OFFICER DOWN….TEXAS www.privateofficer.com

KELLYVILLE, Texas April 30 2008 — A multi-county manhunt was under way Tuesday night for a man involved in the fatal shooting of a Marion County Department of Public Safety trooper.
Trooper Jean Dark with the Texas Department of Public Safety said the shooting happened just before 8 p.m. by the intersection of Farm-to Market roads 1969 and 729 north east of Lake 0′ The Pines near Kellyville.
The trooper, identified as James Scott Burns, 39, was involved in a high speed chase along FM 1969 when he was shot.
Dark said the vehicle the officer was pursuing, a blue Dodge Intrepid, was registered to Daniel Umphries, 24, of Tyler.
Authorities did not say Umphries is the shooter, only that they are looking for him and the vehicle.
Members of the Umphries family, however, told the Tyler Paper that the Tyler man is currently behind bars at the Bradshaw unit serving a sentence for a state jail felony and will not be eligible for parole for another 14 months. The family member said Umphries sold the car four or five months ago.
Dark said a Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy assisting Burns reported the shooting to dispatch.
Police were still on the lookout for the vehicle. Authorities encourage anyone with information on the vehicle, Texas license plate 039-LCG, to contact law enforcement officials immediately.
“There is a multi jurisdiction effort to find this vehicle,” Dark said.

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Students tricked by scam artist in vacation scheme www.privateofficer.com

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. April 30 3008

By: Bryan Hill

Security News Magazine

www.privateofficer.com Some local high school students said they were tricked by an accused scam artist.
Authorities say that three Riverdale High School students said they made payments to Cynthia Anderson for a trip that was supposed to be scheduled for the end of May.
Anderson is also accused of taking money from some LaVergne students using the same method the Riverdale students said she used. And police investigators believe that there may still be other victims in the metro Nashville area or beyond.
The Riverdale students say that they have given Anderson $700 a piece as payments on a trip to Jamaica.
Anderson said she worked as an independent marketing agent for Yourtravelbiz.com.
She said her job was to serve as a booking agent and the more trips she booked, the more money she would get from the company, but the company has no records of Anderson scheduling any trip or any money.
Police said they are looking for Anderson in connection with the accusations.
The alleged scam may have affected more than just LaVergne and Riverdale high schools. Anderson had reportedly approached every high school in Rutherford County with the same offer.
Police want to know how the teens were picked as her targets and they are investigating if she has any accomplises in her scheme.

This is the second case this week involving students being promised great trips and then being scammed out of their money. In the first incident, a subsitute teacher in Douglas Georgia collected nearly $7500.00 from high school students with intentions of stealing their money police say.

Christy Wise, 39 of the metro Atlanta area was arrested in that case.

Police say these incidents are not related but warn students and their parents to check out the information about the trip more carefully before giving anyone their money.

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Federal agents arrest quadriplegic for child porn www.privateofficer.com

from the Mobile Register

Mobile Al. April 30 3008
By BRENDAN KIRBY
Staff Reporter

A quadriplegic man from Satsuma paid for child pornography over the Internet and secretly videotaped young girls taking showers in his house, a federal indictment alleges.
A grand jury last week charged Robert Vezendy, 42, with three counts production of child pornography, four counts of possession of child porn and one count receipt of child porn. He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court to answer to the charges today.
If convicted of all three production counts, Vezendy faces 45 years to life in prison. He has been ordered held at Mobile County Metro Jail until his appearance today.

Vezendy’s lawyer, Dennis Knizley, said he has not yet seen the evidence against his client. He said he will ask a judge to release Vezendy to the custody of his parents, who have driven to Mobile from their home in New York.
“I cannot comment about the strength of the government’s case,” he said. “However, because of his physical condition, he’s having an extremely difficult time in jail, as you might imagine.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the Department of Homeland Security seized computers and hard drives from Vezendy’s home at 5809 Vaughn Drive West last month. The hard drives contained digital videos of naked girls younger than 18 using the bathroom and shower, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
“Additional observation of the videos revealed that they appeared to be captured via the use of a hidden camera,” the affidavit states.
Dwight McDaniel, the assistant special agent in charge of the agency in Alabama, said authorities are trying to determine who the girls in the videos are.
“We are working diligently to identify any potential victims,” he said. “We’re doing all our homework, I assure you.”
Knizley said his client suffered severe injuries in his native New York when he was 17 years old and was struck by a car while riding his bicycle. He said Vezendy has no use of his legs and only partial control over his arms. He wears a special device on his hands to help him maneuver them, Knizley said.

