Baltimore armored truck robbed www.privateofficer.com

Baltimore MD July 23 2008

By: Rick McCann

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Baltimore County police are looking for a man and woman who robbed a security guard at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon.

Police said that the security officer was transporting an undisclosed amount of money from a church in Rodgers Forge.

About 1:50 p.m., a Dunbar Armored Inc. employee was leaving the St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church office building off York Road with a bag of money when a man and woman, each armed with a gun, rounded a corner of the building and held him up, police said.

The robbers, who were both wearing dark clothing, grabbed the bag from him and ran south on York Road, police said.
Police said that they caught the guard off guard and that there was no struggle nor was there any injuries during the hold-up.

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Atlanta police go undercover to nab homeless panhandlers www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA July 22 2008

By: Rick McCann

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Atlanta Georgia police announced last week that they would begin conducting a sting operation in the downtown metro area looking for aggressive panhandlers who target workers and visitors of the city.
Undercover police will wear concealed cameras to capture any threatening behavior from the growing number of panhandlers.
Maj. Khirus Williams announced the new program last Friday and already there is a lot of outcry and organizations speaking out against this type of strong handedness.

Advocates for the homeless say that it is harassment and unfair to the people that they are targeting.
Billi Kerns admits that she has seen a few homeless people who are a little aggressive in the downtown area but for the most part it’s not the problem that the police or the Convention Bureau is making it out to be said Kerns..
An Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau survey of visitors shows that panhandling is the second biggest complaint about Atlanta, behind traffic.
Williams declined to say how many officers will be involved in the hidden-camera effort.
The city passed an anti-panhandling ordinance in 2005, but it has not been rigorously enforced.
An APD officer told us that he thinks Atlanta does a good job with housing and feeding the homeless and that there is no need for them to be out on the street aggressively panhandling and in some cases scaring people.

Atlanta is a city built on conventions and visitors the officer said and we need to keep these people safe as they visit our city.

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Armored truck guard shot during robbery attempt www.privateofficer.com

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. July 23 2008

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Authorities responded to a robbery and shooting and say that an armored truck guard was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery Tuesday.
The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon at a CVS pharmacy at 16550 NE Sixth Ave. in northeast Miami-Dade County, just hours after two men robbed a Brinks armored truck in Pompano Beach.
Police said the Garda armored truck driver saw his partner shot by two men with assault rifles while the guard was leaving the store. When the men attempted to get away in a sport utility vehicle, the armored truck driver tried to stop them.
“The driver of the armored vehicle saw what was going on,” Miami-Dade police Detective Nelda Fonticiella said. “He rammed the vehicle deliberately.”
Police said the men fled the SUV, crossed the street and escaped in a white Ford Taurus with tinted windows.
Authorities don’t believe they carjacked that vehicle but that it was another associate of the robbers who was trailing them for situations like this where they needed another avenue to escape.

Earlier in the day, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the Wachovia bank in the 400 block of East Sample Road shortly before 9:30 a.m.
Detectives said two men armed with handguns and wearing bandanas over their faces held up the Brinks guard as he was making a delivery. The thieves took several bags of cash and drove off west toward Interstate 95.
The thieves also got away with the guard’s gun, BSO spokesman Mike Jachles said.
The getaway car is described as being a silver or gray, late-model Toyota or Honda with dark-tinted windows and damage to the left front end.
BSO and the FBI were interviewing the guard and armored truck driver. They were also reviewing the bank’s surveillance video to determine if the robbers were caught on camera.

Police are not saying how much money was taken in either robbery but say both cases are under investigation.They also did not comment on the possibility of both robberies being related.

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Man arrested for theft of 42 cents from mall fountain www.privateofficer.com

NAPLES, Fla.July 23 2008 – Naples Police arrested a man accused of stealing 42 cents from a fountain at Coastland Center Mall in Naples, Monday morning.

According to the police report, someone spotted Laszlo Mujzer, 43, of Bonita Springs, taking change from from the water around 11:15 a.m.

The person contacted mall security, and the security officer called police.

The mall’s general manager, Glen Harrell, tells WINK News Mujzer was wading in the fountain for money.

The responding officer from the Naples Police Department found 42 cents in Mujzer’s possession.

The mall security officer told NPD to prosecute and press charges against Mujzer.

He is charged with petit theft under $100. His bond is set at $500.

Harrell denies the fact that Mujzer was arrested for stealing change from a fountain, instead, claiming Mujzer was arrested for having fake ID.

However, the incident report obtained by WINK News does not contain information about additional charges.

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Man charged with trespassing at casino www.privateofficer.com

Man charged with trespassing at casino after he agrees to stay out www.privateofficer.com

Lebanon PA July 23 2008

A Lebanon man being charged with trespass Monday at Hollywood Casino is the first patron to be arrested there for violating an agreement he signed that excludes him from casinos statewide.
David Bupp, 40, of Lebanon, is being charged with criminal trespass after state police said he was recognized when leaving the casino by a security officer.
Security footage revealed that he was on the gaming floor between 11:51 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. Monday, police said. Bupp could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
He had signed a lifetime exclusion agreement May 5, police said.
State police said a list of people who signed self-exclusion agreements and their photographs is kept by the Gaming Control Board, casino security and state police.
The self-exclusion list in Pennsylvania now includes 342 people, said Nanette Horner, the director of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s Office of Compulsive and Problem Gambling.

