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Madison WI Aug 21 2008

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An armed security officer stobbed a robbery suspect at a Madison area hotel dead in his tracks earlier today.
According to police, at around 1:12 a.m. this morning Madison Police were called to Howard Johnson’s, 3841 East Washington Avenue, for a robbery in progress.

An officer happened to be in the area and arrived on scene within two minutes.
When the officer entered the hotel he found that a security officer had already handcuffed the suspect after ordering him to the floor at gunpoint.
The security officer, whose name has not been released, had been in a backroom when a masked Jessie L. McShan, age 46, Madison, confronted a female clerk and announced this was a robbery, and to “Give me all the money!”

The clerk, knowing the security guard was near, stalled for a moment by telling Mr. McShan she needed to find the keys.
It was enough time for the security officer to whisper to the clerk to step back, and as she did, he stepped up with his gun drawn.

The security officer then ordered McShan to the floor at gunpoint and was able to handcuff him without incident.
Mr. McShan was dressed all in black. He had a hooded sweatshirt over his head, sunglasses on, and a doo rag over his face. He was also wearing black leather gloves. No weapon was seen or found.
Police took McShan into custody and have charged him with attempted robbery.

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Michigan DOC officer arrested on drug charges www.privateofficer.com

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Saginaw MI Aug 21 2008
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A Michigan Department of Corrections officer has been arrested on several felony charges and is suspended from duty at the Saginaw Correctional Facility after his arrest in connection with a BAYANET investigation of drugs going into the prison.
Saginaw County District Judge A.T. Frank said on Wednesday that his office arraigned John J. Singer III, 45, on charges of conspiring to deliver marijuana and maintaining a drug house.
Undercover officers arrested him Tuesday in the parking lot at Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw Township as he was attempting to receive a half-pound of marijuana, Bay Area Narcotics Enforcement Team leader Lt. Mel Matthews said. The marijuana had a street value of about $550.
Prison officials had started their own investigation and then notified state police, Cordell said. He would not say when or why officials began the investigation.
“When we felt there was enough evidence to determine criminal behavior on the part of Mr. Singer, we reported it,” he said.
“We have no reason to believe that more Department of Corrections staff are involved,” he said but the investigations are continuing and we’ll see where they lead..
“This is not something we take lightly. It jeopardizes the security of our inmates, staff and the general public. Our intent is to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.”
Singer has worked for the department since 1989, the past two years at the Freeland facility, 9625 Pierce, spokesman John Cordell said.
The Burton resident faces up to six years in prison.
Singer has a preliminary examination before Frank at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29.

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29,000 Registered sex offenders online at MySpace www.privateofficer.com

