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OFFICER DOWN ARKANSAS www.privateofficer.com
November 17, 2008
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OFFICER DOWN
Sergeant Monty Carmikle
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Arkansas
End of Watch: Sunday, November 16, 2008officer down
Biographical Info-Age: 45
Biographical Info-Age: 45
Tour of Duty: 23 years
Incident Details Cause of Death: Aircraft accident
Incident Details Cause of Death: Aircraft accident
Date of Incident: Sunday, November 16, 2008
Sergeant Monty Carmikle was killed in a helicopter crash while conducting an operation aimed at catching night hunters. He was acting as an observer when the Bell OH-58 helicopter crashed in Cleburne County, Arkansas, at approximately 1:00 am.The contract pilot suffered non-life threatening injuries.Sergeant Carmikle had served with the agency for 23 years.
He is survived by his wife and son.
Agency Contact Information:
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
2 Natural Resources Drive
Little Rock, AR 72205
Phone: (501) 223-6300
Please contact the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information
Trial underway in security guard death www.privateofficer.com
November 17, 2008
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Hilton Head SC NOV 17 2008
Jury selection in the case of a man charged with killing a Hilton Head Island security guard in an alleged drunken-driving wreck last year is set to begin this afternoon at the Beaufort County Courthouse.
Rodney L. Galimore, 40, of Bluffton is charged with reckless homicide, felony DUI, a fourth offense of driving with a suspended license, two counts of child endangerment for having his young children in the vehicle, a liquor violation and not having insurance.
If convicted of all charges, he faces up to 65 years in prison and more than $56,200 in fines.
Merry C. Deon, 42, was riding her motorcycle home from work on S.C. 46 in Pritchardville on Aug. 11, 2007, when Galimore allegedly drove his SUV out of a parking lot directly in front of her.
Deon, who maintained an address in Ridgeland but was staying with a friend in Savannah, was a full-time security guard at Long Cove Club. She worked a second part-time job at Lowe’s in Bluffton.
She previously worked security at Hilton Head Plantation and Palmetto Dunes.
Her family described her as a friendly, compassionate woman who took in stray cats. After the wreck, other Long Cove Club security officers wore black bands around their badges, and flags were lowered to half-staff.
Galimore has been held in the county jail on a $226,798 bond since the wreck.
Galimore surrendered his South Carolina driver’s license in 2005. His SUV had New York tags, and he carried a New York license at the time of the wreck. He has a previous drunken-driving conviction for crashing into a fence along U.S. 278 and three convictions for driving with a suspended license.
Hilton Head SC NOV 17 2008
Jury selection in the case of a man charged with killing a Hilton Head Island security guard in an alleged drunken-driving wreck last year is set to begin this afternoon at the Beaufort County Courthouse.
Rodney L. Galimore, 40, of Bluffton is charged with reckless homicide, felony DUI, a fourth offense of driving with a suspended license, two counts of child endangerment for having his young children in the vehicle, a liquor violation and not having insurance.
If convicted of all charges, he faces up to 65 years in prison and more than $56,200 in fines.
Merry C. Deon, 42, was riding her motorcycle home from work on S.C. 46 in Pritchardville on Aug. 11, 2007, when Galimore allegedly drove his SUV out of a parking lot directly in front of her.
Deon, who maintained an address in Ridgeland but was staying with a friend in Savannah, was a full-time security guard at Long Cove Club. She worked a second part-time job at Lowe’s in Bluffton.
She previously worked security at Hilton Head Plantation and Palmetto Dunes.
Her family described her as a friendly, compassionate woman who took in stray cats. After the wreck, other Long Cove Club security officers wore black bands around their badges, and flags were lowered to half-staff.
Galimore has been held in the county jail on a $226,798 bond since the wreck.
Galimore surrendered his South Carolina driver’s license in 2005. His SUV had New York tags, and he carried a New York license at the time of the wreck. He has a previous drunken-driving conviction for crashing into a fence along U.S. 278 and three convictions for driving with a suspended license.
