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OPA-LOCKA, Fla. Aug 31 2008

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Police are searching for the gunman who shot a security officer at an apartment complex in Opa-locka late Friday night.
According to police, witnesses told officers who were called to the scene that they saw a man running away from the complex on Northwest 132nd Street but that they couldn’t give much of a description.
Officers searched the area but didn’t locate any suspects and police say that their investigation is continuing.
The security officer was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital but there is still no word on his condition.

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Police make arrests in Vanderbilt professor murder www.privateofficer.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. AUG 31 2008 – Police said Friday night they will charge three men and a woman for their alleged involvement in the shooting death of a Vanderbilt professor this week in east Nashville.
Professor Pierre Colas, 32, was found dead and his sister, Marie Colas, 27, was wounded from shots to the head on Tuesday night in east Nashville.
The Tennessean reported that those to be charged are Thomas Andrew Reed, 20; Michael Shane Holloway, 22; George Eugene Cody, 29; and Gennyfer Dawn Hutcherson, 35. Police also said that a fourth person could face charges.
The three men were taken by police for questioning at 7 a.m. Friday. Police said the house where the men were taken from was close to where the Colases were shot.
According to detectives, Pierre Colas’ credit card was recently used at several businesses. Police said there is surveillance video that shows the individuals using the card.
The three men had been seen driving a gold 1992 Buick Regal. On Thursday night, police saw that car with all three men inside and followed it to 891 Sharpe Avenue.
“We are in the process right now of interviewing those individuals. We have a car of interest … (that we will process). We also have a residence of interest that we are going to do the same with. We’re waiting to obtain search warrants,” said Lt. Danny Driskell of the Metro Police Department.
Police said they are were also searching a Nashville La Quinta Inn on Sidco Drive where a couple of the men recently stayed.
Police said on Thursday that during their investigation they were looking at a variety of circumstances that could have led to the death of the anthropology professor.
“This gentleman was well-liked as an educator, who was looked up as a mentor by his students,” said Driskell.
There was no forced entry into the home, and police said it is possible he was accosted while he was on his front porch and forced back inside his home on McFerrin Avenue in east Nashville.
“We know just from what neighbors have said that he was last seen on his porch about 15 to 20 minutes before the 911 call came in that he had been shot. We don’t know if he was actually confronted by the suspect on the front porch and forced back into his house, or if he had actually gone back into his house and perhaps the door was left unlocked, or if he just left it open intending to return to the porch and was confronted by the suspect inside his residence,” said Detective Matt Filter of Metro Police.
Marie Colas was visiting her brother from Switzerland and has been in town for about a week. She is at Vanderbilt Medical Center with critical injuries.
Residents of the neighborhood where the shooting occurred are holding a candlelight vigil this weekend in Colas’ honor.
The vigil was held Saturday at 6 p.m. in front of Colas’ home located at 921 McFerrin Avenue

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Security officer attacked during bank robbery www.privateofficer.com

BLOOMFIELD(Metro Hartford) CT. Aug 31 2008

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police reported that two armed men robbed a Webster Bank branch and attacked a security officer Saturday, and police said they were questioning two suspects Saturday night.

The hold-up happened shortly before 9 a.m. at a Webster Bank branch at 275 Cottage Grove Road, according to a press release by Lt. Matt Willauer.

The gun-wielding robbers came into the bank, attacked the guard, stole his gun and left with an undisclosed amount of money, it states.

They sped away in a car to East Hartford, police said, where one suspect got out and started driving away in another car.

One car was immediately stopped by East Hartford police who quickly responded to the area while the other was stopped after a chase, Bloomfield police said.

The police are not releasing the suspects names right now but say that they will be filing charges against them.
The security officer was transported and treated for minor injuries at an area hospital and was discharged. His name was not released by police either.

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Fish weren’t biting but off duty cop hooks drug bust www.privateofficer.com

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PORTSMOUTH NH Aug 30 2008 — An off-duty police officer was fishing off Peirce Island Wednesday night when he witnessed an illegal drug sale, leading to the arrest of Andrew Nunley on two felony charges, say police.
Nunley, 22, of Green St., East Rochester, was arraigned by video from the Rockingham County House of Corrections Thursday morning on charges alleging he sold the antibiotic amoxicillian and veterinary arthritis medication rimadyl alleging they were methadone and OxyContin.
Nunley was arrested August 22 at 7:21 p.m. after Sgt. Michael Maloney, who was fishing in the area at the time, witnessed Nunley exchange the pills for cash, said Sgt. Rodney McQuate.
Prosecutor Corey MacDonald told the court Nunley was being investigated by police for allegedly selling pills in Market Square before the Wednesday night arrest.

The prosecutor told the court Nunley was also free on cash bail for a Rochester criminal mischief charge when he was arrested in Portsmouth.
Judge Sawako Gardner ordered Nunley held on $2,500 personal recognizance and $2,000 cash bail, to stay out of Portsmouth except for legal meetings or travel on Route 95 and to return to the court for a Sept. 8 probable cause hearing.
MacDonald told the Herald it is not uncommon for street drug dealers to misrepresent what they are selling. The prosecutor said he arrested a man several years ago for selling cardboard pieces sprayed with Raid and representing it as LSD.
“And he had repeat customers,” said MacDonald.

