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Procedures For Removing Children Or Animals From Vehicles Due To Heat

Atlanta GA. June 11 2008

BY: Rick McCann
Executive Director
National Association of Private Officers

As private officers assigned to many publicly accessed areas such as malls and shopping centers, apartment and condominium complexes, parks, schools and an array of other properties where we have constant contact with people, WE ARE FIRST RESPONDERS!
Long before the police or firefighters or emergency medical personnel respond to a situation, nine times out of ten we’re already there and we need to know the right and the legal way to handle a situation.
“Situational Response” is a course that we teach that covers a large and varied list of possible situations that you might be faced with as a private officer.

HEAT EMERGENCIES is one of them. Today is just the eleventh day of June and already in the southeast region we have been faced with temperatures as high as 100 degrees with a heat index in some places as high as 115 degrees. That’s hot and it’s very dangerous for babies, small children, the elderly and our pets.
You don’t need to be a paramedic to realize that if someone is sitting in a vehicle with the sun shining down and all of the windows closed or nearly closed with an outdoor temperature of 90-100 degrees, the inside of the car is baking with temperatures near 120-130 degrees in some cases!

So, let’s say that you’re patrolling the parking lot of a shopping center or mall and come upon a vehicle as I just described with an infant in their car seat, doors on the car are locked, windows barely open and there is no adult in the vehicle.
What do you do? Begin smashing out windows?
NO!

Regardless if your employer or client wants you to be proactive or reactive (email me if you don’t know the difference) in your duties, there will always be situations that will dictate that you respond in a manner that you think is best at the time to save a life or protect someone or do the job in a way that serves everyone as a whole better.

Heat Emergencies is one of those times. Am I telling you to disobey your boss? YES! Absolutely!
As long as you take the appropriate actions for each situation and do it in a professional, thoughtful and educated manner, I have no problem with your actions at all!

In a situation as I have listed above, you want to take several things into consideration before busting out windows.

A. Have some idea of the exterior temperature. The urgency of the situation will be much different if it’s 70 degrees or 90 degrees outside. So this is important to know as best as possible without running to find a temperature gauge.

B. Consider who the occupant of the vehicle is. If it’s a child 1 month to 4 years old, the danger factor for them will be higher than a child of 6 or 7 years old. The older child may also be able to open the vehicle door for you and thus avoiding any damage to the vehicle. Which by the way should not be considered in a dyer and urgent situation.

C. If you have a small child in the vehicle observe for signs of distress such as sweat dripping from forehead or face, labored breathing or signs that the child is semi or fully unconscious. If it is a pet, observe for panting, pawing at windows, doors etc or signs of being unresponsive or unconscious.

D. By touching the windows and hood of the vehicle you can get an idea of how long the vehicle has been parked in direct sunlight and how hot it may be inside the vehicle. By touching the hood and grill area you can also determine by the heat coming from the engine compartment how long the vehicle has been parked at that location. The hotter the engine the more recent it was parked there.

E. If you have checked the area for the parents or driver of the vehicle and can’t locate them or if you don’t have the time to go that route, determine if it is necessary to make entry into the vehicle right now or could you wait 10 minutes, 15 minutes or longer.

F. If you must break into the vehicle to extricate a child or pet, call 911 and get the police and medics responding or have someone else do it.

G. If possible, before you break windows or slimjim the door, try to have a witness and have that person write a short statement after the child or pet is out and safe. Attach their statement to your incident report should the owner or the police question your actions or try to sue you.

H. If the parent or driver comes back before the police arrive and you have intentions of making a citizens arrest or filing a complaint against them for child endangerment or pet abuse charges, you can try to detain them by using “minimal means” and try not to escalate the situation until police get there to assist you.

I. Make sure that you collect as many witness statements as possible from everyone and anyone who witnessed anything and even if the driver flees before police arrive, ALWAYS make an incident report with police and encourage them to pursue charges against the driver. All of this will lessen your liability in a civil matter.

J. All of this applies to the elderly as well. The difference will be that they will be able to communicate their needs and wants to you in most cases. In the event that they are ill, intoxicated, not of sound mind or physically not able to respond to you verbally, you should also call for police assistance and use the determining factors as listed above before trying to remove them from the vehicle.