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Police arrest man who used sons in K-Mart burglary www.privateofficer.com
November 17, 2008
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BURLINGTON, Wash. Nov 17 2008– Police say a 28-year-old man used his two young sons – 7 and 4 – to help him attempt to steal nearly $8,000 worth of goods from the Burlington Kmart.Jesus Barragan of Sedro-Woolley has been charged in Skagit County Superior Court with second-degree burglary, first-degree theft and two counts of illegal possession of the drugs Clonazepam and Flexeril in the attempted burglary.
Police say when they arrived at the store, which was closed, at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, they found a van with its doors open and motor running parked in front of the front entrance.
They say an automatic door to the store was open and they saw Barragan’s two sons with their arms loaded with merchandise. Later, Barragan gave himself up to police.
The father told officers he had recently lost his job and needed food to feed his children.
Court documents say the merchandise added up to nearly $8,000 and damage to the store totaled more than $2,000.
Barragan is being held at the Skagit County Jail in Mount Vernon on $50,000 bail.
The father told officers he had recently lost his job and needed food to feed his children.
Court documents say the merchandise added up to nearly $8,000 and damage to the store totaled more than $2,000.
Barragan is being held at the Skagit County Jail in Mount Vernon on $50,000 bail.
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Store shoppers help capture robbery suspect www.privateofficer.com
November 17, 2008
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PASCO, Wash.Nov 17 2008
By: Bryan Hill
NTL. ASSOC. PRIVATE OFFICERS
www.privateofficer.com– Authorities say that a shoplifter who pulled out a knife when confronted by store security was subdued and taken into custody after a battle with security and with the help of shoppers who witnessed the incident.
Pasco Police said 26-year old John Rosser has been charged with the robbery of the Wal-Mart off Road 68.
Store security officers apparently saw him putting items into a book bag. They called police for assistance and then confronted him as he left the store without attempting to pay for the merchandise.
Police said while they tried to hold him down, he apparently waved a knife around and took off but was recaptured and subdued with the help of several people who were shopping in the store at the time of the theft.
Rosser was taken to the hospital for unknown injuries and later booked into the Franklin County Jail Friday night.
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www.privateofficer.com– Authorities say that a shoplifter who pulled out a knife when confronted by store security was subdued and taken into custody after a battle with security and with the help of shoppers who witnessed the incident.
Pasco Police said 26-year old John Rosser has been charged with the robbery of the Wal-Mart off Road 68.
Store security officers apparently saw him putting items into a book bag. They called police for assistance and then confronted him as he left the store without attempting to pay for the merchandise.
Police said while they tried to hold him down, he apparently waved a knife around and took off but was recaptured and subdued with the help of several people who were shopping in the store at the time of the theft.
Rosser was taken to the hospital for unknown injuries and later booked into the Franklin County Jail Friday night.
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Cops skirt tax laws when getting free apartments www.privateofficer.com
November 17, 2008
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR NOV 17 2008
source- crime blogger news — Off-duty police officers across Arkansas who live for free or get a cut in their rent at apartment complexes in exchange for working security jobs may be breaking federal law if they don’t pay taxes on the benefit.
A number of local police departments in the state’s larger cities allow officers to have off-duty jobs, with some restrictions, and it appears to be commonplace for officers holding security jobs at apartment complexes where they live to at least get a cut on their rent, if they pay any at all.In North Little Rock, for example, 13 apartment complexes have officers working as off-duty security officers, police spokesman Sgt. Terry Kuykendall said recently.
Kuykendall’s counterpart in Little Rock said some apartments in Arkansas’ capital city advertise they have officers who work as security guards living in the complex.“I don’t know if people are living for free, but I do know they get a pretty good discount,” Little Rock Police Department Sgt. Cassandra Davis said.Bill Sadler, a spokesman for the Arkansas State Police, said any off-duty job for a trooper would have to approved by a supervisor — a rule most police departments apply — and that it would be possible for a trooper to receive free or reduced rent.
“I do not know of anyone,” Sadler said. “But you also have to remember we have 553 troopers, so it is possible.”Police officials in other of Arkansas’ larger cities, including Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and Springdale, all said their departments allow officers to have off-duty jobs at apartment complexes in exchange for free or reduced rent.
“I do not know of anyone,” Sadler said. “But you also have to remember we have 553 troopers, so it is possible.”Police officials in other of Arkansas’ larger cities, including Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and Springdale, all said their departments allow officers to have off-duty jobs at apartment complexes in exchange for free or reduced rent.
