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DECATUR, Ga. Jan 2 2008 — Police in rural alabama arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of stabbing his father and grandfather to death at a Decatur home.
Decatur Police Chief Mike Booker told area news reporters that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Decatur police are investigating the killing, which occured Sunday night. He declined to release the names of the victims, but said the suspect’s name is Miller Jordan III.
A Decatur police spokeswoman declined to discuss the details of the case when reached by phone early Monday morning.
The Athens Banner-Herald is reporting that Clarke County school officials have identified one of the victims as Miller Jordan Junior, assistant principal at Clarke Central High School.
Miller lived in Decatur with his three children and wife, Gale Jordan, an assistant principal at Kennedy Elementary School in Barrow County. School officials say they were notified of the killing yesterday evening but had few details other than that.

Police in Lowndes County Alabama spotted a car running over a sidewalk curb and thought the driver might be intoxicated and made a traffic stop on the vehicle and soon learned that that the driver was wanted for murder. Jordan is awaiting a hearing to be sent back to Georgia to face murder charges.

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BRIDGEPORT CT Jan 2 2008— A city man tried to flee from a supermarket with a load of stolen hygiene supplies by commandeering a car Thursday night, police said.
Police captured Carlos Ayala, 27, of Trumbull Avenue, following two separate chases.
He was charged with third-degree robbery, attempted carjacking, escape, sixth-degree larceny and resisting arrest. He is being held in lieu of $55,000 bond.
Police were called shortly after 10 p.m. to the Stop & Shop supermarket on Main Street to investigate a report of a shoplifting suspect who was in custody. However, as officers pulled up to the store, they saw Ayala run from the store with store security personnel in pursuit.
Police joined the chase, but Ayala tried to avoid capture by running through nearby backyards. At one point, police said, Ayala jumped into the back seat of a car stopped on Oxford Street and ordered the driver to speed away.
The man, however, refused and Ayala got out of the car and ran off, police said.
As more officers were called in, they finally cornered Ayala on Park Drive and took him into custody. During the chase, two officers suffered minor injuries.
Ayala was found to have 10 bars of Dove soap and six toothbrushes from the supermarket in his possession, police said.
But the incident was not over.
Once at police headquarters, Ayala complained about injuries and medics were called. While being treated, Ayala managed to get away from the medics and ran out of the building
Officers caught up to him on Highland Avenue, but they said Ayala refused to stop. Police said they used a Taser to disable him, but he appeared to be stunned only briefly and continued his efforts to escape. Ayala was stunned by the Taser a second time and this time was sufficiently immobilized long enough for officers to handcuff him, police said.

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Memphis TN Jan 2 2008

A man who was shot by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy while attempting to rob an adult bookstore in East Memphis Saturday may be linked to other recent robberies, authorities say.
The suspect, whom police have not identified, was critically wounded in the episode that began when he entered the Fantasy Warehouse of Memphis at the intersection of Summer and White Station at about 10 a.m. armed with a handgun.

The man approached the clerk and indicated that he was going to rob the store, said Memphis Police Inspector D.W. Boyd.
That’s when Gary Gadd, 44, an off-duty Shelby County sheriff’s deputy who was shopping in the store, identified himself to the suspect.
The suspect shot in Gadd’s direction but missed. Gadd fired back, hitting the suspect.
None of the other patrons or the clerk was injured.
Police arrived at about 10:20 a.m., and the suspect was taken to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis in critical condition.
Officers noticed an empty White Pontiac Grand Am parked outside the store’s front door with its engine still running.
Police said they believe the suspect arrived in the Pontiac — a vehicle Boyd said has been spotted at other crime scenes and “may be involved in other crimes.”
The suspect’s connection to other robberies is “being investigated,” Boyd said.
No charges have been filed, and the investigation by the Memphis Police Department’s Safe Streets Task Force, in collaboration with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, is ongoing.
Investigators will be reviewing a store security camera.
Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Shular said Gadd, who has been with the sheriff’s office since 1989, has been administratively relieved of duty with pay from the fugitive division pending the investigation.
Gadd did not violate any department policies by shopping at the bookstore, Shular said.
“He’s of age and chose to come here to shop,” he said. “During the course of time that he was in the store, he recognized a very dangerous situation and took action.”

