Police Chief arrested after Walmart incident www.privateofficer.com

Police Chief Arrested For Incident At Walmart www.privateofficer.com

Taccoa GA. April 8 2008

It was at a Wal-Mart in Toccoa, Georgia where investigators say Seneca Police Chief Stanley Sheriff broke the law he swore to uphold.

Georgia Police say that Sheriff, who was named as the Chief of the Seneca Police Department last July, attempted to exchange a camera with a expired warranty on Wednesday night. They say when he was told “no,” Sheriff left the old camera inside the store and walked out with a new one.

However, Sheriff has a different side of the story, according to Seneca City Administrator Greg Dietterick.

“He had lost some memory,” Dietterick told News Channel 7. “He did not know where he was and wound up in a store and accused of shoplifting.”

Sheriff was given a citation by the Toccoa Police Department, which is the same as being charged with a crime in South Carolina, according to Toccoa Police Chief Jackie Whitmire. Whitmire said that Sheriff was taken to the Toccoa Police station for processing and it was at that time where he told the officer he was not feeling well.

After returning to Seneca, Sheriff was taken to the Oconee Medical Center and it was there that a neurologist diagnosed him with having a stroke.

“I’ve been told he’s had some kind of stroke,” Dietterick said. “I’m not sure of the magnitude of what that stroke was.”

Dietterick said that Sheriff told city officials that he was not able to remember traveling to Toccoa and that it must have been a physical, medical condition that had caused Sheriff to have done anything that led to the citation.

“Doctors have pinpointed that the incident in Toccoa happened around the time that Chief Sheriff was undergoing the medical emergency,” he said. “I hope and pray he’ll be fine.”

When approached about the situation, Sheriff refused to go on camera with News Channel 7 citing the advice of his attorney, but he did say off camera that he did suffer an acute stroke. As a result, Sheriff has been put on a paid medical leave of absence.

When asked if this was the case of whether Sheriff was caught shoplifting and using the stroke as an excuse, Dietterick said that there is nothing to hide.

“Look. There is no hidden agenda,” he said. “Mr. Sheriff is a fine upstanding gentleman.”

Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander expressed a similar sentiment.

“We hope he’ll be fine,” Alexander said. “We hope he’ll be able to continue doing what he does as our police chief.”

As for now, Major John Covington is the interim police chief and Dietterick is quick to point out that residents of Seneca should know they are in capable hands,

“John is a very capable, very knowledgeable police officer and knows our department in and out,” he said. “People should not be worried at all because we have everything under control and the personnel who are ready to step in and take over to ensure their safety.”

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Toilet explodes, floods house in sewage www.privateofficer.com

Toilet explodes, covers house in sewage www.privateofficer.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 8 2008

