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High school students nabbed in bank robbery www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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AUSTELL, Ga.(Atlanta metro) Nov 27 2008
BY: Rick McCann
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ — Police responded to a local bank and say that their prime suspects are several area high school students.
Investigators have several teenagers in custody after the robbery and are questioning them in connection with the violent robbery Wednesday of the Cobb County bank.
Police in Austell Georgia, a small community just outside of Atlanta say that the robbery that was committed by these teenagers showed no regard for life.
One of the two robbers fired a shot into the ceiling of the Wachovia Bank at 5010 Floyd Road in Austell just after 9 a.m. Police said that the bank was full of employees and customers during the robbery but the brazen teens barged in anyways and held the bank up like it was a video game plot.
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ — Police responded to a local bank and say that their prime suspects are several area high school students.
Investigators have several teenagers in custody after the robbery and are questioning them in connection with the violent robbery Wednesday of the Cobb County bank.
Police in Austell Georgia, a small community just outside of Atlanta say that the robbery that was committed by these teenagers showed no regard for life.
One of the two robbers fired a shot into the ceiling of the Wachovia Bank at 5010 Floyd Road in Austell just after 9 a.m. Police said that the bank was full of employees and customers during the robbery but the brazen teens barged in anyways and held the bank up like it was a video game plot.
“I thought I was going to die; it was that close to me,” said one customer.
The suspects got away with two bags of cash, but a dye pack hidden in one of the bags by bank employees went off as the robbers ran through some nearby woods.
Police responding to the area picked up the suspects walking in a neighborhood next to those woods. Police said they found the cash and a mask in the wooded area.
At least one of the suspects is a student at South Cobb High School, according to police.
The teenagers face state charges of armed bank robbery and one of the teens will face felony charges for shooting his gun during the hold-up.
Investigators are also looking into whether or not anyone else was involved in the robbery plan and where the gun came from.
Police are not releasing the suspect’s names until they are formally charged.
Police are not releasing the suspect’s names until they are formally charged.
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TN. Deputy Shoots Deer Poacher www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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HOHENWALD, Tenn. Nov 27 2008 — Two brothers are facing a variety of charges after an alleged deer poaching incident in Lewis County that resulted in the shooting of one of the suspects by a deputy.
Tennessee Wildlife resource officer Brandon Gessling said he tried to pull over two brothers, Robert and Thoms Szostek, who he believed were poaching deer using a spotlight on Buffalo Road around 8:30 p.m.
Gessling called the Lewis County Sheriff’s Department for assistance. The sheriff of Lewis County said three of his deputies followed the men onto the Natchez Trace Parkway. The brothers then ran one deputy off the road before finally stopping when their truck’s motor died, said the sheriff.
At that point, the sheriff said, Robert Szostek got out of the truck with his hands up, but Thomas Szostek jumped out of the truck with a rifle, ran up an embankment and pointed the gun at the officers
A deputy then shot Thomas Szostek, who was later taken by Life Flight helicopter to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville.
The sheriff would not release the names of the three deputies involved, but said that the officer who fired the shots is a supervisor who has been with the department for more than 10 years.
The deputy who fired the shots and Gessling are both on paid administrative leave until the investigation is complete.
Robert Szostek is facing charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and four counts of reckless endangerment for allegedly trying to run the officers off the road.
Thomas Szostek is facing two counts of attempted murder. TBI investigators are now analyzing the suspect’s rifle and the officer’s gun as evidence.
Both Robert and Thomas Szostek are also charged with hunting from a motor vehicle and spotlighting, which can result in stiff fines and having firearms confiscated.
Tennessee Wildlife resource officer Brandon Gessling said he tried to pull over two brothers, Robert and Thoms Szostek, who he believed were poaching deer using a spotlight on Buffalo Road around 8:30 p.m.
