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Vanderbilt Police Chief named President of IACLEA www.privateofficer.com

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Nashville TN. March 28 2008

Press Release

Marlon C. Lynch, the Chief of Police at Vanderbilt University, is the 2008-2009 president-elect for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, Inc. (IACLEA). Lynch will be installed as IACLEA’s 2008-2009 president-elect at the IACLEA’s Annual Conference on July 1, in Hartford, Conn.

He will automatically ascend to the office of IACLEA president on July 1, 2009. Lynch has been active in leadership positions with IACLEA for a number of years, including director-at-large on the IACLEA Board of Directors since 2005 and chair of a communications subcommittee of

IACLEA’s domestic preparedness committee.

That committee produced a Guide to Communications between Campus Public Safety Departments and Federal-State-Local Emergency Responders under a federal Department of Homeland Security grant.

He also chaired the board of directors’ governance task force, which recommended changes to IACLEA’s bylaws.

He currently chairs the board’s task force on public relations.Lynch joined Vanderbilt in August of 2005 as assistant chief of police after serving as chief of police and director of public safety at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He became chief of police at Vanderbilt on Jan. 1, 2007.Lynch earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree from Boston University, both in criminal justice.

He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Northwestern University School of Police Staff & Command.

The president-elect assists the president in the administration of the association, oversees the progress of IACLEA committees, is responsible for the orientation program for newly elected officers and directors and performs other duties as designated and assigned by the president. The president-elect performs the duties of president in the event the president is unable to serve.IACLEA is an association that advances campus public safety for its 1,300 educational institution members and 2,000 individual members by providing educational resources, advocacy, and professional development services.

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Internet crimes are up, so are arrests www.privateofficer.com

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Atlanta Georgia March 28 2008
By: Rick McCann MA. CPO CSO
Executive Director
National Association of
Private Officers

Local, state and university police departments frequently scan the popular websites of MySpace and Facebook looking for photos of criminal activity, wanted persons and sometimes covertly monitor a person’s online activity and it’s all legal.
Investigators also search the web when they are trying to solve a specific crime that has occurred at a local high school or university or pinpoint a criminal activity, trend or pattern.
Two years ago, campus police ticketed a junior at an Illinois university after they used his Facebook profile to prove he lied about knowing another student’s name.

Some police agencies say that they use Facebook reactively, rather than proactively scouring the social networking site, as a resource when an incident is reported to them, said University Police Officer Jim Davis. We respond to what has been reported to us he said.
“If someone threatens you across MySpace or Facebook, don’t delete it and call us right away,” Davis said. “It’s still a threat, and we take it very seriously.”

Students should be aware that anything posted on the Internet, including items posted on online communities such as Facebook and MySpace, has the potential to be used as evidence in a criminal case said Captain Randy White, a police training supervisor and Internet Crimes trainer.”There is no question that what is posted on the Internet can be used as evidence, he said. But it’s always going to be on a case by case basis and a lot of different elements and facts have to be taken into consideration before using such information in a criminal prosecution. Facts such as were the comments made maliciously or in a fun non threatening, light hearted way or did the person criminally intend to afflict emotional or bodily harm on another person.Intent and context of the message or picture must be considered, he said.Crime on the net is up said White, but so are arrests.

More than 165 people have been prosecuted on a variety of state and federal charges since the first of the year.
More local police agencies are getting involved in online bullying, sexual predators, Internet fraud and many have set up task force and dedicated units to fight such crime as has the FBI. If the case is strong enough, may offenders can find themselves federally prosecuted said an FBI agent.
Even smaller police departments with limited resources have applied for and received special federal money to combat the growing, sometimes forgotten criminal element that is operating almost untouched.
But hopefully, as federal money becomes available and awareness of this growing crime wave is taken serious by Washington politicians, more law enforcement presence will be felt on the Internet and the criminals will be forced to go elsewhere or get an honest job.

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GRAND RAPIDS MI. March 28 2008 — The parent of an Ottawa Hills High School student faces up to a year in jail after she was convicted today of an October assault against a school security officer, whom she bit on the arm and face during a melee.
Mary Lee Brown, 33, claimed self-defense during a two-day trial in Grand Rapids District Court, but a jury ruled she was the aggressor in an Oct. 9 dust-up at the high school.
Brown went to the school about 11:15 a.m. after her daughter was involved in a fight earlier that morning. Security Officer James Stokes tried to stop her in a common area and an altercation ensued, drawing as many as 100 students and forcing more than a dozen Grand Rapids police officers to disperse the crowd.
School leaders say the conviction is a sign parents cannot charge into schools and disrupt operations without the act going unpunished.
An attorney for Brown claims the woman is the scapegoat for the disturbance, and that the district failed to produce a videotape of the fight that would have exonerated Brown.
“The tape would have established the fact of why she bit the security officer, because she had to defend herself against him,” said Steve Savickas, who defended Brown during the trial. “A bite mark is a tell-tale sign of self-defense and not an intent to do anything else than have a large man release her.
“But to have it, lo-and-behold, disappear, that played right into the hands of the prosecution.”
Larry Johnson, the school district’s security director, denied the assertion there was a recording of the incident and scoffed at the implication the district intentionally did not produce a videotape.
Johnson said the area where the fight occurred does not have cameras trained on it.
“I wish there were a tape, and then we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” Johnson said. “Bottom line, this was a very unfortunate situation to have occurred in the first place. We wish Ms. Brown the best, but we want parents and people in this community to understand that they cannot come into our schools and cause problems.”
Brown was ordered to the Kent County Jail after the jury rendered its decision. She faces up to a year behind bars at sentencing, which has not been scheduled.