By: Rick McCann

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You’ve had a rough day at work and you’re exhausted. You just want to go home and relax, put your feet up and watch a little TV and get a bite to eat. You finally work your way through the snarled rush hour traffic and make it back to your castle and swing open the door to peace and relaxation.
But for Nashville resident, Sandra Johnson, what she saw and worse yet, what she smelled the instant her front door opened was the most disgusting, offensive and fowl smell and sight that anyone can imagine.
You see, in the metro area a dirty problem that lies a few feet beneath Nashville has surfaced more than a dozen times in the past year — in residents’ houses.
you see, beneath the the metro city lies 3000 miles of sewer line and when something goes wrong under there and there’s a backup, that raw sewage has only one place to go…..exploding up through your toilet and into your house flooding it with everything that has been flushed through the system by thousands of other customers.
Sandra Johnson has lived in her home for more than six years, but when she walked in the front door on Feb. 17., she found a disgusting disaster.
“The lid had been blown off the toilet, and you could see it around the lid cover,” she said.
She said the sewer’s contents had drenched four rooms in her home with raw sewage.
“When you got a closer look in the bathroom, it was rocks, and, you know, sewage like it just pulled deep out of the ground into the house,” she said.
Johnson said her couch, clothes and TV all had to be thrown away and that environmentalists told her to move out of the house.
The house was no longer habitable and she was told by inspectors to move out and she did thinking that the Metro government would take care of the mess and assume financial responsibility for the damages
but on March 19, Metro’s legal department denied her claim.
“I didn’t create this, you know. I shouldn’t have to clean it up,” she said.
In the past year, 15 homeowners have gone to Metro with similar complaints; in four of those, Metro paid for the damage.
“It is something, as I said, our crews work very diligently to prevent from happening. Obviously, trees, trees will try to search for water, they can get their roots into sewer mains,” said Metro Water spokeswoman Sonia Harvat.
The city did find a blockage in the sewer line to Johnson’s house, but there was also a bigger problem that occurred about 40 years before Johnson moved in.
“There was also some issues with the property owner’s service line. It was installed incorrectly,” said Harvat.
Officials with Metro Water said service lines from homes are supposed to be installed on a declining angle, but the one at Johnson’s house is level. When the blockage occurred in the main sewer system, it caused her sewage and other people’s sewage to flow up through her toilet and into her house.
“When you do have a backup, that sewage is going to take the path of least resistance. So, if it can’t go where it’s needing to go, and it backs up, it’s going to take whatever path it can to gain relief,” said Harvat.
The restoration of Johnson’s house has already begun, and the project is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $50,000. Though her claim has been denied, she said she hopes Metro will reconsider.
“I want them to assume responsibility to really look into how this happened. … This is not anything normal that happens, that sewage backs up into somebody’s house of this volume,” Johnson said.
“There are some issues on both ends they are working through to determine the actual cause,” Harvat said.
It would have been impossible for Johnson to know her line was installed flat because it happened about 32 years before she bought the house.
Metro Water officials said one way homeowners can protect themselves is to make sure the home has a sewer backflow in place. That way, even if there is a problem in the main, it won’t come flowing into a house.
City officials met again last week to discuss whether to pay Johnson any damages for the sewer blockage that led to the mess but as of now Johnson hasn’t received a cent from the City of Nashville.

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Woman dies from 16 story fall at resort www.privateofficer.com

Mrytle Beach SC April 8 2008

A Largo, Fla., woman died Monday morning after falling from a 16th-floor hotel balcony to a roof covering a pool.
Bonnie Hoff, 54, died Monday at the Sands Ocean Club Resort, said Horry County Coroner Robert Edge. She was found by a hotel guest, who alerted hotel security, authorities said. The investigation into what caused her fall continued late Monday.
An autopsy is scheduled for today, Edge said.
Security and emergency workers responded to the emergency at the resort but say that hoff was critically injured from the fall upon their arrival.

With an influx of tourists expected in the coming weeks, authorities realize the likelihood of falls will increase.
In 2007, six people died from hotel-balcony falls in Horry County, Edge said. Two were ruled accidental, the other four suicides. In 2006, two people died from balcony falls and both were considered accidents, he said.
“On average, half of them are real accidents where people are intoxicated and clowning around on the balcony and lean over and lose their balance,” said Edge, coroner for the last 20 years. “The other half are intentional situations.”
“Everyone in the business is worried about them all of the time,” said Lee J. Rawcliffe, chairman of Sands Resorts, which owns the hotel and five other area properties.
“A balcony is an obvious hazard,” Rawcliffe said. “It’s sort of like a cliff. You look and it’s 100 feet down. You should know not to jump off of there.”
The coroners in Georgetown County and Brunswick County, N.C., couldn’t say how often people fall off balconies during the year. And neither could remember the last person who died in their county as a result of a fall.
Regulations state that balcony railings must be 42 inches high and have no more than four inches of space between the rails, Rawcliffe said.
He said balcony doors must have locks for child safety purposes.
But there are no warning signs on the balconies,” he said.
“Some parents don’t keep an eye on children, and some youngsters don’t pay attention,” Rawcliffe said.
The majority of the people who fall from balconies in Myrtle Beach are “careless,” according to Capt. David Knipes of the Myrtle Beach Police Department.
“For years and years, they’re jumping from the hotel room into the pool or into another room below,” Knipes said.
“It’s been a lot of kids involved in horseplay.”
That was the case when a girl died in July 2006 at the Sands Ocean Club Resort.
In that case, an Ohio girl fell from the seventh floor to the balcony of a vacant room below, according to the Horry County coroner’s office.
The girl, 19, and others were drinking in the room.
A gymnast, the girl grabbed on to the railing of the balcony and propped her feet up on the ceiling above, but lost her balance and fell, Rawcliffe said.
“Something went wrong,” Rawcliffe said. “She fell to the balcony below, hit her head and lost her life.”
In August 2007, a 17-year-old from Gainesville, Ga. fell over the railing of a sixth-floor balcony at the Tropical Winds on Ocean Boulevard, bounced off other balconies, slammed onto a slanted rooftop and fell into the bushes.
He suffered only cuts and bruises.
Horry County police are still investigating Monday’s death, according to Sgt. Bob Carr.
It is often difficult to tell the manner of death when a person falls from a balcony, Knipes said.
“If they don’t leave a note, it’s hard to say what the intent was when the person went over the railing,” Knipes said.