Gessling called the Lewis County Sheriff’s Department for assistance. The sheriff of Lewis County said three of his deputies followed the men onto the Natchez Trace Parkway. The brothers then ran one deputy off the road before finally stopping when their truck’s motor died, said the sheriff.
At that point, the sheriff said, Robert Szostek got out of the truck with his hands up, but Thomas Szostek jumped out of the truck with a rifle, ran up an embankment and pointed the gun at the officers
A deputy then shot Thomas Szostek, who was later taken by Life Flight helicopter to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville.
The sheriff would not release the names of the three deputies involved, but said that the officer who fired the shots is a supervisor who has been with the department for more than 10 years.
The deputy who fired the shots and Gessling are both on paid administrative leave until the investigation is complete.
Robert Szostek is facing charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and four counts of reckless endangerment for allegedly trying to run the officers off the road.
Thomas Szostek is facing two counts of attempted murder. TBI investigators are now analyzing the suspect’s rifle and the officer’s gun as evidence.
Both Robert and Thomas Szostek are also charged with hunting from a motor vehicle and spotlighting, which can result in stiff fines and having firearms confiscated.
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Chicago police officer fired over theft of trail mix www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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CHICAGO, IL Nov 27 2008 – A 22-year veteran Chicago police officer was fired last month over charges he stole a $1 bag of trail mix from Walgreens.
Aaron Pena was known as the “mayor of 26th Street” by residents in the Ogden District for his helpfulness in the community, according to testimony before the Chicago Police Board released Wednesday.
City attorneys alleged that Pena went to the Walgreens in the 1900 block of West Cermak Road in August 2007, bought two bags of trail mix and then took a third from the store without paying. Pena was recorded on store security cameras.
Pena testified that he had opened one bag and thought it was so good he wanted a third. But he said that as he walked to the front of the store to pay, he became concerned that he couldn’t hear his radio. He said he forgot about the extra bag when he went outside.
It had slipped my mind . . . what had occurred,” Pena testified.
Pena told the board he had a stroke in 2005 that occasionally left him “unfocused.” He was criminally charged with misdemeanor retail theft but acquitted.
The city’s attorney, however, alluded to two prior incidents at the same Walgreens in which Pena allegedly walked out without paying for merchandise.
But Pena was not charged in any other incident, and the board wouldn’t allow testimony on them.
The board also found he failed to follow an order because he did not tell a dispatcher he had left a burglary call and was at the Walgreens when he took the trail mix.
The board also found he failed to follow an order because he did not tell a dispatcher he had left a burglary call and was at the Walgreens when he took the trail mix.
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Two charged in laptop thefts www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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LAS CRUCES, N.M.Nov 27 2008
Kyle T. Greene
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http://www.privateofficer.com/– A Las Cruces couple were arrested Monday evening after they allegedly shoplifted two laptop computers from an Office Max store, Las Cruces police said.
Police said witnesses saw 20-year-old Amanda Flowers hold open the store’s door as 26-year-old Joseph Aberle walked out with two laptop computers he didn’t pay for.
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http://www.privateofficer.com/– A Las Cruces couple were arrested Monday evening after they allegedly shoplifted two laptop computers from an Office Max store, Las Cruces police said.
Police said witnesses saw 20-year-old Amanda Flowers hold open the store’s door as 26-year-old Joseph Aberle walked out with two laptop computers he didn’t pay for.
Witnesses in the parking lot said they saw the couple run to a Chevrolet Silverado pickup and drive off.
The witnesses, who were shoppers at the Office Max at 2561 East Lohman Ave., wrote down the truck’s license plate and called authorities, officials said.
Police then located Aberle and Flowers and the stolen goods at the couple’s home in the 700 block of Del Monte Street.
Police said a woman who was with the couple during the incident was not involved in the theft and not charged in a crime.
Aberle and Flowers are each charged with one fourth-degree felony count of shoplifting and one count of conspiracy to commit a fourth-degree felony.
The witnesses, who were shoppers at the Office Max at 2561 East Lohman Ave., wrote down the truck’s license plate and called authorities, officials said.