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Three arrested in shoplifting attempt www.privateofficer.com

NATICK MA. AUG 31 2008

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Two sisters and a friend were arrested Wednesday after they went on a back-to-school shoplifting spree at the Natick Collection, police said.
Elena Shields, 17, her sister, Sarah L. Shields, 21, and Amanda E. Winkler, 18, were arrested at 5:44 p.m. after they stole more than $1,400 worth of clothing from three different stores, said police spokesman Lt. Brian Grassey.
Lord & Taylor security agents said they saw the three women go into the changing room with several items, and emerge with less. Security saw the girls go outside and put the merchandise in a car,” Grassey said.
The women were stopped, and when officers searched for what they took from Lord & Taylor’s, they also found several items stolen from J. Crew and Nordstrom, two other stores in the mall, police said.
Items stolen included several shirts, skirts, dresses and sweaters, Grassey said.
The Shields sisters, of 39 Tanglewood Road, Sterling, and Winkler, of 9 Gates Terrace, were charged with two counts of larceny of property worth more than $250, receiving stolen property worth more than $250 and conspiracy to commit a crime.
All three are scheduled to be arraigned in Natick District Court at a later date.

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Veteran NYPD detective charged as serial bank robber www.privateofficer.com

By VERENA DOBNIKAssociated Press Writer
NEW YORK AUG 31 2008 — Athelson Kelson returned from the Vietnam War tormented by what he’d seen and done, but he found a release in the New York Police Department, where he became a star detective and an anti-terrorism expert.
“It haunted him, the killing, and being a great cop was his salvation,” his mother, Hilda Kelson, said Saturday.
When Kelson’s marriage fell apart and he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer in June, he again found an outlet for his anguish. But this time, it came on the other side of the law, police say.
They say the 59-year-old NYPD retiree and decorated veteran assumed a shocking new role — as a serial bank robber suspected of pulling off nine heists in three months.
Kelson surrendered to police on Thursday, two days after the last robbery. On Friday, he was arraigned in Queens in connection with a July 10 bank robbery in Queens. The judge ordered him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
His lawyer, Harold Ramsey, said Saturday that the accusations, if true, “make out a tragic story.” He added that astonished acquaintances of Kelson’s had called to say the allegations seemed entirely out-of-character for the former detective.
Before the arrest, police investigating the stickups had marveled at the robber’s apparent nonchalance about being recognized. He donned a baseball cap and sunglasses but was easily identifiable in surveillance tapes, in part because he wore distinctive jewelry, including a flashy watch and ring.
Police even dubbed the robber the Bling Bandit because of his jewelry. Investigators now say that the ring may have been an NYPD retirement gift — a blue and gold replica of a police detective’s shield. That ring helped identify Kelson, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
The former detective might have wanted to get caught, his 82-year-old father, Thomas Kelson, told The Associated Press.
“I think he was trying to commit suicide by someone else’s hand, suicide by cop,” Kelson said. “It was one way of going out without suffering, without pain — to end it real quick.”
The police commissioner called the detective’s fall “sad and shocking.”
Until he retired three years ago after 33 years on the force, Athelson Kelson was a highly respected law enforcement official whose work included hunting down bank robbers. He also was a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Undercover, he gained the trust of the Black Panthers and personally arrested a Black Liberation Army leader after tracking him to Los Angeles.
“He served in some of the most sensitive and dangerous undercover assignments in the NYPD,” said Detectives’ Endowment Association president Michael Palladino, calling the arrest “very disheartening.”
But Kelson’s parents said they weren’t surprised.
“We knew that something was going to happen. He was a sick man,” said his mother.
His struggles started decades ago, she said, when the 19-year-old came home after being drafted into the Army and serving one year in Vietnam. He’d been wounded in the war, and his medals, which included the Purple Heart, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star, did little to ease his mind.
“He said he went through hell in Vietnam,” Hilda Kelson said. “He said that as a soldier, you’d have a kid pointing a gun at you, and you’d have to shoot him ’cause it was your life or theirs.”
Amid nightmares of the war and post-battle trauma, he married and moved to a house in Hempstead, on Long Island, with his wife, Bette.
Kelson worked as a correction officer before joining the NYPD and appeared to find stability there, if not peace.
Lately, though, things had disintegrated again. Court records show Kelson lost a home in Jamaica, Queens, to foreclosure.
After retirement, he looked for another job but never took one, his mother said. His marriage hit the skids. His ex-wife now lives in Columbia, S.C.
The retired detective lived alone in an apartment in Queens, not far from the home where he lived with his parents, brother and sister after the family relocated from Baltimore in 1962.
In the past six months, Kelson would call his parents four or five times a day, said his mother, but declined their advice to go into therapy. “He would say how much he loved us, how much he respected the fact that he had such great parents, and how fortunate he was having us this long,” she said.
And “once in awhile,” she added, “he’d say maybe he’d be better off if he was just dead.”
Only weeks after learning his grim cancer prognosis, he visited his parents in Randallstown, Md., joining his sister and childhood friends for his mother’s surprise 85th birthday party.
“He looked happy,” his mother said, and didn’t let on how ill he really was.
By then, investigators said, the robberies had already begun. The first was on June 12. In some of the heists, the bandit displayed a handgun.
Kelson has only been formally charged with one robbery so far. Prosecutors said that on July 10, he walked into a JPMorgan Chase bank in Queens and handed the teller a note reading, “Do not press the alarm, give me all the large bills in your drawer, I have a gun, I do not want to hurt anyone, no dye, no bait money, you have 10 seconds.”
The teller handed him $600 and he fled, Queens prosecutors said.
Kelson faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
There could be additional charges filed. The police commissioner said employees of banks elsewhere in Queens and on Long Island picked Kelson out of a lineup.
As he awaits his next court appearance on Sept. 12, his mother expects a call from her son before she and her husband try to visit him.
“I just put it all in God’s hands,” she said. “Whatever happened was supposed to happen; this was his way of reaching out to show that he needed help.”