You may find yourself faced with a similar situation but instead of a vehicle, the person or animal may be alone in a hot apartment or home with no air conditioner and no adult supervision present.
In this situation, you must determine the urgency factor before trying to make entry or taking any further steps.
If it’s a child left alone, without question, notify police and they will respond and take the appropriate actions. The same applies for an elderly person or pet.

Don’t take any more risk or raise liability when you don’t have to. If the situation is not absolutely life threatening at this point and 5 or 10 minutes won’t make much of a difference, then call always call the authorities and let them handle it.

The bottom line as with every aspect of our job is to use common sense and act reasonable and don’t overdo things or escalate what they really are. If you’re not sure of what to do, always call 911 and get police and fire and medics rolling your way and let them extricate the person or animal out and this way they assume all liability.

My best advice for you is to always use good judgment, rely on training and call for help in every situation that might require more than what you can offer or are trained to do.

When in doubt, CALL 911 and in doing this, you’ve done your job, you’ve met your employer’s expectations and you have responded to the situation and took steps to get the necessary assistance to address the situation.

If you have any questions, please mail me at rick@privateofficer.com

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Alert security officer stops burglary, sets off massive manhunt www.privateofficer.com

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DAWSONVILLE, Ga. (Metro Atlanta) June 11 2008

BY: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

www.privateofficer.com After a seven hour manhunt, four suspects are behind bars, charged in a smash-and-grab burglary at a Saks Fifth Avenue in Dawson County. The same store was the target of a similar robbery just three weeks ago.
But this time, the ending was very different thanks to the actions of an alert security officer and to some observant citizens who came into face-to-face contact with the suspects.
It started out up at the North Georgia Premium Outlets in Dawsonville. A security officer on patrol of the mall called 911 when he spotted a silver mini-van backing up to the Saks Fifth Avenue store. Deputies and police officers from several agencies responded and tried pulling the van over.
The chase went down Georgia 400 into Forsyth County where deputies deployed stop sticks immobilizing the van.
One suspect was immediately caught, but three others fled on foot and were arrested seven hours later, after a massive law enforcement search on the ground and from the air.
But it was two average citizens, who work for a septic tank company that foiled the escape. Matt Gravitt and Chad Turkett recognized the suspects. Turkett was approached by them. When they asked him for water and food, he told them he didn’t have any.
“He said well I’m looking for something to eat or something,” Turkett said. “He said well would $100 change your mind, and I said we just don’t have anything here for you.”
Gravitt called 911 and within minutes the three remaining suspects were surrounded by deputies.
They recovered a gun and a large rock they assumed was going to be used to smash the window of the store.
Dawson County investigators said they believe they are the same individuals who burglarized the same store less than a month ago.
Police in the Metro Atlanta area have been plagued with smash and grabs which usually occurred at high end stores and thieves stole designer fashions. Recently the gang of thieves have been hitting during the daytime as well and last week used violence and pepper spray against a clerk at a Buckhead store.
Detectives tell us that they believe that there are several different gangs operating and aren’t sure if the four arrested for these crimes are related to other area burglaries and thefts. But the investigation is continuing a detective said.

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Waynesboro VA. June 11 2008

Four employees of Don Juan’s Mexican restaurant in Fishersville have been arrested on charges of identity theft and document forgery, police said Saturday.

Authorities are searching for 10 more Don Juan’s employees facing the same charges in an investigation that now involves the Virginia State Police, the U.S. Marshal’s Service and the federal Department of Homeland Security, Virginia State Police Trooper Timothy Simmons said. All the suspects are illegal aliens, Simmons said.

Authorities arrested three Don Juan’s workers at 11 a.m. Friday at the restaurant off Route 250 between Staunton and Waynesboro.

Officers simultaneously executed a search warrant at a home in the 1500 block of Jefferson Highway where some employees had been living, Simmons said. The investigation began May 19 when Don Juan’s employee Crisogono Hernandez, 23, of Fishersville, was pulled over at the intersection of Barterbrook Road and Frontier Drive in Augusta County for disregarding a stoplight, Simmons said. Hernandez initially produced a phony identity card, but eventually admitted he was an illegal alien and was arrested, Simmons said.

When investigators following up on the arrest went to Don Juan’s to examine the restaurant’s employment records, a manager there seemed “very nervous,” and obviously skipped over files while officers looked on, Simmons said. Search warrants were subsequently issued for Don Juan’s locations in Fishersville and Verona, Simmons said.

