Stupid Criminal! There is no million dollar bill! www.privateofficer.com

AIKEN, S.C Nov. 28, 2007– A bank teller had a million reasons to deny this transaction.
Police say a man offered a $1 million bill and tried to open an account. The employee refused and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, said Aiken County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.
Alexander D. Smith, 31, of Augusta, Ga., was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery, said Frank.
The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a check that had been stolen in a burglary earlier in the day. Other charges could be pending .Smith has a bail hearing scheduled Wednesday, but Deputy Angela Shunn of the Aiken County Detention Center did not know if he had an attorney.

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Police officer bused in major drug raid www.privateofficer.com

Police officer busted in major drug investigation www.privateofficer.com

COBB COUNTY, Ga. Nov. 28, 2007
A two-year veteran of the Marietta Police Department, Isaac Saleumsy, 30, is in the Gwinnett County Jail after being arrested Tuesday morning as part of a wide-ranging drug raid that could have international ramifications, according to officials.
Saleumsy’s neighbors said he was arrested near his home near Columns Drive around 5 a.m. Witnesses said dozens of officers, including DEA agents, were on the scene.
Local television news Channel 2 has uncovered an indictment that said Saleumsy was arrested as part of a conspiracy to possess and distribute the drug, Ecstasy. There were more than 30 names on the indictment.
Neighbors said it appeared agents seized drugs when they were at Saleumsy’s home.
Marietta Police said they will hold a news conference later today, Wednesday, to address the situation. Officer Selumsy has been suspended pending his upcoming termination, according to officials.
There was no information yet as to whether Saleumsy posted bond and police say that more information will be released in today’s news conference.

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Cyber bullies prowl internet www.privateofficer.com

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WASHINGTON D.C. Nov. 28, 2007 – Hateful text messages, abusive e-mails and cyber-gossip are giving bullies new power over their victims — even in the supposed safety of their own homes, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
And most of the victims are themselves new, with two-thirds of children who report such harassment saying they had not been bullied before in other ways.
Schools and parents must work together to find ways to stop such behavior, without robbing children and teens of valuable Internet access, the researchers agreed.
“Internet bullying has emerged as a new and growing form of social cruelty,” Kirk Williams and Nancy Guerra of the University of California at Riverside wrote in one of a series of reports published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
The reports, from researchers organized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show a 50 percent increase in the number of kids aged 10 to 17 who said they were harassed online — from 6 percent in 2000 to 9 percent in 2005.
“Youth harassed online were significantly more likely to also report two or more detentions or suspensions, and skipping school in the previous year,” Michele Ybarra and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reported in another study in the journal.
“Especially concerning, youth who reported being targeted by Internet harassment were eight times more likely than all other youth to concurrently report carrying a weapon to school in the past 30 days,” added Ybarra’s team, who interviewed 1,500 10- to 15-year-olds.
They found that 64 percent of those who reported having been bullied online were not victims of physical or verbal aggression in person. That makes for a whole new population of victims, the researchers agreed.
ANONYMOUS ADVANTAGE
An extreme example of the problem occurred in October 2006, when 13-year-old Megan Meier of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri hanged herself after receiving vitriolic Internet messages from someone posing as a teen-age boy. The town passed a measure making online harassment illegal.
“The anonymity provided by new technology limits a victim from responding in a way that may ordinarily stop a peer’s aggressive behavior or influence the probability of future acts, which provides an advantage to the perpetrator,” the CDC’s Corinne David-Ferdon and Marci Feldman Hertz wrote.
“The primary recommendation we have for parents is to talk to their kids,” Ferdon said in a telephone interview. “Talk to them about where they go on the Internet, appropriate standards of behavior.”
Schools should also become involved and should add cyber-bullying to any policies they may already have on bullying and other forms of aggression, said Hertz.
Hertz and Ferdon said school districts in Florida, South Carolina, Utah and Oregon are creating new policies to deal with cyber-bullying.
Total bans on using the Internet or text-messaging are unlikely to work, she added. “Technology has a lot of benefits for young people,” Hertz said. “They can make social connections that they otherwise might not have the opportunity to make.”
Patricia Agatston and colleagues at Clemson University in South Carolina interviewed 148 teens in depth and found that teens often did not tell their parents about bullying for fear of losing online privileges.