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One shot during fight www.privateofficer.com

Rochester NY Aug 31 2008

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A bystander was shot outside of a restaurant on Monroe Avenue early Saturday morning. Police say that two men got into a fight in the parking lot of Gitsis around 3 AM.
A security officer working at the business saw what was going on and he stepped in to break up the fight.
One of the men involved pulled out a hand gun and fired at the crowd causing people to scatter but one person was hit.
Police say that a bystander was hit in the leg. He was taken to strong hospital with non life threatening injuries.
Police said that the suspect fled the area but police are working on several leads in the case and hope to make an arrest.
The security officer was not injured.

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ATLANTA GA. AUG 31 2008

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Mesa AZ Aug 28 2008
A man was found dead Monday morning inside a truck parked at a Mesa Wal-Mart.
Police don’t know how long 31-year-old Adrian Arviso had been dead before a Wal-Mart security guard noticed that his truck had been there for days and called police.
The Wal-Mart is located at 6131 E. Southern Ave.
Mesa police spokesman Detective Steve Berry said the security guard noticed a foul odor and saw Arviso “slumped over in the front seat of the truck.”
The truck was parked in an area where there are few passersby.
Police don’t suspect any foul play in Arviso’s death and there were no signs of trauma.
The cause of his death will be determined during an autopsy at the Maricopa County Forensic Science Center, police said.

FT.Wayne IN
Denise Wallace is accused of pepper-spraying store security officer Rashon Thomas when he tried to arrest her for shoplifting in the Wal-Mart at 5311 Coldwater Road around 4 p.m. Tuesday.Thomas wasn’t seriously injured, according to Fort Wayne Police officer Christopher Reed’s incident report. Wallace, age and address unavailable, faces battery and criminal conversions charges.

Elk Grove CA Aug 16 2008
7960 Gerber Road, near Power Inn Road, arrest. Courtney Pritchard, 33, was arrested at 10 p.m. July 29 on suspicion of petty theft and possession of narcotics paraphernalia. Pritchard entered SaveMart and was reportedly seen by store security officers loading his backpack with merchandise. He allegedly left without paying and was stopped by security officers . A search revealed two metal pipes commonly used for smoking narcotics in his wallet, according to reports.

L. NAZARETH TWP. PA Aug 21 2008 A pair of women from East Stroudsburg tried to leave the Kohl’s department store on Route 248 on Saturday with more than $1,000 in clothing, police said.
Marjorie Aristide-Moreau, 34, and roommate Janice M. Erskine, 43, removed the tags from a large number of items Saturday about 1 p.m. and pushed a shopping cart into the parking lot before being stopped by store security, according to court documents.
The alleged stolen merchandise totaled $1,012.
The women were charged with retail theft and conspiracy to commit retail theft. They were sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $3,000 bail each.

BOARDMAN OH — Police are investigating a report of a shoplifter who threatened to harm a store security officer.
The security officer at Sears, Southern Park Mall, told police that a man selected 12 pairs of work pants, valued at about $300, about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. When the man came out of a dressing room, the officer saw the man had stuffed the pants under his shirt. He then started to walk out of the store without paying.
The guard stopped the man outside and initially the man was cooperative, but the man then told the security officer that he had something in his pocket that the officer didn’t “want to get poked with” and placed his hand in his pocket, a police report said.
The store employee backed off and the man got into his car, but the security officer prevented the man from closing the door. When the car moved, the security officer was struck by the door as the man drove off.

JACKSONVILLE, FL — A shoplifting suspect is in custody after a crash on Atlantic Boulevard.
Police say the suspect stole some items from Burlington Coat Factory in Regency. As he was leaving in his SUV an officer arrived on the scene and followed him.
Officers say the suspect crashed his SUV into a pickup in the intersection of Atlantic Boulevard and Monument Road.
The suspect was taken into custody.
The driver of the pickup was not seriously hurt.
Traffic was slow at the intersection for more than an hour. A tow truck had to get into the middle of the road to pull the pickup out of the way.

Shoplifting: Police arrested Brittney O’Hara of the 15000 block of 85th Avenue, Palm Beach Gardens and charged her with petit retail theft.

North Lebanon PA
Garry Unger, 52, New Oxford, was charged with taking $232 in merchandise from Wal-Mart, 1355 E. Lehman St., without paying for it at 12:45 p.m. Aug. 13, police said.

N. Londonderry PA
Two boys from Hershey were charged with taking $58 in merchandise from Wal-Mart, 100 N. Londonderry Square, at 2:45 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Douglas County CO.
Police responded to a report of shoplifting at The Buckle in Park Meadows, 8045 Park Meadows Center Drive, at 2:52 p.m. Aug. 8. A 22-year-old employee at the store told the deputy she saw the suspect enter the store at about 2 p.m., select two shirts and enter a changing room. The employee saw the woman leave the changing room a short time later without the shirts. The employee found two sensors that previously were attached to the shirts in the changing room and called the police. Police found the 21-year-old woman in the mall, who surrendered the two shirts and a black wallet to the officer. The officer also determined the woman had an outstanding warrant for theft in Westminster. As the woman was being taken to the police sub-station, she told the officer, “I’m sorry. I don’t have any money.” The total theft is valued at $124.

MILLVILLE NJ
Josephine Rivera, 61, of the 200 block of South 2nd Street, was charged Sunday with shoplifting a pack of Tums antacids valued at $2.49 from ShopRite on North 2nd Street. She was processed and released on a summons.
Juan R. Vargas, 42, of Hammonton, was arrested Monday on charges of shoplifting and contempt. He was taken to CCJ in lieu of $10,437 bail.

