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Posted by privateofficernews on May 30, 2008
Sergeant Leslie (Les) Wilmott
Kiefer Police Department
Oklahoma
End of Watch: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Biographical Info
Age: 54
Tour of Duty: 30 years
Badge Number: Not available
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Date of Incident: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available
Sergeant Les Wilmott was killed when his patrol car collided with the rear of a tractor trailer on US Highway 169, shortly after midnight.
Sergeant Wilmott had served in law enforcement for 30 years and had previously serves as police chief for the Inola Police Department, the Beggs Police Department, the Jenks Police Department, and the Rogers County Sheriff’s Department.
Agency Contact Information
Kiefer Police Department
15 South A Street
Kiefer, OK 74041
Phone: (918) 321-5931
Please contact the Kiefer Police Department for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.
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Security officer honored for bravery www.privateofficer.com
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. May 30 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
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It was bravery that possibly saved dozens of people from harm.
Wednesday, CAMC honored security officer Joshua Huffman for his actions back in April when he confronted an armed man in the hospital..
According to hospital officials, Huffman responded to a fight in the emergency room at CAMC General. When he got there he found several people involved and when he tried to break it up one of them pulled a gun.
Huffman didn’t run and he didn’t back down. He stood firm and was able to calmly talk to the man and Huffman was able to get the gun from him without any shots fired and no one being hurt.
Oh yes, it definitely could have been a bad situation a hospital employee who was on duty that day told an area reporter. Someone could have been shot or even killed.
Our security officer did a great job in keeping everyone calm and didn’t panic and as a result he probably saved lives.
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ORLANDO, Fla. May 30 2008
Kyle T. Greene
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
http://www.privateofficer.com/ Florida Fish and Wildlife officers say that they have now found and captured a young bear who had been spotted outside the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando on two occassions. A security officer first spotted the bear roaming around the property Wednesday morning.
Officers believe the young black bear had been hiding out and sleeping in a wooded area on the Hard Rock Hotel property.
Jim and Susan Owens woke up around 5:00am to walk their dog around the hotel when they found out there was a bear lurking around.
“They didn’t make a formal announcement. We just walked along, the security guy said, ‘You can’t go anywhere, there’s a bear, you can’t go any further,’” Jim Owens said.
A hotel security guard first spotted the bear on a camera. At least one Orlando police officer also got a glimpse of the cub who could be around 100 pounds.
“I’m a little worried. I am a little worried,” Susan Owens said.
Florida Fish and Wildlife is baffled that the bear ended up on the property in such a busy area, but said it’s not uncommon for male bears to wander away from the wild this time of year because their mothers kick them out to make room for more cubs.
“They start looking for their own home. Sometimes they get a little confused. Undoubtedly, this bear made a left turn on Albuquerque,” said Lt. Jeff Hudson, Florida Fish and Wildlife.
Florida Fish and Wildlife says the bear isn’t dangerous. In fact, they said, he’s probably scared because of all the commotion.
Florida Fish and Wildlife returned to the scene the next day after security spotted the bear again and were able to capture it
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Family sues casino and security over theft of property www.privateofficer.com
Las Vegas, Nevada May 30, 2008 — A California family has sued Las Vegas Sands, LLC, Venetian Casino Resort, LLC, and Manpower Inc. following the theft of their moving truck from the Venetian’s secured parking lot.
The lawsuit alleges that while moving cross-country from Chicago to Los Angeles during the Thanksgiving holiday of 2006, the Krzyston Family made an overnight stay at the Venetian Hotel and Resort. The family was instructed by Venetian personnel to park their 26-foot Penske moving truck, loaded with all of their belongings, in a lot specifically used for oversized vehicles. They were assured that the lot was secure and guarded 24 hours a day. The next morning the family went to retrieve their truck, only to discover it was gone.
On Christmas Day 2006 the moving truck was found emptied, parked in front of a downtown Las Vegas hotel.
After a few months had passed and still no leads in the investigation, Las Vegas Metro Police used a sting operation and set up a decoy U-Haul moving truck rigged with their own GPS and other surveillance equipment. After a few hours the truck was stolen. Police followed the truck to a nearby storage facility where they made an arrest and found over 17 storage units packed with stolen items. Unfortunately, the Krzyston family was only able to recover less than 5% of their items. All of their furniture, electronics, family photos, and priceless mementos have never been found.
There are 10 causes of action listed in Case A562888 including Gross Negligence, Conversion, Contractual and Tortious Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing, Constructive Fraud, Intentional and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress, and Negligent Supervision, Hiring and Training.
Complaint has been filed in the District Court of Clark County, Nevada.