Officers who don’t pay taxes on the benefit may be skirting federal law, said David Stell, a Internal Revenue Service spokesman for Arkansas and Oklahoma.“Generally speaking, and not knowing specific details, that would be correct” Stell said.
“You might have circumstances that would exclude them.”Stell said free or reduced apartment rent for an off-duty police officer working security can be excluded as income under certain conditions:• The lodging is furnished on your business premises.• The lodging is furnished for your convenience.• The employee must accept it as a condition of employment.“Meeting the first test — furnished on the business premises — is easily met.
However, meeting the other two tests are more difficult,” Stell said.He cited a 1977 IRS Technical Advice Memorandum that he said dealt with essentially the same issue — whether a police officer working off-duty security had to pay taxes on lodging provide free or at reduced cost.“Because the term ‘convenience of the employer’ is generally understood to mean business necessity, this test and the ‘condition of employment’ test are basically similar, and both tests require substantially similar factual considerations,” according to the tax memo.In that case, “the taxpayer (officer) has not shown that he was required to accept the lodging in order to properly perform the duties of his employment as required,” Stell said. “ … Since the taxpayer had a job as a city policeman, he could not have been available for duty at all times at the apartment complex.
”Applying essentially the same facts to officers now receiving cut-rate lodging for working security at apartment complexes, it appears an officer could not exclude the value of lodging provided as compensation for security duties performed when the officer is not working at his or her law enforcement job, Stell said. The value would have to be reported as income when filing an income tax return, he said.The IRS official acknowledged the issue would not be a priority for the agency.“It would be something that would come up in an audit.
That’s certainly something we would ask: Where do you live? How do you pay your rent or mortgage?” he said.Aside from compensation for lodging under such circumstances, public safety officers enjoy a tax exemption on the use of taxpayer-funded vehicles they are allowed to take home. The IRS considers use of the vehicles a working condition fringe benefit, Stell said.“The person who is authorized to use the vehicle and take it home does not have to pay taxes with respect to any use of that vehicle,” he said.The North Little Rock department provides take-home vehicles for some officers who live in Pulaski County and for some officers who live outside the county but within a 35-mile radius of police headquarters.
There are conditions, according to the collective bargaining agreement between the city and the Fraternal Order of Police, the union that serves the department.For one, officers have to have served the department for at least seven years to take a police vehicle home. Also, officers who live outside the county must reimburse the city for mileage driven, at a rate of 40 cents a mile.Only a handful of officers take advantage of home storage outside the county, said Bob Sisson of the city’s finance department.“Nonuniformed employees have to pay for the cars they take home,” Sisson added. “It is a taxable benefit and we consider it $3 a day, for the days they take (the car or truck) home. We send out a statement at the end of the year, declaring the total amount as income.”
The same is true for other state employees, such as those of the Game and Fish Commission, who have cars but are not employed in a law enforcement capacity.Other police departments around the state have quit allowing officers to take police vehicles home, or are taking steps to end the practice.The Fort Smith department has allowed some officers, such as investigators, to keep cars with no restrictions on where the vehicles could be stored.“
The city just passed an ordinance,” said Fort Smith police spokesman Sgt. Levi Risley. “Effective Jan. 1, most of the take-home cars will be parked.”In Pine Bluff, only police administrators and officers subject to call out, such as investigators and SWAT team members, are allowed to keep police vehicles at home.
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Police nab felony shoplifter after being struck by hit-run driver www.privateofficer.com
November 17, 2008
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. NOV 16 2008
By: Bryan Hill
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www.privateofficer.com Police say that a man who allegedly used a child in a stroller as cover while shoplifting was arrested Wednesday after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver in a bizarre twist of his crimes.
Virginia Beach police say Ronald Lovelace, 35, alledgedly was responsible for the theft of several thousand of dollars in GPS units and digital frames during multiple shopliftings at the Brookstone store at Lynnhaven Mall earlier this year.
Lovelace was struck Wednesday by a hit-and-run driver in a Farm Fresh parking lot in Chesapeake, Virginia Beach police spokesman Adam Bernstein said. When police arrived on the scene, they did a routine check and found that Lovelace was wanted by Virginia Beach police. Police did not say if he was shoplifting in the area at the time of his accident.
