's death comes less than a year after 18-year veteran, Master Trooper David Rich was gunned down during a traffic stop along US 24. Both Troopers Rich and Barrett served out of the Peru Post.
Trooper Barrett is survived by his parents, 2 brothers and a sister. He is the 43rd Indiana state police officer to die in the line of duty.

Fla. Shoplifting Gang Steals $100 Million In Goods www.privateofficer.com

LAKELAND FLA.-- A multi-agency investigation that began with a single shoplifting incident about seven months ago has revealed an 18-person crime ring that may be responsible for the theft of up to $100 million worth of medicine and health and beauty goods from convenience and grocery stores statewide, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Thursday.The investigation started with two shoplifters at a Publix supermarket on Shepherd Road in Lakeland on June 26, Judd said at a news conference in Lakeland on Thursday afternoon.Rita Maddox and Elisha Cordle of Dover stole nearly $4,500 worth of Oil of Olay products that day, placing them into special bags designed to conceal stolen goods, Judd said.To law enforcement, it seemed like a regular shoplifting incident and the two were charged with grand theft. But after speaking with confidential sources, Judd said, a sheriff's detective uncovered something more: the single largest organized crime ring of its kind in Polk County Sheriff's Office history.On Thursday, after executing five search warrants, 14 people were arrested and charged with racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering. Five of those people are already serving jail or prison time, Judd said. Four more people are still wanted on the same charges.Judd said many more may be involved."I highly suspect that this is just a tentacle of a larger operation," he said. "This is truly more of the beginning of the investigation than its end."Maddox and Cordle were just two of at least 13 stealthy shoplifters who stole between $60 million and $100 million worth of over-the-counter medicines and beauty and health products from hundreds of convenience and grocery stores in at least 11 counties, Judd said.They reported to two middlemen and two ringleaders, who in turn sold the products out of two warehouses, three flea markets, including one in Auburndale, and two Web sites, including a long-standing eBay.com account.The crime ring has been operating for at least five years, Judd said.The investigation began after Maddox and Cordle, who have a child together, were arrested in June.It spanned seven months and included the sheriff's offices of Polk and Hillsborough counties, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Attorney General Bill McCollum's office.The retail theft operation was well-concealed. The 13 known shoplifters are all related in some way to each other and most had prior arrests and convictions for shoplifting, Judd said.They used bags designed to conceal the stolen items to shoplift from the stores, which they revisited numerous times. On one day, Judd said, investigators watched thefts occur in eight different stores. On another occasion, three people shoplifted from a Publix store while a manager did inventory in the same aisle. They were good at what they did, Judd said.The four who led the ring do not have criminal records, he said.Ringleaders Steven and Kerry Coburn are married and own four homes throughout Seminole County, authorities say. They sold the stolen items on their Web site SaleAwaySavings.com, Judd said, and even offered free shipping to customers in the U.S.One item, a soap and cologne gift set for men, was recently being sold on the site for $48.95. A 110-pack of Nicorette orange-flavored gum was on clearance sale for $159.99.The goods were delivered to the Coburns in cardboard Chiquita and Dole banana boxes. Steven Coburn inspected each box to make sure the items were in top condition. Popular items included Gillette razors and razor blades, Oil of Olay moisturizers and other health-related products, from Tylenol and Excedrin to pregnancy tests and diabetic test strips."He wanted to make sure they were brand names and not generic," said sheriff's Maj. Joe Halman.Coburn even required forms to be signed that stated none of the products were stolen, Judd said.Theresa and Ronald Parrish were the middlemen, police said. They dealt with the shoplifters and paid them as much as $3,000 in cash for each delivery. Theresa Parrish, an eBay member since March 2002, sold some of the items out of her eBay store, Lola's Discount Health and Beauty, officers said.More than 10,000 positive feedback points were left for Parrish from happy eBay members who purchased items such as razor blades, moisturizer and even bras. Buyers left praise for the quality of the products and speed of delivery.Judd said that once they were arrested, the Parrishes quickly confessed."This investigation is just beginning. We know there are others involved," he said.It is not known exactly how much of a profit the operation generated. Although the shoplifters were arrested from time to time, their offenses were thought to be singular events. Until the law enforcement agencies developed the investigation, they did not realize how many people were involved, Judd said.

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Shoplifter fires at police officer www.privateofficer.com

PHOENIX AZ.Jan 28 2008 - A shoplifting suspect fired at least one shot at an officer in west Phoenix before he fled the scene in a car, police said.
Sgt. Joel Tranter says the officer returned fire on the suspect Sunday night as he ran from a Wal-Mart store, but did not hit him.
Tranter says the suspect jumped into a car in the parking lot. The car fled, but police soon after stopped it. Another man, a woman and two children were in the car.
The suspected shoplifter was taken into custody, and the other people in the car were being questioned.Tranter says the officer was in full police uniform and was at the Wal-Mart working as security.

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Police officer shot 6 times arresting shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

Jacksonville FLA. Jan 28, 2008

A Jacksonville police officer wounded in a mall shootout is in serious condition days after he shot and killed a man suspected of shoplifting.
Authorities say Officer Jared Reston was shot Saturday night outside the Regency Square mall but was conscious when he was taken to the hospital in critical condition. After surgery, he was listed in serious condition.
Police say Reston's bulletproof vest saved his life, stopping three bullets fired into his chest. He was hit in the face, leg and buttocks.
Reston was chasing one shoplifting suspect as another officer managed to take a second suspect into custody.
Authorities say Reston repeatedly ordered Joel Abner to stop but he didn't. At the end of the chase, Reston was knocked to the ground and Abner fired several times at the officer. Reston was able to get up and return fire.
The man taken into custody, Christopher Smith, is charged with misdemeanor petty theft and criminal mischief. He's being held on $7,500 bond.

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Corrections officer killer sentenced to life www.privateofficer.com

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- Jan 28 2008
A judge sentenced a state prison inmate Monday to life without parole for murdering a correctional officer while escaping from a hospital two years ago.
Brandon T. Morris, 22, of Baltimore, was convicted this month of murder for killing prison guard Jeffery A. Wroten, 44, at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown. After shooting Wroten in the head with the guard's own gun as he pleaded for his life early on Jan. 26, 2006, Morris briefly took a hospital visitor hostage and then carjacked a taxi.
Morris forced the cabbie at gunpoint to drive him to nearby Pennsylvania, where the driver deliberately crashed into a concrete barrier. Morris fled back into Maryland, where he was captured in an industrial park.
He had been taken to the hospital from nearby Roxbury Correctional Institution for removal of a sewing needle that he had jabbed so deeply into his abdomen that it pierced his liver.
Prosecutors pushed for the death penalty, but the judge rejected the request. Washington County State's Attorney Charles Strong said he has a continuing concern about the safety of correctional officers guarding Morris because "he has shown he is violent."
Judge Joseph P. Manck said factors including Morris' emotional immaturity and his history of "staggering" childhood abuse outweighed the state's arguments for execution, but he told Morris: "You are an evil man."
Morris also was sentenced to 301 years for his conviction on other charges.
"I think it was the appropriate outcome, given the evidence," defense attorney Arcangelo Tuminelli said.
Wroten's ex-wife Tracey, with whom he had four daughters ages 7 to 13, told reporters afterward that she was "disappointed and probably a little angry" that Manck hadn't sentenced Morris to death.
"There is nothing I could say that would express the anger I have toward him. I have no mercy for him," Tracey Wroten said.

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Shoe shine customer sets off security alarm at airport www.privateofficer.com

BOISE, Idaho Jan 28, 2008 -- A California man who breached security Friday at the Boise Airport may pay a lot more than he expected for a shoe shine.
Authorities say the 43-year-old Victorville, Calif., man bypassed a security checkpoint in his quest for a shoe shine, a breach that led to an 80-minute shutdown of the terminal, delayed four flights and required re-screening of at least 400 passengers.
He was cited for failure to be screened before entering a secure area, a misdemeanor, the Boise Police Department said in a statement. The violation is punishable by a maximum six months in jail. He also could face maximum fines of $3,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Transportation Safety Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said the man left a secure area of the terminal and was seen by passengers using an exit door to enter the concourse.
After confirming what had happened by checking a video camera, police and airport security began the search and shutdown of the airport.
During the search, a shoe shine employee shared information on a possible identity, Boise police said.
Security then obtained the California man's cell phone number and called him and asked him to return to the airport. Police said the man was cooperative, acknowledged breaching security to get his shoes shined and was released.

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Judge makes MySpace commenter wear sign www.privateofficer.com

Nashville TN. Jan 28, 2008

A Nashville judge has given an unusual punishment to a teenager to stand outside police headquarters holding a sign that says officers are "not pigs."
Nineteen-year-old Austin Bean's public defender argued Friday that his First Amendment rights were being challenged.
Davidson County Criminal Court Judge Mark Fishburn ordered the teenager to hold a sign reading, "Respect the police, they are not pigs as I stated on my MySpace page" and "There is nothing funny about guns and nothing cool about gangs."
The order was a condition of the probation the teenager received for a charge of coercing a witness. Bean posted threatening messages against another teenager on MySpace.
Bean will not have to follow the order until his case is appealed.

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POLICE OFFICER SHOT, KILLED AT HOME www.privateofficer.com

Memphis TN. Jan 28, 2008

A Memphis police officer was found shot to death at his residence Monday after his SUV was discovered burning several blocks away, authorities say.
Lt. Ed Vidulich, 51, was apparently shot, though an autopsy will determine the cause of death, said police spokeswoman Monique Martin.
There were no obvious signs of forced entry to the residence. "We have some leads, but it's a mystery," Martin said.
Shortly after midnight Sunday, police investigating the discovery of a sport utility vehicle found burning on a city street determined that it belonged to Vidulich.
Officers went to his residence and found his body, Martin said.
Police said Vidulich talked with his wife, a sheriff's department dispatcher, by phone about 9 p.m. Sunday and the SUV was believed set on fire about 10:30 p.m.
Investigators were initially focused on determining Vidulich's activities during that time gap.

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University Executive Pleads Guilty To Shoplifting www.privateofficer.com

EDMOND Okla. Jan 28 2008 — The executive director of alumni relations at the University of Central Oklahoma pleaded no contest to a larceny charge Thursday in Oklahoma City Municipal Court.
Stacy McNeiland, 37, of Oklahoma City was fined $219. She also was ordered to pay $117 for the time she spent in jail.
McNeiland was arrested at J.C. Penney's, 1901 NW Expressway, after a store security officer said he watched a woman take five items of clothing into a fitting room, according to an Oklahoma City police report.
When the woman left the fitting room, the officer said only four items were hung on the courtesy rack. One item of clothing was hung on two hangers, the report states.
The officer said he found a discarded tag from a blouse left in the fitting room, the report shows. A blouse was found in a paper bag the woman was carrying as she left the store without paying for the merchandise, according to the report. The officer reported that the bag was empty when the woman went into the fitting room.
The woman, later identified as McNeiland, repeatedly told the officer the incident was a mistake, the report states.
McNeiland was on vacation Friday from her university job. She has not worked since her arrest Nov. 5.
University spokesman Charlie Johnson said he could not comment because the issue was a personnel matter.

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School security officers charged with "Ghost Payrolling" theft www.privateofficer.com

Waukegan IL Jan 28 2008

WAUKEGAN IL. -- A six-month investigation into alleged ghost-payrolling at the Waukegan Public School District led to the arrest this week of two district security guards on felony theft charges.
Taken into custody Wednesday was Anthony Artley, 41, of the 500 block of Lakehurst in Waukegan, while the second suspect, 47-year-old DeWayne Williams of the 39000 block of Ackworth, Beach Park, reportedly turned himself in to police on Thursday.
Williams is known in the Waukegan sports community as the backfield mate of the late Gerald Green, the Waukegan West track and football All-American. Williams has been employed as the supervisor of safety at the Waukegan Ninth Grade Center.
Police Chief William Biang said Williams and Artley, a fellow Ninth Grade Center employee, are accused of arranging to be paid for time they did not work. The arrests were the result of an investigation launched in July after school officials asked police to look into allegations of payroll and accounting irregularities.
Asked how much money the men are accused of taking, Biang said, "It's all still under investigation. We're not done counting it, and there are more things that might come out." Biang added that the amounts "will be substantial."
Both men are charged with Class 3 felony theft.
Following their arrests, Artley and Williams were released on $35,000 personal recognizance bonds. They have been placed on administrative leave by the school district.
Officials asked that anyone with information call detectives at (847) 599-2947.

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K-Mart Employee Arrested For Refund Scam www.privateofficer.com

Maysville Ohio Jan 28, 2008

Maysville Ohio
A Mason County grand jury met Friday and returned indictments against 11 people, one of which was indicted for allegedly stealing several thousand dollars from her employer, Kmart.Mary Jane Cooper, 49, of Maysville, an 18-year veteran employee of the Maysville Kmart store appeared in Mason County District Court in October 2007 on charges of theft for allegedly stealing between $3,600 and $3,700 from the store; at the time of her court appearance Cooper entered a plea of not guilty.In a previous interview, Detective Mike Palmer with the Maysville Police Department said 49-year-old Cooper had been charged with two felony counts of theft by deception and one misdemeanor count of theft by deception, though more charges were possible.The indictment handed down Friday charges Cooper with one count theft by failure to make required disposition when she took an amount in excess of $300. The penalty for the charge is one to five years.According to Palmer, police were alerted to the possible theft through Kmart's loss prevention department.Allegedly, Cooper stole the money through the fraudulent processing of return and exchange paperwork for nonexistent items, then pocketed the money. Palmer said it appeared Cooper would use a receipt for items purchased earlier, then cash out a refund, without the item being returned. After numerous items which were supposedly returned could not be found, officials with the store became suspicious.