Upon request the actual court complaint and documents are available.
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Six sheriff deputies charged in overtime scheme www.privateofficer.com
Palm Beach Fla. May 30 2008
Six Palm Beach County deputies accused of taking part in an overtime scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of about $350,000 have been released from jail after posting bond, records show.Corrections Sgts. Faulton Kemph, John McCaffrey, Kathy Dent and Edy Velasquez, and Lts. George Behar and Darrin McCray each posted a $6,000 bond Wednesday night.They are charged with official misconduct, organized scheme to defraud and making false official statements in connection with allegedly claiming lucrative overtime shifts before they became available to rank and file deputies.Arrest documents show Kemph got $31,000 in overtime, McCaffrey received $23,500, Dent got $18,000, Velasquez $24,167 and Behar $10,025.
Sheriff’s corrections Lt. Sandra Nealy was charged last week with several felonies for allegedly padding her $103,000 salary with more than $43,000 in overtime.
Nealy will defend herself against the charges, her attorney said.The former top jail official at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office knew about a pervasive overtime abuse scheme but considered it a software failure rather than a possible violation of Florida law, according to documents released Wednesday.
Then-Col. Keith Chambers ignored his assistants’ suggestions that “examples” should be made of jail supervisors who violated overtime policies for guarding hospitalized inmates, a Sheriff’s Office internal affairs investigation found.He failed to “recognize the severity of the issues” associated with the scheme and allowed “further and continued violation to occur,” the investigation determined.But Chambers won’t be punished, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said, even though internal affairs found a “preponderance” of evidence showing that he failed to perform his duties and responsibilities.Chambers, 51, accepted a $320,600 buyout package and retired in October, just weeks after the Sheriff’s Office launched its extensive criminal investigation.Reached at his home Wednesday, Chambers said his retirement had nothing to do with the criminal investigation.”I was ready to go,” he said.Bradshaw, who directly oversaw Chambers, said he did not force Chambers out. He credited the colonel with improving, among other things, the jail’s medical services and mental health unit.”My sense is that he saw where all of this was headed,” Bradshaw said. “There wasn’t a mystery on what was happening.”Other jail commanders already have been penalized in connection with the alleged overtime scheme .Maj. Christopher Kneisley got a five-day suspension without pay and Maj. Tammy Waldrop a three-day suspension for knowing about the manipulation of the overtime and failing to prevent further abuses, the internal affairs investigation determined.
Lt. Eddie Jones got a six-day suspension without pay for failing to conduct a complete and thorough inquiry, the investigation determined.The overtime system was designed to minimize costs and to benefit deputies because they have the lowest salaries, Bradshaw said.By grabbing overtime shifts for themselves and friends, the seven accused sergeants and lieutenants cost taxpayers more because of their higher rate of pay.
Chambers’ assistants knew about the alleged abuse as far back as June 2006, the internal affairs investigation found.But the corrections department didn’t officially begin looking into the matter until receiving a jail sergeant’s complaint six months later.
Within weeks of receiving the complaint, Chambers took away overtime sign-up privileges for Nealy, the alleged ringleader, as well as for two other lieutenants, according to the internal affairs investigation.He took the step “to keep [Nealy] from getting into trouble,” Nealy’s arrest report said.
Yet for reasons sheriff’s investigators haven’t been able to explain, Chambers reinstated those privileges for Nealy just three weeks later, the arrest report said.Not long after that, Nealy continued “the same type of manipulation” that she had done before, the report said.Jones submitted his inquiry to Kneisley in March 2007 without finding a need for a broad criminal investigation, the internal affairs investigation found.T
he complaint eventually landed in the agency’s financial crimes unit, which launched a criminal investigation on Sept. 7.Chambers “didn’t go as far as he should have in being vigorous in pursing this investigation,” Bradshaw said.Chambers, a 27-year Sheriff’s Office employee who earned $153,000, submitted his letter of resignation on Sept. 27 and left the agency on Oct. 31.He was paid $134,000 for unused vacation and sick time and longevity pay, records show. He got another $186,600 as an incentive for retiring.
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Police officer kills self after domestic incident www.privateofficer.com
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. May 30 2008(suburb of Nashville TN.) A Hendersonville police officer died after an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday morning at this home.
The Hendersonville Police Department said officers investigated William C. Pelfrey III on Wednesday after they received a complaint from his wife and her employer after a disturbance.
Pelfrey was placed on administrative leave with pay on Wednesday after the investigation
Police Chief Terry S. Frizzell said he issued an order for Pelfrey to receive a psychological evaluation and any necessary treatment on Thursday afternoon.