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Man talks himself into longer prison term www.privateofficer.com

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 28 2008- A man talked himself into nearly two years in jail after threatening to kill a Shelby County criminal court judge.
Joshua Beadle has been held in contempt and sentenced to 10 days per word after a judge ordered him to stop the threatening comments.
Judge Lee Coffee stopped counting at 70 words and sentenced Beadle to 700 days in jail.
Beadle was shackled and outfitted in a special hooded spit mask during the hearing Monday after spitting at the judge at a hearing in January. Beadle missed the judge and instead hit a clerk’s computer.
Through his nylon-and-mesh spit mask, he apologized to the clerk on Monday and assured her that his intended target was the judge.
Beadle was appearing in court on burglary and rape charges.

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Canadian security officers strike www.privateofficer.com

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MONTREAL, March 27 2008 — Rotating strikes by 14,000 security guards in the Canadian province of Quebec began Tuesday, with hospitals expected to be most affected, Montreal media said.

United Steelworkers staff representative Michel Courcy told The Gazette newspaper last week’s vote for rotating strikes was favored by 65.5 percent of the 700 guards who voted.

Philippe Yaworsky, a vice president of the provincial employers’ association and coordinator of its bargaining team, said Quebec’s guards are the best paid in Canada at an average salary of $13.15 an hour.

In neighboring Ontario, a guard’s average hourly wage is $9.

Union coordinator Robert Bernier told reporters Monday hospitals were the main target for the rotating walkouts. Guards are widely used in emergency and psychiatric departments, The disputed issues include salaries, premiums for evening, night or weekend shifts and the expansion of other existing premiums, the union said.

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Carjacking, crash leaves one dead www.privateofficer.com

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Birmingham Al. March 28 2008
By: Rick McCann

Security News Magazine

A robbery and car-jacking in Shelby County led to a high-speed chase that ended in Childersburg early Tuesday morning, leaving one suspect dead and the other hospitalized.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Ken Burchfield said according to initial reports, the Shelby County 911 received a report of a robbery at 12:09 a.m. Tuesday. A vehicle was stolen in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Inverness Lane off Valleydale Road.
The victim received minor injuries to her hand when two black males took her 2002 Nissan Altima Burchfield said.
According to a press release from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department, deputies observed the victim’s vehicle being driven by the suspects eastbound on U.S. 280 and attempted a traffic stop.
“The suspects refused to stop and a pursuit was initiated,” the release said. The suspects continued driving eastbound on Highway 280 passing through Harpersville and into Childersburg.
“Sheriff’s deputies deployed spike strips in an effort to get the vehicle stopped, but the suspects avoided them. The pursuit entered Talladega County and the city of Childersburg. Shortly after entering Childersburg, the driver lost control of the vehicle and struck a tree.”
Childersburg Fire and Rescue responded to the scene and treated the two black male suspects for injuries.

Talladega County Coroner Jerry Castleberry said the driver of the stolen vehicle, 20-year-old Anthony Martin of Birmingham, died at the scene from injuries suffered in the crash. The other suspect was treated at the scene and transported by Lifesaver helicopter to University Hospital in Birmingham. As of late Tuesday, his identity and condition was unknown.
Burchfield said the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department will continue investigating the robbery that led to the pursuit.
Dorris Teague, spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Public Safety, said State Troopers are investigating the accident.
The Childersburg Police Department, Harpersville Police Department and the Talladega County Sheriff’s Department assisted in the incident.
Anyone with information that would help identify the remaining suspect is asked to contact the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department at 205-669-4181.

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Sheriff unit adds new technology to track criminals www.privateofficer.com