The thefts allegedly occurred over a period of time beginning in December 2005 through September 2007.A spokesperson for Kmart would not comment on the situation citing a corporate policy and ongoing litigation.

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County employees arrested for theft of money www.privateofficer.com

Chicago IL. Jan 28, 2008

Cook County IL.
Three former Cook County government employees and five others have been charged with stealing as much as $1.6 million, including more than $500,000 from taxpayers.
The county workers accused in the fraud scheme are employees of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's job training program, known as the President’s Office of Employment Training, or POET.
The three former employees are Roberto Rivera, Ronald Harper and Rudolph Sanchez. Each held high-ranking positions in POET. Rivera and Harper appeared in court this afternoon, while Sanchez awaits extradition from New Mexico, prosecutors said.
Others charged include Charles Koen, a convicted felon who is pastor of Christian Hope Church in Chicago; and Alex Brooks, a reverend there, prosecutors said.
Also charged are Joyce Norfleet and Dorothy Taylor, employees at what prosecutors say was a shell company set up by Koen.
Harper was led from his office Thursday in handcuffs. He's been fired, officials said.
The county POET office gets millions of dollars in county, state and federal funds to provide job training.
In 2005, POET fiscal manager Shirley Glover was charged with stealing more than $180,000 from the agency. Described by prosecutors as “unqualified” and “inept,” she was hired at the urging of top county patronage chiefs despite having 10 previous felony convictions for crimes including theft. Records showed she never formally applied for the job and was hired by ex-Board President John Stroger.
State’s Attorney Richard Devine said then there were a “lack of controls” and “significant looseness” in oversight of POET funds — concerns that led state officials to label the county POET program as “high-risk,” meaning no funds could be withdrawn without state approval.
Glover remains free on bail after pleading not guilty. She last appeared in court on Wednesday.

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Microsoft investigators, college police arrest student for theft www.privateofficer.com

Boulder CO. Jan 28 2008

A University of Colorado graduate student has been arrested on suspicion of stealing at least 150 software codes from stickers on university computers and selling them online for a total of about $30,000.
Engineering student Beichuan Yan, 34, told investigators he needed the money because his wife is pregnant, according to a CU police report
Investigators with Microsoft Corp. alerted campus police to the thefts, and Yan was arrested Thursday after admitting he peeled stickers off computers in the engineering building and sold the authenticity codes for Microsoft XP Professional, the police report said. Buyers could then use the codes to register illicit copies of the software.
A Microsoft investigator and a private detective hired by the global software company uncovered the scam by purchasing 10 of the authenticity labels from Yan at $200 apiece, said CU police Cmdr. Brad Weisley.
The investigators then traced the codes to computers on CU's Boulder campus, Weisley said.
"It's like a high-tech version of shoplifting," he said. "Except the value is much more than a typical shoplifting case."
Yan was arrested on suspicion of felony theft and posted a $3,500 bond Thursday afternoon. He couldn't be reached for comment Friday.
Weisley said he doesn't know what Yan's arrest will mean for his status at CU, except that the university's Office of Judicial Affairs will review the incident.
"This is a pretty unusual case," he said.
CU officials probably won't start removing the stickers from every computer they buy, Weisley said.
"There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of computer devices on campus," he said. "That could turn into chaos."
Software companies are the real losers in piracy scams, which is why Microsoft has dedicated investigators and resources to halting illegal sales, company spokeswoman Julie Robertson said.
"Infringing upon intellectual property has become an increasingly common way for criminals to deceive the public," she said.

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SWAT, 20 officers respond to shoplifting gone wrong www.privateofficer.com

El CAJON CA.

More than two dozen police officers surrounded a Marshalls store about 2 p.m. yesterday to investigate an apparent shoplifting incident.
El Cajon police Lt. Jim Redman said police initially thought it might have been an armed robbery, and two of the officers were in SWAT gear.
Two people were arrested on suspicion of trying to steal clothing in two duffel bags they had brought into the store, at the corner of Fletcher Parkway and Jackman Street near Westfield Parkway Plaza.
Dozens of passers-by stopped to see what was happening, and Marshalls was evacuated during the incident. No employees or shoppers were injured. About 10 customers were inside the store at the time.
Redman said that shortly after the arrest, one of the suspects began vomiting, so paramedics were called and he was taken to a hospital.

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Shoplifter assaults LP agent and flees www.privateofficer.com

Massillion Oh
Uniontown man faces a felony robbery charge in connection with a theft Monday at Wal-Mart in Jackson Township.
Court records show Dustin Frank Luman, 23, of 3414 Parfoure Blvd., Uniontown, used a razor knife to cut open a cell phone package. He reportedly placed the cell phone in his jacket, then returned the empty package to the shelf.
Store security confronted Luman, but he pulled away and assulted the security agent and ran from the store, according to court records. Luman was tracked down a short time later outside the store.
Officers searched Luman and found razor blades, wire cutters and a bag of marijuana in his pockets, according to court records.
Bond was set at $25,000 for Luman who also was charged with possession of criminal tools and possession of marijuana, both misdemeanors.
A preliminary hearing in the case is set for 11 a.m. Jan. 30.

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Officer Down..N.O.P.D. www.privateofficer.com

Police Officer Nicola Cotton New Orleans Police Department Louisiana

End of Watch: Monday, January 28, 2008

Biographical InfoAge: 24

Tour of Duty: 2 years Badge Number: Not availableIncident DetailsCause of Death:

GunfireDate of Incident: Monday, January 28, 2008 Weapon Used: Officer's handgun

Suspect Info:

ApprehendedOfficer Nicola Cotton was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a rape suspect in a parking lot off of Earhart Boulevard. She had responded to the location after being informed by dispatch that the suspect was there.

As she attempted to put a handcuff on the man, who was twice her size, he pulled away and began to struggle. During the struggle she lost control of her radio, but was able to recover it and called for assistance. As the struggle continued the suspect was then able to gain control of her duty weapon and shot her several times.

Responding units arrived at the scene approximately two minutes after she was shot and located the suspect still holding her service weapon.

He was taken into custody by the responding officers.

Officer Cotton had served with the agency for 2 years.

Agency Contact InformationNew Orleans Police Department 715 South Broad StreetNew Orleans, LA 70119Phone: (504) 826-2828

Please contact the New Orleans Police Department for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information

Mother says 5 year old cuffed at school www.privateofficer.com

New York NY Jan 27, 2008

The mother of a 5-year-old boy says he was handcuffed and taken to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation for misbehaving at his New York City school.

Jasmina Vasquez said that her son now refuses to go to school at P.S. 81 in Queens. She has enrolled him in a private school."He's 5 years old. He was scared to death," she told the Daily News.

"You cannot imagine what it's done to him."Dennis Rivera reportedly suffers from asthma and attention deficit disorder and has trouble talking. His mother said that he was sent to the principal's office for losing his temper in class

.When Dennis knocked some items off the principal's desk, a school security guard handcuffed him, Vasquez said. She got a call at work saying he was being taken to a hospital.

Vasquez left for the school and also asked Dennis's babysitter to go there. Sandy Ortiz said she found Dennis still in cuffs when she arrived, and officials refused to let her take the boy away.

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Airport Disturbance Results In Arrest Of 3 www.privateofficer.com

Gulfport MS. Jan 27, 2008

Three Ohio residents are free on bond after being arrested at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in a scuffle with a security officer.Gulfport Police Chief Alan Weatherford said the incident occurred 8 p.m. Thursday when security agents began questioning a woman about the contents of her bag.Police said Eli Dennis Watson, 52, started yelling and cursing at his wife, Kim Rochelle Watson, 51, as Transportation Security Administration TSA agents were checking the bags.After a warning, police stepped in to arrest Watson. That's when Weatherford said Kim Watson jumped through the security area and started attacking the officer, hitting her repeatedly and chocking her.The Watsons, of Toledo, Ohio, were each charged with disorderly conduct, public intoxication and resisting arrest. Kim Watson also was charged with two counts of assault and trespassing.Stephen Kemp, 53, of Toledo, Ohio, was charged with interfering with police.The officer attacked, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital for treatment and later released.The Watsons and Kemp posted bail and were released after an initial court appearances. No other court dates have been announced.Weatherford said the incident is under investigation.

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Gulfport MS. Jan 27, 2008

Three Ohio residents are free on bond after being arrested at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in a scuffle with a security officer.
Gulfport Police Chief Alan Weatherford said the incident occurred 8 p.m. Thursday when security agents began questioning a woman about the contents of her bag.
Police said Eli Dennis Watson, 52, started yelling and cursing at his wife, Kim Rochelle Watson, 51, as Transportation Security Administration TSA agents were checking the bags.
After a warning, police stepped in to arrest Watson. That's when Weatherford said Kim Watson jumped through the security area and started attacking the officer, hitting her repeatedly and chocking her.
The Watsons, of Toledo, Ohio, were each charged with disorderly conduct, public intoxication and resisting arrest. Kim Watson also was charged with two counts of assault and trespassing.
Stephen Kemp, 53, of Toledo, Ohio, was charged with interfering with police.
The officer attacked, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital for treatment and later released.
The Watsons and Kemp posted bail and were released after an initial court appearances. No other court dates have been announced.
Weatherford said the incident is under investigation.

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Casino officers nab fraud suspect www.privateofficer.com

Fresno CA. Jan 27, 2008
A 40-year-old Planada woman was arrested on suspicion of forgery and possession of stolen checks and credit cards, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said. Leesa Contreras was taken into custody Thursday afternoon at the Chukchansi Gold Resort Casino in Coarsegold after casino security personnel spotted her inside the casino and recognized her as a wanted felon. Casino officers question the woman and took her into custody and then notified the Sheriff's Department saying Contreras matched the description of a suspect wanted for identity theft in Merced, said Erica Stuart, Sheriff's Department spokeswoman.

Deputies were able to verify that there were warrants outstanding for Contreras and transported her to the county jail.

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Security officer assists with underage drinking www.privateofficer.com

BREMERTON WA. Jan 27 2008
A 20-year-old man suspected of drinking alcohol at Bremerton Lanes Friday night was chased and subdued by security guards.
The Port Orchard man had been seen leaving the men's room with another man, called "suspicious" by bowling alley employees, police report said.
Bremerton police were called to the bowling alley at 540 Bruenn Avenue at about 10:42 p.m.
Employees checked the rest room and found a rum bottle and approached one of the men. When confronted by a security guard about what was in his Pepsi cup, the 20-year-old ran away.
The security guard chased after the man and caught up with him. The security guard told officers that the 20-year-old began resisting, so the security guard "took him to the floor and cuffed the suspect," the report said.
A breath test showed the man had a blood alcohol content of .08, report said and officers reported alcohol was in the Pepsi cup.
The 20-year-old was booked into the Kitsap County jail for investigation of a minor in possession of alcohol.

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Security officer shoots man after ice explosion www.privateofficer.com

PRESCOTT VALLEY AZ. Jan 27, 2008 - A Yavapai Downs security guard shot and wounded a Dewey man shortly after he and his three friends set off a dry ice bomb early Saturday morning.AT Security guard Daniel Douglas Ewing, 26, hit Ryan John Romo, 20, in the left shoulder blade and the left side of his neck with a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun as Romo drove his SUV off the property in the 10000 block of E. Highway 89A."The security guard believed he heard gunshots and called dispatchers," Prescott Valley Police Cmdr. Laura Molinaro said. "About a quarter till 1 a.m., Ewing saw an explosion and a flash. As he was heading to the south end of the property, he saw the vehicle coming toward him. It did not appear to him that the vehicle would stop, so he fired his gun."

A helicopter took Romo to John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital in Phoenix with non-life-threatening injuries, according to a Prescott Valley Police report.Officers later found Romo's 2003 red Hummer H2 stopped under the 89A overpass at Glassford Hill Road.Passengers Nicholas D. Delallo, 20, of Prescott; Richard Anthony Swalve, 20, of Dewey; and Aaron Jacob Brunk, 19, of Prescott Valley, were not injured.Molinaro said officers have not arrested anyone involved in the incident and no one has filed any charges. However, police took the security guard's gun for evidence."I don't have a lot of information on what happened because the interviews (with the parties tied to the incident) are not finished and the investigation is ongoing as we speak," Molinaro said late Saturday afternoon. "We haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet."

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Off-duty officer shot by fellow officers www.privateofficer.com

Mount Vernon N.Y. Jan 27 2008

The off-duty Mount Vernon police officer who was shot and killed by Westchester County police officers on Friday tried to break up a fight between two men and was trying to arrest one of them when he was fatally wounded, the authorities and two witnesses said on Saturday.