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Jailed shoplifter refused right to breast feed baby www.privateofficer.com

Charlotte N.C. Nov. 28, 2007 A Brazilian woman, held in the Mecklenburg County jail since Friday on an immigration violation, is not being allowed to provide breast milk for her son, who is less than 2 months old.
Ezequiel Oliveira, who is helping care for the woman’s two children, said he spent hours at the jail Monday trying to get a breast pump to 29-year-old Danielle Ferreira. He said Ferreira’s baby, Samuel, is crying incessantly and keeps spitting up baby formula.
“We give him formula and put in the pacifier but he is crying day and night, day and night, all the time,” Oliveira said.
Jail officials say they can’t discuss conversations inmates have with medical staff, but are aware of the situation. In general, spokeswoman Julia Rush said, inmates are not allowed to express milk without a court order. She said mothers are treated for symptoms when they must abruptly stop nursing.
Just this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement formally adopted guidelines that allow pregnant women or nursing mothers to be released under supervised conditions.
Ferreira, who was originally jailed on a shoplifting charge, is in the jail on an immigration hold, meaning she will be turned over to immigration officials once her state charge is dispensed.
She was arrested Friday at Eastland Mall, and her children were with her, Oliveira said.
Ferreira’s brother hid a CD or DVD in her baby stroller without her knowledge, according to Oliveira, and the two were arrested on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge as they walked out of a store. Oliveira said he got a call from police saying he needed to pick up the baby, Samuel, and his 2-year-old brother, Daniel, or they would be turned over to the Mecklenburg Department of Social Services.
Ferreira doesn’t have any relatives in the area, except for her brother who is also in jail, Oliveira said. She planned to return to Brazil next month and already had airline tickets for herself, her brother and her two children, he said. She was going to stay in Brazil, he added, so that her mother and other family members could help her raise her children, who were born in the United States.
Ferreira came to this country on a visa and was supposed to return to Brazil by April 2005, according to Rush. Ferreira would have been sent to Atlanta for a deportation hearing by now, Rush said, but signed a waiver saying she wants to return to her native country without a hearing.
Rush said the jail staff plans to meet with Ferreira today to make sure she understands the waiver and to let her know how to contact the consulate if she wants to take her children to Brazil with her.
Oliveira, who is Ferreira’s pastor and also from Brazil, said he saw her Sunday and she complained of a fever and soreness in her breasts because she hasn’t been allowed to express milk. He said Samuel doesn’t seem to feel well, has a rash and spits up every time he drinks formula.
Jan Ellen Brown, a Charlotte lactation consultant, said it’s not good for a mother or baby when nursing stops abruptly. She said breast milk is best for infants and an infant who has been nursing for two months could have a reaction to formula or trouble drinking from a bottle. Mothers who stop nursing without weaning are in a lot of pain and are susceptible to breast infection.
Angeles Ortega-Moore, executive director of the Latin American Coalition, said she has heard before of nursing moms not being allowed to express milk while in the Mecklenburg jail.
“That seems to be inhumane for anyone whether they are in this country legally or not. Experts will tell you this is a very difficult time for a mom to be separated from her baby,” said Ortega-Moore. “Regardless of what the mom has done, we are putting the health of a young child at risk.”
Latino activist Maudia Melendez had not heard about Ferreira until she was contacted by the Observer late Monday. She said she plans to call the sheriff and immigration officials today to ask them to reunite the mother and baby.
“They should let her go for humanitarian reasons. Let her pay her fine (on the state charge) and give her a court date in Atlanta (for the immigration violation),” Melendez said. “We are talking about a baby. It doesn’t make any sense.”

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Atlanta Georgia Nov. 28, 2007

With the ever growing popularity of the little teenage girl with the big adult voice and bank account, comes the fake tickets! With Miley Cyress’s concerts selling out in a matter of minutes all over the country, prices for real tickets can be as much as $10,000 from a local scalper!Police in Chalotte North Carolina and Atlanta Georgia say beware of fake tickets because they have seen them and know that there are others out there.Imagine paying thousands of dollars for a ticket only to be turned away at the door, detective Renaldo Reyes said.It’s hard to spot the fakes especially when you’re already hyped up and excited just to be able to get your hands on them! Reyes warns parents to be careful and not to invest large amounts of money in something that isn’t a sure thing. It’s no different than going to a casino or betting on the horses detective Reyes said. It’s a gamble and the people have to realize that.Police in many major cities are cracking down on scalpers and looking for the fake tickets but it’s a cat and mouse game the detective said. Like any other superstar or teen idol, there’s a lot of money being made on this little girl and it’s not all legal.