Police then located Aberle and Flowers and the stolen goods at the couple’s home in the 700 block of Del Monte Street.
Police said a woman who was with the couple during the incident was not involved in the theft and not charged in a crime.
Aberle and Flowers are each charged with one fourth-degree felony count of shoplifting and one count of conspiracy to commit a fourth-degree felony.
Both are being held at the Dona Ana County Detention Center, each on a $10,000 bond.
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Questions linger in security guard’s death www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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Santa Ynez Ca. Nov 27 2008
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A Santa Maria family who lost a husband, father and grandfather in May is speaking out about their concerns over how Manny Jones died and why they haven’t been able to receive more information about the circumstances from his employer, the Chumash Casino of Santa Ynez.
Jones, 66, hopped on the casino bus to work his usual night shift as a casino security guard on May 2 and was never heard from by his family again.
He never clocked in for his shift, according to a county sheriff-coroner’s investigation of the incident, but images of him walking around the casino “in a confused state,” were seen on security cameras, according to the coroner’s report.
After his body was found near the intersection of Highway 246 and Edison Street in Santa Ynez, his family has spent months trying to get information about what happened to him, said his son Mark Jones and widow Kathleen Jones. They can’t understand why he would have walked 13 minutes from the casino, or why his body was found with holes in his pants.
“I don’t want anything out of this except for (the casino) to be held accountable,” Kathleen said.
The casino has not been forthcoming regarding their requests, family members say. A call to casino and tribal spokeswoman Frances Snyder about the incident for this story was not returned.
A letter from Tribal First, a claims company that handled the incident on behalf of the Chumash Casino, said that it was denying a death benefit claim to the family.
“We are denying this claim because in order to be compensable, an injury must both arise out of and occur within the course and scope of your employment. There is no medical evidence to support that your husband’s death was caused by anything industrially related. There is no evidence of any precipitating event attributable to his employment that caused his death,” the letter from claims examiner Erica Brown states. “Please accept our sincere condolences; however, we cannot pay any benefits at this time.”
Mark, a teacher, ultimately took the story of his dad’s death to the US-Observer, an Oregon-based newspaper with the motto “demanding accountability” and also a professional investigation service.
After the Observer article, titled: “Wrongful Death at the Chumash Casino?” was published, Mark took the newspapers to the Chumash Casino, hotel and spa and distributed them. He was confronted by security guards and told never to come back on reservation land.
“We just felt robbed,” Mark said of the family’s reaction to Manny’s death. “Something’s not right.” The family has not been offered any settlement or funeral cost funds by the casino, Mark said.
An autopsy performed on Manny’s body concluded that he had died of natural causes. He had some history of atrial fibrillation and mitral valve disease and had smoked cigarettes. But the family says medical professionals told them the cause of Manny’s death was inconclusive and wasn’t related to a heart attack, aneurysm or stroke.
The family wants to know why, if Manny was disoriented or having trouble clocking in to work as shown on a casino security camera, no one attempted to help him or check his welfare.
After more than 30 years in farming in Santa Maria, Manny was working for the casino for the second time. He had retired from a four-year stint in 2004 and came back to work for the casino again in 2007.
“He had a great reputation,” Mark said. The family has heard from many of his former coworkers from the casino expressing their sorrow and concern. However, those friends were not able to speak to the US-Observer or the Journal for fear of losing their jobs. Casino employees were required to sign a confidentiality agreement about his death.
The reporter who wrote the US-Observer story, Joe Snook, said that his newspaper plans to keep on pushing for information on behalf of the Jones family. “He was a good man, very well loved, a church-going guy,” Snook said of Manny.
You can read the US-Observer story online at http://www.usobserver.com/.
santa ynez valley journal
A Santa Maria family who lost a husband, father and grandfather in May is speaking out about their concerns over how Manny Jones died and why they haven’t been able to receive more information about the circumstances from his employer, the Chumash Casino of Santa Ynez.
