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Louisville police lieutenant charged with letting son play cop www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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LOUISVILLE, KY. Sept 17 2008
By: Rick McCann
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A Metro Police officer is facing criminal charges because of a ride a-long that went a little too far.
On Monday, a grand jury indicted Lt. Jeff Manning on one count of criminal facilitation to impersonating a police officer.
The indictment says Manning allowed his son to impersonate an officer earlier this year.
A Metro Police officer is facing criminal charges because of a ride a-long that went a little too far.
On Monday, a grand jury indicted Lt. Jeff Manning on one count of criminal facilitation to impersonating a police officer.
The indictment says Manning allowed his son to impersonate an officer earlier this year.
Sources said he took his son on patrol and allowed him to handcuff suspects, a departmental violation, as well as a criminal offense in the eyes of this grand jury.
Typically, persons who go on “rode-a-longs” are their to observe and are never put in harms way or allowed to actively participate in any type of police office duties.
The charge is a misdemeanor according to the Kentucky state statues.
Metro Police have suspended Manning pending the outcome of the case.
Typically, persons who go on “rode-a-longs” are their to observe and are never put in harms way or allowed to actively participate in any type of police office duties.
The charge is a misdemeanor according to the Kentucky state statues.
Metro Police have suspended Manning pending the outcome of the case.
Metro Louisville police did not release any other details about Manning’s personnel file or his son.
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Shoplifter strikes cashiers after stealing gum www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. Aept 17 2008 — A brazen shoplifter left two store clerks injured in separate incidents.Powder Springs police said the male suspect, identified as Christopher Simon, hit the clerks with his car when they attempted to stop him. One of them suffered a broken leg.
The thefts occurred Sunday just after 10 a.m.
SLIDESHOW: Surveillance Video Shows Clerk Hit By Car
Police said Simon walked into a Food Mart in Powder Springs and stole a pack of gum. “It was only over a small piece of bubble gum that somebody stole and it just escalated way out of control,” said store clerk Karen Lowder.
Lowder’s co-worker ran out of the door and chased Simon. Surveillance video obtained by Channel 2 shows a car hitting the clerk and forcing an elderly man to jump out of the way. Police said Simon was behind the wheel.
“My co-worker, she was very brave I feel to do what she did. She may not have used the best judgment to run out after the person,” said Lowder.
CAUGHT ON TAPE: Shoplifter Hits Clerk With Car
Authorities said the drama continued when minutes later Simon drove to a BP gas station down the road and did the exact same thing. Officials said Simon again stole something and the clerk in that store ran after him.
“While the attendant was following him out, he ran over that gas attendant, breaking at least one of his legs, maybe both,” said Det. Kelly Gobley with the Powder Springs Police Department.
Powder Springs police officers said they spotted Simon inside the car and he sideswiped one of their cruisers while trying to get away. One officer was able to arrest him, but officers said it wasn’t easy. “He did take a couple blows to the face but he’ll be OK,” said Gobley.
No motive was given and Simon faces at least eight criminal charges. The more serious charges are two counts of aggravated assault.
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September 17, 2008
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. Sept 17 2008 — A student remained on life support Monday after shooting himself in a bathroom at Mira Loma High School in Sacramento, sheriff’s Sgt. Tim Curran said.
The student brought a .38-caliber gun to campus, Trent Allen from the San Juan School District said.
The school is located at 4000 Edison Ave.
A representative from San Juan Unified School District said the 17-year-old junior shot himself in the head with a handgun at about 10:15 a.m.
The student was excused from a third period class to use the restroom, and nearby classes heard the gunshot.
The boy was taken to Mercy San Juan Medical Center.
“A vice principal was sent in to investigate, found a young student in the bathroom with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” Allen said.
School officials said the boy is in grave condition.
The student left a note that was being reviewed by school officials and police.
He was identified to KCRA 3 as a member of the track team and a student in the international relations studies program.
The campus followed a normal schedule. Several counselors were called in to speak with students.
Nobody witnessed the shooting, police said. Nobody else was injured.
School officials confirmed that Monday was the student’s birthday.
The student brought a .38-caliber gun to campus, Trent Allen from the San Juan School District said.
The school is located at 4000 Edison Ave.