Officials with the Gwinnett County Arena are warning parents who paid up to $2,500 for tonight’s Hannah Montana tickets that some of the tickets may be fake.
Arena spokesman Chris Hendley said officials have tried to warn people from the time tickets for tonight’s show went on sale to be careful about buying tickets. Hendley says the Arena can only guarantee tickets sold through Ticketmaster.com, the arena’s own phone lines or through the box office.
people have paid from $500 to $2,500 to get the tickets from other sources.
Officials say there’s no way to know whether the tickets are real until the concert, which begins at 7 p.m. at the Arena in Duluth. Traffic in the area is expected to be heavy.

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2 Florida Deputies Killed During Pursuit www.privateofficer.com

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PAHOKEE FLA. Nov. 28, 2007 – The two Palm Beach County deputies killed Wednesday morning near Pahokee were accidentally struck by a Sheriff’s Office cruiser that was pursuing a stolen car, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.The deputies were identified as Donta J. Manuel, 33, and Jonathan D. Wallace, 23.They were struck while trying to remove tire-deflation devices from State Road 715 after the devices blew out the tires of the stolen car, Bradshaw said.

They were clearing the road for another cruiser to pass them and release a police dog which was going to pursue the two suspects into the sugar cane fields, he said.Manuel and Wallace died at the scene. After hitting them, the third deputy’s car careened into a nearby canal. He was flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach.That deputy, who handles a dog, was in serious condition but expected to survive, officials said. His name was not released. Another deputy in his car had minor injuries and taken to Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee.The deputy’s German Shepherd was uninjured.Bradshaw said deputies had one man in custody, but later ruled him out as a suspect. Another man, Ernie Kirk Daley Jr., 19, is in custody and is suspected of being in the stolen car during the chase, Bradshaw said.The two people who stole the car and fled will face four counts of first-degree felonies including, Bradshaw said.According to the Sheriff’s Office, the chase started after a woman in Belle Glade called 911 at about 1 a.m., saying two men were breaking to a neighbor’s gold 1990 gold Toyota Camry. As deputies responded, they spotted the car traveling northbound on Route 715, officials said.A sheriff’s sergeant authorized a pursuit, and three marked sheriff’s patrol cars followed the car northbound.Manuel and Wallace put out the tire-deflation devices, commonly called stop sticks, in front of the pursuit on Route 715 and West Morgan Road just south of Palm Beach County Glades Airport and several miles south of Pahokee, a sheriff’s spokesman said.The suspects’ car crossed over the devices on the darkened road, and its tires flattened. But Manuel and Wallace made a “split second decision” to go back in the roadway to remove the sticks, officials said.That’s when the deputy in the pursuing cruiser hit Manuel and Wallace, killing them instantly. He lost control and crashed into a nearby canal. He suffered a concussion and a broken arm.PBSO’s vehicle pursuit policy requires a K-9 deputy to lead a police pursuit because if suspects jump out of a car, the dog will have a good chance of finding them, the Sheriff’s Office said.After the suspects’ car came to a stop, the two suspects ran from the car into a nearby sugar-cane field.About 75 deputies, backed by a helicopter and dogs, looked for the suspects in the field surrounding State Road 715 just south of an airport.The massive perimeter searched ended at about 6:30 a.m. and investigators began working leads.The two deputies killed were the first to die in the line of duty since 2002 when Donald Lee Schavolt, 48, died of a heart attack following a scuffle with the boy at a hospital. A teenager, 17, was charged with second-degree murder in his death.That murder charge stems from what sheriff’s investigators called aggressive actions and behavior by the boy that contributed to the death.

