Store owner clobbers shoplifter with hammer www.privateofficer.com

New York City NY April 14, 2008

By: Rick McCann

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www.privateofficer.com Police in New york say that a Brooklyn storeowner was arrested last night after he struck a suspected shoplifter with a hammer.

Police say Bunkless Bovian, 15, entered the store on East New York Avenue in Brownsville at around 8 p.m. and was allegedly caught trying to steal something. Then authories say that Bovian was confronted by the owner who then allegedly hit the teenager on the head with a hammer.

The teen tried to run back to his apartment complex after the attack, but collapsed on the sidewalk and was found by his brother. Police and EMS responding to the area found the teenager and he was taken to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition.

Family members say Bovian has a fractured skull and has suffered two seizures since he went to the hospital. His family and friends say this is all out of character and that they believe that Bovian, who goes by the nickname Bulaboo, was arguing with a friend — not trying to steal. “He’s not a thief, put it that way,” said the victim’s grandfather, Luckner Pierre. “He’s a good kid. I could vouch for that.” “That was his favorite store to buy a sandwich from across the street,” said the victim’s aunt. “He would never rob nobody.” “I don’t know how to handle it,” said Shaquana Bovian, his sister. “I just wanted to spaz out. That’s not my brother. That doesn’t sound like my brother.

He played ball. He minded his own business.” Bovian is an eighth grader at I.S. 323 and a star player on Brownsville’s C3 Elite basketball team. “He don’t use profanity. He goes to church Sundays. He respects his elders,” said the victim’s basketball coach and friend Wayne Staton. “That’s why I’m shocked that they said he was going to rob a store. That’s not his character.”
Police would not say what the teen is suspected of trying to steal or if any charges would be filed against him. Authorities say that they still have unanswered questions and need to talk to Bovian before deciding on charges.
His coach said fellow players who were with him the night of the attack said the teens were not stealing. Witnesses say that they were in the store to buy a few things as they have done many times before. All of a suddent the man approached the kids from the back and hit Bovian in the head with the hammer,” said the coach. In Bovian’s honor, the team’s basketball game was cancelled today. Those who know the store owner, 36-year-old Ahmed Salah also say they were surprised by news of the attack. “Every time I walked into the store he was very much friendly and this is really surprising to me,” said customer Allen Ricks.

Salah has been charged with felony assault but that charge could be upgraded if the teenager does not survive his injuries police said.

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Reality show host arrested for kidnapping www.privateofficer.com

from Fla. Crime News

Apoka Fla. April 16 2008
The Apopka home where a reality television show was being filmed illegally also was used earlier this year to broadcast live streaming sex acts for an adult-entertainment Web site, police said.

Production of the never-aired Pauper to Princess show, about downtrodden women who wished to be transformed, came to a halt during the weekend after four women fled the home and called police. They claimed the show’s producer, 33-year-old Marc Brilleman, held them against their will and prevented them from calling their families.

Brilleman was arrested and charged with false imprisonment and was later released on bond.

Dream House Productions, run by a trio ofSeminole County investors who operated both the reality show and the live online porn site, began filming its Princess show in February after holding two auditions at the University of Central Florida and Cowboys Orlando, a country-themed bar.

The show’s Web site promised the winner would receive $50,000, the use of a BMW sedan for a year and a modeling contract.”Our goal is to make these girls somebody. To help them grow physically, mentally and spiritually,” intones an adult male voice on a promotional trailer on the show’s Web site. “It is about changing our eight paupers’ lives so that they can change the world.”

Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation officials say the house on April Lane had been on their radar for months.”We got a tip about four months ago that this was being peddled on the Internet as the X-Rated Dream House,” said MBI Commander Paul Zambouros. “It had Web cameras all over the house,” which could be viewed for a fee.

The site shut down almost as soon as MBI undercover agents subscribed to it, Zambouros said. Shortly after that, the production company decided to shoot the reality TV show.

Whatever was being filmed in the residence was violating city rules, according to Apopka police.Dream House Productions apparently never approached Apopka City Hall, which routes all requests to film in the city through the Economic Development Commission of Mid Florida Inc.’s Motion Picture and Television divisions, said police Chief Chuck Vavrek.

Pauper to Princess’ executive producer James C. Johnson said he approached various agencies, but staffers told him no permission was needed to conduct a commercial operation in the residential neighborhood.

Contestant speaks outBrittany Pranther, the show’s youngest contestant, thought a bit of good luck had graced her when she was chosen for the show. She was promised $500 a week during the 13 weeks of filming, she said.Pranther, 19, wanted to win the prize money to help her disabled mother, Natalie, get better health care, she said. Her mother has suffered four strokes and two heart attacks in the past five years, leaving her unable to work.