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By Jim Leusner

The Orlando Sentinel
March 28 2008
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — When a shoplifting suspect beat Orange County Deputy Sheriff Gayle Cadiz unconscious outside an east Orlando Office Depot on Feb. 2, investigators knew only his race, his gender and that he was a passenger in a late-model, white Mitsubishi Galant.
Detectives were forced to begin canvassing more than 250 Galant owners in Central Florida during the next six days until they got a tip eventually leading to career criminal Malik G. Stephenson.
In the future, someone such as Stephenson may go immediately to the top of the suspect list.
That’s the idea behind a new intelligence-led policing program being set up at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Analysts will link and search an array of databases — arrests, towed vehicles, parking tickets, CrimeLine tips and suspect-interview reports — to better identify violent and repeat offenders, their associates and vehicles.
Stephenson, 34, of east Orange County, was known to deputies, Orlando police and other Central Florida officers who arrested him two dozen times on shoplifting, auto theft, drug and fleeing-arrest cases during the past decade. He is being held without bail on 14 attempted murder charges. They stem from the Cadiz attack and shots fired at deputies before Stephenson surrendered following a two-hour standoff a SWAT team.
He was jailed for a year and placed on three years probation after nearly running down an Altamonte Springs police officer with his car while fleeing a traffic stop in January 2006. And he was questioned in October 2006 when deputies were trying to locate his brother, who was accused of trying to run over a Florida Highway Patrol trooper.
“When we met him 11/2 years ago [on the trooper case], there was no doubt in our mind that he was violent and did not like law enforcement based on his statements,” said sheriff’s Felony Squad Sgt. Bruce Vail, one of the officers fired upon before Stephenson’s arrest Feb 7.
While working on the FHP case, Vail interviewed Stephenson at a home in the Stoneybrook East subdivision. A white Galant was there. Deputies also had information that Stephenson was involved in retail thefts, Vail said.
It turned out to be the same home deputies searched hours before Stephenson’s arrest — and where they found a note he wrote confessing to the attack on Cadiz, detectives said.
Had all the known information on Stephenson — buried deep in various police-agency records — been more accessible to deputies, the Cadiz case could have been solved sooner, said sheriff’s Capt. Lee Massie.
New police strategy
Intelligence-based policing was pioneered in England in the 1990s. It spread among federal, state and local agencies combating terrorism in new intelligence “fusion centers” nationwide since Sept. 11, 2001. Now the concept is taking root for use against street crime.
The sheriff’s office is training frontline deputies to capture more details about the people and vehicles they stop, re-designing its computer databases and teaming up crime and intelligence analysts to search for violent-crime trends. Officials think it will better alert patrol deputies and detectives to serious criminals.
Intelligence-led policing “says capture the data today because he may be a suspect another day — just like Malik,” said Massie, one of the department’s point men on the project who also oversees Central Florida’s multiagency fusion center that opened last summer.
Sheriff Kevin Beary said the intelligence-based policing also will produce more detailed bulletins to warn residents about criminals and gang members in their neighborhoods.
The New Jersey State Police has been using the policing strategy since 2005, said Frank Rodgers, who retired last year as the agency’s No. 2 man and is now a policing consultant.
“We’ve had tremendous success with it and the gang threat in New Jersey,” Rodgers said. “We have reduced violent crime in big cities . . . and we’re being more intelligent about our [policing] decisions. The public sees a reduction in crime and you do it cheaper.”
A crime career such as Stephenson’s — with more 50 arrests, several jail and prison stints, and a history of shoplifting, resisting arrest and fleeing police — can provide investigators with important clues once they are aware of it.
Criminal history
Stephenson first went to prison in North Carolina at age 19 in 1993 for assault with a deadly weapon. He also served time for possession with intent to sell drugs, obstruction of justice and resisting an officer, North Carolina prison records show.
After he was released in April 1997, Stephenson moved to the Orlando area and was arrested two dozen times during the next 10 years, mostly in Orange and Seminole counties.
But despite short jail stints and probation, his crimes continued.
In March 2001 in Orange County, Stephenson was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison for battery on an officer, resisting arrest with violence, and vehicle theft.
A month later in Seminole County, he received a four-year prison term for fleeing police and leaving the scene of a vehicle crash with injuries. And in May 2001, he received three years in prison for a stolen property charge.
Since he again left prison in October 2004, Stephenson’s arrests continued.
Deputies hope the new data-mining and information-sharing system will make it harder for repeat criminals to do business.
“You can run,” Beary said, “but it’s going to be a whole lot harder to hide.”

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Columbus GA. March 28 2008
By: Rick McCann
Security News Magazine

School officials are investigating and have suspended 25 middle school students in Columbus, Ga. after they were caught on camera slap boxing.
Authorities said the new, disturbing trend is a form of open-fist fighting. Fights are then posted on the Internet.
School officials began looking into this activity recently after they had found some footage of it on a student’s cellphone.
Twenty-five students at Midland Middle School were suspended after a fight in a school restroom was posted on the Internet.
“Basically eighth grade students — girls and boys — at different periods of time and the slap boxing is more or less arranged fighting events that were staged for bathrooms,” said Valerie Fuller, spokesperson for the Muscogee County School Board.
According to the school’s principal, Richard Green, clips of slap boxing were found on a student’s cell phone dating back two weeks. From those clips, the administration identified the 25 students who were involved in the fights.
Green did not comment on whether or not any criminal charges would be forthcoming or if any of the students who had taken part in the slap boxing have been injured or complained to school officials.
The school’s principal did say that all restrooms will now be more closely regulated by faculty and that they are watching for other outbreaks of the fighting.
A check of the popular MySpace and Facebook websites did not reveal that this was a widespread trend in other areas of the country although it may be.

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Feds arrest illegals working at TN. National Guard site www.privateofficer.com

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 28 2008 — Federal officials have announced that they have arrested 34 workers at the Memphis International Airport believed to be illegal immigrants working on the new Tennessee Air National Guard base.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said on Tuesday that the workers, all identified as Mexican men, were employed by various contractors and subcontractors.
Authorities said the arrests came after a tip from Air Force investigators that believed illegal immigrants were working at the site.
Federal officials said the men likely face deportation. Authorities have not said which company employed the workers or if there would be any criminal prosecution of the companies for employing the workers.

The project to build a 118-acre, $215 million base for the Tennessee 164th Airlift Wing near the airport is the largest single construction effort in the Air National Guard’s history.

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Miami Fla. March 27 2008
By: Rick McCann
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It’s a plane, no it’s a bird, no it’s Superman, no it’s a UFO sort of. It’s the hottest, coolest, newest piece of technology to hit the battlefield on the war on crime, immagration and the surveillance world.

The Spy in the sky, Drone, a wingless flying superspy that can hover, look and watch, take pictures, send video feed and see what the bad guy is doing while the officers control it from the safety of a command vehicle or someplace out of the line of fire is what every law enforcement agency is putting on their wishlist.
The 14 pound, pilotless “Eye In The Sky” is already in use by the Border Patrol along the Arizona desert near Mexico and soon it will be deployed by Customs northward to watch over the Canadian border from it’s new base in North Dakota.
Honeywell International, the drone’s manufacturing has plenty of police departments who want one but there is a little problem that they’re working on. It’s not mechanical or any kind of glitch in their electronics or system but it’s something much worse and much bigger, Uncle Sam.
The FAA, The Federal Aviation Administration must approve it’s use and right now they haven’t given their seal of approval.