Lovelace is accused of stealing more than $3,000 in electronics equipment, Bernstein said.
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www.privateofficer.com Police say that a man who allegedly used a child in a stroller as cover while shoplifting was arrested Wednesday after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver in a bizarre twist of his crimes.
Virginia Beach police say Ronald Lovelace, 35, alledgedly was responsible for the theft of several thousand of dollars in GPS units and digital frames during multiple shopliftings at the Brookstone store at Lynnhaven Mall earlier this year.
Lovelace was struck Wednesday by a hit-and-run driver in a Farm Fresh parking lot in Chesapeake, Virginia Beach police spokesman Adam Bernstein said. When police arrived on the scene, they did a routine check and found that Lovelace was wanted by Virginia Beach police. Police did not say if he was shoplifting in the area at the time of his accident.
Lovelace is accused of stealing more than $3,000 in electronics equipment, Bernstein said.
He is charged with grand larceny, petty larceny and use of burglary tools. Bernstein said the burglary tools are the stroller and bag allegedly used during the crimes.
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Police shoot disgruntled employee at VA. mall www.privateofficer.com
November 17, 2008
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Fairfax VA Nov 17 2008
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Fairfax police shot and wounded an armed man outside Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant at Tysons Galleria yesterday, police and witnesses said, but many details remained unclear last night.
At 12:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a disorderly man on an upper-level parking deck and confronted him, said Officer Shelley Broderick, a police spokeswoman. The man failed to follow the officers’ commands and made a movement toward a gun in his waistband, she said.
An officer fired once, striking the man in the lower body, she said. The man, whom police declined to identify, was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, they said.
Employees in the mall, including a manager at a business adjacent to the restaurant, said the gunman was a disgruntled former employee of Maggiano’s. The parking garage where the shooting took place is close to the restaurant.
Broderick declined to say whether the incident had any connection to the restaurant, but a police official said initial police radio communications indicated that the man was a former Maggiano’s employee. Police emphasized that the investigation is in its early stages, as is an internal probe because the incident involved an officer firing a weapon. Officers were seeking to talk to the gunman at the hospital.
Julie Czizek, human resources manager at Maggiano’s, declined to comment and referred reporters to a toll-free public-affairs telephone number.
A recorded message said no one was available to comment.
Shoppers at the mall expressed shock at the incident and attributed it to tension caused by the declining economy.
“It’s exactly like the movies. It’s extremely sad,” said Eskil Amdal, a Lexington Park man who had dinner at Maggiano’s yesterday with his wife and child.
Amdal, 35, said he saw 10 police cars when he arrived at the mall and asked waiters what was happening.
They referred him to police.
Fairfax police shot and wounded an armed man outside Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant at Tysons Galleria yesterday, police and witnesses said, but many details remained unclear last night.
At 12:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a disorderly man on an upper-level parking deck and confronted him, said Officer Shelley Broderick, a police spokeswoman. The man failed to follow the officers’ commands and made a movement toward a gun in his waistband, she said.
An officer fired once, striking the man in the lower body, she said. The man, whom police declined to identify, was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, they said.
Employees in the mall, including a manager at a business adjacent to the restaurant, said the gunman was a disgruntled former employee of Maggiano’s. The parking garage where the shooting took place is close to the restaurant.
Broderick declined to say whether the incident had any connection to the restaurant, but a police official said initial police radio communications indicated that the man was a former Maggiano’s employee. Police emphasized that the investigation is in its early stages, as is an internal probe because the incident involved an officer firing a weapon. Officers were seeking to talk to the gunman at the hospital.
Julie Czizek, human resources manager at Maggiano’s, declined to comment and referred reporters to a toll-free public-affairs telephone number.
A recorded message said no one was available to comment.
Shoppers at the mall expressed shock at the incident and attributed it to tension caused by the declining economy.
“It’s exactly like the movies. It’s extremely sad,” said Eskil Amdal, a Lexington Park man who had dinner at Maggiano’s yesterday with his wife and child.
Amdal, 35, said he saw 10 police cars when he arrived at the mall and asked waiters what was happening.
They referred him to police.
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