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Hospital security find dead baby in basket www.privateofficer.com

DENVER Co. Feb 28 2008 — Denver police are investigating the death of a baby girl found in a basket outside a hospital.
Detective Sharon Hahn says someone pressed the button on a call box outside Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, and the infant was discovered soon afterward.
A security officer took the baby inside the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
Hahn says police can’t speculate about whether the girl was alive when she was left at the hospital, and it’s not clear whether security cameras captured images of whoever left her.
The age of the child is unknown. An autopsy is planned.
Colorado’s “Safe Haven” law allows a parent to give up a child at a hospital or fire station within 72 hours of birth without fear of prosecution.

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White supremacist sent to jail for security officer assault www.privateofficer.com

NEWPORT BEACH Feb 28 2008 – A self-proclaimed white supremacist was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail after pleading guilty to repeatedly punching a uniformed black security guard at the Irvine Spectrum while yelling racial slurs. The man, who worked at as cashier at a McDonald’s in Orange, also directed racial slurs at a black Irvine police officer.
Ryan Lawrence Monfils, 20, of Stanton pleaded guilty to one felony count of hate-crime battery. Montfils was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation. He is banned from the Irvine Spectrum.
Monfils was on probation for beating up his girlfriend when he attacked the security guard, according to Orange County Superior Court records.
The attack happened Feb. 2 as Monfils was leaving Dave & Buster’s at the Irvine Spectrum with two friends. As he left about 5:30 p.m., Monfils began yelling racial slurs at a black security guard standing outside, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Monfils threw a lighted cigarette in the guard’s face and punched him several times. Monfils directed racial slurs at a black Irvine police officer during questioning, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Monfils was arrested Feb. 19 at a McDonald’s on North Tustin Avenue in Orange, where he worked as a cashier.
Monfils was fined $150 after pleading guilty in October 2007 to being drunk in public and fighting. In December 2007, he pleaded guilty to beating up his girlfriend and was sentenced to two days in jail and eight hours of community service, and was required to complete a domestic-violence program.
There were 135 hate crimes and incidents recorded in Orange County in 2006, including 19 against blacks, according to the Orange County Human Relations Commission. African-Americans continue to be the most frequent target of hate crimes

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Woman helps track down sexual stalker www.privateofficer.com

Mobile Ala. Feb 28 2008 Persistent efforts by two Mobile women — a police detective and an interior designer — led to the California arrest of a man accused of sending child pornography via cell phones and making obscene calls to women across the country.
The events that prompted California sheriff’s deputies to take Jayson Brown into custody at his Hesperia, Calif., home began Feb. 11 on the Alabama coast, according to officers in both states.
Just before 7 a.m. that day, a Mobile interior designer was awakened by her cell phone. It was a call from a strange man, who told her in rapid-fire, graphic detail how he had sexually abused his 3-year-old niece.

She said she hung up, but he called again, threatening to come find her. The man said if she had children, he would harm them.
The 29-year-old woman — who declined to be identified for this story — went to the downtown Dauphin Street police substation that day to report the call. A civil employee told her that the call was probably a prank, she said.
Not satisfied, the woman visited police headquarters on Government Boulevard the next day and filed a report with Detective Mona Wade of the assault and sex crimes unit.
Wade, a 19-year veteran of the police force, could have simply taken the report and pushed it to the bottom of the pile. After all, obscene calls are relatively routine, said Nancy Johnson, a police spokeswoman.
But this caller struck Wade as particularly frightening as she listened to a voice mail that he had left the interior designer. Wade said she was concerned that the caller could actually be abusing a 3-year-old.
That night, Wade said, the case bothered her as she tried to sleep. So she set out to locate the man.
The interior designer, meanwhile, was checking with Wade each day to ask about progress on the case. “I’m very persistent,” she said.

Wade was able to determine through FBI call-tracking capabilities that the man lived near Victorville, Calif., in the Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles. She contacted law officers there.
Over the past two weeks, Wade’s efforts and the work of detectives with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office yielded evidence that resulted in California prosecutors charging the 36-year-old Brown with five felonies.
To arrest Brown, sheriff’s deputies armed with warrants entered his home through an open sliding-glass door and awakened him, according to detectives in the case.

Brown’s phone records showed that he had apparently made more than 100 random calls in the past couple of months, according to the lead investigator, and allegedly sent child pornography using a pre-paid cell phone.
The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office said it has developed evidence that Brown made obscene calls to phones in a number of states.
He allegedly called a teenage girl in Montana asking her to help him kidnap a young child to sexually abuse. He allegedly sent a Florida woman a cell phone photo of a young girl performing oral sex.
Brown faces two counts of distribution of child pornography, two counts of distribution of harmful matter to a minor and one count of criminal threats, according the San Bernardino County district attorney’s office. He is scheduled to appear in court today in California.
Both the Mobile police detective and the interior designer said they plan to follow the events of Brown’s prosecution in California.
“You’ve got to listen to your gut instinct,” Wade said of her work to pursue the case.
Praising the interior designer, she added, “We had the perfect victim. She wasn’t going to let go.

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Security guard kills self, daughter over custody issue www.privateofficer.com

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CALEXICO, Calif. Feb 28 2008 —A private security guard shot his 2-year-old daughter in the head Wednesday, then apparently killed himself after a legal setback that threatened his custody of the girl, police said.
Saul Pacheco Burquez, 29, died from a gunshot wound to the head after he apparently killed his family dog and then his daughter, said Calexico Police Chief Jim Neujahr.
“It looks like he may have held down the daughter while he shot her in the head,” Neujahr said.
Pacheco had received a restraining order Wednesday that was likely to result in loss of custody, said Neujahr. He also was likely to lose his gun permit, which would have cost him his job as a security guard for a government contractor near the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego.
The police chief said he did not know who sought the restraining order or what the order said.
The killings occurred at Pacheco’s house about three doors away from Kennedy Gardens Elementary School, which was about to end classes. Police locked down the campus.
The girl’s mother was previously killed in a car crash, Neujahr said.

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Student shot at University of Little Rock www.privateofficer.com

Little Rock Ark. Feb 28 2008 A student was shot on a sidewalk at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Wednesday in what police described as an isolated incident.
Authorities did not know the student’s condition Wednesday evening, but said two suspects fled the campus and people at the school were not believed to be at risk. Even so, Wednesday night classes were canceled.
Within 20 minutes of the first report of the afternoon shooting near University Theater, the school sent students and employees telephone and e-mail messages telling them what happened, describing the suspects’ vehicle and warning people to avoid the theater area.
About an hour after the first message, the school sent another, saying the suspects had left the area and the victim was being treated at a hospital.
“Current state, the campus is safe and secure with all operations back to normal,” the message said.
University spokeswoman Joan Duffy said the victim was accosted by two other men before being shot. After James Earl Matthews, 33, was shot, he staggered to his car, where ambulance attendants reached him and administered emergency aid before taking him to a hospital, Duffy said.
Two suspects fled the 12,000-student campus immediately, university Police Chief Brad King said.
Officers did not offer a motive, but King said that “everything we know now would suggest” the shooting was an isolated incident.
“It’s just alarming when someone gets shot on campus near where I walk a couple of times a week,” said Paula Keith, a 35-year-old nursing student who only heard about the shooting after arriving to school.
Class were scheduled to resume Thursday.

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OFFICER DOWN..NEVADA STATE TROOPER www.privateofficer.com