More than 100 employee files were seized, many containing fraudulent Social Security and resident alien cards. The Social Security numbers in most cases belonged to actual U.S. citizens, he said. Norberto Reguldo-Leon, 37, of Roanoke; Pedro Calderon-Frias, 23, of Waynesboro; and Jorge A. Rodriguez-Perez, 27, of Roanoke, were arrested Friday on charges of felony forgery of public records, felony uttering of public records and misdemeanor identity theft, Simmons said. Hernanadez, who has been in custody since last month’s traffic stop, is facing the same charges, as are the 10 other employees, Simmons said. Additional tax fraud charges are pending, he said. Locating the other employees could be difficult, Simmons said. “All have stolen Social Security numbers and credentials…” he said. “There is no real ability to trace their true identity. They start from scratch and move on.” Juan Lopez-Aguirre, 44, owner of the two Don Juan’s restaurants, was sentenced in May to eight years and four months in prison for selling more than $200,000 in methamphetamine.

Lopez-Aguirre was the middleman in a series of large drug deals between 2005 and last year, including a deal with a police informant in the El Puerto Mexican Restaurant parking lot in Waynesboro. That deal sparked others with the informant as police scrutiny intensified.

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Former CHP officer killed during stand off www.privateofficer.com

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Milford De. June 11 2008

For seven years, Richard D. Redmond and his wife, Terri, were respected members in their Milford area neighborhood.
But early Saturday morning, a Delaware State Police trooper shot and killed Richard Redmond, after a lengthy standoff that prompted police to evacuate some neighboring residents.
Redmond, a 52-year-old former California Highway Patrol officer, was suffering from a terminal illness, according to state police.
“This is truly a tragic day,” said Delaware State Police Col. Thomas F. Mac Leish, at a press conference Saturday afternoon.
Mac Leish said Redmond had been involved in a verbal argument with a 32-year-old neighbor in the hours before the incident. Police learned that the neighbor had not started the confrontation.
Mac Leish said that during the argument, Redmond threatened to kill the neighbor.
He then told another neighbor that he intended to kill the 32-year-old and showed a black handgun. That neighbor called 911 at 8:59 p.m. Friday, Mac Leish said.
Milford police and Delaware State Police were dispatched to Redmond’s home at Jonquil Court in the Saraglen Acres subdivision, southeast of Milford.
When police arrived, Redmond refused to talk to them or leave his house. He told police he would barricade himself inside with his wife.
Mac Leish said Redmond told officers that “if the police came inside, he would shoot them.”
The Delaware State Police Conflict Management Team and the Special Operations Response Team were called in.
The conflict team set up a telephone connection with Redmond and began trying to encourage him to surrender, Capt. Bob Hawkins said.
“We thought he was going to give up,” Hawkins said.
Several times, he walked out on the porch of his home but would then turn and go back inside, Hawkins said.
Meanwhile, police were concerned for the welfare of Terri Redmond, he said.
At 3:13 a.m., Redmond walked out the front door of his home and members of the Special Operations Response Team fired beanbags in an attempt to subdue him with non-lethal force, Mac Leish said.
Redmond ran back into the house, grabbed what Mac Leish described as a long gun, and began firing from the doorway.
Mac Leish said one officer hit the ground to avoid being struck. Several rounds hit the armored rescue vehicle that was used in the standoff.
A special operations team member fired a single shot, which killed Redmond.
Police entered the home and found Redmond’s wife unharmed. Detectives also found several weapons, including a rifle, a shotgun and handguns — all of which were loaded, Mac Leish said.
Neighbor Fred Sobotkin said he never expected something like this.
He described the Redmonds as “lovely people” and said “we see them as regular neighbors.’
He said Redmond had been suffering from a terminal illness for about five years. “Because of the illness, they didn’t socialize much but whoever knew them, respected them,” he said.
Mac Leish said the officer involved, a 14-year veteran of the state police, has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the incident. The officer’s name was not released.
Redmond’s body has been turned over to the State Medical Examiner.

