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Atlanta, Ga. March 7 2008—
Police say that there is a new type of drug war going on and it involves our children.
Marijuana use from school aged children has declined slightly but a more dangerous replacement has been seen nationwide. Prescription drugs are commonly used to create a “cocktail” mixing any kind of drug that the child can get their hands on. And where are they getting them? At home, your house.
Last week police and fire units rushed to an area school in Charlotte North Carolina where seven children were unconscious and found to be under the influence of drugs. Investigation later showed that the children had bought and used a combination of prescription drugs that she had taken from her parents medicine cabinet before leaving for school. These children survived and was released from the hospital the next day.
In East Windsor Connecticut two children home from school unsupervised took a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs that they took from their parents closet and their parents found them as they returned from work. The two died before they reached the hospital.
This week-end another tragedy occurred in Georgia where authorities tell us that
drugs stolen from a cancer patient may have caused the death of a Catoosa County teenager and led to the arrest of one of his friends.
The body of Timothy Lebron Smith, 16, was found on Saturday. Catoosa County Sheriff Phil Summers said Smith had taken four 80 mg. Oxycodone pills given to him Friday by a classmate at Ringgold High School. Three other students, including the suspect, also took several pills each and became sick, according to Summers. One had to be hospitalized.
Sheriff Summers said investigators believe the 15-year-old suspect stole the Oxycodone from his grandfather’s lock box. Oxycodone is a prescription pain reliever.
“Oxycodone is a time-released drug,” Sheriff Summers told the Catoosa County News. “They were probably uneducated about the drug, took a couple pills and when they felt no effect, they took more. By the time they knew something was wrong, it was too late.”

The teen faces voluntary manslaughter and drug charges. He will be prosecuted as a juvenile.
“Ringgold High School has suffered a tragic loss over the weekend,” Catoosa County School Superintendent Denia Reese said in a release. “The school, board of education and all employees are mourning the loss of this student.”

Police say that these overdoses are at an epidemic purporting and see no end in sight. The medications are free, they’re easily accessible at home or relatives and they often give the buzz or high that the kids are looking for.
Parents are urged to lock all medications up in a safe, lock box or other secured areas.

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Orlando Fla. March 7 2008
Pro golfer Tripp Isenhour took aim with his golf club and shot a birdie at Grand Cypress Golf Club.Well, it was actually a red-shouldered hawk with an annoying song.The ball soared nearly 75 yards in the air, smacked the noisy bird out of tree and killed the feathered creature.
Orange County prosecutors were not amused. They filed two misdemeanor charges — cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird — against the Nationwide Tour player.Isenhour, 39, could face up to a $10,000 fine.
He could not be reached for comment.
The fatal swing took place on Dec. 12 while Isenhour was taping a video “Shoot Like a Pro.” A film crew was taping the Orlando golfer saying some lines when the hawk started singing about 300 yards away. Its noise stopped the taping at least twice, said sound engineer Jethro Senger.That’s what appeared to set Isenhour off, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports. He hopped into a golf cart and drove around a lake to the tree where the bird sat. For 10 minutes, while the crew waited, Isenhour hit several golf balls toward the bird.The golfer gave up and returned the set, Senger told investigators.The bird then flew closer to the crew and perched in a tall tree about 75 yards away. He continued singing. Isenhour started hitting drives at the bird — getting closer with each swing, witnesses told investigators.One ball hit the tree trunk, making a loud sound.On his 10th swing, the ball hit the bird, causing it to fall more than 30 feet to the ground.Isenhour yelled, “I didn’t think I would hit it.”Senger and others ran to the bird.”The bird was on his back, bleeding from his nostrils, his mouth was opening and closing slowly, and it was looking up at me as people ran over,” Senger told wildlife officials.The sound engineer picked up the bird and put it on a golf cart.”I saw its eyes slowly close and I was pretty sure that the bird had died,” Senger said to investigators.The bird was buried on Grand Cypress property.Wildlife officials later dug up the bird, however, and preserved it in Ocala if needed for trial, according to investigative records.
A prosecutor, who reviewed the case for charges, suggested the golfer do community service at Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, if the center will have him, according to the case report.

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College disturbance brings arrests www.privateofficer.com

Olympia Washington March 6 2008

Five arrested for disturbance at college in Olympia
Five people were arrested Wednesday for a disturbance last month in which four patrol cars were damaged outside a hip-hop performance at The Evergreen State College.
Four of the five arrested are students at the Olympia college, Thurston County sheriff’s Deputy James Chamberlain said. More warrants may be issued in the continuing investigation, he added in a news release Thursday.
One sheriff’s patrol car was overturned and ruined beyond repair, three others were vandalized and a laptop computer and radar gun were stolen during the disturbance, which arose early Feb. 15 when a campus police officer handcuffed a man after a fight between two concertgoers and security volunteers following a Dead Prez performance.
Damage was estimated at $35,000 to $50,000, and an Evergreen spokesman has said the college will pay those costs.
Investigators said they expected to make some arrests based on a 45-minute videotape taken by campus police of the unruly crowd of about 200 people.

