N.A.P.O. OFFERS REWARD IN SECURITY OFFICER MURDER www.privateofficer.com

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PRESS RELEASE

The National Association of Private Officers
Mike Matthews-Sr. Vice President
mmatthews@privateofficer.com

Atlanta Georgia
Friday June 6 2008

The National Association of Private Officers has announced that they are offering a $5000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of security officer David Fulkrod.

On Wednesday June 4th, 2008 Mr. Fulkrod was working as a security officer at the CMC Recycling Facility in Augusta Georgia when he was shot in the head by several unknown burglary suspects.

Executive Director Mr. Rick McCann called this a horrific and senseless killing of an honest man doing an honest day’s work and another example of how violence against private security officers continues to escalate.

If you or anyone that you know has information that could help police investigators solve this murder, we encourage you to contact the Richmond County Sheriff Investigations Division at 706- 821-1000 or 706-821-1020.

Security finds dead body in hospital parking lot www.privateofficer.com

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SPRINGFIELD VT June 6 2008 A decomposed body found in a car in a remote area of a parking lot at Springfield Hospital still hasn’t been identified, according to Springfield police.

The body was discovered by hospital security on Sunday evening, and Springfield police oversaw the removal of the body that night, according to Springfield Police Lt. Mark Fountain.”We’re not ruling anything out at this point,” Fountain said, when asked about the possibility of foul play.

Fountain said that the vehicle, which had Vermont license plates, was located in the main lot near the entrance to the hospital, but in a remote location in the newest section of the lot, which had been recently expanded.

He declined to tify the vehicle in which the body was found.The police lieutenant refused to say whether the body found in the vehicle was male or female. “A lot can happen to a body in a week,” he said.Police were waiting for results from an autopsy performed earlier in the week by the office of the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner before making a final determination on the cause of death.According to a report, the hospital security examined the vehicle after visitors to the hospital complained of a foul smell coming from the vicinity of the vehicle, which had been in the same location for about a week.”It is believed that the body was there nearly a week,” said Fountain, who refused to say whether there were any missing people reports from Springfield Hospital.Hospital officials didn’t return telephone calls Thursday.

Fountain said the department had been told by the chief medical examiner’s office that they might have identification complete by the end of the week.

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SAN DIEGO CA June 6 2008 Two men working as security guards for a company under contract to the Border Patrol were arraigned Wednesday in federal court here on charges that they had agreed to accept a bribe to smuggle two illegal immigrants into Los Angeles instead of returning them to Mexico.
The men, Christopher Saint-Lucero and Manley Lamont Smith, work for the Wackenhut Corporation, the giant security firm that in 2006 signed a multimillion-dollar contract with the federal government to transport illegal immigrants.
The men, both former marines, are accused of conspiring to accept a bribe of $5,000 to take two prisoners to Los Angeles. The guards believed the prisoners were illegal immigrants from El Salvador, but one was actually an undercover Border Patrol agent who prosecutors said had received a tip that Mr. Smith was running a smuggling operation.
According to court documents, Mr. Smith was assigned last Sunday to take a group of immigrants to Mexico from a detention facility in Chula Vista, Calif.
When the group arrived at the border, the undercover agent and a Salvadoran immigrant were refused entry to Mexico, the court documents state.
On the way back to the detention center, the documents state, the undercover agent asked Mr. Saint-Lucero to “give them a break.” He said he could arrange for Mr. Saint-Lucero and Mr. Smith to be paid a total of $5,000 to take him and the other man to Los Angeles.
Prosecutors said that Mr. Smith and Mr. Saint-Lucero then made arrangements to hide and transport the men, and that Mr. Smith told another Border Patrol agent that he had successfully completed 10 similar operations. After the guards removed the undercover agent’s handcuffs, he identified himself and arrested them, prosecutors said.
The charges, conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants, carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Marc Shapiro, a Wackenhut vice president, declined to comment.

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Police arrest woman in security officer assault www.privateofficer.com

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ORLANDO Fla June 6 2008 Police said tips from CrimeLine helped them identify four of the seven people wanted for allegedly pulling a knife on a security officer during a robbery.
Police said the group of six women and one man were allegedly stealing merchandise from the Marshall’s store on East Colonial Drive.

One suspect tried to slash an approaching security agent with a knife.
Police said the four of the suspects, who are between 13 and 18, are in custody, but their names and charges haven’t been released.
Police are now asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of the other three suspects to call CrimeLine at (800) 423-TIPS.

