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Marine wanted in NC murder captured www.privateofficer.com
BREAKING NEWS; MARINE WANTED IN NC MURDER CAPTURED http://www.privateofficer.com
Police, FBI agents and the Mexican Federal police have all been hunting Cpl. Cesar Laurean after authorities say that he killed Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach and buried her burned body in his backyard in North Carolina in January of this year.
FBI agents and police in the small town of Tacambaro arrested Cpl. Cesar Laurean on Thursday after authorities say he was acting suspicous when police, who were involved in a different investigation, encountered Laurean. Mexican authorities became suspicous of his reactions to being questioned and detained him long eneough to check computer files and and they recognized his distictive tattoos. The authorities said that they soon learned that he was wanted in the United States for murder and notified U.S. authorities of his arrest.
Police said Laurean told the arresting officers he had only 10 pesos — about $1 — in his pocket when arrested.
Bearded, thin and chained at the wrists and ankles, Laurean spoke briefly with The Associated Press while being held at the Michoacan state Attorney General’s Office in Morelia, the state capital. He appeared slightly disoriented and stared straight ahead, his eyes occasionally filling up with tears as he answered a reporter’s questions in terse phrases. He told police and the press that since arriving in Mexico he had been sleeping in fields and surviving by eating fruits and whatever food that he could find.
You know my name. You know who I am,” Laurean said as reporters tried to question him. Asked if he wanted to say anything, Laurean answered, “Proof,” but wouldn’t explain.
FBI and U.S. police had said for the past three months that they expected that Laurean had fled south of the border to Mexico and a recent updated photo of him with a beard and longer hair had been shown on America’s Most Wanted and added to his wanted bulletin.
U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said in a statement that “Laurean fled to Mexico early this year in the hope of avoiding justice” and called the arrest “a clear message to all would-be fugitives from U.S. law that Mexico will not provide them refuge.”
The FBI said Laurean, 21, is awaiting extradition to the United States although local prosecutors in North Carolina cautioned the process could take a year or more if he decides to fight it.
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Sleeping guards found at power plant again www.privateofficer.com
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For the second time this year, federal regulators want to fine Florida Power & Light for security violations at Turkey Point nuclear power plant near Miami.This time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing a $130,000 fine because an investigation conducted by the agency found that half a dozen contracted security guards at the plant had been “inattentive” or fallen sleep while on duty repeatedly from 2004 to 2006.FPL has 30 days to pay the fine or protest, said Commission spokesman Ken Clark, adding that there aren’t any pending security issues at Turkey Point.Dick Winn, a spokesman for FPL’s nuclear division, said the company will review the findings of the investigation before deciding what to do.
It’s our plan to take the time allowed to work with NRC to get a better handle on the specifics of what these officers told NRC,” Winn said.In April 2006, a federal inspector witnessed a Wackenhut Nuclear Services security guard sleeping while stationed at a key part of the plant, according to the commission. More situations were revealed through interviews with former employees, Clark said: “They indicated there had been instances where they were inattentive or falling asleep or where someone…covered for them or stood watch. As you can imagine, that’s not acceptable.”Wackenhut, which has come under fire with regulators for security issues in the past, could not be reached.Winn said new security, screening and training measures have been put in place since the violations happened two years ago and that if the six guards, who haven’t worked at Turkey point for “some time,” fell asleep on duty, they were exceptions in a group of “very professional” guards.”That said, I don’t want to minimize this at all. Anything related to safety and security is always a big deal to us,” he said.Earlier this year, the Commission slapped the company with a $208,000 fine because the Commission found FPL failed to ensure it properly equipped four contracted security workers at the South Florida plant.
Man sent to prison for failed kidnapping plot www.privateofficer.com
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A military officer who tried to kidnap his former girlfriend at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport last June was sentenced to 72 months in prison on attempted kidnapping charges.
Timothy Pentaleri, 43, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.
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www.privateofficer.comShoplifter keeps stealing after multiple arrests www.privateofficer.com
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www.privateofficer.comSo, you want to be a police officer www.privateofficer.com
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The steps to becoming a police officer
Several people recently have asked us to explain to them how a person becomes a police officer.
Many still believe that it’s as simple as filling out an employment application and getting and a badge and gun from Sheriff Taylor. But, it’s “not” that easy and in fact it’s a long, grueling process in most cases.
The first step as with any job is a written application and now most of those can be done on line saving you the expense of postage. However, that’s the only easy part of the whole process.
Prior to the Civil Service Exam, a federally required method of examination for many municipal, county, state and federal jobs, you could walk into a police department and quickly be appointed and sworn in by the police chief, thrown to the wolves with little or no training and alone with a badge and a gun.
But with the start of the Civil Service process, all applicants now take a uniform, unbiased exam.
The first test to becoming a police office is the written examination. When a department announces their current officer position openings, usually in the newspaper and radio, they also announce the date and place of the written exam. Often times it’s at a high school or college.
The written exam varies in length but generally around 300 questions all geared to measure basic reading, English, math and general knowledge of the candidate.