A representative from San Juan Unified School District said the 17-year-old junior shot himself in the head with a handgun at about 10:15 a.m.
The student was excused from a third period class to use the restroom, and nearby classes heard the gunshot.
The boy was taken to Mercy San Juan Medical Center.
“A vice principal was sent in to investigate, found a young student in the bathroom with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” Allen said.
School officials said the boy is in grave condition.
The student left a note that was being reviewed by school officials and police.
He was identified to KCRA 3 as a member of the track team and a student in the international relations studies program.
The campus followed a normal schedule. Several counselors were called in to speak with students.
Nobody witnessed the shooting, police said. Nobody else was injured.
School officials confirmed that Monday was the student’s birthday.
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29 Arrested At Notre Dame-Michigan game www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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South Bend IND. Sept 17 2008
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One person was arrested during Saturday’s Notre Dame-Michigan football game and taken to jail for a felony charge of assaulting a police officer and resisting law enforcement, and 22 others were arrested and transported to jail during the game for alcohol related offenses, Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) assistant director David Chapman said.
One person was arrested during Saturday’s Notre Dame-Michigan football game and taken to jail for a felony charge of assaulting a police officer and resisting law enforcement, and 22 others were arrested and transported to jail during the game for alcohol related offenses, Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) assistant director David Chapman said.
Police made 29 total arrests this weekend on the Notre Dame campus. NDSP made the arrests in conjunction with the Indiana State Excise Police, St. Joseph County Police and the South Bend Police Department. Five people were arrested and transported to jail for public intoxication, one of whom was charged with possession of false identification. One individual was arrested and jailed for trespassing and re-selling tickets on campus.
Two citations were issued inside the stadium for minors consuming alcohol while only two people were asked to leave the stadium, compared to nine ejections last week for “violations of stadium rules,” Chapman said in an e-mail to The Observer Monday.
One person was taken to the hospital for intoxication, police said.Seventeen tickets were issued for alcohol-related offenses such as minor consumption or minor in possession of alcohol outside the stadium.
The 17 tickets issued Saturday show a decrease compared to the Notre Dame-Michigan game in 2006, where 40 alcohol-related tickets were issued and 25 people were ejected from the stadium, according to comments made by NDSP director Phil Johnson in a Sept. 19, 2006 Observer article.Chapman reminded students that “NDSP will continue to work with other area police officials for all home football games,” and that “unlawful behavior should be reported to NDSP by calling 574-631-5555″ or by using a call box located in the parking area.
“If your football weekend festivities include the use of alcoholic beverages, remember to follow Indiana laws and drink responsibly,” Chapman said. “
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Police capture casino robbery suspect www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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Missoula MT Sept 17 2008
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Missoula police said that they have captured a man Monday for his alleged role in a weekend casino robbery.No one was injured during the robbery, in which a shotgun-toting man walked through the casino’s main entrance just after 1 a.m. and told the attendant, “You know what this is,” records state.
Missoula police said that they have captured a man Monday for his alleged role in a weekend casino robbery.No one was injured during the robbery, in which a shotgun-toting man walked through the casino’s main entrance just after 1 a.m. and told the attendant, “You know what this is,” records state.
The robber, who was wearing sunglasses and an orange bandanna over his face, then demanded the attendant’s money apron, which was tied around her waist and contained $408.
Security footage shows the robber holding what appears to be a shotgun and motioning to patrons of the casino to get away from the gambling machines.
Security footage shows the robber holding what appears to be a shotgun and motioning to patrons of the casino to get away from the gambling machines.
He then paces back and forth while the attendant collects the money he demanded from the machines.Working from leads and evidence that investigators had found near the scene, police have charged James P. Crandall, 34, with the robbery of the One-Eyed Jack’s Casino on South Reserve Street early Sunday morning, according to court papers charging the man with felony robbery.
The casino manager saw the suspect leave the area on a silver bicycle. A short time later, police found a bicycle, sunglasses and a shotgun barrel in the vicinity.
The casino manager saw the suspect leave the area on a silver bicycle. A short time later, police found a bicycle, sunglasses and a shotgun barrel in the vicinity.
