Employee steals cash, credit cards from purse www.privateofficer.com

Restaurant Employee Steals Cash, Credit Cards From Purse http://www.privateofficer.com

FRANKLIN TN Jan 25 2008 — A Nashville man allegedly used a woman’s credit card to access pornographic Web sites.
Terry Wayne Collier, Jr., 28, was employed at a local restaurant, which Franklin police would not name, where a woman left her wallet. Investigators said Collier took $2,000 from the wallet and then used a credit card from the wallet to pay for access to view pornographic material on the Internet from his home computer.
Collier was arrested Tuesday. He’s charged with theft over $1,000 and fraudulent use of a credit card. He was released today from the Williamson County jail after posting $3,000 bail. Detective Sergio Guerra said Collier faces an additional class D felony charge of filing a false report for allegedly lying to investigators when they first questioned him about the missing wallet in October. Collier told police he had given the wallet to a man who claimed to be the victim’s husband.

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Police Dog Stabbed Repeatedly During Arrest www.privateofficer.com

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SAN DIEGO CA. Jan 25 2008–
A San Diego police dog was stabbed repeatedly while trying to disarm a man Tuesday night, authorities said.
The stabbing happened in the Talmadge neighborhood at a Travelodge motel in the 5000 block of El Cajon Boulevard.
San Diego police said the incident began at about 8:30 p.m. when officers received reports of a man threatening people with a knife. Police confronted the man on the third floor of the motel and tried to disarm him by shooting him with bean bag rounds. That didn’t work, so they sent in a police dog and handler to subdue him. The man stabbed the dog repeatedly and an officer opened fire, missing the man, police said.
Police disarmed the man and took him into custody. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of dog bites.
The dog was taken to an animal clinic in Mission Valley. Police said it appears the K-9 will recover from his wounds.
Police said they are looking for a man and a woman who left the scene and may be victims or witnesses.

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Shoplifter Wanted For Pulling Knife On Security www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifter Wanted For Pulling Knife On Security http://www.privateofficer.com

SALT LAKE CITY UTAH Jan 25 2008 – Police are requesting the public’s help in identifying the suspect in a robbery of the Sugarhouse Shopko. During the robbery, a security officer was threatened with a knife. Police say at approximately 7:45 p.m. on January 8, 2008, the suspect was observed on surveillance video going behind the counter of the electronics section and cutting an iPod off the locked spindle. Police say when the suspect then left the store, a Shopko security officer confronted the suspect outside. The suspect surrendered the iPod but refused to come back into the store, according to police. Investigators say the security officer grabbed a hold of the suspect’s coat, after which the suspect displayed a knife and threatened to stab the victim. The victim let go of the suspect who then fled the scene. The suspect is described as a white male in his late 20s, approximately five feet eleven inches tall with a medium build. He had thinning short blonde hair and a goatee at the time of the robbery. If anyone has information about this crime or the identity or whereabouts of the suspect, they are asked to call the Salt Lake City Police Department’s “Tips For Cash” hotline at 801-799-INFO. A cash reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people involved in this crime. Callers may remain anonymous.

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Teen Arrested In Hijack Plot www.privateofficer.com