Trooper dies from injuries sustained in crash www.privateofficer.com

OFFICER DOWN..
RENO, Nev. Feb 28 2008— A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper who was critically injured in a car crash earlier this week died Thursday after doctors completed harvesting her organs, authorities said.Trooper Kara Kelly-Borgognone, 33, was injured late Monday when a sport utility vehicle slammed into the driver’s side door of her patrol car while she was responding to a call.
An organ donor, she was kept on life support until doctors found suitable recipients and completed harvesting her organs.
“As a final act of selfless service, she wanted to help others live longer lives and better lives,” the NHP said in a statement announcing her death.
“Doctors at Renown Regional Medical Center performed the organ donation procedures during the night (and) finished their work around 2:45 a.m. this morning.”
Her death came a day after Kelly-Borgognone’s family announced her funeral will be held 11 a.m., March 5, at Lawlor Events Center on the University of Nevada, Reno campus.
Kelly-Borgognone had been a trooper for two years, serving eight years before that as a parole and probation officer. She and her husband Dirk, have two young daughters, Blair, 13, and Ashlyn, 3.
Her brother, Chris Kelly, is a 14-year veteran with the NHP and is assigned to the Reno area.
“She was sharp, intelligent, bright and a real go-getter, a real tiger when it came to doing her job,” Rich Tiran, a sergeant with parole and probation, said of his former colleague.
“She always had a great, great smile on her face,” he told the Reno Gazette-Journal. “She was always quick witted.”
Kelly-Borgognone was responding to assist in a bomb scare around 10 p.m. Monday when her Ford Crown Victoria patrol car was slammed at an intersection by a Chevrolet sport utility vehicle.
The driver of the other vehicle, Matthew Henderson, 33, of Sun Valley, suffered only minor injuries.
Over the last three days, fellow troopers and other law enforcement officers kept vigil outside her hospital room through her final moments. They planned to keep someone by her side through burial.
The Washoe County sheriff’s office, which is investigating the crash, said it could be next week before investigators determine the cause of the crash.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Brooke Keaste said investigators are corroborating witness statements and inspecting the vehicles.
Monday night’s bomb scare involved a plastic cooler left in the parking lot of a Terrible’s gas station in Sparks. The bomb squad was called and other law enforcement agencies, including Kelly-Borgognone, responded to set up a safety perimeter.
A small explosive charge was detonated to open the cooler, which contained cement core samples.
Two years ago, while working as a probation officer, Kelly-Borgognone shot and killed a parolee after he tested positive for methamphetamine and tried to take her gun away.
Christopher Michael Tallman, 25, was on probation following a conviction for being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm. He also had a prior meth conviction in Oregon.Reno police said Tallman got into a fight with Kelly-Borgognone and fellow parole officer John Gresock after they went to arrest him on Feb. 8, 2006 for violating terms of his release by testing positive for drugs.
Tallman managed to get Kelly-Borgognone’s gun out of her holster but she wrestled it back and shot Tallman in the head and chest

Double amputee charged with attempted murder www.privateofficer.com

Altamonte Springs Fla. Feb 27 2008 An Altamonte Springs man, who is a double-amputee, faces domestic violence charges, including attempted murder and assault with a fire arm, after shooting his father Monday, police said.

Paul Miller, 46, was released from Orlando Regional Medical Center at 5 a.m. this morning and transported to Seminole County Jail, Altamonte Springs Police Department spokeswoman Kristin Kelting said. He was booked without bond.

The man’s father, Raymond Miller, 65, is recovering from a gunshot wound to his torso. Police said an argument between father and son, who is missing both legs, led to the shooting.

Reports show that officers responded to an apartment at 335 N. Lake Blvd. sometime around 11:48 p.m. in reference to a shooting. Officers discovered the gunshot victim as well as his son, who suffered some “blunt force trauma during the altercation.” Rescue crews had transported both men to ORMC.

Kelting said officers arrested Paul Miller on Feb. 23 on an assault warrant. Florida Department of Corrections records also show that Paul Miller spent time in prison for charges of battery on a law-enforcement officer in 1996 and 1998.

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Chaplain devotes her life to law enforcement family www.privateofficer.com

San Rafael CA. Feb 27 2008

The Rev. Jan Heglund is one of the few ministers around who wears a bulletproof vest to work. The Fairfax resident likes it that way.
Heglund, 71, is chaplain for the San Rafael Police Department and the local FBI office. For the past 13 years she has suited up in a bulletproof vest twice a month to ride with members of the police force, a job she does is in addition to her role as deacon at Christ Church in Sausalito.
Soroptimist International of Marin County, a nonprofit women’s organization, has named Heglund the winner of its Making a Difference for Women award, saying her police work in a profession dominated by men “raises the horizon for all women.”
“She is an inspiration to all women,” said Paula Kamena, former Marin district attorney and a spokeswoman for Soroptimist International. “Her upbeat spirituality and her passion about her work are a shining example of how one person can make a difference in the world.”
Heglund’s responsibilities as a police chaplain involve trauma counseling for police officers and both crime witnesses and victims. She said she often gets called out to crime scenes simply to act as a “pastoral presence” in a situation.
“If you walk in wearing a (clerical) collar, it defuses the
situation,” Heglund said. “People feel much more at ease around a reverend, so it makes it easier to talk to them.”
Heglund said she first became interested in becoming a police chaplain in 1995, after reading a newspaper story about San Rafael police starting a chaplaincy program. She said she was immediately drawn to the idea of serving as a police chaplain.
“Bells just went off in my head,” Heglund said. “I went in and I remember thinking, ‘This is me.’ I didn’t even know what the job was yet, but I knew it was the place for me.”
Since then Heglund has become a renowned police chaplain. In 2003 she became the head police chaplain throughout the North Bay and currently works with two other chaplains to serve the area. Heglund works most closely with San Rafael and San Francisco police.
“Jan has a wonderful way about her. When she listens, she really has the ability to make you feel that she understands what you’re saying,” said Joel Fay, a San Rafael police officer and volunteer with one of Heglund’s special recovery programs, the West Coast Post-Trauma Retreat. “And she’s great at keeping secrets. When she hears something, she never repeats it. She’s very trustworthy.”
Heglund has also been working with the FBI for five years, in the training academy. A friend who worked with the FBI told Heglund the agency was looking for a chaplain. Heglund was reluctant to take on another responsibility at first.
“I said, ‘That’s all I need, one more thing,’” Heglund said. “But someone told me I can do both, because they are so different. Working with police and working with FBI trainees are two very separate jobs.”
Heglund said she most often deals with post-trauma counseling for police officers, but she remains available to them for any sort of advice they need.
“She will take over a situation, talk to those involved and put them at ease,” said San Rafael police Sgt. Wanda Spaletta. “We’re there to do the nuts and bolts and make sure everything is done right. She comes in and talks to people and listens. She’s fantastic.”
Heglund said it wasn’t easy at first getting police officers in San Rafael, where she works with two other chaplains, to utilize her services.
“I figured they weren’t going to trust me unless I was around all the time, so I just started hanging around the station,” Heglund said. “I just had to be patient. I knew they weren’t going to come running up to me on the front steps.”
Once Heglund became a success in San Rafael, other cities wanted to employ the chaplaincy program. Mill Valley and Sausalito police talked to Heglund before implementing the program, and each asked Heglund to take over chaplaincy duties at their stations.
Heglund declined but set up each station with its own chaplain. She’s kept busy by getting involved in other trauma counseling services, including the West Coast Post-Trauma Retreat. The program, which tends to trauma-afflicted emergency specialists and victims, originally held three retreats a year, but was such a success Heglund and company have begun staging them every month.
Heglund returned Friday from the most recent retreat, held in Inverness. Now it’s back to work with the San Rafael police.
“Law enforcement chaplaincy is my passion,” Heglund said. “There’s no more privilege to me than getting a call in the middle of the night to come out for the police department. As strange as it sounds, that’s what I love.”
AWARDS DINNER
Soroptimist International of Marin County will honor the Rev. Jan Heglund at its “Soul Patrol” awards dinner, set for April 26 at The Club at McInnis Park in San Rafael. For information, call event chairwoman Colleen Finney at 457-6444.

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Indictments handed down for Md. gangs www.privateofficer.com

Baltimore Md Feb 27 2008

Federal prosecutors in Maryland announced a racketeering indictment yesterday against more than two dozen alleged members of a subset of the Bloods gang, revealing a violent underworld that authorities say has grown in the state in recent years as gang recruitment in jails and prisons has soared.
The defendants, most of whom are from the Baltimore area, belong to the Tree Top Pirus, or TTP, a Bloods offshoot that started at the Washington County Detention Center in Hagerstown in the late 1990s, prosecutors said.
The indictment outlines crimes, including five homicides, allegedly committed by TTP members since 2005. Twenty-six of the twenty-eight defendants are charged with racketeering. Many of the defendants are charged with conspiracy, and some are also charged with distribution of narcotics and possession of firearms.
“The goal here is to return an indictment that disrupts the larger organization,” Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said.
Law enforcement officials in the Washington area say subsets that adopt the creed and practices of the Bloods and the Crips, gangs that started in California nearly four decades ago, have grown in Montgomery County and other local jurisdictions in recent years.
Officials at the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, concerned by the spike in recruitment behind bars, recently formed a task force to develop ways to combat gang activity in prisons and share information with local and federal law enforcement officials. Officials say they have identified more than 2,600 gang members in prisons.
“These gangs are more violent, more organized and more entrenched than ever before,” said Rick Binetti, a spokesman for the state agency.
According to the indictment, the defendants, five of whom are women, sold drugs to provide financial support to those who were incarcerated, took orders from gang leaders and didn’t hesitate to use violence against members of rival gangs as well as Bloods who broke the rules.
The case marks the second time in recent years that the racketeering statute, created in the 1970s to target organized crime, has been used by federal prosecutors in Maryland to disrupt a gang. In 2005, Rosenstein’s office secured a similar indictment against alleged members of MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, a Latin gang active in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Eighteen MS-13 members have been convicted on racketeering charges, and 13 have pleaded guilty to lesser charges, including immigration and gun crimes.
The Bloods indictment was returned Thursday and unsealed yesterday. Fourteen gang members were behind bars on other charges when the indictment was handed up, and eight were taken into custody yesterday morning. Six were at large yesterday afternoon.
The gang’s alleged leader, Steve Willock, 28, of Hagerstown ran the gang from prison in Hagerstown since 2000, prosecutors said. In 2005, the gang acquired the sought-after recognition of its more-established counterpart in Compton, Calif., which “sponsored” the Maryland gang, according to the indictment.
The Maryland TTP members wore the California gang’s trademark red bandanas and caps, fought members of the Crips, a rival gang, and used a language code to discuss gang business, according to the indictment.
It says, for example, that in their vernacular, a “911″ is a gang meeting; “baby love” means money; “999″ is a reference to someone who is cooperating with law enforcement; “pup” and “peanut” are code words for pledges; police officers are “roscoes”; “birthday boy” is a prospective robbery victim; and a person “on the menu” or “labeled food” is marked for a serious beating or slaying.
In order to join, members needed to go through an initiation that generally involved committing a serious crime such as robbery, carjacking or assault, the indictment says. “The initiation process also involved being ‘jumped in to’ or ‘blessed in to’ the gang,” according to the indictment.
The defendants addressed fellow members using nicknames, which they changed often to make it harder for law enforcement officials to collect intelligence on the gang, the indictment says.
Among those indicted is Ronnie Thomas, 34, of Baltimore, who Rosenstein identified as the creator of the DVD “Stop Snitching,” which received national attention in 2004.
Willock, in a letter sent to a gang leader in California, touted the DVD. He also said he was “building on a financial structure” in parts of Baltimore, Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore where the gang was active and vowed to keep the “legacy of the Tree Top alive” on the East Coast.

