“Most-Wanted” rape suspect found teaching at school www.privateofficer.com

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Philadelphia PA. Feb 14, 2008 Police say they have a rape suspect under arrest after they found out he was teaching at a local school.
A tipster lead school officials and police to the suspect after his name and face appeared in the police department’s new “Most Wanted” booklet released just last week.
Security at the Community Education Partners School in Hunting Park is tight. Lots of security cameras, even a security guard right outside the school. But somehow accused rapist Arnesx Honore slipped through the security cracks.
“I’m sure it’s very troubling to anybody that has a child in any school, whether it’s public, private or parochial,” said Chief of Detectives Keith Sadler.
Police now confirm that the 32-year-old Honore was working as a teacher at the school. The big problem, police say Honore is wanted on a warrant for raping a teenage girl.
“The capacity that this man was employed certainly necessitates this book being out there so the general public can tell us where and when to get these folks,” Chief Sadler said.
Honore’s name and photo were published in the police department’s new “Most Wanted” booklet handed out to the public just last Friday.
According to a CEP spokesperson, the school received a phone call over the weekend alerting officials to the suspect. The school began to investigate immediately.
Police say Honore, who has been working at CEP since 2003, is wanted for repeatedly raping a 17-year-old girl. He was immediately arrested and suspended by the school.
“I’m sure it’s always possible that something can slip through the cracks for whatever reason, certainly it doesn’t look like it was anything negligent,” Sadler explained.
CEP officials say Honore passed all state required security checks before he was charged. A follow-up 2007 background check showed the rape charges had been withdrawn. CEP says it was not aware the charges were re-filed. They say the next scheduled background check would have turned that up. CEP officials say two adults were always present in classes Honore taught.
Police say they’ve captured six defendants since the “Most Wanted” list was released six days ago.
Several other defendants turned themselves in.

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Police Chief Sent To Prison For Sex Crimes www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA. Feb 14, 2008

The former police chief of Luthersville pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to five years in prison for charges stemming from sexual encounters with two women last year, prosecutors said.
The case against police Chief David Yates began with a rape accusation from a 21-year-old woman in August.
Then it grew when another Luthersville woman came forward, saying she twice had been coerced into sex with Yates in 2007 because the chief promised leniency against her husband in a drunken-driving case.
Yates pleaded guilty to one count of false imprisonment and two counts of violation of oath of office, said Pete Skandalakis, the district attorney for the judicial circuit that includes Meriwether County, 45 miles southwest of Atlanta.
After his prison term, Yates will be on probation for five years and has to register as a sex offender.
Another ex-Luthersville officer arrested in the case, Jason Hardegree, avoided prison but got five years probation after pleading guilty to giving false statements and violation of oath of office. He had agreed to testify against the chief if the case went to trial.
Skandalakis said both pleas were negotiated as the case was set to go before a grand jury next week.
In the rape case, on Aug. 24, Yates went to the 21-year-old woman’s home in uniform and with his patrol car and threatened to have her young daughter taken from the home by child-welfare authorities if she didn’t have sex with him, Skandalakis said. The chief admitted the sex took place, but said it was consensual, the prosecutor said.
A week or so earlier, he unsuccessfully tried to get her committed to a mental hospital after she made repeated unwanted calls to a friend of Yates’ who she had just stopped dating.
After Yates was arrested, the other woman, 26, reported her story to authorities, Skandalakis said. She said that she had sex with Yates twice —- including once in a vacant home —- between March and July 2007 in exchange for leniency in her husband’s DUI case.
Hardegree had a much lesser role in the incident involving the 21-year-old; he tried to prevent the woman from pursuing criminal charges against Yates and made a false statement to investigators, Skandalakis said.

