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Convicted murderer accidentially released from prison recaptured www.privateofficer.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 4 2008

By: Rick McCann

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www.privateofficer.com A convicted murderer who was accidentally released from a Tennessee prison last month has been captured in Atlanta.
Tennessee Department of Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said a clerical error allowed 35-year-old Edgar Bailey Jr. to leave South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tenn., on April 22.
The error was not discovered until Thursday, and the Alpharetta, Ga., native was soon added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Top 10 Most Wanted list.
Carter said he was released because of confusion over a court ruling.

Bailey had been convicted on two different murder charges for killing Anthony McAfee in Chattanooga in 2001. On appeal, one charge was overturned, but he still faced a life sentence for the other charge.

Edgar Bailey Jr., 35, was apprehended at his father’s house early Saturday morning, according to a news release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Bailey surrendered to U.S. marshals around 2 a.m. and is being held in the DeKalb County Jail awaiting extradition to Tennessee, said Supervisory Inspector James Ergas.
State Department of Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter says a clerical error allowed Bailey to leave the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton on April 22.
“It was our fault,” she said, referring to the Correction Department’s central office.

Bailey had been convicted on two different murder counts for killing Anthony McAffee in Chattanooga in 2001.
According to testimony, Bailey and two co-defendants were attempting to rob McAffee, a known cocaine dealer who was in town to collect about $7,000 in drug money.
In a 2006 appeal, one of the convictions was overturned.
At the time, Hamilton County prosecutors said they would not challenge the ruling because Bailey would still have to serve a life sentence for the other conviction.
“The important thing is they affirmed the felony murder conviction,” Assistant District Attorney Boyd Patterson said at the time. “The sentence is going to be the same.”
Patterson is the person who last week discovered that Boyd had been released and reported the problem.
The Correction Department is still looking into exactly how the error occurred, but Carter said disciplinary action was possible.
“It was human error — people make mistakes — but this is a very serious one,” she said.

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Campus police look for suspects in shooting www.privateofficer.com

Boca Raton Fla May 4 2008

By: Bryan Hill

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Police are distributing photos of a “person of interest” who they want to question in connection with the shooting incident.
Police at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton are continuing to search for an armed suspect, who opened fire during a party on campus earlier this week.
According to police, the incident happened at about 1:15am inside the University Village Apartments, a campus housing unit for FAU students.
Campus police confirm one man, a non-student, was slightly wounded when one of the bullets grazed his arm.
As police began to look for the suspect, students were instructed by way of a new campus PA system to stay indoors. Students who are not on the campus are being told to stay away. Officers from both the University and city police departments conducted a search of the area looking for the shooter.
Police are distributing photos of a “person of interest” who they want to question in connection with the shooting incident.
Wednesday classes will be cancelled at the FAU Boca campus only.

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Doctors arrested in drug scheme www.privateofficer.com