Those arrested Wednesday were identified as:
_ Jake Silberman, 19, of Olympia, for investigation of rioting while armed with a deadly weapon and first-degree malicious mischief.

_ Peter Sloan, 18, of Olympia, for investigation of rioting and first-degree malicious mischief.

_ Chase Hill, 23, of Olympia, for investigation of second-degree theft.

_ Monica Ragan, 18, of Olympia, for investigation of rioting and first-degree malicious mischief.

_ Nina Hinton, 19, of Mount Vernon, for investigation of rioting and first-degree malicious mischief.
All but Sloan are listed as Evergreen students.

Police say the investigation is continuing and more charges and arrests are expected.

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BOISE, Idaho March 6 2008 -Authorities say that an airport passengar was found to be in possession of a handgun recently and that it was discovered during the check-in screening process.

Canyon County Commissioner David Ferdinand has been given a misdemeanor citation by Boise police for bringing a loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver into a security check at Boise Airport.
Police confiscated the handgun on Thursday and allowed Ferdinand to board the morning flight.
Ferdinand, a 59-year-old Nampa Republican, has a valid concealed weapons permit, according to police reports.
He told police he forgot to remove the handgun from his backpack when he packed to go to a conference in Washington, D.C.
He could face up to $7,500 in fines if Transportation Security Administration officials decide to seek a civil penalty.

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Are iPods causing a crime wave? www.privateofficer.com

By BRIAN BERGSTEIN

AP Technology Writer

BOSTON MA. March 7 2008 — It’s easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to their surroundings.
But could the temptation for stealing iPods be so strong that they’re behind an increase in the crime rate? Researchers at a public policy institute say yes.

They argue that the tantalizing gadgets are perhaps the main reason U.S. violent crime rose in 2005 and 2006 after declining every year since 1991 — although a close look at the findings suggests the hypothesis has holes.
The Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, first raised the subject of an “iCrime wave” last September, and held a panel discussion Tuesday to explore it further. The researchers don’t blame iPod maker Apple Inc. or any other device maker for crime, but they do say consumers should demand technologies that would render stolen gadgets useless.
Apple — which has explored anti-theft locks in patent filings — had no comment.
A key point in the Urban Institute’s argument is that robberies — the taking of something by force or the threat of it — had seen dramatic reductions since the 1990s, but jumped in 2005 and 2006. FBI statistics show the robbery rate went from 137 per 100,000 people in 2004 to 141 per 100,000 in 2005 and 149 in 2006. That helped boost the overall rate of violent crime in those years, even as rape rates fell and aggravated assault was generally flat.
During those years, iPods were going mainstream. In late 2004, Apple had sold about 5 million iPods. By the end of 2005 that had ballooned to 42 million, and in 2006 the number neared 90 million.
One widely accepted theory holds that crime happens when three things come together: A motivated offender encounters a suitable victim and perceives a high chance of getting away with it. And the Urban Institute researchers believe the sudden prevalence of iPods increased all three factors.
Motivation: The iPod’s several-hundred-dollar expense and pop-culture buzz made potential thieves, especially young ones, crave the device for themselves or for a lucrative resale market. Suitable victims: People listening through the iconic white earphones are easy to pick out and often unaware of their surroundings. Easy to get away with: IPods lack a mechanism that would pinpoint a thief’s location or a subscription that could be canceled by the rightful owner.
Anecdotal evidence bears out a lot of this. Subway officials in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., reported big increases in iPods being stolen from passengers. News reports cast the iPod as the latest must-steal item for some thugs, following in the footsteps of things like Air Jordan sneakers.
Furthering this idea, the rate for robberies by juveniles increased during this “iCrime Wave” to a much greater degree than the rate for adults, Urban Institute researcher John Roman pointed out. And if economic woes could explain the jump — a traditional place to look in crime research — Roman doesn’t believe the overall rates of property crimes would have dropped in ’05 and ’06, as they did.
But is it plausible that so many iPods and similar gadgets were stolen that they drove the rising robbery rate? That robbers would not have just stolen something else if not for shiny music players? This is where the iCrime Wave begins to seem less certain.
For one thing, homicides also increased in this same span, albeit slightly, from 5.5 per 100,000 people to 5.6 in 2005 and 5.7 in 2007. Since crime trends are often murky, whatever caused the bump in homicides might also explain the rise in robberies.
Roman responded that increases in violent crimes like robberies tend to correspond with rises in the homicide rate: Muggings often go badly and end in murder, so with more muggings going on, more homicide victims should be expected. But without good data indicating lots of people killed in iPod thefts, Roman acknowledged it’s possible that “we’ve got our causation backwards.”
It’s also curious that while iPod thefts on subways and other crowded urban settings provide the best anecdotal evidence, the 2005-06 crime increases were highest in small and midsized cities — places with less-dense pedestrian traffic, let alone teeming subways.
Also, some stolen iPods might fall into the category of larceny — a theft without force, such as when something is filched from a backpack — and larcenies dropped in ’05 and ’06.
In other words, there might have been an iCrime wave, but it would be hard to be sure. After all, robberies also jumped in pre-iPod 2001.
“There has been a lot of anecdotal evidence of cell phones, iPods, GPS systems that have been targets for theft. No research can tell us those wouldn’t have been substituted for other things,” said Jack McDevitt, associate dean at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice.
“I guess I could sort of understand and buy that in a very narrow place, in a short period of time — a short spike for a few months,” he said. “But to suggest that that’s driving the crime numbers in any major way, I don’t think so.”

