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Incident Details Cause of Death: Aircraft accident
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www.privateofficer.com — Police and college administrators Tuesday were searching for a motive in a shooting that claimed the life of a 37-year-old librarian at Northeast Lakeview College.
Eric Reno, the school’s president, said that there appeared to be no problem between the shooter, Alan Godin, 62, and the victim, Devin Zimmerman, 37.
“I wish we had an explanation for why this happened, but we don’t,” Reno said
Police said that Godin walked into the college’s library at 2:15 p.m. Monday and fired four or five times at Zimmerman. Godin, who is also a librarian, then sat down and waited for police to arrest him. The suspect was charged with murder and was being held in the Bexar County Jail on $250,000 bond.
Derek Adair, a student at the community college, which is located in Live Oak, said that he and about 20 people who were in the library at the time ran for the nearest door after they heard the gunshots.
“People screaming, running, a lot of pandemonium,” he said. “People just going every which way, just trying to get out before anyone else was shot.”
Reno said he doesn’t think that increased campus security would have prevented the incident.
“I don’t know how anyone would predict something like this happening,” he said. “This is not something you plan for or can prevent.”
Students were shocked over the violence that happened at a place where most expect to feel safe.
“I think that’s terrible,” a male student said.
Classes were canceled Tuesday but counselors were available to talk with students about the incident.
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Police were able to capture all four people who were arrested Sunday night after Phoenix police said they broke into Ahwatukee Foothills Prep wearing hockey masks and latex gloves.
Just after 10 p.m., a security officer working near the school, at 10210 S. 50th Place, noticed three men and a juvenile at the school and dialed 911, Phoenix police Sgt. Frank Matsko said.
When police arrived, the burglars ran. Two were arrested nearby and two others tried to escape by running across Interstate 10
All were eventually caught, Matsko said.
Police later found two hockey masks that had been removed during the chase, a 2-way radio, an iPod, a video converter and two laptop network cards.
Three Phoenix men and a juvenile were arrested on suspicion of burglary. One also faces possession of marijuana charges.
Without the security officer’s call, it might not have been so easy to arrest the masked burglary suspects, Matsko said.
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www.privateofficer.com Three men face criminal charges in a scheme to sell discounted gas to motorists on the sly and pocket the proceeds, Tampa police said today.
Police say Kelson Clement, Evans Louis and Emmanuel Delly overrode the gas pumps at several Hess stations so they could pump gas without paying, police said.
They then arranged to meet with customers to fill up their tanks at a discounted rate: $20 for cars and $40 for trucks and sport-utility vehicles, police said.
Investigators estimate the men pumped nearly 2,000 gallons of gas valued at more than $6,500. Police are investigating whether the men used the scheme at other stations.
Clement, Louis and Delly each are charged with felony organized fraud as a violation of the Florida Communications Fraud Act.
Police said a tip led them to set up a meeting between undercover officers and Clement at the Hess Express at 10001 N. Florida Ave. about 10:30 p.m. Monday.
According to an affidavit, Clement pumped 16 gallons of premium gasoline for the undercover officer in exchange for $40, but the gas was worth $62.
Clement, 25, of Tampa and Delly, 30, of Immokalee, were released from the Orient Road Jail today after posting $2,000 bail each. Louis, 26, of no known address, was held without bail on a warrant on an unrelated charge, jail records show.
Devising security enhancements to keep people from overriding the pumps is “an industrywide problem,” said Lorrie Hecker, a Woodbridge, N.J., spokeswoman for the Hess Corp.
Hess works with the gas-pump manufacturers to add security enhancements, but “thieves have figured out a variety of ways to override the system,” she said.
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A New York man was scheduled to be arraigned today on assault and battery charges after he allegedly attacked two hotel employees, including the hotel security officer.
Police said Ian McDonough, 31, of Ballston Spa, N.Y., became disorderly, and when asked to leave, attacked a desk clerk and a security officer at the Holiday Inn on Hingham Street on Friday morning.
Hotel security personnel told police that McDonough was running around the hotel, yelling and screaming and disturbing the other guests. When a security officer confronted McDonough and tried to escort him back to his room, he broke free and ran away.
Hotel security personnel said the man later went to the front desk and assaulted a clerk and another security officer.
