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Off- Duty Police Officer Killed During Robbery www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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GASTONIA, N.C( Charlotte Metro) Aug 3 2008 An off-duty sheriff’s deputy from Mississippi was gunned down outside a Gastonia motel last night.
Police spent much of the morning looking for the person responsible.
Frederick Gaston III was on his way to Virginia to complete his final two weeks of military duty before retiring. They believe he was shot during an attempted armed robbery.
Gastonia Police were called to the Microtel Inn on Broadcast Street just off Interstate 85 around 11 p.m. Saturday because someone in the lobby had been shot in the chest. Gaston died from his injuries.
According to Gastonia Police Sgt. Jimmy West, Gaston was a deputy with the Jackson County, Miss., sheriff’s department.
“Right now all indications are it was an attempted robbery,” West said.
Investigators spent most of the morning searching for answers. They looked through bushes at a nearby fast food restaurant and also went to a nearby motel.
But they have not release any information about any possible suspects.”We do have some leads that we are following,” West said.
Investigators say the Microtel Inn was using surveillance cameras at the time of the shooting. Investigators are looking through those videos for more information and a possible suspect.
Police spent much of the morning looking for the person responsible.
Frederick Gaston III was on his way to Virginia to complete his final two weeks of military duty before retiring. They believe he was shot during an attempted armed robbery.
Gastonia Police were called to the Microtel Inn on Broadcast Street just off Interstate 85 around 11 p.m. Saturday because someone in the lobby had been shot in the chest. Gaston died from his injuries.
According to Gastonia Police Sgt. Jimmy West, Gaston was a deputy with the Jackson County, Miss., sheriff’s department.
“Right now all indications are it was an attempted robbery,” West said.
Investigators spent most of the morning searching for answers. They looked through bushes at a nearby fast food restaurant and also went to a nearby motel.
But they have not release any information about any possible suspects.”We do have some leads that we are following,” West said.
Investigators say the Microtel Inn was using surveillance cameras at the time of the shooting. Investigators are looking through those videos for more information and a possible suspect.
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Shots fired at concert with Usher, Nelly, Sean Combs www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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Atlanta GA. Aug 3 2008
By: Rick McCann
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Shots rang out as thousands of people, including several celebrities, stormed out of an Atlanta nightclub early Saturday when a gun was fired as patrons at Atlanta-based rap artist and producer Jermaine Dupri’s party shoved to get into the VIP area, police said.
Shots rang out as thousands of people, including several celebrities, stormed out of an Atlanta nightclub early Saturday when a gun was fired as patrons at Atlanta-based rap artist and producer Jermaine Dupri’s party shoved to get into the VIP area, police said.
A bullet grazed the elbow of a security guard, whose name was not released, and his injury was minor, according to DeKalb County Police spokesman officer Marcus Hodge.
Police and security already at the club called for more back-up and hundreds of people ran for cover in what police describe as a chaotic scene.
Police and security already at the club called for more back-up and hundreds of people ran for cover in what police describe as a chaotic scene.
Investigators are getting “sketchy” and “conflicting statements” from people who were at Club Dream at 3595 Clairmont Road around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, Hodge said.
Some witnesses claimed as many as 6,000 people were in the club but Hodge said the number was much smaller, though there were at least 2,000 to 3,000 at the club at the time of the shooting.
Some witnesses claimed as many as 6,000 people were in the club but Hodge said the number was much smaller, though there were at least 2,000 to 3,000 at the club at the time of the shooting.
One investigator said that “there was an argument that took place involving the security at the club and the patrons,” and right now we’re trying to confirm that Hodge said.
Some guests became angry when they learned they had to pay twice if they wanted entry to the VIP section; they paid at the door to get inside the club and were charged again if they wanted entry to the VIP section, Hodge said. The costs to get in the club or the VIP area were not available.
Some guests became angry when they learned they had to pay twice if they wanted entry to the VIP section; they paid at the door to get inside the club and were charged again if they wanted entry to the VIP section, Hodge said. The costs to get in the club or the VIP area were not available.
“They started pushing to get into the VIP section. Security came to calm it down and an altercation broke out,” Hodge said. “More security came over … and that’s when someone brandished a gun and … shot one of the security officers in the arm.”
Hodge said investigators were still questioning witnesses but “no one is seeing anything.”
Hodge added: “We don’t believe any of the performers were involved in it at all” and Dupri and artists Sean “Diddy” Combs, Nelly and Usher were performing on stage at the time.
Dupri hosted the party as part of his third annual So So Def Summerfest 2008 this weekend.
Hodge said investigators were still questioning witnesses but “no one is seeing anything.”
Hodge added: “We don’t believe any of the performers were involved in it at all” and Dupri and artists Sean “Diddy” Combs, Nelly and Usher were performing on stage at the time.