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Bullet travels through security officers pants www.privateofficer.com

Opelika Ala. Feb 27 2008 Area police are investigating a shooting outside Club Roc, 9857 U.S. 29 North, Cusseta, Ala., in which one occupant of a vehicle fired several shots at patrons and at the club, striking one man in the thigh and narrowly missing two security guards.
The shooting occurred about 1:55 a.m. Sunday, said Capt. Allan Elkins, investigator with the Opelika Police Department, which is investigating because a Lee County deputy sheriff was involved.
Elkins said a deputy approached the building as patrons were coming out. Shots had been fired. The deputy went back to his patrol car and retrieved his shotgun. As he approached the front door, a vehicle, possibly a white or silver 2000 Dodge Intrepid, came around from the north side of the building.
“An occupant seated in the back behind the driver started firing a gun toward the club and its patrons,” said Elkins. “The deputy returned fire, striking the Intrepid. It was last seen headed southbound toward Opelika.”
A 21-year-old LaFayette man was struck in the upper right thigh by the person firing from the vehicle, Elkins said. A bullet also traveled through both pantlegs of a security guard but didn’t strike him. A second security guard was shot at but not injured. A 1998 Buick Regal belonging to a patron was struck by a bullet in the parking lot, but no one was reported injured. The doors to the building also were struck.
The shooting is believed to have stemmed from a suspect presenting a counterfeit $100 bill to the business, then being escorted out by security guards, Elkins said.
He said two and possibly three people were in the Intrepid.
“We are not releasing the name of the suspect at this time,” he said. “Opelika Police are conducting the investigation on behalf of the Lee County Sheriff’s Department.”

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LOSS PREVENTION/RETAIL SECURITY NEWS ROUND-UP www.privateofficer.com

SHOPLIFTING/RETAIL SECURITY NEWS ROUND-UP

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27 2008

Wilkesboro NC A North Wilkesboro woman has been banned from Kohl’s after store security caught her stuffing items into her purse last week and trying to walk out without paying for them. 26-year old Janet Marie Barber was detained by the security officer,w ho tells Wilkesboro Police he watched her place two shirts, a pair of flip flops and a pair of pants into her purse and try to make it out of the store. She had given back the merchandise after being confronted, but Kohl’s elected to press shoplifting charges against her nonetheless. The officer arrested Barber, and she was jailed on a charge of larceny. The incident happened Valentine’s Day; police released the report earlier this week.

LEXIGTON MISS. On Monday, Christopher Clay, 18, of Lexington, was arrested for shoplifting at Wal-Mart by Officer Robert Land.

Carthage Tony Rhodes, 43, of Memphis Tenn., shoplifting first offense at Kangaroo Crossing by Officer Mark Hill;

Kellsi Grimes, 19, of Carthage was arrested at Wal-Mart for shoplifting $81.86 in merchandise by Sgt. Chris Busbea on Thursday, Feb. 14.

SHORT HILLS NJ In the Mall at Short Hills’ second brazen robbery in less than a week, two thieves smashed a glass display case at the Orologio watch store at the Millburn mall on Monday evening and fled with $28,000 worth of watches, police said today.
The suspects grabbed five watches and fled the mall around 7:43 p.m., said Millburn Police Lt. Michael Palardy.
Police said the two men fled the mall in a green minivan. Authorities said they do not know what the suspects used to break the window.
Last week, robbers rammed through the front door of Bloomingdale’s before 4 a.m. and tried to take three fur coat racks. Two coat racks were recovered outside of the store and one was still in the store. Police are looking for four suspects in that incident.
Police are looking for two suspects in the latest theft. Palardy said both men were wearing long black coats and had facial hair.

HUMBLE TX On Feb. 1, Officer N. Ball was dispatched to Deerbrook Mall in reference to a shoplifter in custody at JC Penney. Treva Simpson, 23, of Cleveland, was arrested for theft.

On Feb. 1, Officer S. Martin was dispatched to 19611 Hwy. 59 in reference to a man with a gun inside Kroger. Rochell White, 25, of Humble, was arrested for disorderly conduct and displaying a gun after a dispute over a parking space.

On Feb. 1, Officer M. Bascus was dispatched to Kohl’s in Humble in reference to a shoplifter in custody. Christie Cardona, 19, of Humble, was arrested for theft.

On Feb. 2, Officer M. Bascus was dispatched to 20325 Hwy. 59 in reference to three men spraying graffiti on the back of Hobby Lobby near Deerbrook Mall. Cameron Jackson, 17, of Humble, was arrested for vandalism.

SAN ANTONIO TX — A shoplifting suspect trying to escape a security guard jumped from a second-floor balcony at RiverCenter Mall on Sunday, police said.
The man landed on the cement-paved Riverwalk in front of dozens of visitors, police said.
“He just came down and landed on his head and cracked his skull,” said Bruno Trevino, a tourist who witnessed the fall. “Blood was squirting all over.”
The man was transported to a local hospital with a head injury, although police said he was coherent and was expected to recover.

ORLANDO FLA. A thief with a craving for fresh seafood stole more than 200 pounds of live lobsters from a local dealer Saturday, police said. Officers said an employee at Real Fish and Lobster, on Tallokas Street, called police after discovering that the tasty crustaceans and possibly other seafood had been taken from the business. An employee called the general manager at about 3:15 a.m. when he discovered that someone used a crowbar to pry open the rear door of the business. Once inside the property, the burglar removed dozens of live lobsters from several crates and broke into an ice cooler that contained frozen seafood. The burglar then leaned a truss against the fence and razor wire and took off with the seafood. Employees at the seafood distributor said the damage to the property is valued at $500 and the missing lobsters were worth about $2,000.

SPRING LAKE TWP. — What started off as shoplifting for three area youths ended with a cold swim when an 18-year-old Spring Lake Township man broke through the ice on Spring Lake Wednesday.
According to the Spring Lake/Ferrysburg Police Department, the 18-year-old man had tried to cross an ice-covered section of Spring Lake separating the village from Ferrysburg when he broke through the ice at around 10:45 a.m. The man was able to pull himself out and his two friends took him to the nearby Holiday Inn to get warm.
Responding police officers were in the process of taking down information on the frigid swim when they received word of a shoplifting incident earlier that morning from the Spring Lake Wesco involving three teens. Taken were beverages and snack food.
After questioning, one of the three teens — a 15-year-old Spring Lake Township boy — admitted to taking the items. He is being charged with retail fraud.
The 18-year-old who fell through the ice and a 17-year-old from Muskegon are not being charged.

MIAMI FLA. Police arrested a 26-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man on charges of grand theft at Macy’s, 19535 Biscayne Blvd., after store security saw them hide clothes valued at $568 inside two purses at 3:45 p.m. Feb. 15. Police said they also found a bag lined with foil to throw off anti-theft sensors.

Concord NH Adam Boisvert, 21, of Firefly Lane, Hillsboro, was arrested Feb. 21 on a warrant and charged with two counts of theft by unauthorized taking. He took 50 DVDs worth about $675 from Walmart, according to the police.

