Waffle House Customer Holds Grenade While Eating www.privateofficer.com

Waffle House customers holds grenade while ordering food www.privateofficer.com

ALCOA, Tenn. Jan 14 2008 — Police have arrested a man who they said brought a grenade into a Waffle House restaurant in Alcoa.
Capt. Rick Arnold said Jack Hensley ordered breakfast on Friday morning, began eating and then set the grenade with the pin still in it on the table in front of him.
When police arrived, he handed the grenade over and was arrested without incident.
A bomb squad determined the grenade was real, but it did not have live explosives inside. Police also found wires resembling a bomb inside his car, but no other explosives were found.
Arnold said authorities had received calls about Hensley before and appeared to have a history of mental problems.
He is being held on a $20,000 bond for a charge of a terrorist hoax.

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Drag Race Turns Deadly; 2 Killed www.privateofficer.com

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -Jan 14 2008 -

Police here are investigating a case that started as a couple of street thugs racing each other that ended up in a bystanders death and another person being shot and killed.

Video of a deadly drag race on a Birmingham street has made its way on to YouTube.
It happened Sunday just before 4:30 p.m. on Republic Boulevard in the Pratt City area.
Police said two rival racing gangs from Florida and Tennessee were facing off in a series of races.
During one race a driver lost control then struck and killed a man videotaping the race.
Police believe an argument broke out over whether to leave the area or stay and help the man who was hit.
During the argument someone pulled a gun and opened fire, hitting and killing 36-year-old Anthony Lett of Huntsville, according to Lt. Henry Irby, a police spokesman.
No arrests have been made and police have not released the name of the pedestrian as they continue their investigation.

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City To Fire 8 Employees After 4 Dead Children Found www.privateofficer.com

City Will Fire 8 Employees After 4 Children Found Dead www.privateofficer.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. Janaury 14, 2008 — Mayor Adrian Fenty said as many as eight city employees will be terminated for improperly handling concerns about a woman’s care of her four daughters, who were later found dead, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., reported.
The Associated Press has reported that six will be fired.
Fenty said the Child and Family Services Agency employees were involved in the case, and represent every step in the chain of command, from the investigator to the child protective services administrator, the television station reported.
The decomposing bodies of the girls, ages 5 to 17, were found last week when an eviction notice was served at the family’s home.
A social worker at the oldest girl’s school tried twice last April to raise an alarm about the family. At a news conference, Fenty played tapes of two calls the woman made after the girl stopped coming to school.
In one call, the woman said the girls’ mother, Banita Jacks, seemed to be mentally ill and was “holding all the children hostage.”
The woman’s call was not the first time someone had tried to alert city officials about the family’s situation.
City officials said more extensive searches for families will be conducted, and a minimum of three visits to families’ last known address at different times of the day will be required, the television station reported.
Social workers will not be able to close cases until children are located, city officials said. Investigators are reviewing every case closed as incomplete.
Officials have also promised to develop a system to better track home-school, public school and charter school students.
The godmother of the two youngest victims, N’kiah and Aja Fogle, said she hopes these changes will help prevent future tragedies.
Tywana Richardson said she believes Banita Jacks couldn’t handle the death of the girls’ father, Nathaniel Fogle Jr., who died of cancer in February.
“You don’t know what people are going through, and I don’t think that she could handle the father’s death,” Richardson said. “Some people are stronger than others, and I don’t think she could cope, dealing with the pressure of everyday life and dealing with the kids and stuff alone.”
Richardson said she thought the family had moved to Maryland, where Jacks has relatives.
The girls’ mother has since been charged with their murder.

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Man dies after being tasered during fight www.privateofficer.com

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Jan 14, 2008
A guest at a party died early Friday morning after police stunned him with a Taser gun to subdue him.
According to police, a security officer was called to the University Inn condominiums in response to a party at the complex. When a person at the party came out and confronted the security officer, an altercation ensued and spilled out onto South Dixie Highway. Police were called for assistance.
Coral Gables police responded and were forced to stun the person, police said. He began to suffer from an unknown medical episode and was taken to Baptist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A portion of South Dixie Highway was closed near the University of Miami campus as a result of the incident.
The person’s name has not been released.

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Waiter arrested for charging customers too much! www.privateofficer.com

Waiter arrested for adding tips to receipts www.privateofficer.com

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. –Jan 14 2008 A waiter in Hendersonville is accused of tipping himself too much by adding tip amounts to customers’ receipts.
The case against Ronald Smith, 26, is set to go before a grand jury.
Police said Smith added tips ranging from $18 to $70 to receipts at Texas Roadhouse in September.

Investigators from the Hendersonville Police Department were call ed after Smith confessed that he had been charging most customers the amount that he thought that he should get for his service and adding it to the bill in a manner that would not be immediately obvious to the customers.

Smith reportedly signed a confession to the restaurant and agreed to pay $500 in compensation.

He was also arrested and charged with fraud and the case has now gone to a grand jury.