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NIXA MO – A southwest Missouri dentist might have lost at least $26,500 to an employee who oversaw his office accounting.
The employee, 42-year-old Sandra J. Martin, is charged with felony stealing at Butterfield Dentistry in Nixa.
According to a probable cause statement, dentist Michael Butterfield asked Martin to bring him his credit card statements after one of his office credit cards was declined earlier this month.
Instead of bringing the records, Martin left the office. Butterfield found a note from Martin saying she was resigning immediately.
Police said the dentist looked through records and found several discrepancies in his checkbook ledger and on his credit card statements

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Soffolk VA Jan 2 2008

A rural Suffolk road was teeming Saturday with police and federal agents after a morning raid on a barn loaded with military-grade explosives and ordnance.
Police secured a warrant Friday night after receiving a tip.
Elbert Tillman Jr., 34, of the 6500 block of Ferry Point Road, was taken into custody in connection with the raid but has not been charged with a crime, Suffolk fire and rescue spokesman Capt. Jim Judkins said.
There’s no legal way for a civilian to buy the explosives and ordnance found in the barn, including C-4 plastic explosives, Claymore mines and detonators, Judkins said . The only way to get them is through the military or the black market. Possessing them is a felony.
“It was an amount large enough to do damage to all the houses in the neighborhood,” Judkins said. He said that area reaches from the home on Ferry Point Road about a third of a mile in any direction.
Judkins said Tillman is a former Navy SEAL, having left the exclusive unit about six years ago. Judkins said Tillman – who arrived home after the raid began – was cooperating with authorities Saturday and remained on scene in police custody for several hours.
In addition to Suffolk police and fire officials, FBI and ATF agents and the Virginia State Police also were participating in the search, remaining well after dark Saturday evening.
In the midst of the explosives search, Judkins said police called for a second warrant, for drugs.
Tillman owns the property, more than 2 acres situated off Ferry Point Road in the Chuckatuck area, near the closed Kings Highway Bridge. According to city records, he bought the land in 2004.
Ferry Point Road is part paved, part gravel, and homes are situated on tracts of several acres each.
Tillman’s home is on land that once was part of Gov. Mills Godwin’s farm.
Neighbors said Tillman lives there with his wife and four children.
Bruce Bowyer, a former Army Ranger who lives three doors from Tillman, said news of the arsenal didn’t startle him.
“You can throw it and not have any risk of it blowing up,” Bowyer said of the plastic explosives and mines. “Of course, if that barn had been hit by lightning, it’d make a pretty good hole in the ground.”
Bowyer last ran into Tillman while the former SEAL was trick-or-treating with his children.
“He seemed like a normal guy,” Bowyer said. “My guess is, these were probably just war trophies.”

Possessing the explosives and ordnance found in the barn, including C-4 plastic explosives, Claymore mines and detonators, is a felony. Elbert Tillman Jr., 34, owns the property where the raid took place. No charges have been filed.

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Boston Ma. Jan 2 2008

Last night, Sunday, December 30, 2007, officers from District B-2 (Dorchester and Roxbury) arrested suspect, Jonathan S. Sanders, 18, of Dorchester and charged him with Disorderly, Assault and Battery and Possession of Class D.
Officers assigned to District B-2 Grove Hall Safe Street Team were on patrol in the area of 100 Washington St. in Dorchester around 10:20pm when security officers inside Burger King summoned them. Officers quickly responded and assisted security officers with a struggling suspect.
After securing the suspect, officers learned that the suspect had been one of about twelve people who had been in the Burger King earlier loitering, and had been ordered out with an order not to return. According to security officers, the suspect returned a short time later despite the previous orders and attempted to push his way past them, and assaulted them. The suspect was placed under arrest, and transported to the District station for booking where during the booking process, several bags of marijuana was found on his person.