Mobile Ala. May 4 2008

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Three more doctors admitted their involvement Wednesday in a steroids conspiracy with ties to an online pharmacy in Mobile, according to documents filed in federal court .
Drs. Kenneth M. Olds and Kelly W. Tucker, both of Greeley, Colo., agreed to plead guilty in Mobile to dispensing anabolic steroids outside the course of professional practice. Greeley is home to another doctor who pleaded guilty in January to withholding information about illegal steroids prescriptions.
Dr. Pamela Pyle, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., osteopath, also admitted to the withholding offense, known as misprision of a felony.
Dates have not been set for Olds, Tucker and Pyle to enter their pleas, but they have agreed to surrender money that they received from writing improper prescriptions. Tucker will forfeit $30,000, Olds $17,400 and Pyle $16,000.
Federal investigators based in Mobile have for more than a year been looking into allegations that professional athletes and others obtained performance-enhancing drugs from Applied Pharmacy Services, located in offices near Bel Air Mall.
No one from Applied Pharmacy has been charged with a crime, but the names of the company and its employees appear repeatedly in the 61-page summary of Tucker’s criminal conduct.
Thus far, four doctors have admitted that they wrote prescriptions for performance-enhancing drugs that the pharmacy filled.
“Working in concert for their mutual profit, these doctors, pharmacy owners, pharmacists and sales representatives removed the word controlled from ‘controlled substances,’” U.S. Attorney Deborah Rhodes said in a written statement. “They made sure that anabolic steroids were readily available to any person willing to pay for them, regardless of any legitimate medical need.”
Greg Bordenkircher, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Mobile, suggested that more charges are likely.
Arthur Madden, a Mobile lawyer who represents the pharmacy and its owners, said he was aware that the guilty pleas from the doctors were imminent, but he said he had not read the lengthy plea agreements and had no additional comment. He has said in the past that his clients have done nothing wrong.
Olds and Tucker face up to five years in prison, while Pyle could be sentenced to as many as three years. But the plea agreements for all three doctors contain provisions allowing them light punishment if they provide useful information for the investigation.
“Doctor Olds has cooperated fully with the Department of Justice and will continue to do so,” said the doctor’s Birmingham lawyer, David McKnight. “We would hope he wouldn’t go to prison, and we would hope he wouldn’t lose his (medical) license.”
Donald Briskman of Mobile, Pyle’s lawyer, said he anticipates probation for his client. “Her involvement was for a very short period of time,” he said.
Tucker’s lawyer, Jeff Deen of Mobile, declined comment.
Applied Pharmacy has been under public scrutiny since last year, when former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell named it in a report prepared for Major League Baseball as one of a number of U.S. pharmacies where current and former ballplayers obtained performance-enhancing substances.
Bordenkircher has not named names, but he said Wednesday that the customer list included people as young as 19. He called steroids abuse a national problem and said the identity of the customers is not important.
“It’s really more to shut down the sale of illegal drugs regardless of who the customers are,” he said. “It’s thousands of prescriptions and a lot of money.”
Tucker’s plea agreement alone lists 84 customers, identifying them by initials only, who purchased drugs from Applied Pharmacy in 2006. The orders, which include the cost of needles, syringes, alcohol swabs and shipping, totaled $90,000.
Olds’ plea agreement lists 34 customers.
Both doctors stated in their agreements that they wrote prescriptions at the behest of a former Applied Pharmacy sales representative named Brett Branch, who started a health company in Colorado. He has not been charged with a crime.
Pyle stated in her plea agreement that she wrote prescriptions in 2005 and 2006 for an anti-aging clinic. Her plea agreement lists 18 customers.

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Police told to park more often www.privateofficer.com