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Nashville TN Jan 25 2008

A California teenager has been arrested in Nashville for plotting to hijack a plane from Los Angeles to Nashville, the FBI said.
FBI spokesman George Bolds told The Associated Press that the 16-year-old was removed from Southwest Airlines Flight 284 Tuesday night by authorities at Nashville International Airport, and found with “suspicious” items.
Bolds said the teen had handcuffs, rope and duct tape in his bag, and was believed to be traveling alone. The juvenile’s name has not been released.
His plan had a low probability of success,” Bolds said.
Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Brandy King could not provide additional details. Airport spokeswoman Emily Richard confirmed the incident, but could not provide more information because the passenger was a minor.
Messages left by The Associated Press to the Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.
The teen is in custody at the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center. He has not yet faced federal charges, but Bolds said he is facing state charges from the incident. Bolds did not comment on what the charges were, but said federal charges may come.
He dismissed earlier broadcast reports that the teen was planning to crash the plane into a “Hannah Montana” concert in Lafayette, La.
Bolds said it has not been determined if he was trying to crash the plane. He said authorities searched his home in California and found a mock cockpit.
The teen is believed to be suicidal, Bolds said. He could not comment further on the teen’s mental condition because he is a minor.
Bolds said the teen was calm throughout the flight, and did not make an attempt to hijack the plane. But he told the FBI after he was apprehended of his original plans to commandeer the aircraft.
TSA did not immediately return a message seeking comment to determine if the items were banned from air travel. TSA did not list the items the teen was carrying on its Web site as prohibited.

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Doctor pleads guilty in “weed killer” case www.privateofficer.com

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STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. -Jan 25 2008 – More than two years after a federal grand jury indicted Dr. T.R. Shantha on 87 counts of defrauding patients, money laundering and healthcare fraud, a judge sentenced the doctor Thursday afternoon.
“Dr. Shantha had plead guilty to defrauding insurance companies, he plead guilty to submitting false claims to insurance companies, for treating people with one treatment and billing for something completely different,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Chartash.
Shantha attracted national attention when he was accused of treating terminally ill patients with commercial-grade weed killer and other unsanctioned drugs inside his Stockbridge medical offices. Those charges were dropped when Shantha agreed to plead guilty to insurance fraud.
As part of the plea deal, Shantha avoided jail time and served 400 days in home confinement. The assistant U.S. attorney told reporters the judge took Shantha’s age, 72-years-old, and other good works into consideration when determining his punishment.
“He did pay restitution back to the insurance companies and forfeiture of $650,000 in total. He’s a felon and he lost his license, the medical board did suspend his license,” said Chartash.
Shantha’s been sentenced to 5 years probation followed by 3 years of supervised release.
“The doctor was quite contrite. He admitted what he did was wrong and he apologized to us, to the government, to the court, to his family and he feels disgraced among the scientific community, among the doctor community and among his own community for what he’s done,” said Chartash.
Despite Shantha’s apologies and guilty plea, several patients are still standing by the doctor. Several people spoke on his behalf in court saying his treatments saved lives and gave loved ones more time.

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Deputy coroner Steals Gift Cards From Dead Body www.privateofficer.com

Deputy Coroner Steals Gift Cards Off Dead Person www.privateofficer.com

AUGUSTA, Ga. -Jan 24 2008- A deputy coroner has been arrested on accusations she stole gift cards from the body of a woman who had committed suicide.
Investigators arrested Richmond County Deputy Coroner Charlena Graham on Wednesday. She has been charged with a felony count of theft by taking.
Graham, 43, has also been fired from the coroner’s office, where she worked for about four years, officials said.
“I was aware of the investigation,” Richmond County Coroner Grover Tuten said. “I knew it was going on, and I cooperated with it and we cleaned our house.”
Authorities went into a motel room on Dec. 31 after getting reports of gunshots, a Richmond County sheriff’s report said. In the room, deputies found a 29-year-old woman dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A handgun was in the woman’s hand and a handwritten note lay nearby, the report says.
Shortly after, all personal items from woman were turned over to Graham, including five gift cards for Macy’s, Target, Victoria’s Secret and a local steak house, according to Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength.
Authorities later learned from family members of the deceased woman that some gift cards might have been missing, Strength said.
Sheriff’s Lt. Jack Francisco said the total value of the gift cards was about $400.
“I’m surprised, but not shocked,” he told the Augusta Chronicle.
Investigators have recovered evidence, including tapes of Graham using the gift cards at local stores, Sheriff Strength said.

