Archive for July 11th, 2008
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Nightclub security job risky business www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta GA. July 11 2008
BY: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private officers
A PrivateOfficer.com News Exclusive
One of the most dangerous positions in the security filed continues to be nightclub security according to recent study done by The National Association of Private Officers.
According to their study, security officers AKA bouncers are high on the list of risk and liability and often are subjected to assaults, weapons and gang activity.
A metropolitan nightclub in New York City, Birmingham Alabama or Atlanta Georgia may see as many as three or four assaults on staff each night and are often confronted with armed patrons.
While some nightclubs in the higher end arena of clubs use metal detectors and security personnel pat down and frisk those who enter, those businesses were found to be in the minority and most do not.
Shootings, stabbings, felonious assaults, drug violations and murders are commonplace across our country’s nightlife. As these violent acts unfold, the clubs security staffs that are mainly untrained and unarmed are caught in the middle as they try to defend their employer and the club patron. Many bouncers and uniform security personnel find themselves in physical confrontations on a weekly basis while others become murder victims when unruly intoxicated ejected clubbers return armed with guns and take their revenge out on the security staff.
Most incidents are so common that they go unreported to police making it difficult to track the actual numbers of assaults and disturbances at one location.
In 2006, a nightclub in Nashville Tennessee had more than three hundred calls for police service in a one year period. most of those calls were for gunshots, fights and assaults. The owners, who tried beefing up security, could not control the type of people who flocked to their establishment and eventually the city used a civil nuisance law to padlock their door and force them to close down.
Other clubs in Nashville and other cities have come under similar scrutiny after repeated criminal activity, shootings or murders.
But closing these businesses down isn’t as effective as one might think. After the doors are padlock and the civil proceedings have concluded, the nightclub soon becomes reborn under a different name either at the same location or somewhere across town and the whole cycle begins again.
Several such establishments in Charlotte North Carolina on a busy stretch of Independence Blvd. have been shut down but soon popped up under different names and different management but owned by the same people who had ran the previous troubled businesses. Police there find themselves responding to the same locations every week end on the same type of calls. In mid March after a disturbance inside a club spilled into the parking lot, several customers exchanged several rounds of gunfire until security armed with shotguns joined in firing off their own weapons and ending the gun battle. Neighbors say that this is an every week end thing and that and police have not been able to control the shootings, the drug activity or the other criminal activity at these clubs.
Over the July 4th week-end we followed nine murders at clubs across the country. In Birmingham Alabama, police say that a sixteen year old shot and killed two young and that two others were wounded in a shooting outside a Birmingham night club. The shooting happened between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. outside of Banana Joe’s, at 1022 20th Street South, in the rear parking lot. Birmingham police say 20-year-old Willie Daniels of Birmingham and 20-year-old Jason Showers of Birmingham were killed by gunfire. Two other men, ages 19 and 20 were wounded. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening.
A 16-year-old male suspect wounded during the shooting and is now under arrest for murder.
Police say several off-duty officers were working security, along with an on-duty officer, who was assisting with crowd control, at the club when they heard gunshots coming from the rear parking lot. The officers went to the area and reportedly observed a male suspect firing a handgun.
Birmingham police preliminary investigation says the suspect was thrown out of the club by security officers for fighting. While outside the club, police say the suspect saw the people he’d been fighting with. Police say the suspect and several other males confronted them, a fight began and shots were fired.
Police say three assault rifles and a semi-automatic pistol were seized. Police aren’t sure what the underage teen was doing in the club to begin with.
A murder outside a nightclub is the final straw for a Middletown Ohio councilman. Tony Marconi wants the Grand Illusion Bar shut down. Marconi says Middletown Police make several runs to the bar each week.
Residents say the bar draws a rough crowd and there’s not enough security. Early Friday morning, Spencer Davis, 26, was murdered and a woman was shot outside Grand Illusion. And last fall, a fight started at the nightclub, leading to a nearby shootout.
Some police departments will not allow their officers to work off-duty nightclub security because they know the dangers of mixing alcohol and weapons. Contract security agencies in many states also will not take a contract at a nightclub where there has been a high number of incidents because of liability and because their liability insurance carriers could drop them if they knowingly place themselves in a high risk, high liability contract.
Club security in the entertainment district of Portland Oregon often find themselves in the mix of fights and threats said Larry Carson, a private contract security officer. It doesn’t take long for things to heat up when the house is full and the drinks are flowing Carson said. Most of the downtown clubs do a good job at crowd control and running interference between club patrons and troublemakers a Portland officer said. Still, we get calls to problems at certain bars almost every Friday and Saturday night the officer said.
