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Missing Alabama police officer arrested in Las Vegas www.privateofficer.com
Missing Alabama police officer arrested in Las Vegas http://www.privateofficer.com
The 48-year-old detective was the head of the city’s organized crime unit and local police are a bit surprised about the whole event.
Police in Las Vegas say that they arrested White at an area hotel late Monday on a theft charge.
Police found signs of a struggle in White’s office and initially thought that the officer had been kidnapped or some other harm had come to him and immediately began a search.
Authorities are not saying what led them to changing their search from a missing officer to a wanted fugitive and did not release any other details of the case.
White will be extradited back to Alabama shortly to face felony theft charges and could also be charged with other crimes an investigator said.
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Report on 2008 Security Officer Deaths Released www.privateofficer.com
Report on 2008 Security Officer Deaths Released http://www.privateofficer.com
by: Toni Anthony
Special Assignment Editor
Private Officer.com
EXCLUSIVEThe National Association of Private Officers today released their year end report of security officer deaths for 2008.
According to Rick McCann, Executive Director, the N.A.P.O. identified and confirmed 53 on duty deaths of security officers but estimates that the number is actually closer to 70.
The discrepancy always comes from the way that security officer positions are classified by numerous federal agencies. While their job title may be doorman or watchman or pool guard, they all perform security related duties but are not categorized as security officers on federal statistical records, the N.A.P.O. said.
A practice the McCann hopes will change soon so that those who die while in the performance of their security duties are properly recognized, he said.
The 2008 death total is down by 15% from the previous year and McCann attributes that to the continued heightened training that many security companies now participate in, general awareness of their duties, surroundings and job scope and a much more professional security officer who is better educated and skilled at their duties.
However, injuries of private security officers substantially rose during this same period with a major jump in the life threatening area such as gunshots, stab wounds and trauma and McCann said that this increase is due in part to the more visible, proactive security positions and duties of the private officer. “Many more security officers are involved in apprehensions and arrests of shoplifters, trespassers, robbery suspects and others who are committing crimes on properties under guard and security officers are playing a much bigger part in going after these people and being proactive in their duties.
There is also a much wider use of private security in retail, residential, special events and other areas where there is more contact with the public, including criminals which makes the security officer more vulnerable to attack, assault and death.”
As security officer duties and scope of authority continues to increase and the profession takes on a more proactive rather than reactive response, injuries and unfortunately deaths of security officers will also steadily increase McCann said.
That’s why we are pushing for increased security officer training standards and qualifications so that these private officers will be better prepared and equipped to handle the added responsibilities and better safeguard themselves during the performance of them, McCann added.
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Club security aids in drug arrest www.privateofficer.com
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A Monroe man was arrested early Sunday for allegedly attempting to sell narcotics at a West Monroe nightclub.
Anthony D. Davis, 20, of 1101 Richwood Road No.2, Monroe, was arrested by Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Department after a security guard at the club reported that a suspected drug deal was taking place in the restroom.
The arrest report said when deputies entered the restroom, they observed Davis with a clear plastic bag of suspected ecstasy.
When the officer attempted to restrain Davis, Davis allegedly tried to put the suspected narcotics in his pocket.
Davis was charged with possession with intent to distribute a schedule I narcotic. He was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on $15,000 bond.
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Retail Security News Round-Up www.privateofficer.com
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Rome GA.
Two residents were arrested Sunday afternoon on shoplifting charges, reports stated.
According to Floyd County jail records:
Christopher Robert Blake, 20, of 361 Potts Road in King-ston, and Katie Carol Hartley, 20, of 20 Oak Street in Rome, were both charged with theft.
According to reports, they both attempted to take the same items from Wal-Mart SuperCenter on Redmond Circle without paying.
The items included: zebra-striped shorts, valued at $7, DVD RW 25-pack, valued at $26.44 and a plug-in air fresh-ener, valued at$4.64.
Bail is set for each of them at $1,350.
Richmond KY
An alleged shoplifter at Walmart was arrested Wednesday on theft and drug possession charges.Angela Shepherd, 32, of Sally Branch Road, Richmond, was arrested and charged with theft by unlawful taking, less than $300, first-degree possession of a controlled substance and giving a false name to a police officer.Police say Shepherd was detained by Walmart employees for allegedly taking $42 in merchandise.During her arrest, Shepherd gave police a false name, and two oxycodone pills were found in her wallet.Shepherd was lodged in the Madison County Detention Center.
19-year-old Lewes woman is accused of shoplifting at a store where she already was banned for stealing. Melanie W. Payton, 19, of the 17000 block of Callaway Drive was spotted by security workers as a previous offender at about 9:40 p.m. Friday when she walked into the Wal-Mart in the 18000 block of Rehoboth Beach Blvd. in Rehoboth Beach, state police said. She was seen putting a DVD into a diaper bag and entering a restroom. Security workers found an empty DVD case in the restroom after Payton left. The security workers detained Payton until she was arrested by state troopers and charged with shoplifting and breach of release.
North Cornwall PA.
RETAIL THEFT: Chirese Kelly, 18, of 750 Mifflin St. was charged with taking $54 in merchandise from Kohl’s, 1261 Quentin Road, at 8:32 p.m. Dec. 16, police said.
RETAIL THEFT: Jennifer Gomez, 18, Lebanon, and a 14-year-old girl from New York, whose name was not released, were charged with failing to pay for merchandise totaling $93 at Kohl’s, 1261 Quentin Road, at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, police said.
RETAIL THEFT: Nicole M. O’Leary, 22, of 201 W. Washington Ave., Myerstown, was charged with taking a vacuum sweeper worth $399 without paying for it at Wal-Mart, 101 N. Londonderry Square, at 4:15 p.m. Dec. 14, police said.