Dupri hosted the party as part of his third annual So So Def Summerfest 2008 this weekend.
According to the Web site sosodefsummerfest.com, Saturday’s events include a celebrity basketball game at Morehouse College Forbes Arena with Dupri, Nellie, rap artists Soldier Boy, comedian Chris Tucker and several NBA players taking the court.
A party Saturday night at the Woodruff Arts Center as part of Summerfest advertises a guest list that includes Dupri, Nelly, Sanaa Lathan, Gabrielle Union, Nia Long and Larenz Tate. A finale party also is scheduled Sunday at The Velvet Room on Peachtree Road.
There have been no arrests and the gun has not been found according to police..
Hodge said none of the celebrities at the party were injured and the security officer was transported to an area hospital and was later released.
A party Saturday night at the Woodruff Arts Center as part of Summerfest advertises a guest list that includes Dupri, Nelly, Sanaa Lathan, Gabrielle Union, Nia Long and Larenz Tate. A finale party also is scheduled Sunday at The Velvet Room on Peachtree Road.
There have been no arrests and the gun has not been found according to police..
Hodge said none of the celebrities at the party were injured and the security officer was transported to an area hospital and was later released.
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Hospital security officer aids victims of hit and run accident www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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CHICAGO IL. Aug 3 2008 — A vehicle driving reckless and out of control strike several people and now a 5-year-old boy is dead and his 9-year-old brother and grandfather were injured after the hit-and-run accident on Chicago’s South Side.
Chicago police Sergeant Antoinette Ursitti says the three were struck Thursday afternoon as they were walking across the road when a car heading south hit them, then kept going.
A University of Chicago security officer arrived at the scene and took the boys to the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital.
Hospital spokesman John Easton says Ashton Barker was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. His brother, Savion Smith, is in fair condition.
Authorities say the 69-year-old grandfather is in critical but stable condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Police have few leads on the driver of the hit and run vehicle but they hope to make an arrest in the case.
Chicago police Sergeant Antoinette Ursitti says the three were struck Thursday afternoon as they were walking across the road when a car heading south hit them, then kept going.
A University of Chicago security officer arrived at the scene and took the boys to the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital.
Hospital spokesman John Easton says Ashton Barker was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. His brother, Savion Smith, is in fair condition.
Authorities say the 69-year-old grandfather is in critical but stable condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Police have few leads on the driver of the hit and run vehicle but they hope to make an arrest in the case.
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Police shoot shoplifter with Taser www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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CANTON OH Aug 3 2008
By: Bryan Hill
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police responding to a shoplifting call at an area retail store shot a Canton man with a Taser after he bit a Wal-Mart store security officer while trying to escape with merchandise, Stark County Jail records said.
Police arrested Robert A. Valykeo, 24, of 1541 16th St. NE, at at 12:35 p.m. Thursday at the store at 4004 Tuscarawas St. W.
He was charged with robbery and resisting arrest.
Jail records said he tried to get out of the store with $31.76 worth of concealed merchandise without paying for it when he was confronted by store security officers.
At that point he became violent and he fought with them, biting one of them on the right arm, jail records said.
When police arrived, he continued to fight, resulting in one officer shooting him with a Taser, jail records said.
He remained in jail this morning, held in lieu of $50,750 bond.
He was scheduled to appear in Canton Municipal Court today, court records said.
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Bar fight turns ugly as police make arrests www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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OCEAN CITY MD. Aug 3 2008
By: Bryan Hill
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Ocean City police last weekend made 11 arrests during a bar fight that began at a downtown nightclub and later spilled outside the establishment around closing time.
Shortly after 2 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Police officers on routine patrol in the downtown area responded to a reported fight inside the Paddock nightclub on 17th Street.
Shortly after 2 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Police officers on routine patrol in the downtown area responded to a reported fight inside the Paddock nightclub on 17th Street.
By the time the officers arrived, nightclub security staff members were escorting several of the combatants out of the establishment.
After the combatants were escorted out of the club, the fight continued out onto the sidewalk and street.
As OCPD officers arrived on the scene and began making arrests for disorderly conduct and other violations, the fight escalated with friends of those involved and others joining the fray by either interfering with arrests or refusing to leave the scene as ordered by police.
All in all, 11 arrests were made with charges ranging from assault and disorderly conduct to resisting arrest and failing to obey a lawful order.
As OCPD officers arrived on the scene and began making arrests for disorderly conduct and other violations, the fight escalated with friends of those involved and others joining the fray by either interfering with arrests or refusing to leave the scene as ordered by police.
All in all, 11 arrests were made with charges ranging from assault and disorderly conduct to resisting arrest and failing to obey a lawful order.