Knizley said Vezendy works as a manager for a chemical company and has lived in Mobile County for the past 11 years. His said he already has outlived the life expectancy of someone with his injuries.
Vezendy’s credit card number was one of many found by New Jersey-based federal investigators during Operation Emissary II, an undercover probe of international child pornographers. Investigators discovered that Vezendy used his MasterCard on May 13, 2006 to pay $79.99 for access to a Web site containing images of adults having sex with children, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
When federal investigators visited Vezendy’s home, according the affidavit, they saw a number of items they considered unusual for a single man living alone.

They included numerous stuffed animals on the living room sofa, several prominently displayed photographs of a girl estimated to be about 13 and two schedules of girls’ softball teams.
Knizley said all of the items are “absolutely, totally innocent.”
McDaniel said the objects warrant further investigation, but he acknowledged that stuffed animals and youth sports schedules by themselves prove no wrongdoing. “At this point, I can’t tell you that means anything,” he said.
A forensic analysis of Vezendy’s desktop computer turned up images from the so-called “Lolita” series, one of the oldest known child porn sets in circulation, according to the affidavit.
The document states that the series originally was imported into the United States in print form and has been encountered by law enforcement investigators throughout the country many times.
The investigator’s affidavit states that Vezendy told authorities that he previously had considered deleting the images and movies but had not done so.
Later, the document states, Vezendy called the agent and told him he had received an e-mail that contained the Internet link to a Web site that had images of young girls. He said he initially did not access the site but added that “curiosity got the best of me.”
Investigators traced the illicit Web site to Estonia. The undercover officer who signed up for access got an e-mail suggesting that he tell anyone who asks that he used the site to purchase spyware. The first page of the Web site also contains a warning and a hint.
“Our site is considered illegal in all countries,” it stated, according to the affidavit. “Even if you ever have problems with police, you can always say that someone had stolen the information from your credit card and used it. It is very difficult to establish that you were the person to pay.”

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Unarmed security confronts armed man at college www.privateofficer.com

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. April 30 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

www.privateofficer.com Sheriff deputies responded to an area college after they say a security officer confronted an armed man on campus.
The local college suspended the student on Monday after the deputies arrested him on campus with two guns and 220 rounds of ammunition.
Ryan Sexson is also accused of threatening a campus security officer at Reinhardt College in Cherokee County.
Cherokee County Sheriff’s officers got involved when an unarmed campus officer stopped Sexson for disorderly conduct.

When the officer saw the guns and ammunition he called for backup.
Reinhardt College said that they have suspended Sexson from school during finals while it investigates what happened on campus early Saturday morning.

According to an arrest report, Sexson smelled of alcohol and threatened a campus security officer allegedly saying, ‘If I were you, I would be scared for your life right now.’
As the security officer was questioning Sexson, he saw the guns and called Canton police.
Police and deputies responded to the assistance call from the campus officer and immediately took Sexson into custody without any further incident.
Sexson has been charged with carrying weapons on campus and making terroristic threats. He was transported to the county jail but is currently out on bond.
School officials said that before his arrest, Sexson had been banned from living on campus after authorities said guns and knives were found in his dormitory room.

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Police shoot armed man in courtroom www.privateofficer.com