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Man cuts up doctor with meat cleaver www.privateofficer.com

NEW YORK Feb 14, 2008 – A man hacked a psychologist to death with a meat cleaver at her Upper East Side office and seriously injured another therapist who tried to help her, police said. The search was on Wednesday for the man as police tried to determine whether he was a patient of Kathryn Faughey.She was stabbed to death Tuesday night in the office suite in a bustling neighborhood just blocks from a major hospital complex.Police recovered three knives from the scene, including the cleaver and a 9-inch knife also used in the attack. A suitcase on wheels filled with women’s clothing and adult diapers was also found, along with another bag filled with eight smaller knives that were not believed to have been used in the attack.”The condition of the room was that of a fierce struggle,” police spokesman Paul Browne said at a briefing Wednesday. “There was blood on the floor and on the walls.”
A detailed sketch of the suspect was released and police said surveillance videotapes showed him entering and leaving the building.Police said the man, wearing a green overcoat and baseball hat, arrived at the office about 8 p.m. Tuesday, saying he had an appointment with Dr. Kent Shinbach, a geriatric psychiatrist who worked in the same office suite as Faughey.According to police, the suspect walked past a doorman, into the waiting room and then into Faughey’s office. As he assaulted her, police said, Shinbach ran to help.The assailant then attacked Shinbach, pinning him to the wall with a chair and stealing $90 before escaping through a basement door. Shinbach was in serious condition at a hospital with slash wounds on his head, face and arms.The attack shocked the city’s large community of mental health professionals.”This is, I think, an extraordinary occurrence,” said Sharon Brennan, a psychologist in Manhattan and a spokeswoman for the New York State Psychological Association. “It has had a shocking impact on the whole New York community.”
Alexandra Pike, who lives across the street in the same apartment building where the victim lived, allowed a news photographer to shoot the scene from her family’s apartment and said she used his telephoto lens to look into the victim’s office.”You could see there were shades torn down, there was overturned furniture. Papers were strewn all over, and you could see blood all over the place,” said Pike, a 20-year-old journalism student.Faughey, a licensed psychologist, described herself as a specialist in cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing thoughts that cause feelings or behaviors.On her Web site, Faughey said she treated patients for relationship issues, coping with breakups, anxiety, panic attacks, stress over job changes and online intimacy.In an interview with The New York Times in 2004, Faughey offered some advice on breaking up in a digital age: “In the old days it was burn the letters,” she said. “Today, clear the hard drive.”
Faughey was remembered fondly by her neighbors. Pill Lee, who works for a nearby dry cleaner, described her as a quiet, smiling woman whose favorite outfit was a black pantsuit and white blouse.”She was very pleasant, very friendly, but she was quite private and reserved,” said Elaine Hartstein, whose husband was Faughey’s dentist and practiced in the building where the victim lived.The slaying unnerved residents in the affluent neighborhood.Linda Elliott, a resident of the building where the attack occured, said, “Everyone in the building is very nervous, because we know that this person is loose. It’s very frightening.”Serious attacks by patients on their mental health providers are rare, but they do happen, although usually in institutions that see more seriously ill patients.
A psychiatrist in Omaha died from head injuries in August, several days after a patient with a grudge and a history of violence attacked him as he arrived at a medical center.It is common for therapists who see patients in their homes or private offices to install alarm systems, or even help buzzers, in the event that a patient starts to lose control. In Manhattan, those safety systems are often complemented by the usual security systems for office buildings, which include doormen and video cameras.”Safety is always a concern,” Brennan said. She added that therapists are thoroughly trained in how to assess a patient’s potential for violence, and would normally see patients in a private setting only if they had determined that the safety risk was low.

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Paralyzed man dumped from wheelchair by deputy www.privateofficer.com