The officer who was killed, Christopher A. Ridley, 23, was off duty and not in uniform when he witnessed a “violent, aggravated assault” shortly before 5 p.m. near Court Street and Martine Avenue in downtown White Plains, outside the district offices of the Westchester County Department of Social Services, said Frank G. Straub, the commissioner of public safety in White Plains.
Commissioner Straub and other officials provided few new details about the shooting in a news conference on Saturday. But two witnesses, a homeless couple who gave their names only as Cathy and Brian, said Officer Ridley had tried to break up a scuffle between two men and then failed to drop his gun when the Westchester officers arrived and ordered him to do so.
The couple was outside the social services building, at 85 Court Street, before the shooting. The building until recently was the site of a county drop-in center for homeless men, and homeless people still congregate near there, waiting for a van that comes at 5 p.m. to take them to shelters.
The witnesses said the events leading to Officer Ridley’s shooting began when a homeless man began beating up another man. Officer Ridley emerged from his vehicle to try to stop the fight. He briefly chased the homeless man, and the two began fighting outside the social services building. Officer Ridley’s gun, which a third witness said the officer grabbed from his vehicle and tucked into his waistband, fell to the ground during the scuffle and discharged, with the bullet striking concrete, the homeless couple said.
The gunshot brought county police officers to the scene, and by the time they arrived, Officer Ridley had picked up his gun, the couple said.
“They told him put the gun down three times, and he wouldn’t put the gun down,” said Cathy, 44. She said that Officer Ridley might have been disoriented from the fight and unable to hear the officers’ commands. “He might have been dazed,” she said.
At that point, Officer Ridley was shot; it was not clear how many Westchester County officers had come to the scene or fired their weapons. The officials at the news conference refused to take questions, and they did not release the names of the officers involved or confirm any of the witnesses’ accounts. “We will continue to interview witnesses, and when more information becomes available, we will provide that to you,” Commissioner Straub said.
The authorities identified the man that Officer Ridley was trying to arrest as Anthony Jacobs, 39. They did not say whether Mr. Jacobs was in custody on Saturday.
Earlier, at a news conference outside the White Plains police headquarters, the Rev. Al Sharpton stood with members of Officer Ridley’s family and called for an investigation to determine whether the shooting was justified.
“Just as we are calling on the community not to rush to judgment, the police should not rush to judgment,” Mr. Sharpton said as he stood next to Stanley Ridley, Officer Ridley’s father. “There ought not to be a rush to judgment on either side.”
The authorities have not identified the races of the county officers who were involved in the confrontation. Officer Ridley was black, and Mr. Sharpton said: “I do not know if race played any issue at all as of yet. I do not know. We don’t rule it out or in.”
The chaotic scene unfolded on Friday in a bustling section of White Plains, where serious crimes like murder, robberies and assaults have dropped to their lowest levels in decades.
“I think it was simply a case where a police officer who was in the immediate area is witnessing an altercation in the street, and he did what every good policeman should do, which is to get involved and assist,” said Mayor Joseph M. Delfino of White Plains. “And after that, everything went bad.” He added, “This was a tragedy.

Mr. Jacobs is known by workers in the area for wandering the streets and rummaging through garbage. Keith Stewart, 47, who works as a medical assistant for a chiropractor, said he knew him only as “Twin.” Mr. Stewart said Mr. Jacobs got the nickname because he had a twin brother. The brother died, he said, and Twin had not been the same since.

“He’d talk to himself,” Mr. Stewart said. “He needs help. He needs to be in a hospital.”
The authorities said Mr. Jacobs’s address was 25 Operations Drive in Westchester County. That address is listed as the site of a homeless shelter in Valhalla run by the Volunteers of America.
Mr. Jacobs spent five years at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining for a 1998 felony burglary conviction and was released on parole in 2004, according to state criminal records.
Westchester County police officials and the Westchester County district attorney, Janet DiFiore, asked the White Plains police to conduct the investigation into Officer Ridley’s death because of the county officers’ role in the shooting.
David Chong, the police commissioner in Mount Vernon, which borders the Bronx in southern Westchester, said he was confident that the White Plains police and the district attorney’s office would conduct “a thorough and unbiased investigation.”
Officer Ridley joined the Mount Vernon Police Department on Jan. 9, 2006. He was assigned to the patrol division.
He was remembered by fellow officers and friends as an enthusiastic and inquisitive policeman who was a disc jockey in his free time and was active at Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, where his father worked as the head custodian and Officer Ridley served as a youth mentor.
The officer’s father did not speak to reporters at Mr. Sharpton’s news conference.
Friends of the officer said he was born in Mount Vernon, and after his parents divorced, he lived with his mother in New Jersey. At 17, he moved back to Mount Vernon and had been living with his father in a two-story house on South 11th Avenue.
Patrick Jean-Jerome, a Mount Vernon police officer, said the CD’s that Officer Ridley mixed and burned had become so popular in the department that there was a waiting list for copies.
The day before the shooting, Officer Jean-Jerome and Officer Ridley were on patrol together when a call came in about an assault suspect. Officer Jean-Jerome, who was driving, said they saw the suspect running down a street.
“Before the car was stopped, he jumped out and catches the guy,” he said of Officer Ridley. “By the time the car was in park, the guy was in handcuffs.”

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Security kill man armed with assault rifle www.privateofficer.com

Jackson MS. Jan 26 2008

Jackson police say they are still determining whether a night club security guard who fatally shot an armed man wearing a bullet-resistant vest early Friday morning acted in self-defense.

At this time, the security guard has not been charged," Deputy Police Chief Ron Sampson said. The guard's identity has not been released by police officials.
The shooting occurred shortly after 3 a.m. outside the Block To Block Lounge on Medgar Evers Boulevard at West Ridgeway Street, according to a statement released Friday afternoon by the Jackson Police Department.
Investigators say 31-year-old James Bridgeman Jr. of Jackson got into an argument over parking with security guards at the club.
"According to witnesses, Bridgeman left the scene, returned with an assault rifle and pointed the weapon at the security guards," the statement said. Bridgeman also had put on the bullet-resistant vest.
At least one of the guards fired at Bridgeman, Sampson said.
Bridgeman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Despite wearing a vest, Bridgeman was hit multiple times in the head and upper body, Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart said.
"I have not yet been able to determine which of the shots was fatal," she said.
Bridgeman's family could not be reached for comment. The club appeared closed Friday evening, and the owner also could not be reached.
While police officials have not filed any charges in the city's fourth homicide of the year, investigators have questioned the guards as well as people who were at the club.
Sampson said the guards were not off-duty police officers.
"They were people hired by the somebody at the club," he said. "They will be checked out to see if they are licensed and bonded and insured by the business and all that."
Investigators also are running a trace on the gun to determine its origins and whether it was stolen, Sampson said. Police officials have not disclosed what type of rifle it is.
Sampson said it is not common - but also not unheard of - for civilians to possess bullet-resistant vests.
"Well, they're not illegal. You can go down to one of the gun shows and get one," Sampson said. "From time to time, we do run into people who have body armor."
The empty lot next to Block To Block was the scene of another deadly shooting last year.
On March 26, Jacob Bell Jr., 34, was shot multiple times in his back, leg and buttocks.
Bell later died at St. Dominic/Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Officer stabbed while working security now in rehab www.privateofficer.com

Athens GA. Jan 26, 2008

Sgt. Courtney Gale wore her trademark puckish grin Friday morning as attendants wheeled her out of the hospital where she was brought 45 days ago, clinging to life.
Dozens of police officers, government workers, friends and other well-wishers broke into applause when the lobby elevator opened, giving most their first glimpse of the 31-year-old officer since a knife-wielding man attacked her Dec. 11.
"Woo-hoo!" and "Go Courtney!" they shouted as she was wheeled to the ambulance waiting to take her to an Atlanta rehabilitation hospital.
"This has boosted everybody's morale and let Courtney know how much everybody still loves her," said her mother, Linda Gale.
Parallel lines of clapping and smiling friends - some uniformed, others in civilian clothes - flanked Gale's path from the elevator to the ambulance outside. Some reached out to touch her or her bed, and others bent down to offer a few encouraging words.
They cheered again as the ambulance left for the Shepherd Center, a renowned Atlanta hospital that specializes in spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation.
Gale was in a coma for two weeks after a man with a history of mental illness stabbed her 10 times, severing a femoral artery. Doctors operated several times and only recently took Gale off dialysis.
Only relatives and a handful of officers and friends were allowed access to her room in intensive care.
"It's a great day for Sgt. Courtney Gale, the Athens-Clarke County Police Department and the Athens community," police Chief Jack Lumpkin said. "This is good for everyone's morale. Sgt. Gale has come light years from when they rolled her into here."
People started to gather in the hospital about 8 a.m. Friday. By the time Gale appeared nearly two hours later, the lobby was filled with officers from the Athens-Clarke and University of Georgia police departments, the Clarke and Oconee county sheriff's offices, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the district attorney's office.
Clarke County sheriff's Capt. Eric Pozen brought Gale two armfuls of flowers, and county Human Resources Director Harry Owens placed a "Good Luck" placard on her bed.
Gale still faces a long road to recovery, her mother said, but starting rehab at the Shepherd Center is a significant milestone.
"I don't use the word miracle lightly, but this is a miracle," she said. "It's an amazing story. I know I'm biased because I'm her mother, but even just as a bystander, it's just amazing. Every medical professional I have talked to is amazed that she is still with us."
Gale uttered her first words three weeks ago, when she told her mother she loved her. Even so, she wasn't making much sense and struggled to communicate, Linda Gale said.
Now, Gale chats and shows flashes of the sense of humor her family and friends know well.
"When we told her how long it's been since she's been in the hospital, she was amazed," Linda Gale said. "She told us, 'Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - sorry I missed them.' "
Randy Garrett, a fellow Athens-Clarke police sergeant and deputy coroner, was on his way to visit Gale Tuesday when the hospital's lobby elevator opened and there Gale sat in a wheelchair.
"Oh no! Here's the coroner coming to get me," Gale exclaimed, according to Garrett.
The two officers shared some shop talk; Gale asked about other officers and goings-on at the police department. She was eager to get out of bed, Garrett said.
"She said, 'I'd like to run again, but I'm going to have to take it one step at a time - after I learn how to walk again,' " Garrett recounted.
Doctors removed Gale from dialysis last week when they saw her kidneys could function on their own and she had recovered enough to begin rehab, Linda Gale said.
Specialists at the Shepherd Center's brain-injury unit will evaluate Gale, who suffered reduced oxygen to the brain because of blood loss, the officer's mother said.
"They'll have a prognosis next week," Linda Gale said. "She's reacquiring movement in the arms and hands, and actually has been able to hold food and eat herself, but walking's not something she's done. She's still working to get her body strength up to even attempt some of these activities, but she's regaining her core strength."
The police department is saving Gale's supervisory post in the Criminal Investigation Division's robbery/homicide squad, according to Lumpkin.
"We have faith we will one day see her back," the police chief said.
Contributions may be made to a trust fund for Gale at the "Courtney Gale Supplemental Needs Trust," Attn: Heidi Spratlin, SunTrust Bank, 1022 Prince Ave., Athens, GA 30606.
Gale also will receive the proceeds from a barbecue fundraiser hosted by the Oconee County Sheriff's Office on Feb. 3 and a motorcycle benefit ride scheduled for Feb. 24.

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Heavily Armed Army Rangers Accussed Of Drug Robbery Plot www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA Jan 26 2008

Three U.S. Army rangers and another soldier were charged Friday with drug conspiracy after agreeing to an undercover scheme that involved the armed robbery of purported cocaine traffickers.
When three of the men — Carlos Lopez, Stefan Andre Champagne and David Ray White — were arrested Thursday, they had an assault rifle, semi-automatic pistols, 15 magazines of ammunition, a taser, a ski mask and a medic kit. A fourth soldier, Randy Spivey, was arrested Friday.

The four men were stationed at the Camp Frank D. Merrill in Dahlonega, a U.S. Army ranger training facility. Lopez, White and Spivey are rangers and Champagne is a soldier.
In an affidavit unsealed Friday, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms special agent said the soldiers were targeted in an undercover operation after the ATF learned in November there were soldiers who wanted to rob drug traffickers. Central to the arrest was the ATF agent acting undercover and posing as someone who was routinely hired by Mexican cocaine dealers to help them protect their drug houses.
The ATF agent, Brett Turner, first met with Lopez in November and told Lopez he had become disenchanted with the drug ring when it had refused to front him several kilograms of cocaine. Now, Turner said, he wanted to rob the drug ring of their entire load of at least 25 kilograms of cocaine and needed help from people the drug dealers did not associate with him, the affidavit said.
Earlier this month, Lopez and Champagne met with Turner and agreed to help him rob Turner's "employer," the affidavit said. "The next step, I explained, was for me to meet everyone who was going to participate, so I could be sure that everything 'checked out' and that everyone was trustworthy," Turner said in his affidavit.
On Jan. 15, all four soldiers met with Turner. Turner discussed plans for the armed robbery and put them on notice they needed to be well-armed, the affidavit said. At least one armed guard named "Oso" would be at the stash house, Turner told the soldiers.
The soldiers, the affidavit said, wanted details: How were they going to get to the drug house? How many armed guards would be there? Where would the cocaine be hidden? Were there any obstacles that might hinder a quick entry into the house?
"Spivey interjected that he was an expert in urban assault and that details about the house and location of the armed personnel were important," Turner wrote in his affidavit.
Turner said that before he left he needed to know if all four soldiers were totally committed to the armed robbery. Either nodding or saying so, the rangers indicated they all were on board, the affidavit said.
On Wednesday, Turner called Lopez and told him a shipment of cocaine would arrive on Thursday. Lopez, White and Champagne then went to Buckhead and spent the night in a hotel there, which had been previously arranged by Turner, the affidavit said.
Shortly after noon on Thursday, Turner met with Lopez, White and Champagne in a parking lot at the intersection of Abernathy and Roswell roads. Then they drove to a storage location off Roswell Road in Sandy Springs where they discussed their plans. At that point, Turner asked why Spivey wasn't there.
Lopez said Spivey was their boss and that the three rangers could not have taken the day off without Spivey covering for them. "Lopez assured me that Spivey was still part of the team; he was simply playing a different role" and would still get his share of the cocaine, Turner said in the affidavit.
White also told Turner that they planned to take Turner to the ground once they arrived at the stash house and restrain his hands with flex cuffs. The rangers would then leave Turner with a knife so he could cut himself free, the affidavit said.
After hearing that, Turner told the crew he needed to make a phone call. Within moments, the rangers had been arrested without incident, the affidavit said.