BRUNSWICK GA. May 4 2008 – High gasoline prices have prompted Southeast Georgia police to park their squad cars to do more foot patrols and state troopers to conduct more stationary radar and roadside checkpoints to intercept traffic offenders.
Fuel conservation has become a priority second only to public safety, law enforcement officials said.
“We’re looking at every available option to save gasoline without jeopardizing public safety,” said Sgt. Steve Strickland, commander of the Georgia State Patrol post in Brunswick.
The post’s troopers patrol state highways and roads in Camden, Glynn and Wayne counties on the lookout for impaired or reckless drivers, speeders and other lawbreakers. The troopers also investigate traffic accidents, and assist other police agencies with manhunts, missing person searches and other large-scale operations such as drug roundups.
Rising gasoline costs prompted state patrol officials in Atlanta this week to instruct troopers statewide to cut back rolling patrols with the goal of reducing fuel costs up to 25 percent.
“We’re going to be doing more stationary laser and radar [traffic] enforcement, and more road checkpoints,” Strickland said.
Troopers, who take their squad cars home, have been assigned patrols areas near their residences so they won’t have to drive as far to and from their assignments.
“We’re also trying to carpool as much as possible to training, or assignments such as drug roundups,” Strickland said.
Glynn County police also are doing more stationary laser and radar traffic enforcement along major roadways including the F.J. Torras Causeway, where five people have been killed in three collisions since Dec. 26.
Glynn and Waycross police also are turning off their cars and walking their beats more often.
“I’ve encouraged every officer to spend 10 minutes of every hour on patrol, to park the car and get out and walk and talk to the people in the community and the businesses,” Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said. “It’s a fundamental way of community policing … and it conserves fuel.”
Instead of letting the patrol cars idle at traffic stops or crime scenes, the officers will turn off the engines whenever possible, Doering said.
The biggest fuel saving appears just over the horizon for the department.
Doering plans to gradually replace the departments’ Ford Crown Victoria patrol cars with more the more fuel efficient, less expensive Chevrolet Impalas – a measure proven cost-effective by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Waycross Police Department and many other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
A pilot program involving several Impalas should begin in January, Doering said.
The switch could save about 35 percent in fuel costs without sacrificing officer safety or enforcement capability and efficiency, Doering said.
Impalas comprise about half the patrol cars used by Waycross police, Police Chief Tony Tanner said.
Tanner also is emphasizing vehicle maintenance to help curtail rising fuel costs.
“We’re having the garage make sure the tires are inflated properly, the air filters are clean and all the other preventive maintenance is done to help get good gas mileage,” Tanner said.
Police won’t cut back neighborhood patrols, Tanner and Doering said.
Both chiefs are looking at fuel costs taking a big chunk out of their department’s annual budget at least for the foreseeable future.
“I planned for it to be about $3.75 a gallon in this year’s budget, and it’s about $3.60 now,” Tanner said. I’m thinking it could be about $4 a gallon for next year’s budget.”

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Shoplifter nabbed making his rounds at area stores www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifter nabbed after making rounds at area stores www.privateofficer.com

METHUEN MA. May 4 2008

By: Bryan Hill

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www.privateofficer.com A man who police say had been making his rounds at area Home Depot stores and was suspected of shoplifting and then returning merchandise for a cash refund has been arrested according to area police.
The man was arrested when he tried to walk out of the Home Depot here without paying for $135 worth of copper plumbing fittings and adaptors, police said.
Hector Maldonado, 44, of Worcester, had been watched by store security officers as he concealed the stolen merchandise and was stopped outside the store by an asset protection manager Tuesday at 12:33 p.m. The security agent detained Maldonado and police were then called.
Store officials pressed charges against Maldonado, because they said his name had been flagged by several Home Depot stores for returning more than $4,000 worth of merchandise without proof of purchase.
Police charged Maldonado with shoplifting.

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Angry shoplifter strikes shopper with car www.privateofficer.com

Loveland Ohio May 4 2008

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A local man is in jail, charged with robbery in a bizarre shoplifting incident.
Police say Richard Stockmeier, 53, intentionally hit a man in the parking lot who was trying to get his license plate number.
Who hasn’t gotten frustrated using a self check out?
Loveland Police say Richard Stockmeier, 53, got so angry trying to check out of the Kroger on Loveland-Madeira road Monday night, he stormed out, failing to pay for $86.00 in groceries.
“I kind of made the joke to my wife this morning,” said Scott Lay, helped Kroger employees. “He’s not eating the groceries he bought. He’s probably eating jail food.”
There’s where Kroger customer Scott Lay comes in.
Not wanting the young Kroger employees to confront Stockmeier in the parking lot, Lay went out to get the guy’s license plate number.
“They didn’t need to go out into that parking lot at night, against a man nobody knew what he was going to do,” said Lay.
That’s when Scott Lay became a witness, not knowing he was putting himself in danger.”
But police say Richard Stockmeier backed his car right into Scott Lay, striking Lay’s leg, trying to hurt this Good Samaritan.
“He was trying to leave the store with the groceries. I wouldn’t say run me over, but he hit me. He wanted me to move out of his way so he could leave.”
“Being a good witness means getting as much information as you can without putting yourself in harm’s way,” said Captain Tim Sabransky, Loveland Police.
Captain Sabransky says witnesses have been killed trying to help out. He’s happy Lay helped them arrest the angry shopper, but also says this is a reminder to observe as much as you can from a safe distance.
“You’re also following someone you don’t know anything about, so you have to be careful that person could turn on you,” said Captain Sabransky.
“I didn’t think he’d bump me,” said Lay. “I honestly thought he would stop and go back forward.”
Stockmeier was held on a $10,000 bond Tuesday night. He’s also charged with failing to reinstate his driver’s license.