Hendersonville police were then called to Pelfrey’s residence on Hillside Drive at 8:25 a.m. Thursday where he was found dead.
Authorities said no other persons are suspected to be involved in his death.
Neighbors said police took out several bags of evidence during a search and that officers checked the attic space of Pelfrey’s Hillside Drive home, but police did not say why.
Karen Anderson, who has lived next door to Pelfrey for years, said she doesn’t know what drove Pelfrey to shoot himself.
“I really don’t know what caused that. I really don’t know,” she said.
Anderson said Pelfrey was a friendly neighbor and loving father.
“That’s what the biggest shock is, because the years I’ve known William to be such a family-oriented man. To me, that was very shocking. To conceive the though would be very shocking,” she said.
“The greatest question is, what would cause something like that?” Frizzell said.
“Well, you don’t know what goes on in somebody’s mind. You don’t know what goes on,” said neighbor Thomas Stead.
Police were still investigating late Thursday afternoon.
Pelfrey had been with the department since September 1996 and had served on the Sumner County Drug Task Force for the last two years.
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Fake Doctor Nabbed At Atlanta Hospital www.privateofficer.com
from Atlanta Crime News Network
ATLANTA Ga. May 30 2008 Police said a man posing as an emergency room doctor, even fooling his wife, was arrested last week at Piedmont Hospital.
“He told me he was a doctor as well as an electrical engineer,” Tammi Perteet said. I believed him. There was no reason not to she told area reporters.
Tammi said Eric Perteet seemed like a dream come true: a handsome, smart doctor.
They met in a club last November.
He confided in Tammi Perteet about his painful past, she said. His parents and two kids, he said, were killed in a Chicago car crash.
“And my heart just immediately opened up to him because of the tragedies he suffered,” said Tammi Perteet.
He told her he gave up medicine and came to Atlanta to get away. They married in March, honeymooning in the Bahamas.
“It was very surprising on our honeymoon that he told me he was going back into medicine and he was going to start immediately,” said Tammi Perteet.
He said he was starting at the Piedmont Hospital emergency room.
“Every morning I would drop him off at the hospital,” said Tammi Perteet.
She said that from March through May, her husband called every hour or so from the hospital — at least he said — telling her about his tough day.
“To tell me he lost a patient, [or] you know, he almost lost a patient,” said Tammi Perteet.
When he didn’t call one night last week, she got worried and called the E.R. To her surprise, the people there had never heard of him.
“I was thinking maybe the nurses do not know all the doctors,” said Tammi Perteet.
So she called him on his Piedmont cell phone, the one he told her was for emergencies. A staff member picked up.
“I said, ‘I’m trying to locate my husband, Dr. Perteet.’ And she said, ‘Dr. who? We don’t have a Dr. Perteet.’ And she says, ‘Are you talking about the guy that had this cell phone?’ And I said ‘yes.’ And she says, ‘Oh, he was arrested last night for impersonating a doctor,’” Tammi Perteet said.
Perteet was arrested and booked into the Fulton County Jail on charges of identity fraud, receiving stolen property, and credit card theft.
He was found at the hospital with a stolen Piedmont security badge and a vial of medicine.
“I was told [by Piedmont Hospital] at the time he was arrested, he and a nurse were taking a patient from the emergency room into intensive care,” said Tammi Perteet.
Tammi Perteet has talked to him three times since he has been in jail and has even visited him. Still, he maintains his story. He still says he is a doctor and talks about going to work.
Piedmont Hospital told Channel 2 that there was no evidence that Perteet ever came into contact with patients. It said it is cooperating with police and has systems in place to provide a safe and secure environment.
As for the stolen badge, it said a doctor reported it missing and it was deactivated.
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Police arrest woman who kidnapped baby, killed mother www.privateofficer.com
ATLANTA GA. May 30 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
A Decatur woman was arrested and charged Thursday with murdering a young mother and then kidnapping the victim’s infant daughter.
Police had issued an amber alert earlier Thursday for the infant after learning of the murder of the baby’s mother and finding the child missing.
Police arrested Tameisha Suarez, 33, at her home on Daisy Dr. in Decatur later in the day and believe that she is responsible for killing the mother and kidnapping the child.
Police say that the 5-month-old Precious Diamond Spencer was found Wednesday afternoon after a Levi’s Call and police search at the home of Suarez.
The girl’s mother, Alisha Spencer, 24, was found dead Monday at an abandoned home on Sims Street in southwest Atlanta.
Police said that they believe Spencer was murdered at the house on Daisy Dr. and her body dumped at the Sims St. house.
Suarez was taken into custody and is being held without bond. Shemade her first court appearance Thursday night.