HUMBLE TX
On Aug. 2, Kim Baylor, 31, was arrested for theft at Deerbrook Mall. Officer E. Squier was the arresting officer.
* On Aug. 2, Karen Baylor, 28, was arrested for theft at Deerbrook Mall. Officer J. Culp was the arresting officer.
* On Aug. 3, Gerado Zavala, 18, arrested for theft at Deerbrook Mall. Officer B. McCandless was the arresting officer.
On Aug. 3, Deputy Burr responded to a shoplifting call at Target in Atascocita. Ryan Stanley, 17, of Humble, placed an AM/FM car CD player, valued at $169, inside the box of a CD car carrier worth $21. After re-sealing the box, Stanley proceeded to the cash register to make his purchase and was arrested for theft.
* On Aug. 3, Deputy Burr responded to a report of a shoplifter in custody at HEB in Atascocita. Amy Smith, 30, of Dayton chose the self-checkout line to purchase a basket full of groceries, but did not scan all the items before placing them in bags. After an inventory of the groceries, Smith was found to have scanned and paid for only $100.54 of the $117.92 worth of merchandise. She was arrested for theft.
* On Aug. 6, Deputy Carroll responded to a report of a shoplifter in custody at CVS Pharmacy in Atascocita. The manager observed Dustin Gorham, 27, of Kingwood, select a GPS system and carry it to the back of the store. Gorham emptied the contents of the box in the purse of a companion and returned the empty box to the shelf. The pair was stopped when they attempted to exit the store without paying. Gorham was charged with theft, but no charges for filed on his companion.

Pascagoula MS
Lowe’s parking lot, Ashley Shanet Tillman, 26, Woodforest Drive, Gulfport, arrested for shoplifting. Astrin Shanay Tillman, 26, arrested for shoplifting second, and Jennifer Marie Shaw, 20, Hensley Avenue, Gulfport, arrested for shoplifting.

Fort Oglethorpe GA
Thomas Hall, 28, of 217 Mineral Ave., Rossville, was arrested on Aug. 8 and charged with shoplifting.
Magen Hampton, 25, of 2716 Chattanooga Valley Road, Flintstone, was arrested on Aug. 8 and charged with shoplifting.
Roxanna Evens, 17, of 2715 13th Ave., Chattanooga, was arrested on Aug. 10 and charged with shoplifting.
Keandra Tucker, 19, of 3229 5th Ave., Chattanooga, was arrested on Aug. 10 and charged with shoplifting.
Paul Jenkins, 41, of 1611 Glowmont Drive, East Ridge, Tenn., was arrested on Aug. 13 and charged with shoplifting.

Kinston NC
· Lisa Fran Price, 29, 3354 Daughtey White Road, Kinston, Aug. 15, misdemeanor shoplifting by concealment, two counts misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond: $2,300. Arresting officer: J. Camp.

Tahlequah OK
Tahlequah police are investigating an alleged beer theft reported last Saturday. Love’s Country Store said the beer was taken at 11:23 p.m. Aug. 8.
Jonas Wildcat, 20, was arrested by Officer David Craig Tuesday for shoplifting after allegedly taking $40 of meat from Reasor’s.

Fort Oglethorpe GA

Sasha Carr, 20, of Hunter Hills, Ringgold, was arrested on August 15 and charged with financial transaction card fraud.
Tabitha Blevins, 23, of 8406 Walker Ave., Rossville, was arrested on August 18 and charged with forgery.
Misty Duncan, 23, of 8406 Walker Ave., Rossville, was arrested on August 18 and charged with forgery.
Florance Walker, 62, of 146 Laurel Wood Circle, Rossville, was arrested on August 16 and charged with shoplifting second offence
Amanda Lewis, 27, of 1700 48th St., Chattanooga, Tenn., was arrested on August 16 and charged with forgery 1st degree, forgery 2nd degree, and theft by shoplifting
Susan Henry, 48, of 184 Pursley Drive, Ringgold, was arrested on August 18 and charged with shoplifting.
Dylan Heath, 17, of 3811 Wilhoit Road, Apison, Tenn., was arrested on August 20 and charged with shoplifting.
George Yates, 19, of 283 Brock Circle, Ringgold, was arrested on August 20 and charged with shoplifting.

Athens GA
Leslie Marie Clausen, 19, was arrested and charged with felony theft by shoplifting. She was booked at 4:22 p.m. on Aug. 19

Taunton MA
At 11:45 a.m., Amarilde Cardoso, 19, of Brockton and Olinizia Lopez, 22, of Brockton were arrested and charged with shoplifting at Kohl’s at Taunton Depot Plaza.• At 1:21 p.m., Brianna Braga, 19, of 30 Tremont St., was arrested and charged with shoplifting at Sears at the Silver City Galleria.• At 2:07 p.m., Lisa Henry of Brockton, 41, was arrested and charged with shoplifting at Kohl’s at Taunton Depot Plaza.

Tinley Park IL.
RETAIL THEFT An unidentified man stole stole ratchet and doorknob sets Aug. 21 from Super Kmart, 16300 Harlem Ave., and then returned to the store to steal three dog kennels, police said. They said that when store security tried stop him, he fled in a car.
RETAIL THEFTLeon Wade, 22, of Oak Park, was charged with retail theft for stealing alcohol, CDs, Cheetos, deli sandwiches and a bottle of cologne Aug. 23 from Super Kmart, 16300 Harlem Ave., police said.