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Kidnapping suspect captured at CT. casino www.privateofficer.com

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Mashantucket Ct June 6 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ State police and casino security personnel were put on high alert after an attempted kidnapping across state lines .
An off duty trooper working at the casino heard a B.O.L.O. (Be On The Look Out) police alert for a suspect’s car wanted for attempting to kidnap a girl in Massachusetts. According to police, the trooper spotted a vehicle matching the description of the wanted man entering the Connecticut casino.
“We recovered the vehicle,” Lieutenant J. Paul Vance, of the state police, said. “We also did recover a weapon in the vehicle.”
Police began searching for 56-year old Stephen Clifford of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the person wanted in the kidnapping attempt in the casino when they were notified of a possible jumper the MGM Casino in the same complex.
“Additional troopers and security personnel respond to that area,” Lieutenant Vance said. That situation was totally different and did not involve the wanted person.
Back at the Rainmaker parking garge, security at the casino helped state police track the Massachusetts man’s movements.
“Other than some traffic jams, most folks here at Foxwoods didn’t even know anything was going on and by 1:30 PM it was all over,” Lieutenant Vance said. A little more than an hour after the off duty trooper spotted Clifford’s car, the man considered armed and dangerous was peacefully taken into custody on the gaming floor full of hundreds of people.
“Between all the entities involved, including casino security, we were able to do what I think was an outstanding job apprehending him without anyone getting hurt,” Lieutenant Vance said.It turns out the woman who was almost abducted is related to a police officer in the Bourne, Massachusetts area — which is part of Cape Cod.Stephen Clifford is being held on $1 million bond as a fugitive from justice.
The second incident at the MGM did involve the death of a person who either jumped or was pushed off the garage and he did not survive Lt. Vance said.

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Man sues security company after assault www.privateofficer.com

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Madison County Il. June 6 2008

An Olin employee who was assaulted in the parking lot after his shift ended filed a personal injury complaint against the security firm contracted to secure the premises.

According to a suit filed May 28 in Madison County Circuit Court, John Summers claims he was leaving Olin at 4:15 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2007, when he was attacked by two individuals and was severely beaten.

Guardsmark LLC is an independent business contracted to provide security and guard services at Olin, the complaint states.

Summers claims Guardsmark negligently failed to properly secure the area from trespassers, failed to come to his aid while he was being beaten, failed to properly supervise and secure the area where he was injured and failed to provide adequate surveillance to stop trespassers from attacking him.

Summers claims the attack caused him to become sick, sore, lame, disordered, and disabled and he sustained extensive internal and external injuries to his head, neck, shoulder, low back, leg, rotator cuff and body including the soft tissues of his cervical, shoulder, and lumbar area including the muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves which caused him to spend money for medical expenses, experience pain and suffering and lose wages.

Represented by John Hustava of Collinsville, Summers is seeking damages in excess of $50,000, but less than $65,000 to reasonably compensate him for the injuries he allegedly sustained.

The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder.

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Casino officers, police quell large melee www.privateofficer.com

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. June 6 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ Dozens of police officers were called in to break up a brawl inside a Kansas City, Mo., casino early Sunday morning, and the whole thing was caught on camera.
The melee began when officers were called to a disturbance inside the Harrah’s Voodoo Lounge.
When one patron resisted arrest, dozens more joined in the fight against the responding officers.
Eventually, 28 officers and numerous Harrah’s security personnel responded and began to get order restored and were able to quell the fighting.
At one point, police said 25-30 people were involved in the melee.
Several police officers were later treated for minor injuries.
Five people were taken into custody and arrested and later transported to the county jail and booked on various charges.
Harrah’s said that there was some property damage done to their lounge but did not know the extent of it.
It is not known if any of the casino security officers were injured.

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Police officer arrested for kidnapping fellow officer www.privateofficer.com

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ANSONIA, Conn. June 6 2008
A Bridgeport police officer was arrested Wednesday, accused of kidnapping a fellow officer.
Police said Andre Orbegozo, 32, of Naugatuck, abducted an Ansonia woman from the front of her home and forced her to a heavily wooded area behind Ansonia High School.
Orbegozo appeared in Derby Superior Court Wednesday and his bond was doubled from $250,000 to $500,000.
Ansonia police said they went to Griffin Hospital at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday after getting a call from Bridgeport police stating that a police officer had assaulted another officer, according to a news release from Ansonia police.
Orbegozo hit the woman in the head with a gun, causing a laceration, police said. The victim was able to convince Orbegozo she needed medical attention and he took her to Griffin Hospital for treatment, police said.
Police are calling the incident domestic violence. Orbegozo was charged with second-degree assault and second-degree kidnapping with a firearm.
The victim has not been identified.