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Security officer saves nurse from rapist www.privateofficer.com
LONGVIEW, Wash. May 30 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
http://www.privateofficer.com/ A security officer is being called a hero after he rushed to the aid of a nurse and saved her from being raped Sunday.
Hospital officials said a man walked into the St. John’s Medical Center on Sunday afternoon and asked for a doctor.
The man changed into a gown in an exam room. When two nurses entered the room to ask him questions, he turned violent.
Officials said the patient jumped off the bed and attacked a nurse, pinning her against the wall. The man ripped the nurse’s shirt and told her he was going to rape her, sources said
Security officer Joel Reeder who was on duty near the emergency department said he heard the nurse screaming and ran to the area.
“I came around the corner and all of a sudden I saw this patient on top of our nurse,” Reeder said.
Reeder confronted the patient, who backed off the nurse. Reeder then called for back-up and several more security officers responded and pinned down the patient. Police were called and the man taken into custody.
The nurse was shaken up, but she escaped injury.
Reeder said the nurse was grateful he was there.
“She hugged me big time,” he said.
Staff at St. John’s Medical Center reviewed and improved their security a year ago after someone walked into the emergency room with a gun. Reeder said the hospital has taken the right steps.
“It’s an everyday thing,” he said. “You don’t know what you’re going to run into.”
Longview police said the man in the attack is being held for a mental evaluation. Officers said he could be charged with attempted rape and assault.
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HipHop Rapper’s Security Guard Killed www.privateofficer.com
Queens NY May 30 2008
By: Rick McCann
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According to AllHipHop.com, a man who worked security for rapper Busta Rhymes was shot multiple times and found dead in the back of his pickup truck on Wednesday May 28th 2008.
Jermaine Williams, 35, of the Bronx was found dead from multiple ginshot wounds in Ozone Park, Queens.
Police found dripping blood from the backseat of his truck when they discovered Williams who was wrapped in a blanket in the backseat of the SUV.
Sources confirmed that Williams was a bodyguard/security agent for Rhymes and it is not known if he was actually on duty at the time of his murder.
Williams leaves behind two children and a family in New york.
This is the second bodyguard who worked for Busta Rhymes that have been shot and killed according to police.
Israel Ramirez was shot and killed outside a warehouse during a video shoot on February 5 2006 by a an undentified person. Although more than 500 people standing outside the warehouse at the time of the murder witnessed the shooting, police have no leads to who the shooter is and the case remains unsolved.
Detectives are not saying if they suspect that the two shootings may be linked in someway or if being employed by the rapper played a part in either murder.
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US Customs agents arrested in drug investigation www.privateofficer.com
New York NY May 30 2008
Two U.S. customs agents were arrested on charges they helped smuggle drugs and other contraband through New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Customs supervisor Walter Golembiowski and officer John Ajello face narcotics, bribery and conspiracy charges in the case, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Golembiowski and Ajello regularly solicited and accepted bribes to allow contraband to pass through undetected, the DEA said.
Two airport workers and two others were also charged with importing counterfeit goods. Some of those items included Rolex, Cartier and Chanel watches and designer sunglasses, the DEA said. On several occasions, Golembiowski was captured on audio and video taking bribes to aid his co-conspirators in bringing in illegal drugs and counterfeit goods.
“Smuggling any kind of illegal commodity raises troubling issues at a time of deep concern over national security,” said Michael J. Garcia, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. “The threat is heightened when a government official accepts bribes to help smugglers breach our borders.”
The arrests came as a result of a lengthy sting operation by a state, local and federal task force. Prosecutors said numerous recorded meetings and phone calls captured the suspects talking about plans to smuggle hashish, ecstasy and other illegal items.
The investigation has led to the indictment and prosecution of more than 20 people — “from distributors to overseas sources of supply” — and the seizure of more than 600 pounds of imported hashish and other drugs from the United States and France, according to the statement.
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Lesbians say they were picked on by security officer www.privateofficer.com
SEATTLE WA. May 30 2008 A local lesbian couple says a peck on the lips nearly got the two of them tossed out of a Mariners game.
The women said in an arena where even chanting and screaming are allowed, they were singled out by a security guard simply because they kissed each other.
Sirbrina Guerrero says she only gave her date a peck, but a mother sitting with her son complained to security and, as a result, they were told to stop or leave.
“And he (the security guard) goes ‘there’s a lady whose son says he saw you guys making out, and I did, too. And you have to stop.’ And I said ‘well, we weren’t making out, but we were kissing and I’m not going to stop,’” said Guerrero.
Guerrero says the only reason she was called out was because of her sexual orientation.