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Woman electrocuted during wild sex www.privateofficer.com

York County MD. Jan 26, 2008

Police say a 29-year-old York County woman is dead after her husband apparently shocked her with an electric cord to stimulate her during sex.

Officials say 37-year-old Toby Taylor was jailed Thursday in lieu of $100,000 bail on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges.

Authorities say Kirsten Taylor was found unconscious Wednesday night at their Lower Windsor Township home. She was taken to York Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police charging documents say Toby Taylor first said his wife was shocked by a hair dryer. But police say when burns were found, he told them he had clipped a cord to his wife and plugged it into an electric strip three or four times.

York County Coroner Barry Bloss calls it a case of "bizarre sex," and says, "Even if you did it before, you have to know you could kill someone."

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Security, police injured by DUI driver www.privateofficer.com

Huntsville TX Jan 26, 2008

A Huntsville Police Department detective was injured Thursday night while attempting to detain an intoxicated Sam Houston State University student in the Shenanigan’s parking lot.According to HPD Sgt. James Fitch, HPD Detective Roy Moore was attempting to detain a vehicle driven by 23-year-old Randall Miller when he fell in front of Miller’s truck and his foot was run over.As of Friday afternoon, Moore had been released from Huntsville Memorial Hospital. “Moore, myself and a couple of other officers were responding to some type of altercation in the back of the Shenanigan’s parking lot,” Fitch said. “People were getting into their vehicles as we were trying to figure out who was involved, and Moore attempted to detain a truck occupied by Miller, one male passenger and one female passenger.“When Moore ordered them to stop they continued on, and in attempting to move out of their way, Moore kind of fell to the ground and the truck ran over his foot.”Fitch said a Shenanigan’s security guard also received minor injuries when the truck fled the scene.Following the accident, Moore was transported to Huntsville Memorial Hospital for treatment.“After Moore was hit, one other security guy at Shenanigan’s was also struck by the truck, and he had minor injuries to his back,” Fitch said. “At that point, the vehicle fled the scene, but there were officers already in the area and HPD Officer Joe Martinez observed the truck leaving the area.”Martinez was able to stop the vehicle on 10th Street a short time later, Fitch said.“Miller was taken into custody and charged with intoxication assault of a peace officer, a second degree felony,” Fitch said. “He was also charged with evading a police officer in a vehicle, which is a felony, and with two counts of failure to stop and render aid, which are also felonies.“Additionally, passenger Kyle Jordan was arrested for interfering with a public servant, a misdemeanor charge.”Fitch said the initial altercation is still under investigation, but Miller is believed to have been involved.“This just brings to light why we have a zero-tolerance standpoint when it comes to drinking and driving,” Fitch said. “This is just another case of someone that’s consumed too much alcohol getting behind the wheel of a vehicle, and unfortunately it’s usually an innocent bystander that gets hurt when that happens.”

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POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED FOR RAPE www.privateofficer.com

ATLANTA GA Jan 26 2008— A veteran Atlanta police officer was indicted Friday on charges that he molested a 12-year-old girl. Atlanta Police Department officials said Investigator Wilson Carstaffin has been indicted on two counts of child molestation, two counts of sexual battery and one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes. Officials say that Carstaffin met the girl while he was working an off-duty security job at Crawford Long Middle School. He is accused of taking the girl off school grounds and molesting her in his car. The indictment was returned by a Fulton County grand jury Friday morning after evidence gathered by APD was turned over to the office of District Attorney Paul Howard. He has been suspended with pay pending an emergency action hearing early next week. “It disturbs me and every other police officer in Atlanta when such allegations arise”, said Chief Richard J. Pennington. “Children are told to trust police officers. This is an apparent heinous abuse of that trust.” The officer, a 16-year veteran of the department, was assigned to the General Investigations Unit before being assigned to non-enforcement, administrative duties while the investigation took place. The officer was not on duty, in uniform or in a police vehicle at the time of the incident, according to officials. Police said they believe the victim knew Carstaffin was a police officer.A news conference is being held Friday afternoon to discuss the case. Please refresh this developing story for updates.

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Minister, teacher charged with porn crime www.privateofficer.com

DUMFRIES, Va. Jan 25 2008 — Authorities say a South Carolina Baptist minister is charged with distribution of child pornography. Police said in a statement that the Rev. Timothy Lynn Brumit contacted a police officer on the Internet who was posing as a 13-year-old boy. Police say that during online chats earlier this month, Brumit distributed videos and photographs of children in various sexual activities. Investigators say Brumit wanted to pick up the boy in Virginia and take him back to South Carolina. Brumit, a high school teacher, was arrested Thursday and is being held in Columbia, South Carolina, awaiting a hearing on Tuesday. Authorities in Prince William and Stafford counties were also reviewing the case.

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Correctional officers indicted in rape www.privateofficer.com

GRANT COUNTY OH JAN 25 2008

Grant County jail guards gathered around an 18-year-old man being booked on traffic violations and chatted about how the physically slight man would make a "good girlfriend" for inmates locked up in Cell 101.
Shift supervisor Clinton Shawn Sydnor told two guards that the new arrestee needed to be "scared" and "taught a lesson." So he ordered guards Wesley Lanham and Shawn Freeman to tell the inmates they were getting some "fresh meat."
As the man was being escorted to the cell in the 300-bed jail, inmates screamed, "He's such a cutie" and "Bring him to me."

As Sydnor pushed the 5-foot-10, 125-pound scared teen youth into the cell late on Feb. 13, 2003, yet another inmate yelled "Happy Valentine's Day." Before he was released, the teen man had been stripped naked, assaulted and raped.
That's how the teen's night of terror was described in a federal indictment handed down Thursday in U.S. District Court in Covington.
It's the same story that has been recounted in several civil suits, a U.S. Department of Justice investigation and the prosecution of the inmates who were convicted of assaulting the teen.
Just shy of the five-year statute of limitations, Sydnor, 29, of Falmouth; Lanham, 30, of Dry Ridge; and Freeman, 35, of Irvine, Ky., face charges that could send them to prison for life.
"I'm glad these people are not going to get away with this," said lawyer Don Nageleisen, who sued the jail on behalf of the teen and won a $1.4 million settlement against the jail in 2005.
All three former guards are scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday on charges of conspiracy, violating civil rights, falsifying records and aiding and abetting. Sydnor is additionally charged with one count of witness tampering.
The defendants made up a story about why the 18-year-old was placed in the cell with "dangerous inmates," according to the indictment.
Jail protocol called for the teen to be locked up in a holding cell just off the booking room.
Sydnor then falsified logs to cover up the fact that he and his co-defendants didn't check on the teen's well-being throughout the night, according to the indictment, and threatened a guard who considered telling the truth.
"It is hard to imagine in today's society that something this outrageous can take place," Nageleisen said. "I can't imagine how these guards could be so cruel to such a young innocent child."
Sydnor and Freeman couldn't be reached, but Lanham's attorney, Dan Dickerson, said his client "denies any criminal involvement in this incident and expects to be completely exonerated."
Lanham no longer works in the criminal justice field, Dickerson said. Grant County Jailer Steve Kellam said all three guards were fired shortly after the rape.
The traffic violations against the teen were ultimately dropped by then-prosecutor Don Wells. The teen was arrested after trying to flee a state trooper, who clocked him traveling 35 mph over the limit on narrow, two-lane U.S. 27 in Pendleton County.
"The Grant County jail needs to hear my message," Wells said in a May 2003 interview. "Young people are not to be neglected and humiliated by thugs and hoodlums in the jail over there."
In civil litigation, the teen says he was carried overhead by a mob of inmates and led to the showers.
The violent attack, rape and sodomy carried on through the night.
The victim - now 23 - leads a very non-social life, Nageleisen said.
"It is a day-by-day thing for him," he said. "He stays to himself. He doesn't go out in public."
Grant County Judge-executive Darrell Link said the indictments appear to be the result of a five-year investigation by the justice department's Civil Rights Division.
"The Grant County Fiscal Court invited the United States Justice Department into the Grant County Detention Center ... to ensure that no stone would be left unturned in our quest to seek the unvarnished truth," Link said.
"If this is the outcome of that investigation, I'm certainly pleased the cloud over the jail will finally be removed."
He said he found it ironic that the Justice Department didn't remove federal inmates from the jail during the years-long investigation if they were truly concerned about civil rights violations.
The U.S. Marshal Service for the Southern District of Ohio didn't stop locking up federal inmates at the jail until November. That is when a jail guard was caught trying to sell a key to jail handcuffs.
Kellam said he didn't want to comment on the Justice Department investigation.
To avoid another rape, he said the jail has revamped its policies and strengthened training.
Substantial security improvements also were made after a convicted bank robber escaped from an exercise yard in June and went on a cross-country crime spree before being apprehended.
"I'm confident that they have made tremendous progress over there, and they have policies in place that should diminish the opportunity ... for this to happen," Link said. "But when you have humans in charge, sometimes errors are made. We certainly recognize the fact some people make poor decisions."

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Missing Security Guard Found Dead www.privateofficer.com

EUGENE, Ore. - A missing security guard from Eugene has been found dead in his submerged vehicle.
Anthony (Tony) Grayson was last seen Friday leaving his Falls Creek home for work. He never arrived for his afternoon shift at Hynix in Eugene and was reported missing Sunday.
Lane County deputies searched Grayson's path of travel from home to work, but were unable to locate his vehicle. They then searched on foot and located vehicle debris near the bank of the Willamette River.
Divers were called to the scene and found Grayson's 2000 white four-door Crown Victoria completely submerged in the water.
The vehicle was pulled from the river with assistance from a local tow company as well as the LCSO Dive Team. Grayson was found dead belted into the driver's seat.
Preliminary investigation revealed Grayson's vehicle struck a large tree on the bank of the Willamette River prior to coming to rest in the water. The investigation is on going, alcohol does not appear to be a factor in this collision.

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Los Angeles Security Officers Lured By Union www.privateofficer.com

Los Angeles CA Jan 25 2008

Labor agreements are usually private affairs, resulting from give-and-take bargaining between management and workers. Yet such accords often benefit the public at large, and rarely is that more clearly the case than in the recently concluded tentative agreement between commercial property managers and a union representing thousands of security officers.Security has become ever more important in the post-9/11 world. The private officers who guard skyscrapers and other commercial buildings are no substitute for police, firefighters or paramedics, but they are crucial links in the public safety chain. They are the first responders in case of a disaster, and they're the people who shepherd sworn officers through the mazes of entrances and staircases and ultimately to the places they're needed.But security has long been an unstable field, with a huge turnover of officers due in part to low wages and benefits. An agreement announced this week -- and scheduled to be voted on by members of the security officers union Saturday-- would help keep experienced officers on the job. It also would boost their pay by about 40%. Building managers may well pass those costs along to tenants, who are among the beneficiaries of a more stable security force. But that pay boost goes further -- right into the lagging economy of South Los Angeles. That's because a huge proportion of L.A.'s private security officers are African Americans living south of the Santa Monica Freeway. Over the decades, many blacks in Los Angeles lost well-paying working-class jobs to Latino immigrants, including those who now form the backbone of the Service Employees International Union Local 1877 -- the janitors union. So it's noteworthy that the same union sought to get African Americans back into the labor movement by organizing the security guards.Poverty remains an agonizing fact of life in Los Angeles, particularly in neighborhoods that have yet to see the fruit of the region's construction boom. The accord between managers of commercial buildings -- many of them in downtown -- and security guards carries the added benefit of pumping higher wages into the South Los Angeles economy, by way of the 4,000 or so officers who live in the area.

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Police Officer Charged In DUI Death www.privateofficer.com

GALVESTON TX JAN 25, 2008 — A Texas City police officer charged with intoxication manslaughter in the death of a La Marque woman is scheduled to surrender to authorities Friday morning.
An arrest warrant was issued today for Officer John L. White after Department of Public Safety blood test results showed his blood alcohol content at 0.17 grams per 100 milliliters of blood, Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said. The legal limit is 0.08.
White, who was off-duty when the accident occurred, will surrender to the Galveston County Sheriff's Office, Sistrunk said.
Intoxication manslaughter is a felony carrying a punishment ranging from two to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000.
White's attorney, Mohamed Ibrahim, could not be reached for comment.
A pickup truck driven by White, 36, struck the rear of a car driven by Leticia L. Ortiz, 26, at 1:20 a.m. Jan. 18. Ortiz was parked on the shoulder of the eastbound lane in the 9000 block of FM 1764.
Sistrunk said his office received the blood test results today and met with DPS and Texas City Police Department officials before issuing an arrest warrant for White.
White's bail was set at $40,000.
He will be placed on administrative leave, Sistrunk said.
The evidence from the investigation by DPS and the Texas City Police Department will be presented to a grand jury Feb. 5, he said.
Records from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education show that White worked with the Port of Galveston Police Department from November 2001 to April 2004 before joining the Texas City Police Department.
White received his peace officer license in December 2001 and his advanced peace officer certificate in November this year, records show.

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Security officers shoot armed man www.privateofficer.com

Jackson MS. Jan 25 2008

Jackson police say a security officer shot and killed man at a bar overnight.
It happened at the Block to Block Club in the 3700 block of Medgar Evers Boulevard, just before 2:00 Friday morning.
Officers say James Bridgeman, 31, got into a parking dispute with the security staff, and then left. But police say he came back later with with an assault rifle and pointed it at the several security officers. They opened fire, and Bridgeman was killed.
Police are questioning the guards, but no charges have been filed.