An orange bandanna, black cap and a black jacket were found near Clark Street, and officers developed a possible identity of the suspect as “James” who lives on South Avenue.Crandall remains jailed at the Missoula County Detention Facility on $50,000 bail
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5 Charged with botched armored car robbery www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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LANCASTER CA Sept 17 2008 – Five people, including four teenagers, have been charged in the botched robbery of a female Brinks armored-car guard who was pepper-sprayed in the face before she fatally shot one of the suspects.
Armand Bruce, 29, of San Bernardino was shot by the guard Sept. 4 and died at a San Fernando Valley hospital.
Charged with robbery were Otis Ervin, 41; Jasmine Williams, 19; Bryan Gillespie, 19; and two juveniles, ages 16 and 17. Ervin is from Lancaster. The others who were charged are from San Bernardino.
Prosecutors decided not to file murder charges against the five for Bruce’s death.
“It appears the provocation came solely and exclusively from the decedent, said Deputy District Attorney Michael Blake.
“They need to contribute somehow to the provocation. It did not appear the other actors contributed to the provocation that led to the shooting.”
Four suspects have pleaded not guilty and were scheduled to appear next Monday for a preliminary hearing. Ervin was set to be arraigned Monday.
The suspects allegedly confronted the guard about 10 a.m. at a shopping mall in the 43500 block of Gadsden Avenue and sprayed her face with pepper spray, causing her to drop an empty money bag.
After she fired twice, one of the men grabbed the empty bag and ran into a nearby apartment complex, and the other ran toward Avenue K and got into a waiting vehicle containing two women, sheriff’s deputies said
Using eyewitness information, deputies found the vehicle and arrested the man and two women.
Blake said the wounded Bruce was driven by Jordan Gillespie to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, where he died later that night.
Armand Bruce, 29, of San Bernardino was shot by the guard Sept. 4 and died at a San Fernando Valley hospital.
Charged with robbery were Otis Ervin, 41; Jasmine Williams, 19; Bryan Gillespie, 19; and two juveniles, ages 16 and 17. Ervin is from Lancaster. The others who were charged are from San Bernardino.
Prosecutors decided not to file murder charges against the five for Bruce’s death.
“It appears the provocation came solely and exclusively from the decedent, said Deputy District Attorney Michael Blake.
“They need to contribute somehow to the provocation. It did not appear the other actors contributed to the provocation that led to the shooting.”
Four suspects have pleaded not guilty and were scheduled to appear next Monday for a preliminary hearing. Ervin was set to be arraigned Monday.
The suspects allegedly confronted the guard about 10 a.m. at a shopping mall in the 43500 block of Gadsden Avenue and sprayed her face with pepper spray, causing her to drop an empty money bag.
After she fired twice, one of the men grabbed the empty bag and ran into a nearby apartment complex, and the other ran toward Avenue K and got into a waiting vehicle containing two women, sheriff’s deputies said
Using eyewitness information, deputies found the vehicle and arrested the man and two women.
Blake said the wounded Bruce was driven by Jordan Gillespie to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, where he died later that night.
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Carnegie police, private security chase robbery suspects www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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Pittsburgh PA Sept 17 2008
By: Rick McCann
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Officers with the Carnegie Police Department found themselves in hot pursuit of a robbery suspect who police say shot at officers during a traffic and foot chase through downtown streets and neighborhood yards and alleys Monday morning.
Chief Jeff Harbin persuaded Merton L. Norton Jr., 44, of Downtown to give up while Norton sat on a private home’s steps holding a 9mm handgun.
Police said Norton had fired at least eight times, including shots taken at two armed security officers who were on a break from a meeting but responded after seeing Norton draw his gun.
No one was hurt during the 30-minute chase, Harbin said. Bullets hit Carnegie officer Mark Samangy’s police car in the fender and Harbin’s unmarked car in the grille. A third hit a Washington Avenue building.
According to reports, Samangy was out on routine patrol when he saw Norton, who was wearing a ski mask, running on East Main Street at about 10 a.m., Harbin said. In his police car, Samangy chased Norton until he got into an SUV on Williams Way.
The SUV took off with a second person driving, police said. When it stopped at Washington Avenue and Williams Way, the two men got out, and Norton shot at Samangy.