North Myrtle Beach SC
A 19-year-old woman was arrested after she stole gloves, batteries, a sheet set, and tape from a North Myrtle Beach Wal-Mart, according to a police incident report.
Amanda Wallace, of North Myrtle Beach, was seen around 8:44 p.m. Monday at Wal-Mart, 550 U.S.17 North, removing a tag from a back pack, putting items throughout the store in the back pack, and leaving the store without paying for the items, the incident report stated.
The items were estimated to be $116, the report stated.

Millville NJ
Johnnie Anderson, 44, of the 500 block of North 3rd Street, was arrested at 12:26 a.m. Saturday at Rite Aid on the 900 block of North High Street. He was charged with robbery, shoplifting and simple assault. He was held on $50,000 bail.
Carnell Logan, 46, of Columbia Avenue, Vineland, was arrested Friday night at Wal-Mart on North 2nd Street for allegedly shoplifting $19 worth of groceries. He was released on a summons.
David Crist, 28, of Nicolette Court, Vineland, was charged Friday with shoplifting at ShopRite on North 2nd Street. He was found with $165.88 worth of seafood

Fergus Falls MN
Charges are pending against a loss prevention officer with Target after the man admitted stealing over $1,000 worth of merchandise from the Fergus Falls store.
The thefts included CDs, DVDs, an iPod, a Webcam and books over the course of the past few months, according to Fergus Falls police. The man admitted to stealing the items and faces theft charges.

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Memphis TN Aug 30 2008

If positive feedback helps make a happy employee, William Quinn is pedaling himself positively ecstatic.

When Quinn cycles through an East Memphis neighborhood, residents often wave and sometimes stop to chat, offer him cookies or tell him to knock on the door if he needs anything.

It’s not because he’s doing handstands or popping wheelies.

He and other bicycling security guards are giving residents a little two-wheeled peace of mind.

Since Friday, the employees of Corporate IQ Inc. have patrolled the Audubon Park Community Association, where leaders hope to stem fears of increasing crime in the comfortable neighborhood where a young Elvis Presley once owned a home.

Outfitted in a yellow shirt and black shorts with handcuffs and a gun on his belt, Quinn perches on his bike, meeting as many neighbors as he can — and that’s not difficult, because they often come to him.

Minutes after Rev. Noland Pipes, 71, stopped to shake Quinn’s hand Monday morning, another woman waved from her Lexus, and yet another pulled up in a Mini Cooper to offer encouragement: “Y’all are running them off, aren’t you?”

Quinn’s bosses think the bikes give their officers the ability to meld with the community, in addition to providing nimble transportation that can roll right to the action.

In Quinn, 41, they’ve got an officer who brings a different level of training to the task.

He’s just back from a 20-month National Guard stint in Arizona, where he helped U.S. Border Patrol agents fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

He said it taught him to play a constant game of “what if?” — “You’ve got to expect the unexpected.”

Corporate IQ charges each participating resident $65 a month, although prices vary according to whether customers want to prepay.

The company needs about 100 customers to make the service viable, said president Michael McCune. Nearly 80 have signed up so far.

The neighborhood association’s boundaries are Park on the north, Cherry on the east, the University of Memphis’ south campus on the west and Rhodes Avenue on the south.

Pipes, who took part in the association’s decision to hire Corporate IQ, is no stranger to crime.

His impeccably tidy home on Haverhill has been broken into three times, twice while he was there.

The last time, he said, the intruder ran away while Pipes ran to get his shotgun.

Earlier, as Pipes walked down Audubon with Tucker, his daughter’s Boston bull terrier, he took a last look over his shoulder at officer Quinn.

“We’re glad you’re here.”

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Norridge police and security busy with shoplifter arrests www.privateofficer.com

NORRIDGE IL Aug 30 2008

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Police released their weekly arrest report and it showed another very week with shoplifting arrests. Police say that they usuall ystay busy with shoplifters but some weeks store loss prevention personnel make many more apprehensions and arrests than others and this past week was definitely a busy one.
Police lodged numerous theft calls and a felony arrest at an area Kohl’s.

• Jimmy Hinton, 43, of 1459 S. Springfield Ave., Chicago, was arrested Aug. 14 at Kohl’s, 4220 N. Harlem Ave., and charged with felony retail theft. Store security agents told police they saw Hinton conceal three pairs of shoes in bags and leave the store without paying for them. He was escorted to the store’s loss-prevention office, where the shoes were recovered. At an Aug. 15 hearing in Rolling Meadows, bond for Hinton was set at $5,000. He is scheduled to appear at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 9 in Room 108 of the Rolling Meadows Court House.

• Theodore Whitewing, 28, of 3646 N. Christiana Ave., in Chicago, was arrested Aug. 16 at Best Buy, 4100A N. Harlem Ave., and charged with retail theft. Store employees told police they saw Whitewing remove three CDs from their packages and conceal them in his pants pocket. He left the store without paying for the CDs, valued at $46.97, police said. When confronted, he ran from the store. He was captured at Harlem Avenue and Forest Preserve Drive, without the CDs, which were not recovered, according to police reports. Bond for Whitewing was set at $1,000. He is scheduled for a Sept. 26 court appearance.

• Lillian Salinas, 68, of 2821 W. Berteau Ave., in Chicago, was arrested Aug. 14 at Carson’s, 4200 N. Harlem Ave., and charged with retail theft. Store agents told police they saw Salinas conceal numerous items in bags and leave the store without paying. She was escorted to the loss-prevention office, where the merchandise was recovered, police said. Bond for Salinas was set at $1,000. She is slated for an Aug. 26 court appearance.