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AMBER ALERT!//CHILD IN DANGER! www.privateofficer.com

MARYVILLE, Tenn. April 8 2008 — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a statewide endangered child alert for a 4-year-old boy from Blount County.
Authorities said Travis Rathbone was abducted by his mother, Vicki Rathbone.
Rathbone doesn’t have custody of the boy. She picked Travis up for a scheduled visit on March 31.
She was supposed to take him home to his father last Thursday but never showed up.
Officials have reason to believe Travis may be in danger.
Anybody who sees the mother and child should call police.

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Bank robber uses taxi as getaway vehicle www.privateofficer.com

EAST POINT, Ga. April 8 2008 – A veteran detective calls it one of the dumbest mistakes he’s ever seen. Now that mistake has put a suspected bank robber in jail.
East Point police said they easily arrested a robbery suspect because he had a cab pick him up and take him to the bank. Officers said they simply returned to the address and arrested him there.
“I’ve been a police officer for 18 years and this is one of the dumbest acts I’ve ever seen,” said Capt. Russell Popham with the East Point Police Department.
Popham said he and other officers were able to pick up Marcus Chisholm at the Camp Creek Parkway apartment where he lived in large part because just an hour and 15 minutes earlier Chisholm had a cab pick him up at the same address and take him to a SunTrust Bank which, Popham said, Chisholm then robbed.
“A male subject had entered the bank and produced a note to the teller and the note said if she didn’t give him the money that he was going to kill her,” said Popham. “When he presented the note he had his finger in his jacket pocket as if he had a gun.”
Officials said the teller cooperated and gave him money.
Popham said after Chisholm got the cash he got back in the cab. Witnesses spotted the taxi and told East Point police the name of the cab company.
“We learned what taxi cab company it was and contacted them, had the cab driver come back and give an interview,” said Popham. Officials said the cab driver returned to the scene and identified the man seen in the bank surveillance video as his passenger. The cab driver then gave authorities the address where he’d picked the man up.
“The cab driver did not have any idea that he had just taken someone to commit a bank robbery,” said Popham.
Popham said Chisholm threw suspected crack cocaine out the apartment window when he was arrested.
The suspect told Channel 2’s Mark Winne that he didn’t have any comment other than to say he does not have a drug problem.

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Repo man drives off with kids in car www.privateofficer.com

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. April 8 2008

By: Bryan hill

Security News Magazine

www.privateofficer.com – A repo man found himself in trouble with the law after he took more than he was supposed to according to police.
When repo man, David Mahaffey, spotted a truck that was several months behind in payments, he jumped into the driver’s seat and drove off. The problem: the owner’s three young children were inside.
The family chased after the truck, and witnesses said they saw the children screaming as people began to dial 911.
Authorities say that when Mahaffey realized that there were children in the truck he pulled over and parked it and then fled the area.
Police eventually located and arrested Mahaffey. The repo man was charged with unlawful imprisonment and operating the vehicle without a valid license

Mahaffey’s co-workers insisted he didn’t know the children were there.