Mike Matthews, Senior Vice President of The National Association of Private Officers and former police captain said that it’s a problem that won’t go away until states require the clubs to have mandatory security officer training and city code enforcement, fire marshal’s and police work together to keep closer tabs on the problem establishments and close them down as soon as there is repeat signs of serious trouble at them.
In the meantime, while many patrons are having a good time drinking, laughing and socializing, the clubs security staff will continue to be the buffer and many times the recipient of the assaults, threats and violence that can occur at any location at any time.
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Multi-State Shoplifting Group Busted www.privateofficer.com
Gulfport MS July 11 2008
Six adults and one juvenile have been arrested in connection with a shoplifting ring that involved the theft of more than $30,000 in merchandise from stores in South Mississippi and Alabama, according to the Gulfport Police Department.
The investigation began a week ago when an employee of Coach Outlet Store at Prime Outlets reported a shoplifting, resulting in the arrests of Marquita Antionette Carr, 24, Samantha Denise Summitt, 17, both of Gulfport, and Patrese Antoinette Pettway, 25, of Mobile, on felony shoplifting charges.
As the investigation continued, police developed information prompting a search for stolen property at two homes, one on Nassau Street and the other on Woody Drive.
At the Nassau Street home, police discovered more than $1,700 in brand new merchandise, leading to the arrest of Glenda Denise Moody, 38, of Gulfport, on a charge of felony possession of stolen property.
The second search on Woody Drive, police said, resulted in the recovery of more than 2,000 items worth more than $30,000 dollars.
Arrested at that home was Leisa Pruitt, 36, and Kreshanda Pruitt, 20, along with a juvenile. All three were charged with felony possession of stolen property.
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Woman arrested for shoplifting with child www.privateofficer.com
MANATEE FLA. July 11 2008 A 32-year-old woman arrested for shoplifting from a retail store was helped in the theft by a 9-year-old girl according to sheriff department reports..
Loss prevention agents observed Angelita Mercedes, of the 900 block of First Drive East, with the girl filling backpacks with items from the shelves as they walked around Wal-Mart, 2911 53rd Ave. E., about 7:50 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report.
The security personnel watched as they both went through the cash register line and paid for some small items, but did not pay for the items in the backpacks.
Store security officers detained the two until a sheriff’s deputy arrived to arrest Mercedes.
The store management did not press charges against the girl.
The deputy noted on the report that Mercedes had $207 in cash in her possession.
Charged with shoplifting and grand theft, she was free Wednesday on $120 bond.
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Disbarred attorney charged with hundreds of burglaries and thefts www.privateofficer.com
ALPHARETTA, Ga. July 11 2008 A disbarred Georgia attorney broke into possibly hundreds of cars and stole enough personal property to fill an entire evidence room, according to Alpharetta police.
Philip Strickland was arrested Tuesday after police said he was stopped while driving through a local neighborhood and officers found illegal narcotics in his car. Authorities said they recovered enough evidence from Strickland’s car and home to fill an entire evidence room.
Officials said they found 25 laptops, 50 iPods, 50 GPS devices along with more than 50 IDs, passports, credit cards and jewelry.
Police said that it was hard to believe one person could be responsible.
“This individual was very methodical during his crime spree,” said George Gordon with the Alpharetta Police Department. “This individual is in custody and off the street.”
Strickland was disbarred after the Georgia State Bar said they considered five separate disciplinary matters and that Strickland didn’t answer any of the complaints. In each case, he was accused of accepting fees but not performing the required work. The state bar said Strickland also failed to properly inform his clients about their cases.
Police said in the case of the stolen items, they are working to file felony charges against Strickland.
Authorities said the investigation is still unfolding and they are attempting to contact victims in the case. They said if you think you may be a victim, do not call them. They are looking at the evidence and will contact you.
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16 Year old girl charged with 2 homicides in crash www.privateofficer.com
CITRONELLE, Ala.(Metro Mobile ) July 11 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
www.privateofficer.com A 16-year-old girl faces two counts of vehicular homicide in connection with a crash last month that left two people dead.
A Mobile County teen faces two-counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of two people killed in a June 16 accident.
Citronelle Police said 16-year-old Alexandra Martin of Eight Mile was arrested as an adult on Wednesday night and was booked into Mobile Metro Jail.
Police allege that Martin was racing another vehicle at sppeds of 100 mph on a city street when she lost control of the car and it flipped several times.