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Federal correction officers busted during probe www.privateofficer.com

Sumter County Jan 25 2007

Federal corrections workers at the sprawling Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Sumter County accepted bribes up to $20,000 for smuggling cigarettes, drugs, cellular phones and even a knife to prison inmates, a prosecutor said Friday.At a press conference in Ocala, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Carolyn Adams said the arrests stemmed from probes dating back to late 2005, which revealed five correctional officers, a counselor and a cook at the complex who were paid to bring contraband into the prisons. The girlfriend of one of the correctional officers and an inmate also were charged.A sixth correctional officer pleaded guilty earlier this month to attempting to smuggle cellular phones and cigarettes into the prison. A seventh correctional officer was charged with having sex with a female inmate through 2005.

"At the times of these offenses, the correctional officers could take their own personal items into the prison," said Adams, the No. 2 personal in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, which includes Orlando, Tampa and Ocala. "Now, anyone who goes into the facility is subject to being searched.""It was all about money, all about greed. It was about making what looked like easy money."A federal indictment unsealed in Ocala on Thursday charged correctional officer Luis Viera, 41, of Tavares, with providing 12 cartons of cigarettes, two packs of cigars and a knife to inmates in August and September 2006 in exchange for $4,100 in bribes.In a separate indictment, prison treatment specialst and counselor Kendra Russell, 41, of Tavares, was charged providing marijuana to inmates in mid-2005 for $948.Corrections officer William Blanton, 48, of Ocala, was charged in a criminal complaint with having sexual intercourse with a female inmate for an unspecified time through Dec. 15, 2005.All of the officers were named in indictments -- three unsealed this week -- or complaints quietly filed over the past few months in U.S. District Court in Ocala. None of the correctional officers are currently are working at the complex. Some have resigned and others are on leave pending the outcomes of the case, Adams said.The probe was conducted by the FBI, the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.Coleman, the nation's largest federal prison complex, houses 7,482 inmates in five facilities ranging from low- to high-security. At least five of the guards charged worked in high-security facilities, court records show.

Restaurant Employee Steals Cash, Credit Cards From Purse www.privateofficer.com

FRANKLIN TN Jan 25 2008 — A Nashville man allegedly used a woman’s credit card to access pornographic Web sites.
Terry Wayne Collier, Jr., 28, was employed at a local restaurant, which Franklin police would not name, where a woman left her wallet. Investigators said Collier took $2,000 from the wallet and then used a credit card from the wallet to pay for access to view pornographic material on the Internet from his home computer.
Collier was arrested Tuesday. He’s charged with theft over $1,000 and fraudulent use of a credit card. He was released today from the Williamson County jail after posting $3,000 bail. Detective Sergio Guerra said Collier faces an additional class D felony charge of filing a false report for allegedly lying to investigators when they first questioned him about the missing wallet in October. Collier told police he had given the wallet to a man who claimed to be the victim’s husband.

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Police Dog Stabbed Repeatedly During Arrest www.privateofficer.com

SAN DIEGO CA. Jan 25 2008--
A San Diego police dog was stabbed repeatedly while trying to disarm a man Tuesday night, authorities said.
The stabbing happened in the Talmadge neighborhood at a Travelodge motel in the 5000 block of El Cajon Boulevard.
San Diego police said the incident began at about 8:30 p.m. when officers received reports of a man threatening people with a knife. Police confronted the man on the third floor of the motel and tried to disarm him by shooting him with bean bag rounds. That didn't work, so they sent in a police dog and handler to subdue him. The man stabbed the dog repeatedly and an officer opened fire, missing the man, police said.
Police disarmed the man and took him into custody. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of dog bites.
The dog was taken to an animal clinic in Mission Valley. Police said it appears the K-9 will recover from his wounds.
Police said they are looking for a man and a woman who left the scene and may be victims or witnesses.

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Shoplifter Wanted For Pulling Knife On Security www.privateofficer.com

SALT LAKE CITY UTAH Jan 25 2008 - Police are requesting the public’s help in identifying the suspect in a robbery of the Sugarhouse Shopko. During the robbery, a security officer was threatened with a knife. Police say at approximately 7:45 p.m. on January 8, 2008, the suspect was observed on surveillance video going behind the counter of the electronics section and cutting an iPod off the locked spindle. Police say when the suspect then left the store, a Shopko security officer confronted the suspect outside. The suspect surrendered the iPod but refused to come back into the store, according to police. Investigators say the security officer grabbed a hold of the suspect’s coat, after which the suspect displayed a knife and threatened to stab the victim. The victim let go of the suspect who then fled the scene. The suspect is described as a white male in his late 20s, approximately five feet eleven inches tall with a medium build. He had thinning short blonde hair and a goatee at the time of the robbery. If anyone has information about this crime or the identity or whereabouts of the suspect, they are asked to call the Salt Lake City Police Department’s “Tips For Cash” hotline at 801-799-INFO. A cash reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people involved in this crime. Callers may remain anonymous.

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Teen Arrested For Hijacking Plot www.privateofficer.com

Nashville TN Jan 25 2008

A California teenager has been arrested in Nashville for plotting to hijack a plane from Los Angeles to Nashville, the FBI said.
FBI spokesman George Bolds told The Associated Press that the 16-year-old was removed from Southwest Airlines Flight 284 Tuesday night by authorities at Nashville International Airport, and found with "suspicious" items.
Bolds said the teen had handcuffs, rope and duct tape in his bag, and was believed to be traveling alone. The juvenile's name has not been released.
His plan had a low probability of success," Bolds said.
Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Brandy King could not provide additional details. Airport spokeswoman Emily Richard confirmed the incident, but could not provide more information because the passenger was a minor.
Messages left by The Associated Press to the Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.
The teen is in custody at the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center. He has not yet faced federal charges, but Bolds said he is facing state charges from the incident. Bolds did not comment on what the charges were, but said federal charges may come.
He dismissed earlier broadcast reports that the teen was planning to crash the plane into a "Hannah Montana" concert in Lafayette, La.
Bolds said it has not been determined if he was trying to crash the plane. He said authorities searched his home in California and found a mock cockpit.
The teen is believed to be suicidal, Bolds said. He could not comment further on the teen's mental condition because he is a minor.
Bolds said the teen was calm throughout the flight, and did not make an attempt to hijack the plane. But he told the FBI after he was apprehended of his original plans to commandeer the aircraft.
TSA did not immediately return a message seeking comment to determine if the items were banned from air travel. TSA did not list the items the teen was carrying on its Web site as prohibited.

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Doctor pleads guilty in giving weed killer to patients case www.privateofficer.com

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. -Jan 25 2008 - More than two years after a federal grand jury indicted Dr. T.R. Shantha on 87 counts of defrauding patients, money laundering and healthcare fraud, a judge sentenced the doctor Thursday afternoon.
“Dr. Shantha had plead guilty to defrauding insurance companies, he plead guilty to submitting false claims to insurance companies, for treating people with one treatment and billing for something completely different,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Chartash.
Shantha attracted national attention when he was accused of treating terminally ill patients with commercial-grade weed killer and other unsanctioned drugs inside his Stockbridge medical offices. Those charges were dropped when Shantha agreed to plead guilty to insurance fraud.
As part of the plea deal, Shantha avoided jail time and served 400 days in home confinement. The assistant U.S. attorney told reporters the judge took Shantha’s age, 72-years-old, and other good works into consideration when determining his punishment.
“He did pay restitution back to the insurance companies and forfeiture of $650,000 in total. He’s a felon and he lost his license, the medical board did suspend his license,” said Chartash.
Shantha’s been sentenced to 5 years probation followed by 3 years of supervised release.
“The doctor was quite contrite. He admitted what he did was wrong and he apologized to us, to the government, to the court, to his family and he feels disgraced among the scientific community, among the doctor community and among his own community for what he's done," said Chartash.
Despite Shantha’s apologies and guilty plea, several patients are still standing by the doctor. Several people spoke on his behalf in court saying his treatments saved lives and gave loved ones more time.

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5 Year Old Found Hitchhiking On Interstate www.privateofficer.com

Salt Lake City Utah Jan 24 2008

Police are investigating how a 5-year-old ended up hitchhiking Tuesday near Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday that Orem, Utah, police dispatch had received calls around 8 a.m. that a girl was hitchhiking on the side of the street.
At about the same time, the paper reported that a frantic mother was calling police because she couldn't find her daughter. She was going to take her daughter to the bus stop a half block from home but couldn't find her.
Then about 9 a.m., a call came from officials at an elementary school in Provo -- 8 miles away -- saying someone had dropped the girl off there.
Police learned during the interview that the girl had been given a ride and was dropped off before another motorist picked her up and dropped her off at the nearest school.
Police would like to talk to the motorists who picked her up to learn what happened in the 45 minutes between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. that are unaccounted for. They are also concerned the girl ended up in Provo.
"If we hadn't gotten the call, we would have been searching in the wrong city," police Lt. Keldon Brown told the Salt Lake Tribune.

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Security guard reported to be missing www.privateofficer.com

EUGENE, Ore. Jan 24 2008
- Authorities are alerting the public about a 20-year-old man reported missing Sunday.
Anthony (Tony) Grayson was last seen around 1 p.m. Friday when he was leaving his home to go to work as a security guard at Hynix in Eugene.
Grayson never reported to work for his afternoon shift and no one has seen him since.
He is described as a white male, 5'8" and 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Grayson is believed to be driving a white four-door Ford Crown Victoria with a temporary license plate posted in the window.
If you see him or have information, you are asked to contact the Lane County Sheriff's Office.

Security officer prevents burglary of Mitt Romney's office www.privateofficer.com

Boston MA. Jan 24 2008

Two men broke into Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's Boston campaign headquarters early on Thursday, the second break-in of the offices in five months, a spokesman for the local prosecutor said.
Boston police arrested Daniel Bradley, 28, and Michael Sauer, 30, as they tried to leave the office complex's parking lot. A security guard spotted them trying to steal computers on a surveillance tape and called police, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney.
"There was some computer equipment that was recovered. There is no indication this was politically motivated," Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said.
Bradley and Sauer will be arraigned on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony at Boston Municipal Court later on Thursday, Wark said.
A box containing a computer was found in the car the men were driving and two open bottles of beer fell to the floor when police stopped them.
In early September, a number of laptop computers and a television were stolen from Romney's headquarters in Boston's North End.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, has been campaigning in Florida in recent days ahead of that state's primary on January 29.

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Father arrested for "testing" school security www.privateofficer.com

BARNEGAT NJ Jan 24 2008 — A 33-year-old former coach and director of football for the Barnegat Junior Bengals claims he was checking security when he was arrested on charges of criminal trespassing after walking into Barnegat High School without signing in.
Rafael Adorno of Harpoon Drive was arrested Tuesday morning after entering the school through a loading dock entrance at approximately 9:49 a.m., police said. School security stopped Adorno "minutes after he entered the building," said Carrie Sterrs, communications liaison for the district.
Adorno claims he was heading to talk to building and grounds officials when he decided to test the school's security.
"I was going to talk to the building and grounds supervisor about seed and sod for the Lower Shore Road football field, when I decided to see if any of the doors in the back were open," said Adorno, who still volunteers with the program. "I checked on a door by the cafeteria, and it was locked. Then I checked another, and it was locked, but I hit a button and walked right in.
"I'm just a concerned parent, it was a spur-of-the-minute idea," Adorno added, who is the father of a second-grade boy and a third-grade girl at Cecil S. Collins School.
While walking down the hall, Adorno said "he said 'hello' to four or five students that he knew from football."
"I want the school to be safe," Adorno said. "No matter how many security people we have, any Joe can get into these schools.
"I could not believe that these people did not see me," he added.
William Cox, director of security for the district, said loading dock areas often present issues when it comes to security.
"You always have to continue to review security," Cox said. "Any major corporation has these types of loading and unloading locations, and you have to have a way for people to get in and out of them quickly.
"Right now we have two cameras focused on that area, and the security people at the high school pay extra attention to those cameras," Cox added.
Cox said he did not believe that Adorno caused any danger to the students and staff in the high school.
Lt. Patrick Shaffery said the matter has been forwarded to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office for further review. Adorno was processed and released, because he was not considered a flight risk.
Parents who had registered their e-mail addresses with the district were notified of the incident through two e-mails � one sent at 10:30 a.m. and another at 11:20 a.m. � as well as in a letter that went home with all students Tuesday, Sterrs said.
During the Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, the board did not discuss the incident, nor did Adorno, who was in attendance.
Sharon Aquino, mother of high school junior Joey Aquino, said she believes the school is safe for students.
"They do an outstanding job," she said. "I feel the children are safe every day."
Joey Aquino agrees.
"The SROs (school resource officers) do a great job," he said.
Robin Nagy, parent of fourth-grader Jake, said that she felt the district handled the situation correctly.
"I received both e-mails from the district, and in this computer age, that is the best way to handle it," Nagy said.
Adorno said his plans were to keep the whole incident quiet, adding that he had no intention of going public.
"I just wanted to sit down and talk to the administration about the security of the school. It's a huge concern of all parents," Adorno said. "I had no intention of doing anything when I was there."
Adorno has expressed an interest in running for one of the open spots in the school board election later this year, and questioned whether that was why his arrest was disclosed.
"I am a possible candidate for the school board," Adorno said. "I got a petition and the proper signatures for it.
"That could be the reason they (the district) went public," Adorno added.
Superintendent of Schools Thomas C. McMahon said that the trespassing charge has nothing to do with Adorno possibly running for the board.
"I really do not know how running for school board has anything to do with intruding," McMahon said. "Any time you have a situation like this, you have to take it seriously."

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FBI Arrest Man In Security Officers Death www.privateofficer.com

El Paso TX Jan 24 2008

A 29-year-old El Paso man was arrested Tuesday by an FBI task force in the case of security officer Cruz Vite, who died Jan. 1 after being assaulted at the Paso del Norte Bridge, FBI officials said Wednesday.
Pablo Aragon was indicted Jan. 16 by a federal grand jury on an assault charge plus state charges of aggravated assault causing seriously bodily injury and assault causing bodily injury. The county medical examiner determined that Vite, 58, who had a pre-existing medical condition, died of a heart attack triggered by the assault.