“He hopped right out of the car with the gun and started shooting,” said Rob Neal, who saw the shooting from his second-floor office window along Washington Avenue at GT Logistics. “It was amazing. I don’t understand why he was shooting when he got out.”
Joe Leech, an operations manager at the Victory Security Agency, was outside the corporate office that is across the street from where the SUV and police car stopped.
Leech, 35, of Butler County drew his gun and another security officer ran across the street toward the cars. When Norton fired at Samangy, Leech said he chased him around a building. Norton then fired at least once in his direction.
“Most people run away from gunfire,” Harbin said. “Those two ran toward it.”
In the chase through Carnegie, Norton fired at least three times at Harbin, the chief said
Norton eventually sat on the steps of a porch. “I told him it wasn’t worth it, that no one was hurt,” Harbin said. “I was trying to say anything for it to come to a successful resolution.”
As the chief and officers surrounded the suspect, Norton dropped his gun within minutes.
Police have also arrested Daniel R. Crowe, 42, of Carnegie, who police said drove the sport utility vehicle Norton entered.
As the scenes were being secured and the suspects were in custody, police found that the men had robbed theCiao Restaurant in the 100 block of East Main Street.
Both are charged with multiple counts including attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and robbery.
In May, Crowe was paroled to a community corrections center after being imprisoned for aggravated assault, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Norton served time for kidnapping and were awaiting arraignment Monday night.
Chief Jeff Harbin persuaded Merton L. Norton Jr., 44, of Downtown to give up while Norton sat on a private home’s steps holding a 9mm handgun.
Police said Norton had fired at least eight times, including shots taken at two armed security officers who were on a break from a meeting but responded after seeing Norton draw his gun.
No one was hurt during the 30-minute chase, Harbin said. Bullets hit Carnegie officer Mark Samangy’s police car in the fender and Harbin’s unmarked car in the grille. A third hit a Washington Avenue building.
According to reports, Samangy was out on routine patrol when he saw Norton, who was wearing a ski mask, running on East Main Street at about 10 a.m., Harbin said. In his police car, Samangy chased Norton until he got into an SUV on Williams Way.
The SUV took off with a second person driving, police said. When it stopped at Washington Avenue and Williams Way, the two men got out, and Norton shot at Samangy.
“He hopped right out of the car with the gun and started shooting,” said Rob Neal, who saw the shooting from his second-floor office window along Washington Avenue at GT Logistics. “It was amazing. I don’t understand why he was shooting when he got out.”
Joe Leech, an operations manager at the Victory Security Agency, was outside the corporate office that is across the street from where the SUV and police car stopped.
Leech, 35, of Butler County drew his gun and another security officer ran across the street toward the cars. When Norton fired at Samangy, Leech said he chased him around a building. Norton then fired at least once in his direction.
“Most people run away from gunfire,” Harbin said. “Those two ran toward it.”
In the chase through Carnegie, Norton fired at least three times at Harbin, the chief said
Norton eventually sat on the steps of a porch. “I told him it wasn’t worth it, that no one was hurt,” Harbin said. “I was trying to say anything for it to come to a successful resolution.”
As the chief and officers surrounded the suspect, Norton dropped his gun within minutes.
Police have also arrested Daniel R. Crowe, 42, of Carnegie, who police said drove the sport utility vehicle Norton entered.
As the scenes were being secured and the suspects were in custody, police found that the men had robbed theCiao Restaurant in the 100 block of East Main Street.
Both are charged with multiple counts including attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and robbery.
In May, Crowe was paroled to a community corrections center after being imprisoned for aggravated assault, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Norton served time for kidnapping and were awaiting arraignment Monday night.
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School resource officers accused of handcuffing autistic students www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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WAKE COUNTY NC Sept 17 2008
By: Bryan Hill
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A disability rights group says Wake County school resource officers at Carroll Middle School handcuffed autistic students to restrain them while in class.
Disability Rights North Carolina, or DRNC, filed the complaint Monday morning in Federal Court in Raleigh.
DRNC is suing for the right to enter and observe classrooms and to get access to the contact information of parents with autistic students at Carroll Middle School.
Also, according to the complaint, DRNC says parents told them that autistic students were encouraged to wrestle with one another to “release their aggression” in a vacant classroom known as the “WWF room.” WWF stands for World Wrestling Federation.
