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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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Atlanta GA.
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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Security officer in critical condition, suspect charged with attempted murder www.privateofficer.com

Honolulu HI. Feb 25 2008 Honolulu police are charging a 42-year-old man with no local address with attempted murder after he allegedly tried to push a security guard through a glass window on the 26th floor of the Ala Wai Plaza apartment building Friday afternoon.
The 63-year-old guard apparently was responding after the suspect tried to enter a penthouse apartment on the top floor of the building at 500 University Ave. and attacked another man who lives next door with a fire extinguisher.
Police said there was a brief struggle and that the suspect then tried to push the guard through a glass window.
Pierre Jaffuel, 77, who lives on the top floor, said he saw blood on the elevator landing and in the elevator. He noticed broken shards of glass and a hole about 2 feet wide in a glass window near the elevator.
Police said the man had earlier tried to break into a 65-year-old man’s apartment.
Jaffuel said he was taking a shower at about 5 p.m. when he heard a loud bang and his two dachshunds start barking.
“I didn’t know what was going on. She (his wife) was too excited,” Jaffuel said. “I walked outside. There was a guy standing there with a fire extinguisher in his hand.”
He wasn’t much bigger than Jaffuel, standing about 5 foot 7 inches tall and 160 pounds, but looked like he was a drug user, according to Jaffuel. The attacker had apparently taken the floor’s extinguisher to break the door knob off the penthouse next door, Jaffuel said.
“He looked at me with the fire extinguisher and his hand up in the air like he was going to hit me with that thing,” said Jaffuel, who backed up behind a gate that fronts his unit’s door. The man bashed the fire extinguisher against the gate, breaking a half-inch square iron section, Jaffuel said, then shot the fire-retarding foam into his face.
“I was out because I couldn’t see anything; I was blind,” Jaffuel said.
He wasn’t injured, but his eyes burned.
The whole time, Jaffuel’s attacker never said a word.
“I never seen that man before,” he said.
After washing his face in the sink, Jaffuel and his wife saw police on the floor and went outside.
What Jaffuel didn’t see, police later reported as follows: A 63-year-old security guard tried to stop the attacker.
“We live in the building 15 years,” Jaffuel said. “I’ve never seen anything like this. Maybe security themselves needs to be better equipped.”
Police said the suspect fled on foot and was arrested on Lauiki Street on charges of attempted second-degree murder, attempted first-degree burglary and second-degree assault. The suspect, who is listed as homeless, has no previous criminal history.

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BREAKING NEWS: Fetus Found At Sewer Plant www.privateofficer.com

Fetus Found At Sewer Plant www.privateofficer.com

BREAKING NEWS

NEWS WIRE 6;30PM EST
SUMTER, SC February 25 2008- A fetus was found by a worker at the City of Sumter sewer plant.
According to a news release, on February 25th, a worker at the City of Sumter sewer plant discovered an “intact” fetus in the sewer collection system while cleaning it out.
Sumter authorities say a preliminary investigation has revealed that the fetus appears to be somewhere between eleven and fourteen weeks.
Sumter authorities have asked the State Law Enforcement Division for assistance in the investigation
The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with any information to please call the office at (803) 436-2000 or Crimestoppers at (803) 436-2718. Anyone calling crimestoppers can remain anonymous and are eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.00.

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Vikings Football Player Charged With Assault On Security www.privateofficer.com

Vikings Football Player Arrested for Assault On Security www.privateofficer.com

Miami Fla Feb 25 2008
MIAMI, Fla. – Vikings tackle Bryant McKinnie was arrested at 6:31 a.m. Sunday for aggravated battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Allegedly, he was kicked out of Club Space in Miami. According to the police report, McKinnie was visibly angry, and was yelling obscenities at a member of security staff. He allegedly spit on the patron he was yelling at.

At this time, the victim refused to press charges if the suspect left and did not return. McKinnie then made his way to another club across the street, Goldrush Nightclub.

A few hours later at 6:30 a.m., police responded to reports of a large fight in front of Club Space. Police observed McKinnie throwing punches and again yelling obscenities at the same bouncer. According to witnesses interviewed by police, McKinnie struck the bouncer with his camera phone in his face, and McKinnie hit him in the back of the head with an isle pole, and the fight ensued. Police ordered McKinnie to stop, but he did not comply. He tried to get away on a charter bus, but police ordered the bus driver not to leave.

Both McKinnie and the security guard were treated by fire rescue on the scene and transported to an area hospital.

The 355-pound, 6’8” football player is a tackle for the Minnesota Vikings and played football for the University of Miami.