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Shoplifting gangs arrested in Delaware www.privateofficer.com

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Wilmington DE June 6 2008
Four people arrested Wednesday and charged with shoplifting at an area drugstore are accused in a series of similar thefts over seven months, state police said.
The suspects are: Edwena Daniels, 28, of Murphy Road in Brandywine Hundred; Wynee Letitia Young, 43, of Carvel Street in New Castle; and Turhan Redden, 39, and his brother Joe, 43, both of East Ninth Street in Wilmington.
Each was charged with shoplifting and conspiracy.
Daniels, who reportedly was involved only in the Rite Aid incident, was released on $1,000 bail.
The Redden brothers were committed to Young Correctional Institution in lieu of $1,000 bail. Young was being held in Baylor Correctional Institution after failing to post $1,000.
Three of the suspects concealed $277 in merchandise at the Rite Aid at 4609 Kirkwood Highway in Prices Corner at about 11 p.m. Wednesday and left without paying, Cpl. Jeff Whitmarsh said.
A store employee got the description of their car and its license number and telephoned police.
About two miles from the store, a trooper pulled over the vehicle.
An investigation revealed that Young drove the car while Daniels and the brothers removed merchandise.
A routine computer check revealed both brothers had been arrested in nine shoplifting thefts over seven months.
“They seem to be implicating other people at different times,” Whitmarsh said.

In addition to the Rite Aid, the two brothers shoplifted merchandise valued at $480 from Macy’s at Christiana Mall on Nov. 10, $1,126 from Macy’s at Concord Mall on April 11 with Marquis Robinson, and $532.32 from the Home Depot on Naamans Road on May 20.
Turhan Redden acted alone Dec. 8 when he shoplifted merchandise valued at $12 from the Dollar Tree in Newark Shopping Center, police said. He was with an unidentified person Jan. 9 when he took items valued at $92.94 from T.J. Maxx on Concord Pike.
Joe Redden was alone when he stole items valued at $113.05 from Sears at Prices Corner on Jan.16, $120.98 from Kmart in Governors Square the following day and $799.98 on April 25 from Circuit City in Christiana Mall with Marquis Robinson, police said.
Young stole merchandise valued at $324.40 from the Kmart in Governors Square on March 26. She was with an unknown person April 3 when she took items valued at $4.49 from the Rite Aid on North Market Street in Wilmington and $60.61 from Happy Harry’s on Philadelphia Pike on April 16.
Whitmarsh said Marquis Robinson, who was involved in two incidents with the Redden brothers and two other shoplifting incidents alone, is wanted by the New Castle County Court of Common Pleas.
“These are just the ones they are being caught for,” Whitmarsh said.

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Federal task force bust million dollar shoplifting ring www.privateofficer.com