DRNC says the complaints range from May to August and involve three different parents.
Wake County Schools says they can’t comment yet because they haven’t seen the lawsuit
Law enforcement authorities say that they will look into the matter but also gave no other comment at this time.
Disability Rights North Carolina, or DRNC, filed the complaint Monday morning in Federal Court in Raleigh.
DRNC is suing for the right to enter and observe classrooms and to get access to the contact information of parents with autistic students at Carroll Middle School.
Also, according to the complaint, DRNC says parents told them that autistic students were encouraged to wrestle with one another to “release their aggression” in a vacant classroom known as the “WWF room.” WWF stands for World Wrestling Federation.
DRNC says the complaints range from May to August and involve three different parents.
Wake County Schools says they can’t comment yet because they haven’t seen the lawsuit
Law enforcement authorities say that they will look into the matter but also gave no other comment at this time.
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Non-sworn school security tickets questioned www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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WILKINSBURG, Pa.Sept 17 2008 — Last month Team 4 reported that Wilkinsburg Police Chief Ophelia Coleman was not a certified police officer, yet she still assisted on at least one arrest.
Team 4 has now found dozens of other cases in which Coleman was listed as the arresting officer.
All of the cases involved kids at Wilkinsburg High School
Most of them were disorderly conduct citations.
Pennsylvania state law mandates that the arresting or charging officer must be a certified police officer, but Coleman is not certified.
Last year Wilkinsburg school officials decided to crack down on school violence.
With the approval of police and the local district judge, they had security guards start writing tickets against students who were fighting.
They even set up a courtroom at the high school.
Brothers Shakur and Rocquan Eubanks were cited for fighting last June.
“It was the last day of school, and we wanted to go out with a bang so we had a food fight,” said Shakur Eubanks.
Even though security guards wrote the tickets, under state law a police officer needed to sign off on them.
Records show police chief Ophelia Coleman signed off on 32 of the cases, including one involving the Eubanks brothers.
Even though she’s chief, she is not a certified police officer.
That means she cannot make arrests or write tickets.
Wilkinsburg school superintendent, Archie Perrin, was also not aware of any potential problem with the cases until Team 4 told him about Coleman’s involvement.
“We thought we were using the proper procedure and process for that because we did involve law enforcement in that decision,” Perrin said.
Reached by phone at her office, Coleman declined to comment.
All of the school cases were heard by District Judge Kimberly Hoots.
Hoots declined to go on camera.
She said she needed to review the legal status of all the cases with Coleman’s name on them.
However, we’ve learned that it’s been only one week since the Coleman officially notified the judge that she was not a certified police officer.
But, Coleman’s lack of certification may not be the only problem.
All the tickets were written and signed by school security guards. T he guards also wrote a number indicating they work for the Wilkinsburg Police Department – even though they actually work for the school district.
A state police spokeswoman told Team 4 that “’in Pennsylvania you would have to be certified as a local officer in order to file those charges,” said Cpl. Linette Quinn.
But a Wilkinsburg school spokesman said none of the security guards are certified officers.
The school superintendent said he hopes all this does not jeopardize his efforts to crack down on discipline.
“This is new information you’re giving me and I’m going to be forced to look into it to see where we can carry it all the way through,” Perrin said.
A spokesman for District Attorney Stephen Zappala said he is not too concerned with Coleman’s name being on the 32 cases as arresting officer because, in reality, she had little or no involvement with the cases.
But the district attorney’s office is concerned about security guards being allowed to write and sign the citations and they’re looking into it.
A representative for the district judge told Team 4 that because of their findings she is no longer accepting summary offense citations from school security guards or the chief.
WILKINSBURG, Pa.Sept 17 2008 — Last month Team 4 reported that Wilkinsburg Police Chief Ophelia Coleman was not a certified police officer, yet she still assisted on at least one arrest.
Team 4 has now found dozens of other cases in which Coleman was listed as the arresting officer.
All of the cases involved kids at Wilkinsburg High School
Most of them were disorderly conduct citations.
Pennsylvania state law mandates that the arresting or charging officer must be a certified police officer, but Coleman is not certified.
Last year Wilkinsburg school officials decided to crack down on school violence.