It’s been a bad year — and especially a bad four months — for law-enforcement officers in South Florida.Troubles began on Aug. 6, when Broward Sheriff’s Office Detective Maury Hernandez was shot in the head during a traffic stop. He survived. On Aug. 10, Broward sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Reyka was gunned down outside a Pompano Beach drug store.On Sept. 13, Miami-Dade police officer Jose Somohano was shot and killed, and other officers were wounded, during a traffic stop. And on Nov. 7, BSO Deputy Paul Rein was shot and killed by a prisoner he was transporting to court. Another Broward sheriff’s sergeant, Lisa DiSavino, was stabbed in the stomach early Sunday morning by a man she believed was acting suspiciously at a bus stop.
Wallace’s family said he planned to get married in August and buy a house in Loxahatchee. Manuel was to be best man at the wedding.As recently as August, Wallace was accidentally shot by another deputy during a traffic stop. He was wearing a bullet-resistent vest and was uninjured.Pahokee Mayor J.P. Sasser said he knew Wallace most of his life and said the light-hearted, playful young man would have been a real success in law enforcement.Wallace was attracted to police work at an early age. He joined a program similar to police explorers for children in Pahokee and got a taste for being an officer early on, Sasser said.The young Wallace joined the Pahokee Police Department shortly before it merged with the Sheriff’s Office.”I know Jonathan would have risen up the ranks of the Sheriff’s Office,” Sasser said.Sasser met with Jonathan’s mother early Wednesday morning after hearing of the crash.”She was not doing so well this morning,” he said. “She’s a diabetic and her blood sugar was low, but they took care of that. Her thoughts were with Donta’s family and the other deputy who was in the hospital, along with her own grief.”But it was Wallace who was always ready to pitch in a helping hand or help raise people’s spirits, Sasser said.Wallace has deep roots in Pahokee, according to Sasser.His uncle, Henry Crawford, is vice mayor and his cousin is head of the city Parks and Recreation Department.”We are definitely in a state of shock over this,” Sasser said.Sasser said Reinaldo Alonso, who is in charge of the Pahokee sheriff’s division, called him about 3 a.m. with news of the crash. “He just said, ‘We lost Jonathan and Donta. He knew that I knew both of them,” said Sasser.Sasser said he went immediately to the home of Wallace’s mother, the Rev. Patricia Wallace, minister of St. James AME Church and a member of a prominent Pahokee family. Patricia Wallace retired from the Sheriff’s Office, where she was secretary for at least 20 years, said former Belle Glade police chief Albert Dowdell.Pahokee City manager Lillie Latimore described Wallace as a “committed person” who often stopped in on his way to work and volunteered to run the camera for the city’s new government access television broadcasts.”The city supported him through the [police] academy,” said Latimore. “He stood on his word, and I liked that.”
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information on this incident to call 561-996-1670

Security, police arrest woman with machete at school by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

Security, police arrest woman with machate at school By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

NATCHITOCHES LA. Nov. 28, 2007 – Natchitoches police today arrested a Natchitoches woman who was carrying a machete on school grounds, authorities said. Janet Leigh Prestridge, 32, of the 6000 block of Highway 6 in Natchitoches, was taken into custody without incident.
A security officer who was on duty at the main entrance of Natchitoches Central High School noticed Prestridge carrying a machete as she entered a truck parked in the north end of the parking area. The security officer approached her and was able to get the machete away from her and took her into custody and then called the school resource officer. The officer and a Natchitoches deputy arrested Prestridge. During a search, a quantity of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia were found in her coat pocket. Prestridge is charged with one count each of carrying a dangerous weapon on school property, possession of a dangerous substance in a drug free zone, illegal possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of methamphetamine. She is in custody in the women’s jail in Rayville.
There was no word as to why the suspect was carrying the weapon on school grounds.