Citing numerous safety concerns, the FAA — the government agency responsible for regulating civil aviation — has been slow in developing procedures for the use of UAVs by police departments.
“You don’t want one of these coming down on grandma’s windshield when she’s on her way to the grocery store,” said Doug Davis, the FAA’s program manager for unmanned aerial systems.
He acknowledged strong interest from law enforcement agencies in getting UAVs up and running, however, and said the smaller aircraft particularly were likely to have a “huge economic impact” over the next 10 years.
But testing of this technology is underway to insure it’s safety and as soon as the go ahead is given it looks as though the Miami Dade Police will be the first law enforcement agency to deploy one in their area of the Florida Everglades. Other departments are sure to follow but the American Civil Liberties Union said that there are concerns about privacy issues and the eye watching someone who has not broken any laws and are not the subject of any investigations and now they become a victim of the Big Brother Peeping Tom. Legislation has to be drawn up and some guidelines on it’s use must be in place before police agencies start putting these things in the sky watching whoever, whenever and invading people’s right to privacy.

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Mobile Al. March 27 2008
By: Rick McCann
N.A.P.O.

On Sunday afternoon, police officers were called to Mobile Infirmary West after a man claiming to have explosive devices was taken into custody by a hospital security officer, said Officer Eric Gallichant, a police spokesman.

Hospital officers say that the man claimed to have the devices and was talking ilrational so security officers decided to detain him for further investigation.
Mobile Police questioned the man now known to be Ronald Thompson, 38, of Alphareta Georgia and arrested him, and notified the bomb squad who then searched Thompson’s hotel room at the Red Roof Inn on Coca-Cola Road and found what appeared to be improvised explosive devices, which are commonly known as IEDs, authorities said.

Meanwhile, the hotel and the nearby Wal-Mart were evacuated, Gallichant said.
Gallichant declined to say what sort of explosive devices were found in the hotel room.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating, but Thompson has not been charged federally, said Mike Messinger, the resident agent in charge of the Mobile office.
Thompson also faces two counts of making terrorist threats and one count of possession of cocaine, according to the jail log.
As of now, Thompson is being held without bail.

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Memphis TN. March 27 2008

By: Bryan Hill
Security News Magazine

Memphis police are investigating an unusual case that started on Monday night in which someone drove into a parking garage at Oak Court Mall and then left, leaving a critically injured man in the front passenger seat of the vehicle with the emergency flashers blinking.
The car sat there police say for at least 10-15 minutes or more before another shopper pulling into the lower level of the garage came upon the vehicle and saw the injured man and notified mall security who then called police and the medics.
Police Lt. Col. Ray Douglas said that the 911 Center got the call around 6pm and investigators immediately began looking for witnesses and checking for a crime scene but Douglas didn’t say if police believe that the shooting happened at the mall or at another location or if they had any suspects in the shooting.
Authorities did say that they were checking security camera footage and were continuing their investigation.
The unnamed wounded man was in critical condition in an area hospital.

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MILLVILLE NJ. March 27 2008 — A ShopRite security officer was injured when he allegedly was hit by an SUV driven by a suspected shoplifter March 20.
Kyle Leach, 30, was treated at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Vineland for two severe contusions and severe bruises of the left knee, according to a police report made available Monday.
Ramona D. Roache, 40, of the 1000 block of Dock Street and Rhoda E. Rodriguez of Millville Garden Apartments were charged with shoplifting food items valued at $26.70. Roache also was charged with assault with a motor vehicle.
Leach told police he confronted the suspects in the parking lot and told them to get out of their vehicle.
But Roache allegedly drove forward hitting him in the knee, Leach said.
The security guard jumped on the hood and punched the driver’s window twice before Roache came to a stop.
Leach said the suspect drove about 15 feet while he was holding onto the hood with one hand and punching the window with the other.
Police arrived on the scene and took Roache into custody.

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March 27 2008
submitted by: Todd Lefever

BOGALUSA LA. – A local man has been accused of stealing more than $40,000 worth of high-end electronics and furniture from the company he used to work for.
Bogalusa Police Department arrested Howard Byrd, 31, of Bogalusa, last week following an investigation into a theft case at Baber’s Rent-to-Own in the Washington Square Shopping Center next to Piggly Wiggly. Byrd worked at Baber’s as an account manager from July 2007 – November 2007, Baber’s officials confirmed.

Byrd, using the name of a 10-year-old boy, fraudulently filled out rental paperwork on high-definition TVs, DVD players, furniture and other items, police and store officials said.”Anything he could get,” said Lori Hand, the local manager.

Only two items have been recovered – a $3,000 TV, found in Byrd’s home, and a DVD player, Hand said. Byrd was fired from the company in November, but store officials didn’t find out until later the merchandise had been stolen.

While Byrd was employed, he covered up the fact that payments were not being made on the merchandise, but after he left, it became clear the bills weren’t being paid, store officials said.
“When he left, they became further and further behind,” said Pete Bentivegna, Baber’s district manager. A call to police was not made until February.

Store officials said there is still at least $25,000 in items missing that were listed as being “rented” by the 10-year-old. They suspect Byrd used other false names to steal more items, as well.Store officials said Byrd may have already sold much of the merchandise.

“If anybody bought merchandise from him, it was probably stolen,” Bentivegna said.
Store officials are hoping to recoup some of the losses by having the items returned, but right now, it’s a total loss.