Three men were arrested Feb. 19 and charged with shoplifting from Target after a store security guard saw them taking items, according to a police report.

Kevin Cormier, 49, of Parson’s Way, Bow, was arrested Feb. 14 and charged with shoplifting. He took $38 worth of food from Hannafords, according to the police report.

Mary Susan Perkins, 18, of Harrod Street, Concord, was arrested Feb. 12 and charged with three counts of shoplifting. She took clothing worth about $50 from JC Penney, Charlotte Russe and Sears at the mall, according to the police report.

Humble TX On Feb. 8, Officer T. Morgan was dispatched to Deerbrook Mall in reference to two shoplifters in custody at Macy’s. Kimberly Gonzales, 22, and Sharda Nandlal, 21, both of Houston, were arrested for theft.

*On Feb. 9, Officer R. Moore was dispatched to Deerbrook Mall in reference to a shoplifter in custody at Dillard’s. Richard Cancino, 21, of Houston, was arrested for theft.

On Feb. 9, Officer T. Morgan was dispatched to Deerbrook Mall in reference to three juvenile shoplifters and an adult in custody at Sear’s. Ana Parrilla, 44, of Cleveland, was arrested for theft
On Feb. 10, Officer M. Bascus was dispatched to Deerbrook Mall in reference to a shoplifter in custody at Sear’s. Andrea Breedlove, 18, of Willis, was arrested for theft

DANBURY CT. A Western Connecticut State University student was arrested Sunday after he shoplifted DVDs at Walmart, then pulled a knife on a security guard who tried to stop him, police said.
Michael Peszke, 19, of Old Saybrook, was taken into custody outside the Newtown Road store about 4:30 p.m.
He was charged with second-degree robbery, sixth-degree larceny, possession of a shoplifting device and disorderly conduct.
Police said Peszke fled from the store and pulled a knife on the security guard who caught him. He then began struggling with the guard before being subdued.

MUNCIE IND.– A Dunkirk woman offered to pay for items she allegedly stole from a local department store Saturday evening, even after she knew she’d still be charged with the theft.
Carrie S. Garrett, 34, was arrested at Sears just before closing time for hiding tools in her coat and purse, and trying to leave the store without paying.
She said she would pay for the tools, but loss prevention agents said the store was closed at 9 p.m.Police didn’t take the suspect to jail, but gave her a court date for the theft.Garrett told police she had planned to give the items to her father for his birthday.

MOUNT PLEASANT SC A police chase in Mount Pleasant this morning ended with the arrest of two men suspected of a crime in North Charleston.
Mount Pleasant Police say North Charleston officers were searching for two men suspected of shoplifting at a store on Rivers Avenue.
A Mount Pleasant police officer spotted the vehicle that the suspects were believed to be driving. Shortly after, the suspects took off, leading police on a chase.
The two suspects jumped out of the car on Shellmore Boulevard and were quickly apprehended.

PRINCE FREDERICK Two juveniles were charged with theft on February 20 at about 5:52 p.m. after they were observed by store security leaving K-Mart in Prince Frederick without paying for items in their possession. After DFC Carl Fischer conducted a search of the juveniles, it was discovered that one of them, a 17-year-old male from Prince Frederick, was also in possession of suspected marijuana. He was charged on a youth report with theft and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and released to a parent. The second juvenile, a 16-year-old male from Prince Frederick, was charged on a youth report with theft and released to a guardian.

On February 22 at about 5:40 p.m. two female juveniles were apprehended after they left the Kmart store in Prince Frederick without paying for items they had in their possession. The sixteen-year-old and 14-year-old, both from Lothian, were caught leaving the store with more than $140 in merchandise. They were each charged with theft on a youth report by Dep. Mark Fitzgerald and released to a parent.

Richland County SC– Richland County deputies say the 47-year-old woman accused of stealing a name tag and radio from a department store employee turned herself in Monday.Deputies charged 47-year-old Karen Knightner with strong armed robbery.Officers say Knightner got into a physical argument with an employee of the Kohl’s on Two Notch Road, and she stole items from the employee. Investigators believe she had the help of another suspect.Investigators say they are still trying to determine who the second suspect is that helped Knightner take merchandise from the department store.Investigators say the original incident happened on February 13, when Knightner tried to shoplift several items from the store, and an employee approached her.That’s when deputies say Knightner initiated a physical altercation with the employee. Officers say the employee was able to take back some of the items.But investigators say Knightner and the unknown second suspect took a Kohl’s two-way radio and name tag before leaving the store. Investigators are still searching for the second suspect. If you have any information that could help them, call Crimestoppers at 1-888-559-TIPS.

Hanover Ma Feb 10 2008 5:43 p.m. Washington St., and Famous Footwear, larceny-shoplifting. Arrest: Shemekia R. Washington, 35, 36 Whitten St., Dorchester. Charges: Shoplifting (2nd offense), shoplifting by asporation, receiving stolen property.

4:26 p.m. Washington St., and Famous Footwear. Arrest: Porchea C. Kornegay, 24, 935 Blue Hill Ave., Dorchester. Charges: Shoplifting by asporation (2 counts), receiving stolen property. Arrest: Karisha Q. Perry, 24, 91 Ames St., Dorchester. Charges: Shoplifting by asporation, receiving stolen property.

Pascagoula MS 1317 Telephone Road, Wayne Lee’s Grocery, Jason Watson, 23, 6525 Gregory, Moss Point, was arrested for shoplifting. Jacklyn Coleman, 41, 6505 Wayne St., Moss Point, was arrested for shoplifting 2nd offense.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Feb 27 2008– Three Nashville firefighters are under scrutiny after a woman said she got a lot more than a ride and a tour of the fire station.

Murfreesboro resident Lisa Huffman claims she and some friends were leaving a downtown bar on Feb. 2 at about midnight when a couple of firefighters offered them a ride in their truck and a tour of the fire station.
They agreed, but Huffman claims that when she and her friend got to the fire station, the firefighters offered them beer and took them to a bedroom where porn was playing on a big-screen TV. Huffman said she felt trapped.

Fire Department Deputy Chief Kim Lawson said on Tuesday morning that the firefighters did nothing criminal, but she said they should have known better and that the situation just doesn’t look good for the department.
The three firefighters, Richard Brantley, John Carpenter and Capt. Michael Crum, are all from downtown’s Station No. 2. They are facing disciplinary action after Huffman filed a complaint with the city last week.
After an investigation, there was no proof of any porn or beer, but the men did admit to giving the women a ride and Lawson said that’s bad enough.
“It was after midnight, so that’s really not acceptable. It appears to be inappropriate. We take steps to make sure the community feels safe and that they know that we respect them, and it just does not look good for that to occur,” she said.
Because of what happened, every Nashville firefighter will be retrained on sexual harassment, and they can no longer have premium TV channels in the fire halls.
It’s unclear whether the women asked for a ride or were offered a ride.
According to Huffman’s complaint, the women were not forced to do anything, and Huffman said she thought the firefighters were cute.
The three firefighters in question face a disciplinary hearing before the chief within the next two weeks.
Lawson said the three firemen will likely face suspension, at the most, and said all of firefighters in the department will be retrained on sexual harassment.

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Man arrested for raping Rottweiler www.privateofficer.com

Wichita KS Feb 27 2008

A woman responding to a break-in in her garage found a man having sexual intercourse with her 4-year-old female rottweiler, police said Wednesday.
The woman called police Tuesday night after finding the 20-year-old man.
Police arrested the man, who they say had a prior conviction for the same crime less than six months ago.
“This is the first time that I’ve ever seen this… and I’ve been in law enforcement a long time,” said Lt. Sam Hanley, who leads the department’s sex crimes unit.
The man was booked into Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of criminal sodomy and aggravated burglary.

The burglary was included because the man is suspected of breaking into the garage while someone was home, police said.
He had lived with the family for a while last year in the 3700 block of East Clark, police said.
The man pleaded no contest to having sex with an animal last September in Reno County and was fined $353, according to court documents.
He also can be found on an Internet Web site where people show photos and tell stories about sex with animals, Capt. Darrell Haynes said.
The rottweiler was not injured, Hanley said, but a Kansas Humane Society spokeswoman said the incident still qualifies as animal cruelty.
“It is abuse,” said Jennifer Campbell, director of communications for the Kansas Humane Society. “That is committing a violent act toward that animal.”
Campbell said she hopes investigators explore whether the incident was an attempt to strike out at the dog’s owners.
“That’s where a lot of animal cruelty starts,” she said.
Research has shown that perpetrators “are frustrated and angry and upset, and animals are vulnerable,” Campbell said.

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Student sets off bomb at school www.privateofficer.com

Student arrested for setting off bomb at school www.privateofficer.com

Anne Arundel County Md. Feb 27 2008

An Anne Arundel County high school student faces felony charges that he detonated a homemade explosive device in the parking lot of his school yesterday, authorities said.

