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T.J. Maxx Security Officer Killed by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
T.J. Maxx Security Officer Killed On The Job by; Rick McCann http://www.privateofficer.com
PITTSTON, Pa. October 31, 2007 11:40a.m. est
BREAKING NEWS-We have just learned that a security officer was killed this morning and are still gathering information and will post it as soon as we have further details. This is what we know so far.
A security guard is dead in an accident involving two trucks at a distribution center in Luzerne County.
State police say one truck stopped at the security gate as it was leaving the TJ Maxx Distribution Center on Tuesday at the Grimes Industrial Park near Pittston.
The driver of the truck could not get its doors open.
A second truck stopped and the driver got out to help.
Police say one of the trucks then started to roll and hit the security guard at the gate, killing him.
The guard’s name was not immediately released.
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HALLOWEEN ALERT—-ALL SECURITY PERSONNEL www.privateofficer.com
Monday, October 29, 2007
HALLOWEEN ALERT—–ALL SECURITY PERSONNEL www.privateofficer.com
ATLANTA GA. OCT. 30, 2007
IT’S HALLOWEEN AGAIN! EAT THE TREATS, BUT DON’T GET TRICKED!
This is just a brief reminder that although Halloween is a time for treats, it is also time for tricks and if you are working a security position on Tuesday October 30th or Wednesday October 31st, be on your toes!
Officers working high risk assignments such as banks, shopping malls, apartment complexes and schools should use caution when approaching a costumed individual especially under suspicous circumstances or in response to a complaint investigation.
Persons entering banks with masks should be asked to remove them and any weapons including baseball bats, play guns, swords, knives or clubs should be left outside the bank building.
If you are unsure whether or not the weapon is real, approach the subject in “the ready” position and DO NOT take chances. If necessary call for immediate back-up from your local police agencies.
Halloween is used as a time of crime and opportunity by criminals and you should not be tricked into believing that it’s all just a harmless prank.
If you are patrolling shopping malls or apartments be alert for the children, drive carefully and be observant. Again, this time of year gives shoplifters and robbers perfect cover and in years past has been a prime robbery day for jewelry stores, banks, armoured cars and the like so be alert!
When in doubt, approach the situation cautiously, unhurried and always in the ready position. Do not get sidetracked. Diversions can easily be used during these days and as you chase nothing, an armed robbery could be occurring two doors down.
Most of, www.privateofficer.com and The National Association Of Private Officer
wishes you a safe and uneventful Halloween!
Hospital Guard Caught Stealing From Visitor www.privateofficer.com
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Nashville TN. Oct. 30, 2007
A security guard at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was arrested today after she admitted that she stole $2,300 from a woman’s purse that she searched while on duty, police said.
The female victim was entering the emergency department through a metal detector at the time, police said in an affidavit.
The guard, Nikesia Monique Floyd, 26, worked for a private contractor at the hospital, a police affidavit states.The theft was discovered Oct. 11 when another visitor noticed $300 missing from her purse and approached Floyd about it, the police affidavit states.“Ms. Floyd initially denied taking the money, but later admitted to the theft in front of her supervisor and (Vanderbilt) officers,” the affidavit says.During a follow-up investigation by Vanderbilt detectives, Floyd admitted on Oct. 12 that she took $2,300 from the purse, the affidavit said. The money belonged to the victim and her husband, police said.Floyd was arrested and charged with theft over $1,000. Her bond was set at $10,000.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Houston TX. Oct. 30, 2007
A man suspected of shooting a Houston police officer while he was being arrested was found dead in a field Sunday, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Police said Officer Victor Hill, who was not in uniform, arrested Eric Titov, 22, on suspicion of breaking into cars at the complex in the 18600 block of South Park View Drive near West Park View Drive at about 12:30 a.m.
Investigators said Titov, who was handcuffed, pulled out a gun and shot Hill in the chest.
Hill called for backup and was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital in critical condition.
Titov ran from the scene, detectives said. He was found dead in a field on Barker Cypress Road near Saums Road on Sunday afternoon. Police have not said how he died.
Titov had several credit cards and driver’s licenses that did not belong to him, detectives said. Hill has been with the Houston Police Department for 14 years.
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Hospital Worker Arrested For Having Sex With Corpse www.privateofficer.com
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Teaneck N.J. Oct. 30, 2007
A former lab technician at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J., is under arrest and accused of having sex with a corpse, authorities said.
Anthony Merino, who had been working at the hospital for two weeks at the time of his arrest, is charged with desecrating human remains.
A security guard at the hospital saw Merino, 24, engaged in sexual activity with a 92-year-old deceased woman in the morgue on Sunday, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. The security guard immediately called Teaneck police, who came and arrested Merino.
“This heinous crime is a travesty,” hospital officials said in a statement. “We are horrified and saddened for the family of the patient and are completely empathic and sympathetic to them.”
Hospital officials said they immediately fired Merinio, who lives in Upper Manhattan. They also said that they did conduct a criminal background investigation and reference check on Merino before hiring him.Merino is being held and a judge ordered a psychological evaluation.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
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Wai’anae Hi. Oct. 30, 2007
Police have opened a homicide investigation into the stabbing death yesterday of a woman in Kalihi.
The woman, 44, was found in the bedroom of her first-floor apartment unit at 2110 Kahaha St. on the mauka side of Gulick Avenue by a police officer responding to a 911 call of a domestic argument about 2:30 p.m., said Lt. Bill Kato, supervisor of homicide investigations.
Paramedics pronounced the woman dead at the scene at 3:23 p.m., according to City Emergency Services spokesman Bryan Cheplic.