The items were not insured, Bentivegna said. Byrd was charged with theft by fraud over $500 and theft of identification. Those who know the whereabouts of the stolen merchandise are encouraged to call the BPD detective’s office at 732-6238.

To remain anonymous, call the BPD tip line at 732-BUST (2878).

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TEMPE, Ariz. March 27 2008

By: Rick McCann
N.A.P.O.

Police are investigating a serious stabbing and are now on the look-out for a suspect who left a security officer stabbed and in critical condition. Police have now released a sketch of a man sought in connection with the stabbing that took place outside a Tempe bar .
According to the information that investigators were able to piece together, the suspect is described as a black man who is in his early 20s. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has short, shaved black hair and was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with a design over a red T-shirt, dark jeans and tennis shoes.
Witnesses told police the attacker may have been accompanied by another man described only as having a dark complexion.
Although the details and description is sketchy police say that they are confident that they can capture the person or persons responsible for the stabbing of the 39 year old security officer who was on duty at the La Pita Bar located at 505 S. Mill Avenue at around 9:10pm Friday night.
The security officer suffered stab wounds to the chest and arms, police said.
The attacker fled the scene southbound on foot and could not be located.

Police say that there was some type of confrontation out front of the bar and it involved the security officer and possible the suspect and several other men but they aren’t saying what the details of the argument was.

Volunteers handed out flyers along Mill Avenue Monday evening hoping someone will come forward with information about the crime.
People who witnessed the altercation or who have any knowledge leading to the identity of the attacker should contact the Tempe Police Department at 480-350-8311 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.
Police are not releasing the name of the security officer right now.

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COLLIER COUNTY FLA. March 27 2008 Two men were arrested Tuesday after they allegedly went on a shoplifting spree with a toddler in tow. As they tried to escape one of the suspects also punched a deputy and a store employee.
The crime took place at the Beall’s department store on US 41 in East Naples.
According to deputies, Kelvin Shane Townsend, 30, filled a shopping cart with merchandise and pushed it near the exit.
He then allegedly took a black baseball cap out of the cart, pulled off the price tag, put the hat on and left the store
Authorities say Townsend returned to the store a few minutes later, this time holding his one-year-old daughter and accompanied 31-year-old Craig Marshall Daniels.
Townsend and Daniels reportedly went in separate directions and loaded several items into shopping carts.
Townsend pushed his cart near the front entrance and left the store with his daughter. They got into a white Dodge Durango and drove away. Deputies say Townsend returned a few minutes later and parked near the entrance.
Daniels pushed his shopping cart to the front entrance of the store. He allegedly grabbed all the merchandise and ran out of the store without paying.
Daniels was heading toward Townsend’s Durango when he was confronted by the store’s loss prevention officer.
That’s when witnesses say Daniels turned around and punched the employee in the face.
Two Collier County Deputies then tried to restrain Daniels. He ended up punching a female deputy in the face, breaking her sunglasses.
Authorities were eventually able to subdue Daniels. He and Townsend were taken into custody. The toddler was turned over to her mother.
When deputies searched Daniels they found a narcotic pipe that contained methamphetamine residue.
He was charged with grand theft, battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting a merchant, battery, resisting arrest with violence, possession of narcotic paraphernalia and possession of methamphetamine.
Townsend was charged with grand theft and child neglect.

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DECATUR, Ga. March 27 2008 — DeKalb County police are investigating a double shooting in which a father appears to have shot and killed his 1-year-old daughter and then killed himself.
DeKalb County police officer Marcus Hodge says Mario Roberts, 21, was arguing with his child’s mother in the couple’s car when he pulled out a gun and shot their daughter, Amari Roberts. It appears the father then shot himself, Hodge said.

Officials said they were visiting the child’s maternal grandmother’s home to celebrate Easter. “They were over here visiting them and they were in the driveway when this occurred,” said Hodge.
Police say the father and child were rushed to separate hospitals. The girl was later pronounced dead.
The father was also pronounced dead early Monday morning.
Hodge says investigators have been talking with the child’s mother, who witnessed the shooting and is cooperating. Police say that an argument ensued in front of the home and the father shot the baby girl, who was strapped into her car seat in the back of the vehicle, before shooting himself.
It’s an unthinkable thing one officer said as he stood and looked over the crime scene.

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SKOKIE IL. March 27 2008 – Roshunda Luellen gave it a run to avoid being arrested, but after a long chase, was caught and charged with shoplifting purses.

Skokie police say, Luellen, 35, of 9044 S. Paxton in Chicago, was stopped by a security officer as she ran outside Bloomingdale’s at Westfield Old Orchard.

She allegedly was leaving without paying for $576 in purses.

A car pulled up and she tried to get in. When the car pulled away, she took off her coat and dropped her own purse to try to get away from the pursuing guard.

She punched the guard in the shoulder and ran, police said. The security officer saw her go to a nearby gas station, where a driver was pumping gas.

The fleeing woman got into the vehicle and tried to start it. when confronted by the security guard at the gas station, she pulled out an asthma inhaler and threatened to spray the guard. Police said she took off again but the security officer was able to again catch her and detained her until police officers could arrive.

. Luellen faces felony charges of aggravated battery and retail theft, as well as a misdemeanor obstruction of justice charge.

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Frederick MD. March 27 2008
A Brunswick woman faces felony theft charges after she allegedly stole over $1,000 in merchandise from the Sears store at Francis Scott Key Mall on Friday, Maryland State Police report.
A trooper was called to the store about 2:30 p.m. after witnesses saw a woman load numerous items into a shopping cart over a one-hour period.