The 16-year-old boy apparently tossed a “Drano bomb” into the bed of a fellow student’s pickup truck outside Old Mill High School in Millersville about 9:10 a.m. The device was made in part from a water bottle filled with a liquid toilet de-clogger, said county schools spokesman Bob Mosier.

A county police officer stationed at the school saw the cloud of smoke, but no vehicles were damaged, and no one was hurt.

The student was charged as a juvenile with manufacturing a destructive device and possession of explosive material with the intent to create a destructive device — both felonies — as well as reckless endangerment and destruction to property.

Since the incident, the school was put on a precautionary alert this morning after hearing of a “nonspecific threat,” Mosier said.A

female student tipped off administrators about something she had heard about 10 a.m. The school was put on “code yellow,” which means that the exterior doors are locked, and outdoor activities were canceled, but parents could still pick up their children for previously scheduled appointments, Mosier said.The school was not locked down, and students at the high school and the two middle schools on the same campus were sent home today with letters about the incident.

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Police K-9 dogs wear shoes www.privateofficer.com

Police K-9 dogs to wear shoes www.privateofficer.com

BERLIN Germany Feb 26 2008
Police dogs in the western city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol – the entire dog unit will soon be equipped with blue plastic fiber shoes, a police spokesman said Monday.
“All 20 of our police dogs – German and Belgian shepherds – are currently being trained to walk in these shoes,” Andre Hartwich said. “I’m not sure they like it, but they’ll have to get used to it.”
The unusual footwear is not a fashion statement, Hartwich said, but rather a necessity due to the high rate of paw injuries on duty. Especially in the city’s historical old town – famous for both its pubs and drunken revelers – the dogs often step into broken beer bottles.
“Even the street-cleaning doesn’t manage to remove all the glass pieces from between the streets’ cobble stones,” Hartwich said, adding that the dogs frequently get injured by little pieces sticking deep in their paws.
The dogs will start wearing the shoes this spring but only during operations that demand special foot protection. The shoes comes in sizes small, medium and large and were ordered in blue to match the officers uniforms, Hartwich said.
“Now we just have to teach the dogs how to tie their shoes,” he joked.

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Officer guilty of sexual assault on duty www.privateofficer.com

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CINCINNATI Ohio Feb 26 2008-
A former Cincinnati police officer admitted Friday to sex crime charges.
William Simpson pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery and agreed to resign from the police force.
Prosecutors said Simpson responded to a domestic dispute in October 2006 between a woman and her ex-boyfriend, who dispatchers said broke into the woman’s home.
By the time Simpson arrived, the man had left, and investigators said the officer took the woman to the clerk’s office to file burglary charges against her ex-boyfriend.
Simpson told the woman he would photograph her injuries, and authorities said the woman asked Simpson to find a female officer to take the photos.
Simpson refused, took the photographs, made sexual comments to the woman, held her wrists and sexually assaulted her, according to investigators.
Prosecutors agreed to drop three rape charges and an additional count of sexual battery in exchange for Simpson’s guilty plea.
He will be sentenced next month.

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Security officers go on strike www.privateofficer.com

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Minneapolis MN Feb 26 2008
One-day demonstrations could foreshadow longer strike in labor dispute over health care costs, wages Security guards lined the streets of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul on Monday as part of a one-day labor strike.Members of the local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) voted Feb. 9 to authorize a strike, and the daylong picketing and support rallies were scheduled after negotiators failed Saturday to agree on the terms of a new contract.The approximately 800 striking security officers are expected to be back at work Tuesday. But if negotiators fail to reach a deal at their next meeting March 6, Monday’s demonstrations could be a prelude to a longer labor strike.In Minneapolis, the striking workers carried numerous signs and chanted a warning to their employers: “If it needs to get bigger, it will get bigger.”The key issues for the union are hourly wages and health care costs. Other sticking points cited by workers Monday included increased training for security officers and additional supplies, such as bullet-proof vests, for officers working in potentially dangerous areas. Security workers in the Twin Cities signed their first union contract in 2005, and the young chapter is waging an unprecedented battle as members negotiate their second contract. The SEIU Local 26 currently operates within the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and represents approximately 80 percent of the private security workforce in those cities.

The five security companies represented in the negotiations are ABM Security Services, AlliedBarton Security Services, American Security, Viking Security and Securitas Security Services USA. Buildings affected by the strike include Block E, the IDS Center, Ameriprise Financial Center and the U.S. Bank Building.Guy Thomas, the lead representative for the security companies, said buildings in the Twin Cities maintained continuous security service throughout the day Monday, as the security companies had prepared for the walk-out.Negotiators for the two sides have met eight times since Dec. 1. Professional mediators took part in the last two meetings, and are scheduled to do so again at the March 6 session.A union member familiar with the negotiations said representatives for the security companies walked away from the table Saturday without making any real progress on the subject of health care.But Thomas said in a phone interview Monday that Saturday’s negotiations were “very positive,” and that the security companies had offered an hourly wage increase and made progress on refining the geographic area in which the union can operate.He said the two sides “have made progress on [health care] and we believe the negotiation process should continue to play out. Each of the five security companies is committed to the goal that our employees will have an affordable health care plan when this is done.”A gap between the two sides also remains on wage increases. A union member said the yearly wage increases offered by the security companies are smaller than those in the previous contract, which expired Jan. 1. David Zaffrann, a spokesman for the union, said the average security officer in the Local 26 earns $11.75 an hour.Gregg Zavitz, a security officer at Ameriprise Financial Center in Minneapolis, said a major reason for the one-day demonstrations is simply “to show that we can do it.”Dozens of workers rallied at the Nicollet Mall on Monday morning and proceeded to march through the sidewalks of Minneapolis. A similar rally was held at Town Square, 444 Cedar St., in St. Paul.“Today is about wages. It’s about health care. But it’s also about dignity,” Javier Morillo, president of the SEIU Local 26, said at the Minneapolis rally.Comments by union members focused heavily on the high cost of health care. Their sentiments were echoed in remarks by U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken and State Rep. Paul Thissen, D-Minneapolis, who marched with the striking workers. Morillo also announced the union’s endorsement of Franken during the rally.Morillo said the union is willing to return to the negotiating table at any time. He said future walk-outs aren’t likely to occur before the March 6 negotiations, but added that a longer strike is possible as the two sides have a long way to go to reach a middle ground.The first contract proposal submitted by the union represented a 125 percent increase in hourly wages and a 650 percent increase in health care costs for the security companies.The security firms publicly balked at those demands in a press release Monday, but Morillo said the proposal was simply a high-ball starting point to begin negotiations.“You don’t start where you think you’re going to end up,” Morillo said. “We’ve talked with them (about) what kind of a figure we can accept. And right now, what they’ve given to us as their bottom line isn’t going to get our members the health care they need.”The SEIU Local 26 also includes a janitorial branch, and many members work in the same buildings protected by the union security officers. Morillo said the security guards are seeking the same health care benefits that janitors received in contract negotiations last year. Henry Lowe, 53, works for ABM Security Services in the Minneapolis parking ramp system and joined a worker march through downtown Minneapolis on Monday morning.Lowe said his wife has been hospitalized since 2006 with sarcosis, and he pays $579 per month in health care premiums for the two of them, plus a steady stream of medical bills.With 20 years experience in the security field, Lowe said he has been troubled by regular increases in health care premiums in recent years, combined with rising deductibles and reduced coverage.But he’s optimistic his union representatives will help to control his spiraling health care costs.“The union will get us the health care we need,” Lowe said. “The private companies don’t want to give us anything they don’t have to. I’m tired of being pushed around.”

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Constable charged with assault on police www.privateofficer.com

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Indianapolis IND. Feb 26 2008 – A Perry Township Constable is in trouble with the law Monday afternoon following a weekend arrest at a Broad Ripple bar.

Constable Lawrence Walter appeared before a judge on two felony and three misdemeanor charges, including battery on a police officer, after getting into a nasty fight with police after he was told to leave Landsharks on Broad Ripple Avenue.

A Metro police officer says Walter, 27, refused repeated warnings to leave the bar around 3:00 am Sunday morning. He left once but returned, sparking a fight with police. It took four officers to get him subdued along with repeated stuns with their Taser.

IMPD Lt. Jeff Duhamell said Walter was “kicking the officer, spitting on the officer, swearing, and he had swung on the officer with a closed fist. The officer received injuries to his face.”Police say eventually Walter claimed he was an officer after putting up a nasty fight.”He told them several times he was a policeman,” Lt. Duhamell said. “He had been drinking.”