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Dallas TX. Aug 21 2008
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MySpace and their new security software has scanned more than 600,000 registered sex offenders in a national base and found that there are 29,000 matches on MySpace.com.
With the help of the database, the Texas Attorney General’s office has arrested 28 users of MySpace for violating the terms of their parole according to a spokesperson.
After authorities heard Charles Cathey might have an account on the popular Web site MySpace, they raided the San Antonio sex offender’s home, confiscated pornography and walked him outside in handcuffs last month.
Mr. Cathey, convicted in 1988 of molesting a 7-year-old girl, had violated his parole by going online. But he hadn’t found any new victims through the social networking site. Instead, MySpace had found him.
Companies like MySpace, whose security chief was in Dallas this week to address the Crimes Against Children Conference, are teaming up with law enforcement agencies and nonprofit groups as part of an increasingly active network to combat online predators.
“Our members deserve a safe place within which they can freely connect and explore,” chief security officer Hemanshu Nigam said at the annual conference, which ended Thursday. “Our advertisers demand the safest possible site within which to promote their brands. We simply have to make this possible.”
Internet security specialists working for social Web sites are among the new allies to local police. Former prosecutors now lead dedicated security teams, human eyes review reams of uploaded material, and software looks for similarities between user accounts and entries in a sex offender database.
The Internet has obliterated traditional jurisdictional boundaries,” said Dallas police Lt. Ches Williams, who heads the crimes against children unit. “Many times it’s beyond the ability of local law enforcement to deal with it.”
At times, MySpace has drawn harsh criticism for its security features. Houston lawyer Jason Itkin has filed eight lawsuits against the company and sex offenders, including one Dallas man. He says the Web site hasn’t moved fast enough on new safeguards, especially age-verification software.
Mr. Nigam, a former attorney at the Department of Justice, joined MySpace in 2006 after a stint at Microsoft. He heads a team of dedicated security personnel that includes two former prosecutors.
Pushed by attorneys general across the country, MySpace unveiled a slew of features in January, including more privacy controls and an algorithm that searches for keywords associated with users younger than 14. The company says it’s working with other companies to develop practical age-verification capabilities.
Both MySpace and Yahoo now track the origins of every image and video upload. Mr. Nigam says his staff reviews all uploads, which number almost 20 million daily. They flag potentially inappropriate material and send details to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
What began in 1998 as a hotline for the public to report tips to the center now involves the sophisticated analysis of those photos and videos. As more companies have linked up with the center, the number of tips has risen dramatically: In 2007, there were 11,422 reports of children being enticed online, up 79 percent from 2006 and more than 10 times as many as in 1999.
That increase has more to do with improvements in communication among various agencies than a rise in the crime rate, said Michelle Collins, director of the center’s exploited child unit.
“There’s really unprecedented cooperation in this area,” she said.

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Security guard arrested for copper theft www.privateofficer.com

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Orangeburg SC Aug 21 2008

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An Orangeburg man out on bond and a local security guard have been charged with destroying an Amelia Street business’s air conditioner.

“We’re going to do something about this copper theft,” Orangeburg Municipal Judge Barney Houser said Wednesday at their bond hearing.“I’ve got an obligation to protect the citizens of Orangeburg. I’m going to set a bond that is commensurate to this, because if you get back out like you just did, I feel pretty sure you’re going to go out and do it again,” Houser said.

Stafford Bernard Brown Jr., 30, of 179 Treadwell St., was charged with grand larceny. Houser set bond on Brown at $25,000 cash or surety

.Charged with grand larceny along with Brown was 24-year-old Lashun L. Jones of 124 Roper Court. Jones told the court she was employed as a security guard for Allied Air Enterprises in Orangeburg.“In the security office?” Houser said. “You mean, to be there so people can’t come in and steal stuff?”

Jones responded by looking at the floor and shaking her head, then nodding an apparent affirmation.Her bond was set at $10,000 personal recognizance due to her having no prior record and being eight months pregnant.

She was placed under house arrest with the exceptions of work and doctor-related appointments.Brown’s arrest Tuesday afternoon marked his second in less than a week.The Treadwell Street man was arrested early Friday after police patrolling Russell Street spotted an individual lying between two vehicles parked at Rhoad’s Cleaners, according to an incident report.As police pulled up, the man ran off.

He didn’t get far, however, and police questioned why he was between the vehicles at 11 p.m. Police allege he told them he was a lookout for someone trying to steal copper from the business’s air conditioning unit. The screws from the unit were found on the ground.Police charged him with malicious injury to real property.Then Brown was arrested Tuesday, facing the grand larceny charge.“

And you got out on bond Saturday?” Houser said.“Yes, sir,” Brown said.Houser then set Brown’s bond.“Bond is for two things, for you to come back to court. And to protect the community,” Houser said.Police arrested Brown and Jones after a concerned citizen called to report two individuals “messing with an a/c unit under a tree” off Amelia Street, according to an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety incident report.

Officers said when they arrived, they observed a man beating on an a/c unit with some type of tool.

A woman stood by a vehicle nearby, “watching the first subject strip the copper out of the unit,” the report states.Investigators say they are looking at any possible connection between the two and a series of burglaries reported on John C. Calhoun Drive and Lowman Street.