The woman put several of the items into Sears shopping bags which she had brought to the store with her, bypassed numerous cash registers and left the store without making any effort to pay for the merchandise, police said.
Arlene Kay Spring, 46, of the 600 block of East Eighth Street, Brunswick, was arrested and charged with theft over $500, a felony in Maryland.

Police said the items she stole included power tools and clothing.

The combined total value was $1,137.86. Police recovered all the stolen merchandise.

Spring was taken into police custody and taken to the detention center for booking where she was later released on bond.

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Cambridge MA. March 27 2008
An enraged customer at a Cambridge computer store broke the shop’s front door and ran down a security officer in his car this past Saturday afternoon.
Police said an unknown white male accompanied by a small child demanded that the staff at the Micro Center at 730 Memorial Drive repair his computer immediately.

According to a police report, when an employee told the man they couldn’t repair his computer that day, he became angry and started to leave the store. Before he did, though, police said he grabbed a shopping cart and rammed it into the front door, damaging the door and security sensor.
Police said a security officer working for Micro Center followed the man outside into the parking lot to confront him about the damage. When he did, the man began revving the engine of his red Subaru Hatchback, and struck the security officer in the leg with the car before speeding off.
The security officer, according to police, wasn’t seriously hurt, and refused medical attention from responding officers.
Police have only a partial description of the suspect. He is, according to the report, a white male between the ages of 30 and 50.

Police are looking for the man who will be charged with criminal damage and assault when apprehended.

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GALESBURG IL. March 27 2008 — When the FBI picked up Freddie Collins in Chicago for possession of a fake California driver’s license and fake Social Security card on March 3, they also found a suspect in a 2004 Galesburg shooting.

Collins, 36, whose fake identification listed him as “Gary Wilson Jr.,” is being held in the Knox County jail on $1 million bond for the Dec. 21, 2004, shooting of Jonas Ross III, then 24, in the parking lot of the former Wal-Mart on National Boulevard. Collins is awaiting a Monday hearing.

Police extradited Collins from Cook County to Knox County following his arrest. He has been listed as a suspect since early in the investigation, but had remained at large for nearly four years.

Ross was shot seven times during the incident for which Dante Hubbard was acquitted in 2006. Police said the shooting was retaliation for Ross robbing Collins.

Lucas Gustafson was sentenced in 2005 to 160 days in jail and 30 months of conditional discharge for reportedly driving the getaway car used by Collins and his nephew, Hubbard.

Collins faces charges of attempted first degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. He is being held on a Knox County warrant.

The Galesburg Police Department wouldn’t comment on the case.

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Scranton PA. March 26 2008 An arsenal of assault weapons was seized by police and with it a stash of thousands of dollars worth of drugs. Police said all of it was confiscated from a man who worked in security.

Authorities in Lackawanna County said they tracked Thomas Evanitsky, 31, of Scranton in a three-month sting which included video and audio surveillance and which led them to his home. There they found even more than they expected.Evanitsky is an Air Force veteran, a trained bounty hunter and is now charged with dealing drugs.

The arsenal of weapons and ammunition found at his home was too large to fit on the conference room table at the Lackawanna County district attorney’s office. It included six semi-automatic weapons, nine handguns, gas masks, bullet-proof vests and thousands of rounds of bullets.Detectives said it all belonged to Evanitsky, and that they seized the contraband at his house on Hemlock Street in south Scranton last week.”These weapons can be owned by people in the public. Even though they are assault weapons in nature, there really is no legitimate use for them except for target practice,” explained District Attorney Andy Jarbola.

While the weapons on their own are not illegal what makes this against the law is that detectives said when searching Evanitsky’s house, they found this three and a half ounces of cocaine plus marijuana, Percocet and Xanax.According to arrest papers, Evanitsky dealt drugs in the parking lot at the General Dynamics Ammunition plant on Cedar Avenue in Scranton.On Thursday, Evanitsky was arrested there.

He worked as a security guard for a subcontractor called Century Security.The company’s director of operations said he is as shocked to hear about this as anyone. He said they do background checks and drug screening and that Thomas Evanitsky passed them both.With the drugs and guns off the street Lackawanna County authorities said they are now left to wonder what could have been.”He was well equipped with gas masks.

It could have been a very serious situation here and that’s one of the reasons why we have this out on display,” Jarbola added.Evanitsky is in the Lackawanna County jail on $300,000 bail.

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Placer County Ca March 26 2008

For most of us, age is something that we don’t look forward to and try to avoid looking our age at any cost. But authorities say that for one woman, she wanted to age and age in a hurry so she played dress up and headed out to an area casino to see if her aging worked.