Jones, 66, hopped on the casino bus to work his usual night shift as a casino security guard on May 2 and was never heard from by his family again.
He never clocked in for his shift, according to a county sheriff-coroner’s investigation of the incident, but images of him walking around the casino “in a confused state,” were seen on security cameras, according to the coroner’s report.
After his body was found near the intersection of Highway 246 and Edison Street in Santa Ynez, his family has spent months trying to get information about what happened to him, said his son Mark Jones and widow Kathleen Jones. They can’t understand why he would have walked 13 minutes from the casino, or why his body was found with holes in his pants.
“I don’t want anything out of this except for (the casino) to be held accountable,” Kathleen said.
The casino has not been forthcoming regarding their requests, family members say. A call to casino and tribal spokeswoman Frances Snyder about the incident for this story was not returned.
A letter from Tribal First, a claims company that handled the incident on behalf of the Chumash Casino, said that it was denying a death benefit claim to the family.
“We are denying this claim because in order to be compensable, an injury must both arise out of and occur within the course and scope of your employment. There is no medical evidence to support that your husband’s death was caused by anything industrially related. There is no evidence of any precipitating event attributable to his employment that caused his death,” the letter from claims examiner Erica Brown states. “Please accept our sincere condolences; however, we cannot pay any benefits at this time.”
Mark, a teacher, ultimately took the story of his dad’s death to the US-Observer, an Oregon-based newspaper with the motto “demanding accountability” and also a professional investigation service.
After the Observer article, titled: “Wrongful Death at the Chumash Casino?” was published, Mark took the newspapers to the Chumash Casino, hotel and spa and distributed them. He was confronted by security guards and told never to come back on reservation land.
“We just felt robbed,” Mark said of the family’s reaction to Manny’s death. “Something’s not right.” The family has not been offered any settlement or funeral cost funds by the casino, Mark said.
An autopsy performed on Manny’s body concluded that he had died of natural causes. He had some history of atrial fibrillation and mitral valve disease and had smoked cigarettes. But the family says medical professionals told them the cause of Manny’s death was inconclusive and wasn’t related to a heart attack, aneurysm or stroke.
The family wants to know why, if Manny was disoriented or having trouble clocking in to work as shown on a casino security camera, no one attempted to help him or check his welfare.
After more than 30 years in farming in Santa Maria, Manny was working for the casino for the second time. He had retired from a four-year stint in 2004 and came back to work for the casino again in 2007.
“He had a great reputation,” Mark said. The family has heard from many of his former coworkers from the casino expressing their sorrow and concern. However, those friends were not able to speak to the US-Observer or the Journal for fear of losing their jobs. Casino employees were required to sign a confidentiality agreement about his death.
The reporter who wrote the US-Observer story, Joe Snook, said that his newspaper plans to keep on pushing for information on behalf of the Jones family. “He was a good man, very well loved, a church-going guy,” Snook said of Manny.
You can read the US-Observer story online at http://www.usobserver.com/.
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Hospital worker shoots supervisor after being fired www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)Nov 27 2008 — A worker returned to an Alaska hospital a day after being fired and unleashed a shooting spree that left one of his ex-supervisors dead and another critically wounded before he was fatally shot by state police.
Joseph Marchetti, armed with a rifle and handgun, fired multiple shots just before 10 a.m. Wednesday inside Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, a small community southwest of Anchorage, authorities said.
The gunfire sent people scattering, hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Nichols said.
“People were running for their lives,” she said.
The two hospital employees shot by Marchetti had been his former supervisors.
Mike Webb, 55, died two hours after the shooting, Nichols said. Margaret Stroup, 57, shot multiple times in the chest, was listed in critical condition and was to be flown to a hospital in Anchorage, she said.
Webb was the hospital’s information services director and Stroup is the imaging services director.
Marchetti, 48, had worked in the hospital’s imaging department until he was fired Tuesday, Nichols said. She had no information on why he was fired.