“We’re looking at cases with similar MOs to see if we can link these suspects to these offenses,” ODPS Capt. Mike Adams said. “I think it’s significant that he gets out of jail on the same thing and here he is in broad daylight doing the same thing.”

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Police pursuit of shoplifter leaves 2 dead www.privateofficer.com

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Palmer Township PA. Aug 21 2008

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A stolen vacuum cleaner and a wrong-way getaway on Route 22 led to a horrific head-on crash that killed two people near Easton on Tuesday, police said.

Eastbound Route 22 near Easton was reopened this morning after being closed for nearly eight hours while authorities investigated the accident.

With Palmer Township police in pursuit, an alleged shoplifter drove west in the eastbound lane from 13th Street to just past 25th Street before slamming into a car, fatally injuring a New Jersey driver, police said.

Jolene C. Labar, 31, of Washington, N.J., died at the scene from massive blunt force trauma, said Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek

The driver of a pickup truck — believed involved in a vacuum cleaner theft at Boscov’s in the Palmer Park Mall — also was killed, police said.

An autopsy for the unidentified man is scheduled for today at St. Luke’s Hospital-Fountain Hill.”He had no identification on him,” said Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim said.Grim said fingerprints will be taken during the autopsy to try to identify him.

The process could take hours or “a couple days” Grim said.Authorities have also not been able to identity a woman in the pickup truck who was critically injured in the crash, state police at Bethlehem said.State police said they were in a gray, 1998 Mazda B2500 pickup truck.

The accident happened about 5 p.m. when the pickup, which Palmer police had stopped earlier on Hackett Avenue near the mall, drove onto Route 22 at 13th Street, heading the wrong way, with Palmer police following.

The pickup driver appeared to consider exiting at 25th Street but suddenly swerved, bumping one car as he continued the wrong way on Route 22 in rush-hour traffic, police said.

Soon he slammed into Labar’s car, sending debris flying, police said.

Eastbound Route 22 was closed shortly after the 5 p.m. accident, with traffic diverted to Interstate 78 east via Route 33 south.Within minutes, onlookers lined a small hillside overlooking Route 22, using binoculars and video cameras to get a better look at the accident scene, between the 25th Street exit and the Greenwood Avenue overpass.

Others crawled through thick underbrush for a look at what they’d heard about on police scanners at home.”There’s nothing left to it,” said Reggie Woolverton of Williams Township. ”It’s all mangled.”The pickup truck was on its roof. A nearby car was blown apart.The driver of a third vehicle also received minor injuries.

State police said Linda J. Rose, 54, of Bethlehem, swerved onto the south berm to avoid hitting the pickup truck and Labar’s car. She complained of light pain in her neck and back, state police said.

On the hillside, the gawkers repeated the chatter they’d heard on the scanners, and complained of the congested traffic and accidents on Route 22. Down below, state police began hours of accident-scene investigation on the closed eastbound lanes.Rubberneckers in the westbound lane strained for a better look and held cell phone cameras out of their car windows to photograph the carnage.

State police are asking anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them at 610-861-2026. Trooper Louise Rosenthal is investigating.

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SWAT officer stabbed by barricaded shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

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Los Angeles CA Aug 21 2008

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Los Angeles police shot a man when he allegedly stabbed a SWAT officer with scissors after barricading himself inside an office at the Wal-Mart in Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza mall.

Special Weapons and Tactics officers responded when on scene officers reported that a theft suspect had broke away from store security officers and barricaded himself somewhere within the interior of the store.
According to LAPD, SWAT officers found the suspect at the store at 4101 S. Crenshaw Blvd. at about 1:20 p.m. Monday and attempted to take the man into custody. the suspect, an African American about 40 years old, who was found barricaded inside the store’s loss prevention office, said Los Angeles Police Officer Julianne Sohn.
When SWAT officers entered the office at 6:25 p.m., the man allegedly stabbed an officer in the hand and at least one officer fired, wounding the man, who was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.