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Atlanta Braves player pleads guilty of DUI www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta Braves player pleads guilty to DUI www.privateofficer.com

Newport Beach, CA — (Sports Network) April 8 2008 – Scott Spiezio, the former St. Louis Cardinals infielder who signed a minor league deal with the Atlanta Braves, was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of DUI and hit and run.
The charges stem from an automobile accident on December 30.
In exchange for Spiezio’s guilty plea, charges of aggravated assault and assault and battery were dropped.
Spiezio was also ordered to pay $390 in fines and perform 80 hours of community service. He must attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and undergo three months of a first-offender alcohol program.
According to the police department, officers responding to a report of a single vehicle collision discovered a 2004 BMW registered in Spiezio’s name crashed into a curb and fence, and that the driver was seen running from the scene.
Spiezio was also accused of running into a friend’s condo and vomiting in his friend’s room. When the friend made a comment, Spiezio apparently became angry and attacked his friend, punching him repeatedly and throwing him against a wall.
The Cardinals released Spiezio in February and he was signed to a minor league deal by the Braves in March.
Spiezio, 35, batted .269 in 81 games with the Cardinals last season, with four home runs and 31 runs batted in. In 12 seasons with Oakland, Anaheim, Seattle, and St. Louis, Spiezio has a lifetime .255 average with 119 homers and 549 RBI.
Courtesy of The Sports Network.

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8 Teens arrested for attack on girl www.privateofficer.com

8 Teens charged with brutal attack on girl www.privateofficer.com

Polk County Fla. April 8 2008

By: Rick McCann

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Looking at the video that a group of teens took of themselves savagely beating on a 16 year old girl brings only one thing to mind, pack animals and Sheriff Grady Judd agreed as he stated in his press release. “It’s pack mentality,” he said. “They lured her there to beat her.”

Sheriff investigators say that a group of six teenage girls and two boys, all of whom have now been rounded up and arrested are accussed of of participating in the videotaped beating engaged in “animalistic behavior Sheriff Judd said in a press conference Monday.

The video is shocking: A teenage girl is repeatedly beaten and taunted as other teenagers shout in the background. “Make this 17 seconds good,” one yells toward the video’s end.The eight teens arrested, pummeled the 16-year-old victim until she was bruised and had a concussion.

The 16-year-old was having problems at home and was staying with a friend, Mercades Nichols, 17, in Lakeland, according to the Sheriff’s Office.On March 30 about 8:30 p.m., the victim arrived at Nichols’ house on West Calendar Court and was greeted by Nichols and another girl.The victim went into the bedroom where she was staying, and a third girl, April Cooper, 14, began to insult and threaten her, then hit her in the face several times and slammed her head into a wall, knocking her unconscious, a sheriff’s report states.When the victim awoke, she was on the living-room couch surrounded by six girls who took turns hitting and kicking her while the beating was videotaped, records show. The girl told investigators that the six blocked the door, held her down and beat her for a half-hour. Sometime during the attack, her left ear and eye were injured, authorities said.Two teenage neighbors, both male, acted as lookouts, the Sheriff’s Office said.

After the beating, three of the girls drove the victim to another friend’s house, where they told her, “If you go to the police, the next beating will be worse,” the report states.Six girls, a boy and a young man were arrested Wednesday on charges of felony battery and false imprisonment.

They are Nichols, Cooper, Brittni Hardcastle, 17, Kayla Hassell, 15, Brittany Mayes, 17, Cara Murphy, 16, Zachary Ashley, 17, and Stephen Schumaker, 18. All are from Lakeland except Hassell, who is from Mulberry.Mayes, Hardcastle and Nichols also were arrested on charges of felony kidnapping for forcing the victim into the car and driving her to another location.

All the minors were taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center in Bartow and were still in custody late Monday, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said. Schumaker was released from the Polk County Jail on bail and, in a phone interview, denied being involved.

Schumaker said Monday that he was not a lookout. He told the Orlando Sentinel that he and Ashley were sitting on Ashley’s porch next door to Nichols’ house when he heard Nichols yelling at the victim. He said he went to get gas and was not present when the victim was beaten.According to the sheriff’s report, the victim told investigators that Schumaker and Ashley knocked on the front door and warned the girls they were making so much noise that neighbors were wondering what was going on.”I could be facing a year and a day in jail for something I didn’t do,” Schumaker said.

According to the victim, the girls bragged that they planned to post the beating on YouTube and MySpace.