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Security wrestles gun from woman at police station www.privateofficer.com

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Washington DC Feb 23 2008 A Reston woman armed with a pistol walked into D.C. police headquarters Thursday afternoon and attempted to take a guard’s gun before she was wrestled to the ground, authorities said.
Cynthia Nixon, 40, entered the building at 300 Indiana Ave. NW about 3:45 p.m. and pulled out a handgun, police said. She approached a private security officer who was guarding the door, demanding, “Give me your gun,” according to charging papers filed yesterday.
Nixon then pointed her handgun at the guard and pulled the trigger, but the weapon did not fire, according to the charging documents.
The guard, who works for Hawk One, which provides security for the building, wrestled the weapon from her, the court papers show. At the same time, several D.C. police officers walked in the front door, saw what was happening and helped take her into custody. No one was hurt.
Nixon was charged with assaulting a police officer while armed, authorities said. She was ordered held without bond by a judge yesterday in D.C. Superior Court.
The charging papers quoted Nixon as telling police that her plan was to “rob a police officer of his weapon.” Police found 36 rounds of ammunition, two bags of marijuana and two cigarettes filled with marijuana in a bag belonging to her, the charging documents said.
The police headquarters was equipped with metal detectors after a gunman got into the building in November 1994 and fatally shot three law enforcement officers and wounded another. The gunman, Bennie Lee Lawson Jr., had been questioned a week earlier about a triple slaying in the city. After shooting the officers, Lawson killed himself.
The building has since been renamed in honor of one of the victims that day, D.C. Police Sgt. Henry J. “Hank” Daly.

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Store robber goes to trial www.privateofficer.com

Store robbery suspect goes to trial www.privateofficer.com

PROVO Utah. Feb 23 2008 — Two video-store employees robbed at gunpoint said they’re sure the woman who stole $1,800 from their store’s safe was the same woman sitting in court Friday morning.
But Becky Vanzant’s attorney and family members strongly disagree and will come to court again March 5 for a pretrial conference on Vanzant’s charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated kidnapping, witness tampering and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person.
“She’s not guilty,” said her mother, Nan Nielsen, after the hearing. “She was home with me. I’ve got two dogs. If that front door is open, we all know. Or the back door.”
Nielsen and other family members don’t buy the story that Vanzant crept into the American Fork Hollywood Video store before midnight on Jan. 4, then hid under a table until the store closed.
The eyewitness testimony is shaky, they say. After all, the employees only looked at the robber for less than a minute before she told them to turn around and not look at her again.
However, the two victims testified during a preliminary hearing they were quite certain it was Vanzant, wearing a red knit cap and glasses, who crept out, pointed a gun at them and told them — in a deep voice — to turn around and not look at her again.
Melissa Cummins testified that Vanzant then walked her and her co-worker Teresa Wilkes to the office, duct taped their hands and feet together, duct taped their eyes closed and stole $1,800 from the store’s safe
“I felt really threatened the whole time,” Cummins said. “(She said) she would come find us if she got caught, that she would come kill us.”
After hearing that testimony, 4th District Judge Claudia Laycock ruled there was enough evidence to bind Vanzant’s case over for trial, but she agreed with prosecutors to dismiss an obstruction of justice charge.
American Fork police detective Tony Weinmuller testified that after talking with the two women, he formed a photo lineup.
“With the physical description and the indication of the voice — I’d been in the American Fork area for 12 years and had dealings with Becky over the years,” Weinmuller said. “She matched the physical description, primarily the voice.”
Both women picked out Vanzant’s picture from the photo lineup, then a blind voice test, Weinmuller said.
However, defense attorney Barbara Gonzales questioned Weinmuller about the other five pictures used in the lineup.
The robber was described as around 5 feet 3 inches tall, 100 pounds, in her 40s or 50s, with shoulder-length brown hair.
One picture was a 28-year-old woman at 140 pounds. Another was 245 pounds and 38 years old. One picture showed a woman whose hair was up in a ponytail and another picture was from a woman’s 2000 driver’s license.
“You chose Becky, put her in a photo lineup, because of a physical description and voice matched, but she doesn’t have a history of robbery,” Gonzales said.
“I don’t know,” Weinmuller said.
“So no other person that you know would fit this physical description?”
“She was a random person who came up in the discussions with other detectives,” Weinmuller said.
“Because of her voice, but not because of motive?” Gonzales asked, and Weinmuller agreed it had been because of her voice.
It was the voice that the employees relied on most, as they had been told not to look at their captor, then had a cloth and duct tape placed over their eyes.
After taping the women, Vanzant allegedly the robber asked for the safe’s combination.
As a stressed Cummins hesitated, she testified, the robber reminded her to do what “company policy” dictated.
Gonzales asked the detective if they interviewed a female former employee who had been named by the store’s district manager as a potential suspect. The woman had allegedly left the store on bad terms.
Her photo was in the lineup, Weinmuller said, but the employees didn’t pick it.

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Police seek suspects in Kohl’s robbery www.privateofficer.com

Police seek suspects in robbery of Kohl’s store www.privateofficer.com

Columbia SC Feb 23 2008 — Richland County deputies say a 47-year-old woman is responsible for stealing items from a department store on Two Notch Road and they believe she had the help of another suspect.

Investigators say they are still trying to determine who the second suspect is that helped 47-year-old Karen Knightner take merchandise from the Kohl’s Department Store in Columbia.