His name and condition had not been released this morning, Sohn said. He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, according to Los Angeles Police Lt. Kathy Feldtz.

The injured SWAT officer was taken to the hospital and was in stable condition, Sohn said. His name also had not been released this morning.

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NYC Parking agent charged with theft www.privateofficer.com

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Manhattan NY Aug 21 2008

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http://www.privateofficer.com/ New York police arrested Jacquline Davis, a traffic enforcement agent assigned to the Manhattan tow pound on Pier 76, surrendered on Thurs., Aug. 14, at the Sixth Precinct, where she was charged with stealing $4,518 from the tow pound command club.
The club uses revenues generated by soda and snack machines on Pier 76, which is located at W. 36th St., to pay for various events for tow pound employees.
According to a police report, the defendant made a series of unauthorized withdrawals between Jan. 10, 2006, and Feb. 15, 2007, from the club bank account by forging the signature of the club president, according to the office of Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau.
She faces a third-degree grand larceny charge and 21 counts of second-degree forgery.
The traffic agent is suspended of her duties and faces termination.

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2 Children found dead in Douglas CO. www.privateofficer.com

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Douglas County CO.Aug 21 2008

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What began as a search for two missing children in Douglas County on Wednesday afternoon turned to tragedy when deputies found the kids dead in their mother’s car.
The children have not been identified by the sheriff’s office, but a neighbor said the children were a 5-year-old girl named Jasmine and a 2-year-old boy named Nathan.
The children, along with their mother, Stacey Mendieta, 28, lived with their maternal grandparents, Ken and Pam VanHerpen, for the past eight or nine months, neighbors said.
It was not known how the children got into the car.
“The investigator is still trying to determine that,” said Deputy Cocha Heyden, spokeswoman for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
Heyden confirmed Wednesday night that investigators were talking to two people in connection with the deaths but would not say whether one of them was Stacey Mendieta.
“No one’s been arrested,” she said. “There are no suspects.”
Ken VanHerpen said his daughter was being interviewed Wednesday by investigators at the sheriff’s department.
A search warrant was obtained for the home, and detectives entered about 9 p.m.
“That’s very standard for a death investigation,” Heyden said.
Ken VanHerpen said his daughter had divorced her husband, Hugo Mendieta, about a week ago.
“This is a quiet, safe neighborhood,” said Dona Aldrich. “It was a caring and loving family,” she said of her neighbors. “They were very happy children.”
Aldrich said Stacey Mendieta had worked for Time Warner on the night shift and slept during the day while the children were in day care.
Mendieta had quit her job recently, Aldrich said.
Other neighbors said Mendieta was preparing to go to Kuwait to meet a man she met online and that she was planning to leave soon.
At 3:15 p.m., Douglas County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the home in the 900 block of Bramblewood Drive on a report of two missing children.
Deputies arrived at the scene within minutes and searched the area. They discovered the two bodies in a red Honda parked in front of the residence.
“The car wasn’t running, and the windows were up. The windows were not broken, and there was no apparent forced entry,” Heyden said.
It was not clear where the children were found inside the car, but Heyden said they were not in the trunk.
No attempt was made to revive them. Heyden said they were reported as already dead by the deputies.
She said the cause of death will be determined by the Douglas County coroner’s office.
It was not known how long the children were missing before someone at the residence called the authorities.
The four-door Honda sedan belongs to Mendieta, neighbors said. It was impounded Wednesday.
According to Ken VanHerpen, he and his wife were at work Wednesday.
He said his daughter was the only one home at the time and it was she who called police while she was searching for her children.
“They’ve never gone outside by themselves,” he said while sitting outside on the front sidewalk of a neighbor’s home Wednesday night.
“They were like my own children. We put them to bed and would wake up with them in our own bed.”
Douglas County sheriff’s officials do not believe the community is in any danger.
“We don’t believe someone is going around harming children,” Heyden said.