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Man surrenders to police after killing family www.privateofficer.com

Mobile Alabama March 7 2008

A Mobile County man surrendered to police early Wednesday morning after shooting his 2-year-old son and wife to death at a mobile home park off Schillinger Road, authorities said.
Michael Woolf, 29, was charged with two counts of capital murder, said Officer Eric Gallichant, a Mobile police spokesman.
Gallichant identified the victims as Angel Woolf, 29, and the couple’s 2-year-old son, Ayden Woolf.
Authorities on Wednesday said they did not know what led to the shooting.
“At this time, I don’t know why anyone would shoot and kill his wife and young child,” said Nicki Patterson, Mobile County’s chief assistant district attorney.
People living near Woolf’s home said they were shocked by the slayings. The Woolfs moved into the mobile home park about a year ago, they said.
“He talked about his little boy. He loved his little boy,” said Barb Holbrook, one of Woolf’s neighbors.
Court records show that Michael Woolf had been arrested at least a dozen times in the past decade on charges ranging from
first-degree receiving stolen property to first-degree possession of marijuana, and he spent time in prison.

Mobile police arrested him in May 2004 on a third-degree domestic violence charge, according to jail records. The records did not give details or the outcome of that case.
Police on Wednesday were called to Alexis Place Mobile Home Park in the 3700 block of North Schillinger Road near Moffett Road shortly after midnight.
“Their investigation revealed that while inside (the) home, Michael Woolf used a handgun to shoot his wife and child, at least once each, killing them,” Gallichant said in a news release.
Patterson said police were called from the mobile home, but she declined to say who called.

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AUBURN, Ala. March 7 2008 — A $10,000 reward has been offered for information about the murder of a Walton High School graduate Tuesday near Auburn University.

Lauren Burk was found shot to death on a road a few miles north of the Alabama university. Officials said Burk’s boyfriend, identified as Sean McQuade by other students, and other friends have been questioned but they said they have no suspects. McQuade is also a Walton grad and a student at Auburn.
Police said about 9:00 p.m. they responded to reports of an injured female on Alabama Highway 147. When they arrived, they found Lauren Burk, 18, suffering from a single gunshot wound. The Auburn freshman was taken to the East Alabama Medical Center where she later died.
· About 30 minutes after police found Burk they discovered her 2001 black Honda Civic on fire in a campus parking lot.
Auburn Police Capt. Tom Stofer said the death was being investigated as a homicide.
“We have not named a suspect and are still investigating leads,” Stofer said, adding that officials are remaining tightlipped because of the circumstances of Burk’s death.
“As soon as we know more we might release it, but what information we have now we’re holding it close to our chest,” he said.
Alabama Governor Bob Riley announced the $10,000 reward in the case Wednesday.
Burk, a member of Delta Gamma sorority, graduated last year from Walton High School in Marietta.
Students at Walton High School Wednesday told area reporters that the school was devastated.
“Everyone’s devastated,” said student Chelsea Rowson. “The whole school’s talking about it and nobody really knows what happened so it’s really depressing.”
“It’s a horrible thing that happened, so it’s a tough thing for the school. We have a close-knit community feeling here so it’s a hard thing for us to endure when we lose somebody,” said Walton High student Zack Hogue.
Auburn officials in a statement on the school’s web site said they are increasing campus security. “Auburn Police Division and Auburn University officials are taking all necessary precautions, including increasing police presence, to ensure the safety of our students and employees,” the statement reads.