A 9-year-old boy, Kevin Neel, and a 20-year-old woman, Latosha Hudson, were killed in the wreck, while four others were injured.
Police said the driver of the other vehicle was not charged.
Martin of Eight Mile, remains in custody at the Mobile County Metro Jail.
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Posted by privateofficernews on July 11, 2008
Treatment Center guard charged with aiding in escape www.privateofficer.com
Manatee Fla. July 11 2008
A woman was arrested Tuesday after she gave a juvenile drugs and helped him escape from a youth halfway house, according to an arrest warrant.
Dyshawn Jekeira Tavonne Larry, 19, of the 600 block of 33rd Avenue Drive East in Bradenton, was arrested on the charge of principal to escape in connection with the March 10 incident. She was working as a guard at the Manatee Adolescent Treatment Center Halfway House when she began a relationship with the boy, according to the warrant.
The boy told authorities he and Larry used to kiss and she would bring him food after inmates were locked down for the night.
When the boy tested positive for marijuana after a weekend home visit, Larry allegedly told the boy he should leave.
She told him she would not report him escaping until after he was gone. She also gave him the keys to her brown Buick and told him to meet her by Avondale Apartments after she got off work.
The boy stayed with her for about a month in which they began having sex. Larry also brought the boy marijuana and ecstasy pills as well as a cell phone.
The treatment center is a private detention facility run by Ramsey Youth Services under contract with Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
Larry was fired from her job March 26 when she was arrested on a marijuana possession charge in Sarasota.
As of Wednesday evening she remained in jail on a $20,000 bond.
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University of Louisville employee charged with fraud www.privateofficer.com
LOUISVILLE, KY July 11 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private officers
http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Police announced that they made an arrest of a University of Louisville employee who has admitted to stealing more than $10,000 from school accounts.
A Metro Police report states that investigators with the Uof L police conducted an internal investigation into some inappropriate credit card charges made and that it indicates that Alicia Overall used a university issued credit card to buy MasterCard gift cards.
During the investigation, police also learned that besides the fraudulent credit cards purchases, Overall also was involved in stealing computers from the university and pawning them at local pawn shops.
Overall lfaces numerous felony fraud, theft and burglary charges and was transported to the Jefferson County jail where she is being held on an undisclosed amount of bond.
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Naked man arrested for hijacking bus www.privateofficer.com
LAS VEGAS NV July 11 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
http://www.privateofficer.com/ Maybe he lost his shirt at a casino or the city was just a bit too hot for but whatever the case was, police said thaqt a naked mans actions got him into a whole lot of trouble
Metro-Las Vegas police say they arrested a naked man who stole a beer and then fled and soon hijacked a bus several miles northeast of the Strip.
A police spokesman says the man fled from a convenience store when an officer arrived to investigate a report of a shoplifter Tuesday.
The man allegedly punched in a back window of a Citizens Area Transit bus, climbed aboard, forced the driver off, drove the bus about 200 yards and then jumped off the moving vehicle.
A police officer was able to climb aboard the bus and stopped the vehicle.
Police say the man was taken into custody and arrested on felony charges and given clothes and a mental evaluation.
The name of the man was not released yet pending his evaluation but police say that he could face carjacking and theft charges.
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Manager charged with theft at store www.privateofficer.com
Naples Fla July 11 2008
Kyle T. Greene
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A 27-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday after she allegedly stole clothing and other merchandise from the East Naples designer outlet store where she worked and returned some of the goods for cash, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
Sarah Joffrion Bosher, 12146 Americus Lane, East Naples, is accused of grand theft.
Arrest reports say Bosher stole clothes, shoes, perfume and cologne from the Liz Claiborne store at the Prime Outlets mall, 6040 Collier Blvd. Bosher worked as an assistant manager at the store, reports said.
Bosher kept some of the merchandise and brought others in for a cash refund. The total value of the merchandise was $369.88, reports said.
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Kohl’s security agents make felony arrests www.privateofficer.com
NORRIDGE IL July 11 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
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Police reported that at several local Kohl’s stores, internal security agents were able to observe and apprehend several shoplifters and charge them with felonies.
According to police reports, Brad Bergren, 33, of 660 Beach Drive, Addison, was arrested June 29 at Kohl’s, 4220 N. Harlem Ave., and charged with felony retail theft. Agents for Kohl’s told police they saw Bergren put 12 sweatshirts in a large Target bag and leave the store without paying.