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States look to outlaw fake guns www.privateofficer.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 4 2008

By: Rick McCann

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www.privateofficer.com Concerns that realistic-looking toy weapons are confusing police and threatening safety have led 15 states to take a crack at going beyond gun control to implement fake-gun control.
Officer Micheal Hoover knows a fair amount about guns as a sniper instructor for a Tennessee SWAT team. He recalls the night two years ago when a car pulled up beside him on a highway and the passenger waved what looked like an Uzi.
“It scared me,” he said. “If anyone is in their right mind, I don’t see how it wouldn’t.”
Hoover was off duty and called for police help. A 20-year-old Tennessee football player was charged with aggravated assault after police found a black plastic toy Uzi submachine gun under the car’s passenger seat. But he was acquitted because jurors felt the officer should have been able to tell it was only a toy gun.
Lawmakers across the country are coming to a different conclusion, deciding that it is so hard to differentiate the toys from the fakes that public safety demands they crack down.
Seven bills limiting fake guns are pending this year and 21 have been enacted since 1990, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The measures range from prohibiting imitation firearms in vehicles to banning such guns from convenience stores.
In Tennessee, lawmakers are considering a proposal from Rep. John Deberry to make it a misdemeanor to intentionally display or expose “an imitation firearm in a public place in a threatening manner.” Exceptions include justifiable self defense, lawful hunting and displays, such as a museum collection.
Deberry, D-Memphis, said he wants to prevent incidents like one last year that killed a 12-year-old boy in West Memphis, Ark.
DeAunta Farrow was fatally shot by a police officer who said he thought the boy was carrying a gun and that the youngster refused to obey orders to halt. Investigators later said Farrow had a toy gun.
“It’s important that a child cannot walk into one of these little convenience stores, plop down a dollar and walk out with something that can get him shot on the spot without question,” Deberry said.
In Marietta Georgia just two weeks ago another teenager armed with a pellet gun that looked like a semi-automatic handgun was shot and killed by police after fleeing from them holding the gun as he fleed from an area police were called to about armed teens.
Police say he refused to drop the raised weapon and was shot and killed. Police are still investigating that incident.

