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AUGUSTA, Ga. Nov. 25 2007 – “Let Santa go! Let Santa go,” That’s what Circuit City shoppers at the Augusta Exchange were chanting when a local pastor, dressed as Santa Clause, was asked to leave.
Circuit City employees told their District manager, Kim Cavros, that customers in line complained to them, saying Santa was “disturbing the peace.”
“There was a Santa Clause preaching the gospel out on the corner of the building,” said Cavros.
Wayne Adams was one of the shoppers who saw the guy dressed as Santa,”He never promoted his church…never promoted anything just the nice Christmas season.”
Whether Santa was preaching the gospel or promoting the Christmas season, Richmond County deputies were called and Santa was escorted off Circuit City property.
Adams saw the whole thing and says, when Santa left — shoppers left.
“In fact, 5 people left the line after waiting there almost an hour. They left the line because they said,’If Santa couldn’t stay there…they weren’t going to stay,’ “said Adams.
Shoppers say the whole ordeal took part of the fun out of Black Friday.
“Circuit City ought to be nicer,” added Adams.
But Circuit City tells News 12, they didn’t call deputies on Santa. It was one of the shoppers.
“I don’t understand why someone would have done that,” said Cavros,”I can tell you that we’re a company that believes in free speech and I can tell you that nobody here called the police on the preaching Santa.”
Either way, folks agree someone called deputies on Santa and it dampened the Christmas Spirit.
“It dampened it being that Santa was out that early in the morning–just out there walking around trying to let us know the season and reason for the season and they kind of stole that,” said Adams.

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Church robbed; guards tied up By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

DALLAS TX. NOV. 25 2007

Two armed men robbed First Baptist Church 1700 block of San Jacinto Street in downtown Dallas on Thanksgiving night. Police say that they tied up three security guards who were on duty at the time and then stole 8 plasma TVs worth at least $5,000.
Surveillance cameras caught them in the act and police investigators are studying the camera footage.They carried semiautomatic handguns and wore black fatigues and some say that they acted as though they knew the lay of the land and possibly had been in the church before.
The police called their approach “very professional.
At about 2 a.m. on Friday, one guard untied himself and called for help.
Police say that one of the suspects had a tattoo of the letter “J” on his right arm just above his wrist. Police think a truck seen near the church may have been connected to the robbery, described as a newer midsize four-door pickup, possibly a silver Dodge Dakota, with a fiberglass cover on the bed, with a third robber driving.
If you have info, call Crime Stoppers at 1-877-373-8477 or Dallas police at 214-671-3584.

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Shoplifter steals coats, jeans worth thousands By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifter takes jeans, coats worth thousands By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

EDMOND Okl. Nov. 25 2007 — A Skiatook woman was arrested in Edmond on a complaint of stealing merchandise from Kohl’s Department Store 2201 W Danforth Road.
Elsie Lorene Caldwell, 33, was booked into the Oklahoma County jail on a shoplifting complaint.
A security officer at the store told police he watched a woman take price and security tags off several leather jackets and put the garments in her shopping cart, according to an Edmond police report released this week.
The woman then went to the women’s and home sections of the store, where additional merchandise was put into the same shopping cart, the report shows.
The woman was stopped by the security officer once she left the store.
The stolen merchandise was estimated at more than $4,200 and included six leather coats, eight pairs of jeans, and a $300 comforter.
The woman apologized and asked not to be taken to jail. She told police she was displaced from Louisiana and was only trying to provide Christmas for her children, the report states.
Glynda Chu, spokeswoman for Edmond police, said she doesn’t know whether the woman arrested is in fact from Louisiana.
Caldwell is scheduled to be sentenced this week in Tulsa County after she pleaded guilty to felony charges of uttering a forged instrument, larceny of merchandise from a retailer and bringing contraband into the jail, court records show.

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Spokane Wa. Nov. 25, 2007

A 13-year-old girl missing for almost a year-and-a-half has been found safe in Spokane by an observant hospital security guard.
On Friday November 23, 2007, a security guard at Sacred Heart Medical Center was walking the perimeter when he recognized a young female teenager from a missing person flier he’d seen posted at the hospital.
During a police interview the mother admitted she and her daughter were the people in the flier. She said a priest from Germany was helping the two locate in Spokane under fake names. They were visiting the hospital from a monastery when they were contacted by security.
13-year-old Meagan Mulczynski was living in Germany with her parents when her mother took her and left the country in the summer of 2006. The father Thomas Mulczynski, who was working as a civilian for the Air Force, had been previously awarded temporary custody of the child.
Thomas is now living in the United States, stationed in Virginia. In November 2006 there was a possible sighting of the mom and daughter reported in Spokane. That is when fliers were initially posted at the hospital.
51-year old mother Gail Elk Cannon Mulczynski was placed under arrest for custodial interference and booked into the Spokane County Jail. The daughter has been placed with child protective services until the father can make arrangements to fly up from Virginia.
Thomas has not seen his daughter for almost a year and a half.

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