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Youth Center Security Officers Assaulted With Axe www.privateofficer.com

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NEWPORT NC Aug 21 2008 – Two teens who allegedly tried to run away this week from a camp for at-risk youth in Carteret County are accused of assaulting security guards who confronted them, authorities said.
Markis Rasaan Allen, 16, of Greenville, was arrested Tuesday night by the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office and charged with one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, the sheriff’s office reported. He was placed in the Carteret County Jail under a $20,000 bond.
Allen is accused of striking a night security guard at Eckerd Youth Alternatives’ Camp E-Ma-Henwu in Newport with an axe, according to sheriff’s office.
“The suspect swung the axe at the security guard and the flat side of the axe, not the sharp side, nicked his ear and then hit his arm,” said Chief Detective Jason Wank.
The guard, Joseph Allen of Newport, was not seriously injured, he said. The teen and the security guard are not related.
The second teen, a 15-year-old juvenile whose name could not be released, also had an axe and is accused of assaulting security guard John Brown of Beaufort in the same incident, authorities said.
“The juvenile didn’t hit anybody with the axe but he waved it at him,” Wank said.
A juvenile petition was filed charging the youth with assault with a deadly weapon and communicating threats, Wank said.
Wank said five juveniles reportedly attempted to run away from the camp, and the two suspects and one other youth were located by the security guards in the woods. The third youth did not cause any problems.
Camp E-Ma-Henwu is an outdoor therapeutic program for at-risk youth.
Due to privacy laws, Eckerd Youth Alternatives is not able to confirm or deny that any youth is or ever has been in one of its programs, said Director of Communications Tom Denham.
But by policy, youths posing a threat to others would not be tolerated.
“Any youth that violates a major safety boundary or poses a threat to themselves are removed from our programs as a matter of policy,” Denham said.

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Private security demand projected for continued growth www.privateofficer.com

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Atlanta GA. Aug 21 2008

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A report released Tuesday by market research firm The Freedonia Group projects that the demand for private security in the U.S. will grow 4.7 percent annually over the next several years, reaching a total of $65.9 billion in 2012.
Among the growth factors cited by the report include a perceived risk of crime, as well as the notion that authorities are overwhelmed and unable to provide adequate security.
The Freedonia Group’s report, titled “Private Security Services to 2012″, also cites the privatization of some public safety operations like guarding government buildings and managing correctional facilities as reasons why the private security market will continue its steady growth.
“We’re in an exciting time of growth right now,” said John Sacht, president of Philadelphia-based private security services firm Day & Zimmerman. Sacht added that he felt Day & Zimmerman is “growing at probably greater than market or industry rates.”
Michael Cooley, the company’s regional vice president for the South added that the need for private security will become even greater over the next several years as new government regulations begin to have an impact on several industries.
“There is a trend for increased government regulation,” he said. “Right now you’re seeing it in the chemical industry, both with the MARSEC (Maritime Security) regulations and the CFATS (Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards) regulations, and that’s forcing companies that may have already had a contract security program to increase both the number of personnel they need, but also the technology and hardened perimeter portions of their security program that they’re going to need.”
If the economy continues in its current downward direction, Cooley said that that will also contribute to an increase in private security demand due to the notion — either perceived or real — that crime rates increase in a down economy. Another reason for solid growth in the private security industry, said Cooley, is that government agencies have turned to private firms to secure their facilities now that many of the U.S. troops staffing these positions have been sent to serve in Iraq. He said this privatization of guard services at government facilities is likely to continue, even as troops return.
“The (private security) companies that can best utilize the use of security technology, along with the human element, along with expertise and consulting programs and systems in place are the ones that are really going to excel over the next three or four years,” said Cooley.

