Body of missing college student found, serial rapist, killer loose www.privateofficer.com

Body of missing college student found, serial rapist loose www.privateofficer.com

Reno, Nev. Feb 17, 2008 – A 19-year-old college student who had been missing since she was abducted nearly a month ago was strangled by a serial rapist who has attacked at least two other women and may strike again, police said Saturday.
An autopsy confirmed that a dead woman found Friday in a brush-covered field near a business park was Brianna Denison and that she died of strangulation, Reno Deputy Police Chief Jim Johns said.
Her body had lain for more than a week in the field about 8 miles from the house where she last was seen early Jan. 20 at the edge of the University of Nevada, Reno, Johns said
“I would say this is a serial rapist,” Johns said at a news conference. “We have two, probably three [cases] linked through DNA.”
Campus officers will do all they can to support investigators “in hunting this animal down and bringing him to justice,” said university Police Chief Adam Garcia.
Heavy snowfall over the past few weeks may have delayed the discovery of the body, police said.
Denison, a student at Santa Barbara City College in California, was visiting her hometown over winter break and was last seen sleeping on a couch at a friend’s rental house just off campus.
DNA evidence links Denison’s kidnapping to two other attacks on women near the Reno campus late last year, police said, and an earlier campus attack also could be related.
In that earlier incident, the attacker raped a woman at gunpoint in a garage where campus police park their cruisers.
Based on partial descriptions from previous victims, police have described the suspect as a white male between the ages of 28 and 40 and at least 5 feet 6, with a long face and brown hair. He was believed to have no accent or regional dialect.
The killer’s familiarity with the city suggests he probably lives in Reno, Johns said, adding that he believes “chances are very good” police will catch him.

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New York City NY Feb 17, 2008 The police arrested a Queens man Saturday afternoon in connection with the murder of a psychologist on the Upper East Side, commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in a news conference at police headquarters.
Commissioner Kelly said investigators had used three palm prints found on a suitcase and adult diapers left at the scene to identify David Tarloff, 39. They matched the prints with Mr. Tarloff’s from an arrest on Feb. 1 in connection with an assault at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens.
Mr. Tarloff was picked up by detectives at his apartment in Corona, Queens, early Saturday morning and taken to the 19th Precinct station house, in Manhattan, where he was questioned throughout the day.
“Forensic evidence and Tarloff’s own words placed him at the scene of the crime,” Mr. Kelly said. “Tarloff was also captured on video cameras entering the East 79th Street location on Tuesday at 8 p.m., about 45 to 50 minutes before the attacks and leaving through a basement door at 8:59 p.m. A second video captured him taking the same path through the building an hour and a half earlier, beginning at 6:30 p.m.”
The therapist, Kathryn Faughey, was fatally stabbed in the attack on Tuesday night in her East 79th Street office and her office suite mate, Dr. Kent D. Shinbach, was slashed when he ran to Dr. Faughey’s aid after hearing her screams.
Investigators found the office awash in blood and they discovered two suitcases the assailant had left behind in the building’s basement, where he fled after the killing and where his image was captured on a surveillance tape.
It was fingerprints found on one of those bags that helped lead detectives to Mr. Tarloff, the officials said.
Mr. Tarloff had been arrested at 12:50 p.m. on Feb. 1 in connection with a violent episode with a security officer at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens, and according to court records was charged with third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and harassment. He was released on his own recognizance the following day, 10 days before the killing of Dr. Faughey, officials said. Mr. Tarloff was next due in court on Feb. 25, according to records.
In statements to investigators, Mr. Tarloff expressed anger at Dr. Shinbach, whom he blamed for having him committed to a mental health institution. Officials said it was unclear if Mr. Tarloff had ever been a patient of Dr. Shinbach’s. But investigators said they had some information indicating that Dr. Shinbach may have been involved in treating Mr. Tarloff, perhaps as long as 15 years ago, the officials said.
The police on Saturday executed a search warrant at a house in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, where the man is believed to live, officials said.
Commissioner Kelly said the motive in the killing of Dr. Faughey, who was stabbed 15 times, appeared to be robbery. Mr. Tarloff “made statements to the effect that he intended to rob Dr. Shinbach and not to harm Dr. Faughey,” the police commissioner said.
The episode in Queens occurred at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, 327 Beach 19th Street, in Far Rockaway, in the third-floor critical care unit/intensive care unit, said Kevin Ryan, a spokesman for the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown.
A security officer at the hospital, Joel Leroy, saw the man, “touching a critical care patient in violation of prearranged visitation conditions,” Mr. Ryan said. “Then he yelled and cursed loudly inside the unit, and approached the nursing station in a threatening manner.”
When Mr. Leroy tried to prevent and restrain the man, the man “struck him about the head with his hands and wrestled the security guard to the floor causing the security guard to sustain swelling in the head, a strained back and pain,” that caused the security guard to need hospital treatment, Mr. Ryan said.

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2 Arrested in mall security officer attack www.privateofficer.com

2 Arrested in mall security officer assault www.privateofficer.com

Omaha NE. Feb 17, 2008 Two Omaha men were arrested Friday after one attacked a police officer working as a Westroads Mall security guard.
After observing a disturbance between two males in the mall parking lot just before 5 p.m., an off-duty police officer working as a guard followed their vehicle in a marked Westroads security vehicle.
Once stopped at a mall exit, the suspects’ vehicle backed up and twice rammed the security vehicle before driving forward and striking a vehicle in front.
The suspects’ vehicle then drove away with the off-duty officer in pursuit. When the suspects stopped at 90th and Maple, the off-duty officer got out and identified himself as a police officer.
The driver ran off and was soon caught by the officer, who was then hit several times by the suspect. The passenger also fled and was located hiding nearby.
Police arrested 22-year-old Edward Kiper on several charges, including felony assault of an officer, who was not seriously hurt.
The passenger, 41-year-old James Vlcek, was criminally cited for obstructing police.