Because Pranther and the other contestants were never paid the $500 a week she said they were promised in their contracts, she lost her car. Her mother’s eviction notice gave her until today to get out of her rented Orlando home.”If anything, it made us worse,” Pranther said of the show meant to raise her self-esteem. “I feel more hurt because he knew that we all grew up with that kind of past, and he did it again.”She is now working 16-hour days at two jobs, trying to get back on her feet.Mark NeJame, an Orlando attorney representing Johnson, said the contracts clearly stated that the women would be paid $500 a week, which would kick in after the sixth week of work.

He presented a contract Monday stating that, and also that the top three finishers would receive a bonus of $1,000 after the 13-week commitment. The show was being made, NeJame said, in the hopes that a network would pick it up at some point, but no deal had been reached.Johnson hired NeJame on Monday after Johnson said the contestants broke their contracts with him and were not telling the truth about the show.

Pranther said the contestants became wary of the show’s legitimacy in recent weeks after inadvertently discovering a sex tape on a memory card in one of the production company’s cameras. Until then, the women had attended modeling classes, etiquette training and worked out with a personal trainer at a Bally’s gym near Orlando. They even performed community service at the local Ronald McDonald House.”For the most part, they seemed pretty legit,” Pranther said, adding that businesses would shut down and allow them to film in private. Pranther and two other women left the show voluntarily last week after finding the tape.On Saturday, MBI’s vice squad responded to the house at the request of Apopka police to determine if the young women had been held against their will as sex slaves.”

One of the girls hit the wrong button on the memory card and they saw their chaperone” . . . having sex with another woman on the kitchen counter, Zambouros said. “The girls were shocked. They said, ‘Oh, my God, that’s where we eat breakfast.’ “That chaperone, Tamika Jackson, 27, said Monday evening that she told the girls weeks ago about her “indiscretion,” and they told her they respected her nonetheless.”

There’s no dispute that an adult Web site was streaming for a short time,” NeJame said.

But the previous use of the house had nothing to do with the G-rated reality TV show being filmed there until Saturday, he said.

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Deputy police chief arrested for sex crimes www.privateofficer.com

MULBERRY Fla. April 16 2008 – A central Florida police officer is charged with having sex with a 16-year-old girl while on duty four years ago.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says Jody Beaudry committed the crime in 2004. He is the deputy police chief in the Polk County town of Mulberry, east of Tampa.

The 39-year-old Beaudry is accused of having sex with the girl after threatening to have her probation revoked. He was arrested Monday after the FDLE investigation.

Beaudry is being held without bond pending a court hearing.

It’s not clear if he has an attorney yet.

This is an on going investigation and we will update as soon as we get more information.

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Shoplifting ring busted in Mass. www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifting ring arrested in Mass. www.privateofficer.com

Peabody MA. April 16 2008

Abercrombie & Fitch targets teenagers and young adults for its line of clothing. But the store is finding itself in the crosshairs of organized shoplifting rings.
Police arrested three young adults, including a Salem woman, outside the Northshore Mall in Peabody, Mass., April 9 on charges relating to a theft from the store’s Burlington, Mass., location, and officers believe the trio was setting its sights on the Peabody store.
The arrests may be part of an even larger ring involving more people and more stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, investigators say.
“The way it’s happened in the past, organized groups hit a string of stores in a row,” police spokesman Lt. Dennis Bonaiuto said. “A short time later, we received information the individuals fitting the description of suspects in the Burlington theft were in the (Peabody) store.”
Peabody police and mall security caught up with the suspects — Tabitha Burling, 21, of Salem, a 15-year-old Lawrence, Mass., boy and Michael Realejo, 20, also of Lawrence — inside the store.
One of the suspects stopped in the store is suspected in thefts at stores in Saugus, Mass., and in Manchester, Nashua and Newington.
Since no thefts occurred inside the Peabody store before police arrived, one of the suspects was issued a summons for allegedly wearing a pair of stolen jeans. They were then sent on their way.
However, Bonaiuto said, “Officers conducted surveillance on these people” in the parking lot. He said the three walked around the parking lot for more than an hour, constantly scanning the area, “checking to make sure the police weren’t around.”
The three eventually got into a car, which police immediately pulled over for a motor vehicle violation that Bonaiuto did not specify.
“While conversing with the driver of the vehicle, (police) saw several containers of clothes in the car,” Bonaiuto said. “As it turned out, (we found) over $3,000 of clothing belonging to the Burlington Abercrombie & Fitch store.”
The three were all then charged with receiving stolen property. However, they have not been charged for the thefts in Burlington. They were arraigned Thursday in Peabody District Court.
Burlington Detective Gary Redfern said detectives there are continuing to review video surveillance to match the suspects with thefts from other major stores, such as Macy’s, in addition to Abercrombie & Fitch.
Redfern said the three arrested are just a portion of the larger group of suspects in the shoplifting ring.
Bonaiuto credited the work of the Peabody and Burlington police along with mall security and Abercrombie employees.
“If not for the cooperative effort of everybody involved, these thefts may have been able to be successfully completed,” Bonaiuto said.
“The stores are aware of the organized rings,” Bonaiuto said. “When (the rings) make a hit, they’re hit for several thousands of dollars, and the cost is being passed to the consumers who shop there lawfully.”