Authorities say that Aragon was crossing the bridge that leads from Mexico into the United states when Vite, a private security officer employed to patrol the area stopped him for an unknown reason. The two got into a struggle and as a result of the confrontation, Vite suffered a heart attack and dies.

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Baseball puts new security watchdog in charge of doping www.privateofficer.com

New York NY Jan 24 2008

Earnell Lucas, a former police officer who has worked for Major League Baseball's security department since 2002, was named Tuesday as head of the division, which will oversee doping safeguards.
The security department will enforce the tougher new locker room regulations ordered January 7 by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in the wake of an investigation that found doping links to more than 90 players.
Former US Senator George Mitchell, who led the 20-month doping probe, made several recommendations on how baseball could safeguard against future doping scandals and try to restore some shred of its ruined credibility.
Part of the plan was to implement security checks on packages entering major League Baseball locker rooms and clubhouse areas.
The security department will oversee tougher background checks upon all clubhouse personnel for every club as well as random drug tests for staff with clubhouse access.
Other measures that Selig alone could not implement, such as major changes in the drug testing policy, are being discussed between management and union leaders with Selig saying he expects them in place before pre-season training starts next month.
One sticking point has been the independence of the doping test overseers. Selig favors greater power to the current chief medical director under the purview of Major League Baseball and its union.
But some US lawmakers and the World Anti-Doping Agency have said baseball cannot escape concerns of manipulated results or hidden positives for profit without a fully independent doping oversight group such as the US Anti-Doping Agency is for Olympic sports.

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Deputy Coroner Steals Gift Cards Off Dead Person www.privateofficer.com

AUGUSTA, Ga. -Jan 24 2008- A deputy coroner has been arrested on accusations she stole gift cards from the body of a woman who had committed suicide.
Investigators arrested Richmond County Deputy Coroner Charlena Graham on Wednesday. She has been charged with a felony count of theft by taking.
Graham, 43, has also been fired from the coroner's office, where she worked for about four years, officials said.
"I was aware of the investigation," Richmond County Coroner Grover Tuten said. "I knew it was going on, and I cooperated with it and we cleaned our house."
Authorities went into a motel room on Dec. 31 after getting reports of gunshots, a Richmond County sheriff's report said. In the room, deputies found a 29-year-old woman dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A handgun was in the woman's hand and a handwritten note lay nearby, the report says.
Shortly after, all personal items from woman were turned over to Graham, including five gift cards for Macy's, Target, Victoria's Secret and a local steak house, according to Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength.
Authorities later learned from family members of the deceased woman that some gift cards might have been missing, Strength said.
Sheriff's Lt. Jack Francisco said the total value of the gift cards was about $400.
"I'm surprised, but not shocked," he told the Augusta Chronicle.
Investigators have recovered evidence, including tapes of Graham using the gift cards at local stores, Sheriff Strength said.

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Train hits Deputy's Patrol Car, 1 Injured www.privateofficer.com

BARROW COUNTY, Ga. Jan 24 2007-- A Barrow County man said he is thankful to be alive after being involved in a train accident Wednesday morning.
“I got some scratches right there and see my knees,” said Kevin McDaniel.
McDaniel said he only has scratches and bruises after he was hit by a Barrow County deputy’s car, which was hit by an oncoming train along Highway 29 near Winder.
"I didn't really know that I got hit until I was flying through the air and I was laying on the ground and I turned around and looked and I saw the train,” said McDaniel.
McDaniel and his girlfriend said they were trying to turn onto Highway 29 Wednesday morning when their van stalled just as they crossed over the tracks. As they were trying to push it back into the driveway, they say a deputy pulled them over but he doesn't know why.
The deputy was searching us, he’s searching the van and he doesn’t find anything. He asked Kevin to show him his feet, said McDaniel’s girlfriend, Ruth McCain.
McDaniels was talking to the deputy and was told to raise his feet up so that the officer could check his shoes and when he did that, the car hit it and it just hit me right here and just shot me that way,” said McDaniel.
McDaniel said he was standing between his van and the deputy’s car when the train hit the deputy’s car which then struck him. The impact sent McDaniel flying through the air and off to the side. He said he never heard the train coming.
The Georgia State Patrol handled the accident and told Channel 2 the officer’s car was not directly on the tracks but was too close. The back bumper of the patrol car was knocked off by the train. The GSP also said no charges have been filed against the deputy. The officer was not injured in the accident.
McDaniel said he is angry at the deputy for pulling him over. “He just put my life in jeopardy,” he said.
The Sheriff's Department did not say why they originally pulled McDaniel over or if there any tickets or charges given to him as a result of the traffic stop.

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Shoplifter flees state trooper caught later www.privateofficer.com

Lisbon CT. Jan 23 2008

A man who police say is suspected of shoplifting ended up being charged with a variety of motor-vehicle violations Monday morning.
When Michael P. Mulhern, 30, of Jewett City was caught shoplifting at Kohl's department store in the Lisbon Landing Shopping Center, police said he gave a false name to a plainclothes state trooper. As the trooper was questioning him trying to determine the correct information they say that Mulhern then fled the scene in a car.
Police subsequently stopped Mulhern and took him into custody. He was charged with fourth-degree larceny, criminal impersonation, interfering with a police officer, driving without proof of insurance, misuse of marker plates, driving an unregistered vehicle and fifth-degree larceny by possession.

Mulhern was being held at the city jail pending court at press time.

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Hospital Executive Arrested For Theft www.privateofficer.com

Rome GA Jan 23 2008

A local hospital executive has been arrested and charged with theft according to Floyd County jail reports.
Rome police arrested 38 year old Teresa Dillard Prevost of a Mountain Creek Road address at the TJ Maxx store on Turner McCall Boulevard on charges of shoplifting.
According to police reports, Prevost was allegedly spotted by store security stuffing items into a diaper bag. She was detained by the store’s loss prevention team and handed over to Rome police.
Prevost is the Director of revenue management at Floyd Medical Center.
She told police that she did not want to carry the items and stuffed them inside her bag. She said she had planned to remove the items before she left the store.

Prevost has a court date on the theft charges and is currently still employed at the medical center.

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Shoplifter found to be wanted on sex charges www.privateofficer.com

Roxboro NC Jan 23 2008

Roxboro police took a Durham man wanted on a host of sexual offense charges into custody Saturday at Wal-Mart at 1049 Durham Rd.

Byron Joseph Reed, 40, and Linda Griffin Reed, 37, both of Durham were initially charged with misdemeanor counts of shoplifting after they were seen concealing DVD’s and other electronic merchandise in their clothing at Wal-Mart by loss prevention personnel.
Agents stopped and detained both persons and notified police who ran a background check on the shoplifters.

Police later discovered that Byron Reed had outstanding warrants for his arrest in Durham County for incidents that allegedly took place in 2003.
In addition to the shoplifting charge, Byron Reed was charged with two felony counts each of sexual offense, sexual offense with a child and sexual offense in a parental role as well as one felony count of taking indecent liberties with a minor.
He was jailed under a total secured bond of $55,000 and is scheduled to appear in Person County District Court on Feb. 12 and in Durham County District Court on the felony charges on Feb. 19.
Linda Reed was held under a $2,500 secured bond on the shoplifting charge and is slated to appear in Person County District Court on Feb. 12.

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Pizza Hut Employee Charged With Identity Theft www.privateofficer.com

MUNDYS CORNER PA Jan 23 2008 — A Mineral Point woman was placed in Cambria County Prison after Jackson Township police said she had used customer credit-card accounts to make $6,700 in charges via the Internet.Jamie Lynn Roush, 30, of the 100 block of Johndora Road, reportedly obtained bank card numbers and customer names while working at Pizza Hut in Ebensburg.Police Chief Robert Fatula said he and Officer Melanie Kline received a complaint earlier this month from a township resident about an unauthorized charge on a credit card.Further investigation with Master Card and Visa companies yielded a number of unauthorized charge disputes in the region, and all had a common denominator: The victims all had patronized the same restaurant at least once since May.Kline eventually traced the fraudulent purchases to Roush, who reportedly used the information to buy products or services via the Internet. “After questioning (Roush), the officer found out she was an employee of Pizza Hut in Ebensburg,” Fatula said. “We obtained a search warrant for Roush’s house and found evidence that would indicate her being involved in identity theft.”A man who identified himself as Tom and manager of the restaurant said he could not comment about the incident.It is unknown what job duties Roush performed, or how long she was employed there.Fatula said the incident also may be linked to a similar string of incidents at some Subway restaurants in the Pittsburgh area, and police there have been notified.Roush was arraigned Saturday in front of District Judge John Barron of Upper Yoder Township. She was charged with seven counts each of identity theft, access device fraud, theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception and receiving stolen property.Roush also was charged with one count each of intimidating a witness and false swearing.The charges have been transferred to District Judge Mary Ann Zanghi’s office of Vinco. Roush remains jailed in lieu of $40,000 bond.Fatula urged anyone who used a bank card at the restaurant since May to call police.“They could be a victim and not even know it yet,” Fatula said, adding that some of the victims who have been notified were unaware their cards had been used illegally. Jackson Township police can be contacted at 749-0051

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Store security officer shoots fleeing man www.privateofficer.com

HOUSTON TX Jan 23 2008 -- A grocery store security guard opened fire on a shoplifting suspect on Tuesday, television station KPRC Local 2 reported.

Houston police said the guard at the Fiesta store on Hillcroft Street near Bellaire Boulevard spotted the man inside the store at about 6:45 p.m.

The guard was waiting for the man as he left the store, officials said. The man elbowed the guard as he tried to stop him, police said.

Investigators said the guard fired a warning shot as the man ran away.
Police tracked the man down about a block away. An ambulance was called out to treat the man for an injury he suffered when he fell on concrete.

Police did not release information on the injury or if the man had actually taken anything from the store. Authorities say that their investigation is continuing and charges may be filed against one or both of the involved parties.

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School Security Officer Shoots Student www.privateofficer.com

CHICAGO IL JAN 23 2008

An off-duty Chicago police officer on Tuesday shot a 16-year-old boy who brought a gun to a South Side high school, officials said.About 8:30 a.m., the teen, a student suspended from Phillips High School Academy, 244 E. Pershing Rd., went through a metal detector at the school and triggered an alarm, said Mike Vaughn, a spokesman for Chicago Public Schools. A security officer at the school patted down the youth and discovered a gun, Vaughn said.The boy fled, and that officer and the off-duty officer, who also works security at the school, chased the boy, who still had the gun, Vaughn said.

The off-duty officer shot the teen soon after near a CTA elevated train station in the 300 block of East 43rd Street in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood, officials said. Whether the teen pulled out the gun or pointed it at the officer was being investigated, a law-enforcement source said.The boy was in stable condition at a local hospital, officials said."There was a gun recovered at the scene," said Ilana Rosenzweig, chief of the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates shootings involving Chicago police officers. "But all the details on that, what type of [gun] it was, precisely how it got there, that is under investigation."IPRA investigators reviewed evidence at the scene and are interviewing witnesses.It was also unclear why the suspended boy, a student in a Phillips program for helping students make the transition from 8th to 9th grade, tried to enter the school with a gun."I'm surprised that he tried to bring it. There's practically a police station inside the school," said Oliver Sims, 20, an older brother of a student at the school.Security at Phillips is tight, with students required to pass through a metal detector. Security guards, many of whom are off-duty police officers, also are posted at the entrances and pat students down.Several hours after the shooting, many students said they had received no official word about the incident. Students said that classes were not disrupted, but that there was a noticeably larger police presence both during the day and when classes ended. School officials declined to comment.The law-enforcement source said the teen had five previous misdemeanor arrests and a felony arrest for unlawful use of a weapon. Tryree Parish, 19, a senior, described the student who was shot as troubled but not violent."He had a lot of problems on his mind, but no one could get to him," Parish said.Chicago police confirmed the incident, but referred all inquires to the IPRA.

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Prison guard sentenced to prison in tobacco smuggling case www.privateofficer.com

NEWARK NJ Jan 23 2008 — A corrections officer from Lumberton was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for smuggling tobacco into the federal prison at Fort Dix.
U.S. District Court Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh also ordered Terrence Street to pay a $4,000 fine and to serve three years of supervised release after he gets out of prison, said Greg Reinert, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Cavanaugh allowed Street to remain free on $50,000 bond pending his surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on Feb. 19, Reinert said.
Street, 31, of Eayrestown Road pleaded guilty in September to a charge of corruption in the performance of his official duties. When he pleaded guilty, he admitted that while working as a corrections officer at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix in December 2005, he agreed to sell tobacco products to an inmate who could then sell the products to other inmates, authorities said.Unbeknownst to Street, the inmate was cooperating with law enforcement, authorities said.
Over the next five months, Street smuggled dozens of cartons, pouches and bags of tobacco products into the prison for the cooperating inmate and received thousands of dollars in return, authorities said.
Street also admitted that he agreed to sell another inmate 50 pounds of rolling tobacco in 2006, authorities said.
The second inmate also was cooperating with law enforcement.
Street was suspended from his job after his arrest in May by special agents from the Department of Justice.

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Security officer finds body of former teacher www.privateofficer.com

Tampa FLA. Jan 23 2008 A former Atlanta Public Schools teacher of the year who was found shot to death Sunday in a Tampa parking lot was remembered as an educator who had a huge impact on his students and colleagues.
Antonio Coleman had taught first and fourth grades at Parkside Elementary School near Grant Park before leaving in December to take a new job with Promethean, a company that makes interactive white boards for the classroom.