Arrested were: Anthony Drummond, 20, of Easton, Pa.; Brian Costello, 24, Staten Island, N.Y.; Efrain Gonzalez, Jr., 34, Easton Pa., Errica Pagan, 24, Easton, Pa.; Isaac Csezmadia, 24, Easton, Pa., Joe Rountree, 21, Easton, Pa.; John Ryan, 25, Wilmington, Del.; Julian Jenkins-Mathews, 26, Wilmington, Del.; Kelly Fitzgerald, 23, Ocean City; Malcom Freeman, 21, Easton, Pa., and Taryn Kelly, 30, of Ocean City.
All were released on their own recognizance.
All were released on their own recognizance.
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Security officers involved in shooting will not face charges www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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Chicago Heights IL. Aug 3 2008
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Two security guards involved in the shooting death of a Hazel Crest man last Sunday at a Chicago Heights nightclub have turned themselves in to police and will not face charges, Chicago Heights police said Thursday.
Lt. Michael Romano said he could not give out information about the guards’ identities or for whom they worked, saying that “they are not cops, and they don’t belong to us.”
Johnathan Williams, 20, was shot and killed by one of the guards after a fight broke out in the parking lot of the Esoteric club, 150 Joe Orr Road, and Williams began firing wildly into a crowd, police said.
They said he wounded three people, one seriously, before an unarmed guard took a gun from an armed guard and fired back, killing Williams. Police described Williams’ shooting as self-defense.
Police said Darius Bell, 19, of Hazel Crest, was shot in the chest by Williams.
Two security guards involved in the shooting death of a Hazel Crest man last Sunday at a Chicago Heights nightclub have turned themselves in to police and will not face charges, Chicago Heights police said Thursday.
Lt. Michael Romano said he could not give out information about the guards’ identities or for whom they worked, saying that “they are not cops, and they don’t belong to us.”
Johnathan Williams, 20, was shot and killed by one of the guards after a fight broke out in the parking lot of the Esoteric club, 150 Joe Orr Road, and Williams began firing wildly into a crowd, police said.
They said he wounded three people, one seriously, before an unarmed guard took a gun from an armed guard and fired back, killing Williams. Police described Williams’ shooting as self-defense.
Police said Darius Bell, 19, of Hazel Crest, was shot in the chest by Williams.
Bell was in serious condition Thursday night at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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Shoplifters snagged stealing BB gun www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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Newman GA. Aug 2 2008
On July 21, Newnan Police officers responded to Wal-Mart on 1025 Bullsboro Drive due to a reported shoplifting.
The suspects had already left the store and were seen getting into a red Ford Mustang. Officer Jason Kempf got in his car and followed the suspects as they were leaving the parking lot.
He was able to stop the car in the nearby Arby’s restaurant parking lot, and Officer Michael Condit pulled up next to them to assist Officer Kempf in questioning the suspects.
The driver was Melvin Hill, age 18, resident of 115 Stewart Road, Sharpsburg.
The driver was Melvin Hill, age 18, resident of 115 Stewart Road, Sharpsburg.
The passenger who accompanied him was Patrick Williamson, age 17, of 139 Martin L. King Jr. Dr. in Newnan.
The passenger told Officer Condit that he did not take anything.
Witness Roy Haning, a Wal-Mart employee, approached the officers and told them that both boys were involved in the shoplifting. He had witnessed Haning cut the plastic and Hill then hide the stolen BB gun in his pants. The BB gun was found in the suspects’ car under the front passenger seat.
Both suspects were placed under arrest and taken to the Coweta County Jail on charges of shoplifting. During the investigation, Officer Condit also noticed an odor of marijuana coming from inside the car along with what appeared to be marijuana scattered about the front of the car on the floorboards. There were also two pairs of gloves, two bandannas, and some tools in the car, commonly used for auto thefts and car break-ins.
The passenger told Officer Condit that he did not take anything.
Witness Roy Haning, a Wal-Mart employee, approached the officers and told them that both boys were involved in the shoplifting. He had witnessed Haning cut the plastic and Hill then hide the stolen BB gun in his pants. The BB gun was found in the suspects’ car under the front passenger seat.
Both suspects were placed under arrest and taken to the Coweta County Jail on charges of shoplifting. During the investigation, Officer Condit also noticed an odor of marijuana coming from inside the car along with what appeared to be marijuana scattered about the front of the car on the floorboards. There were also two pairs of gloves, two bandannas, and some tools in the car, commonly used for auto thefts and car break-ins.
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Son of deputy sheriff charged with police impersonation www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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BROWARD, Fla. Aug 3 2008 A Broward sheriff’s deputy has decided to press charges against his teenage son, who is accused of sneaking off with his dad’s unmarked patrol car for an early morning joy ride in Sunrise.