Attention Parents: Teens sending more than messages on cellphones www.privateofficer.com

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HARTFORD, Conn. June 11 2008 Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cellphones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands – or worse, everyone’s hands, via the Internet – and leading to criminal charges.
Some parents are aghast.
“I just don’t understand why kids would do a stupid thing like that,” said Rochelle Hoins of Castle Rock, Colo., where 18 students in her twin sons’ middle school sent around nude pictures of themselves last year. “We did dumb things when we were kids, but not like that,” said Hoins, whose sons were not involved.
Similar cases have been reported in New Jersey, New York, Alabama, Utah, Pennsylvania, Texas and Connecticut.
“It used to be that kids would make mistakes, and it was local and singular and everyone knew it was part of growing up,” said Catherine Davis, a PTA co-president in Westport, Conn., who had a frank talk with her two sons after several students’ nude self-portraits recently spread through the wealthy New York City bedroom community. “Now a stupid adolescent mistake can take on major implications and go on their record for the rest of their lives.”
School administrators in Santa Fe, Texas, confiscated dozens of cellphones from students in May after nude photos of two junior high girls began circulating. The girls had sent the photos to their boyfriends, who forwarded them to others, officials said.
In La Crosse, Wis., a 17-year-old boy recently was charged with child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child and defamation for allegedly posting nude photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. The girl had taken the pictures with her cellphone at her mother’s home and e-mailed them to the boyfriend, authorities said.
“They were pretty graphic,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Yehle. “I think they just do it to impress their boyfriends. When he breaks up, he ‘vents,’ in his words, by posting them. He apparently didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. He didn’t know it was illegal.”
Psychologists said the phenomenon reflects typical teenage hormones and lack of judgment, with technology multiplying the potential for mischief. It also may reflect a teenage penchant for exhibitionism, as demonstrated on MySpace and countless other websites and blogs.
Brianna Moran, 15, who attends the same school as the girl in the La Crosse case, said she is not surprised by such behaviour. “They probably think they’re hot or something. If you look at people’s MySpace, all the pictures are slutty,” she said.
In suburban Syracuse, N.Y., several teenage girls sent naked pictures on their phones to their boyfriends, only to learn that another boy had collected them from the web and was trying to sell a DVD of them.
Some boys are photographing themselves, too. In Utah, a 16-year-old boy was charged with a felony for sending nude photos of himself over a cellphone to several girls. Four middle school students – two boys and two girls – in Daphne, Ala., took photos of themselves on their cellphones and traded the images back and forth, authorities said.
Some nude photos have even turned up in parents’ e-mail inboxes.
The images are complicating the work of investigators whose job is to find exploited children. Authorities trying to identify youngsters in naked photos are increasingly discovering that the teens themselves took the shots, said John Shehan, a director at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Connecticut police Sgt. Jim Smith, who investigates cybercrime and online child pornography, conducts seminars in which he warns parents about the use of cellphones to send nude pictures.
“It’s often so spur of the moment that they’re not thinking about where those images might end up,” Smith said. “They might think it’s just fun and games at the time they do it, but these images can really spread like wildfire.”

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Kansas City Mo June 11 2008

BY: Rick McCann

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Police responded to a call from a security officer who said that he was dragged by a truck after trying to arrest a trespasser at the Stonegate Meadow Apartments on Tuesday.

Around 3:45 p.m., the security officer was patrolling the complex when he noticed a man who did not belong on the property.

Police say that the security officer tried to arrest him for trespassing and that he fled and there was a struggle and the suspect managed to get in to a red Ford Explorer.
At that point, the security officer said that he got hung up in the Explorer’s door, and was dragged a few feet.

As he broke loose, the truck ran over his arm.

The security officer, 24, fired one or two shots at the truck, shooting out one of the windows. There’s no indication that he hit the driver, who was described as in his 20s.

Police checked the area for the trespasser but did not find him.