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from Mecurynews.com
San Jose Ca. June 6 2008
Using tool stores and luxury homes as fronts, a pair of San Jose crime families ran multi-million dollar empires of stolen men’s razors, Oil of Olay, Pepcid AC and teeth brighteners like they were a shadow Safeway or a criminal Costco, according to law enforcement authorities.
The Le and Vo organizations are accused of buying truckloads of stolen merchandise from crews of freelance shoplifters, repackaging the products and then re-selling them throughout the U.S at an enormous profit . . . until this week.
The giant fencing organizations came tumbling down Wednesday when a joint task force arrested 17 people, including 11 in San Jose, on charges of federal money laundering and interstate transportation of stolen goods. They confiscated six semi-trucks loaded with $5.5 million in stolen property and – along with pallets of Tylenol and Oil of Olay – seized $140,000 in cash, gold bars, Mercedes and diamonds.
The investigation was titled “Operation Norcal Shortdate,” referring to Northern California and the slang for a product about to expire. Officials said the busts had brought down major local players in the $30 billion black market in stolen retail merchandise.
“This wasn’t where they were ripping off product and selling it from the back of a truck on some street corner, these were very organized operations,” said San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis. Davis announced the immediate fruits of the ongoing investigation at a press conference attended by Mayor Chuck Reed and U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello at police headquarters this morning. Davis said the operation showed that property crime would be never be overlooked or prioritized lowly in San Jose.
The complex case grew out of a meeting in January 2006 between Victor Woods, a loss protection executive for Safeway and a former Oakland cop, and Chief Davis.
Woods explained to the chief how his stores had been regularly hit by a “booster crew” – a team of shoplifters which regularly stole mass quantities of products.
When Safeway turned over some of the boosters they had caught to police, Davis then launched an investigation which eventually led to an undercover agent pretending like he was a member of a booster crew.
It was a reverse sting operation.
Officer Jesus Mendoza, who has since moved out of undercover, told the Mercury News he met the fencing operators once or twice a week in dark and deserted parking lots in strip malls.
At first they were suspicious, Mendoza said, asking how he got their number. Was it such and such a guy, they asked. It sure was, Mendoza told them.
Mendoza would bring a trunk filled with products he had received from Safeway and other stores. The families were finicky – they liked products with lengthy expiration dates: Mach III razors, Zantac, Benadryl. They paid cash, on the spot.
The pretend shoplifter sold the two families products for three months .
The agent and the department’s Narcotics Covert Investigations unit slowly unraveled the surprising breadth of the operations.
The “booster” thieves are not directly related to the crime organizations. They are independent bandits who hit store after store on a routine basis, stealing a variety of products from Safeway, Target, Walgreen’s, Longs Drugs and Savemart. They might stealthily stuff handfuls of Claritin into their clothes or boldly make off with shopping carts full of items without paying.
They would contact the Vo and Le organizations to “fence” the merchandise, receiving 25 cents on the dollar. The families were not cooperating but acted as “friendly competitors,” according to officers John Barg and Doug Gerbrandt, the lead case agents.
The Vo organization worked their operation out of two San Jose storefronts – JV Tool and Wholesale on Senter Road and on Old Bayshore Highway.
On the surface the businesses were tool shops. But in the back, there were giant warehouses of locally stolen merchandise, repackaged and organized, ready to be shipped.
The organization would regularly ship out four to six pallets of stolen products a month to various locations in Utah, Florida and New York. Police estimated that each pallet is worth approximately $120,000 in retail value.
The Le organization operated primarily out of homes, including within the luxury Silver Creek Estates in San Jose.
Eventually the products – some of which may have become unsafe by improper storage – were resold on the Internet, in flea markets or ended up at legitimate distribution centers that sometimes resold the products back to the chains that had been robbed in the first place.
When police realized that the products were being shipped throughout the nation, they teamed up with the IRS and the FBI, forming the task force that eventually unraveled the case together. “These cases are great once you see them come to fruition,” Mendoza said. “It’s a great thing to know that you contribute to having an impact on crime in San Jose.”

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Security nabs man counterfeiting money in mall bathroom www.privateofficer.com

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SPOKANE WA June 6 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police were called to a downtown mall after security officers detained a man they say was counterfeiting money in a public restroom.
Detectives arrested the teenager they say was counterfeiting $10 bills in the family restroom of Riverpark Square Mall in downtown Spokane.
Detectives said mall security told them 19-year-old Calvin Robinson was noticed inside the mall’s family restroom for more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon.
The security officers jingled their keys outside of a locked restroom stall to make it seem they were going to open it up when Robinson finally opened the door.
The officers saw a color copier on the floor and sheets of paper in the trash on which $10 bills had been printed.
The U.S. Secret Service was contacted and took over the investigation.
Robinson told detectives he was homeless and didn’t have access to power with which to print counterfeit bills, so he went to the family restroom so he could use the electricity and a place to work uninterrupted.
Robinson said he wanted to print enough $10 bills to buy $90 worth of marijuana.
He said he spent $100 on the color copier and paper at a local Office Depot he used for the operation.
Robinson is in jail on a forgery charge. He has prior convictions for vehicle theft and possession of stolen property.

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BENTONVILLE ARK June 6 2008 A former employee at The Salvation Army Thrift Store was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after admitting to stealing almost $ 15, 000 from the business.
Beverly Gayle Tiger, 37, pleaded guilty to theft of property, a class B felony, and numerous other felony charges under a plea agreement that her attorney, Bruce Bennett, reached with Deputy Prosecutor Carrie Dobbs.
Maj. Wesley Short reported to Rogers police on May 12, 2006, that thousands of dollars were missing from deposits. He identified Tiger as a possible suspect, according to court documents. Tiger was responsible for taking business deposits to the bank.
Between March 16, 2006, and May 6, 2006, 12 deposits went missing and were not taken to the bank. Tiger was working and was responsible for taking the deposits to the bank, according to court documents. The total amount of the loss was $ 14, 843. 84.
Tiger was interviewed by police and claimed she only stole between $ 1, 000 and $ 2, 000. She took responsibility during Monday’s hearing for stealing $ 14, 843. 84.
Tiger told police she used the money to pay for gas and other bills, court documents state.
Circuit Judge David Clinger accepted Tiger’s guilty plea. She also pleaded guilty to fleeing, a class D felony; violation of the Arkansas hot check law, three counts of failure to appear and forgery in the second degree, all class C felonies; and obtaining a controlled substance by false pretenses of theft, a class B felony.
She was sentenced to 20 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. After her release, she must abide by a suspended-sentence agreement for 20 years.
If she violates the terms of the suspended-sentence agreement, she could receive a sentence of up to 62 years in prison.
She also must pay $ 1, 545 in court-associated costs and $ 14, 843. 84 in victim restitution