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Honolulu HI Jan 2 2008

A man was arrested Saturday night after he tried to board a plane at Honolulu’s airport to the Mainland with two fully-loaded guns.
The State Sheriff’s Office said Christopher Hollie had hidden the semi-automatics in his luggage and refused to tell officers why.
The Sheriffs’ Office said this was a very unusual incident, and that it’s extremely rare for them to arrest a passenger trying to fly out of Hawaii with loaded guns hidden in his or her luggage.
The Sheriff’s Office in charge of airport law enforcement said Hollie was arrested at about 9 p.m. on Saturday.
TSA security said they found a .45 handgun and a .9 mm semi-automatic weapon. Both guns were loaded and concealed in his packed clothes, officials said.
Sheriffs said even though the guns were in checked luggage and were not going into the passenger section of the plane, it was of grave concern because both guns were fully-loaded and ready to use.
The Sheriff’s Office said Hollie told them he was going to Ohio.
Sheriffs said Hollie was uncooperative after he was arrested.
He told them he worked at Tripler Hospital, but he would not say why he was traveling with loaded guns.
The TSA in Washington told KITV that this was a good example of how TSA works with local law enforcement to provide airport security.
Hollie was booked into the Honolulu Police Cellblock Saturday night, unable to post $25,000 bail.
Police said Hollie faces four felony gun charges, including carrying unregistered weapons.
Hollie makes his first court appearance in Honolulu District Court Monday.

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Miami Gardens FLA. Jan 2, 2008

A security guard was shot and killed outside a Miami Gardens nightclub in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Miami-Dade police said.
The shooting happened at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday outside the Kolanut Cafe, 250 NE 183rd St. The shots were fired during an argument between the guard and one or more people, according to police.
The security guard, Jermine Eugene, 29, of Davie, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting is urged to contact Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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Indianapolis Ind. Jan 2 2008

A security guard at a private New Year’s Eve party at an Indianapolis bar was fatally wounded Tuesday in a shooting that left four others injured.Three of those shot were security guards, The Indianapolis Star reported. Police Lt. Jeff Duhamell said the trouble apparently began with a fight inside Durty Nelly’s, an Indianapolis pub. As the security guards tried to move the people involved out, someone fired from the parking lot into the crowd in front of the pub.The dead man was identified as Ronnie Croom Jr., 30. Croom and two others were taken to Wishard Memorial Hospital, while two othe rshooting victims got to the emergency room on their own.Police had no suspects, Duhamell said.”We have very little to go on right now,” he said.

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EL PASO, Texas Jan 2 2008— A security guard at the Paso del Norte Bridge died after a confrontation with a male pedestrian who was crossing into Juarez, police said.
Police, who are calling the death a homicide, were still investigating what exactly happened that led to the guard’s death on Tuesday.
“We know that (the security guard) was physically assaulted but we are still trying to determine what injuries were received and what inflicted those injuries,” police spokesman Officer Chris Mears said Tuesday night.
The security guard, who was working for a company contracted to maintain order at toll booths at the bridge, was taken to Thomason Hospital where he later died.
Police said that a man was detained at the scene and witnesses were being interviewed.
The names and ages of the two men were not immediately released.

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SEBASTIAN FL Jan 2 2008— Three visitors from Georgia remained Monday in the Indian River County Jail after police accused them of stealing $680 worth of baby formula from Wal-Mart.
Jose del Carman Jimenez, 33, Daisy Carolina Suazo Cruz, 30, and Osman Antonio Galdino, 27, all of Atlanta, are charged with retail theft of more than $300, according to the Sebastian Police Department. Their bail is set at $25,000 each, reports show.
Police said officials with the Sebastian Wal-Mart on U.S. 1 spotted Cruz and Jimenez, via security cameras, placing “numerous” containers of baby formula in a shopping cart and leaving without paying about 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Police arrested them about an hour later, along with Galdino, who was identified as the driver of a sport-utility vehicle that Cruz and Jimenez entered in the parking lot, reports show.
The trio told police they had also taken baby formula from stores in Brevard, Orange and Hillsborough counties, and recently dropped off “five large trash bags” of formula to a Hillsborough address, reports state.Officers said the three are all undocumented immigrants and are considered flight risks.