Tampa FL. Feb 14, 2008 It’s hard to shock people in this modern wired world, but even the chief deputy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office in Florida found the security camera video of a jailer dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair appalling.
“It can happen to anybody at any time,” the man in the wheelchair, Brian Sterner, warned TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira on Wednesday in New York. “Hopefully, that’s what will come out of this, that this negative way of dealing with life and people will change.”
The incident, captured on surveillance video and viewed by thousands on the Internet, occurred on Jan. 29 when Sterner was being booked in the county jail on a warrant for a traffic violation. It came to light only in the past week when Sterner, still angry at the treatment he received, called a Tampa television reporter, who obtained the tape and broke the story.
The 32-year-old Sterner, who broke his neck 14 years ago and has use of his arms but not his legs, doesn’t feel that he’s alone in the way he was treated. He’s contemplating filing charges against those involved, but he said his hope is to bring about a change in the system.
“It’s not about one deputy, it’s not about the sheriff, it’s not about the governor,” Sterner sad. “It’s about this ridiculous — ridiculous — down-pression of people across the world, economic or whatever you want to call it. It’s just like Rodney King got beat on the street and I got thrown out of my wheelchair. It happens to people every day. It’s just now there’s cameras that catch it.”
The deputy shown dumping Sterner on the floor, Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, has been suspended without pay while the sheriff’s office investigates the incident. Three other deputies who witnessed the incident without objection have been placed on administrative leave.
“I was appalled,” Joe Docobo, the department’s chief deputy, told NBC News. “Obviously, the actions are indefensible at every level.”
Sterner, who drives a car fitted with hand controls, does not dispute that he failed to appear in court to answer a traffic violation. Nor does he argue that he should not have been picked up and brought in on the resulting warrant.
But when he was wheeled into the county jail, he said, Marshall-Jones told him to stand up at the booking desk.
“My guess is that it had to do with frisking me,” he said “And I informed her at least two or three times that I couldn’t stand up because I was a quadriplegic.”
There is no sound on the video, but there is no indication of an argument and the deputy shows no indication of being angry. She simply walks behind the chair, grabs the handles and tilts it forward as Sterner crashes on his right side to the floor. Another deputy turns him over, pats him down, and Sterner assumes that Marshall-Jones didn’t believe he was paralyzed. He suspected he may have broken several ribs on his right side, and X-rays were taken at the jail, but he said neither he nor his doctor have seen them. Without sensation in his body, he said he can’t know if he’s injured.
“My right side is still acting very strange,” he told Vieira. “I don’t have any sensation from the chest down, so I very well could have broken something. I wouldn’t even know it.”
Sterner said Marshall-Jones never gave any indication that she was bothered by what she had done.
“She was smiling the rest of the day,” he said. “I sat there and watched her all day — smiling. When she was leaving I made a point of looking her straight in the eye. She just smiled and walked on her way like she was going home.”

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New Alabama law that puts some new mothers in jail causing controversy www.privateofficer.com

Birmingham Al. Feb 14, 2008 Shekelia T. Ward gave birth Jan. 8 at Andalusia Regional Hospital, and the next day she was arrested, jailed and charged with chemical endangerment of a child, a felony.
The reason: Ward and her newborn both tested positive for cocaine, and the hospital reported the information to authorities as evidence of possible child abuse.
Ward’s experience is the product of a new law that has some prosecutors, particularly in southeast Alabama, arresting new mothers who test positive for illicit drugs. The prosecutors began filing these charges after the state Legislature in 2006 made it illegal to “chemically endanger” a child.

The new law and how it is being applied is raising a multitude of legal, ethical and medical issues.
Gregory L. Gambril, prosecuting attorney for Covington County, said his office has charged about 10 new mothers with chemical endangerment of a child since the law was passed. Two of the cases involved deaths of newborns caused by methamphetamine abuse, he said.
Gambril said children need protection, and the new law is there to do that.
“The unborn children are not making the choice,” he said. “It’s the mothers who are making the choice to do it to them.”
But he acknowledged the law has some problems and needs clarification. It was originally proposed to prosecute parents who exposed children to toxins associated with methamphetamine production, and has no mention of pregnant women or their babies.
“It’s obviously a close call under the law,” Gambril said. “We would like the matter cleared up with a statute.”
Gambril said his prosecutors are focusing on pregnant women who are addicted to methamphetamine, but other drug exposures are being decided case by case. It’s all being done properly, he said.

We do it hand in hand with pediatricians here, the OB-GYNs here, with the doctors,” Gambril said. “Everybody seems to be consistently on board.”
He said cases are settled when mothers agree to go into treatment.
“We are doing this for the sole purpose of trying to make sure both the mother and the child have a healthy pregnancy,” he said. “We’re not trying to throw these women in jail. That’s absolutely not the goal of it.”