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Teacher charged with sexual assault of student www.privateofficer.com

Las Vegas NV April 16 2008
A Durango High School substitute teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a student. Police say they do not believe there are any additional victims, but the investigation is still underway.
The arrest report provides graphic details of what allegedly happened between a married substitute teacher and his student. Police say the teacher told investigators that he had oral sex with the student in his wife’s minivan.

Thirty-nine-year-old Angel Menes has been with the school district since September of 2005. He was arrested by Metro Police Saturday night.
Police moved in after getting a call from the mother of the alleged victim who says, in the police report, her daughter called her in tears for help.
The Durango High campus was quiet Monday because of a teacher training day, but students around the campus say the news of the arrest is spreading quickly on the internet.
One sophomore at the school said she had Menes as her world history instructor last quarter but he recently taught drivers education.
Susan Anderson said Menes was a caring teacher who was always willing to listen. She found out about the arrest from a friend.
“He e-mailed me on MySpace and he was like, ‘Mr. Menes got arrested for sexual assault.’ and I was like, ‘You have got to be kidding me?’ He does not seem like the kind of guy,” she said.
According to the arrest report, Menes forced himself upon the student inside his car, not far from the girl’s home. The report also does indicate there was some prior sexual contact in Menes’ classroom.
“I think it is the times that we are living in. In Colorado, there was a teacher that was arrested for punching five students because they were not getting the curriculum. So, it’s messed up,” said student Lashelle Allison.
The victim says Menes grabbed her and kissed her on two separate occasions on campus. But the victim also admits in the police report she did send her teacher some sexually suggestive photos.
The district says Menes will not be assigned to any classes, and will not paid, while the investigation is underway. He is now being charged with five felony counts including sexual assault and sexual misconduct with a student.

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Mall officers nab man for felony voyeurism www.privateofficer.com

Boise, Idaho April 16 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

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– Security officers patrolling at an area mall say that they spotted a shopper acting supicously and began to watch him further to see what he was up to and now the Oregon man is behind bars.
Police say that he was following females around the mall and allegedly used a video camera to secretly record women at Boise Towne Square Mall.
Jesse Calkins, 24, of Burns, Ore., was arrested Saturday night after security officers spotted him behaving in a manner unlike normal shoppers and decided to tail him. what security personnel saw was that Calkins was secretly video taping woman in various areas of the mall. Police say Calkins had a small digital video camera concealed in a bag that he was setting on the ground in strategic spots.
He has been charged with felony video voyeurism. Calkins is also facing charges for destruction of evidence, because according to police, he took the memory card out of his camera and attempted to crush it.
“Mr. Calkins was caught as the result of some good observations by the mall security people and citizens and employees of the mall, and they did absolutely the right thing. they noticed he was involved in something that seemed unusual to them it didn’t make sense, so they called the police,” said Lt. Alan Cavener, with the Boise Police Department.
Calkins is being held at the Ada County Jail awaiting his arraignment.

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Shoplifter found with drugs during arrest www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifters found with drugs during arrest www.privateofficer.com

BERLIN MD. April 16 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Security News Magazine

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Maryland State Police said they received a call about a shoplifting at the Super Fresh store in West Ocean City’s White Marlin Mall but that when troopers arrived at the store, the suspects had fled the area.
Officers put out a broadcast for those involved and the suspects’ vehicle was stopped by Ocean City police in the area of Fourth Street
The passenger, Krystyna Marie Strobel, 18, of Ocean City was identified as the person involved in the theft and was arrested for theft of merchandise worth $155.34 and the stolen items recovered from the vehicle.

She was charged with theft under $500.