At a June 30 hearing in Rolling Meadows, bond for Bergren was set at $10,000. He is scheduled to appear at 10:30 a.m. July 29 in Room 108 of the Rolling Meadows Court House. A felony charge was approved based on Bergren’s prior conviction on Jan. 23, 2005 on a charge of retail theft, police said.
Also loss prevention personnel was able to apprehend and arrest Saheeda Rashid, 27, of 4917 N. Marmora Ave., Chicago, on June 27 at Kohl’s, 4220 N. Harlem Ave., and charged agents charged her with retail theft.
Agents for Kohl’s told police they saw Rashid conceal numerous items in bags, place the bags in her stroller and leave the store without paying. She was escorted to the store’s security office, where the items were recovered, police said.
Two children in her company were turned over to their father’s custody. Bond for Rashid was set at $1,000. She is scheduled for a July 23 court appearance.
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Police arrest wife of slain attorney for murder www.privateofficer.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. July 11 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police said the wife of a slain Nashville attorney was arrested Thursday morning and will face murder charges in connection with his death.
Kelley Cannon’s estranged husband, James Cannon, 44, was found strangled to death on June 23 in an upstairs closet in his Bowling Avenue home off West End Avenue. Police had ruled his death a homicide, but had not charged anyone in his death until today
Police said they arrested Kelley Cannon, 41, without incident on Thursday at her mother’s home in west Nashville around 9 a.m. Evidence collected at James Cannon’s home implicates her in the crime investigators said.
Metro police spokesman Don Aaron wouldn’t elaborate about the specific evidence that they said connects Kelley Cannon to the case.
She told a detective she had been at the home the night before her husband was found, but she couldn’t find him. She had the three children with her the next morning.
James Cannon, an attorney, took out orders of protection for his family after an incident May 21, when Kelley Cannon was charged with domestic assault and reckless endangerment for trying to take their youngest child against a judge’s ruling that the father was to have sole custody.Kelley Cannon was arrested three days after her husband’s death on three counts of violating an order of protection — one for each of her children.
A court hearing regarding the custody of Kelley Cannon’s three children was postponed Thursday and rescheduled for later in July.
The children, who are 9 years old, 7 years old and 18 months old, are currently living with James Cannon’s sister.
A civil attorney for Kelley Cannon said she has not seen her children since the day that her husband was found dead.
According to a police search warrant for her apartment, Cannon told detectives she had talked with her husband the night before his body was discovered.
She said she went to his residence on Bowling Avenue between 10 p.m. and midnight because she was concerned for her children’s safety.
She said that when she arrived, she found the back door slightly open and the lights on in some of the downstairs rooms. Then, she said, she woke her children up and took them to her apartment.
Investigators later took clothes, a pair of black jeans and a dress that she told them she was wearing the night of her husband’s death. Police also took an empty carton of Virginia Slims cigarettes.
Investigators took a DNA sample from Kelley Cannon to compare against evidence found where James Cannon’s body was found.
Police said the couple had a history of domestic abuse.
The attorney representing James Cannon’s family said Thursday’s charges bring a sense of relief.
“They knew that this day was probably going to come at some point, and right now the family is focused on what’s best for those three children,” said the attorney.
Kelley Cannon’s bail is set at $500,000. She can’t try posting the bond until her first court appearance, which will be in about a week.
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Security officer shot during robbery in critical condition www.privateofficer.com
Chicago IL July 11 2008
By: Bryan Hill
Ntl. Assoc. Private officers
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A 39-year-old security officer was shot and wounded during a robbery attempt as he was patrolling homes on Chicago’s Far South Side early Thursday, police said.
The security officer, whom police declined to identify, was shot in the arm and chest just before 2:30 a.m. while checking on an abandoned home in the 10000 block of South Parnell Avenue in Fernwood, police said.
According to the police report, two robbers approached him and demanded money at gunpoint, officials say. When the guard refused, they shot him, police said.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious condition Thursday morning.
Officer David Banks said that a handgun was recovered from the scene, but that it was unclear whether it belonged to the security officer or one of the attackers
Police said no one was in custody and had no information about what security company the security officer worked for or why he was patrolling homes in the neighborhood.
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Shoplifter with business plan arrested for robbery www.privateofficer.com
Brownwood TX July 11 2008
A Bangs woman explained her business plan to the Brownwood police officer who arrested her Sunday: steal DVDs from Wal-Mart and sell them to friends for $5 to $10 each.
That plan didn’t work. Vanessa Miller, 28, was booked into the Brown County Jail on a robbery charge, jail records state.
She was charged with robbery because the incident involved violence with an employee, a report by officer James Fuller.