According to booking information at the main police station, Melchor B. Adviento, 50, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder at 2:40 p.m. before being taken to the hospital.
The man was at The Queen’s Medical Center last night in critical but stable condition with an apparent stab wound to the upper torso, Kato said.
Two kitchen knives were found at the scene.
Kato said the patrol officer who investigated the 911 call arrived at the apartment and found the door locked. A man bleeding from the chest area answered the officer’s knock, and the officer entered and found the woman’s body.
In another domestic stabbing attack yesterday, police arrested a 25-year-old man in Wai’anae who they said stabbed his mother and sister during an argument.
The man also injured a construction site security officer who tried to prevent him from fleeing the scene, police said. The attacks at 85-128 Ala Walua were reported to police at 3:07 p.m.
Robert Rios III, 25, who has an outstanding $500 warrant, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. on Ala Walua on suspicion of assault. Two women, ages 44 and 24, were taken to The Queen’s Medical Center, where they were in stable condition, Cheplic said.
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Security Officer Interrupts Carjacking By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Security Officer Interrupts Carjacking By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
San Jose Ca. Oct. 30, 2007
A man with a handgun banged repeatedly on a car window before shooting out its tires and firing shots at a security guard in an attempted carjacking near San Jose’s Kelley Park early Sunday morning, police said.
It was around 1 a.m. when a woman and two of friends sat parked in an apartment building parking lot on Lucretia Avenue waiting to pick up people inside. After their friends got into the car, Sgt. Nick Muyo said, a man with a handgun approached the driver’s window.
Using the gun he pounded on the window and demanded she roll it down. The driver refused. As the gunman walked around the car toward the passenger window, the woman threw the car in the reverse and backed out of the parking lot, Muyo said.
The woman heard several gunshots as she left the apartment building’s lot.
After she drove a way the woman got out of the car to check the damage. As she noticed two of her tires had been punctured by bullets, she heard four more gunshots, Muyo said.
Police believe that those were fired by the carjackers.
A security guard at the building heard the first shots fired at the car and went to investigate, Muyo said.
The man noticed two men, one with a gun, near a parking garage at the complex. The men fired repeatedly at the guard, missing him, Muyo said.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call San Jose Police at (408) 277-4166.
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OFFICER DOWN…3 DEPARTMENTS MOURN www.privateofficer.com
Monday, October 29, 2007
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BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Oct. 29, 2007
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer was killed Saturday after crashing her all-terrain vehicle in the Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area, the agency said.
Michelle Lawless, 47, had been working in the northwest corner of the management area near the L5 Canal and the Palm Beach County line when she apparently collided with a fixed object, wildlife officials said.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating.
Lawless began her career with the FWC’s law enforcement division in May 2003. She was assigned to Broward County. “Michelle was a diligent, accomplished officer who died doing what she did so well, protecting Florida’s natural resources. This is a painful loss to the entire agency, her family and friends,” said Maj. Brett Norton, commander of law enforcement for the region.
Illinois
Trooper McMillen was traveling to assist another officer, Oct. 28 when his patrol car was involved in a collision with two other vehicles.
Both vehicles were being operated by intoxicated drivers.
Trooper McMillen had served with the Illinois State Police for eight months and is survived by his wife.
Casa Grande AZ.
Sergeant Tate Lynch succumbed to injuries sustained when he fell from a wall while conducting training exercises with the Pinal County SWAT team. Sergeant Tate was a member of the inter-agency Pinal County SWAT team. The team was training at the Pinal County Detention Center, in Florence, where Sergeant Lynch was rappelling down a wall. During his decent, Sergeant Lynch fell and sustained serious head injuries. He was flown to Scottsdale Healthcare Trauma Center where he succumbed to his injuries a short time later.Sergeant Lynch had served with the Casa Grande Police Department for 7 years. He is survived by his wife and three children.
120 Shoppers Get Ill At Walmart www.privateofficer.com
Monday, October 29, 2007
120 Sicken At Walmart www.privateofficer.com
DERBY KS. Oct 29, 2007
The Wal Mart in Derby was evacuated after a strong chemical odor sickened many people inside.
123 people were triaged on the scene, 17 of which were transported to local emergency rooms. As of Monday, all 17 have been released.
The patients were suffering respiratory ailments which made them cough and vomit. Many of the patients were treated for minor symptoms at the scene.
It is believed the chemical originated from the photo lab area, but Derby fire officials don’t know the exact chemical that caused the problem. Meanwhile, the parking lot was blocked off by police while fire and ambulance crews treated the patients.
The Derby school district placed several school buses in the parking lot, which were on standby in case there was a need for mass transports to hospitals. All patients who went to the hospital, however, were taken by ambulances.
The store reopened shortly after 10:00 pm after fire officials and hazardous materials crews said the area was safe.