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Baseball puts new security watchdog in charge of doping www.privateofficer.com

New York NY Jan 24 2008

Earnell Lucas, a former police officer who has worked for Major League Baseball’s security department since 2002, was named Tuesday as head of the division, which will oversee doping safeguards.
The security department will enforce the tougher new locker room regulations ordered January 7 by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in the wake of an investigation that found doping links to more than 90 players.
Former US Senator George Mitchell, who led the 20-month doping probe, made several recommendations on how baseball could safeguard against future doping scandals and try to restore some shred of its ruined credibility.
Part of the plan was to implement security checks on packages entering major League Baseball locker rooms and clubhouse areas.
The security department will oversee tougher background checks upon all clubhouse personnel for every club as well as random drug tests for staff with clubhouse access.
Other measures that Selig alone could not implement, such as major changes in the drug testing policy, are being discussed between management and union leaders with Selig saying he expects them in place before pre-season training starts next month.
One sticking point has been the independence of the doping test overseers. Selig favors greater power to the current chief medical director under the purview of Major League Baseball and its union.
But some US lawmakers and the World Anti-Doping Agency have said baseball cannot escape concerns of manipulated results or hidden positives for profit without a fully independent doping oversight group such as the US Anti-Doping Agency is for Olympic sports.

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FBI Arrest Man In Security Officer Death www.privateofficer.com

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El Paso TX Jan 24 2008

A 29-year-old El Paso man was arrested Tuesday by an FBI task force in the case of security officer Cruz Vite, who died Jan. 1 after being assaulted at the Paso del Norte Bridge, FBI officials said Wednesday.
Pablo Aragon was indicted Jan. 16 by a federal grand jury on an assault charge plus state charges of aggravated assault causing seriously bodily injury and assault causing bodily injury. The county medical examiner determined that Vite, 58, who had a pre-existing medical condition, died of a heart attack triggered by the assault.

Authorities say that Aragon was crossing the bridge that leads from Mexico into the United states when Vite, a private security officer employed to patrol the area stopped him for an unknown reason. The two got into a struggle and as a result of the confrontation, Vite suffered a heart attack and dies.

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Father arrested for “testing” school security www.privateofficer.com

BARNEGAT NJ Jan 24 2008 — A 33-year-old former coach and director of football for the Barnegat Junior Bengals claims he was checking security when he was arrested on charges of criminal trespassing after walking into Barnegat High School without signing in.
Rafael Adorno of Harpoon Drive was arrested Tuesday morning after entering the school through a loading dock entrance at approximately 9:49 a.m., police said. School security stopped Adorno “minutes after he entered the building,” said Carrie Sterrs, communications liaison for the district.
Adorno claims he was heading to talk to building and grounds officials when he decided to test the school’s security.
“I was going to talk to the building and grounds supervisor about seed and sod for the Lower Shore Road football field, when I decided to see if any of the doors in the back were open,” said Adorno, who still volunteers with the program. “I checked on a door by the cafeteria, and it was locked. Then I checked another, and it was locked, but I hit a button and walked right in.
“I’m just a concerned parent, it was a spur-of-the-minute idea,” Adorno added, who is the father of a second-grade boy and a third-grade girl at Cecil S. Collins School.
While walking down the hall, Adorno said “he said ‘hello’ to four or five students that he knew from football.”
“I want the school to be safe,” Adorno said. “No matter how many security people we have, any Joe can get into these schools.
“I could not believe that these people did not see me,” he added.
William Cox, director of security for the district, said loading dock areas often present issues when it comes to security.
“You always have to continue to review security,” Cox said. “Any major corporation has these types of loading and unloading locations, and you have to have a way for people to get in and out of them quickly.
“Right now we have two cameras focused on that area, and the security people at the high school pay extra attention to those cameras,” Cox added.
Cox said he did not believe that Adorno caused any danger to the students and staff in the high school.
Lt. Patrick Shaffery said the matter has been forwarded to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office for further review. Adorno was processed and released, because he was not considered a flight risk.
Parents who had registered their e-mail addresses with the district were notified of the incident through two e-mails � one sent at 10:30 a.m. and another at 11:20 a.m. � as well as in a letter that went home with all students Tuesday, Sterrs said.
During the Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, the board did not discuss the incident, nor did Adorno, who was in attendance.
Sharon Aquino, mother of high school junior Joey Aquino, said she believes the school is safe for students.
“They do an outstanding job,” she said. “I feel the children are safe every day.”
Joey Aquino agrees.
“The SROs (school resource officers) do a great job,” he said.
Robin Nagy, parent of fourth-grader Jake, said that she felt the district handled the situation correctly.
“I received both e-mails from the district, and in this computer age, that is the best way to handle it,” Nagy said.
Adorno said his plans were to keep the whole incident quiet, adding that he had no intention of going public.
“I just wanted to sit down and talk to the administration about the security of the school. It’s a huge concern of all parents,” Adorno said. “I had no intention of doing anything when I was there.”
Adorno has expressed an interest in running for one of the open spots in the school board election later this year, and questioned whether that was why his arrest was disclosed.
“I am a possible candidate for the school board,” Adorno said. “I got a petition and the proper signatures for it.
“That could be the reason they (the district) went public,” Adorno added.
Superintendent of Schools Thomas C. McMahon said that the trespassing charge has nothing to do with Adorno possibly running for the board.
“I really do not know how running for school board has anything to do with intruding,” McMahon said. “Any time you have a situation like this, you have to take it seriously.”