“Meanwhile, students should be careful not just on campus, but within the larger community, and be alert at all times.”

Several parents who have children at Auburn told Atlanta news Channel 2 they were furious the school did not put out a campus-wide alert. It’s an alert system parents like Felecia Caballero subscribe to. “Oh, it makes me sick to my stomach because, of course, I’m not going to bring her home but at the same time I want her to be protected and if they have a system in place to let an alert go out — use it.”
Auburn officials said because the murder happened north of campus they didn’t deem that there was an immediate danger to the campus community.
Auburn President Jay Gogue, who was out of town Wednesday, released a statement: “We are so saddened by this situation, words simply aren’t adequate. This is a close-knit community that rarely experiences such a tragedy.”
On a Facebook page dedicated to Lauren, Ansley Wright wrote, “Lauren had such a bright and beautiful soul with a hunger for a happy and loving life. I know her happiness will be carried on in the hearts of everyone who ever knew Lauren.”
Blair Haskins wrote, “Lauren was so beautiful inside and out. She certainly touched each and every person that knew her and she will never be forgotten.”
An on-campus prayer vigil for Burk was held by her friends, and a memorial is being planned by her sorority, Delta Gamma.

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UNC Student President Shot Dead www.privateofficer.com

Chapel Hill N.C March 7 2008 A young woman found shot to death in an intersection in the Hillcrest neighborhood early Wednesday was the student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill, police said today.
Police identified the dead woman as Eve Marie Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga., a Morehead-Cain scholar and a senior. They have made no arrests and have no suspects.
Investigators are looking for Carson’s stolen 2005 blue Toyota Highlander with Georgia license plate AIV 6690. They believe the vehicle was taken during the crime.
Town Police Chief Brian Curran said police have no motive for the killing. “At this point what I’m thinking, what it feels like, is a fairly random crime,” Curran said.
Carson was last seen alive at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, Curran said.
As student body president, Carson served on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees. She spent the spring semester of 2006 on a UNC Study Abroad program in Cuba and later studied in Ecuador. A member of the academic excellence society Phi Beta Kappa, Carson was majoring in political science and biology and hoped to go to medical school.
Officers found Carson’s body lying in the intersection of Hillcrest Road and Hillcrest Circle before dawn Wednesday when they responded to a 911 call reporting gunfire.
She had been shot multiple times, including at least once in the head, said Lt. Kevin Gunter of the Chapel Hill Police Department. She carried no identification, prompting an all-out effort by police and university officials to identify her.
The idyllic Hillcrest neighborhood lies east of Franklin Street between downtown and University Mall.
Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy said the community was shaken. “We’ve suffered a tragic loss today, and our community is in shock and grief,” he said.
“Eve Carson was a person who touched lives throughout this town and campus. She was happy, vivacious, intelligent, engaged and a presence in our community whose absence leaves a permanent void in our hearts and in our lives.”
UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser issued a statement calling Carson a “wonderful person and great friend.”
“We are deeply saddened and numb with grief,” he said.
Moeser will address students and faculty at 3 p.m. at Polk Place, at the center of campus. Counselors will be available until 11 p.m. today to the Student Academic Services Building and in the Carolina Union.
“I know how difficult it will be to begin to comprehend something so tragic,” Moeser said in the statement. “Please, as you gather your thoughts and prayers, think of Eve’s parents, family and friends.”
Police are asking anyone with information to call 968-2760.