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Security Guard Killed During Robbery by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
Monday, October 29, 2007
Security Guard Killed During Robbery by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
Baton Rouge, LA. Oct. 29, 2007
Within 30 minutes of surveillance video airing on television newscasts, Baton Rouge police say they got the tips they needed to make an arrest in Wednesday’s murder of an elderly security guard. The murder happened at Pete’s Farmer’s Market on Airline Highway. Derrick Williams, 25, was charged with First Degree Murder and Armed Robbery. “
He is done, no more,” said Baton Rouge Police Chief Jeff LeDuff during a Friday afternoon news conference called to announce the arrest.The grainy surveillance video released by police shows a gunman arguing with 71-year-old security guard Alfred Mequet. The gunman demands money and attempts to open two cash registers. He opens fire, shooting and killing the guard. Before releasing the surveillance video to the media, the face of the victim was blurred and many segments that contained the victim’s voice were muted.The gunman was never able to open the cash registers, which were actually empty. The murder happened just before 5am, when the market was closed. “Literally within a half an hour of that video airing on television, our phones were ringing off the hook,” said police spokesman Sergeant Don Kelly. “We had tips coming in from throughout the community,” Kelly said.LeDuff says he agonized over whether to release the surveillance tape to the media. He now knows he made the right decision and applauds those who called in the tips needed to make the arrest. “Anyone who looked at that video, for those people who have never been involved in crime, to see the victim, and how callous and how unconcerned that young man was to take that shot. I don’t think there’s any question left for them. It’s the right thing to do,”
LeDuff said of the people who provided the tips. “He’s done,” LeDuff said.The victim’s wife, Linda Mequet, said Friday afternoon that she was relieved police had a suspect. She said she hopes Williams “never sees the light of day.” She said she would never miss his parole hearings, if he is convicted of the crime.
Chip Elkins, who owns Miles Paint & Body Shop located next to the market where the killing happened, knew the victim and had performed work on his vehicle. He, too, expressed joy at the news of Williams’ arrest. “I wish they could bring him by here for about 15 minutes before they take him to jail,” Elkins said.
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Shoplifters Bite, Assault Store Security by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
Monday, October 29, 2007
Shoplifters Bite, Assault Store Security by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
Petaluma Ca. Oct. 29, 2007
Two Marin City residents were arrested Thursday after one of them allegedly stole items from a supermarket in the Gateway Shopping Center and they then scuffled with a security guard, said Sgt. Mark Hunter of the Petaluma Police Department.
A security guard in Lucky’s Supermarket at Lakeville Street and Caulfield Lane reportedly observed Michelle Suhrke, 31, put electronic equipment, alcohol and other items in her purse. Suhrke left the store at around 4:45 p.m. without paying for the items, and the security officer then approached her in the parking lot.When the security guard attempted to place her under citizens arrest for theft and started retrieving the items from her purse, Suhrke bit and struck the guard, and called for help from Richard Bonner, 37, who was waiting for her in the parking lot, Hunter said.
Bonner began assaulting the guard as all three people struggled for the purse containing the stolen items. The guard eventually was able to secure the purse, and the two suspects then ran to a parked car and drove off.The guard was able to obtain the license plates of their vehicle, and at around 9:30 p.m., deputies from the Marin County Sheriff’s Department located and arrested them at the request of Petaluma police.They were booked into Sonoma County Jail for attempted robbery, and Bonner also was held without bail for violating conditions of his parole.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
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Salem Ore. Oct. 29, 2007
A man and a woman were arrested Thursday night at the Oregon State Hospital after driving to the psychiatric facility in a stolen car containing methamphetamine and attempting to help a patient escape, officials said Friday.
“The escape attempt was foiled by our ward staff and security staff, both of whom did a good job,” interim hospital Superintendent Maynard Hammer said.
Staff members became suspicious when they spotted a vehicle with Washington license plates drive onto the hospital campus Thursday night, Hammer said. A person got out of the car to look at a security fence behind the hospital’s two maximum-security wards, then the car left.
Later, the suspects returned. About 10 p.m., hospital employees reportedly caught them tampering with a security fence outside the hospital’s 124-year-old J Building, just south of Center Street NE. The suspects were in possession of cutting tools, officials said.
Staff members and responding Salem police officers detained the suspects until they were arrested by Oregon State Police.
Arrested were Thomas E. Boring, 29, of Gresham, and Monica Holbert, 50, of Vancouver, Wash. Both were taken to Marion County jail.
Boring faces charges of conspiracy to commit escape, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief and possession of methamphetamine. Holbert faces charges of conspiracy to commit escape and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief.
State police reported that the suspects drove to the area in a 1994 Ford Explorer that was stolen in Vancouver. Methamphetamine was found during a search of the vehicle, police said.
Hospital officials aren’t aware of any connection between the suspects and the patient thought to be involved in the failed escape, Hammer said.
Hammer declined to identify the criminally committed patient, citing laws protecting patient privacy. He confirmed that the patient has a history of escape attempts.
“I think we know where this patient’s interests lie, so we’ll be extra-vigilant for a while,” Hammer said.
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Friday, October 26, 2007
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Richmond County Ga. Oct. 26, 2007 Investigators say that a man may have used a stolen police uniform in an attempt to commit a crime and are urging the public to be cautious.
A man claiming to be a sergeant with the sheriff’s office called Paulos Cleaners and Laundry, 2525 Peach Orchard Road, on Oct. 19 and said he would be picking up the uniforms in place of Deputy Ronald Phillips. The man, who is described as black and 6 feet tall, took four uniforms from the cleaners, according to a sheriff’s report. A day later, police received a report that a man had called the Ace Cash Express on Walton Way and claimed to be investigating check fraud for the sheriff’s office. When he arrived at the store, he was wearing a pair of pants similar to the ones stolen the previous day and a long-sleeve, gray shirt with a sheriff’s tab on the right shoulder, according to sheriff’s Maj. Ken Autry. The man left the store and did not return after a suspicious clerk demanded to see his badge.
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Maj. Autry said the FBI and Homeland Security were notified after the theft, as were other departments in the area. He said anyone suspicious of an officer should demand to see a badge.
“It’s perfectly legitimate for citizens to ask those questions,” he said.
The sheriff’s department is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case. Anyone with information can call the office at (706) 821-1080.
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Oak Brook, IL – Oct. 26, 2007
Police this week arrested a woman who shoplifted more than $17,000 worth of merchandise, some from Oakbrook Center, and connected her to a retail theft ring traveling the country hitting malls.