He was there for a conference with his new job.
A security guard at a Tampa nightclub discovered Coleman dead in his rental car at about 8 a.m. Sunday, according to Debbie Carter, a spokeswoman for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Carter said Coleman had been shot in the upper body.
Carter said that while investigators had not determined a motive for the slaying, Coleman was not believed to be the target of the shooting. She said he was apparently just "in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Coleman had taught at Parkside for two years, according to principal Danielle Battle. He had also taught at Burgess Elementary School, where he was named Atlanta's 2004 Elementary Teacher of the Year.
"Antonio was a 'rare-find' teacher," Battle said Tuesday. "He was high-energy, and wanted the most challenging students."
She said Coleman "was the type of teacher that once you met him, you wouldn't forget him, because he made that type of impact on you."
"He was also well-dressed and neat. He was always, always just neat from head to toe — a very fashionable young man," Battle said. "And he was always smiling and always had something positive to say to a child or to anyone he came in contact with."
Battle said Coleman taught first grade in 2006-07, "but he had taught fourth grade in the past and he wanted to go back to fourth grade, and those kids absolutely adored Mr. Coleman."
The principal said Coleman was "so excited" about his new career with Promethean.
"But he knew he was going to miss his children, and the one thing about his new job, he was still going to have an opportunity to be a teacher of teachers and to work with students," she said. "He was on top of the world with his new job."
Battle said a crisis team was brought in Tuesday at Parkside, where two of Colemen's three children are students. She said counselors met with numerous students, teachers and parents who "all wanted to grieve a little more.

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3 Students shot during drive by shooting www.privateofficer.com

Washington DC Jan 23 2008

Three Ballou Senior High School students were shot near campus in a drive-by attack Tuesday that police believe may have sprung from a dispute between groups from two neighborhoods.
Shots were fired into a crowd of students who were leaving the Southeast Washington school around 3:30 p.m., police said. None of the wounds was considered life-threatening.
Metropolitan police last night were looking for a dark-colored Volvo that some witnesses linked to the shooting, Chief Cathy Lanier said. But she cautioned that others at the chaotic scene thought the shooter was in a small truck.
“There are a couple different stories we are trying to sort out,” said Lanier, who went to Washington Hospital Center and talked with the victims and their parents. “We believe there was some kind of dispute [Monday] or early [Tuesday]. There was an argument between two different groups of kids. We are not sure if any of the three struck were involved.”

Lanier said no suspect had emerged from witness interviews as of late Tuesday.
Two 10th-grade girls were shot in the leg, and an 11th-grade boy was struck in the back. The girls were expected to be released from hospital care Tuesday night.
The school was placed on lockdown right after the shooting.
Situated in the D.C. ward with the highest poverty, teenage pregnancy and dropout rates, Ballou has historically been known more for its crime than its academic successes.
But Michael Petrei’s “Ballou: A Documentary,” last year followed the school’s marching band as they worked for national recognition. In October the marching band was honored by first lady Laura Bush with a private White House screening of the movie.
Tuesday’s shootings come as the Southeast Washington school completed a security plan that was enacted in response to the 2004 murder of 17-year-old James Richardson. The plan called for a temporary influx of nine officers while work crews installed a new alarm and electronic door-locking system.
School officials have been concerned about warring street gangs from neighborhoods where the students live. Teachers told The Examiner that on the second day of school this year, a fight involving several dozen students broke out in the cafeteria and spread to the gym. Police arrested a student that day for carrying a gun.
During the 1999-2000 school year, nine students of Ballou High School were killed in street violence.
Ballou also has struggled academically, failing to meet federal standards five years in a row. It’s one of 27 schools that must be restructured next year, meaning that it could become a charter school or be put under the management of a private organization.

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Toddler dies; father charged with murder www.privateofficer.com

Bossier City LA. Jan 23, 2008

A Bossier City toddler has died at a Shreveport hospital, and her now father is charged with first-degree murder.Lance David Thamm is in the Bossier Maximum Security Facility where he is being held without bond, according to the Bossier sheriff’s office. His charge was upgraded from attempted first-degree murder.His daughter, 17-month-old Isabella Thamm, died this morning at Christus-Schumpert Hospital St. Mary’s Place, according to a hospital spokeswoman. She had been in critical condition since undergoing surgery there Friday night.Bossier City police violent crimes detectives say the 34-year-old father violently pushed the girl’s head into doorjamb because she would not stop crying, according to Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale. It happened at the Parkland Villa Apartments in the 3100 block of Shed Road where the two shared an apartment with the child’s mother. The girl’s mother, who was away at the time of the incident, called 911 upon arriving at the home after speaking with Thamm on the phone. Thamm told the mother the child was hurt and didn’t know what happened, police say. The child was taken to the hospital where staff members called Bossier City police saying the child had suffered a life-threatening head injury that appeared to have been intentionally inflicted.

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Juvenile charged with robbery in shoplifting incident www.privateofficer.com

VINELAND NJ Jan 23, 2008

A 15-year-old Bridgeton girl who was caught shoplifting now faces a much more serious offense after she was charged with robbery after assaulting a security officer at the Kmart store on South Delsea Drive. The suspect tried to leave the store with items valued at $10.17 and was caught at Delsea Drive and Route 55 shortly after pushing the female officer as she attempted to detain the girl.

Police were called and took the teenaged girl into custody and charged her with felony robbery because there was force used to steal the merchandise and an assault had occurred.

The girl, whose name was not released was transported to the city jail.

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Sniper kills girl in fast food drive -thru by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

DELL RAPIDS, S.D. Jan 23, 2008 —

Police say that a young woman is dead and a suspect is in custody after a shooting at a fast food drive through.
Police say that Brittany Williams, 21, was shot in the head Sunday night with a high-powered rifle from 100 feet away as she sat in her car in the drive-through lane of an unnamed fast-food restaurant, police said.
The shooter was apprehended at the scene after he reportedly drove his car through the crime scene tape and then led police on a foot chase as he clung to his rifle

Kyle Bormann, 19, of Omaha was arrested on suspicion of criminal homicide and use of a gun to commit a felony.
He attended high school in Dell Rapids but transferred during his senior year and graduated in 2006 from Wessington Springs.
Some Dell Rapids residents who knew Bormann were surprised to hear about his arrest. They say he was quiet kid and a good student.
Omaha police said investigators have found nothing to indicate that Bormann knew Williams and right now authorities are baffled at the motive for the shooting and the incident where the alledged shooter came back to the crime scene and caused police to chase him.

Police are continuing their investigation and hope to find the answers to their questions as they look deeper into this senseless crime.

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Police Think Missing College Student Was Kidnapped www.privateofficer.com

RENO NV. Jan 23, 2008

Investigators went door to door Tuesday searching for a 19-year-old college student who they believe was kidnapped from a friend's home over the weekend.
Brianna Denison was last seen around 4 a.m. Sunday when she went to sleep on her friend's couch after a night of partying. She slept near an unlocked glass door and used a 2-foot-tall teddy bear as an extra pillow, police said.
When the friend awoke, Denison and the teddy bear were gone. Her purse, cell phone and clothes, including two pairs of shoes, were undisturbed, police said.
"We have not come up with any other clues, any of the items or anything that would lead us to Brianna at this time," police Lt. Ron Holladay.
Detectives were awaiting test results on whether a stain on the pillow she was using was blood.
The FBI and two investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children joined the search Tuesday. Police aided by helicopters and dogs scoured the neighborhoods near the home.
The search teams planned to concentrate on a park near the home before a snowstorm later Tuesday, police spokesman Steve Frady said.
Family members Monday night pleaded for help and her safe return. They described Denison as caring and responsible.
"It gives us a little bit of fear because that is the type of person Brianna is; she would be contacting us if she could," her aunt, Lauren Denison, told reporters Monday night.
Denison is a psychology student at Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, Calif., and was back in her hometown of Reno for winter break.
In the hours before her disappearance, Denison had been party-hopping at venues associated with a weekend snowboarding event, including attending a rap concert at the Sands Hotel and Casino.
Investigators want to talk to a man who dropped off a friend of Denison's at the home that night, police Lt. Robert McDonald said.
The friend had approached the man at the casino for a ride after the concert, but the man did not go inside the home, he said. The man is not a suspect but is being sought for questioning.
Denison's friend, K.T. Hunter, told the Reno Gazette-Journal that the couch is against the wall of the bedroom where she was sleeping with her dog. She said that she never heard a noise and that the dog never barked.
Hunter said Denison was sober the night she vanished and had planned to pack Monday to go back to Santa Barbara.
Reno police Tuesday also said there doesn't appear to be a connection between Denison's disappearance and separate attacks late last year on two female students near the University of Nevada, Reno.

Police call shoplifting a "Family Affair: by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

LODI CA JAN 23, 2008

A grandmother, her daughter and some of her grandchildren are behind bars after police arrested them for allegedly trying to steal $900 worth of merchandise from a Target store in Lodi Monday night.

Investigators say surveillance tapes caught the group of six cutting boxes open and stealing mp-3 players, digital cameras, DVDs, jewlery, purses and clothing from the Target store on West Kettleman Lane. The family browsed the store and took what they wanted as loss prevention agents followed their every move on their surveillance cameras.

Police say the youngest of the alleged thieves are just 5 and 8 years old. Several teens allegedly involved were also arrested and taken to juvenile hall.Officers arrested Anna Fernandez, 38, and her mother Linda Robinson, 59.

As they attempted to leave the store without paying. security agents quickly detained all of the family members and notified police. Officers charged the group with burglary.

Charges of burglary were brought in this case because the shoplifters entered the premises with the intent of stealing and the felony charge applys better to this case than shoplifting police say.

The adults also face charges of burglary, grand theft, and contributing to the deliquence of a minor. Fernandez' teenage sons and another teen were taken to juvenile hall. The two young children were released to relatives.

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Man sentenced to jail for stealing underwear www.privateofficer.com

COLFAX, Wash. -- Jan 22 2008
A man is facing a sentence of one-and-a-half months after admitting he stole 93 pounds of women's undergarments.
Garth Flaherty, 24, was charged with first-degree theft and burglary in the stealing of 1,613 pairs of panties, bras and other women's underwear from laundry rooms.
Under an agreement with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday in Whitman County Superior Court to 45 days in jail. He may serve 30 days of his term in community service, court officials said.
Flaherty was arrested March 24 after police received a report of a man hanging out in an apartment complex laundry room.
In his bedroom, police said, they found enough women's underwear to fill five garbage bags.
Police had previously received 12 reports of panty thefts in the northeast part of Pullman, where Washington State University is located.

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Cemetery forced to hire security officers www.privateofficer.com

EAST CONTRA COSTA CA. Jan 22 2008 - A Union Cemetery official has hired overnight security guards to patrol the historic cemetery that had more than 60 headstones vandalized last week.
The security guard was hired after a cemetery employee encountered a suspicious car outside the property, just east of Brentwood, Saturday night, district manager Mark White said Monday. On Wednesday morning, staff found 64 headstones toppled over, with remnants of beer throughout the property.
"To be safe, I've hired guards to be out here the 16 hours we're not open," White said.
The 16-hour shifts, similar to the cemetery's annual Halloween protection plan, will cost the Union Cemetery District $340 a night, White said.
"There's nothing we can do. We've got to do it," he said, adding the guard will remain for the near future.
At last week's district board meeting, members discussed possibly gating the cemetery's entry points as well.
Further damage inspection has uncovered three military headstones smashed, White said. The small cemetery staff has started righting grave markers and is planning future repairs, but their time is limited.
"We do a little work on the headstones and then we do a funeral," he said.

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Aspiring law enforcement students to get own high school www.privateofficer.com

METRO DADE/MIAMI FLA JAN 22 2008

Come fall 2009, teenagers eager to investigate homicides, keep the peace in crowded jails, or prosecute bad guys for a living will be able to choose a high school created just for them.
Police, city and school administrators gathered in a scrubby open lot next to Miami police headquarters Thursday to break ground for a criminal justice-themed Senior High School for Law Studies, Homeland Security and Forensic Sciences.
The new high school, which will accommodate 500 students, is part of a program devised by Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Rudy Crew to create schools devoted to particular career fields.
It would function like magnet schools, with interested students from across the county invited to apply.

Crew told the audience Thursday that he and Miami Police Chief John Timoney first discussed the idea for a law-enforcement high school over a decade ago when they both worked in New York City.
"We had an interesting start of something along these lines, but nothing ever matured to the level proposed here," he said. "Many of us, when we were coming up, would have liked to have a school that spoke to us about our career paths and a way to be able to get there."
The four-story, 112,300 square-foot, $35.4 million facility will also house the City of Miami Police College, including the Institute of Democratic Policing, geared to training officers from newly democratic nations, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America.
The building, designed by the architectural firm Spillis Candela DMJM, will be connected by a bridge to police headquarters at 400 NW Second Ave.
"It will allow us to not only train our officers, but to train officers from all over the world," said Miami City Commission Chairman Joe Sanchez.
"We will be able to learn from them and they will learn from us,"
Timoney said the high school is perfectly located because students could pursue internships with the state attorney's office or the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, both located close to the site, and other agencies.
Crew told the gathering to expect more specialized-school projects in the near future.

You'll see this happening more throughout the county as we team up and provide these sort of schools that really give kids the option of being able to pursue their career interests while at the same time completing high school," he said.
Other specialized schools in the Miami-Dade pipeline include a 700-seat medical technology high school at the site of the former Homestead Hospital, a 1,300-seat math and science academy close to Metrozoo, a 700-seat international studies school on Madruga Avenue in Coral Gables and a 400-seat environmental science school at Southwest 107th Avenue and 84th Street in Kendall.