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Explosives drop by packpack as man is questioned by poilice www.privateofficer.com

Explosives drop from backpack as man is questioned by police www.privateofficer.com

Baltimore MD July 23 2008
A man who was stopped Tuesday morning and questioned by a police officer near the University of Maryland’s Baltimore campus was arrested after a makeshift explosive device fell from his knapsack when he fought with the officer, authorities said.
The man was being questioned by detectives, and charges had not been filed Tuesday evening. His name was not released.
Sterling Clifford, a Baltimore police spokesman, said the man was stopped by the university officer in the 800 block of W. Baltimore St. about 7:30 a.m. “The man was clutching his side as if he was trying to conceal a weapon,” Clifford said.
The university officer told the man that he was going to search him, and Clifford said the man fought back. During the scuffle, Clifford said, the man’s backpack fell to the pavement and “a small explosive device fell out.”
The spokesman would not describe the device further, saying only that it “would have been unable to do serious damage.” About 11:30 a.m., Baltimore police bomb squad members detonated the device.
Clifford said that police from the University of Maryland, Baltimore are expected to file assault charges, and city police would charge the man with possessing an explosive device.
The suspect was arrested about one block west of the main downtown campus, and Clifford said the motive “does not appear to [be] anything related to the university.”

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Police investigating homicide of store manager www.privateofficer.com

Baltimore MD July 23 2008

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Baltimore police are working to solve a homicide of a store manager who was found dead at the store earlier in the day.
Police have now released the identity of the woman killed at a Family Dollar store in the Mount Clare Junction Shopping Center in Southwest Baltimore.

Elizabeth Queensbury, 51, was stabbed multiple times, according to police.

She was an assistant manager at the store in the 1200 block of West Baltimore St.

According to Baltimore police spokesman Donny Moses, detectives are working the case and believe robbery may have been a motive.

Police are reviewing store videotapes and records from the security company to find any additional clues.

An autopsy is planned. Queensbury’s body was found Monday morning but police don’t know how long she had been dead.

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Shoplifters arrested after $10,000 thefts www.privateofficer.com

Braintree MA. July 23 2008

By: Bryan Hill

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Four people face charges that they stole nearly $10,000 worth of clothing during a shoplifting spree on the South Shore.
Myron D. Ragsdale, 29, of Mattapan; and Nakeyta A. Bailey, 32, Jecilene F. Miranda, 21, and Teshawnda L. Knight, 25, all of Dorcester; were each charged with receiving stolen property and conspiracy.
The quartet was first spotted allegedly stealing clothes at the Independence Mall in Kingston on the evening of July 15.
They were followed to the Derby Street Shoppes in Hingham and later to the South Shore Plaza, where, security officers say, they stole more clothes.
Braintree police called Boston police when the four drove away from the Plaza, and officers in that city stopped them.
The three women and a man had nearly $10,000 worth of stolen merchandise in the Jeep with them, police said.

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Woman with HIV sent to prison for spitting on person www.privateofficer.com

COLUMBUS, Ga July 23 2008

Kyle T. Greene

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ A woman diagnosed with HIV has been sentenced to three years in prison for spitting in another woman’s face and proclaiming “I hope you get AIDS.”
The woman, 43-year-old Audrey D. Lewis of Columbus, Ga., pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault.
Police said a 24-year-old went to lock the apartment door of a friend who was being arrested Oct. 3 for simple battery against Lewis. Assistant District Attorney Doug Breault said Lewis approached the woman and the two began to quarrel.
Breault said Tuesday that Lewis will have to serve the full sentence because she has three prior felonies.
Defense attorney Judy Dunlap said the three years was unwarranted. She said she was hoping for about three months.
The district attoney’s office had recommended Lewis get five years in prison, followed by five years’ probation.

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Atlanta police nab more “blue jean bandits” www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA July 23 2008
Atlanta police said Tuesday that five of the six Blue Jean Bandits involved in two June 4 robberies have been arrested.
According to Atlanta Detective Rick Anderson, the only suspect still on the loose is Charles Dunn
Dunn, who turns 21 on Monday, had been questioned by police before but officers did not have enough evidence to hold him, Anderson said.
“Hopefully he’ll do the right thing and turn himself in. We’ve had a run-in with him in the past. Now it’s just a matter of time,” Anderson said.
Some arrests have been made in similar burglaries in metro Atlanta but authorities say different groups of bandits have carried out the crimes.
The group of six, police say, had played a smash-and-grab game across the city for weeks.
On June 4, five males hit the Brazil Italian Men’s Wear on Peachtree Road and made away with $30,000 of designer jeans, escaping in a Gold Chrysler van.
Hours later, they also hit Kaleidoscope in Decatur wearing the same clothes and using the same getaway car — that time taking $10,000 worth of men’s jeans, according to store owner Camille Wright.
Days later, police issued an arrest warrant for Slyricus Winder, 29, who allegedly assaulted employees at both stores with pepper spray and punched one. When charged, Winder was already was in Atlanta police custody on unrelated charges of theft and obstructing an officer.
The four other suspects in custody are teenagers.
Three are minors and will appear Wednesday in Fulton County Juvenile Court. The fourth teen, Demarcus Marcus Smith, 17, is being held in Dawson County.
Anderson said police are now matching videos from similar smash and grab incidents across the city to identity Dunn.

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