Urrutia Carolina, 28, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was charged with felony retail theft and possession of stolen merchandise.
“They’re very good at it,” said Oak Brook Police Sgt. Tami Shuey, standing beside a table with the merchandise police found in a rental van after arresting the woman Tuesday night.
The store manager at Victoria’s Secret in Oakbrook Center, Route 83 and 22nd Street, called police after watching the woman leave the store with dozens of bras in a shopping bag without paying for them.
“Two people had just come in and cleaned out a shelving unit basically, a store cabinet thing,” Shuey said. “They filled up their bag, exited the store and while they were leaving they dropped a bra.”
Police said Carolina, like many sophisticated shoplifters, used a well-known device to get past the electronic detectors in the store.
Aided by Oakbrook Center security, police found Carolina hiding between cars in the parking lot, and eventually found her van with duffle bags full of merchandise. The bras stolen from Victoria’s Secret sold for $50 apiece or more.
A male helping Carolina got away, fleeing on foot, police said.
“We had documentation that within the last couple of days they have shipped out hundreds of pounds of merchandise through different avenues to different states,” Shuey said.
Oak Brook Police Chief Tom Sheahan said an intelligence unit he formed earlier this year with other police agencies alerted his department Tuesday the gang was in the area.
“It’s as organized as organized crime because it is organized crime,” Sheahan said. “They stay in hotels in the area at night, and then they go out and steal all day.”
Oak Brook Police Detective Tom Russell said such gangs hit one shopping center a day.
“They’ll stay at one mall one day and go to another mall the next day,” Russell said. “They’ve gotten away with it. Otherwise, they wouldn’t keep doing it.”
Sheahan said police are working with Limited Brands, Walgreens, Wal-Mart and other retailers to keep track of the gangs.
Shuey said the arrest this week is part of a gang of six individuals who keep returning to Oak Brook. Shuey said the van they found had a U.S. atlas with towns circled with malls in every state. Shuey said Illinois had 18 mall towns circled.
Oak Brook tactical officer Bob Christopherson said the couple hit only three stores Tuesday, and he said not all of the retailers had in-store security.
“They’ve been trained to call police when they see someone doing something suspicious,” Christopherson said. “They’re getting better at calling right away. The training worked well, I guess.”
Shuey added Carolina bonded out after posting a $75,000 bond.
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Students Gone Wild; Police Respond By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
Students Gone Wild; National Police Response By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
ATLANTA GA. Oct. 26, 2007
School resource officers, sworn police officers or deputy sheriffs have been in schools across the country for years. And with the police presence has come increased arrests, physical police response in cases of fights and student outbreaks and some schools which have looked more like rioting city mobs then school campuses. Police using teargas and pepper spray and tasers to subdue and quell student fighting, outbreaks and disturbances. In recent weeks there have been numerous school shootings and school hostage situations some as large and scary as the shootings earlier this year at Virgina Tech.
Just this week a fight at a Florida school involved more than 300 students who also caused major damage at the school and took a small army of police and teargas to quell the disturbance and bring order. Another such incident on Thursday in Greesboro North Carolina where police there had to call several times for reinforcements and used teargas to help bring a large fight in a high school gym under control. Several smaller incidents in other school districts this week including Nashville Tennessee and a school in Michigan and New Jersey causes law enforcement to question whether or not students are getting more violent amongst themselves and against the police. Frequent outbreaks in schools across the nation do appear to be a common place
occurrance.
Here’s an example from incidents in New Jersey during a one week period.
VINELAND NJ — Police arrested 14 students in less than a week on a variety of charges ranging from assault to weapons possession and disorderly conduct. Eight students were arrested during a brawl that police said could be gang-related.
In the most recent incidents, police arrested three teens at Vineland High School and Landis Middle School about 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The following details were released Wednesday by police about the rash of student arrests:
· A 15-year-old male student was charged with possession of two pocketknives at Landis Middle School. The juvenile, who said he was afraid other students would attack him, was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon and released to his parents.
· A 16-year-old male was charged with possession of a razor blade at Vineland High School 9-10.
· Another 16-year-old boy was charged with disorderly conduct at the 9-10 building when he attempted to fight another student on a bus during dismissal.
· Eight boys, ranging in age from 14 to 16, were charged with disorderly conduct when police broke up a large fight in a field on the north side of Chestnut Avenue at Spring Road on Tuesday afternoon.
Detective Lt. Tom Ulrich said police believe the fight was gang-related, but he declined to elaborate.
“This fight occurred at 2:30 after school was dismissed, and we’re working with school administrators to determine exactly why it occurred.”
Ulrich said several other youths involved in the fight escaped on foot.
· A 15-year-old boy was charged with assault on a school employee for allegedly pushing a security guard at Vineland High School 11-12 on Tuesday afternoon.
The juvenile allegedly refused to sit down on a bus and was told to get out of the vehicle by the security officer. He refused and pushed the officer in the process. The teen was held at the county detection center.
· Around 1:30 p.m., another 15-year-old boy was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest during a disturbance at the tennis courts at Vineland High School 9-10.
The suspect did not show up for morning class and was marked absent. He refused orders from security and staff to leave the school property, and Officer Brian Pooley of the Juvenile Unit used pepper spray during the arrest of the unruly teen.
· One person was arrested during a disturbance at a Vineland High School football game last Friday night.
Salman A. Yusuff Jr., 18, of Walnut Manor Apartments on East Walnut Road was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Police ordered several people to leave the school property because of a disturbance in the bleachers, but Yusuff refused and resisted when officers attempted to handcuff him.
Yusuff is a senior at the high school, according to police.