A Heartland woman has been cited for shoplifting, after she’s caught with merchandise from an Oakview Mall store, without a receipt.
The police report was filed on Friday, December 19th.
According to the report, mall security officers were called to Claire’s because employees believed she was shoplifting items from the store.
When security approached her they asked, “What happened?” the woman allegedly replied, “I did not steal anything”, after a check of her bag officers took her and the merchandise back to the store where an employee identified it as items stolen from the store.
Thirty year old Desaray Surdeson was cited, 13 items of girls clothing returned to the store. The value of the merchandise was less than $70. According to the report Surdeson told officers she had no money for Christmas gifts.
Twin Falls Police say 23 year old Dagon Williams was allegedly seen shoplifting by another customer, who alerted employees.
Police say staff confronted Williams as he was leaving the store, while several customers helped detain Williams.
Police allege he was trying to take a mini-dvd player and a candy bar.
Williams faces charges of aggravated assault, willful concealment, carrying a concealed weapon, and possession of a controlled substance.
Twin Falls Police say they found both meth and marijuana in Williams possession.
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Suspect in security guard murder gets 18 year prison sentence www.privateofficer.com
Suspect in security guard murder gets 18 year prison sentence http://www.privateofficer.com
Nyanda Charley, who had pleaded guilty last year to murdering Neville Webb, denied in court this morning that he was the one who pulled the trigger that night and said he was pressured to confess to the crime.
But acting state Supreme Court Justice Gerald Loehr said Charley entered his guilty plea “knowingly and voluntarily” in September, and imposed the lengthy prison sentence for causing Webb’s death.
Webb, a father of five who immigrated from Jamaica, was working as a security guard at Oakwood Gardens Apartments on East Lincoln Avenue when he tried to confront a group of youths who were throwing eggs at cars as a Halloween prank.
As he approached the group, police said, Charley sneaked up behind Webb and shot him twice – in the head and chest. Webb, who was armed but never drew his weapon, died the next day.
Four days after the shooting, police arrested Charley, who’d had prior run-ins with Webb. His death sparked a weeklong outpouring of outrage and sorrow in the city.
Charley had admitted to shooting 52-year-old Neville Webb on Halloween in 2007. The guard had tried to chase off a group of youths throwing eggs near the Mount Vernon apartment complex where he was working.
Webb worked as a prison guard in Jamaica for 25 years before coming to the United States in 2005. His family said his organs were donated to nine people.
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Mall store clerk tied up during robbery www.privateofficer.com
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Police report a thief robbed and tied up a clerk inside a store at a busy local mall Monday, before escaping through a mall parking lot.Police say the thief struck inside the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, right after the mall opened for business Monday morning.
As stunned shoppers looked on, Arlington County police swarmed the Pentagon City mall, but the man who tied up and robbed a store clerk at knifepoint was gone.
Moments after the Clark’s shoe store located on the third floor of the mall opened for business, a man wearing a black knit cap and brown suede jacket walked in and browsed around until the customers left.
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Missing boy goes unreported for decade www.privateofficer.com
Missing boy goes unreported for decade http://www.privateofficer.com
We don’t know what happened to Adam Herrman past ’99, when he was last seen,” Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado.
“Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can’t answer because we don’t know,” he added.
Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.
A few weeks ago, a person notified Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit of a “concern” regarding Adam, Murphy said.
The agency did not immediately return CNN’s phone call seeking additional information.
Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Adam’s adoptive parents, said the couple “really rue the fact that they didn’t” report the boy missing.
“They feel very guilty” about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview. The couple told him the boy had run away frequently, he said, and they believed him to be either with his biological parents or homeless.
Although the Herrmans did not report him missing, “they were very worried about him,” he said.
Authorities have searched the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park, where the family had lived, and discovered an “answer” to one of their questions, Murphy said, without explaining.
“We did find one of the answers we were looking for, but I am holding that one very tightly,” he said.
Eisenbise said authorities also executed a search warrant on December 15 at the Herrmans’ home in Derby, a town just outside of Wichita. They took the couple’s computer, he said.
Murphy said the couple is cooperating and had not been charged with anything.
Citing a relative, the Wichita Eagle reported the Herrmans had taken Adam into foster care and later adopted him.
Michelle Ponce of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, which oversees adoption and foster care, said she could not release any details regard Adam’s case, and could confirm only that he had been in foster care at some point, but was no longer in foster care in 1999.
Adam had been placed in the Herrmans’ care when he was about 2, Murphy said in a phone interview. He had been named Irvin Groeninger III when he was born on June 8, 1987, Murphy said, and it was not clear when his name was changed.
His biological parents relinquished their rights as parents about two decades ago, and Adam and his siblings were put in different foster homes, CNN affiliate KWCH reported.
“I thought what I was doing for them was in the best interest of the children and evidently it wasn’t,” Irvin Groeninger told KWCH. “If he was still in my custody this would have never happened.”
Adam’s sister, Tiffany Broadfoot, 22, said she last saw her brother about 14 years ago at a birthday party.
A year or two later, he sent her a Christmas card, she said. “And that was the end of my contact with him,” she told KWCH.
“He had the cutest little round face, little bitty freckles right up here on the tip of his cheek,” she remembered.
“I’m just awestruck as how something like that could actually happen, and how he could be missing as long as he’s been and nobody say anything,” she said.
Murphy said Adam’s name appears on a legal document later than 1999. “We know that he was listed in a legal action as if he was still living at home, and I’m not certain of the date, but it was beyond 1999,” he told CNN.
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Man arrested for soliciting sex in mens bathroom www.privateofficer.com
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