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High gas prices leads to grease thefts www.privateofficer.com

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. June 11 2008 The issue of high gas prices has caused all kinds of problems, but grease collecting is the latest in Nashville.
Restaurateurs said people are taking used cooking oil from local restaurants.
John and Pamela Leonard said they were leaving The Acorn restaurant when they saw an unmarked truck pull up to their used grease container.
“It was a big rig, and you — other than the fact that the truck wasn’t marked and the way he interacted with me – we would have thought that he was completely legitimate. He was dressed almost in a business attire, which was a bit surprising,” said John Leonard.
A couple questions later, the Leonards realized the people weren’t from the company they paid to take their grease away.
The Leonards said they wanted to let the people know that they didn’t have to steal the grease and that they could have it.
“We literally, almost, turned the car around and went back to just see who they were and say, ‘Hey, we don’t mind at all,’” John Leonard said.
But at Nashville Recycling Corp., Eddie McRedmond said he is losing money because people are stealing grease he’s contracted to collect.
“We’ve lost bins and barrels and everything. It’s tough to go out there, and there’s nothing there,” McRedmond said.
Used cooking oil can be used to make biodiesel fuel. The grease that used to go for 5 cents a pound now goes for up to 35 cents a pound.
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. I mean, those bins hold about, if they’re full, about 2,000 pounds. Everybody said, ‘Well, why don’t you put locks on your thing?’ Well, that’s good, that will keep and honest man from stealing, but thieves will cut the top out. They’re ready for everything,” McRedmond said.
No restaurants have reported the theft because to owners, it’s like someone coming and stealing banana peels out of someone’s trash.

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STAFFORD NJ June 11 2008 A Little Egg Harbor man was charged with invasion of privacy Saturday after surveillance cameras at the Route 72 Wal-Mart filmed the suspect kneeling down to take photos up a woman’s dress.
Police said Luis M. Esposito, 19, was caught on video repeatedly trying to take pictures with his cell phone after reaching under the woman’s skirt Friday night.
Authorities reviewed the tape and were able to identify Esposito, who was wearing a Pathmark hat and shirt at the time of the incident. According to police, he was employed at the local Pathmark.
Police became involved after they were notified by Wal-Mart security.
Esposito was arrested Saturday and charged with invasion of privacy. He was processed and released pending a future court appearance.Officer James Cahill and Detective Cheryl Parker conducted the investigation.

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. June 11 2008 — The driver of a truck carrying at least four people lost control and slammed into several cars parked at an Orange County dealership. Everyone inside was injured badly enough to be taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center, but before that, they all jumped out of the truck and tried to run.
The truck hit the dealership with so much force that it tore down blockades that were in place in front of the Orlando Auto Brokers car lot on Orange Blossom Trail and Americana Boulevard.
The owner of the dealership had large wooden stakes driven into the ground that were meant to keep thieves from being able to drive cars out of the lot, but it was not enough to keep a truck from plowing into a display ramp and taking down a Volkswagen Toureg.
At the scene, it was hard to believe that anyone made it out of the damaged green Nissan pick-up alive. The driver’s side of the cab was buckled and the passenger seat was pushed forward. Witnesses said the four people inside the truck got out and tried to run from the scene.
As the four injured people fled, security Guards at the nearby Rio Grande apartments saw then running and tackled them. The passengers were so badly injured that emergency crews were immediately called to the scene.
Ambulances rushed three of the passengers to ORMC. Investigators did not release the names of the people involved in the crash.

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Spartanburg SC June 11 2008
A Spartanburg man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday after he was found guilty of shoplifting. It was his third offense in two years.
Brice Mills Jr., 47, received the maximum sentence allowed under state law when he pleaded guilty to shoplifting. He admitted to stealing two packages of ham steaks from Sav-A-Lot on 560 S. Church St. on May 3.
Mills left the store with the packages of food hidden in his pants.
Mills then ran away after a brief struggle with a store employee, but was arrested shortly after the incident on shoplifting and assault charges.

Deputies found a box-cutter in his possession.
Mills’ criminal history, dating back to 1980, includes convictions for obtaining property by false pretenses, car theft, breaking and entering a vehicle and bad checks.

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Charlotte NC June 11 2008

BY: Rick McCann

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An armored car security guard fired several shots at a suspect who attempted to rob a Loomis Fargo truck in Charlotte early Tuesday morning.
According to police, the attempted robbery happened around 7 a.m. at the Charlotte Metro Credit Union on Central Avenue.
Authorities say that a man with a gun approached the armored car and attempted to rob it. The driver pulled his gun and fired several shots, but the would-be-criminal got away. Responding officers and a police helicopter searched the area but did not locate the man.
Police described the suspect as a heavy set black male with a goatee, mustache and a scarf covering his face.
At the time of the attempted robbery, the suspect was wearing a brown or black shirt and brown pants. The suspect may have left in a two-tone newer model Ford van.
Police said they don’t know whether or not the suspect was injured during the shooting.
If you have information about this incident, call Crimestoppers at 704-334-1600.