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Long Island N.Y. Oct. 26, 2007
A Verizon employee at a Green Acres Mall store in Valley Stream racked up about $2,400 on fraudulently obtained credit cards after stealing at least 35 customers’ identities, authorities said yesterday.
Durraine M. Dunn, 26, of 117-11 169th St., Jamaica, pleaded not guilty in a Hempstead courtroom yesterday, a day after her arrest on fraud and forgery charges. She is being held on bail of $120,000 bond or $60,000 cash. Police said Dunn swiped the information while working as a trusted customer representative at the wireless provider’s store”The victims in this case did nothing wrong,” Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. “They went to a legitimate store and gave the information required to open an account and purchase a cell phone.”
Manhattan-based Verizon Communications launched an internal probe to determine what happened and is working with authorities, said David Samberg, a spokesman for the wireless company. Det. Sgt. Thomas Reilly of Nassau’s Crimes Against Property Squad said investigators believe Dunn stole identities only of customers she helped – not any from the wireless provider’s customer database.During routine transactions, Dunn dealt with picture identification cards and Social Security numbers as well as birth dates, police said.Dunn used the information to apply for credit cards she had sent to her Jamaica address, officials said. She charged gift cards, shoes, air conditioners and flat-screen televisions, Reilly said. Authorities began investigating Dunn after a Maryland man filed an Aug. 17 missing-wallet report with the Port Authority at Kennedy Airport.Transactions made with the unidentified man’s credit card were traced to a shoe store at Green Acres Mall. An employee of the store who recognized Dunn said she made the purchase. A search warrant served at Dunn’s home Tuesday turned up numerous forged credit card applications and customers’ personal information, authorities said.Customers of the Verizon store and of a Sprint store at Green Acres, where Dunn worked more than a year, should have their credit reviewed, Rice said. She also urged customers to call Nassau’s identity theft hotline at 516-571-0677.
Alisa Madden, 30, of Lynbrook, ran a credit check after reading about the fraud on Newsday.com, and everything appeared OK. She had purchased a cell phone at the mall’s Verizon store in August. “It makes me feel violated,” she said. You take for granted all the information you put out here until something like this happens.”
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Oct. 26, 2007 — A man was killed with a frying pan, dismembered and then his body parts were bagged and placed in a freezer, police said.
The body of the victim, 38-year-old Terry Lee Jackson, was discovered Saturday when a woman went to open up her freezer, police said.
Authorities are still searching for the woman’s grandson, 22-year-old Elmer Seetot, who shares the apartment with her.
A warrant charges Seetot with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence.
Police claim the murder happened after the two men drank and fought Friday night.
The grandmother, Ruth Seetot, told police she went to bed early Friday night because she hadn’t been feeling well, but woke up briefly when her grandson came in. Later, she got up to use the restroom and saw reddish-colored water in the bathtub, but thought it might have been a dream, she told police.
The next morning, she told police her grandson was still there, but was crying and was upset.
“I accidentally killed Terry,” he told her, according to an affidavit. “He boxed me then I grabbed a skillet and hit him in the head.”
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HOLLYWOOD FLA. Oct. 25, 2007 – Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Maury Hernandez walked into a news conference at Memorial Regional Hospital on Thursday, his left leg shaking, his right hand clutching a cane and his left arm in a sling.Wearing his uniform and his badge, Hernandez drew applause from fellow law enforcement officers with each inspirational step.Hernandez was shot in the head during a traffic stop in Pembroke Park 80 days ago and, from the start, was not expected to survive. Thursday morning, in his first public comments since the Aug. 6 shooting, he talked about getting back to work.
I would like to go back to my regular job as soon as possible,” said Hernandez, smiling and surrounded by family and doctors who laughed and clapped and wiped away tears of joy. The deputy seemed almost embarrassed at all the attention.”I’m very honored. I don’t think I deserve all this,” he said.His brother, Hallandale Beach Police Officer Josue Hernandez, said he expects the deputy to be released from the hospital as early as Friday.Maury Hernandez returning to work is a very real possibility, according to his doctors and acting Sheriff Al Lamberti.Dr. Luis Rodriguez, a neurosurgeon who treated Hernandez, said the deputy’s recovery has gone so well that, although pieces of the bullet are still lodged in his head and he remains partially paralyzed on his left side, a 100 percent recovery is possible.”I’m sure there’s some medical explanation for what happened here,” Lamberti said.Still, he and others felt compelled to call the recovery “miraculous.”Hernandez and his family thanked colleagues and others for their prayers and financial assistance since the shooting that nearly took his life.
The alleged gunman, David Maldonado, 24, remains in custody at the Broward Main Jail, charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.
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GROVE HILL AL. – A former Coffeeville English teacher was found guilty Wednesday on two counts of enticing a minor for immoral purposes.
Sharon L. Rutherford, 32, was arrested last year on multiple charges stemming from alleged sexual contact with at least four of her students, including soliciting at least one of them to kill her husband.
The solicitation charge is still pending against Rutherford. No date for that trial has been set.
Soon after Rutherford’s arrest in April 2006, authorities dropped rape and sexual abuse charges against her when they determined that two of the boys mentioned in those charges were older than Alabama’s age of consent, 16. The remaining enticement charges involved boys who were 14 and 15 at the time.
The jury began deliberations shortly before 4 p.m. and reached a verdict about three hours later.
The enticement charges, class C felonies, carry a potential sentence of up to 10 years on each count. A sentencing hearing has been set for Dec. 10.
Attorneys and witnesses declined to comment on the case due to a gag order put in place by Presiding Circuit Court Judge Thomas Baxter.