With the approval of police and the local district judge, they had security guards start writing tickets against students who were fighting.
They even set up a courtroom at the high school.
Brothers Shakur and Rocquan Eubanks were cited for fighting last June.
“It was the last day of school, and we wanted to go out with a bang so we had a food fight,” said Shakur Eubanks.
Even though security guards wrote the tickets, under state law a police officer needed to sign off on them.
Records show police chief Ophelia Coleman signed off on 32 of the cases, including one involving the Eubanks brothers.
Even though she’s chief, she is not a certified police officer.
That means she cannot make arrests or write tickets.
Wilkinsburg school superintendent, Archie Perrin, was also not aware of any potential problem with the cases until Team 4 told him about Coleman’s involvement.
“We thought we were using the proper procedure and process for that because we did involve law enforcement in that decision,” Perrin said.
Reached by phone at her office, Coleman declined to comment.
All of the school cases were heard by District Judge Kimberly Hoots.
Hoots declined to go on camera.
She said she needed to review the legal status of all the cases with Coleman’s name on them.
However, we’ve learned that it’s been only one week since the Coleman officially notified the judge that she was not a certified police officer.
But, Coleman’s lack of certification may not be the only problem.
All the tickets were written and signed by school security guards. T he guards also wrote a number indicating they work for the Wilkinsburg Police Department – even though they actually work for the school district.
A state police spokeswoman told Team 4 that “’in Pennsylvania you would have to be certified as a local officer in order to file those charges,” said Cpl. Linette Quinn.
But a Wilkinsburg school spokesman said none of the security guards are certified officers.
The school superintendent said he hopes all this does not jeopardize his efforts to crack down on discipline.
“This is new information you’re giving me and I’m going to be forced to look into it to see where we can carry it all the way through,” Perrin said.
A spokesman for District Attorney Stephen Zappala said he is not too concerned with Coleman’s name being on the 32 cases as arresting officer because, in reality, she had little or no involvement with the cases.
But the district attorney’s office is concerned about security guards being allowed to write and sign the citations and they’re looking into it.
A representative for the district judge told Team 4 that because of their findings she is no longer accepting summary offense citations from school security guards or the chief.
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Jury awards casino patron after false arrest www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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Tunica MS. Sept 17 2008
Kyle T. Greene
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A federal jury returned a verdict totaling over $729,000 in a case involving the abuse of a patron by security personnel at Hollywood Casino and a deputy of the Tunica County, MS Sheriff’s office.
According to information in court documents, the victim in Tunica was believed by casino employees to be playing blackjack skillfully and counting cards, both lawful activities.
A federal jury returned a verdict totaling over $729,000 in a case involving the abuse of a patron by security personnel at Hollywood Casino and a deputy of the Tunica County, MS Sheriff’s office.
According to information in court documents, the victim in Tunica was believed by casino employees to be playing blackjack skillfully and counting cards, both lawful activities.
Reports filed in the case indicate the victim was not suspected of any illegal activity. Nevertheless, he was detained by casino employees, who subsequently instructed a cashier to refuse to cash the victim’s chips unless the victim provided them with his identification.
There is no legal requirement in federal law or Mississippi Gaming Commission regulations that a patron provide identification to casino employees in order to cash chips, provided that the cash to be received is not over $10,000 (see US Code Title 31).
In this case, the victim reportedly had won less than four hundred dollars before his play was stopped by the casino.
Pleadings in the court case stated that the victim declined to provide identification, and asked to be paid so that he could leave the casino.
Pleadings in the court case stated that the victim declined to provide identification, and asked to be paid so that he could leave the casino.
Instead, casino employees called the Sheriff’s department. Deputy Dornae Mosby responded and demanded identification from the victim, who complied with the deputy’s request but instructed the deputy not to show the identification to casino personnel. According to court records, the deputy ignored this instruction, and allowed casino personnel to take possession of the victim’s identification and photocopy it. Attorney Bob Nersesian of Las Vegas, an recognized expert on casino patron law and author of the patron-protection manual Beat the Players, has commented that there is no legal basis for a law enforcement officer to hand over a patron’s identification to casino personnel over the objection of the patron.