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Police officer accused of shoplifting resigns www.privateofficer.com

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Philadelphia MS Aug 21 2008

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A police officer has been resigned following an internal investigation into allegations he shoplifted items from a Philadelphia convenience store, according to the Philadelphia MS. police department.
The police officer handed in his resignation this Wednesday morning and is no longer on the force a spokesperson for the department said.Philadelphia Police Department Chief Dickie Sistrunk said that the officer, whose name is not being released, agreed on Saturday after a meeting with Sistrunk to resign his position as a patrol officer with the force rather than be terminated.”I will advise the Philadelphia City Council Tuesday night that he has indeed resigned,” said Sistrunk. “It is now time to move forward so we can make the Philadelphia Police Department one of the best law enforcement agencies in the state.”The officer was accused of shoplifting items from a Spaceway Convenience store on Aug. 10. Although no criminal charges were ever filed by the convenience store company, an internal investigation determined the officer, who was on duty at the time, did in fact commit the act therefore leading Sistrunk to advise the officer he had the option of resigning or being terminated.
The police chief would not release any further details of the theft and said that it was behind them and that they were moving on.

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Store security, employees subdue knife wielding shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

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Corpus Christi TX Aug 21 2008
Employees at a J.C. Penney Co. store say they wrestled with a would-be shirt thief holding a knife after confronting the man Saturday afternoon.
A witness told police that after loss prevention managers confronted Antonio Rodriguez, 26, outside the store in the 5000 block of South Padre Island Drive, he pulled out a knife and confronted one of the employees.
The managers wrestled with Rodriguez, got the knife away and dragged him back into the store where they held him until police arrived, a police brief said.
Rodriguez was arrested at the store by Corpus Christi police and is being held at the Nueces County Jail on suspicion of aggravated robbery with a $25,000 bond.
Rodriguez also is being held on a bond of $5,000 for suspicion of criminal mischief in Aransas County and $5,000 for bail-jumping in Aransas County, according to an employee at Nueces County Jail.

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BRISTOL CT AUG 21 2008 – Police said they used a Taser stun gun to subdue boxcutter-wielding city man Sunday afternoon near the floral shop in the Forestville Stop & Shop after he allegedly got unruly with store security following a larceny attempt.

Scott Zurawel, 29, of 64 Pleasant Ave. was charged with first-degree robbery, sixth-degree larceny, breach of peace, threatening and conspiracy and made his initial appearance in Superior Court Monday.

Zurawel and a woman were allegedly shoplifting inside the grocery store about at 5:30 p.m. Sunday when they were taken into custody by security, according to reports.

The woman, 23-year-old Amanda Mason, whose address was listed as the same as Zurawel, submitted to the arrest and was later booked on charges of sixth-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit sixth-degree larceny, police said.

Zurawel wasn’t as ready to comply. He reportedly ran through the store followed by several employees before being tackled near the floral exit, police spokesman Lt. Edward Spyros said.

On the floor, Zurawel continued to struggle with his captors and reportedly pulled a box cutter out of his pocket, telling store employees “I have a knife, let me go,” police said.

Spyros said authorities arrived soon after Zurawel was detained. They found him laying on his stomach with his hands underneath him.

Police said they used a Taser on the suspect after he refused their orders to make his hands visible.

Zurawel was initially held on a $50,000 bond and made an appearance in courtMonday, where Judge Joseph W. Doherty raised Zurawel’s bond to $75,000.

Spyros said use of weapons like Tasers is not uncommon.”Officers periodically use Tasers.

In Bristol, they have been valuable tools in our arsenal to gain compliance,” he said. He also credited the store’s staff for their quick reaction and helping to prevent the situation from escalating.”The employees were proactive in capturing him. Apparently there was quite a big crowd at the scene,” Spyros said.

Zurawel has a lengthy record, according to court documents. He served three years in prison on a January 2002 conviction of selling narcotics and was sentenced to 18 months in prison in July 2006 for risk of injury to a child.He also did six months in jail after pleading guilty to fifth-degree larceny in 2007.

Mason is set to appear in court Wednesday on unrelated charges of narcotics possession, risk of injury to a child and failure to appear.

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