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Wackenhut chosen to provide armed guards for metro rail www.privateofficer.com

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Heavily armed private security officers to patrol ST. Louis rail stations www.privateofficer.com

St. Louis MO. Feb 17, 2008
Metro plans to put more armed guards, with more law enforcement experience, at its MetroLink light-rail stations.The Wackenhut Corp., based in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., took over security and fare enforcement duties from Whelan Security this month. Under Wackenhut’s three-year, $13.1 million contract, it will hire security guards with prior law enforcement, security or military police experience. Some will have police academy training.Metro officials say the agency ratcheted up armed security in the new contract because MetroLink trains now carry more people over a wider area than they once did. Officials also cited the need for stepped-up security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”There will be a significant increase in armed status,” said Willie McCuller, director of security and fare enforcement.

Ultimately, about 80 percent or more of the security guards will be armed, compared with about 20 percent under the previous security contract, McCuller said. Guards with weapons will have to be licensed in Missouri and Illinois to carry them throughout the two-state Metro system. Fare inspectors will not be armed.Many large transit agencies have their own police forces, but Metro does not. Metro has 21 security supervisors on staff with law enforcement experience, and the agency has 46 police officers under contract from St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Clair County.

The transit agency employs part-time police officers in addition to security guards.Whelan Security patrolled the transit system and facilities for more than a decade, said Metro spokeswoman Dianne Williams. Wackenhut will earn more per year than the $3.27 million Whelan was paid in its most recent option year — from March 2006 to March 2007.

Wackenhut was selected in December over Whelan and Securitas Security Services of New Jersey. Securitas was the low bidder, at $11.5 million over three years. Wackenhut was in the middle, and St. Louis-based Whelan was the highest, at $14.3 million. Eighty percent of the firms’ scores was based on a technical evaluation, which reviewed experience, past performance and each firm’s approach.Wackenhut, whose St. Louis general manager is former St. Louis mayor and police chief Clarence Harmon, stood out because of its presentation and experience in dealing with transit properties, McCuller said.”Transit issues are unique in themselves,” he said.

“That had a lot to do with the decision.”Metro’s bid specifications require a company to provide armed guards for specific facilities for set times, but do not define how many guards must be hired.Wackenhut officials say that the company provides security services to transit agencies in nine states and that many of its contracts have been renewed multiple times. But the Miami Herald reported in January 2006 that current and former Wackenhut employees said the company could not cover its responsibility to provide security for Miami-Dade Transit. Miami-Dade County’s auditor is now reviewing Wackenhut’s contract billings with the Miami transit agency.

In an e-mail to the Post-Dispatch, Wackenhut officials said that the auditing of government contracts was not unusual and that allegations of overbilling were raised by “former disgruntled employees.” The company said it would be vindicated by the audit.Metro officials asked Wackenhut about the Miami-Dade audit and “were satisfied with the explanation they gave,” Williams said.In December, the Chicago-based utility Exelon Corp. announced it was replacing Wackenhut with in-house security forces at its 10 nuclear power plants after guards at a plant in Pennsylvania were found sleeping on the job.Wackenhut said in its e-mail that the incident at Exelon’s Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station involved one shift of officers and did not pose a risk to the surrounding community. The company added that “we do not believe there is a chance for this situation to arise in securing Metro’s system or facilities.”PERCEPTIONS VARY Metro officials played down the threat of crime on the 37-station MetroLink system.

Despite a few high-profile incidents in recent years, McCuller said, the system is safer than most of the communities through which it passes.In February 2007, a woman was raped after leaving a train at the Fifth and Missouri MetroLink station in East St. Louis. In May 2007, two people alleged they were robbed at a bus stop near MetroLink’s Wellston stop while the guard did nothing. A Metro investigation later cleared the security officers.MetroLink crime statistics for 2006, the most recent available, show assaults at 34, up from 17 the previous year. Other crimes such as robbery, auto theft and stealing showed little change.Public perceptions of transit system security vary widely. In a commuter survey by the advocacy group Citizens for Modern Transit last April, nearly 30 percent of respondents rated security on MetroLink trains as “very good” or “excellent.” But 16.2 percent described it as “poor.”"I think it can be improved,” frequent rider Margaret Morris of Florissant said Friday at the Forest Park station. “It’s a little uncomfortable riding when the kids get out of school. And during the day, when people seem to have nothing else to do, they’re just riding on the train.”But armed guards?”Most people, to me, feel safer when they see any kind of law enforcement presence, and they feel safer with their law enforcement with a sidearm,” said Wackenhut guard Gregory Moore, a former Whelan guard. “I’m not pro-gun. I’m not anti-gun. But it’s the simple fact that when people see them, they tend to calm down quicker.”Moore still has to get his certification and was not carrying a gun on Friday. Armed or not, Moore said, his job won’t be to confront but to “ask people to conform.”Some riders said armed security guards were unnecessary.”I’m not sure guns are the right answer,” said regular MetroLink rider Rosalind Brown of St. Louis. “That might encourage others to have guns.”

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