A spokeswoman for the Toy Industry Association couldn’t immediately reach someone to comment on the trend toward fake gun legislation but referred a reporter to its Web site, which states that it “emphatically rejects the scenario that casts toys as villains.”
Federal law requires toy guns or imitations to bear an orange tip, indicating they’re not real. However, lawmakers say those tips are often disguised or removed.
“It only takes 30 seconds for a kid to either take a marker or some paint, or shoe polish, and that orange tip is gone,” said Deberry, adding that the imitation guns are nearly identical in size, design and color to real ones.
“One of the imitation weapons I got at a convenience store looked very much like the assault weapons that the secret service and other FBI agents carry under their suits,” he said. “Another one was a handgun that had a silencer on it.”
In New Jersey, Democratic state Sen. Bob Smith has proposed legislation that would make it a crime to remove the tips or “obscure” a firearm by adding a tip to it. He said he’s received phone calls from concerned police officers who say they don’t want to shoot someone because they can’t tell if the gun is fake or not.
“They are covering the tip to be macho or whatever,” said Smith, who represents New Jersey’s 17th District. “If police are called to the scene and don’t see those tips, then they open fire because it appears the person has a deadly weapon. The officer doesn’t have too many choices.”
Hoover said it’s even harder to determine if a gun is real or not after dark, as happened in his incident.
“It was nine o’clock at night,” he said. “I don’t care who you are, you’re not going to be able to tell the difference in that setting.”
Tennessee Republican Sen. Mark Norris, another sponsor of the bill being considered in Tennessee, said lawmakers are “worried for the safety of kids and cops,” which is why such legislation is important.
Florida Sen. Gary Siplin has a bill that would prohibit individuals from carrying a paintball gun in a vehicle after receiving a call from one of his mayors about youngsters brandishing such guns while driving.
If they’re bold enough to do that, then Siplin said they may use the fake weapon to commit a crime.
“Sometime these people try to go into a store and try to rob it with a toy gun, and if the police come they may shoot thinking it’s a real gun,” said the Orlando Democrat.
Last year, two teenage boys in Leavenworth, Kan., were arrested after they used a squirt gun wrapped in black electrical tape to rob a downtown discount store.
The leading U.S. opponent of gun control doesn’t think much of legislation that seeks to control fake guns.
There have been may reported incidents of robbery and intimidation by teens armed with guns that turn out to be fakes. But those fakes are still dangerous to the teen and the police officers say.
National Rifle Association spokesman Ashley Varner said anti-toy gun legislation is “silly” because “it doesn’t deal with issues of crime.”
“It won’t eradicate the human element of the crime,” she said. “It doesn’t target getting criminals off the street.”

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Security officer charged with rape of prisoner www.privateofficer.com

FAIRFAX, Va. May 4 2008

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www.privateofficer.com An armed security guard was arrested and charged with rape and sodomy after a woman accused him of assaulting her after detaining her at the restaurant where he sometimes works, according to Fairfax County police.
tomas perez, united protective service
The suspect, 24-year-old Ramon Goodwin, works at the Las Vegas Restaurant in the 6100 block of Richmond Highway in the Alexandria area and has arrest powers, police said. The alleged victim, a 36-year-old Arlington woman, was involved in a dispute at about 1:25 a.m. Monday when the suspect placed her in custody and put her in his car, police said. The owner of the restaurant, Tomas Perez, said the woman had been fighting with her boyfriend.

The woman claimed that while Goodwin was taking her to a magistrate’s office, he pulled over near Lockheed Boulevard and Fairchild Drive, sexually assaulted her and then let her out of the car, police said.
The woman walked around the 7300 block of Fairchild Drive lost and called for help on her cell phone, according to authorities. Police found her and took her to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries

Perez said that Goodwin is an employee of the United Protective Services firm, which provides security at the restaurant, and was not on duty at the time but had gone to the club after working security at another location. Perez said that about 30 minutes after leaving with the woman, Goodwin returned to the club and said he had let the woman out of his car because she pleaded with him not to take her in.

Perez also owns United Protective Services and said Goodwin had gone through a background check and been certified and given the authority to arrest and transport suspects.
Goodwin was arrested Thursday.
Police said anyone with information about the case or who has had a similar encounter with Goodwin should contact Crime Solvers by phone at 866-411-TIPS/8477 or online at http://www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org/. Tipsters can also text “TIP187″ and a message to CRIMES/274637 or call Fairfax County police at 703-691-2131.

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Philadelphia PA. May 4 2008

A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed with a military assault rifle late this morning when he confronted at least two robbers who had just held up a Bank of America branch at a Shoprite supermarket in Port Richmond.Another officer, responding to a “flash” that had been broadcast on police radio, ran into the robbers at Schiller and Almond streets and shot one of them dead, officials said.

One, perhaps two, of the robbers remained at large late this afternoon as hundreds of police officers searched a wide swath of the city looking for bandits and their getaway car.

“This is a tragedy for the entire City of Philadelphia,” Mayor Nutter told a reporter outside of Temple University Hospital, where the slain officer was taken.Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey identified the slain officer as Stephen Liczbinski, 40, a 12-year police veteran assigned to the 24th District in Port Richmond who recently had been promoted to sergeant.