Myko Coker Jr., 18, of Sunrise, was arrested Tuesday. He faces charges of grand theft auto and impersonating a law enforcement officer.
Police say Coker was caught after they responded to a call at about 4 a.m. about an unmarked patrol car conducting traffic stops at University Drive and West Oakland Park Boulevard.
Coker told police he was Deputy Myko Coker Sr., his father, and had stopped a driver who almost hit him on the way home, according to an arrest report.
Coker Jr. was wearing a Broward Sheriff’s Office T-shirt and denim shorts, the report said.
Police thought Coker looked too young to be an undercover cop. And he was making traffic stops out of jurisdiction.
The whole thing was “suspicious,” police spokesman Sgt. Rod Hailey said. “It just didn’t add up.”
Coker Jr. gave police his father’s badge number and said he worked with the Sheriff’s Office street crime unit.
The Sunrise officer let the teen go, but then noticed him make an illegal U-turn, flash his emergency lights and pull someone else over.
The officer again stopped Coker, who was unable to show a law enforcement identification, radio or firearm, authorities said.
Police let Coker leave again, but this time called the Sheriff’s Office to verify his story. It didn’t match up, Hailey said. The police officer drove to Myko Coker Sr.’s home in Sunrise and knocked on the door.
Police asked Coker Sr., who has worked at the Pompano Beach district office since 1997, if his patrol car was missing. It was.
Coker Sr. called his son, who returned home and was arrested. Bond was set at $4,500, and Coker Jr. was still in the Broward County Main Jail on Wednesday night.
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Man arrested for teaching boy to steal www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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Kelso WA. Aug 2 2008
A Kelso man is suspected of teaching a young boy to shoplift from a store at Three Rivers Mall.
A security officer at Sears told Kelso police two adults and a young boy came in the store Wednesday evening.
While the man distracted a clerk, the boy stole bathroom linens, the security officer said.
Police stopped their red Chevrolet Blazer and arrested Lakesha June Sotelo, 32, Longview, and Gabriel Ramon Giles, 38, Kelso.
The boy, 11, claimed Giles told him what to steal and where to conceal it, and this was corroborated by store security, the report said.
Police noted that the incident occurred one day after Giles and Sotelo were banned from all mall property after allegedly shoplifting at Safeway.
Police said the Blazer also contained items stolen from J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart.Initial bail was set at $25,000 for Giles on suspicion of second-degree burglary and organized retail theft. Sotelo’s bail was set at $5,000 on suspicion of second-degree burglary.
The boy was not charged.
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14 YR old found with 45 pounds of dope www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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Dallas TX Aug 3 2008
The drug smuggler arrived on a bus from Laredo lugging three suitcases filled with 45 pounds of marijuana, Dallas police say.
It was a significant amount for officers to intercept — worth more than $50,000 on the street — but police say the bust was unusual for another reason.
The suspect was a 14-year-old girl.
“We thought she was at a friend’s house,” the girl’s mother said Friday from the doorway of her Northwest Dallas apartment. “I spoke to her like three or four times and had no idea.”
The mother said she thought her daughter was at a sleepover until she learned of the arrest.
“I was in shock,” she said. “I could not believe it.”
The girl and her mother are not being named because The Dallas Morning News generally does not identify juveniles accused of crimes.
Dallas police drug interdiction officers posted at the Tornado bus station in North Oak Cliff noticed the girl Thursday morning as she stepped off a bus. They approached her when she tried to leave in a taxi.
To officers, the girl looked like an adult, said Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, commander of the narcotics division. “They didn’t think at all she was that young.”
But the expression on her face aroused their suspicion.
“You can imagine — she’s 14 years old — she’s streetwise, but she’s not that streetwise,” Chief Bernal said. “She looked like she had just robbed a bank or something.”
As officers began asking questions, the chief said, the girl’s demeanor “could best be described as extremely defiant.”
Officers soon discovered the marijuana, neatly stashed inside 16 heat-sealed plastic baggies with a powder to mask the smell.
The girl had taken a bus south, picked up the drugs, and returned, Chief Bernal said. She knew she was involved in a drug operation, and may even have planned to distribute the marijuana herself, he said.
“It appears that there were several people involved, and that’s what we’re looking into, is who played what role,” he said.
The girl has a history of behavioral problems, the chief said. She was taken to a juvenile detention center after her arrest.
The mother said that as far as she knew, her daughter had no friends or acquaintances in Laredo. The girl was released by authorities Friday, her mother said.
In at least five years, Dallas police say, the 14-year-old is the only juvenile to be arrested by the drug interdiction unit under similar circumstances.
The drug smuggler arrived on a bus from Laredo lugging three suitcases filled with 45 pounds of marijuana, Dallas police say.