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Woman charged in cheap gas scheme www.privateofficer.com

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. Jan 22 2008 - A gas station clerk is accused of defrauding her boss out of nearly $50,000 by selling fuel to her family and friends for a tenth of a penny a gallon.

Police arrested 25-year-old Madeline Jordan on Sunday — along with her mother, brother, a cousin and two others — after setting up a sting at the BP station in South Charleston.
The station's owner told police last week he had noticed a significant drop in his income and found receipts that listed the deeply discounted rate.
Police alleged that for several months Jordan, of Nitro, had reset the price at the pumps every Sunday morning and allowed people she knew to fill up.

Authorities are trying to determine how many of her friends and family were in on the scheme and how many people took advantage of the discounted gas prices.
There was no immediate word if any of the six had secured attorneys to speak for them. The Kanawha County Courthouse was closed Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., and calls to the South Charleston Police Department were not answered.

Police are still looking into this caper and more people could be charged in this case.

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Home Invasion, police chase captures teen suspects www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA Jan 22 2008

Police were called out to a robbery in progress at a residence in the city's southeast side and when officers arrived the chase was on.

After a chase that included shots fired at police, officers arrested three 15-year-olds in connection with an Atlanta home invasion robbery.
Residents of a home on Hill St. in Atlanta said three gunmen burst into the house sometime after midnight early Tuesday morning.
"The victims were beaten and injured and got some head injuries, it looks like they might have been pistol-whipped," said Sgt. Scott Kreher of the Atlanta Police Department. The suspects also fired one shot while in the house, said Kreher.
The gunmen fled in a stolen truck and a few minutes later police spotted them. Officers tried pulling the vehicle over but it would not stop and after a short chase the suspects bailed out of the truck and fled on foot.
"As they were running from the vehicle, being chased by some of our officers, we heard gunshots," said Kreher.
Police used a helicopter and a police dog, and searched the area and eventually officers captured the suspects. They were taken to the Zone 3 police station in Grant Park until their parents arrived and police could question them.

All 3 could be charged with home invasion robbery, kidnapping, assault, fleeing from police and other charges.

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Attacked with a hammer, man selling wood dies www.privateofficer.com

COBB COUNTY, Ga. Jan 22 2008 --Selling wood by the side of the road was his livelyhood and the way that he helped to insure that the needs of his family was met.

Dennis Freeman, 36, and his wife should be celebrating their 11th wedding anniversary today and his wife’s birthday, but instead the Freeman family is mourning Dennis’ death.
“She’s really distraught, she’s in bad shape,” said the victim’s brother, Michael Freeman.
Police said Freeman was bludgeoned and murdered at a firewood lot where he worked Friday night.

Police say that it happened as a result of a trespasser who was urinating in the lot who Freeman confronted.
“He was just working day by day, trying to save some money and, you know, do everything that every other family does to pay their bills and support his family,” said Michael.
Freeman said the suspect, Roger Brown, was urinating near a dumpster near the lot. The owner told Brown to stop. “It was his lot, his wife and kids were standing right there. He didn’t want him to be doing that in front of his kids,” explained Freeman.
Witnesses said Brown walked away and then came back a few minutes later with a hammer. Police then say Brown hit Freeman over the head numerous times which resulted in his death. Police were notified and quickly apprehended Brown and took him into custody soon charging him with murder.
“It would take a very demon-istic person to do something like that to such a good person over nothing,” said Freeman.
Michael Freeman said his brother had no insurance and hadn’t been able to get it after surviving a battle with cancer 12 years ago. Freeman was his family’s sole source of support and now his wife and stepson will have to go without him.
“He was just an outstanding person. One of the best brothers someone could ever have,” said Michael.
Brown is charged with felony murder and aggravated assault. Police also said he has a criminal record but did not give further details of it.

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A Volusia County sheriff's deputy died early Monday morning after suffering an apparent heart attack while working. Deputy Richard Atkins Jr., 65, was stricken at about 4 a.m. and taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, where he was pronounced dead at 4:58 a.m., according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Atkins, who worked in the agency's law enforcement unit at Daytona Beach International Airport, was inside an office monitoring surveillance cameras and was due to complete his shift at 6 a.m. At about 4 a.m., another deputy walked into the office and discovered Atkins slumped in his chair and unconscious. Efforts to revive him were not successful. "We're all deeply saddened by the passing of Dick Atkins," said Volusia County Sheriff Johnson. "He had law enforcement in his blood and died doing what he loved -- enforcing the law and serving the public. Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Atkins family as they mourn their loss." Atkins retired as a Daytona Beach police officer after more than 30 years with the department and then took a job with the county's airport law enforcement unit. Atkins later became a sheriff's deputy, taking the oath of office when the county transferred responsibility for the unit to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office in March 2002.

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JAN 21 2008

A Corpus Christi police officer died Sunday after a car accident while he was on the way to an assault call.
Matthew Thebeau, 25, who had been with the department for nearly two years, was traveling southbound on Crosstown Expressway near Baldwin Boulevard about 2:30 a.m. when a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed started to go out of control, witnesses told police. Witnesses said Thebeau appeared to try to avoid a collision with the motorcyclist.
Thebeau's patrol car struck the barrier dividing the northbound and southbound lanes of Crosstown Expressway, straddling it and sliding along it for about 50 yards until it struck a light pole and I-beam supporting a highway sign, Police Chief Bryan Smith said.
Thebeau was ejected from his patrol car and landed in the northbound lane and was struck by at least one vehicle, police officials said.
Thebeau was taken to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial where he was pronounced dead. An investigation is under way. Smith said the department was interviewing nine witnesses, including the driver of a vehicle that struck Thebeau. The motorcyclist has not been located, Smith said.
Police officials said they don't know if Thebeau decided to pursue the motorcyclist at the time of the accident.
"As police officers, we know the risk and we live with the reality of life and death every day," Smith said in a prepared statement. "But there is nothing that can prepare you for the feelings of shock and sorrow when a brother or sister in blue makes the ultimate sacrifice while serving the citizens of Corpus Christi.
"Today, we stand together, united in sorrow," Smith said. "Our thoughts and prayers go the family of officer Matthew Thebeau."
Thebeau's uncle Martin Thebeau also is a Corpus Christi police officer. Thebeau, who was not married and had no children, is survived by his mother and father of Lavernia.
On Sunday, Corpus Christipolice officers, joined by other area law enforcement officers, went to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial to pay their respects and show support for Thebeau's family, Smith said.
The last Corpus Christi police officer to die in the line of duty was Juan Ricon Prieto, said Domingo Ibarra, president of the Corpus Christi Police Officers Association.
Prieto was struck by a vehicle on Feb. 3, 1993.
Ibarra said Texas led the country in deaths in the line of duty last year with 21 officers killed.

Family sues Sheriff's Department after son is shot www.privateofficer.com

SANFORD FLA Jan 21 2008 - The family of Chris Penley, the 15-year-old killed at Milwee Middle School two years ago, has sued the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, alleging the marksman who shot the boy never should have pulled the trigger.Chris took a pellet gun to the Longwood-area school and brandished it as though it were the real thing. He had retreated into a restroom, away from other students, when sheriff's Lt. Mike Weippert shot him in the head with a high-powered rifle.Although prosecutors cleared Weippert of any wrongdoing, the lawsuit highlights questions that remain about his actions. Weippert told investigators he made a split-second decision to pull the trigger because the boy had pointed the gun at him and he feared for his life.

Ralph Penley, the boy's father, said his son should still be alive. Weippert, he said, "was an overzealous police officer."He and the boy's mother, Donna Penley, filed suit Jan. 11 in state circuit court in Sanford. They accuse Weippert and his boss, Sheriff Don Eslinger, of violating the boy's civil rights and wrongfully causing his death. They ask for unspecified damages.Penley was shot Jan. 13, 2006. He was removed from life support and pronounced dead two days later.When Weippert pulled the trigger, the suit alleges, the boy was confined to a restroom, had no hostages, no means of escape and had hurt no one. The weapon in the boy's hands was a toy, an air-powered pistol not loaded with any pellets.The boy had painted over the red muzzle tip that manufacturers put on toy guns to distinguish them from the real thing. Witnesses, including deputies, told investigators he pointed the gun at them and at his own head several times.Several of the suit's allegations are similar to findings of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Sheriff's Office, both of which investigated the shooting:*A hostage negotiator not far from Weippert said he did not feel threatened by the boy.*Weippert pulled the trigger without consulting anyone else and as other officers on the scene were working on a plan to apprehend the boy.The Orange County Medical Examiner's Office concluded Weippert's bullet hit the boy's left ear, then entered his skull and fragmented. A private pathologist who studied case evidence for the Orlando Sentinel said the boy could not have been looking at Weippert when the bullet hit his head."He has his head turned 90 degrees from the shooter," said Dr. William Anderson, a former deputy Orange County medical examiner who is now in private practice.Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Dennis Lemma disputed that conclusion."The boy raised the weapon in the direction of Lt. Weippert and was looking in his direction," Lemma said.Not every medical expert who reviewed the boy's injuries agrees that the bullet entered his ear. That may be because the brain was so severely damaged.Dr. Eric Trumble, the neurosurgeon who tried to save the boy's life, concluded the bullet entered just above the outer edge of the boy's left eyebrow.Trumble's surgical notes make no mention of the wound to the ear. When questioned about it several months later, Trumble said he did not recall it. Autopsy photos show that someone at the hospital had stapled the wound shut."There's not much you can tell because all the tissue was pulverized," said Sara Irrgang, the associate Orange County medical examiner who performed the autopsy.Dr. Patrick Lantz of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., a forensic pathologist who reviewed the case for the Sentinel, said he thinks the bullet most likely entered the left side of the boy's forehead.The wound to the ear, he said, was most likely an exit wound caused by a bullet fragment or piece of bone.The lawsuit does not mention the ear wound, but "that's another thing that troubles me," Ralph Penley said.Weippert, who has more than 20 years of experience with the Sheriff's Office, continues to help with training and planning for the agency's SWAT team.

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Security officer shoots man after assault www.privateofficer.com

Orange County Jan 21 2008

After the Orange County Sheriff's Office got an early morning call for a domestic dispute in Lake of the Woods yesterday, a security guard went to investigate, according to state police.
When the guard got to the residence where the dispute was suspected, around 12:37 a.m., he heard arguing and knocked on the door, said Sgt. F.L. Tyler of the state police.
The man who answered the door at the house in Locust Grove on Wilderness Drive "became combative with the security guard," Tyler said, and then he assaulted the security guard.
Tyler said the guard then pulled his weapon and shot the man in his hip.
He said the injuries did not appear to be life-threatening and the state police are investigating the call.
Charges are yet to be filed and state police are not releasing names of anyone involved because the incident is under investigation, Tyler said.

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Security officer punched by irate woman www.privateofficer.com

Springfield IL Jan 21 2008

A 28-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly punched a security guard during a disturbance early Sunday at Mac’s Lounge, 1231 E. Cook St.
Police said Joi D. Cowan, whose address wasn’t available, got into a dispute with another woman on the dance floor about 2:20 a.m. Security officers tried breaking up the fight and calming the woman down.
As security escorted her outside, she allegedly hit the guard in the face. The security officers detained Cowan until police arrived and she was taken into custody and transported to the city jail.

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Store security agent helps nab burglars www.privateofficer.com

Salinas CA. Jan 21 2008
A man and a teenage boy were arrested Saturday afternoon after they tried to steal a CD player from a car parked at Northridge Mall, Salinas police said.
Ismael Morales, 21, was booked at the Monterey County Jail on charges of burglary and possession of burglary tools. A 17-year-old boy was lodged at Monterey County Juvenile Hall on the same charges, police said.
About 1 p.m. Gerardo Guerrero, 22, parked his black 1995 Honda Accord near the Sears department store, police said, where a Sears security officer later saw two people breaking into the car and removing a CD player, police said.When the security officer attempted to stop them, they both fled toward East Boronda Road and the security officer gave chase and notified city police for back up assistance.. Police managed to find both suspects. The security officer soon identified them as the persons who broke into the vehicle.

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3 Arrested For Kidnapping-Murder of 94 Yr Old Man www.privateofficer.com

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. Jan 21 2008 - Three people have now been rounded up and have been charged in connection with the death of a 94-year-old Hamblen County man whom police said was kidnapped and brutually murdered..
Sheriff Esco Jarnigan said Willie Lee Morgan "died a horrible death," and was found beaten with his left hand cut off. Morgan was reported missing Saturday.
Two butcher knives and what officials believed to be Morgan's hand were found in one of the suspects' cars.

Darrell Nance, 22, was charged with murder and Jessica Lane, 23, was charged with accessory to murder. Brice Whaley, whose age was not immediately available, was charged as an accessory after the fact and abuse of a corpse.
Jarnigan said the suspects may have been trying to steal cash from Morgan's home or hold him for ransom as payback for money owed by some of Morgan's family members.
Nance and Lane both have a long criminal history and documentated drug abuse, authorities said.
Whaley is accused of helping to dispose of the body afterward. He led authorities to the body in an industrial park about 40 miles northeast of Knoxville near this east Tennessee town.
The three suspects were in the Hamblen County Jail pending bond hearings. A jail official said Monday afternoon she did not know if they had retained attorneys.

Morgan's stepdaughter, Nancy McCann, said she received a phone call from someone claiming to have taken the man after her nephew had robbed them.
McCann said the woman asked for $3,000. She said the family did not deliver it on time and did not hear anything else.
Jarnigan declined to comment on McCann's statement.

Authorities did not release all of the details of the kidnapping or how they were first alerted to it but say they are still investigating the crime.

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