Fuller was dispatched Wal-Mart at 3:44 p.m. on a report that a shoplifting suspect was fighting with employees.
Fuller arrived to see several people standing between a car and a pickup, and a male employee was holding a woman against the car, Fuller’s report states.
A customer approached and told Fuller she had seen an employee slap the woman and that it appeared a theft had occurred.Fuller took the woman into the loss prevention office, where she yelled at the officer to let her go. Employees said the woman had taken DVDs out of cases.
The woman at first insisted she’d walked to the store and just walked up and down the aisles, but then admitted “I took them,” Fuller’s report states.She said she took 22 DVDs to the restroom in the rear of the store, removed the wrappers and security tapes and placed the DVDs in a bag, then put the wrappings, boxes and security tapes in the trash and left the restroom.The woman told Fuller she’d heard she could make money selling the DVDs and “it was not too hard to commit this crime,” Fuller’s report states.
Her plan fell apart after a 33-year-old female employee was told the woman was in the restroom and possibly concealing items.
The employee entered the restroom, went into a stall next to the shoplifting suspect, bent down and looked under the stall wall, Fuller’s report states. She saw the suspect remove the wrappers and security tapes and put the DVDs in her bag.
She left the restroom and notified other employees, who monitored the suspect and watched the exits.The employee saw the suspect walking in the garden area outside the store with the bag over her shoulder, approached her and asked her if she could speak to her about the merchandise she had taken, Fuller’s report states.
The suspect jumped back and yelled, then tried to “push past” the employee and became “more aggressive and argumentative,” the report states.
The suspect “became violent with (the employee) and began pushing and pulling with her arms and kicking with her feet in an effort to get away,” Fuller’s report states.
The suspect yelled that all she wanted to was go home, and the confrontation continued to the parking lot. The employee tried to get the suspect to quit hurting her by holding her against a car.
The suspect spat in her face, told her to “get your filthy hands off me,” cursed and used a racial epithet, Fuller’s report states.The employee was “greatly alarmed by being spit on and stated her reflex was to slap (the suspect),” Fuller’s report states.
The suspect elbowed the employee, who fell to the ground. Another employee approached and wrapped his arms around the suspect. The suspect “began speaking remorsefully” about the incident and said she had an anger problem,” Fuller’s report states.
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“Phrophet” attacks, assaults security officer www.privateofficer.com
Needham MA July 11 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private officers
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A Planned Parenthood security officer reported that he was assulted by a disorderly man while the man was screaming about being a prophet.
Police said that 34-year-old Patrick Holmander entered the buffer zone of the Commonwealth Avenue facility June 25 and assaulted the security officer in a protest against abortion.
Yelling that he was a prophet sent from God to punish the establishment, Holmander told the officer that “this is a baby-killing place” after punching him in the stomach, reports state.
Police responded to the location to assist the security officer and after arresting Homander, police learned that he had a prior criminal history for trespassing at other clinics.
The “phrophet” was taken into custody and transported to the jail pending a court hearing.
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Security officer shoots, kills man www.privateofficer.com
SALT LAKE CITY UT July 11 2008
By: Bryan Hill
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
http://www.privateofficer.com/ A security officer shot and killed a man outside a Salt Lake City restaurant, Wednesday. Police have not said the shooting was in self-defense.
An investigation is underway.
Salt Lake City police said the shooting occurred at Mama’s Southern Plantation Restaurant just before 12:30 at 1394 South, West Temple.
The security guard, does not work for a security company, but was hired by the restaurant’s owner. The owner said the guard was sitting outside and eating lunch with another security guard when a man began yelling at them from across the street.
According to the owner of the restaurant, 47-year-old Mike May became aggresive and attempted to assault the guard.“He walks over and swings a bag and then reaches in his bag or in his shirt, like he was reaching for a weapon,” said the owner. The guard, who possesses a concealed weapons permit, shot the man in the stomach.
A medical crew worked on the victim, described as a man in his 40’s, but he died at the scene.Police say a man is a transient. He was talking to friend Ashley Smith on the phone right before the shooting.According to Smith’s mother, the victim told Smith “come get me, I’m about to get in a fist fight.”When Smith arrived, she found the victim dead in the street. Detectives took the security guard in for questioning, but he was later released.
Witnesses said May appeared to be intoxicated, but Smith says she spoke with May before the shooting and the intoxication claims are “not poossible.”
Officers are still investigating the shooting.
They have not said the shooting was in self-defense, but said that the victim contributed to the confrontation.
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