Sheriff department officials say that Kecia Hawarneh, 39, of Sacramento donned a gray wig and bifocals, and carried a cane as she tried to impersonate a 76-year-old woman while trying to open a fraudulent $10,000 account at Thunder Valley Casino near Lincoln.
Lt. Jeffrey Ausnow said Hawarneh had the elderly victim’s personal checks and identification cards and tried to pass herself off as the senior citizen to a cashier at 11 p.m. Saturday.
“But the cashier was suspicious,” Ausnow said. “She felt the woman appeared to be in some type of disguise. The woman’s face looked younger, and it didn’t match the ID photo on the driver’s license that she was presenting.”
Security officers were notified and quickly detained Hawarneh, who protested, saying she was “outraged that an elderly woman was being treated this way,” Ausnow said.
When sheriff’s deputies were called in, the woman in the disguise abandoned the pretense and told them she hatched the plot to cash the checks after finding the victim’s checkbook and identification papers, he said.
Hawarneh was arrested on suspicion of identity theft, forgery and trying to cash a forged check, Ausnow said.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa March 25 2008 — Police in Iowa City were searching for a man whose wife and four children were found dead in their home Monday.
Steven Sueppel had been facing trial next month on federal charges of stealing about $560,000 from the bank where he worked.
A police spokesman said officers received a 911 call at about 6:30 a.m. telling them to go to the residence immediately. When they arrived, officers found the door unlocked and five people dead inside, KCCI-TV in Des Moines reported.
The spokesman said that, given the nature of the call, and the fact that Sueppel was facing embezzlement charges, there was concern about the safety of those living in the house.
Initial reports indicated that the five victims may have been shot, but the police spokesman said no one reported hearing shots fired.
Police said Sueppel was not in the home when they arrived.
The University of Iowa issued a campus alert about the case to students and parents by text message and e-mail, saying “an active shooter” was in the Iowa City area.
Police haven’t named Sueppel as a suspect, but they did issue a statewide alert to find him. He is described as a white male in his mid-40s, driving a tan Toyota Sienna minivan with license plate 501 BLO.
A crash near Iowa City on Interstate 80 Monday morning involved a Toyota Sienna minivan. Police have not yet confirmed if the two events are related. The driver was killed in the fiery crash.
Authorities said they were having a difficult time identifying the vehicle and the occupant.

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From The Jacksonville News

MIDDLEBURG, Fla. March 26 2008 — Clay County authorities confirm that the body found in some Middleburg woods on Thursday afternoon is that of 23-year-old Jacey McWilliams, who was reported missing on March 11.
They also said an acquaintance of hers with a lengthy criminal history who is being held in Pinellas County on unrelated charges is considered a person of interest in McWilliams’ slaying.
The body was found off Jones Cemetery Road about 4:30 p.m. after three days of searching by Clay and Jacksonville sheriff’s deputies, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler identified David James Martin, 21 — a registered felon who has been arrested nine times in Clay County within three years — as a person of interest in the case.
Investigators said Martin was with McWilliams the last time she spoke with her mother and was believed to have been with her in the days after she was reported missing.
“Jacey McWilliams was last known to be with (David) James Martin in Clay County. Several days after she was reported missing, her vehicle was located in Tampa,” said Clay County Sheriff’s Office Detective Kenny West.
Deputies said Martin had been sleeping in McWilliams’ car. They said it did not take them long to realize that Martin is the man named David who McWilliams’ mother described when she filed a missing persons report.
Martin is charged with shoplifting in Pinellas County and is also being held for violation of probation.
Clay County detectives have traveled to Pinellas County to interview Martin and said they plan to interview him again.
“I could never see him doing something like that,” said Cayla Lehmann, a friend of Martin’s fiancé.
She said her friend lives in Pinellas County, and said that’s why Martin was there. She also said the car Martin had with him had made her friend suspicious.
“She was suspicious because Jacey’s phone was in the car — Jacey’s clothes were in the car. A bunch of her stuff was in the car. Her credit cards were in the car,” said Lehmann. “She asked him why the phone and clothes were in there, and the only thing he said was that he was planning on bringing the car back soon.”
Deputies said Martin and McWilliams had only known each for about six weeks.
An autopsy was being conducted Friday to determine the exact cause of McWilliams’ death.
McWilliams’ co-workers at Caruso Dodge in Regency said they were stunned that she was killed.
“Everybody loved her. She was a happy-go-lucky person who was always in a good mood. It’s very sad.

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Naples Fla. March 262008

Driving around the city for eight hours a day, day after day, police say that you see it all and aren’t shocked by most things that they see.

But on Friday while a Sheriff’s deputy was on routine patrol, he spotted an unusual sight near the intersection of Peter Street and U.S. 41 East. A man on a bike towing a shopping cart filled with groceries that had not been bagged. They were just all tossed in there on top of each other the deputy said in his report.
Collier County deputies say that Christopher Ethier of no certain address told them that he had just bought them from an area Albertson’s and that he had thrown the receipt away and told the clerk don’t worry about bagging anything.

Ethier told the deputy that a Hispanic cashier had rung it all up for him and it cost $50.00 when in fact the groceries were valued at $160.90.
The deputy checked with the store and the only Hispanic clerk on duty didn’t remember that transaction or customer like that and a quick check of the store surveillance tape showed that Ethier had not gone through the check out area that day.

Ethier was charged with shoplifting and grand larceny and transported to the Collier County Jail.