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Police charge man with robbery after theft of baby formula www.privateofficer.com

Man arrested for robbery in theft of baby formula www.privateofficer.com

CONCORD NH April 8 2008 – A man arrested last week for possessing heroin is now charged with robbery in last week’s attempted theft of baby formula from Hannaford’s at 73 Fort Eddy Road.

Police arrested Casey Jones, 31, of Madbury on Friday at the Merrimack County jail where he is being held on the drug possession charge.
On the morning of April 1, two men attempted to shoplift 18 cans of Nestle’s baby formula worth $167. Employees tried to stop them from leaving the store with the carriage of baby formula and hypodermic needles fell out of the coat of one of the men who put up a struggle.
The men fled in a gray Mazda.
Evidence led investigators to a 5 Heartwood Lane apartment where, the next day, they arrested Megan Wilcox, 24, of Concord, on warrants for forgery and two counts of issuing bad checks issued, respectively, by Bridegwater and Moultonborough police. Also arrested was Daryl Clough, 35, also of Concord, for violating parole.
Later that day, police found the Mazda parked at 5 Heartland Lane with Jones and Jeffery Bibbo, 35, of Manchester, inside it. Each was charged with possessing heroin. Bibbo also was arrested for violating bail conditions on a prior shoplifting charge.
Police continue to investigate whether the incident is related to other baby formula thefts in the Concord area.
None of the people arrested have small children, police said. Baby formula is a popular item to shoplift to resell for cash to buy, among other things, illegal drugs, police said.
Jones’ bail is $5,000 cash. He will be arraigned in Concord District Court later this morning.

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Police charge teens with mall arsons www.privateofficer.com

Cheektowaga NY April 8 2008

By: Rick McCann

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It was a chaotic scene that mall security was faced with when they responded to multiple fires in different areas of the mall yesterday.
Police, fire and EMS personnel were summoned and quickly responded to the Walden Galleria fearing for the worse.
It was a wild night for police and fire fighters at the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga. There were 3 fires, one at J.C. Penney, one at the food court, and one at Best Buy. Investigators believe all 3 are connected and all are arson. “These fires were just set by some paper products and some matches. We’re in the process of investigating those fires and we do have some surveillance video taken of possible suspects.” said Cheektowaga Police Captain John Glascott

Police released several pictures from that surveillance video of the 2 persons of interest and police say that tips did come into their office and they have been able to make two arrests in the arsons.The two teens, ages 16 and 17, were under arrested this morning however police have not released their names or photos yet but said that they will have a press conference later in the day. .There was no major damage, and two of the fires burned themselves out. One fire was extinguished by mall security, but 2 stores were evacuated. “We closed down J.C. Penney and Best Buy for a short period of time until we were sure they were safe.” said Glascott

We could have a real disaster here said a police officer. Things could have gone bad fast and people could have been hurt or worse. Thank god none of that happened and hopefully these teens will be punished and understand the severity of what they did he said.

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Trio charged with child neglect, shoplifting www.privateofficer.com

Trio charged with child neglect and shoplifting www.privateofficer.com

Chandler AZ. April 8 2008
Chandler police arrested two women and a man on suspicion of shoplifting and child neglect after police say they used a diaper bag to steal from a Kohl’s department store while they had two young children waiting in the getaway car.
Cinthya Bustos and Maria Ogas were seen on security cameras Friday night at Kohl’s near Arizona Avenue and Santan Freeway hiding merchandise in their bags and trying to leave the store without paying while Alex Alonzo waited in the car with a 1-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, according to a police report.
Bustos went into a dressing room with several bathing suits and an empty diaper bag and when she came out she had no items with her and the diaper bag was full, police said. The diaper bag was unzipped and the bathing suits could be seen inside from the camera’s view, and Ogas was seen concealing several pairs of sunglasses in her purse, the report said
According to the arresting officer, Alonzo moved his car closer to the front entrance while he waited with the children for the two women to exit the store, officials said.
After being advised of their rights, police said Bustos admitted stealing the bathing suits, said she went to the store with the intention to steal and may do it again in the future.
Ogas also admitted stealing the sunglasses but said she went to the store intending to buy a bathing suit for the 7-year-old girl, police said. She told police she decided to steal once she was there.
Bustos, Ogas and Alonzo were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to shoplift and child neglect, imperiling the morals of a child, court documents show.