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Wilkesboro NC June 11 2008

BY: Rick McCann

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One Wilkes woman didn’t end up partying Friday night where she thought she would — she ended up in jail instead.
According to Wilkesboro police, 39-year old Lisa Diana Davis , went on a little shopping spree prior to going out on the town Friday night.
She load up on meats and beers and things that would make any party better but she didn’t pay for them and when confronted by a store manager she fled.
A short time after she ran off from her shoplifting attempt at Lowes Foods on Winkler Mill Street she was nabbed by the police and arrested.
The store manager says she tried to leave the store just before 9 Friday evening with a 24-pack of beer and two other types of alcohol, five ribeye steaks, a London Broil, and a package of toilet paper. Total value of the stolen items, which were recovered when she was confronted as she left the store, is a bit under two hundred dollars.
She ran out of the store while being questioned, the manager says, and was stopped as she was riding in the back seat of an SUV with several friends, a few blocks from the store. Officers arrested her for theft and jailed her in lieu of a one thousand dollar secured bond, after store personnel had sworn out the theft warrant against her.

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Albany GA June 11 2008

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Brazen thieves got away with big screen TVs, window air condition units, even refrigerators, just by walking them out of stores. The items were taken from Target, Lowe’s, and Sears.
Dougherty County Sheriff’s investigators say Mayurkumar Patel, who managed the Dollar inn on North Slappey, had Wyatt Adam Lastinger and James Franklin Strickland steal the goods for his motel. Investigators say they just picked them up and walked out side and back doors.
Capt. Craig Dodd of the Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office says that Patel is charged with ten counts of theft by receiving, and is out of jail on bail.
“They would just walk straight out the door with them brazenly as if they owned them or had purchased them,” said Dodd. “Whenever somebody goes out with something like that, the last thing you’re going to think of is that they’re brave enough to go out the door with something that big.”
Patel is charged with ten counts of theft by receiving and is out of jail on bail.
Franklin and Lastinger are still in the Dougherty County jail on theft charges.
Lastinger is also charged with aggravated assault.
Investigators say he pulled out a box cutter on two Sears employees who tried to stop him when he was leaving the store on May 31st.
Franklin and Lastinger are still in the Dougherty County jail on theft charges.
Lastinger is also charged with aggravated assault.
Investigators say he pulled out a box cutter on two Sears employees who tried to stop him when he was leaving the store on May 31st.

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TAVARES FLA June 10 2008 Prosecutors have filed grand-theft charges against Doris La-Hediny, a Bushnell woman accused of keeping an envelope filled with $1,800 that was mistakenly handed to her by a Wal-Mart cashier.

The money did not belong to the Leesburg store but to David Aspinwall, 25, who left the cash in the checkout line after buying milk and diapers for his sons on Mother’s Day.

Leesburg police said Aspinwall’s mother gave him the money to pay delinquent rent and a utility bill.La-Hediny, 62, has been in the Lake County Jail since she was arrested May 16, but charges were not filed until Thursday.

A Wal-Mart security video shows her taking the envelope from the cashier and placing it in her purse. She has insisted that the envelope was empty, a police spokesman said.
The story prompted a spirited online debate over morals, ethics and the old adage “Finders keepers, losers weepers.”Assailed on some message boards as irresponsible for losing the money, Aspinwall was helped by other readers who, touched by his plight, sent his family donations totaling about $800.”

We still have a little bit of catching up to do, but we’re grateful,” he said.

Aspinwall said he was distracted during the transaction by his son, who tried to climb out of the shopping cart for a piece of candy.

He drove home but rushed back to the store minutes later after realizing he left the money on the counter, only to learn it was gone.La-Hediny qualified for a public defender, according to court documents, which list her only income as a monthly Social Security stipend of $603.

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New Haven Ct June 10 2008 There are new details in the arrest of a New Haven police officer who is up on sexual assault charges.
According to the arrest affidavit, two college students accuse officer Anthony Maio of groping them in a bathroom of a bar.
The alleged incident happened in April at a bar on Crown Street where Maio was on off- duty working private security for the business.
Maio had no comment and the New Haven Police Department would not comment either saying that it was being handled through proper channels.
The officer has been suspended with pay while the investigation continues.