Officers talked with Walter’s employers at the Perry Township Small Claims Court, where he worked as a deputy constable. They terminated his special deputy powers immediately from the Perry Township Constable’s office, The Marion County Sheriff’s Department and at Wishard Hospital Security.
Walter told the judge his only previous arrest happened in Texas for public intoxication. The judge decided to released him after his attorney convinced the court he is not a flight risk and set his pre-trial and trial dates for next month.

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Internet police unit makes 111th arrest www.privateofficer.com

Police unit make 111th internet arrest www.privateofficer.com

COLUMBIA, SC Feb 26 2008 – South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster announced Monday that a 30-year-old Columbia man was arrested on February 22nd in an undercover Internet sting conducted by the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department.
McMaster stated that Dennis Joseph Powell, Junior, was arrested on one count of criminal solicitation of a minor, one count of attempted dissemination of obscene material to a minor, and one count of attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
Arrest warrants allege that beginning on October 24, 2007, Powell solicited sex on the Internet from an individual he believed to be a 12-year-old girl, but he was really communicating with undercover Lexington County Sheriff’s Deputies.
A news release states Powell is also accused of using a digital camera to photograph his genitalia and using the Internet to send the image to the “girl.” Powell further arranged to meet the “girl” for sex at a predetermined location in Lexington County. He was arrested upon his arrival.
A search warrant executed at Powell’s residence resulted in the seizure of a computer, a digital camera, an image scanner, a bottle of wine and various computer related items.
Powell was assigned a $15,000 bond.
This marks the 111th arrest for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

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Man burned trying to steal copper wire www.privateofficer.com

Richmond Va. Feb 26 2008 A man Richmond police say was trying to steal copper from a Dominion Virginia Power substation was seriously burned Saturday night.
Richard Croker, 36, was taken to VCU Medical Center with burns over 65 percent of his body, authorities said. He was listed in stable condition this morning.
Richmond police said officers were on patrol just before 9 p.m. Saturday when they saw a large ball of fire and explosion at a Dominion substation in the 4300 block of Hull Street Road.
When they pulled up to the fenced-in substation, they found Croker inside with his clothes on fire. Croker was rushed to the University Medical Center burn unit.
Police said Croker had climbed over the fence and was trying to steal copper wiring.
Police have obtained warrants charging Croker with trespassing, felony destruction of property and larceny.

He has not yet been served with the warrants, police spokeswoman Wendy Jenkins said.

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Mounted Private Troopers Corral Concert Goers www.privateofficer.com

Southlake Tx. Feb 26 2008

Alpha & Omega Mounted Security Patrol (A&O), the nation’s largest private cavalry with headquarters in Texas, will take its unusual public safety force to Michigan for the first time this summer. A&O will assemble riders from several states, along with local riders from Michigan, for the inaugural Rothbury Music Festival (http://www.rothburyfestival.com), July 3 to 6. The music and camping festival will be held at the DoubleJJ Ranch (http://www.doublejj.com) in Rothbury about 60 miles north/northwest of Grand Rapids. Some 50,000 music fans are expected to come to see Dave Matthews, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Phil Lesh and Friends, Primus, Snoop Dogg and dozens of other artists.
Alpha & Omega Troopers are a familiar site at the nation’s biggest music festivals. The company gathers a special force of riders who travel to half a dozen festivals a year. These riders are supplemented with riders from the local area who are trained on-site in the special skills needed to protect music fans. Riders traveling to Rothbury will have just completed their seventh stint at the nation’s largest music festival, Bonnaroo, in Tennessee in June. Troopers at Bonnaroo provide security for some 100,000 music fans and campers on a 770-acre site.
“Rothbury is shaping up to be an important music festival that can hold its own with other major music events nationwide,” said Frank Keller, president and CEO of A&O. “A&O Troopers have become a welcomed part of the festival scene; the fans are familiar with the riders and horses and love to come up and pet the horses. We feel like we are providing an important service and are having fun doing it. Horse enthusiasts in Michigan are invited to test with us for a chance to share the experience of providing security for some very devoted music fans.”
Riders come from all walks of life. More than half are women. Many are ranchers and police officers. Some are mayors and sheriffs. The A&O Troopers will accomplish the work of 700 foot patrol persons. To fulfill this charge, Alpha & Omega will use 15,000 pounds of hay (one ton per day), 14,000 gallons of water, 52,000 pounds of grain and all the equipment needed to house riders and horses for seven days. Their Trooper movement rivals any road crew effort by a rock band. Troopers come from a dozen states and will travel about 50,000 miles collectively to reach their camp adjacent to the festival site.
Visitors to the camp may think they have stumbled back in time to a Wild West campsite … except that this campsite is equipped with the latest technology and communications equipment. Troopers are connected with Rothbury security and with each other by state-of-the-art radios. A command and control center is housed in the semi-trailer that doubles as transport for horses. A&O commanders work from an office in a specially-designed motor home equipped with computer, fax machine, and high speed Internet access.
In their bright red shirts atop their horses, Troopers can be easily spotted by fans. Many followers of bands like Phish, Dave Matthews, and The Dead know the Troopers and their horses by name. Alpha & Omega has been part of the concert festival world since Woodstock ’94, after which they were invited to Phish’s Clifford Ball in 1996. Since then, Alpha & Omega Troopers have been a fixture at the nation’s most popular music gatherings.
“Our Troopers are particularly good at interacting with the fans,” Keller said. “Riders are trained in public relations as well as professional security measures; horses are selected and trained to handle crowds, rough terrain, fireworks and other sensory elements.”
Alpha & Omega Mounted Security Patrol is the nation’s largest and oldest private mounted patrol. Highly trained, uniformed Troopers provide public safety services at mixed use developments, amphitheaters, music festivals and other mass gatherings at locations across the United States.

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Georgia’s Most Wanted Brought To Justice By Artist www.privateofficer.com

DECATUR GA. Feb 26 2008 – The first time Marla Lawson saw the videotape of a gunman who robbed a Lexington Road convenience store and killed the clerk, she knew she could draw him.
In less than an hour, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation forensic artist finished a sketch of the man who shot the 44-year-old clerk at Lay’s Kwik Korner, even though part of his face was hidden by a bandana.
“When I saw him on the video, he just struck a chord and looked like someone I could sketch without a witness,” Lawson said. “I immediately got what I thought he looked like in my mind.”
Police sent the sketch to newspapers and television stations, and people soon started to call to tell detectives they recognized the suspect.
Investigators arrested Clifton James Thomas two weeks later and charged him with murder, armed robbery and several other felonies.
“If I had to rate Marla’s sketch as it compares to how Mr. Thomas looks, in terms of 1 to 10, I’d have to give it a 9 1/2,” Athens-Clarke police Capt. Clarence Holeman said. “I leave off the half because you couldn’t see his mouth” in the video.
But Lawson saw through the bandana, in a way, following the contours of his chin and lower lip to guess about the shape of his mouth.
Then there were the eyes.
“They just seemed to go straight to his soul,” Lawson said. “They were horribly dreamy and milky – really cruel-looking.”
Detectives showed the murder suspect’s drawing to another convenience store clerk who Thomas allegedly robbed about 20 minutes after Djamal Atroune was shot in Lay’s Kwik Korner at Lexington and Gaines School roads.
“A detective told me when (the clerk) saw the sketch, she broke out crying,” Holeman said.
Honing her skills
Lawson has drawn thousands of sketches that helped put away hundreds of murderers, rapists and other violent felons in the 20 years she’s worked for the GBI.
Even so, few people outside law enforcement recognized the 58-year-old artist’s name until she drew a picture seen around the globe: a sketch of Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph.
That drawing and one of Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, are the two most famous sketches in U.S. law enforcement history, GBI spokesman John Bankhead contends.
Lawson is jovial and outspoken – as colorful as her red hair. But she never sought the limelight.
Recently, while reconstructing a face on the skull from the remains of a man found in Crisp County in 2003, Lawson talked about her craft and the roundabout way she came to be one of the most respected artists in her field.
“When I was just a poor kid growing up in Atlanta, I’d walk the creek bed and dig up clay and use it to sculpt heads,” she said. “I wouldn’t sculpt anyone in particular, just people I made up. I was artsy-fartsy as a kid.”
Her mother encouraged Lawson’s talent, keeping her daughter stocked with art supplies.
“I found that I liked drawing faces, and I had no earthly idea I would one day be doing this for a living,” she said. “I just kind of fell into it.”
Lawson was 18 years old and scraping by as a temp-service typist when her mother urged her to put her talent to work for a little extra money.
She honed her skills as a street sketch artist in an Underground Atlanta alley, and a couple of years later, got a typist’s job with the Atlanta Police Department.
Lawson’s police lieutenant father bragged about his daughter’s talent, and his colleagues thought she could help them catch criminals.
Lawson first tried drawing only from victims’ and witnesses’ memories, but after three tries, she gave up because the results all looked alike, she said.
Lawson then asked for hundreds of mug shots that were headed to the shredder and asked victims and witnesses to point out traits that they recognized, she said.
“I find if they are looking through actual photos, that enhances their memories and they find things their mind had forgotten was there,” such as a mole, a uni-brow or a patch of acne, Lawson said.
Catching Rudolph
Lawson grew tired of the job with Atlanta police and quit after 15 years, but was unexpectedly drawn back into law enforcement two years later while working at a Subway sandwich shop in Coweta County.
She noticed that a man approaching the counter had a gun in his waistband, but the man left as Lawson called out to a co-worker in the back and a few customers came in.
Lawson learned that a gift store up the road was robbed that same day, she said, so she went home and drew a sketch of the man from memory, brought it to work the next day to hone it with her co-worker, then showed it to the gift shop employee.
“Oh my God, it’s him,” the clerk said.
Lawson gave her sketch to a Coweta County sheriff’s deputy who recognized the man as an ex-con who had recently finished prison time for an armed robbery conviction.
The sheriff’s office then offered Lawson a job, but not the one she expected.
She spent a couple of unsatisfying years as a jailer, but “then the Olympic bombs went off,” Lawson said.
Special Agent Charles Stone – who headed the GBI’s anti-terrorism unit investigating the bombing – visited Lawson at the jail and had a brief chat.
“He kind of whispered in my ear, ‘I’m going to call you tonight,’ and when I went home and told my husband I’m going to get a job with the GBI, he didn’t believe me,” Lawson said. “Thirty minutes later the phone rang and (Stone) asked me to come work for them.”
Lawson drew one sketch of a suspicious man someone saw sitting on a bench before the bomb went off, killing a woman and injuring more than 100 people.
Years later, Lawson drew Rudolph again.
“I was vacationing with my family in Florida when my beeper went off,” Lawson said. “The next thing I knew I was driving to North Carolina” to meet with a man who had seen Rudolph, whose hair had grown and was sporting a beard while living in the mountains.
“I just started drawing the whole face,” Lawson said. “I sat with (the witness) to help me make corrections, because Rudolph was looking a little messier by then.”
That sketch that appeared in newspapers and on television around the world, and helped police in Murphy, N.C., identify Rudolph after an officer spotted him behind a food store and held him on suspicion he was attempting a burglary.
Like Rudolph and many others before, Clifton Thomas is behind bars in large part because of Lawson’s handiwork.
“I don’t want to sound like I’m on an ego trip, but I laugh to myself when I think how funny it is that a grandmother with a pencil can catch a person 500 police officers are out there looking for,” Lawson said. “I try not to be so prideful. I really feel like the good Lord gave me a talent for a purpose.”