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Midland TX. Jan 2 2008 A Midland security guard who allegedly used the Internet to initiate contact with a minor was arrested over the weekend for sexual assault of a child
He was arrested on a first-degree felony charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child and a second-degree felony charge of sexual assault of a child.
Derouen had been in contact with a 16-year-old boy through both the Internet and cell phone since November, authorities said.
A press release issued Monday said Derouen worked as a security guard at the mall and allegedly brought the child there after hours and committed the crimes.
Brenda Henley, director of mall marketing for the Midland Park Mall, said in a prepared statement that because the incident currently is under police investigation, she could not provide any details on it.
“We are committed to providing a safe and quality shopping experience,” she said in a statement released Monday afternoon. “We take all reports of incidents that occur on our property quite seriously and will be conducting our own investigation as well.”
Derouen is being held at the Midland County Jail and a bond of $25,000 for each charge has been set. Midland County records show this is his first offense. If found guilty of the charges, according to the Texas Penal Code, he can face anywhere from five years to life in prison for the first-degree felony charge and two to 20 years for the second-degree charge.

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Syracuse NY Jan 2 2008

A 41-year-old Syracuse man was arrested Monday afternoon after trying to enter the U.S. Federal Building in Syracuse with a concealed handgun and loaded magazine in an attache case.Joe Grady, 41, of 211 Ashworth Place, Syracuse, was charged with second-degree and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon after court security officers discovered a concealed semi-automatic handgun and loaded magazine in a brown attache case.Police said the man was rambling about “being Jesus’ and then said “we’re in trouble now, he wasn’t messing around.” The security officers notified the U.S. Marshal’s office.

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Baltimore MD. Jan 2 2008 A 40-year-old Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer was killed on New Year’s Eve by a hit-and-run driver in Baltimore, his superior officers said yesterday.
The officer, Courtney G. Brooks, a 13-year veteran of the force, was part of a traffic detail near the interchange of Interstates 95 and 395 when he was struck about 11:20 p.m. Monday, said Marcus Brown, chief of the Transportation Authority Police.
A city Fire Department ambulance took Brooks to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:29 a.m. yesterday.
Six hours later in Cecil County, police found the vehicle that they think struck the officer before speeding away.
The green 1994 Ford Explorer – with heavy front-end damage, a cracked windshield and a temporary Delaware tag – was spotted at the Flying J truck stop in North East. Within half an hour, officers had arrested the SUV’s owner, Kerri Joanna King, at her home in nearby Elkton.
Brown said King had not been charged in Brooks’ death but was being held on a failure-to-appear warrant resulting from a drunken-driving arrest Sept. 27. She was pulled over by a Transportation Authority Police officer on I-95 and ticketed for drunken driving and driving with an expired license, according to court records.
“She’s a person of interest,” said Brown, who added that after her arrest, King asked for an attorney.
Brown, speaking to reporters at the authority’s headquarters on Broening Highway, could not say whether alcohol was a factor in the accident, which is being investigated.
When he was hit, Brooks had been stopping trucks from driving into downtown during the New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration. Brooks, aided by at least 30 flares placed in the road to alert motorists, was alone at the time of the accident while his two partners took a break, Brown said.
Brooks had three children and lived with his fiancee in Carroll County.
“He loved the job he was doing,” Brown said. “He was really an inspiration to everyone who worked with him.”
Brooks graduated from the Transportation Authority’s police academy in 1994 and was a member of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Unit, said Kelly L. Melhem, a spokeswoman for the authority.
Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office released a statement yesterday saying that Brooks’ death last night “as thousands gathered to celebrate the New Year is a somber reminder of the courageous work done by law enforcement officers throughout our state – at the state and local level – to keep the citizens of Maryland safe.”
Brooks is one of four Maryland law enforcement officers killed by hit-and-run drivers since statistics on police fatalities were first compiled in 1808, said David H. Muhl, a sergeant with the Crofton Police Department who operates Maryland Fallen Police Officers Memorial Inc.