It was a significant amount for officers to intercept — worth more than $50,000 on the street — but police say the bust was unusual for another reason.
The suspect was a 14-year-old girl.
“We thought she was at a friend’s house,” the girl’s mother said Friday from the doorway of her Northwest Dallas apartment. “I spoke to her like three or four times and had no idea.”
The mother said she thought her daughter was at a sleepover until she learned of the arrest.
“I was in shock,” she said. “I could not believe it.”
The girl and her mother are not being named because The Dallas Morning News generally does not identify juveniles accused of crimes.
Dallas police drug interdiction officers posted at the Tornado bus station in North Oak Cliff noticed the girl Thursday morning as she stepped off a bus. They approached her when she tried to leave in a taxi.
To officers, the girl looked like an adult, said Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, commander of the narcotics division. “They didn’t think at all she was that young.”
But the expression on her face aroused their suspicion.
“You can imagine — she’s 14 years old — she’s streetwise, but she’s not that streetwise,” Chief Bernal said. “She looked like she had just robbed a bank or something.”
As officers began asking questions, the chief said, the girl’s demeanor “could best be described as extremely defiant.”
Officers soon discovered the marijuana, neatly stashed inside 16 heat-sealed plastic baggies with a powder to mask the smell.
The girl had taken a bus south, picked up the drugs, and returned, Chief Bernal said. She knew she was involved in a drug operation, and may even have planned to distribute the marijuana herself, he said.
“It appears that there were several people involved, and that’s what we’re looking into, is who played what role,” he said.
The girl has a history of behavioral problems, the chief said. She was taken to a juvenile detention center after her arrest.
The mother said that as far as she knew, her daughter had no friends or acquaintances in Laredo. The girl was released by authorities Friday, her mother said.
In at least five years, Dallas police say, the 14-year-old is the only juvenile to be arrested by the drug interdiction unit under similar circumstances.
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Store security bust several shoplifters www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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Braintree MA. Aug 3 2008
Police arrested two Boston women and a Quincy woman following unrelated thefts at South Shore Plaza stores.
Maria D. Vazquez-Santiago, 47, of Mattapan and Hildelisa Reyes, 19, of Dorchester were arrested on the afternoon of July 24 after security at Sears detained them.
The women, who were spotted on surveillance cameras as they allegedly hid merchandise in their pocketbooks, were stopped after they left the store without paying for the items, police said.
Police said that Reyes initially gave a phony name.
More than $300 worth of merchandise, including jewelry and perfume, was recovered.
Both women were charged with larceny of property worth more than $250.
Less than an hour later, police went to Kmart on Grossman Drive to investigate a shoplifting complaint.
The store’s security told officers that they witnessed Nina J. Nelson, 41, of Quincy concealing more than $100 of merchandise in her pocketbook and then leaving the store.
Nelson also gave a false name when she was apprehended, police said.
While they were searching Nelson’s car in the parking lot, officers found more than $400 worth of merchandise that had been stolen from Macy’s at the Plaza.
In addition to the shoplifting arrest, Nelson was also charged with receiving stolen property worth more than $250.
Police arrested two Boston women and a Quincy woman following unrelated thefts at South Shore Plaza stores.
Maria D. Vazquez-Santiago, 47, of Mattapan and Hildelisa Reyes, 19, of Dorchester were arrested on the afternoon of July 24 after security at Sears detained them.
The women, who were spotted on surveillance cameras as they allegedly hid merchandise in their pocketbooks, were stopped after they left the store without paying for the items, police said.
Police said that Reyes initially gave a phony name.
More than $300 worth of merchandise, including jewelry and perfume, was recovered.
Both women were charged with larceny of property worth more than $250.
Less than an hour later, police went to Kmart on Grossman Drive to investigate a shoplifting complaint.
The store’s security told officers that they witnessed Nina J. Nelson, 41, of Quincy concealing more than $100 of merchandise in her pocketbook and then leaving the store.
Nelson also gave a false name when she was apprehended, police said.
While they were searching Nelson’s car in the parking lot, officers found more than $400 worth of merchandise that had been stolen from Macy’s at the Plaza.
In addition to the shoplifting arrest, Nelson was also charged with receiving stolen property worth more than $250.
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Father charged with strangulation death of daughter www.privateofficer.com
August 3, 2008
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from the Washington Post
Washington DC Aug 3 2008
The father of 12-year-old Marisol Caceres was arrested in her killing and jailed without bond yesterday as more grim details emerged about the girl’s strangulation Tuesday in her family’s Northeast Washington apartment.