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“Booster Bag” Mommas Arrested www.privateofficer.com

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Santa ClaraA. Jan 14, 2008

A case of burglary happened Friday night around 9:30 p.m. at the Macy’s department store located in Westfield Valencia Town Center.
Gump said two Sylmar women, ages 22 and 23, entered the store with two children, a stroller and two “booster bags,” intent on stealing merchandise from the department store, Gump said.
“Booster bags” can be a purse or another type of bag that has a false bottom, the lieutenant said.
The women and the children, ages 9 and 12, loaded up merchandise into the bags and took it into the dressing rooms, where they removed all the security tags, consolidated the items, worth a total of $3,305, into a couple of Macy’s bags and then loaded them into a stroller to be taken out of the store, Gump said.
During the time, store security had been watching the four; when officers were sent to detain them, Gump said they admitted to what they had been doing.
Nidia Manjivar, 23, and Telma Alas, 22, both of Sylmar, were booked for investigation of burglary and solicitation of a minor to commit a felony, Gump said. They were being held at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station.
They face charges of burglary, rather than shoplifting, because they entered Macy’s with the intent to commit a theft, he said.

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Sheriff with no force is lone ranger www.privateofficer.com

ELKTON, Ky. Jan 15 2008 — After cutbacks forced him to let his entire staff go, a Kentucky sheriff is minding the county’s population of 12,000 as best he can.

Sheriff Billy Stokes said he has had his hands full.
On Monday, he traveled to Bowling Green to bring some juveniles back to Todd County for trial from the regional detention center while no one was minding the shop while he was gone.

Stokes said he works some long days.
“I’m working some 20-hour, 20-plus hour days, and I’m having to watch my own health and watch my own fatigue and be sure that those split-second decisions that police officers have to make are accurate,” he said.
Money is the reason that Stokes has become Todd County’s Lone Ranger and is in a showdown with the county’s fiscal court.
County Judge Executive Arthur Green said he wants to look at Stoke’s fiscal books but that Stokes won’t comply. Green said he wants Stokes to borrow the money to pay the deputies from the state. Stokes didn’t like the idea, so he fired his deputies.
“My name, not Todd County sheriff, Billy Stokes is on that loan from the state and according to the state finance department, I’m solely responsible for it,” he said.
Green agrees to disagree.
“That money that he’s referring to in this particular case is also covered by a bond. … The decisions that have been made are his decisions,” he said.
Besides the money issues, questions are also circulating about public safety.
“I have contacted Lt. Blanton with the Kentucky State Police, who is over our post district, and he assured me that all emergency calls, that they will take them,” Stokes said.
The county’s seat, Elkton, has its own police department as do the towns of Guthrie and Trenton, but for residents outside of the cities, emergency response could take 45 minutes because there are no deputies to handle calls and only the sheriff and a couple of Kentucky state troopers.
For one resident whose home is in the county, having coffee at a local hang out, the Town Grille, he’s prepared.
“I’ll just have to take care of it myself if there ain’t nobody there. I’ll do what I see fit,” the man said.
Green said he doesn’t know how long the situation will last

Husband and wife robbery team arrested www.privateofficer.com

Metro Atlanta GA. Jan 15, 2008

ATLANTA — Investigators across the metro area are adding up cases of a suspected husband and wife robbery team.
The Fayetteville couple is in jail in Henry County as detectives from at least a half a dozen agencies look into armed robberies dating back to August of last year.
Roslyn Ford-Calhoun and her husband, Preston Calhoun, lived in nice home in a nice subdivision in Fayetteville. They were raising their teenage daughters and their elementary school-aged children as well, but police alleged, between the parent-teacher conferences and the soccer games, the couple were robbing stores.
“We figure anywhere from 10 to 15 that they’ve done,” said Det. Ron Waddell with the Smyrna Police Department.
They were a couple that had no problem doing things together, police said. Officials said Roslyn Calhoun and Preston Calhoun had everything worked out and would rob stores, like the Smyrna Family Dollar.
“The wife, if there was a male employee, would go back and keep them busy with some busy questions and keep them occupied and once the other customers were gone out of the store that’s when the husband would actually approach one of the tellers or the manager and commit the robbery,” said Waddell.
Police have linked the Calhouns to at least a dozen robberies across the metro Atlanta area during the last few months of 2007. Officials said the two had a liking for dollar stores but were also suspected of robbing clothing and party goods stores as well.
Authorities said it was the couple’s distinctive black Cadillac that was spotted during a get-away in Henry County, that led to their arrest.
Police said they are now trying to figure out how many stores the “Bonnie and Clyde” team have robbed.
“It’s not like it is on TV where everybody is stressing over their jurisdiction. A lot of good teamwork, working together, networking and passing along information from agency to agency and we were able to link these things together,” said Waddell.
Smyrna has charges against the pair for armed robbery and false imprisonment for allegedly taking an employee to a back room and holding him briefly. Other metro agencies have warrants out against the two as well.

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