The victim was arrested by Mosby for disorderly conduct. According to public records, the charge was subsequently dismissed.
The victim was arrested by Mosby for disorderly conduct. According to public records, the charge was subsequently dismissed.
The victim then sued Hollywood casino, Tunica County, and Deputy Mosby. The verdict filed in the case shows that the jury awarded the victim $25,000 from Deputy Mosby individually for the violation of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures.
The jury found the casino liable for false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, conversion, and trespass to chattels. The final two items involve the wrongful taking of plaintiff’s identification by casino personnel. The jury awarded $103,703 in damages to the victim from the casino, plus punitive damages of $600,550.
The victim was represented by attorneys Robert B. McDuff of Jackson, MS and A. Randall Harris of Madison, MS.
The victim was represented by attorneys Robert B. McDuff of Jackson, MS and A. Randall Harris of Madison, MS.
Case: US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Delta Division — Civil Action No. 2:06CV204P-A Grosch v. Tunica County et al.
Casino abuse of skilled patrons is an ongoing problem. Casinos often conspire with corrupt law enforcement officers to deprive patrons of their legal rights. A link to a news report of such incidents can be found at http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Jul-06-Sun-2003/news/21616613.html
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Man charged after masturbating at Target store www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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Council Bluffs NE Sept 17 2008
Kyle T. Greene
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An Omaha man was arrested for indecent exposure after allegedly pleasuring himself in the parking lot of Target at the Mall of the Bluffs.
Council Bluffs police officers were dispatched at 5:25 p.m. Monday to 1751 Madison Ave. at Target, in regards to an individual who was in a vehicle in the parking lot masturbating.
Witnesses had seen the individual – identified as Marcello Furertes, 34 – masturbating in his vehicle via the store’s video surveillance equipment. Store security said Furertes could clearly be seen moving his arm in an up and down motion in his genital region while looking at passing females in the parking lot.
Witnesses informed officers the same individual has been arrested at other Target stores in the Omaha area on the same charges.
Officer Ryan Herr noted he had been dispatched to the same address several times before in regards to the same individual masturbating in the parking lot, but the suspect always left before he arrived.
Herr made contact with Furertes in a red Nissan truck with Nebraska plates. Reports indicated Herr noticed Furertes appeared to be fidgeting and had both of his hands down by his lap area. Herr ordered him out of the vehicle, placed handcuffs on him and informed him he was being arrested for indecent exposure.
Reports stated Furertes said he understood the charges, but that he was not masturbating. He allegedly told Herr that he “works sanitation and that he had spilled some cleaner on his groin area earlier in the day. He stated he was just scratching his groin area.”
Herr did not see or notice any sign of a stain on Furertes’ jeans. He was transported to Pottawattamie County jail and charged with indecent exposure.
Council Bluffs police officers were dispatched at 5:25 p.m. Monday to 1751 Madison Ave. at Target, in regards to an individual who was in a vehicle in the parking lot masturbating.
Witnesses had seen the individual – identified as Marcello Furertes, 34 – masturbating in his vehicle via the store’s video surveillance equipment. Store security said Furertes could clearly be seen moving his arm in an up and down motion in his genital region while looking at passing females in the parking lot.
Witnesses informed officers the same individual has been arrested at other Target stores in the Omaha area on the same charges.
Officer Ryan Herr noted he had been dispatched to the same address several times before in regards to the same individual masturbating in the parking lot, but the suspect always left before he arrived.
Herr made contact with Furertes in a red Nissan truck with Nebraska plates. Reports indicated Herr noticed Furertes appeared to be fidgeting and had both of his hands down by his lap area. Herr ordered him out of the vehicle, placed handcuffs on him and informed him he was being arrested for indecent exposure.
Reports stated Furertes said he understood the charges, but that he was not masturbating. He allegedly told Herr that he “works sanitation and that he had spilled some cleaner on his groin area earlier in the day. He stated he was just scratching his groin area.”
Herr did not see or notice any sign of a stain on Furertes’ jeans. He was transported to Pottawattamie County jail and charged with indecent exposure.
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Security guard arrested for arson, burglary www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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DILLON COUNTY, SC Sept 17 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
Officials from Dillon County and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division began investigating the arson of South of the Border, a restaurant located on Highway 301 near Interstate 95 in unincorporated Dillon County, last week.