• Mariela Luis, 20, of 1800 Stockton, in Des Plaines, was arrested Aug. 14 at Claire’s, 4222 N. Harlem Ave., and charged with retail theft. Store employees told police they saw Luis conceal a pair of earrings on her person and leave the store without paying. She was brought back to the store, where the earrings were recovered, police said. Bond for Luis was set at $1,000. She is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 26.

• Debbie Toney, 43, of 2512 N. 72nd Court, Elmwood Park, was arrested Aug. 12 at Kohl’s, 4220 N. Harlem Ave., and charged with retail theft. Store agents told police they saw Toney conceal several items in a Kohl’s bag and leave the store without paying. She was brought to the loss-prevention office, where the items were recovered, police said. Bond for Toney was set at $1,000. She is scheduled for a Sept. 26 court appearance.

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Walgreen’s employee charged with thefts www.privateofficer.com

MILLVILLE NJ Aug 30 2008

By: Rick mcCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Authorities were called to Walgreens after store loss prevention caught an employee who allowed customers to leave the store without paying for hundreds of dollars in merchandise and also pocketed money from the cash register for at least a year, police said
According to police, employee, Nathan C. Walker, 20, of the 100 block of West Foundry Street, was charged Monday with shoplifting and theft.
Police responded to the pharmacy on North High Street about 6:24 p.m. Monday for a report of theft by a store employee.
Scott McMullen of the Walgreens loss prevention team told police Walker was ringing up one or two items in a customer’s cart and then letting them leave the store with other items that weren’t paid for. McMullen also said Walker would ring up sales, round the totals to the nearest dollar and then pocket the money after voiding transactions once customers left the store.
McMullen told police he had documentation showing the total value of the items Walker failed to charge for was $570.84, but McMullen said Walker told him he had been “under-ringing” items for about a year and the actual value was about $5,000.
A search of Walker’s bag by police turned up papers that contained “gang paraphernalia” related to the Bloods street gang, according to a police report.
Walker was processed and released on a summons.

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Comedian not laughing after shoplifting arrest www.privateofficer.com

BRAINTREE MA Aug 30 2008
Local stand-up comedian Annette Pollack probably isn’t laughing much these days.
Pollack, 52, isn’t as well known as Hollywood actress Winona Ryder, who was arrested and charged with shoplifting in Beverly Hills in 2001.
The two women, however, now have something in common: Both have been accused of shoplifting.
Police said Pollack was at Filene’s Basement at South Shore Plaza on Monday night when she was seen stuffing a watch, two sets of earrings, four pairs of socks and four bottles of perfume into a handbag and then left the store without paying.
The $314.88 take also included a ring that Pollack allegedly put on a finger.
Store security caught up with her in the parking lot and called police.
Pollack, who is also an actress, comedy show producer and certified public accountant, is now looking for a lawyer to handle her case.
The Patriot Ledger profiled her last month in the WoMYnZONE section of the newspaper.
Only last week, Pollack put on a comedy show at Jimbo’s South restaurant.
Contacted at her Braintree home Wednesday, Pollack declined to comment on her arrest.
She pleaded innocent Tuesday in Quincy District Court to a charge of larceny of property worth more than $250.
Judge James McGovern released Pollack on her own recognizance and told her to stay away from Filene’s Basement.
Pollack, who didn’t have a lawyer at her arraignment, was ordered to return to court Oct. 21. She listed herself as being self-employed in court papers.
A police report filed in court stated store security saw Pollack removing sensors on items and then hiding them in her handbag. The report said she used pliers to rip a tag from a Kenneth Cole watch.
Before leaving Filene’s Basement, Pollack stopped at the register to make a small purchase, police said.
Ryder, 36, who has a star on the Hollywood “Walk of Fame,” received worldwide notoriety following her shoplifting arrest at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in December 2001.
Ryder was sentenced to 480 hours of community service and three years’ probation and ordered to pay $3,700 in fines and $6,355 in restitution.

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Barrington police make shoplifting arrests www.privateofficer.com

Barrington RI Aug 30 2008

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Last Tuesday, Alex J. Moore, also known as Aleksey Joseph Moore, 18, of 30 Washington Rd., was arrested for shoplifting for the second time in a month. Both cases involved male personal care products.
In last week’s incident, he was charged with going to Shaw’s Supermarket several times and taking a six pack of Mountain Dew, a steak and cheese sandwich and a can of Axe deodorant, a brand whose marketing campaign that suggests that use of the product will make the wearer irresistible to women.
He was caught at Veterans Memorial Park, where he recovered the can of deodorant, where he told the police he had tossed into the woods.
On July 30, he was arrested and charged with shoplifting a can of Blade Diablo body spray from CVS.
He is awaiting trial on a felony charge of second-degree sexual assault after allegedly molesting a 16-year-old girl on multiple occasions, often in public.
In another shoplifting case, Justin Peter Cabral, 20, of 15 Cutler St., apartment 7, Warren, was charged Sunday with one misdemeanor count of shoplifting after he reportedly took pills of Coricidin, a cough and cold medicine, from CVS.
A surveillance tape showed a young man with a Mohawk haircut taking the medicine from the shelf, going to an adjacent aisle, removing the pills and returning the empty box.