Nichols said Marchetti was shooting randomly through the main corridor before he left the hospital.
The hospital’s chief financial officer, Jason Paret, heard the first shot and went around a corner to see what was going on, encountering the gunman, Nichols said.
“Marchetti started running after him, but he managed to get away,” she said. “As he ran, he was yelling at co-workers that a gunman was on the loose.”
Marchetti was shot in the hospital’s parking lot in a standoff with troopers who had set up a perimeter outside the facility.
Three troopers fired their weapons, Alaska State Police spokeswoman Megan Peters said. Under department policy, the officers will be placed on administrative leave for three days.
Marchetti moved to Alaska a year ago. He previously worked at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nichols said.
Joseph Marchetti, armed with a rifle and handgun, fired multiple shots just before 10 a.m. Wednesday inside Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, a small community southwest of Anchorage, authorities said.
The gunfire sent people scattering, hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Nichols said.
“People were running for their lives,” she said.
The two hospital employees shot by Marchetti had been his former supervisors.
Mike Webb, 55, died two hours after the shooting, Nichols said. Margaret Stroup, 57, shot multiple times in the chest, was listed in critical condition and was to be flown to a hospital in Anchorage, she said.
Webb was the hospital’s information services director and Stroup is the imaging services director.
Marchetti, 48, had worked in the hospital’s imaging department until he was fired Tuesday, Nichols said. She had no information on why he was fired.
Nichols said Marchetti was shooting randomly through the main corridor before he left the hospital.
The hospital’s chief financial officer, Jason Paret, heard the first shot and went around a corner to see what was going on, encountering the gunman, Nichols said.
“Marchetti started running after him, but he managed to get away,” she said. “As he ran, he was yelling at co-workers that a gunman was on the loose.”
Marchetti was shot in the hospital’s parking lot in a standoff with troopers who had set up a perimeter outside the facility.
Three troopers fired their weapons, Alaska State Police spokeswoman Megan Peters said. Under department policy, the officers will be placed on administrative leave for three days.
Marchetti moved to Alaska a year ago. He previously worked at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nichols said.
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Security guard shoots at dog, strikes owner www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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Fort Worth TX Nov 27 2008
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Police are questioning an armed security officer who shot at a dog while on patrol at an area apartment complex. The bullet accidentally struck a person who police said was taken to a local hospital.
Police said that the person, who they did not identify, is in the hospital with a bullet wound in the leg and Fort Worth police are questioning why the security guard pulled the trigger.
According to the police report, just before midnight, the security officer was on patrol at the Bentley Village apartments on Brentwood Stair Road near I-30 and Eastchase Parkway.
For reasons that are not yet clear, he says he fired a shot at a dog but the bullet apparently ricocheted and struck the dog’s owner in the leg. The owner was rushed to the hospital where doctors say the wound is not life-threatening.
Now police investigators are trying to determine why the security officer chose to shoot at the dog in the first place. They are questioning whether he was under attack by the dog or if he was in fear of being attacked or if there was some other reason that he used his weapon.
Under Texas law as in most states, a person can use deadly force to protect their life or that of another when they are in immediate danger. Right now it’s questionable if this was the case with the dog and the security officer could face serious charges including assault with a deadly weapon or reckless endangerment.
Right now, police are not releasing the security officer’s name.
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Police are questioning an armed security officer who shot at a dog while on patrol at an area apartment complex. The bullet accidentally struck a person who police said was taken to a local hospital.
Police said that the person, who they did not identify, is in the hospital with a bullet wound in the leg and Fort Worth police are questioning why the security guard pulled the trigger.
According to the police report, just before midnight, the security officer was on patrol at the Bentley Village apartments on Brentwood Stair Road near I-30 and Eastchase Parkway.
For reasons that are not yet clear, he says he fired a shot at a dog but the bullet apparently ricocheted and struck the dog’s owner in the leg. The owner was rushed to the hospital where doctors say the wound is not life-threatening.