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Richmond VA. March 7 2008 A bail bondsman was shot to death while seeking a wanted person today in South Richmond, and the suspect in the shooting surrendered several hours later after a standoff at a nearby house.
Shortly after 6:30 a.m., police sealed off the 1800 block of Joplin Avenue, where they believed the suspect in the early morning shooting, James Albert Carr, was holed up in a house, possibly with hostages.
Police began negotiating with Carr via telephone, a process that continued until he walked out of the house and was taken into custody at 8:11 a.m.
Police said Carr’s girlfriend lives at the house and that he was holding four small children and three adults hostage.
Carr was charged with murder in the shooting death of bail bondsman James Woolfolk, 39.
After police had first learned Carr might have been in the house and may have had hostages, police sharpshooters were seen jumping over fences and racing toward the house on Joplin, which is near Oak Grove Elementary School. Extra Richmond officers and Virginia State Police troopers were called to help with crowd control.
Students were not scheduled to arrive at Oak Grove until about 8:30 for the scheduled 8:40 start of classes. Oak Grove employees who had already arrived by the time the standoff developed were gathered in an interior room.
At 8 a.m., police began intercepting children walking toward school and sending them home. Oak Grove employees and children riding on buses were diverted to the Arthur Ashe Center.
Richmond police said officers were called to the 2300 block of Joplin Avenue at 2:22 a.m. and found Woolfolk with a gunshot wound. He was declared dead at the scene.
Police said Woolfolk had gone to the house because it belonged to one of Carr’s relatives.
The area where the shooting occurred is just east of Jefferson Davis Highway and immediately west of the Hillside Court public-housing complex.
A large gathering of Richmond police officers and Virginia State Police troopers was on the scene by first light, about four hours after the initial call.
Police used several hundred feet of yellow crime-scene tape to cordon off the scene of the shooting, a brick and frame ranch house on a street lined by sidewalks and oak trees.
Authorities said Woolfolk was seeking someone on a felony charge of failure to appear in court.
Woolfolk became the city’s eighth homicide victim of 2008.

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Special Investigation- The New York TimesInternational Child Porn Ring Uncovered WASHINGTON (AP) — After James Freeman was vetted and approved for membership in what police describe as a highly sophisticated child porn network, he expressed his appreciation by posting two folders online: one labeled ”mild,” the other ”wild.””All I can say is that they are worth the download,” wrote Freeman, 47, known in the global porn ring as ”Mystikal,” according to court documents. ”My thanks to you and all the others that together make this the greatest group of pedos ever to gather in one place.”Freeman, of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., was one of 12 Americans indicted last week in a worldwide investigation that ultimately charged 22 people with participating in the porn ring — and intentionally blocking police from investigating it.

In all, more than 400,000 pictures, video files and other images showing children engaged in sexual behavior were produced, advertised, traded and distributed globally in the online pornography ring, according to U.S. and international authorities.

The sting, which started in Australia, also netted accused pornographers in England, Canada and Germany.Some victims were as young as five years old. Others were preyed upon for innocent characteristics such as wearing their hair in pigtails.

Authorities won’t say how they eventually broke through several layers of encryption, background checks and other security measures the pornographers used to protect their online user group from being accessed. The porn ring was run like a business, FBI executive assistant director J. Stephen Tidwell said Tuesday, with the lewd images used as currency instead of cash.”This is beyond a quantum exponential leap for us to see folks that have gone to this much trouble to produce this kind of volume of horrific exploitation of children,” Tidwell said in an interview.

So far, authorities have identified and rescued 20 of the children who were exploited, he said, adding: ”But with 400,000 (images) we’re going to be at this for years, trying to find the victims.”Australian investigators first discovered the ring and infiltrated it undercover in January 2006, said Ross Barnett, detective chief superintendent with the Queensland Police Service. Those who gained access to the online forum could only after passing a series of what Tidwell called ”various benchmarks and bars to get over to get into their group.””From our perspective, it’s definitely the largest and most sophisticated and disciplined group that we have ever seen operating in this environment,” Barnett said.A 35-count indictment unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Fla., details conversations among the 12 men accused of trading and advertising the pornography.

Two other Americans were also arrested in connection with the ring but not included in the indictment.The men were charged in 11 states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

They all used aliases, such as ”Box of Rocks,” ”Crazy Horse,” ”Lizzard” and ”Pickleman.”In one example cited in the indictment, 54-year-old Raymond Roy of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., posted videos of Thai children ”to give everyone something to do for an afternoon.””This one may offend here, so a word of caution, these girls are heavily drugged,” Roy, known as ”Nimo,” wrote on July 10, 2007, according to the court documents. ”Not much action to speak of, the girls are (sic) to (expletive deleted) up to move, or resist. Three girls, the first one being the youngest, around 8 or 9 yo.””Yo” stands for ”years old.”The 12 men were charged with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise; illegally posting notices seeking to receive, exchange and distribute child porn across state lines; and obstructing of justice. Several also were charged with producing the pornography — meaning they had contact with the children who were exploited, Tidwell said.

The investigation, which is continuing, is the latest product of the FBI’s ”Innocent Images” task force that stemmed from a 1993 child pornography case. The task force has arrested more than 9,400 suspects since 2004 and is made up of international investigators working in the United States from an FBI command center in suburban Maryland.Noting the sophisticated process the porn ring used to bar police, Tidwell compared the growing number of child pornography crimes to that of cocaine dealers, terrorists and the Mafia.”If they had good operational security, that’s a bad thing for us,” Tidwell said. ”When you’ve got that, you’ve got a real challenge for law enforcement.”

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