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Man gets 8 years prison for robbing uncle’s store www.privateofficer.com

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FREEHOLD NY June 10 2008

Kyle T. Greene

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A Bronx man was sentenced to eight years in prison for robbing his uncle’s music store in Red Bank, authorities said.
The 19-year-old man’s accomplice, also from the Bronx, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for his role in the December robbery at Poncenos Record Shop on Shrewsbury Avenue.
The men were sentenced last week by state Superior Court Judge Francis P. DeStefano, sitting in Freehold. The pair had pleaded guilty to armed robbery on March 5.
Jermaine Williams, 19, received an eight-year prison term, while Ramone Newman, 18, was sentenced to 10 years.
Newman, who was a juvenile when the robbery occurred, was waived up to state Superior Court to be tried as an adult.
According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office:
Shortly before 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 10, the men went to the record store, and Williams, whose face was covered, locked the door behind him.
Newman threatened the store owner with a knife, and took cash and jewelry from one of the display counters.
He forced the victim into the office, and the pair ordered him to open the safe.
They bound the victim with duct tape, took money from the safe, snatched a video surveillance tape and began to flee. But the victim freed himself, and Newman swung his knife toward the store owner’s face. The victim raised his arm to protect himself and was stabbed in the arm.
Police were called and a short time later, they arrested the teens as they got into a taxi near the Red Bank train station.
Police also recovered the knife, proceeds from the robbery, duct tape and the videotape from the store’s security system, prosecutors said.
Two other Bronx men, who got into the same cab, Cedain Smith, 23, and Damain Williams, 25, also were arrested and charged with conspiracy and complicity to commit robbery, but the charges against them were later administratively dismissed.
Jermaine Williams had previously worked at his uncle’s music store, authorities said.
Assistant Prosecutors Julia Alonso and Tara Wilson prosecuted the case for the state. Williams was represented by Cathy Waldor, and Newman was represented by John E. Sheehy of Ocean Township.

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Aspen Co June 10 2008

Two insurance firms are suing a local contractor, plumber and security company they claim committed negligence by causing the March 2007 fire at the Aspen Alps condominiums.

In a complaint filed Tuesday in Pitkin County District Court, New York-based Vigilant Insurance Corp. and Colorado Casualty Insurance Co. allege that workers with Bishop Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning started a fire at Aspen Alps unit 503 on March 8, 2007, but failed to report it.

The suit claims that workers — either with Bishop, security company Foremost Response or contractor Call John — also had covered smoke detectors in plastic so that emergency officials were not notified.John Salm, owner of Call John LLC, also was named as a defendant in the suit. He declined comment Thursday.

The lawsuit claims that at 10:30 p.m. on the night in question — just hours before the fire broke out — a security guard with Foremost Response spotted smoke and, assuming it came from a fireplace, simply opened a window to vent the building. Foremost Response also is a defendant in the suit.

Another security guard returned to the building at 11:50 p.m. and reported everything was secure, then at 1:40 a.m. saw heavy smoke coming from unit 503 and dialed 911, according to court papers.

Aspen firefighters arrived at the unit at 1:52 a.m.An official with Grand Junction-based First Response denied the claim.“We responded accurately, we responded well, and we have records to support that,” said J.J. Sutton, owner of Foremost Response. “We saved probably very large amounts of continued damage and the lives of the people in that building.”Sutton said he will fight the lawsuit.“Our name and our reputation is at stake,” he said.The blaze broke out in the early morning hours of March 9, and witnesses said flames shot 30 feet into the air.

Crews evacuated 11 people from the building, but no one was injured.The fire burned deep within the walls of the 1960s-era condo building.

Flames gutted the first two floors of one condo block, then skipped the third floor where residents were sleeping.

The fire then burst through the fourth floor and the roof, according to firefighters.Crews had the blaze under control by early morning on March 9, but the flames rekindled at 12:45 p.m. that afternoon, and fire crews returned to the scene to douse the flames once again in daylight.

Fire officials estimated the damages at more than $1 million.

The two insurance companies paid out on the Aspen Alps claim, according to court papers, but attorneys for the insurance companies are seeking more than $100,000 in damages from the two contractors and the security company.

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