The jury heard testimony Wednesday from one of the younger students and watched a videotape of his statement from April 7, 2006.
The student said on the tape and on the stand that on one occasion Rutherford asked another one of his teachers to send him and another boy to Rutherford’s classroom.
The student said that once he arrived, Rutherford “brushed her hand” across his pelvic area, and made sexually suggestive remarks to him and other boys who were “hanging out” in her classroom.
Rutherford told the boys they “wouldn’t last five minutes with her” sexually because they were young, and she was experienced, the student testified.
Defense attorney Richard Jensen called only two witnesses for the defense: the same student who testified for the prosecution and that student’s mother.
Rutherford sat through the trial attentively, showing little emotion.
Jensen said Rutherford had immoral and reprehensible sexual affairs with the two older students, and she should be “fired and her teaching certificate pulled.” But, he said, she did not entice the younger students.
One of the two older boys testified Tuesday that he met Rutherford at a graveyard and had sex in her vehicle after she told him to meet her there.
Another older boy, a special-education student, testified Tuesday that he and the teacher carried on a sexual affair from 2004 through 2006 at Coffeeville High School.
The boy estimated they had sex a hundred times or more, but he said he didn’t care for Rutherford.
The teacher was in love with that student, according to Jensen, and prosecutors introduced into evidence a stack of love poems she wrote and gave to the student.
On Tuesday, Jensen said the older boys told the principal about their relationships with Rutherford when they got into trouble at school over an unrelated matter and needed a way to get out.
Rutherford’s husband, James Rutherford Jr., filed for divorce May 5, 2006. They have two daughters, 2 and 11 years old.
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Alcoholic Falls Off Wagon; Gets Drunk At Walmart www.privateofficer.com
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WAUKESHA WI -Oct. 25, 2007 A town of Eagle man who said he had quit drinking for more than a year was cited for retail theft at a Mukwonago Wal-Mart after he reportedly took seven bottles of alcohol off the store shelves and downed them in the liquor aisle in 15 minutes
The man, 43, was cited for retail theft after the incident at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, 250 E. Wolf Run, at about 5:30 p.m. Oct. 14, Mukwonago police records show.
Mukwonago Police Chief Fred Winchowky said the man was seen on store security video drinking seven 12-ounce bottles of Jack Daniels Lynchburg Lemonade in a 15-minute period. When confronted by a store official, the man initially denied it, but he smelled of intoxicants, Winchowky said.
Reviewing a police report on the matter, Winchowky added the man said he was a recovering alcoholic who’d been dry for 16 months until that date, when he went to the store with his wife, who was unaware of what he was doing.
“He went down that aisle and he said ‘I just couldn’t control myself,’” Winchowky said. “He stated he was upset he broke his 16-month streak and he didn’t know how he was going to tell his wife.”
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Athens Ohio Oct. 25, 2007
Two people are facing felony charges Wednesday afternoon after police say they shoplifted a hefty amount of merchandise from an area shopping center.
Athen’s city police say Tuesday, a Walmart security agent witnessed two women and a young boy concealing numerous items and leaving the store without paying for their items.
When stopped by the security officer, the suspects, Teresa Estep, Serena Craig-Cooper and the young boy were found with more than sixteen hundred dollars worth of stolen merchandise on them.
Estep and Craig-Cooper are charged with felony theft.
They are both out of the Southeast Ohio Regional Jail on bond.
The juvenile could also face charges for his involvement in the crime.
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Bank Robbers Now Vary In Age www.privateofficer.com
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ATLANTA METRO AREA OCT. 25, 2007
Retirement costs must be going up faster than we think.
Police say a man who appears to be his 50s or 60s strolled into a SunTrust Bank in Suwanee at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, a handgun in his waistband, and slipped a note demanding money to a teller.
“He looks like a grandpa,” said Capt. Clyde Byers, spokeswoman for the Suwanee Police Department. “What is somebody his age out doing this for? He’s supposed to be in retirement. He’s supposed to be fishing.”
The man left after receiving an undisclosed sum of money from the bank, on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road in northern Gwinnett County, Byers said.
Investigators hope someone recognizes the suspect.
“If he’s from anywhere in metro Atlanta,” Byers said, “somebody’s gonna look up and say ‘Hey, that’s Uncle John!”
Anyone with information on the identity of the robber is asked to contact the Suwanee Police Department at 770-945-8995.
Decatur man was in jail without bond Monday after police said he tried to rob customers at a drive-thru ATM in Lawrenceville.
Abdul Shaheen El-Amin, 31, confronted a man and woman who drove up to the ATM at the Bank of America at 2800 Lawrenceville Suwanee Road on Saturday night, said Cpl. Illana Spellman, spokeswoman for the Gwinnett County Police Department. When El-Amin pulled out a gun and pointed it at the two people, a police officer intervened and shot the suspect in the arm, said Spellman. Authorities said the bank was already under police surveillance.
El-Amin ran into the woods behind the bank, but a tracking dog helped officers locate and arrest him a short time later. El-Amin was treated for his injury and released Sunday from Gwinnett Medical Center. He was being held without bond Monday on one count of armed robbery at the Gwinnett County Detention Center.
Spellman said members of the Gwinnett County Robbery Task Force had the Bank of America branch under surveillance because there had been four prior reports of armed robberies in the area. Investigators had predicted with 98 percent certainty that another robbery would occur at that bank location by Sunday using statistical analysis, said Spellman.
The officer who shot the suspect will be placed on routine administrative leave, according to a news release.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
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NEWARK NJ OCT 25, 2007
At the end of another busy day at the local K-Mart, workers were busy wrapping up their closing procedures when two men who had been hiding in the store after the store closed rushed out yelling and pointing guns.