Still, 28-year-old Ward remained in jail this week. Her bond was set at $250,000.
“For whatever reason, Covington County is notorious for having high bonds,” said Corey Daniel Bryan, a public defender representing Ward. “With this law being fairly new, the judges have taken a hard stance.”
Bryan said Ward’s newborn is in the custody of a grandparent. “The baby’s health is fine,” he said.
He said the chemical endangerment statute is badly flawed, though the intent of the law was good – get children away from methamphetamine production. “Of course, what always happens with these type things is the Legislature writes a general, vague law, and the district attorneys grab hold of it and start charging everybody with it.”
These prosecutions are based upon the premise that a fetus is a person, something that runs contrary to federal court rulings. “That is going to have to be taken up at some point,” Bryan said. “It’s just a matter of it getting to the higher courts.”
Other lawyers raise the issue of the practicality of courts micromanaging a woman’s pregnancy, and whether doing so is in the best interest of the baby.

In Dale County, prosecutors last year charged a new mother from Daleville, Sheila Denean Cox, with chemical endangerment after a hospital reported that she and her newborn tested positive for marijuana.
Donna Coon Crooks, a Daleville defense attorney for Cox, said that was taking chemical endangerment too far, and that the law casts such a wide net that it is impossible for a reasonable person to know whether he or she has violated it. The charges were reduced to a misdemeanor, Crooks said.
Studies have found that as many as 10 percent of pregnant women test positive for some illicit drug, and that’s not counting those who drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes – behaviors that clearly put fetuses at risk.

In fact, an Arkansas legislator in 2006 suggested a law making it illegal for a pregnant woman to smoke. Then-Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is running for president, said such a law made sense from a health standpoint.
Enough already, Crooks said.
“If we allow the courts to jump in and regulate every aspect of our lives, we’re opening up a whole new can of worms,” she said. “I think the intentions are good, but my gosh, the prisons are full now. Are we going to put every pregnant mother in?”
She said health care workers, child welfare officials and prosecutors ought to consider whether a baby was seriously harmed by a chemical exposure.
“If they see something that’s wrong with the child, I can see their interest in testing the child to see what’s what,” she said. “But as long as the child seems normal, I don’t know what business it is of theirs.”
High court rules:
The new law also raises questions about patient privacy, unreasonable searches and the relationship between law enforcement officials and health care providers.

In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that a Charleston, S.C., hospital had violated the rights of new mothers by testing them for illicit drugs and turning the information over to prosecutors. Thus, the hospital and staff members left themselves open to lawsuits, the court ruled.
In its decision, the court noted that there was a near consensus in the medical community that these types of programs were potentially harmful to children because fear of prosecution could prevent pregnant, drug-addicted women from seeking prenatal care.
The Supreme Court said hospital workers have a duty to report possible child abuse, but they can go too far by becoming extensions of law enforcement, even if it is being done to coerce women into drug treatment.

“The court reasoned that, when physicians are acting at the behest of the state to collect evidence, they have a special obligation to inform their patients of their constitutional rights,” according to an analysis of the case published in the January issue of Virtual Mentor, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. “The court acknowledged that the invasion of patient privacy in this case was severe due to the deceit involved in the testing and the unauthorized dissemination of confidential medical information to the third party.”
Hospitals must carefully craft drug testing and treatment policies that are constitutionally and ethically sound, the article said.
Amy Dugger, a nurse practitioner at Andalusia Regional Hospital, said there was no written policy at the hospital on drug testing new mothers. “Whatever our policy is, it’s in conjunction with Alabama state law,” she said.
She said hospital officials were bound by Department of Human Resources guidelines requiring the reporting of possible child abuse, and that new mothers testing positive for illicit drugs fell into that category.
“We just work with DHR,” she said. “We don’t call law enforcement. DHR does that.”
But no matter what the reporting requirements, she said the welfare of the mother and baby come first. “Our DA is very aggressive with this, and I commend him for that.”

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Court affirms death penalty for man convicted in murder of bank guard www.privateofficer.com

Father gets death penalty, son life in prison for murder of bank guard www.privateofficer.com

Oklahoma City Okla. Feb 142, 008

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the death sentence of a man convicted of the shooting death of a security guard.