Police said during a search after the arrest they found a glass multi-colored smoking device and a plastic baggie containing suspected marijuana in a purse belonging to the driver and owner of the vehicle, Sarah Elizabeth Trattner.Trattner, 18, of Berlin was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Both Strobel and Trattner were taken before a commissioner and released on personal recognizance.

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Walmart shopper accussed of voyeurism www.privateofficer.com

Tampa, Florida April 16 2008 – At the Wal-Mart Supercenter on North Dale Mabry near Waters Avenue Sunday afternoon, a store security officer checking the aisles noticed a man squatting near a woman picking out a shower curtain.
“And while she was standing behind him, he took his cell phone and put it behind him and put it underneath her dress and used the video part of the phone and actually took like three different little videos of her underneath her skirt,” said Debbie Carter, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s spokesperson.
Carter says the victim didn’t know it happened right away but the incident was recorded on Wal-Mart’s surveillance system.
“They went back, they looked at the video again, was able to find the victim in the store and once they found her, needless to say she was extremely upset,” said Carter.
Deputies arrested 34-year-old Ginmar Antonio Velasquez, an unemployed Tampa man, and charged him with video voyeurism after confiscating his cell phone and seeing images of the female shopper’s thighs.
A Wal-Mart corporate spokesperson declined to talk with us about the arrest at the store on North Dale Mabry and Waters but confirmed they are working with sheriff’s deputies on the case.
Some shoppers at Wal-Mart are disgusted by the arrested peeper.
“That was wrong. That should be private. I don’t want anybody to see under my skirt,” said Seide, a Wal-Mart shopper.
“Thank God I don’t wear a skirt because if somebody did something like that to me, I’d be going to jail because they’d be dead,” said Elizabeth Daughrity, another shopper.
But shoppers are glad to hear store security was paying attention.
“That’s good that they’re keeping their eyes open,” said Glenzaly Perez.
Deputies say Ginmar Velasquez is charged with misdemeanor voyeurism with a possible $20 fine and court costs, and no jail time.
We spoke briefly with the victim in this case but she didn’t want to talk about what happened.
Velasquez was released from the Hillsborough County Jail Monday on $500 bond.

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Security employee charged with theft www.privateofficer.com

Lakeland Fla. April 16 2008
Lakeland police arrested a Sentry Barricades employee Friday for breaking into the building April 5 and using a forklift to load an all-terrain vehicle onto a Mitsubishi truck he also stole, Lakeland police said.
Andrew Colon Griffin, 37, of Lakeland was arrested and charged with burglary and two counts of grand theft, third-degree felonies, after other employees said Griffin had appeared disgruntled at the business earlier in the day, police said.

According to a report, the suspect cut the padlock on the west side of the building, which does not have a surveillance system or alarm, and used a forklift to remove the ATV from the back of a truck.

The suspect then used a Mitsubishi truck, which had the keys inside, to take the ATV and an acetylene torch system out of the complex, police said.

Police tracked down the stolen truck after it was abandoned without gasoline on Melody Lane in Lakeland.

Two witnesses later identified Griffin as the man they had seen asking for a ride after he ran out of gas, the report said.

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Escaped prisoner may get parole www.privateofficer.com

Chattanooga TN. April 16 2008

By: Rick McCann

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A 73 year old man facing sure death in a prison cell after being recaptured by authorities after he escaped prison more than 46 years ago, may be able to breath easier after today.
Leroy Albert Morgan who was apprehended in Mosheim Tennessee in March during a Tennessee Department of correction’s round up escaped convicts program got some good news from the district attorneys office. They have decided not to prosecute him for on the escape charge.

Assistant District Attorney General Roger D. Moore says Morgan’s age and clean record since escaping were factors in the decision.
Authorities said that Morgan escaped along with two other men from the old Tennessee State Prison in Nashville in 1961 after serving less than a year on a burglary sentence.

Morgan was taken to the Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex, a maximum security facility in Petros. He will face a parole board hearing later this month.

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Police investigate stabbing at casino www.privateofficer.com

North Las Vegas NV. April 16 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Security News Magazine

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North Las Vegas police responded to a report of a stabbing at an area casino on Monday night. Police say that they arrived at the Opry House Casino on North Las Vegas Blvd and found that a patron had been stabbed.
Casino security officers notified police and EMS after learning of an altercation inside of the casino. Security video shows the victim and his suspected assailant gambling next to each other inside the casino prior to the 9:50 p.m. stabbing.
The victim was taken to University Medical Center in critical condition.
Police say they don’t know yet if the two men knew each other or if they were arguing.
Authorities have not released the victim’s name and say that the investigation is ongoing. Police also did not say if the suspect had been apprehended or if he remained at large.

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