Police responding to the hotel took him into custody and have charged McDonough with two counts of assault and battery, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct. He was released on bail and was expected to be arraigned today in Hingham District Court.
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Authorities in Georgia and surrounding states are still on the look-out for two men they say broke out of the Hays State Prison in Chattooga County, in the northwest part of Georgia.
State authorities have identified the men as Johnny Mack Brown, 52, and Michael Anthony Tweedel, 48.
The Georgia State Patrol and several other law enforcement agencies are assisting prison authorities in searching for the men, mostly in northeastern Chattooga County, officials said.
According to authorities, the men escaped at about 10:30 a.m. Monday from the maximum security prison in Trion, but authorities would not say how. The facility houses inmates with behavioral problems.
Brown, from the Elberton area of Georgia was found guilty in the shooting death of a Loomis Fargo armored car guard during Dec. 22, 1997 armed robbery at the former Wal-Mart in the Perimeter Square shopping center off Atlanta Highway.
He stole $183,000 in cash and checks and got away in a hijacked car.
Clarke County jury convicted Brown of armed robbery, aggravated assault with intent to murder, aggravated battery, theft by taking, hijacking a motor vehicle, and aggravated assault for shooting at an off-duty police instructor during the robbery.
Authorities also say that Tweedel is serving a ten year sentence for an armed robbery in Cobb County but did not release further information about his crime.
State correction authorities said this was not the first time that Brown has managed to escape. He also was able to escape from the Clarke County Jail in September 1998, by lifting the bottom of a recreation gate and scaling a wall.
Authorities arrested Brown in Daytona Beach, Fla., when they found him asleep in a vehicle that he stole from a car dealership.
While on the run for almost three weeks, police say that Brown stole several cars including one from a man that he beat in South Carolina and another from a car dealership in North Carolina.
Clarke County Superior Court Judge Steve Jones sentenced Brown to life plus 90 years in prison.
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“We’ve identified where the deficiencies are, and now we’re trying to work our fastest and our best to get our officers up to date and ready,” said college President Robert Silverman.
“We’ve been providing the training and trying to make sure everybody meets the qualifications of being a certified campus police officer,” Silverman said.
The decision to temporarily limit campus police officers’ duties was made about two weeks ago, after the college conducted an extensive review of campus police and spotted administrative and training deficiencies that are out of compliance with local and state regulations, Silverman said.
In some cases, the college had checked officers’ fingerprints the same way they would a regular employee, but did not follow the more extensive search required for campus police, Silverman said.
The college is also trying to get some officers from Level 2 up to Level 1 in Peace Officer Standards and Training, which requires attending a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s training academy. At least four of the 16 officers plan on getting this training, Silverman said.
“Each officer requires different things ,” Silverman said. For some, that could mean returning to their duties this week, Silverman said. For others, it could be two to four weeks until they’re back on regular patrol.
In the meantime, the college has contacted the San Bernardino County Sheriff ‘s Department to help with local law enforcement and patrolling the area, Silverman said. The college also may bring on other local security agencies for support, he said.
This is the first time the college has conducted a comprehensive review of campus police since their duties began in the mid-1990s, Silverman said. The review came after campus Police Chief Jack Thomas retired and Craig Baumbusch stepped in as interim police chief at the end of July.
Silverman said the college will begin the search for the new police chief in January, in hopes of filling the position by spring.
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The city of Sugar Hill has decided to hire a private security firm to provide short-term policing until the city can set up a marshal program, following action Monday night by the city council.
City Manager Bob Hail said that a security company will be hired to be the eyes and ears only and will not take police type enforcement but will patrol commercial properties and residential communities.
A number of security firms will be interviewed, and a decision will be made within two weeks Hail said.
We’re looking for another set of eyes on the street,” Hail said. We don’t expect them to respond to emergency calls or to arrest people.
Because of liability issues, the security officers will be unarmed.
Currently, the city has no official police patrols, although Gwinnett County Police will respond to crimes. For the past six years, the city had contracted with the county for extra police patrols, but that agreement was abandoned when the city sought a similar deal for less money with the sheriff’s office. That deal, which took five months to draw up, was nixed by the county commission last month.
Expenses for the security firm should be in the neighborhood of $28 an hour, about $18 less than the contract for county police Hail said.