Wade Lay and his son, Chris Lay, were found guilty in 2005 for the killing of Kenneth Anderson during a bank robbery.

The jury sentenced the father to death on the first-degree murder charge and the son to life in prison.

The appeals court rejected Wade Lay’s arguments that the death penalty was imposed capriciously.

The opinion said the sentence was “both appropriate and factually substantiated.”

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Shoplifter injures officer during getaway www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifter injuries officer during getaway www.privateofficer.com

Riverside CA. Feb 14 2008 A reported shoplifting led to a chase that left a Murrieta police officer banged up after an accident on Interstate 15 Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Murrieta Police Department, it all started with a theft at the Murrieta Kohl’s at approximately 3:30 p.m.
Kohl’s security saw the alleged thief in a vehicle; officers attempted a traffic stop, but the driver fled.
The short vehicle pursuit ended behind the Home Depot on Madison Avenue, when the suspect fled on foot. He climbed over a fence and onto the shoulder of southbound I-15.
Assuming the man would try to cross the freeway on foot, an officer drove northbound from the Murrieta Hot Springs exit and slowed as he tried to reach the median. That’s when he was hit from behind by another vehicle. The other driver was not hurt.
The officer, who suffered bruises to his head and shoulder, wound up apprehending the suspect — Sean Andrews, a 30-year-old parolee from Winchester — at gunpoint.
Andrews was booked for recklessly evading a police officer, theft and parole violation.

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18 Shot, 5 Dead On University Campus www.privateofficer.com

DEKALB, Ill. Feb 14, 2008 UPDATED; 8:00PM EST – A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 18 people, five shot dead, before he killed himself, the school’s president said.
University President John Peters said witnesses “say someone dressed in black came out from behind a screen in front of the classroom and opened fire with a shotgun.”
The university had issued a statement on its Web site about an hour after the 3 p.m. shooting that “the immediate danger has passed. The gunman is no longer a threat.”
Kishwaukee Community Hospital spokeswoman Theresa Komitas told WLS-TV in Chicago it received 17 victims all with wounds from the shooting or flying debris, including three with serious injuries. One was airlifted to another hospital.
George Gaynor, a senior geography student, who was in Cole Hall when the shooting happened, told the student newspaper the Northern Star that the shooter was “a skinny white guy with a stocking cap on.”
He described the scene immediately following the incident as terrifying and chaotic.
“Some girl got hit in the eye, a guy got hit in the leg,” Gaynor said outside just minutes after the shooting occurred. “It was like five minutes before class ended too.”
Witnesses said the young man carried a shotgun and a pistol. Student Edward Robinson told WLS that the gunman appeared to target students in one part of the lecture hall.
“It was almost like he knew who he wanted to shoot,” Robinson said. “He knew who and where he wanted to be firing at.”
Jillian Martinez, a freshman from Carpentersville, told the Chicago Tribune she was in the auditorium when the gunman entered through a door to the right of the lectern and opened fire about 3 p.m. “He just started shooting at all the kids,” she said. “He just started shooting at people, and I ran out of there as fast as I could. I ran all the way to the student center; when I got there I could still hear shooting (from the classroom).
Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting local authorities at the scene, spokesman Thomas Ahern told the Chicago Tribune.
He said he did not know whether the shooter was a student or what his motive might have been.
“We will be urgently tracing the firearms and learning the history of the weapons,” Ahern said.
All classes were canceled Thursday night and the 25,000-student campus was closed on Friday. Students were urged to call their parents “as soon as possible” and were offered counseling at any residence hall, according to the school Web site.
The school was closed for one day during final exam week in December after campus police found threats, including racial slurs and references to shootings earlier in the year at Virginia Tech, scrawled on a bathroom wall in a dormitory. Police determined after an investigation that there was no imminent threat and the campus was reopened.
The shooting was the fourth at a U.S. school within a week.
On Feb. 8, a woman shot two fellow students to death before committing suicide at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. In Memphis, Tenn., a 17-year-old is accused of shooting and critically wounding a fellow student Monday during a high school gym class, and the 15-year-old victim of a shooting at an Oxnard, Calif., junior high school has been declared brain dead.