Questions like, if you and your brother each have 44 apples and you sell 16 of them and give 9 away, how many is left? If you were driving north and turn left twice and right once, what direction are you heading?
Once the written exam is complete, a letter is sent out to you within 2-6 weeks letting you know if you passed or failed and inviting you to the next phase of the process, the agility test. (About 20-35% of those who took the written portion of the exam have failed.)
Here, you will be expected to do push-ups, sit-ups, pull a dead weight, and run at least a mile and other physical testing all under the watchful eyes of drill instructor type officers with a stop watch in one hand and a pen and clipboard in the other.
For many, it’s no easy feat and in fact, a large number of applicants fail this portion.
For all of those who have passed phase one and two, they are then put through several more phases including mental evaluations, a complete criminal and credit background check, lie detector testing and an oral board. During these phases, many other applicants are disqualified for having criminal records or not being mentally fit for the job.
Now, should you pass all of those test phases, which by the way could take you about 8-12 months to complete, you are given an overall score based on the scoring of each completed phase. For instance, you could place at 88.5. The minimum passing score will usually be 70-80% so you’re safe and you’re hired…right?Wrong!
The police agency may be hiring 10 new officers, but of the original 300 applicants, 87 have completed all phases favorably and all now have been scored just like you.
Now, the police department ranks everyone according to scoring, highest to lowest.
100 of course are ranked number one, then each highest score behind that.
When it’s time to hire, the department will take the top ten (in most cases) and the remaining candidates will now be placed on an eligibility list which means that should the department hire anymore officers during the next year, they will hire from that list.
However most eligibility lists are only valid for a year and if you’re not hired during that time, you’ll have to go through the whole process again if you want to work for that department.
This whole process must be completed for each agency that you apply for!
Let’s say that you were one of the lucky ones and you got hired. What’s next you ask?
A 16-20 week boot camp of sorts, police training academy awaits you and trust me; it’s nothing like the scenes from Police Academy 1, 2 or 3. This is no movie!!
Here, you’ll be put through physical training, tons of classes, the firing range, hand to hand combat, handcuffing and chemical spray, baton and Taser classes and much more!
Once again, during this process, applicants do drop out because they either can not handle the discipline or the physical part of the training. So be prepared and be mentally and physically in shape if you do indeed want to be a police officer.
If, after all of this, you make it and graduate from the academy, now you are placed with a FTO (field training officer) for a period of time, usually 3-6 months and you’re put on a one year probation.
Keep this in mind, it’s a long hard journey and there will be times that you want to give up, pack it in and go home and get another kind of job. but if law enforcement is your true calling, prepare ahead of the time, suck it up and go through each phase doing your best all of the time with purpose and keep your eye on the prize, the badge being pinned to your chest on graduation day.
And remember, stay safe out there!
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Store manager injured by shoplifter www.privateofficer.com
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The manager whose identity was not released, was taken to Willis-Knighton Medical Center South for treatment of injuries police said were not life-threatening.
Authorities say that they were trying to determine the identity of the shoplifter, who now is wanted on a charge of second-degree robbery.The suspect is described as a black male who stands 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tall and has a medium build. He last was seen wearing dark clothing and had a low hair cut.Call Shreveport police Detective Craig Ivy at (318) 673-6955 or Shreveport Crime Stoppers at (318) 673-7373 with any information.
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Fleeing shoplifter makes watery getaway www.privateofficer.com
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Metro Fire, EMS, and other rescue crews were also dispatched to conduct a search of the river area when the shoplifter did not resurface.
Rescue crews searched Tuesday night for the man thinking he may have drowned.
Security officers said a man took ammunition from the nearby Bass Pro Shop in Opry Mills Mall. They confronted him at his car about the theft and that’s when he took off toward the river.
Metro authorities do not believe that the man drowned but made his escape and got out of the water safely.
Police said someone saw a soaking wet man walk through Shelby Park on Tuesday night. That park is across the river form where the man jumped in.
Authorities used a helicopter and firefighters used two boats to look for the man, but neither he or a body were found.
At this time, police will continue their investigation to try to identify the slippery shoplifter but have suspended any other searches of the Cumberland.
If found, the theft suspect will face criminal charges for the shoplifting incident.
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Security officer shot during bank hold-up www.privateofficer.com
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Authorities are looking for two black men who robbed the Harris Bank, 2746 W. 5th Ave., at 11:11 a.m.
Investigators ask that anyone who recognizes the truck involved in the robbery contact the FBI’s GRIT office at (219) 885-1055.
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www.privateofficer.comWoman sues KMart after shoplifting arrest www.privateofficer.com
Woman sues KMart after shoplifting arrest http://www.privateofficer.com
A Laurel County woman has filed suit against the K-Mart corporation and two local K-Mart employees after she claims she was wrongfully accused of shoplifting and subsequently strip-searched.