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Shoplifter nabbed at K-Mart www.privateofficer.com

Charleston WV April 8 2008

An Elkview woman was charged with stealing several hundred dollars worth of merchandise from Kmart.

State police were called to Kmart at the Crossings Mall Tuesday afternoon after a security officer had taken custody of a woman who tried to steal several items, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.

The security guard told police Tessa Leigh Shafer, 25, of Hurricane Road, was seen placing items in her coat pockets without paying for them, the complaint said.

As the security guard watched Shafer, he saw her attempt to leave the store with a shopping cart full of merchandise, the complaint said.

The total value of the merchandise was $643.96, the complaint said.

Shafer told police she was stealing items for her and her baby, the complaint said.

She is charged with shoplifting and giving false information to police.

 

 

 

Former FEMA worker pleads guilty to identity theft www.privateofficer.com

Washington D.C. April 8 2008

By: Bryan Hill

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Some say that justice was not served and others agree in anger and frustration. They’re talking about the guilty plea in Federal court in Washington DC of Robert Davis, 44 of southeast D.C. who admitted in court that while employed by FEMA, he took advantage of at least 200 people including at least 30 who were Hurricane Karina victims. He plead guilty of stealing their identity, fraudulently opening credit accounts in their names and charging at least $156,000.

Davis used the identities of at least 74 victims to open accounts with the Home Shopping Network, QVC and others. Some items he received included diamond jewelry, designer watches and digital cameras.

The U.S. Attorney says Davis stole the identities while working as a FEMA human services specialist. About 30 of his scams involved victims of natural disasters.
Davis also worked as a clerk for various mortgage companies in the District.
After obtaining personal information, Davis called retailers and opened credit accounts in their names..
For all of his ill deeds and broken lives and heartaches that he left behind him, Davis agreed to a plea deal which found him guilty of one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of wire fraud. He could have easily been charged with at least 200 counts of each and faced life in prison. Instead, he received a bargin on Friday from the prosecutor’s office and now only faces four to seven years whn he’s sentenced in June.
With good behavior and early release, that amounts to less than two years behind bars.

The U.S. Attorney’s office said in their press release that is was a good sentence for Davis’s crimes and a win for the victims. It sounds like it was good for their office and a win for them.

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My baby’s a shoplifter! www.privateofficer.com

MILFORD CT April 8 2008

BY: Rick McCann

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Anyone who has been around the retail security industry for any length of time can tell you all sorts of stories, reasons and excuses why the shoplifter stoled the items. But now there’s a new one to add to your ever growing list….my baby did it.
Police say that they were called to a shop after clerks found that a man had taken some items. When police got their, the shoplifter, an East Haven man put the blame on his baby instead of just admitting his crime.
When officers determined the child wasn’t strong enough to lift the stolen merchandise, Louis Fallon, 29, then allegedly urged them to arrest his wife, who was also in the store at the time.
Fallon, of Pershing Avenue, later said he is on parole and didn’t want to get in more trouble, according to police.
Fallon, who is a convicted felon, was sentenced to jail in 2006 for the sale of narcotics, third-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment, according to state Judicial Branch records. His prior convictions, dating back to 2001, include larceny, failure to appear in court, criminal impersonation, breach of peace and interfering with an officer.
He was charged Wednesday with risk of injury to a minor and sixth-degree larceny for allegedly stealing a wooden box worth $32.95 at Made By Hand, a shop in the Westfield Connecticut Post mall that sells world handicrafts and wooden carvings.
Officer Vaughan Dumas, the police spokesman, said the box was found in a bag attached to the rear of the 23-month-old child’s stroller.
Fallon allegedly told police the child swiped it without his knowledge. But police
said that it would have been physically impossible for the child to reach the bag or lift the box.
Fallon’s is being held on a $1000 bond and he had his case continued to April 25 during his Thursday arraignment in Milford Superior Court.
But his trouble doesn’t end there. Police also notified his parole officer and Fallon’s parole could be revoked and he could be sent back to state prison to serve out the rest of his previous sentence.

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