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Scottsdale police dog shot by officer www.privateofficer.com

Scottsdale AZ. Aug 30 2008
A Scottsdale police dog was shot and killed by his handler on Friday, but police say they think the death was accidental.
This is the first time a police dog has died in the line of duty in the department’s 45-year history, said Chief Alan Rodbell.
“Certainly we don’t think it was intentional,” said Sgt. Mark Clark
Sgt. Chris Coffee shot Striker, a 6-year-old Czech shepherd, while they were searching a home about 3 a.m. near 104th Way and Dynamite Boulevard, police said.
Striker and Coffee were called to the house by officers who had discovered an open door, police said.
Striker was on a leash while conducting the search, and that’s when Sgt. Coffee shot Striker.
No intruder was found.
Striker was rushed to the emergency animal clinic, but his wound was fatal.
“This is being fully investigated,” Rodbell said at a news conference to announce the dog’s death.
“You can feel the sadness in the hallways here at headquarters,” Rodbell said.
“This is a loss not just for our police department. It’s a loss for our city government. It’s a loss to the community.”
Coffee, with the department for 10 years, is on a minimum 72-hour leave, a standard department policy.
Coffee has been in charge of the K-9 unit for two-and-a-half years and worked with Striker during that time.
Striker had been in the unit for four years and was one of six police dogs.
“Anyone that has pets and has a lost a pet can imagine how this man is feeling,” Rodbell said.
“They live together, they play together, they train together, and they spend their entire tour of duty together,” Rodbell said. “They’re best friends.”
The dogs take risks for officers, he said.
“They go in the door in lieu of us going in the door,” Rodbell said.

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Internet ads used as bait to rob men www.privateofficer.com

GREENSBORO, N.C. Aug 30 2008

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police conducted an investigation after receiving a complaint from a person who was robbed after answering ads on line for massages.
Investigators have charged three men and two women after receiving reports that several men were robbed when responding to online advertisements for sex or massage.

Greensboro police Detective K.R. Jones said five victims got directions to a location, then were robbed of cash and cell phones at vacant apartments in July.

Jones said one victim had minor injuries.

Court documents reviewed by the Greensboro News Record show the suspects were armed knives or guns.

Police have arrested 18-year-old Joshua Johnson, his sister 17-year-old Joshana Johnson; 18-year-old Shenault Hedrick and his sister, 20-year-old Janella Hedrick; and 17-year-old Nnandi Turner.

The suspects are charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit a felony and common-law robbery.

Police are continuing their investigation to determine if there might be other victims.

All of those arrested were still in custody waiting a bond release.

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Shoplifter leads police on wild chase www.privateofficer.com

PORTLAND, Ore. AUG 30 2008

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ — A camera caught a man’s arrest after a car chase that ended with officers crashing into his car, police said.
The man drove over police-deployed spike strips at least twice during the pursuit that never saw speeds of more than 55 mph, police said.
The car pursuit began when Portland police received a report of a shoplifter at the Winco on NE 122nd Avenue, officers said.
Officers and store security chased Robert Duvall Cooper, 26, out to his SUV and the alleged shoplifter nearly ran over a security guard as he fled the store’s parking lot, police said.
Officers said they followed Cooper onto Interstate 205 and after forcing him over spike strips twice they ended the chase using what is known as a PIT maneuver, where officers slam their patrol car into the rear fender of the vehicle, causing it to spin and come to a stop.
When the car came to a stop and the man was in custody, it became apparent that the man had driven until his tires had completely detached and he was driving on the rims, police said.
Cooper was arrested on charges of assault, attempted theft, reckless driving, reckless endangerment and attempt to elude, police said.
An Oregon Department of Transportation camera caught most of the chase including the dramatic conclusion.

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School fight quelled with pepper spray www.privateofficer.com

New Orleans LA Aug 30 2008

A school security guard pepper-sprayed several students at Sarah T. Reed High School to quell a large fight in the cafeteria Thursday.
A group of about a dozen students began fighting during lunch, said Eddie Compass, director of security for the Recovery School District. At the time, about 500 students packed the cafeteria.
Recovery School District Superintendent Paul Vallas said school officials expelled 12 students as a result of the incident
Rhondra Hunter, a senior at the eastern New Orleans school, said she was accidentally sprayed in the face after a student she does not know punched her. Hunter said the initial fight involved more than 12 students, estimating the number at closer to 30.
Medical workers treated the students who were sprayed. Compass said about 20 students were hit or stung by the spray.
About eight students who were not involved in the fight got the spray in their eyes once the spray entered the air, Compass said. Hunter said one of the students affected by the spray is pregnant.
Compass said the guard used the spray to stop the fight from spreading. It’s “justified when an officer feels that he is in danger, and others are in danger,” Compass said.
The spray stopped the fight in less than two minutes, he said, and no students were hit directly in the eyes. Hunter said it took about 30 minutes for EMT workers to arrive at the school and begin treating students. She said medics treated her face with milk. She was able to go home with an aunt, but said other students were kept through the afternoon if their parents could not come for them.
Jeb Tate, a spokesman for the city’s Emergency Medical Services, said staff arrived 14 minutes after receiving the call, and that first responders from the Fire Department were already at the school at the time of the incident responding to a fire alarm.
He said EMT workers would not have treated the injuries with milk, but declined to state how they were treated, citing health confidentiality laws.
“The kids were treated appropriately,” he said.
Hunter said the fight stemmed from a fight at the school Wednesday. She said the building went into lockdown mode on Wednesday, and students were sent home early because one of the boys involved threatened to “shoot up” the school.
Vallas said no one threatened to shoot, and that the Wednesday fight was off school grounds.
Compass said the cause of Thursday’s fight is under investigation. One student had a seizure after the incident, but did not appear to have been affected by the pepper spray, Compass said.