MERCED, Calif. April 30 2008

Kyle T. Greene

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

www.privateofficer.com – Sheriff’s officials said the knife-wielding suspect who was shot and killed at the Merced County Courthouse was the same person who rammed his car into the building a year ago.
The suspect was identified by authorities as 40-year-old Robert Eaton.
Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot Eaton on Monday afternoon after he went into the courthouse brandishing two butcher knives.
No one else was injured in the incident.
Sheriff Mark Pazin said Eaton also crashed into the courthouse in April 2007, claiming he was angry that he had been refused treatment by a local mental health facility.
Pazin said Eaton had an extensive arrest record and had been under mental health treatment with the county.
Guards tried to stop the man after he ran through a set of metal detectors at the Merced County Courthouse, but they couldn’t catch up to him once he took off down a crowded hallway holding a knife in each hand, Chief Deputy District Attorney Harold Nutt said.
According to Nutt, attorneys and witnesses yelled as Eaton approached Courtroom 2, but he busted through a set of doors, where lawyers were standing in the midst of court proceeding, Nutt said.
“As soon as he hit the inside doors I was behind him and I started yelling that he had a knife,” said Nutt, who saw him approach as he stood in the hallway talking with a colleague. “The officers started yelling at him, and yelling at everybody else to get down, and at that point it was rather chaotic. People started screaming, people started heading for the door, and I just ran back outside.”
“As the judge tried to hurry his court clerks out the back through his chambers, the man held the knives aloft, in a stabbing position,” Nutt said.
Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said the man charged Judge Brian McCabe.
When the suspect refused to drop the weapons, three officers fired directly at him, and the man died on the courtroom floor, in front of several dozen attorneys, law enforcement officers and others doing business in the court, Merced County sheriff’s spokesman Tom MacKenzie said.
According to authorities, the man was shot multiple times.
No other injuries were immediately reported, but the courthouse remained on lockdown as investigators interviewed witnesses and officers involved in the incident, MacKenzie said.
Nutt said a public defender told him he recognized the suspect as a previous client with a history of mental illness.
“Our first order of business is to protect the judge and the court personnel,” Pazin said.

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UCONN Police arrest 52 during week-end www.privateofficer.com

UCONN Police arrest 52 during week end event www.privateofficer.com

STORRS CT. April 30 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Security News Magazine

www.privateofficer.com — University police stayed busy during this past week-end. Police at the University of Connecticut say that arrested fifty-one people during the annual three-day spring weekend at UConn, according to campus police.

Police said Sunday that 30 of those arrested were not UConn students or affiliated with the university.

The arrests were made for charges including narcotics offenses, underage possession of alcohol, forgery, criminal impersonation, interfering with police, breach of peace, driving under the influence and weapons offenses.

Police said that most of the 21 arrests made Saturday night and Sunday morning occurred at the X parking lot and the area surrounding it on the UConn campus.

Eight of those arrests were UConn students, police said.

Police estimated that as many as 12,000 people were gathered in the X parking lot. Authorities ended the gathering about 12:30 a.m, police said.
Police also arrested 11 people Thursday night and 19 people Friday night.

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Man arrested for disturbance at casino www.privateofficer.com

East Hanover Township Pa. April 30 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Security News Magazine

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Security officers at a local business had to call in state troopers after a disorderly person refused to leave the property.
James Rehrer, 44, Pine Grove, was charged after the incident at Hollywood Casino at Penn National in East Hanover Township at 10:35 p.m. Thursday, state police said.

According to casino security officers, Rehrer is accused of becoming belligerent toward casino security personnel after they had asked him to leave the casino.

According to the police report, Rehrer repeatedly used foul language and made derogatory comments toward security officers.
State police took Rehrer into custody when troopers arrived and transported him to the county jail.

There was no word on bond amount or if he had an attorney in the matter.

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Shoplifter turns self in after assaulting officer www.privateofficer.com

BENTON ARK. APRIL 30 2008

Kyle T. Greene

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www.privateofficer.com — A man accused of dragging a Benton detective 15 yards with his van during a shoplifting investigation Sunday turned himself in to authorities early Monday.
Jason Allen Collatt, 28, faces charges of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer and fleeing. Police said he threw his van in reverse during an altercation with the detective on Springhill Road in Bryant just before 7 p.m. Sunday.
Detective Eric Haworth was scraped and bruised but wasn’t seriously injured, police said. Arkansas State Police Cpl. Quinn Best, who was assisting in the shoplifting case, was not injured.
Both officers fired several shots in the direction of the van, police said.
Collatt eventually left the van and fled on foot, police said.

A manhunt ensued, and Collatt turned himself in to the Benton Police Department just after 1 a.m. Monday.
He was named as a suspect in a theft that occurred at a Sutherlands home-improvement store in Benton. Police said he may face additional charges.
The Benton Police Department and the state police are conducting internal inquiries into the officers’ actions.
Collatt was being held Monday at the Saline County jail in lieu of $ 250, 000 bond. A court date was set for June 10.