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14 Year Old Raped On School Bus www.privateofficer.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Feb 26 2008– Murfreesboro police said a 14-year-old girl was raped on a school bus while at least 60 kids and the bus driver were aboard.
Rutherford County school bus driver Joe Bond said, for safety sake, he looks straight ahead when hauling kids.
“I’ve been a bus driver for six years. I love my camera. I wouldn’t drive without one,” said Bond.
On Wednesday, his camera saw something Bond said he did not. A 14-year-old Riverdale High student was raped as the bus was traveling down the road, said police.
Brandon Stover, 18, a Senior at Riverdale High School, has been charged with sexual battery and rape.
“Did she say, ‘No?’” asked reporter Cynthia Williams.
“I didn’t hear it. I’ve got 60 kids on the bus all talking, cutting up, laughing,” said Bond.
Bond said it wasn’t until the bus stopped, and the girl was leaving did she tell him she’d been “groped” and urged him to look at the tape.
“Did she look upset?” asked Williams.
“A little scared maybe, but not really upset. She didn’t want anybody to know she turned him in,” said Bond.
Bond said that when he saw the tape, he saw pushing, but nothing that would indicate what Murfreesboro police said was clearly rape.
“In this case, our suspect actually reached into the pants of our victim and there was penetration when that occurred. So, that is considered rape,” said Murfreesboro police spokesman Kyle Evans.
The girl was sitting in the middle of the bus next to the window, about 15 or 20 feet from the bus driver.
If he didn’t have a clear visual of what was going on, police wonder why Bond did not immediately call authorities with what little he knew from the 14-year-old, police said.
“Who would I report to? I didn’t have the supervisor’s number,” said Bond.
“How about police?” asked Williams.
“She didn’t say anything about being rape. She said she had been groped,” said Bond.
It was the child’s parents who showed up at Riverdale High School the next day and reported what allegedly had happened.
Stover was arrested at school Friday and expelled the rest of the school year.
Police said they are still not convinced about what the bus driver saw. They also said Stover wasn’t a regular rider of the bus, and they said they believe he randomly chose the girl.

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Got a ticket? Pay at the patrol car window www.privateofficer.com

GENEVA IL Feb 25 2008 — Getting a traffic ticket is never a good thing, but it will be a little easier now with the ability to post immediate bond with a credit card at the squad car.
The Kane County Circuit Clerk’s office is implementing the new NXGEN Payment Services system, which will allow a police officer to run a credit card during a traffic stop and get the card approved immediately.
Drivers getting tickets will not have to face the possibility of an arrest warrant being issued later, going to the police station for booking or surrendering their driver’s licenses to police.
“With homeland security and all, people need to stay in possession of their IDs,” said Circuit Clerk Deborah Seyller while addressing members of the County Board Judicial and Public Safety Committee.
Kane County deputies have had the ability to run credit cards for bond at the squad car for several years. But it was an “old-fashioned” credit-card machine, which basically took the number.
A deputy had to run the card for approval back at the office. If it was not approved, the driver received a warning mailed by the circuit clerk’s office and could face an arrest warrant.
With instant approval at the time of a stop, that will not have to happen, saving time and money for the justice and public-safety systems.
Seyller said she had priced getting a credit-card approval system before, and it would have cost her office between $500,000 and $750,000. But NXGEN will instead charge the card holder a 7 percent fee, and charge the government nothing, Seyller said.
“NXGEN has stepped up to the plate, costing us zero,” she said.
Not only Kane County can use the system, but any squad cars in any Kane County police agencies with Internet-ready laptops can use it, too, she said.

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131 Persons arrested for social network crimes www.privateofficer.com

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Police said this week -end that 131 persons have have been arrested nationwide so far this year for crimes associated with social networking internet sites.
Of those arrested, the majority have been charged with sexual assaults, rapes and crimes against teens that were lured from web pages on MySpace and Facebook. Other arrests included stalking, harrasement and terroristic threats.

During the past three days, arrrests were made in metro Atlanta of a 23 year caught having sex with a 15 year old he lured from MySpace. The father of the victim came home to find this predator in the act of raping his daughter and held him until police could arrive.
In Concord north Carolina, a teacher’s assistant is being held after being arrested Thursday for luring multiple girls from his MySpace page for sexual encounters.
A Texas man was also arrested in the past three days for “fishing” the social network sites for young girls and enticing them to meet him for sexual encounters.

Authorities say that besides these sexual crimes, they are seeing a rise in stalking, credit card and personal identification thefts and “white collar” crime across the internet and especially in chatrooms and other social network sites.

If you suspect that a predator or even an adult is having an inappropiate conversation or meetings with your underage child, you are advised to call your local police department and have them investigate. chances are good that this person is also seeking out other children and may have already been involved in criminal activity with others.

Police and security experts also say that it is best to keep the computer in an area that can be monitored by an adult and that parents should know who their child is chatting with on line and who is makiing contact with them.

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Man arrested for stalking officer after ticket www.privateofficer.com

NEW CASTLE IND Feb 25 2008 — A New Castle man has been charged with stalking a city police officer who gave him a traffic citation.
Freddy G. Gregory, 63, 2814 Chrysler Ave., is charged with a Class D felony carrying a maximum three-year prison term.

According to court documents, Gregory has harassed the officer — driving in front of his home and apparently following him while on duty — since receiving the ticket in October 2006.The charge against Gregory was filed Feb. 12, and a May 21 trial date is set in Henry Superior Court 2.The New Castle man was released from the county jail after posting a $5,000 bond. A condition of his bond was also that he stay away from his alleged victim.Gregory was convicted of invasion of privacy — a misdemeanor charge usually filed in response to a violation of a protective order — in 1993 and was fined $25.A stalking charge filed in 1997 was dismissed three years later.