Now police investigators are trying to determine why the security officer chose to shoot at the dog in the first place. They are questioning whether he was under attack by the dog or if he was in fear of being attacked or if there was some other reason that he used his weapon.
Under Texas law as in most states, a person can use deadly force to protect their life or that of another when they are in immediate danger. Right now it’s questionable if this was the case with the dog and the security officer could face serious charges including assault with a deadly weapon or reckless endangerment.
Right now, police are not releasing the security officer’s name.
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Off-duty trooper helps to nab armored car robbers www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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Indianapolis IN. Non 27 2008
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An off-duty state trooper was in the right place this afternoon, not far from an armored car driver who was robbed at a Far Eastside restaurant.
That trooper let other police know about the robbery, and the swarms of officers arrested the two suspected robbers. Even though two cars were wrecked in the pursuit of the suspects, no one was hurt in the wrecks and no shots were fired
The only apparent injury in the case happened to one of the suspects, who apparently was bitten by a police dog that chased him through an apartment complex.
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An off-duty state trooper was in the right place this afternoon, not far from an armored car driver who was robbed at a Far Eastside restaurant.
That trooper let other police know about the robbery, and the swarms of officers arrested the two suspected robbers. Even though two cars were wrecked in the pursuit of the suspects, no one was hurt in the wrecks and no shots were fired
The only apparent injury in the case happened to one of the suspects, who apparently was bitten by a police dog that chased him through an apartment complex.
“There couldn’t have been a better end to this if this was scripted for a movie,” said First Sgt. David R. Bursten, information officer for Indiana State Police. “If people wonder why we let troopers drive their squad cars home, this gives them an answer.”
Around 1 p.m. today, Trooper Bryce Filson, who has been with state police for barely a year and a half, was in the area of the Washington Square shopping center at Washington Street and Mitthoefer Road.At the same time, a driver of a Brinks armored car was making a routine cash pickup at the White Castle restaurant, 10053 E. Washington St., when two men robbed him.Filson was in a neighboring car wash parking lot, heard the armored car driver’s shouts for help, and responded by getting on his radio and letting his dispatchers know there was trouble. The robbers jumped into a Chrysler Sebring and speed away, and the armored car driver pointed at the Sebring as it escaped.
Police chased the car north across the street into the Washington Square parking lot, where it crashed into a utility truck that was working on a sign at Dick’s Sporting Goods, 10202 E. Washington St.The two men in the Sebring jumped from the wrecked car and ran.
One dashed into the shopping mall, where he was arrested by Indianapolis Metropolitan police and security guards.
That man gave a false name to police, and his true identity was not immediately known, Bursten said.The second man ran northeast and into the Washington Pointe Apartments, where he was arrested by an IMPD officer — the same officer who Filson had planned to meet for lunch and the reason Filson was on the Far Eastside when trouble broke out.
State Police identified the second man as Justin T. Veal, 19. Court records showed that Veal was on probation after being convicted of robbery last year.
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TSA nabs man with gun at Chattanooga airport www.privateofficer.com
November 27, 2008
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TSA nabs man with gun at Chattanooga airport http://www.privateofficer.com
Chattanooga TN Nov 27 2008By: Bryan Hill
NTL. ASSOC. PRIVATE OFFICERS
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Authorities say that TSA security agents searching luggage at the Chattanooga Metropolitan airport discovered a handgun and ammunition in a carry on bag and police have arrested a Florida man.
Joseph Ronald Webster, 34, of Sanford, Fla., was taken into custody and is charged with violating airport security.
The arrest report says a female airport security officer found what appeared to be a gun in Webster’s carry on bag and notified Airport police for assistance.
Upon a physical search, officers found a Springfield Armory XD semi-automatic pistol in his bag.The weapon was seized along with clips and 13 rounds of ammunition.
Webster is being held at the Hamilton County Jail.
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