Investigators say the incident happened on February 13, when Knightner tried to shoplift several items from the store, when 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.

Deputies have issued an arrested warrant for Knightner.

When she’s arrested, she will be charged with strong arm robbery, officers say.

If you have any information that could help investigators, call Crimestoppers at 1-888-559-TIPS or you can e-mail a tip to the Crimestoppers website.

Callers will remain anonymous and are eligible for a cash reward if the information they provide

leads to an arrest.

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Truck driver injured trying to detain shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

Civilian injured trying to stop shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

Visalia CA. Feb 23 2008 A truck driver was injured Thursday when he tried to stop a fleeing shoplifter at Office Depot in central Visalia, police reported.
Driver Randy Collins, 57, was delivering a load at the back of the store when he saw a man running out a rear emergency door, Visalia Police Department Sgt. Steven Phillips said. The shoplifter had left his Dodge Caravan running outside, Phillips said. The incident occurred at 12:09 p.m.
Collins of Manteca tried to detain the shoplifter by reaching through the Caravan’s driver’s-side window and putting a headlock on him, Phillips said. But the man drove away, dragging Collins for about 150 yards, according to a police report.
The driver deliberately steered toward a parked car in an effort to dislodge Collins, officials said.
Collins then released his grip, Phillips said, and his momentum threw him into the parked car. Collins complained of pain to his shoulder and head and was taken to Kaweah Delta Hospital.
The shoplifter escaped. He faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and petty theft if caught, Phillips said.
Office Depot is in the 2500 block of South Mooney Boulevard.

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Shoplifter blames memory for her crimes www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifter blames memory on her crimes www.privateofficer.com

Chandler AZ. Feb 23 2008 A Chandler woman arrested on suspicion of shoplifting from a Kohl’s department store and possession of methamphetamine blamed both on forgetting what she put in her pockets, authorities said. Police arrested Vanessa Theresa Romero Wednesday night at the Kohl’s on Arizona Avenue near the Santan Freeway after she walked out of the store with a costume jewelry necklace in her pocket she didn’t pay for, police said. They also found a small baggie of meth in her pocket when they searched her. Police said Romero told them she was in the store shopping for dresses for her daughter to wear to Romero’s boyfriend’s wake but didn’t buy any. She told them that while shopping she saw the necklace, put it in her pocket to buy later and continued shopping.
She said she forgot the necklace was in her pocket and walked out of the store without paying for it, police said.When questioned about the drugs, Romero said she found the bag of meth on the ground at a friend’s house earlier in the day and picked it up so the kids wouldn’t get it, the report said. She said she put it in her pocket and then forgot about it.Romero was booked on one count of possession of a dangerous drug and one count of shoplifting, court documents show.

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Security agent punched, shoplifter charged with robbery www.privateofficer.com

Store security agent punched, shoplifter charged with robbery www.privateofficer.com

New York February 22, 2008 — Manhattan Borough A homeless man was arrested for stealing $1,800 worth of clothing from Macy’s, cops said yesterday.
A store loss prevention agent spotted Crispulo Ynoa, 41, allegedly trying to leave the Herald Square store with the unpaid-for merchandise at 7:05 p.m. Saturday.
The agent attempted to stop him, and a struggle ensued in which Ynoa punched him in the face, police said. Store security officers and employees were able to subdue the suspect and take him into custody and notified NYPD.

Officers took Ynoa into custody and transported him to the precient for booking.
Ynoa was charged with robbery, grand larceny and resisting arrest.

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Security assaulted, Univ. of Ala student arrested www.privateofficer.com

Security officer assaulted, University of Ala. student arrested www.privateofficer.com

TUSCALOOSA Al. Feb 23 2008 — University of Alabama safety Rashad Johnson was arrested around 2:55 a.m. today for misdemeanor disorderly conduct during a disturbance in The Legacy bar on the strip near campus, according to spokesman Robert Fourt of the Tuscaloosa Police Department. Johnson made $500 bond as was released shortly after being booked.
Police say Johnson, 22, pushed a Legacy security officer near the door of the bar, knocking him out of the doorway and onto the ground.
“They were escorting another subject out, and that’s when Mr. Johnson tried to intervene in their escorting of this subject,” Fourt said. “Once at the door, he knocked one of the security officers to the ground. Our officers then moved in and took him into custody.”
According to a release issued by the TPD this morning, “a large crowd had gathered during the incident and additional officers with TPD and UAPD responded to assist with crowd control. One TPD officer received a minor abrasion to his knee during the arrest, but did not require medical attention.”
According to Fourt, Johnson was the only person arrested as a result of the incident.
Johnson led Alabama in tackles (94) and interceptions (six) as a junior this past season. He started all 13 games and was voted first-team All-Southeastern Conference by the league’s coaches.
This makes the second football arrest in the past week. Defensive lineman Jeremy Elder was arrested Sunday night and charged with two counts of first-degree robbery.

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