Clad in a white jail jumpsuit, his legs shackled and head bowed, Felipe Antonio Caceres, 45, stood quietly before a D.C. Superior Court judge yesterday afternoon, a Spanish-speaking interpreter whispering in his right ear as a prosecutor outlined the second-degree, unpremeditated murder case against him.
“Extremely disturbing circumstances,” Judge Lynn Leibovitz said, ordering Caceres jailed pending a preliminary hearing Aug. 21.
When Marisol’s mother, Berta Alvarado, and one of the victim’s step-siblings found her body in their apartment about 1 p.m. Tuesday, Marisol was “lying on the living room floor, partially clothed and with a plastic bag over her head,” according to an affidavit filed in court by Detective Carlos Hilliard of the D.C. police.
The girl’s “shirt was pushed halfway up her midsection and . . . her shorts were pushed halfway down her left,” the affidavit states. “The plastic bag was tied with a knot.” The medical examiner who determined that Marisol was strangled said she suffered bruises on her head and both legs as well as abrasions to her neck.
There was no evidence of a sexual assault, the examiner said
Hilliard said in the affidavit that there were no signs of forced entry at the apartment and that the door was ajar when the mother and step-sibling returned home.
Caceres, who could not be located by investigators or family members immediately after the killing and was the focus of a police search last week, was charged with second-degree murder about 8:30 p.m. Friday, a few hours after he walked into a D.C. police station and agreed to be interviewed, authorities said.
Hilliard said in the affidavit that there were no signs of forced entry at the apartment and that the door was ajar when the mother and step-sibling returned home.
Caceres, who could not be located by investigators or family members immediately after the killing and was the focus of a police search last week, was charged with second-degree murder about 8:30 p.m. Friday, a few hours after he walked into a D.C. police station and agreed to be interviewed, authorities said.
Before the interview, though, police took Caceres to a hospital for treatment of what Hilliard, in the affidavit, called “hesitation-type laceration knife marks to his neck.” The detective said such marks “often occur in suicide attempts.”
Hilliard said Caceres also “had scratches on the inside and outside of [his] arms that were consistent with fingernail scratch marks.” He said Caceres “consented to show officers similar scratches on his thighs.”
Investigators said Caceres, an auto mechanic, left the third-floor apartment in the unit block of Hawaii Avenue NE about 8:50 a.m. Tuesday, saying he was going to work.
About 10 minutes later, they said, Marisol’s mother and the step-sibling left for a doctor’s appointment, leaving Marisol alone in the apartment.
Hilliard said Caceres also “had scratches on the inside and outside of [his] arms that were consistent with fingernail scratch marks.” He said Caceres “consented to show officers similar scratches on his thighs.”
Investigators said Caceres, an auto mechanic, left the third-floor apartment in the unit block of Hawaii Avenue NE about 8:50 a.m. Tuesday, saying he was going to work.
About 10 minutes later, they said, Marisol’s mother and the step-sibling left for a doctor’s appointment, leaving Marisol alone in the apartment.
About 9:20 a.m., Hilliard said in the affidavit, Caceres telephoned “his place of employment,” which other investigators said was an auto shop in Prince George’s County.
Hilliard said Caceres threatened suicide during the call and made numerous other “distraught” statements, including: “What I tell you, you are not going to like me,” and, “Maybe you don’t understand, but I do something . . . It’s just too much; I can’t take it; too many problems.”
A police source familiar with the investigation said that the motive for the killing remains unclear and that Caceres made no incriminating admissions to homicide detectives Friday night.
The main evidence against him at the moment appears to be his access to the apartment, his disappearance after the killing and the statements he made to the person he spoke with at his workplace.
In court yesterday, prosecutor Scharn Robinson repeatedly referred to the statements as “confession-like.”
Hilliard said Caceres threatened suicide during the call and made numerous other “distraught” statements, including: “What I tell you, you are not going to like me,” and, “Maybe you don’t understand, but I do something . . . It’s just too much; I can’t take it; too many problems.”
A police source familiar with the investigation said that the motive for the killing remains unclear and that Caceres made no incriminating admissions to homicide detectives Friday night.
The main evidence against him at the moment appears to be his access to the apartment, his disappearance after the killing and the statements he made to the person he spoke with at his workplace.
In court yesterday, prosecutor Scharn Robinson repeatedly referred to the statements as “confession-like.”
Marisol, a curly-haired child and the youngest of five children of Berta Alvarado, recently finished sixth grade at Harriet Tubman Elementary School. She is the only child Alvarado had with Caceres, relatives said.
A family spokeswoman said yesterday that Alvarado would not comment on the arrest. In a statement Thursday, the mother said: “Our lives have forever changed. My children and I are mourning our loss, but we are a strong family and we will recover and rebuild. We will always miss Marisol’s joyful presence.”