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Bar brawl, shooting gets large police response www.privateofficer.com

Bar brawl, shooting brings large police response www.privateofficer.com

Boston MA. Feb 25 2008 This morning around 1:43am, officers were inside the Aria nightclub located at 246 Tremont St. in Boston when they observed several small groups exchanging words.
Offices immediately responded to address these exchanges when they escalated into several fights. The fight grew to about 20-35 people, as patrons started to swing champagne bottles striking people about the head and torso. Officers, at this time, were engaged with the crowd and trying to break up the various fights that had broken out.
While actively engaged with the crowd, officers heard one loud bang consistent with the sound of gunshots, followed by two to three more. An officer that was on a platform looked in the direction of the gunshots and observed the suspect standing about five feet away with his hands extended holding a black firearm randomly firing shots into the crowd. As officers made their way toward the suspect, he turned around and attempted to exit the main room, bringing the firearm out of view. Officers, having identified the suspect, attempted to gain control of the suspect as he tried to make his way his way of the club. The suspect violently resisted officers’ efforts to detain him. The suspect refused to heed officers’ commands to drop the weapon as they attempted to remove the gun from his possession, and kept trying to reach for his waist.
Officers, after a lengthy and very violent struggle with the suspect, gained control of the suspect and disarmed him. After disarming the suspect, officers were now faced with an attack from the crowd who attempted to attack officers. Officers requested assistance from other units and alerted the dispatchers that officers were in trouble. Numerous units from around the city responded to the scene and after some time were able to secure the scene.

After securing the scene, officers located four victims that had sustained injuries during the incident.

Victim #1 suffered a gunshot wound to the left elbow, and was transported to the hospital.

Victim #2 suffered a laceration to the head from getting hit with a champagne bottle.

Victim #3 suffered a gunshot to the right elbow and was transported to the hospital.

Victim #4, a state trooper suffered a broken arm while trying struggling with the suspect and breaking up the fights.

The suspect, Damion Jamaal-Anthony HALEY, 24, of Milton was arrested and charged with Unlawful Possession of Firearm, Unlawful Possession of Ammunition, Firearm Discharged Within 500’ of a Dwelling, Assault and Battery on a Police Officer, Assault and Battery by Means of a Dangerous Weapon, Carrying a Loaded Firearm, and Possession of a large Capacity Feeding Device. In addition to the above charges, the suspect was also charged with six outstanding default warrants.

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Officer shot, suspect killed during shoot-out www.privateofficer.com

HOUSTON TN. Feb 25 2008 A Houston police officer was shot and a robbery suspect killed during a foot chase.
It happened Saturday night outside a night club at Northwest Mall.

Investigators say three officers working security were approached by two men, who claimed they had been robbed.

The officers then saw three men running through the parking lot and gave chase after them.
When the officers began to chase them, the suspects turned and started shooting authorities say. All three officers returned fire. One officer was hit in the upper leg, while one suspect was killed.
The injured officer is recovering at Memorial Hermann. He’s expected to be OK.

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NRA Victory; National Parks To Allow Guns www.privateofficer.com

National parks to allow guns in some areas www.privateofficer.com

WASHINGTON DC Feb 25 2008 — In a victory for gun-rights advocates, the federal government is preparing to relax a decades-old ban on bringing loaded firearms into national parks.Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that his department would suggest new regulations by the end of April that could bring federal rules into line with state laws concerning guns in parks and public lands. His announcement came in a letter to Sen. Michael D. Crapo (R-Idaho), one of 50 senators who have written to him about the issue. Senators from both parties have backed a drive to repeal the ban, which has been in place in some parks for at least 100 years.
The proposed rule change would let visitors carry loaded weapons into national parks in states with few gun restrictions, such as Montana. California is not one of those states. Its law prohibits loaded guns in state parks unless they are locked inside a car trunk or are similarly inaccessible. “It’s a place of refuge, not a place for hunting, and it’s patrolled by state park rangers who are there to protect visitors,” California State Parks spokesman Roy Stearns said.Gun rights advocates, notably the National Rifle Assn., have said the ban infringes on their 2nd Amendment rights to bear arms and their ability to defend themselves from predators, both human and animal.”If you’re hiking in the backcountry and there is a problem with a criminal or an aggressive animal, there’s no 911 box where you can call police and have a 60-second response time,” said Gary S. Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Assn. Kempthorne’s decision to review the ban was hailed by the NRA. “This is an important step in the right direction,” said the organization’s chief lobbyist, Chris W. Cox.On the other hand, the National Parks Conservation Assn. called Kempthorne’s action “alarming.” Thomas C. Kiernan, the group’s president, said loosening the ban would be “a blow to the national parks and the 300 million visitors who enjoy them every year.”His view is echoed by gun-control advocates and some rangers who say that permitting firearms would be dangerous for visitors and wildlife and would alter the national park experience.”Parks have long been sanctuaries for both animals and people,” said Charles R. “Butch” Farabee, a former acting superintendent at Montana’s Glacier National Park who is retired. “There need to be places in this country where people can feel secure without guns and know that the guy in the campground across the way does not have one.”Although a federal rule change would not directly affect California, George Durkee, a board member of the U.S. Park Rangers Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police who works at Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks east of Fresno, worries about gun owners from other states: “Somebody who says, ‘Oh, well, I can now carry a gun in national parks,’ and doesn’t read the fine print will just figure he can carry one in Yosemite.”The federal government would not cede authority over firearms in national parks to the states, said Interior Department spokesman Chris Paolino, but would like to reflect the policies of host states. Paolino said the department would also take into consideration the ban on firearms in federal buildings.Weapons originally were prohibited in national parks to prevent “opportunistic poaching” of wildlife, said Frank Buono, a former assistant superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park, east of Palm Springs.A 1908 Yellowstone National Park regulation, for example, required that visitors “having firearms, traps, nets, seines or explosives” surrender the weapons at the entrance unless they received written permission from the park superintendent. A similar policy was in effect at most parks for decades. Then the Reagan administration in 1983 required that visitors unload and store their firearms before entering most parks.Supporters of the repeal effort note that state gun laws apply to federal land managed by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and they think that should be the case in national parks and wildlife refuges as well. Half of the Senate seems to agree. Nine Democrats and 41 Republicans have signed letters to Kempthorne calling on him to lift the gun ban. “We do not believe that allowing law-abiding citizens to transport and carry firearms — rather than forcing them to disassemble or store them in their trunks — will increase the chances that they will be tempted to violate prohibitions on discharge,” one group wrote. In campaigning to repeal the ban, the NRA hoped to add to a string of recent victories that included blocking an effort in Congress to give local law enforcement officials access to federal gun purchase data and a move in Virginia to require background checks for buyers at gun shows.In a measure of the bipartisan support for relaxing gun laws, a majority of Congress — 55 senators and 250 House members — recently urged the Supreme Court to strike down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, one of the nation’s strictest.Advocates of allowing loaded guns in national parks believe it is foremost an issue of ending what they see as an unconstitutional infringement on their right to bear arms. But they also contend that park visitors are “increasingly vulnerable” to violent crime.”While park rangers now use bulletproof vests and automatic weapons to enforce the law, regular Americans in states where conceal-and-carry law exists are denied the opportunity for self-defense,” Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in “talking points” distributed by his office.

The National Park Service says there were 116,588 reported offenses in national parks in 2006, the most recent year for which data are available, including 11 killings, 35 rapes or attempted rapes, 61 robberies, 16 kidnappings and 261 aggravated assaults. Supporters also think gun owners should be able to protect themselves against dangerous animals, dismissing arguments that firearms would ruin the park experience. “An attack, whether by an animal or a criminal, would degrade the experience of park visitors more,” NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said.
The park service said there were four bear attacks last year: two in Yellowstone, one in Sequoia and one in Grand Teton. There were none in 2006. Officials at Glacier — which recorded 10 deaths from grizzly bear attacks between 1967 and 1998 — said the last attack was in 2005, when two hikers were mauled. One of the victims, Johan Otter, an Escondido man who, with his daughter, was seriously injured, said the idea that a gun could have stopped the 400-pound bear that charged him is naive.”We only had, like, half a second between seeing the bear and the impact,” Otter said. “Most likely, if you shoot, you’re going to hurt the animal. It’s just going to get even more mad at you. The minute they’re on top of you, there’s no way you can pull a trigger.” Organizations that represent current and retired park workers oppose a repeal, saying it would endanger visitors, rangers and wildlife, and change the parks’ character. Bill Wade, executive council chairman of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, said people could be discouraged from visiting certain parks, such as Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, where he served as superintendent. “How many of you would want to go out there if you knew that people were running up and down the Appalachian Trail with guns?”

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Security officer captures bank robber www.privateofficer.com

San Diego Ca Feb 25 2008

A suspected bank robber is behind bars thanks to some quick thinking by the bank’s security officer.

It happened just before 10 a.m. Friday at the Bank of America on B Street downtown.

San Diego police say two men held up the bank. As they lef tthe building, the security officer chased them while bank tellers called police. The security officer stayed on their tail and was able to take one of them down at gunpoint. The second robber remains on the loose.

Police did not disclose if the how much money was taken in the heist or if it was recovered but they do credit the security officer for his quick response and the apprehension of the suspect.

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