Surveillance photos taken at the store, located at 301 College Square in Newark, showed the attempted robbery in progress.
Police said the two suspects hid in the store Sunday until it closed.
As the manager deposited the night’s receipts into a safe, they pulled out a gun and demanded the money. The manager screamed, and another employee came running.
Police said the two suspects ran away without taking anything.
Anyone who recognizes the suspects or has any information is asked to call Detective Maiura at 302-366-7110, ext. 152. Information can always be reported anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333.
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91 Yr. Old Woman Found Embedded Into Mattress www.privateofficer.com
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Spokane WA. Oct. 25, 2007
A 91-year-old woman is in the hospital after state workers and paramedics found her Friday with open sores on a mattress in 2 inches of maggots and feces. Police arrested her grandson for criminal mistreatment.
Springs from the decaying mattress were embedded in Elsie Gettman’s body, and paramedics had to wear hazardous materials gear to treat her at the home at 808 E. Euclid Ave.
Gettman’s grandson, 28-year-old Michael R. Bourassa, at first refused to allow paramedics to enter the home, but other family members persuaded him to allow them inside, said Spokane police Detective Kirk Kimberly.
Bourassa has been arrested and booked into Spokane County Jail on charges of criminal mistreatment. He was his grandmother’s primary caregiver although, according to a search warrant for the home, Bourassa’s mother, Theresa Topp, shared power of attorney.
Topp lives in Lewiston, so she visited infrequently.
“Bourassa had been keeping family members out for some time,” said Kimberly, who investigates the victimization of elderly and disabled adults. The state Division of Elder Services also is investigating.
“Family members were tired of being put off, so they asked Elder Services to get involved,” Kimberly said.
What they found when Bourassa let them inside was what one paramedic at the scene called the worst thing he has ever seen. Garbage was piled around the home and Gettman was trapped in the filthy bedding with just a blanket covering her. Her flesh was decaying on her body.
“The paramedics were near tears,” said Detective Stacey Carr.
To remove Gettman from the mattress, paramedics had to extract a bedspring embedded in her back all the way to the bone.
Family members weren’t surprised by the living conditions, Kimberly said, adding that they knew Bourassa was living in a messy home, but were unaware of Gettman’s condition.
Carr went to the hospital to investigate after a nurse there called police. Carr said she could hear Gettman moaning inside her hospital room.
“You could hear her screaming,” Carr said.
Police detectives later sent to the scene said they could smell urine and feces more than 40 feet outside the home.
Inside they found cat feces and piles of debris covering the floor, with just a few pathways to access rooms, Kimberly said. The bathtub was filled with different items and there was no food in the house.
SpokAnimal was called to the scene to confiscate the cats.
Helping the elderly can be more difficult than helping abused children, Kimberly said. That’s because children have more legal protections than adults and it’s easier to prosecute their abusers.
Children can give officers a statement that can be used in court. Adults, including aged adults with childlike minds, must give depositions that can be difficult to take.
Kimberly said that keeping an elderly person away from family and friends is a clear warning sign that something might be wrong. “Once someone notices that, the red flags should go up.”
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. Oct. 25, 2007 — A Fort Pierce woman was arrested on Tuesday after police said she left her children, including an infant and two children under the age of 5, in a car while she was shoplifting.
Kasey Ozell Cooper was charged with retail theft and child neglect.
Another woman, Angelique McQuire, faces the same charges. McQuire said she was asked to watch the kids but decided to go into the store as well, according to deputies.
A 4-year-old, 3-year-old and 5-month-old were left unattended, deputies said.
Officials at Bealls said they caught the women and a teenager taking shirts, sweat shirts and sweat pants out of the store without paying. After bringing the shoplifters to the loss prevention office they were made away that there were young children left outside in the car and that’s when security notified police of the situation.
Cooper’s aunt went to the store to pick up the children after deputies arrived, according to officials.
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Philadelphia PA. Oct. 25, 2007
Maximo Jurado spent 28 years as a fugitive, a long run that came to an end today when dozens of law enforcement officers confronted him at his girlfriend’s rowhouse in Philadelphia.
Jurado, who escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979, made a brief claim to be someone named Juan before officers showed him an old prison photo.
“It’s me,” Jurado said, according to the Associated Press.
The 75-year-old is being jailed in Philadelphia until he can be extradited to New Jersey, where he will face the remainder of his three- to five-year prison sentence on drug charges from Hudson County, N.J.
He also could face an escape charge in Monmouth County, N.J., where he was housed at the now-closed minimum-security Marlboro Camp. Prisoners there worked at the Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, which also is closed.
The New Jersey Department of Corrections keeps a list of escapees; the vast majority are inmates who walked away from residential halfway houses within the last several years.
Today, the list had 132 names, only seven of them from 1979 or earlier.
Deidre Fedkenheuer, a corrections spokeswoman, said a special fugitive unit pursues the escapees.
“They like to say, ‘There are no cold cases, only old cases,’ ” she said.
She said investigators tracked Jurado through driver’s licenses he obtained using aliases, as well as through other techniques.
Daniel Klotz, the senior corrections investigator on the case, said the break came when authorities learned that Jurado was using the alias Juan Osorio.
During his time as a fugitive, Jurado lived in New Jersey, South Carolina and Virginia, Fedkenheuer said, and he appears to have stayed out of trouble through those years.
If he had been arrested, she said, his true identity and his status as a fugitive would have been discovered through his fingerprints.
Jurado told the officers who came for him around 10 a.m. today that the fear of getting sent back to prison helped him change his life.