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Annapolis MD. March 26 2008

By JOSHUA STEWART, Staff Writer
HometownAnnapolis.com

Faced with an 11 percent countywide spike in thefts last year, county police officers are trying new techniques to stop thieves and shoplifters in north and west county.
In 2007, officers responded to 12,094 thefts. That was up from 10,822 the previous year and prompted the implementation of new anti-shoplifting and anti-theft programs in the Western and Northern Police Districts.
County police are analyzing data collected to glean details about hot spots, repeat offenders and high-theft items, said Sgt. John Gilmer, a county police department spokesman.
Data indicate that the area around Ritchie Highway, Crain Highway and Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard are prime turf for shoplifters in north county, while west county was hit by a string of thefts from autos, particularly of global positioning systems, he said.
When it comes to confronting accused shoplifters, police officers have some discretion. Usually, they issue a citation – a misdemeanor charge that doesn’t create a major inconvenience for the accused.
But now, to serve as a greater deterrent, habitual shoplifters are taken to a police station, fully processed and are required to make a court appearance. If they fail to appear before a judge, a warrant can be issued for their arrest, bringing additional criminal charges, he said.
“When we do that it inconveniences the shoplifter. At the same time we are able to fingerprint and photograph the individual,” Sgt. Gilmer said.
Many of the culprits in these cases are drug addicts trying to finance their habits. Pharmacies and video stores seem to be frequent targets, Sgt. Gilmer said.
Officers also are trying to deter both theft and shoplifting through more aggressive patrols, he said.
According to the National Retail Federation, an advocacy group for everything from mom-and-pop stores to large franchises, sophisticated shoplifting schemes are on the rise.
Organized retail crime is when a group of people conduct large-scale heists, stealing several items – possibly hundreds – in a single swoop. These goods are then sold primarily thorough flea markets or the Internet, providing seed money for other criminal activities.
According to a survey by the federation, 71 percent of retailers said they noticed an increase in this type of mega-shoplifting during 2007. This is up from 48 percent in 2006.
Research conducted by the federation and the University of Florida said that shoplifting accounts for $13.3 billion – slightly less than half of Maryland’s budget – in retail losses nationwide every year with cards, novelties, accessories, hobby items and groceries accounting for the largest portion.
In west county, officers repeatedly responded to “scattered clusters” for thefts from autos. Thieves were particularly after global positioning systems, he said.
“A lot of times we were finding that GPS was left in plain view in vehicles,” Sgt. Gilmer said.
The best way to stop the crime is to remove the temptation; keep GPS equipment and all other valuables in the trunk or hidden, he said.
Most of the thefts seemed to be quick smash-and-grabs, he said.

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OKLAHOMA CITY OKL March 25 2008
by: Bryan Hill

N.A.P.O.

A security officer was one of two people who were injured early Sunday morning when gunfire erupted at a pool hall in the southeast area of Oklahoma City. police said.
Authorities now say that an armed security officer returned fire after several men entered the club and opened fire in an all night pool hall located at 3900 South High St.
Capt. Lisa Camacho said that it appears that the security officer and a second person were the only two hit during the gunfire.
Investigators believe the men intended to rob the pool hall, she said.
The security officer was hit with several gunshots and was taken by ambulance to the Oklahoma University Medical Center, where he was in critical condition Sunday.
Police say that they did talk to some witnesses and several people reported seeing three persons leaving the pool hall shortly after the shooting, but no descriptions of the suspects or their vehicle were available, police said.
Authorities did not say if the robbers immediately began shooting or if they attempted to rob the business and fired after meeting resistance. Right now things are a bit sketchy one officer said and investigators are still processing the scene, interviewing witnesses and gathering physical evidence.
Authorities said that they hope to learn more from the victims who are in the hospital.

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Hicksville NY March 25 2008

by: Rick McCann

N.A.P.O.

Police say that a couple of teenagers with some hot identification opened several Sears’s credit accounts in other people’s names and then went on a shopping spree of a lifetime. Officers say that the two racked up charges of more than $7,000 in Hicksville New York at a local Sears store and caught the attention of the loss prevention department.
Store managers and loss prevention agents continued to monitor their shopping excursion as they grabbed three high priced TV sets, a video game console, a high definition DVD camcorder and other electronics making their way through the high end electronics department.
The two proudly presented their newly approved Gold Master Cards as they continued their purchasing spree but security managers quickly suspected that this was a case of fraud and called police in to assist them in the investigation.
The two happy shoppers lost their joy as police and security agents approached them and learned that Tyquan Gooding, 18, of 435 Linden Blvd. and Brian Mulgrave, 17, of 838 Brooklyn Ave. had indeed used someone else’s information to obtain the credit cards and had been issued temporary shopping passes.
The two were arrested and charged with identity theft, grand larceny, forgery, criminal possesion of stolen property. Mulgrave also faces an additional charge of resisting arrest.
Gooding and Mulgrave are scheduled to appear for arraignment at First district Court, Hempstead.

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Dalton GA. March 25 2008

submitted by; Kyle Skinner

A man Dalton Police had chased after he was wanted for shoplifting later crashed his vehicle at the Varnell/Tunnel Hill exit.

Two passengers were killed, and he was airlifted in the Easter morning incident.The driver was identified as 34-year old Charles Shadwick.

The names of the two people killed have not yet been released.Dalton police had responded to a shoplifting report at K-Mart on Walnut Avenue.

All officers were advised to be on the lookout for the white male suspect and two other occupants in a burgundy Nissan Pathfinder. Within minutes, an officer spotted the suspect’s vehicle at the intersection of Shugart Road and Highway 41. The officer followed the suspect onto Highway 41, where he attempted to pull the vehicle over.

The suspect’s vehicle continued onto Interstate 75 heading north. Because the driver of the suspect’s vehicle was driving erratically, the Dalton officer terminated a chase and followed at a safe speed, Dalton Police said. Shortly after 10:30 a.m., the suspect’s vehicle got off the interstate at the Varnell/Tunnel Hill exit 341.

While trying to make a right turn at the exit, the suspect’s vehicle flipped and struck another vehicle and a concrete wall. The two people in the suspect’s vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene. Shadwick was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital, where he remains.

The occupants of the other vehicle were treated and released from Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton for minor injuries. Other agencies responding to the crash scene were the Georgia State Patrol, the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office and Tunnel Hill Police.

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