According to officials with the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office at the time, someone broke into the night deposit box, and then set the building on fire.
Dillon County investigators say that the evidence brought them straight to one suspect, a security guard who had worked at the business.
According to the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office, Leo Conklin, 39, of Fairmont, NC, has been charged with arson, grand larceny, burglary, safe cracking and possession of crack cocaine. They say he committed the crimes while there on the job.
Investigators think Conklin stole money from the overnight deposit box at 2:40 a.m. Sept. 10 before burning the security building, Dillon County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Douglas Pernell said.
Conklin was arrested Friday in Dillon County, Pernell said.
According to officials with the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office at the time, someone broke into the night deposit box, and then set the building on fire.
Dillon County investigators say that the evidence brought them straight to one suspect, a security guard who had worked at the business.
According to the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office, Leo Conklin, 39, of Fairmont, NC, has been charged with arson, grand larceny, burglary, safe cracking and possession of crack cocaine. They say he committed the crimes while there on the job.
Investigators think Conklin stole money from the overnight deposit box at 2:40 a.m. Sept. 10 before burning the security building, Dillon County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Douglas Pernell said.
Conklin was arrested Friday in Dillon County, Pernell said.
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Convicted murderer escapes from security officer www.privateofficer.com
September 17, 2008
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WILMINGTON, Del. Sept 17 2008 — Authorities searched Tuesday for a handcuffed Delaware convict who escaped from a private security guard at Philadelphia International Airport over the weekend.
Taariq Ali, 43, was convicted of attempted murder in 1995 and was being flown back to Delaware from California, where he served part of his life sentence under a prisoner exchange program, Delaware Department of Corrections officials said.
Ali was accompanied on a commercial flight by an employee of Nashville, Tenn.-based Prisoner Transportation Services and his wrists were bound to a chain around his waist when he escaped late Friday. The company did not notify Delaware officials until Sunday.
Delaware Corrections spokesman John Painter said the department has stopped all interstate transfers of prisoners “because there’s entirely too many unanswered questions about how this happened.”
Company spokesman Thor Catalogne referred questions to corrections officials.
Painter said there have only been 10 such transfers since 2004, all without incident except for Friday’s. The transfers are usually made because of “real or perceived security threats.”
Painter said he was not aware of any other problems with the company, which the state uses because it is not authorized to move prisoners across state lines.
The company was also involved in a January 2007 escape in which an inmate later stole a tractor-trailer in an attempt to see his dying mother in Tennessee. Christopher Daniel Gay, who was among 11 prisoners being taken to jails across the Southeast, escaped during a restroom break in South Carolina.
Police said Gay stole a pickup, a country singer’s tour bus and then a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer, leading police on a chase that ended with the tractor-trailer stuck in a muddy field, yards from his mother’s mobile home outside Nashville.
Taariq Ali, 43, was convicted of attempted murder in 1995 and was being flown back to Delaware from California, where he served part of his life sentence under a prisoner exchange program, Delaware Department of Corrections officials said.
Ali was accompanied on a commercial flight by an employee of Nashville, Tenn.-based Prisoner Transportation Services and his wrists were bound to a chain around his waist when he escaped late Friday. The company did not notify Delaware officials until Sunday.
Delaware Corrections spokesman John Painter said the department has stopped all interstate transfers of prisoners “because there’s entirely too many unanswered questions about how this happened.”
Company spokesman Thor Catalogne referred questions to corrections officials.
Painter said there have only been 10 such transfers since 2004, all without incident except for Friday’s. The transfers are usually made because of “real or perceived security threats.”
Painter said he was not aware of any other problems with the company, which the state uses because it is not authorized to move prisoners across state lines.
The company was also involved in a January 2007 escape in which an inmate later stole a tractor-trailer in an attempt to see his dying mother in Tennessee. Christopher Daniel Gay, who was among 11 prisoners being taken to jails across the Southeast, escaped during a restroom break in South Carolina.
Police said Gay stole a pickup, a country singer’s tour bus and then a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer, leading police on a chase that ended with the tractor-trailer stuck in a muddy field, yards from his mother’s mobile home outside Nashville.
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