“That’s when I decided to stay out of trouble,” he said.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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JOHNSON CITY Oct. 25, 2007 — A Blanco County jury today found a monk guilty of four counts of sexual assault of a child.
William Hughes, 56, was accused of being involved in the sexual assault of two boys who were novice monks at the Church of the Hills monastery in the late 1990s.
During closing arguments this morning, prosecutors and a defense attorney said the case hinged on whether the sex acts occurred before the victims were 17, which is the legal age of consent in Texas.
Defense attorney Eddie Shell said one of the victims testified that he couldn’t remember if he was 161/2 or 17 when the assaults happened.
Prosecutor Cheryl Nelson said the victims testified that the sexual assaults started a few months after the victims joined the monastery and before they turned 17.
After the verdict, one of the victims, James Wright Jr., said the verdict was “great.”
Wright lived at Christ of the Hills monastery from 1998 to 1999 when he was 15 after his parents sent him there because he was acting out. Wright said he wanted the maximum sentence for Hughes.
Jurors will begin their deliberations on sentencing this afternoon.
The now-closed monastery split with the Russian Orthodox Church in 1999 after the monks were investigated on accusations that they sexually abused a 13-year-old novice monk who lived there. It was on 105 acres outside the city of Blanco.
The monastery’s founder, Samuel Greene Jr., pleaded guilty in 2000 and was sentenced to 10 years probation for sexual assault of a child; he died earlier this year.
Hughes’ cousin, Mike Gamble, an Alabama attorney who attended the trial, said Hughes should just be fined.
Hughes “was sucked into the monastery by Greene” when he was a teenager, Gamble said. Hughes met Greene in 1968 when Greene was running a Catholic boys ranch near San Antonio, he said.
Greene told his probation officer in a 2006 taped interview that he had sexual contact with boys over a 30-year period starting in the 1970s, according to court records.
Two other monks, Walter Paul Christley and Hugh Brian Fallon, have pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault of a child. Their trials are pending.
A fourth monk, Jonathan Hitt, received a 10-year prison sentence in 1999 for sexual assault of a child.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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WEST NEWBURY, Mass. Oct. 24, 2007 – A former elementary school principal convicted several years ago on heroin charges was arrested Saturday and charged with shoplifting more than $1,000 worth of items from West Newbury and Newburyport stores. Margaret Loder-Healy, 54, of 8 Town Forest Road, Merrimac, was arrested at 9:44 p.m. outside Box and Bow on Main Street. Loder-Healy was taking items from a tent outside Box and Bow, looking both ways, and then sticking them in an oversized pocketbook, said officer James Riley. Riley said he waited until Loder-Healy got into her car without paying for the items.”She said she wasn’t stealing anything, that she was getting ready to pay for it,” Riley said. He said Loder-Healy initially refused to get out of her car and resisted arrest before he took her to the station. She was charged with shoplifting, larceny from a building, receiving stolen property worth more than $250 and resisting arrest.
Loder-Healy made national news seven years ago when the Eagle-Tribune revealed that the Newton, N.H., elementary school principal was facing federal heroin possession charges and had been going to a Lawrence methadone clinic since 1980. Loder-Healy had previously taught in Amesbury, Reading, Hampstead and Londonderry despite having pleaded guilty in Rockingham District Court in 1982 to posing as a nurse to obtain codeine. In 2000, she pleaded guilty to purchasing heroin in North Andover and was sentenced to probation.Loder-Healy resigned her position several weeks after the initial reports.”Because I’m a heroin addict doesn’t mean I’m a bad person, a bad teacher, a bad principal,” Loder-Healy told the newsmagazine “20/20″ in a 2000 interview. “I happen to be a teacher with a bad problem.”Loder-Healy had a history of shoplifting as well, including a guilty plea in 1999 for stealing several hundred dollars worth of merchandise from a Sears department store in Salem, N.H.Riley said while investigating Loder-Healy, he recovered a “huge amount” of property valued at more than $1,000 that appeared to have been stolen from Newburyport stores. He said various merchants were still coming to collect jewelry, pocketbooks, clothing and shoes that were in Loder-Healy’s possession.Loder-Healy posted bail Saturday night, but apparently wanted souvenirs from the police station, Riley said.
“She was sitting out in the dispatch center, loading her pocketbook with the free gunlocks we give out,” he said.
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HAMMOND IND. Oct. 24, 2007 Two men got away with an undisclosed amount of cash from a Hammond bank Monday morning after stealing the gun of a security guard and handcuffing him.
According to FBI Special Agent Wendy Osborne, two men entered Harris Bank, 7227 Calumet Ave. at 9:11 a.m. One of the men immediately took control of the security guard and took the security guard’s gun and handcuffed him while the other vaulted the counter and took money from one of the teller drawers.No customers were inside the bank at the time and no one was injured in the incident.”They were in and out of the bank very quickly, some said in 45 seconds,” Osborne said.
Bank employees were not able to see the escape route of the two men, she said, but a customer outside the bank said he saw a red, four-door Saturn leaving the parking lot at a high rate of speed. Osborne said it is unclear whether that car is connected to the bank robbery or not.Investigators have surveillance camera images of the men in question.The suspect who took the guard’s weapon was described as a black male in his 20s, 5-feet 9-inches tall weighing 170 pounds wearing all black clothing and carrying a semi-automatic weapon.The man who vaulted the counter is described as a black male between 20 and 28, 5-feet 8-inches tall weighing 160 to 170 pounds with a medium build wearing all black clothing and white gloves possibly made of Latex.
The same bank was hit by robbers in June, but Osborne said authorities do not believe there is any connection between that crime and Monday’s.
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