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PITTSBURGH PA. Jan 2 2008
Federal air marshals charged a Seattle-area man with groping a female passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that the pilot diverted to Pittsburgh because of the disturbance.
Michael Lamar Holland, 46, appeared before a magistrate on Monday on a charge of abusive sexual contact, according to Ted Hresko, special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh air marshals’ office.
Holland had been chatting with a 39-year-old woman Sunday on United Flight 917, which was bound for Seattle from Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C., he said.
“The next thing you know, he’s groping her,” Hresko said. “The flight attendants asked our (air marshals) to get involved.”
A witness saw Holland stroking the woman’s hair while she was trying the sleep, according to an affidavit filed with the court. Moments later, Holland fondled the woman who repeatedly objected and tried to get away from him, the affidavit said.
Holland was handcuffed by air marshals and taken to an empty seat in another part of the plane. The pilot opted to divert the flight to Pittsburgh so Holland could be removed, Hresko said.
“I think I’m still in a bit of shock,” the woman who made the accusations told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Monday.
United Airlines officials did not immediately return a call for comment.
The flight left Dulles carrying 182 passengers at 6:08 p.m. and landed in Pittsburgh about an hour later. Pittsburgh airport officials said the flight continued on to Seattle at 9:35 p.m.
Holland was released on bond and the court was to appoint an attorney for him before he returns for a Jan. 7 court appearance, said Margaret Philbin, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh. Holland was held overnight in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh prior to appearing before the magistrate, Hresko said.
Holland did not appear to be intoxicated when he was taken into custody Sunday night, Hresko said.
“There was no alcohol on his breath, and when he was interviewed he said he hadn’t had a drink for five years,” he said. “We have no reason to believe that he was drunk or on any kind of narcotic.”
Abusive sexual contact is a federal misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison and $1,000 fine, Hresko said.

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New Orleans LA. Jan 2 2008

The bloodiest city in the country in 2006, reeling from crime in its struggle to recover from Hurricane Katrina, got even worse in 2007.
New Orleans registered 209 homicides last year, a nearly 30 percent increase from the 161 recorded in 2006.
The FBI’s rankings for 2007 will not be out until much later in the year, but New Orleans’ population is thought to be 295,450, which would mean a rate of about 71 homicides per 100,000 people.
Even the most generous population estimate in 2006 put the number of people in the city that year at 255,000. That meant a real homicide rate of 63.5 per 100,000 residents. To compare that number with some other notoriously bloody cities, the rate for Gary, Ind., was 48.3 and Detroit’s was 47.1.
The killings are drug-related or retaliatory for the most part, police have said. The upswing comes despite continued patrols by the National Guard and state police and the addition of two new classes of police recruits in the past year.
But beefed-up policing efforts can only do so much, said Rafael Goyeneche, executive director of the Metropolitan Crime Commission of Greater New Orleans.
“The police and the criminal justice system is expected to clean up the mess, but they didn’t create the mess,” Goyeneche said. “They aren’t responsible for the social problems of the city, the failure of the school system, the degeneration of the family unit. And until the city does something to rectify those problems, crime and murder will continue to be a problem.”
There are hopeful signs, however, Goyeneche said, pointing to improved schools in the city since the 2005 storm, grass-roots efforts to tackle crime, and a growing effort to upgrade city life.
“This city is beginning to do some things that I’ve been waiting 25 years to see,” Goyeneche said. “I think there is a renewed sense of purpose; people are focused and demanding more than what was in play before Katrina hit.”
New York’s and Chicago’s 2007 homicide totals were the lowest in more than 40 years, and in Philadelphia, slayings dipped slightly after reaching a nine-year high in 2006. But in several other big cities, homicides increased, including in Atlanta, Miami, Dallas and Baltimore.

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