Hail said he hopes to have a firm employed by the time of the Sugar Hill Fall Festival, Oct. 25 at E.E. Robinson Park. The plan, he said, is to have the firm set up a booth and introduce itself to the community.
In the meantime, the city will draw up plans to establish a permanent marshal’s office.
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ — Police said a Nashville judge was arrested overnight after a fight at a local bar.
Anthony Adgent, 60, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, assault and vandalism after a fight at the Stirrup bar, located on Fourth Avenue South.
Adgent is an administrative law judge based in Nashville who presides over cases involving state agencies
According to the report, Adgent was asked to leave the bar for being disorderly but would not leave and put his finger in the bartender’s face.
Bartender DeMarko Smith said the judge, who he suspects was drunk, grabbed him, pinned him against the wall and hit him.
“I told him, ‘Just let me go. You have an opportunity to walk out of that door, right now.’ He let me go, and when I stepped this way, that’s when he hit me in the face,” said Smith.
Witnesses said Adgent also hit a customer in the jaw and broke a sign before having to be pushed out of the bar by four customers.
According to the bartender and witnesses, when Adgent made his way outside the bar, he told them he was a judge and that would keep him out of trouble.
The judge has been practicing law in Nashville since 1994.
The judge will appear in court next month. After the hearing, the secretary of state will determine if the judge will be reprimanded.
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police in Hadley were able to catch a shoplifting suspect who is also accused of assaulting a store security officer and a police officer at Target.
Officer Christopher Martin said that the suspect fled and eluded police during the original shoplifting incident.
The suspect was identified as a minor under 17 from Granby.
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Lexington KY OCT 15 2008
Lexington resident Henry Earl is scheduled to appear in Fayette District Court tomorrow — as he has thousands of times before, answering to charges involving more than 1,300 arrests.
Between his stints in jail, Earl has in four decades become a homeless cult hero whose celebrity extends outside Kentucky. Several Web sites feature his plight and his drunken jail mug shots, and media outlets such as Newsweek and MSNBC have run stories about the 58-year-old.
Tomorrow, a Fayette District Court judge will give Earl an ultimatum:
Accept probation and clean himself up in treatment at the Hope Center in Lexington — a four- to six-month, inpatient rehabilitation program — or spend the next 90 days in jail, the maximum sentence for alcohol intoxication.
Judge Megan Thornton has said in court that she has few options for dealing with someone like Earl but wants to give him a chance.
“That’s the only thing I can think of,” she said from the bench after an Oct. 9 hearing. “Henry’s my project. I’m taking him on.”
Defense attorneys, homeless advocates, prosecutors and police all stress that, while Earl has gained notoriety, he is just one of many with the same struggle of addiction, the same shuttle in and out of jail.
“Every city has people like this,” said Marlene Gordon, director of the Louisville Coalition for the Homeless. “There are people we see over and over again.”
‘Give him a shot’
Earl has been arrested more than 1,300 times since 1970, mostly for alcohol intoxication, according to The Smoking Gun, a Web site that has followed his story for years. The Fayette County jail could only say Earl has been arrested more than 1,000 times since it computerized its records in 1992.
He has spent an average of nearly 250 days in jail each year since 1992.
“Obviously, jailing him is not going to help,” said Stephen Gray McFayden, a Lexington attorney who is handling Earl’s most recent case free of charge. “I don’t have an answer as to what you do.”
“We’re all trying to put our collective heads together, find a workable solution and give him a shot,” said First Assistant Fayette County Attorney Brian Mattone, whose office is also pushing treatment. “Our hope is that Earl will emerge from this milestone … and start his life over.”
But whether Earl wants to start a new life is another question.
“It’s his choice,” said McFayden, who plans to take the case to trial if Earl does not choose to get help. “He’s kind of scared of the treatment and doesn’t know if he can complete it. … I believe he thinks he’s too far gone.”
‘A public attraction’
Earl’s celebrity is an “only-in-America” phenomenon, fame achieved through repeated brushes with the law. He has his own Wikipedia page; was featured on MSNBC and the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show; has been the focus of songs, paintings and T-shirts; and has numerous Web sites that chronicle his life.
“Everybody’s got a Henry Earl story in Lexington,” said Drew Curtis, a Lexington native who runs a popular Web site called Fark.com, which he started in 1999 to share oddball photos and news stories with friends.