A family spokeswoman said yesterday that Alvarado would not comment on the arrest. In a statement Thursday, the mother said: “Our lives have forever changed. My children and I are mourning our loss, but we are a strong family and we will recover and rebuild. We will always miss Marisol’s joyful presence.”
On Thursday, with the father nowhere to be found, police issued a plea for information on his whereabouts, stressing at the time that he was being sought “only for questioning” and was not considered a suspect.
But by the time Caceres, a Honduran immigrant, walked into the department’s 3rd District substation on Park Road NW on Friday, he had become the primary focus of the investigation.
“I’m not going to discuss a timeline on when we established that we had probable cause” to believe Caceres killed his daughter, said police Lt. Michael Farish of the department’s major case squad. But at the time Caceres arrived at the station, Farish said, “a warrant was being typed for his arrest.”
But by the time Caceres, a Honduran immigrant, walked into the department’s 3rd District substation on Park Road NW on Friday, he had become the primary focus of the investigation.
“I’m not going to discuss a timeline on when we established that we had probable cause” to believe Caceres killed his daughter, said police Lt. Michael Farish of the department’s major case squad. But at the time Caceres arrived at the station, Farish said, “a warrant was being typed for his arrest.”
Another police official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing, said that during homicide detectives’ interview of Caceres, “We didn’t get anything significant from him, either damaging or otherwise.”
Hilliard said in the affidavit that Caceres told investigators that after he left for work Tuesday morning he was robbed at a Metro station about 10:30 a.m., which was how he suffered his injuries.
He told detectives that he stayed in an abandoned house in Prince George’s, trying “to get himself together,” according to Hilliard. He said he went to the police station after learning from a television news report that police wanted to question him.
Announcing the arrest yesterday, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier praised the detectives working on the case.
“There’s nothing more disturbing to a police officer than the death of a child, period,” Lanier said. “It doesn’t matter what the cause of death is. But I will say that domestic violence is an issue we struggle with in this city and every city across the country. It’s a horrible fact that sometimes family members are involved in that level of violence.”
Hilliard said in the affidavit that Caceres told investigators that after he left for work Tuesday morning he was robbed at a Metro station about 10:30 a.m., which was how he suffered his injuries.
He told detectives that he stayed in an abandoned house in Prince George’s, trying “to get himself together,” according to Hilliard. He said he went to the police station after learning from a television news report that police wanted to question him.
Announcing the arrest yesterday, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier praised the detectives working on the case.
“There’s nothing more disturbing to a police officer than the death of a child, period,” Lanier said. “It doesn’t matter what the cause of death is. But I will say that domestic violence is an issue we struggle with in this city and every city across the country. It’s a horrible fact that sometimes family members are involved in that level of violence.”
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Tacoma, WA, August 03, 2008
BY: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
The quick response by a Sonitrol Pacific operator, a school district’s security service and the local police department led to one arrest and thwarted the attempted burglary of a Washington high school July 31.
According to a news release from the company, The Sonitrol Pacific operator received a signal activation from the school and she immediately dispatched the school’s security service to check it out.
The private security officers responded to the facility and as they were checking the area they found one person in the act of burglarizing the school and were able to take him into custody without incident.
Officers also notified the Tacoma police and all officers searched the school for any further suspects but did not locate any.
The burglary suspect’s name was not released but he was taken into custody by city police and charged with felony burglary.
The burglary suspect’s name was not released but he was taken into custody by city police and charged with felony burglary.
July has been an active month for apprehension incidents at Sonitrol Pacific according to their news release.
The electronic security company has assisted law enforcement officials in the apprehension of more than 25 suspects during the month.Sonitrol Pacific has provided verified intrusion detection services to schools and businesses in the Pacific Northwest since 1978.
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August 3, 2008
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New York News Aug 3 2008
The search for two men reported missing two weeks ago on Long Island ended Friday with the gruesome discovery of their dismembered bodies in Coram, as police unraveled a series of crimes that they say began with a coke deal and ended in the pair’s execution.Darren Lynch, of Middle Village, Queens, was charged Friday with two counts of second-degree murder after he led police to the makeshift graves of two people police say he killed and buried near his family home in Coram.
His girlfriend, Leah Reynolds, was charged with helping hide the murder weapons.Police are still piecing together what led to the killings and are continuing to search the graves. “We lost a couple of people who know the answers. We have another one under arrest who knows some answers,” said Suffolk Det. Lt. Edward Reilly. “There are still other people out there who have answers.”
Lynch, 28, a Longwood High School graduate and ex-con, and Reynolds, 22, who lived with him, were charged in the deaths of Joseph Odierno, 35, of Miller Place, and Jairo Santos, 22, of Washington Heights in Manhattan.