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Mall security officer receives award www.privateofficer.com

Mall officer receives award www.privateofficer.com

Cumberland County NJ April 30 2008

PRESS RELEASE

Robert Gonzalez, assistant security director at Cumberland Mall, was recently nominated for Allied Barton’s District Security Officer of the Year Award. Gonzalez was recognized for continually setting an example of excellence through dedication, commitment and a high level of professionalism.

Gonzalez always is willing to make an extra effort to go above and beyond the expected.

SECURITY OFFICER RECEIVES AWARD!

 

Cumberland County NJ April 30 2008 

NEWS RELEASE

Robert Gonzalez, assistant security director at Cumberland Mall, was recently nominated for Allied Barton’s District Security Officer of the Year Award. Gonzalez was recognized for continually setting an example of excellence through dedication, commitment and a high level of professionalism. Gonzalez always is willing to make an extra effort to go above and beyond the expected.

 

 

 

Shoplifter cuts store manager with sword www.privateofficer.com

SANTA FE NM April 30 2008

Kyle T. Greene

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

www.privateofficer.com – A shoplifter with a taste for tequila pulled a sword from his cane and held it to the neck of a Sam’s Club employee who was trying to detain him, according to Santa Fe police.
The incident started Sunday when employees of the store on Rodeo Road said they caught the man trying to conceal two bottles of expensive tequila in his pants.
The assistant manager told police he saw a man now alleged to be Paul Rodriguez hiding the bottles of Patrón and confronted him. He then took Rodriguez, 41, to a store office where two other employees were watching him while waiting for police to arrive.
When the manager left the room things quickly turned violent, Deputy Chief Benjie Montaño of the Santa Fe Police Department said.
“Mr. Rodriquez had a cane; opened cane and there was a 28-inch sword that was part of the cane ” Montaño said. “Held it at one of the employee’s neck, threatened to use it if they didn’t stop what they were doing.
“Then he fled.”
As he was leaving Rodriquez slashed one of the employees on the torso with the sword leaving superficial wounds, Montano added.
But as Rodriguez ran he fell in the parking lot and hit his head. Police said he was bleeding when he got into a friend’s car and told her to drive.
The woman realized something wasn’t right and told Rodriquez to get out. Police caught up with him a short time later.
Rodriquez is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, concealing his identity and other charges. He is currently being held without bond.
He has quite a history of running from police, according to a rap sheet that shows he’s been charged with resisting and evading officers at least three times and even escaped from jail once.

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Man pulls gun on security shot by police www.privateofficer.com

Man pulls gun on security, is shot by police www.privateofficer.com

GLENDALE, Ariz. April 30 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

www.privateofficer.com — Police say that a man who was seen by a private security officer trespassing and vandalizing property has been shot by officers.
The man, police say, was shot by officers who responded early Sunday and found that he had tried to flee the area and drove into a lake.
Police said the man was intoxicated in a Westgate City Center parking lot, attempting to break into cars.
The man got into a vehicle in the lot and began speeding and driving erratically onto the curbs, until he drove into a lake along Glendale Avenue, police said.

Police said a security officer attempted to apprehend him, and that an altercation ensued and the man pulled out a gun on the security officer and began shooting into the air.
An off-duty Phoenix officer who was at Westgate said he saw what was going on and intervened and was also threatened by the man.
The officer opened fire at the man, hitting him several times, police said.
Police said the man was transported to a nearby hospital in critical but stable condition.
The Phoenix officer did not suffer any injuries, police said.

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Man robs store using fake police badge www.privateofficer.com

ATLANTA GA. April 30 2008 –

Police say that a man entered a pharmacy and claimed to be a police officer before robbing them. now the real police want to talk to him.
The robber impersonated a police officer at a Walgreens on Saturday.
The man entered a Roswell Walgreens and gained access to the store office by presenting a badge to store employees, investigators said.
Once inside, according to police, the man revealed a small handgun and robbed the business.
Police said the robber is a black male, 6’0” feet tall and 170 pounds.
Atlanta police said Monday that anyone with information about the robbery should contact police.

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