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Dallas bait car put on hold after death www.privateofficer.com

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DALLAS TX June 6 2008

Police have suspended the department’s auto theft bait car program indefinitely while they investigate why they failed to remotely turn off a vehicle Monday afternoon before a convicted felon drove it into another car, killing an 83-year-old woman.
Officers spotted the bait vehicle driven by Eddie Robert Ramirez, 28, less than 30 seconds before the accident and called for dispatchers to turn off its engine, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said.
But dispatchers attempting to remotely stop the car received an error message, presumably because Mr. Ramirez had already driven about 75 mph northbound through a stop sign on South Montreal Avenue and collided with Annie Tovar Reyes’ vehicle shortly before 1:30 p.m. Monday, Chief Kunkle said.
Ms. Reyes died a short time later at Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
Mr. Ramirez – previously convicted of stealing a Dallas police bait car last year – faces charges of felony theft and murder, police said.
“We took the bait cars out of service to evaluate what happened yesterday,” Chief Kunkle said. “But we still think the bait cars are a very, very valuable tool and a safer way to arrest auto theft suspects than almost any of the other alternatives.”
Police said they use the bait cars daily and have made 245 arrests using them since launching the program in 2004. Overall vehicle thefts have decreased since the program began, police said.
When a bait car is stolen, police dispatchers alert officers, who must find the car with assistance from GPS. Under current policy, officers cannot ask dispatchers to remotely shut off the car’s engine until they see the vehicle and determine it is in a safe area to turn it off.
“If there is a failure, it’s our procedures when it comes to wanting to have the vehicle in sight before we disable it,” said Chief Kunkle, who added that the vehicles cannot be stopped instantly because police do not have control of the brakes.
On Monday, dispatchers alerted officers that the car was stolen from the 2500 block of Bahama Drive at about 1:22 p.m. Responding officers spotted the stolen vehicle unoccupied in a nearby CVS parking lot, Chief Kunkle said.
“By the time they got repositioned, the vehicle was moving,” Chief Kunkle said. “The officers then lost sight of the vehicle.”
Officers in a marked police car spotted the car again within minutes and pulled behind it, police said. They called for dispatchers to turn it off and did not turn on their emergency lights or give chase, police said.
Mr. Ramirez turned north on South Montreal Avenue and collided with Ms. Reyes’ car at the intersection with West 12th Street, police said.
It is unclear how many seconds it took dispatchers to attempt to stop the vehicle, but police said their remote technology is not instantaneous.
During Tuesday’s news conference, Chief Kunkle was asked by Ms. Reyes’ grandson Edward Leal whether the department would call in an outside agency to review the case. The chief responded that the review would be conducted internally.
Mr. Leal also asked why police don’t have 24-hour surveillance on their bait cars. Chief Kunkle said such surveillance would not be a good use of resources.
Afterward, Mr. Leal said he was mostly satisfied with the department’s response.
“I back the police, I understand they have a job to do, and I’m fully aware that sometimes accidents happen,” Mr. Leal said. “But I do hope that they can make sure that this doesn’t happen again.”

 

 

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OFFICER DOWN..EOW..TENNESSEE www.privateofficer.com

OFFICER DOWN…………………….TENNESSEE http://www.privateofficer.com

Deputy Sheriff Shane Tate Grundy County Sheriff’s DepartmentTennesseeEnd of Watch: Thursday, June 5, 2008

Biographical InfoAge: 28

Tour of Duty: 2 weeks

Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details Cause of Death: Gunfire

Date of Incident: Thursday, June 5, 2008

Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type

Suspect Info: Committed suicide

Deputy Shane Tate was shot and killed as he and a reserve officer from the Monteagle Police Department served a probation warrant on a suspect The suspect fatally shot Deputy Tate and then wounded the reserve officer before fleeing. The man was located at a home later in the day and committed suicide as officers attempted to talk him into surrendering. Deputy Tate had served with the agency for 2 weeks.

He is survived by his wife and five children.

Agency Contact InformationGrundy County Sheriff’s DepartmentPO Box 218Altamont, TN 37301Phone: (931) 692-3466