The two had been missing since July 16.Gruesome discoveriesPolice found body parts Thursday in a sump just off a Coram road leading to Lynch’s parents’ home, where more remains were buried in the backyard next to a dog’s grave.T
he victims’ families struggled to make sense of the killings Friday. Santos’ sister said he was a law-abiding, devout Catholic with aspirations to earn an MBA and help his family.”He didn’t know the people who killed him,” said Diana Santos, 26, of Washington Heights.Odierno’s wife, Jessica, said her family was “absolutely traumatized.”"That guy is a horrible person,” Odierno said of Lynch. “My husband is a good man.” She said she had no idea how her husband was connected to Santos, Reynolds and Lynch. “I don’t even know who any of these people are,” she said.Based on admissions by Lynch and a witness, officials Friday described a bizarre trail that began when Santos, Odierno and a third man whom police did not identify arranged for a group of men from Manhattan to sell cocaine to Lynch.
Campus meetingPolice said on July 16, the group met at the C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, where Santos was a student.
They drove to a spot near Lynch’s parents’ home in Coram, where Lynch paid $20,000 for a kilogram of coke, after which the sellers left. Lynch quickly discovered the coke was “beat” – a bag of white powder – and pulled a handgun on Odierno, Santos, and the third man, police said. “I’m going to get my money back and you’re going to help me,” Lynch told the men, according to a Suffolk detective.Lynch forced the men to drive in Odierno’s Cadillac Escalade to an apartment building in Washington Heights, where Lynch believed the sellers would be found, police said. He told the third man to go inside, but he ran off.
Lynch then forced Santos and Odierno to drive to Middle Village, escorted them to his apartment, bound and repeatedly shot them on his kitchen floor, police said.Lynch cut up the bodies in the bathtub with a power saw and hacksaw before packing them in plastic bags and bins, police said.Reynolds, who works at a TGI Friday’s restaurant, was in the apartment during the killings, police said. Lynch told detectives she “was a dutiful girlfriend” and followed his order to go into another room as he killed the men.Reynolds pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge of hindering prosecution.
At her arraignment, Suffolk prosecutor John Scott Prudenti said she “was present during the transportation” of the bodies. Her role is still under investigation, police said.
Two days after Santos and Odierno disappeared, Old Brookville and Suffolk police began missing-persons investigations. July 23, Old Brookville police found the third man, who identified Lynch and related the story of the deal and abduction. “He assumes that something very bad happens to Odierno and Santos,” Reilly said.Over the next several days, detectives gathered evidence to support a search of Lynch’s apartment. “We didn’t know if the individuals were being held for ransom. We didn’t know if they were alive … particularly since the Odierno family had hired a private detective, we suspected that perhaps a ransom was demanded, and they were told not to contact police,” said Chief of Detectives Dominick Varrone.Drugs, weapons foundIn the raid Wednesday on Lynch’s apartment, Lynch and Reynolds were arrested, and cocaine, heroin, marijuana, handguns and rifles, a loaded AK-47, and a Tec-9 machine pistol were seized, police said.
Police said Lynch admitted killing and burying Santos and Odierno and led police to the sump, less than a half-mile from the ranch home his parents, who are both deaf, share with one of his siblings. “People are homing pigeons, and they will return to where they are comfortable,” said Dep. Insp. Robert Oswald.Reynolds told police she hid in her mother and stepfather’s Holtsville home the three handguns Lynch allegedly used in the killings, a Nassau officer said.Neighbors said the wooded area where Lynch buried some of the remains was a hangout for teenagers and that a pungent odor had hung over the area in recent days.
“You walked right into the wall of the smell,” said Tara Nagengast, 34.Lynch was arraigned Friday morning in First District Court in Central Islip and charged with two counts of second-degree murder. He is being held without bail.
HOW THE CRIME UNFOLDED
Police account of the drug-deal-linked double murder:July 16, 10 p.m. Jairo Santos, Joseph Odierno and a third man arrange meeting at C.W. Post between several coke dealers and Darren Lynch, the buyer.11 p.m.
The group drives to a spot near the Lynch home in Coram, where money and drugs are exchanged. The dealers leave; Lynch learns the coke is fake.11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Lynch kidnaps the three at gunpoint and forces them to Washington Heights; the third man escapes.July 17, 12:30 a.m.-1:30 a.m. Lynch drives to his Queens apartment.
He kills Santos and Odierno, police say. 1:30 a.m.-4 a.m. Lynch buries remains behind parents’ house and nearby sump.July 18 Old Brookville and Suffolk police start separate missing persons cases.July 23 Old Brookville police find third man, who identifies Lynch. July 26 Leah Reynolds hides guns used in the killings in her parent’s attic in Holtsville.
Wednesday Lynch and Reynolds arrested. Lynch leads police to burial spots in Coram.
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