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Grinch steals Cnristmas at police headquarters www.privateofficer.com

Grinch steals Christmas at police headquarters www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta Georgia, nov. 28, 2007 Atlanta Police are trying to figure out who stole $50,000 worth of gifts destined for needy children.The gifts were being stored by The Empty Stocking Fund inside the basement of City Hall East, which also houses police headquarters.
Donald Crawford, executive director of The Empty Stocking Fund, told 11Alive News the stolen items include hundreds of watches, MP3 players and digital radios.”It’s heart-breaking and frustrating because you’d like to think the good about everybody in society,” Crawford said.
The Empty Stocking Fund is a non-profit organization that buys gifts for needy children using donations from individuals and corporations. Crawford said someone broke in to the toy warehouse through a basement window sometime last week. An employee first noticed the broken window and missing gifts on Saturday, after the Thanksgiving holiday.Atlanta Police Officer Ronald Campbell said investigators suspect at least two people were involved in the burglary. He said a private security firm is responsible for securing the building.Despite the break-in, Crawford said The Empty Stocking Fund will open its Santa Village as scheduled.
“The grinch is not going to win,” he said. “Fortunately, they didn’t steal everything we had in those inventory categories, so now we’re just looking to get those things replaced so we have enough to finish out the entire three-week season.”Starting Thursday, eligible parents will have a chance to pick out toys for their children in the Stocking’s Santa Village. Last year, The Empty Stocking Fund served more than 46,000 children, who were referred by DFCS.Crawford said security has been beefed up to prevent another break-in. He said he believes the thieves knew they were stealing children’s Christmas gifts.”Normally this is an empty space, so they would have no reason to break in if they didn’t have an idea of what they were after,” he said.Crawford said replacing the stolen items will be costly.
To make a donation, you can log on to http://www.emptystockingfund.org/.

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Woman shot and killed at mall www.privateofficer.com

Houston Texas Nov. 28, 2007

A man shot his girlfriend and then killed himself as she was opening a lingerie store in a Texas mall on Tuesday, police said.
The man apparently confronted the woman as she was opening the security gate over the store as the store was about to open, said Houston Police Lt Albert Mihalco. The store showed signs that the two struggled before the woman was shot in the head. The man apparently then killed himself in front of a few people who had begun coming into the mall as it was opening for bsuiness, Mihalco said.
The shooting was reported while most stores were still closed but there were a number of people in the mall and in the general area police said.
Mall employee Deborah White said she was about to raise the security gate that covered another store when a security guard ran down the mall corridors, pounding on gates and doors and telling everyone to evacuate.
The mall was closed down for a period of time as police processed the scene and the mall management said that they would address the press at a later time.
Police officers are looking into the history of the victim and the shooter and call this another senseless killing.

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Brink’s guard arrested for assault www.privateofficer.com

Sacramento Ca. Nov. 28, 2007

Joshua Streator, 24, was arrested this afternoon and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on the felony charge of battery with great bodily injury.
The charges stem from an alleged attack by Streator on Jeff Yazel, a Safeway employee, earlier this month.Yazel, 16, says he was at the South Sacramento store gathering up shopping carts left in the parking lot, when a Brinks security truck pulled up and two armed security guards got out and walked to a nearby Wells Fargo bank.
Jeff says that as he continued to gather the carts he looked over at the truck, impressed with its appearance. Apparently a third security guard inside the truck, Streator, thought Yazel was glaring at him.Yazel says he was in the middle of the parking lot when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around to find Streator standing in front of him and asked him if he wanted to fight. Yazel says that Streator then hit him in the jaw, then left. Despite the fact that his jaw was broken in the attack and is now wired shut, Yazel is vocal about the ordeal. He says he hopes that justice can be served.
Streator’s bail has been set at $25,000.

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Bank robbed, guard held at bay www.privateofficer.com

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Bank robbed, guard held hostage by; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com

HOUSTON Tx. Nov. 28, 2007– Houston police searched for a gunman who robbed a busy northeast Houston bank on Monday and held the guard hostage, area newswires reported.
The robber entered the Wells Fargo bank, 3601 Eastex Freeway near Cavalcade, shortly before 10 a.m. and held a gun to a security guard’s head while demanding money, according to authorities. Customers ducked for cover.
“So, I see the gun and it’s pointed at the security guard’s head and I say (to my aunt), ‘Get under the desk and start praying,’” customer Brenda Hawkins said.
“God is on my side, on all our sides. He didn’t hurt nobody. He could’ve shot all of us,” customer Thelma Bryant said.
Two siblings inside the bank saw the robber escaping on the freeway and went after him. However, the gunman escaped.
The FBI hopes to release surveillance photos soon.

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