Liczbinski’s wife, Michelle, and their three children — Matt, Steven and Amber — were escorted into the hospital by police officials.At 11:26 a.m., police received a report of a robbery at the American Bank at 3547 Aramingo Avenue.

There was no immediate word on the details of the robbery.Police weren’t certain if there were two robbers or three.Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman, described one as a man wearing “Muslim garb” and carrying a shoulder bag.He said that a second, who might have been a woman, was wearing “light brown Muslim garb.”

A third possible robber, a man, was described as having worn a “dreadlock wig” and a “construction mask.” He had on blue jeans and a flannel shirt.Liczbinski ran into the robbers sometime after they fled the bank. Officials said the weapon used to kill him may have been an AK-47 style assault rifle, used by numerous armies and insurgent groups around the world.

A short distance from the bank, at Schiller and Almond streets, a canine-unit officer encountered the getway vehicle. Shots were fired, and one of the robbers was fatally wounded. Police officers no immediate details on what happened.

“That’s all we have at this moment,” Ramsey said in a news conference with Nutter at his side.

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AMBER ALERT**********ARIZONA www.privateofficer.com

ARIZONA MAY 4 2008

Mohave County authorities issued an Amber Alert late Saturday evening after authorities in the western Arizona community of Mohave Valley said two people abducted two small children.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Jennifer A. Simmons, 31, and Charles Ray Norris III, 32, abducted Simmons’ two children, 9-year-old Cali Herrera and 6-year-old Frankie Herrera from Child Protective Services care shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday.
The two suspects claimed they had a gun when they took the two children, assaulting one, and put them in a 1999 white Toyota Corolla with an Arizona license plate of 807MPR
Authorities describe Cali as 5-feet tall, weighing about 100 pounds with long blonde hair and wearing a pink tank top and pink shorts.
Frankie, a 4-foot tall 90-pound boy with short blond hair, was last seen wearing a white tank top and blue shorts.
Simmons and Norris were last seen driving the Toyota southbound on Old West Drive in Mohave Valley.
Authorities caution that Norris and Simmons could still be armed.
Anyone with more information is asked to call Mohave County Sheriff’s officials at 928-753-2141.

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ORANGEBURG, S.C. May 3 2008
BREAKING NEWS–An Orangeburg County deputy was shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call, Sheriff Larry Williams said Saturday.
William Howell Jr., 46, of Cross died at a home in the Holly Hill area, Williams told The (Orangeburg) Times and Democrat. Howell had been shot once in the upper body at the door of the home.
Howell “has give the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty,” Williams said at a news conference Saturday. Williams said the 16-year veteran law enforcement officer who had been on the Orangeburg force since 2005 was in the process of being promoted to corporal.
Williams said the man suspected of shooting the deputy, 20-year-old Derrick Buras, was apparently hit by a car driven by Buras’ wife as he tried to leave the scene. Buras, who was out of jail on bond on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, was found about a mile from the scene in a ditch.
Williams said Buras’ injuries were consistent with being hit by a car.
Orangeburg County coroner’s assistant Sean D. Fogle said Saturday that he did not yet have the official cause of death for either Howell or Buras and had no additional information in the case.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating Buras’ death. Williams said Buras’ wife was being interviewed by SLED agents.
A voice message left on a SLED spokesman’s cell phone was not returned Saturday.
Buras’ stepfather Carl Bunch told WIS-TV in Columbia that his stepson had made threats.
“He told his wife, ‘If you bring a cop up here, I’m going to get rid of him,’ ” Bunch said in a televised interview. “I know he did wrong … I feel sorry for the officer.”
The incident that led to the charges against Buras involved a shooting in July in Orangeburg County, the newspaper reported. According to a police report at the time, a man had fired several shots while in a crowd of people, hit another man in the head with the butt of a shotgun and smashed out a window of a truck.
In addition to assault and battery with intent to kill, Buras was charged with assault with intent to kill and aggravated assault and battery.