One of his most popular features has been the link to Earl’s booking photos on the Fayette jail’s Web site. After the jail’s site repeatedly crashed from the crush of people accessing Earl’s photos, Curtis said, officials politely asked him to kill the link.
“He went from being a nuisance to a public attraction,” said Curtis, who considers Earl just another interesting case to feature.
But Gordon, director of the Coalition for the Homeless, said Web sites such as Fark.com take advantage of Earl and others like him. Citizens should be more concerned than amused, she said, if only because of the cost to the community each time he is arrested.
“I think it says it’s OK behavior, that it is acceptable,” Gordon said of the publicity Earl receives. “But it isn’t, and it’s costing everyone a lot of money.”
‘Classiest bum ever’
In Lexington, many people know Earl as James Brown, a name he apparently gave himself in honor of the soul singer and a nod to the shuffle he performs in hopes of landing a free drink or spare change.
“He’s really a harmless, harmless character,” said Seth Bennett, general manager of a bar in downtown Lexington — one of many that no longer allows Earl entry, in part because he won’t leave.
Dressed in leisure suits, sports jackets and wingtip shoes, “He’s probably the classiest bum ever,” said Robin Feeney, who runs a downtown burger restaurant. “He’s gotta look good. … He has absolutely nothing in life, but can put a smile on your face when you see him.”
Ann Gutierrez, a public information officer for the Lexington Division of Police, said officers say Earl has asked to be arrested at times, maybe because of bad weather or because he recognized he was too drunk to get by on his own.
“In my mind, it’s kind of sad,” said Glenn Vencill, a public defender who has represented Earl at least 25 times. “It’s a waste of a human life. … It’s seems his goal in life is to get drunk because he doesn’t have anything else.”
Vencill noted that every time police bring Earl in, it takes an officer off the street and is an expense to taxpayers.
“It would be less expensive to the taxpayers to send him to Betty Ford than to go back and forth to jail here,” he said.
‘I like to drink’
Earl declined to speak with The Courier-Journal for this story. But in past interviews he has said he started drinking when he was 18 and has shown little desire to clean himself up.
“I like to drink,” he told Newsweek in a 2004 article titled, “Portraits of The Town Drunk. “Alcoholic, that’s what I am. Every police (officer) knows me on the force. They see me drunk; they pick me up; I get five days. When I get out, I’m going to drink some more, to tell you the truth.”
He told the Lexington Herald-Leader in 2005 that he has been homeless since 1969, when he lost his last job, busing tables and washing dishes, after showing up for work drunk.
Since then, he told the paper, he’s never seriously tried to quit drinking, and probably never will.
“I’d like to slow down,” he said. “Do I want to stop? Not really.”
“He definitely likes the way he is living,” attorney McFayden said. “He loves life. Just look at his jail photos — mostly smiles.”
Rooting for Earl
Lexington officials have tried to get Earl help before, and he has sobered up at times through rehab programs. But it never sticks.
Earl has never been to the Hope Center, however, which is a nonprofit, live-in recovery program that can take as long as a year.
Heather Mitchell, the center’s development director, said she did not know of Earl, and doesn’t remember any other clients with such an extensive criminal history.
But she noted that 60 percent of the Hope Center’s patients are still sober after a year.
“They have to want to help themselves,” Mitchell said. “If you really don’t want to be there, it’s really not going to click.”
In the Herald-Leader story, Earl said his goal was to get into the Hope Center, from which he said he’d been banned before for showing up drunk. He said then that he’d be willing to detox, if that’s what it takes.
Prosecutors say they are rooting for Earl as tomorrow’s decision looms, but several have doubts.
“Some prosecutors believe this is as good a time as any,” said Mattone, the prosecutor. “Others believe he is being set up for failure.”
McFayden said he wants to get Earl into treatment and is willing to continue working with him, looking for any family members and trying to get him into low-income housing and on disability.
“Henry can still turn the corner,” McFayden said. “He can turn his life around.”
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Police have arrested three suspects after two people were shot during an attempted robbery at a KFC restaurant on the 6200 block of Broadway Avenue.
A woman, who police say was a customer and one of the three male suspects suffered non-life threatening injuries, Cleveland Police spokesman Thomas Stacho said.
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