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Security officer prevents burglary of Mitt Romney’s office www.privateofficer.com

Boston MA. Jan 24 2008

Two men broke into Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s Boston campaign headquarters early on Thursday, the second break-in of the offices in five months, a spokesman for the local prosecutor said.
Boston police arrested Daniel Bradley, 28, and Michael Sauer, 30, as they tried to leave the office complex’s parking lot. A security guard spotted them trying to steal computers on a surveillance tape and called police, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney.
“There was some computer equipment that was recovered. There is no indication this was politically motivated,” Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said.
Bradley and Sauer will be arraigned on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony at Boston Municipal Court later on Thursday, Wark said.
A box containing a computer was found in the car the men were driving and two open bottles of beer fell to the floor when police stopped them.
In early September, a number of laptop computers and a television were stolen from Romney’s headquarters in Boston’s North End.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, has been campaigning in Florida in recent days ahead of that state’s primary on January 29.

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EUGENE, Ore. Jan 24 2008
- Authorities are alerting the public about a 20-year-old man reported missing Sunday.
Anthony (Tony) Grayson was last seen around 1 p.m. Friday when he was leaving his home to go to work as a security guard at Hynix in Eugene.
Grayson never reported to work for his afternoon shift and no one has seen him since.
He is described as a white male, 5’8″ and 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Grayson is believed to be driving a white four-door Ford Crown Victoria with a temporary license plate posted in the window.
If you see him or have information, you are asked to contact the Lane County Sheriff’s Office.

5 Year Old Girl Found Hitchhiking On Interstate www.privateofficer.com

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Salt Lake City Utah Jan 24 2008

Police are investigating how a 5-year-old ended up hitchhiking Tuesday near Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday that Orem, Utah, police dispatch had received calls around 8 a.m. that a girl was hitchhiking on the side of the street.
At about the same time, the paper reported that a frantic mother was calling police because she couldn’t find her daughter. She was going to take her daughter to the bus stop a half block from home but couldn’t find her.
Then about 9 a.m., a call came from officials at an elementary school in Provo — 8 miles away — saying someone had dropped the girl off there.
Police learned during the interview that the girl had been given a ride and was dropped off before another motorist picked her up and dropped her off at the nearest school.
Police would like to talk to the motorists who picked her up to learn what happened in the 45 minutes between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. that are unaccounted for. They are also concerned the girl ended up in Provo.
“If we hadn’t gotten the call, we would have been searching in the wrong city,” police Lt. Keldon Brown told the Salt Lake Tribune.

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