“(The security guard said) the mom doesn’t want to explain to the kids why two girls are kissing. So I said ‘well, I’m not going to stop, so you’ll have to kick me out. So he said ’so I suggest you leave then,”‘ she said.
Safeco Field officials refused to comment on the incident. However, officials did send KOMO News a copy of the field’s code of conduct which states “displays of affection are not appropriate in a public family setting.”
But Guerrero and her friends don’t buy it. After Guerrero was flagged at the game, they took pictures of other couples who kissed but were not reprimanded. Those couples, they said, were heterosexual.
Guerrero’s friend Melissa Benavites, who was also at the game, said Guerrero did not lash out inappropriately at the security guard. She also said her friend’s reaction was not overly sensitive.
“No, no. Not too sensitive about a situation like this. I mean, it could have been handled in another way,” she said.
When asked whether she and her date were acting lewd in any way that would have prompted such a firm response from the security guard, Guerrero said, “We were eating garlic fries. The last thing we wanted to do was make out with each other. Honestly, that’s what it was.”
Safeco officials are questioning all staff members involved. They refused to discuss details, but did say their security guards would never target same-sex couples
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Posted by privateofficernews on May 30, 2008
Schools step up drug testing www.privateofficer.com
Mobile Al. May 30 2008
Bryan Hill
Ntl. Assoc. Private officers
Four Mobile County schools will begin random drug testing for students in August, with all of the system’s other middle and high schools joining in the program in the winter, according to a plan adopted by the school board Tuesday.
The board, meanwhile, put off a decision to revamp LeFlore Preparatory Academy into a magnet school that would offer pre-medicine and pre-law classes until a meeting Monday at 7:30 a.m.
The drug testing program will be piloted in the fall semester at Vigor and Theodore high schools and at Burns and Denton middle schools.
Students who participate in extra-curricular activities — such as sports, band or clubs — will be placed in a pool with students who drive to school and with students whose parents volunteer them for testing.
Schools Superintendent Roy Nichols estimated that about 10 percent of the students from that pool will be asked to submit urine tests each year.
Students with positive results will be suspended from their extra-curricular activity or from driving to school for 30 days. They and their parents will be encouraged to sign up for drug counseling.
Nichols said the purpose of the drug testing is not to play “gotcha.” Rather, he said, it’s to give students an excuse not to use drugs.
For example, he said, a student will be able to tell his peers that he doesn’t want to smoke marijuana be cause he wants to play football.
“It’s a way to protect students by giving them an option to say no,” said board member Ken Megginson.
School officials estimate that drug testing at the first four schools will cost $20,000 and go up to about $50,000 when all schools participate. The Mobile Police Department, Mobile County Sheriff’s Department and Prichard Police Department have agreed to contribute $5,000 apiece for the pilot program.
About 26 percent of Mobile County’s seventh- through 12th-graders have used drugs, according to a recent Alabama Department of Education survey.
Dakota Fox, who just graduated from Midtown Mobile’s Murphy High School, said he doesn’t use drugs, but he knows other students do. Fox, who was honored at the school board meeting for building a Habitat for Humanity house, said he has mixed feelings about the drug testing.
“It’s good that it gives kids an option to say no,” Fox said, “but I don’t think they’ll stop. They’ll find a way to get around it.”
Fox’s classmate Megan Smith, who was also recognized at the meeting for her work with Habit, said the people who participate in extra-curricular activities are not the ones schools should be so worried about.
“We’re the ones less likely to use drugs,” Smith said. “Obviously, we’re motivated by helping our school and helping our community.”
Baldwin County Public Schools and several local private schools test students for drug use, but those programs vary. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that public schools can test students that participate in extra-curricular activities.
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Security officer stabbed during attack www.privateofficer.com
Omaha NE. May 30 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
Sarpy County authorities are looking for a man who assaulted a security officer at an Omaha Public Power District facility on May 16th.
The sheriff’s office has released a sketch of the suspect which has been made available to the media and is on their websites..
The sheriff departments said that the attack happened on May 16, 2008 at 3:59 a.m. in the area of 180th and Giles Road.
Investigators say the assailant attacked a security officer and cut the guard with a knife.
The man they are looking for is described as being 5′ 6″ – 5′ 7″ tall, weighing 245 pounds. He has black hair and a black mustache.
The man left the scene in an older pickup truck. It is brown with a tan two-tone stripe on the side. The truck is possibly a Ford F-150.
Few other details of the attack has been made public but authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding the suspect.
If you have any information about the man, you are asked to contact the Sarpy County Sheriff’s office at 593-4111.
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