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Cleveland school security connect to police dispatch www.privateofficer.com

CLEVELAND OH Aug 30 2008

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ – The city Of Cleveland police can now respond quicker to emergencies at school buildings after school security dispatchers were given capability to speak directly to police dispatchers at the city’s communications center.
Prior to Monday, security dispatchers had to use a phone to let police know about emergencies in schools. Now, security dispatchers can monitor police radio traffic as well as speak directly to the police dispatchers. The city recently installed communication equipment that links both departments.
Cleveland officials say that officers do respond to a lot of different types of emergencies throughout the school system and having two way radio capibility will assit in faster response and better communication between school dispatchers and police dispatchers. Officers in zone cars can listen and respond immediately to a school. The arrangement eliminates the delay from a call taker gathering information and entering it into the computer before a dispatcher can broadcast it, said Lt. Thomas Stacho.
Safety Director Martin Flask ordered the city to coordinate dispatch efforts between the police and the schools after the shooting last October at Success Tech Academy.

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Police charge man with murder of security officer www.privateofficer.com

Kansas City MO. Aug 30 2008

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Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a man in connection with a bungled bank robbery in Kansas City two years ago that left a 70-year-old security guard dead.
Kansas City police and FBI agents arrested Iralee French, 21, in St. Louis on Wednesday. They interviewed him until midnight.
Court records accuse him of being the man who shot Dwight W. Mayhugh on Feb. 24, 2006, as the guard arrived for work at UMB Bank, 7901 Wornall Road. Mayhugh died in a hospital the next day.
Authorities tracked down a second suspect this week in a St. Louis jail, where he is awaiting trial on an unrelated armed robbery. That 21-year-old man has not been charged in Mayhugh’s death.
Information generated from the largest-ever canvass in a criminal case two weeks ago helped authorities identify French and the second suspect. But authorities needed more evidence before making arrests.
Investigators spent recent days following leads, conducting interviews and requesting subpoenas before interviewing the suspects Wednesday and Thursday, police said.
Court records gave this account:
French and his partner scouted out the bank on Feb. 23, 2006.
The next morning, French called a taxi cab to pick them up at his partner’s girlfriend’s house near 23rd Street and Oakley Avenue and take them to the area of the UMB Bank.
The partner waited across the street from the bank. French wore black clothes and hid near the bank’s underground parking garage with a shotgun waiting for bank tellers to arrive.
Instead, about 6:40 a.m., Mayhugh pulled in and parked. French and his partner approached Mayhugh’s car, and Mayhugh reached for his gun.
French allegedly “panicked” when he saw Mayhugh’s gun and blasted the guard through the car window. Shotgun pellets hit Mayhugh’s neck and chest.
The robbers took Mayhugh’s keys and dragged him to the doorway because they wanted him to open the safes.
Once inside, Mayhugh tried to turn off the alarm but could not.
The robbers put Mayhugh in a corner, hopped in his car and fled with no money. Mayhugh walked across the street to summon help.
Authorities later found Mayhugh’s car abandoned in the 2300 block of Oakley Avenue. It was only a half-block from where a bank teller’s car had been dumped after a robbery at the same bank two weeks before.
Authorities said at the time that the robberies were connected, but no charges have been filed in connection with the first one, which occurred Feb. 9, 2006. In that case, two gunmen confronted a teller, stole her teller drawer and ordered her into the trunk of her car. She refused, and they fled in her car.
Shortly after Mayhugh’s death, FBI agents canvassed a small area on the block where both cars were abandoned. At a house near 23rd Steet and Oakley, they interviewed a young man who now is identified as the second suspect.
He was not a suspect at the time, police said. He told agents he was asleep at the time of the crime.
French and the second suspect were staying at the suspect’s girlfriend’s home on 23rd Street in early 2006, according to court records.
The records said the suspect changed his pants before talking to FBI agents when they came door-to-door.
French and the suspect later left the house but returned later that day to retrieve their clothing and a long gun, the records said.
In the years after the crime, leads dried up and the reward fund for information in the case grew to $60,000.
The FBI agent in charge of the case eventually was assigned to the Kansas City Police Department’s Career Criminal squad, and the squad took over the investigation.
Earlier this year, a tipster called the TIPS Hotline with details that filled two pages regarding Mayhugh’s death. Members of the Career Criminal squad thought the tipster lived in the neighborhood where the cars were dumped or had connections to that neighborhood.
That’s why they decided to send more than 100 investigators to a large area near 24th and Oakley to knock on nearly 500 doors in search of fresh tips.
The publicity surrounding the canvass led someone outside of the neighborhood to contact authorities.
“We got a huge break,” said Sgt. Eric Greenwell of the Career Criminal squad.
Federal prosecutors said it was premature to discuss how the $60,000 reward would be distributed.

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Police identify security officer killed at nightclub www.privateofficer.com

Hyattsville MD Aug 30 2008

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Authorities released the name of the security officer who was shot and killed Aug. 28 while working the door at a Hyattsville-area nightclub, according to Prince George’s County Police.
Gregory Barron, Jr., 33, of the 5700 block of Queens Chapel Road in Hyattsville was taken to a local hospital after police found him outside of the Mustang nightclub with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body, police spokesman Mike Rodriguez said. He was later pronounced dead.
Police are still unsure as to what led to the shooting on the 2400 block of Chillum Road, which is just outside of Hyattsville city limits.
Police responded to the club after someone called 911 and reported gunshots were heard at 11:50 p.m. and someone Rodriguez said. When officers arrived, they found one person shot and believe two people may have been involved in the shooting.
“The only thing we have right now is possibly an altercation ensued after one of the suspects was going to be pat down,” Rodriguez said. “Possibly the suspect had a problem with being pat down, maybe because had a gun or something.”
Police did not know if the security officer worked for a contract company or as an employee of the nightclub and they did not reveal if he was armed or not.

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