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Small towns fight shoplifting problems www.privateofficer.com
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www.privateofficer.comUniversity football player charged with attempted murder www.privateofficer.com
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Brandon Wright, a back-up quarterback and running back on the Wildcats, was being held in the Volusia County Branch Jail on several charges including trafficking cocaine within 1000 feet of a school, home invasion robbery and false imprisonment, a jail official said. Some of those charges do not have bonds.
Wright was arrested Monday at his dorm room where police discovered cocaine, marijuana, and the shotgun used in the attempted murder, Daytona Beach police chief Mike Chitwood told The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
“He had no record.” Chitwood said. “He was very honest and forthright. He came right out and said I did it.”
Police said Wright was dealing drugs to make ends meet.
“I am shocked and disappointed if this is true,” the school’s football head coach Alvin Wyatt said in the statement. “At no time did this student give us any indication of the charge of which he is accused.”
The school’s athletic department dismissed Wright from the football team on March 15 for failure to fulfill team obligations, including attending mandatory meetings and workouts, the statement said.
He has also been indefinitely suspended from Bethune-Cookman, the statement said.
The Daytona Beach Police and Bethune-Cookman security declined to give information on the arrest after hours Wednesday.
The jail didn’t have a record of Wright’s attorney.
Wright went to DeLand High School where he was quarterback until his graduation in 2004. He signed with the Naval Academy in 2005 and played in 2006 but never made the varsity team. He transferred to Bethune-Cookman for the 2007 season, where he was the third-string quarterback.
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Man arrested for lewd acts at mall www.privateofficer.com
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Authorities say that they were told by an employee of Dillard’s department store that while she was sitting outside of Dillard’s, at around 5pm, having a smoke break on the third floor garage area near the food court she was approached by a man who exposed himself to her.
The man began to masturbate in front of her as he came closer and before leaving asked for a cigarette.
Responding officers found twenty one year old Luis Angel Maldonado Fuentes of Whitehall who was identified as the suspect in the incident and he was taken into custody and is held without bond at the county jail on charges of gross sexual imposition.
Police did not release the identity of the dillard’s employee but say that she was not hurt in the incident.
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Senior citizens arrested for fighting at Walmart www.privateofficer.com
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According to the police report, a 70-year-old man attacked an 81-year-old man with a pricing gun inside a Wal-Mart where the two had been verbally going at…
The report said Dennis O’Brien and John Esposito began arguing Sunday and O’Brien swung at Esposito with the pricing gun in his right hand.
The report says O’Brien told a sheriff’s deputy that he was acting in self-defense, but deputies reviewed the in-store security tape which showed O’Brien raising his hand first, striking Esposito in the face and then pushing him to the ground.
Officials say that they had no choice but to take the elderly man into custody and they booked O’Brien into the Palm Beach County Jail on aggravated battery charges
Authorities say Esposito suffered a swollen left eye and cuts on his nose and mouth.
Authorities did not know what the fued was about and store management would not say what if any punishment both would face from Wal-Mart.
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www.privateofficer.comWandering armed man on school campus jailed www.privateofficer.com
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A quick call from school administrators to police led to the arrest of Hill Everett Pearce III of McIntosh, authorities said Tuesday.
Police discovered four handguns in the 66-year-old Pearce’s car at Daphne High School on March 11, said Daphne Police Lt. Jud Beedy, and a fifth gun was found in the man’s boot when he was booked into the Daphne City Jail.
Daphne administrators called police just before the 3 p.m. dismissal bell after teachers saw Pearce taking “random photos of students” with a digital camera, Beedy said. It remains unclear why Pearce had the guns, he said.
“It’s really speculation to what he was doing there,” Beedy said. “He said he was there to pick up a distant relative, but he could have possibly been there to do something else. Worst-case scenario, he could have abducted another student.”
Police charged Pearce with five counts of possession of a deadly weapon on school grounds and possession of prison contraband, both felonies, as well as two misdemeanors, trespassing and criminal surveillance.
The prison contraband charge came after he failed to tell jailers about the gun in his boot, Beedy said.
There’s no indication that Pearce brandished a weapon or threatened anyone while on campus. One of Pearce’s relatives is a student at the school, Beedy said, but the boy’s parents had forbidden Pearce from seeing him.
“We took it very seriously, and we charged him with everything we had probable cause to charge him with,” Beedy said.
The search of Pearce’s car also found several pornographic, but legal, magazines, Beedy said, and Daphne officials confiscated his camera.
Authorities also searched Pearce’s home in McIntosh, and Washington County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Terry Beasley said the search uncovered several guns, but none were illegal. Beasley described Pearce as a gun collector, and the chief deputy said none of the guns were seized.
Daphne Principal Don Blanchard praised teachers’ reaction to the incident, saying the school’s safety plan “worked right.”
“Our teachers saw something that was out of place and alerted us, and we called the police,” Daphne High Principal Don Blanchard said. “Everything sort of worked flawlessly in this case. Instead of ignoring it and brushing it off, our teachers reported it.”
Pearce’s arrest came only one day after a student at Baldwin County High School in Bay Minette was arrested after police discovered a hunting rifle in the teen’s truck.
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