Archive for February, 2009
Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Missing Nashville girl found after 6 years www.privateofficer.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn.Feb 28 2009 wsmv.com– Police said a girl taken from Nashville six years ago has been found with her mother in Dallas.
FBI agents said Hope Lazarides illegally took her child, Sophia, in 2003. Lazarides was arrested and charged Tuesday night after agents in Nashville got a tip she was living with her daughter in Dallas.
Sophia Lazarides is now 14 years old. She was 8 years old when police said her mother abducted her from her Nashville home.
Sophia has been reunited with her father, songwriter Kostas Lazarides, who lives in Montana.
Hope Lazarides will be returned to Nashville to face charges.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Woman arrested for trading kids for birds www.privateofficer.com
NEW ORLEANS LA Feb 28 2009 — A Louisiana woman stands accused of trading two young children in her care for a pet bird and $175 cash.
Authorities said she arranged the deal with a couple who had been trying for years to have their own child.
Donna Greenwell is in custody on charges of aggravated kidnapping.
Also charged are a man and woman identified as the would-be adoptive parents, Paul and Brandy Romero. A sheriff’s detective said they appeared to have “good intentions,” and that the kids were well treated by them.
Authorities said the transaction for the 5-year-old boy and the 4-year-old girl was negotiated by phone. They said Greenwell had contacted the couple after spotting a flier selling a cockatoo for $1,500.
It’s not known just what the relationship is between Greenwell and the children. The children’s father is being questioned, and authorities are looking for the mother.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Repo industry becoming more violent www.privateofficer.com
HALSELL, Ala. Feb 28 2009 AP –Alone in his mobile home off a winding dirt road, Jimmy Tanks heard a commotion at 2:30 a.m. just outside his bedroom window: Somebody was messing with his car.
The 67-year-old railroad retiree grabbed a gun, walked out the back door and confronted not a thief but a repo man and two helpers trying to tow off the Chrysler Sebring. Shots were fired, and Tanks wound up dead, a bullet in his chest.
The man who came to repossess the car, Kenneth Alvin Smith, is awaiting trial on a murder charge in a state considered a Wild West territory even by the standards of an industry that’s largely unregulated nationally. Since Tanks’ death last June, two other repo men from the same company Smith worked for were shot, one fatally.
“It’s gotten to where it’s a crazy world out there,” said Smith, 50, an ex-Marine who preaches part-time and sings gospel music. Smith said Thursday that he fired in self-defense after Tanks fired a shot.
With the U.S. dealing with an economic slide that has cost millions of jobs, the number of vehicle repossessions is expected to rise 5 percent this year. That’s after it jumped 12 percent to 1.67 million nationally in 2008, said Tom Webb, chief economist with Manheim Consulting, an automotive marketing firm. That followed a 9 percent increase in 2007, creating more opportunities for bad outcomes in an industry where armed confrontations and threats happen every day.
Joe Taylor, whose Florida-based company insures repossession companies, said licensing and training is the answer to avoiding such violence.
“If a guy is just put right on the street without training, the potential for violence is very, very high,” said Taylor, who runs Insurance Services USA.
Federal law says workers can’t “breach the peace” while repossessing items, but it doesn’t go further to state just what that means, leaving definitions up to courts.
All three Alabama shootings were in the middle of the night, which an industry leader said was a sign of a problem.
“The smart operators aren’t out there at 2 or 3 o’clock at night with people who can put you in a bad situation,” said Les McCook, executive director of the American Recovery Association, a trade group for repossession companies.
It was June 26 that the repo man came for Tanks’ car in Halsell, a tiny, rural Choctaw County town near the Mississippi line. Tanks already had filed for bankruptcy and was behind on his payments, court documents show.
Tanks heard a noise and went outside with a gun, something anybody would do, said Choctaw County Sheriff James Lovette, who knew Tanks for years. Smith was indicted Tuesday, but no charges were filed against a man and his teenage son who accompanied Smith, said Lovette.
Smith’s defense lawyer, Rusty Wright, said Tanks came out of the trailer and fired, and that Smith “just wanted to stop him.”
“This is not the gunslinging cowboy that people think about with repo guys,” Wright said. “(Smith) wasn’t out to kill the guy.”
The sheriff declined comment on whether Tanks shot at Smith.
Lovette said Smith worked out of Birmingham with Ascension Recovery, a subsidiary of the Chicago-based Renovo Services. The same recovery firm employed a repo man who was shot and killed on Jan. 8 in Birmingham, as well as a third worker who was wounded while towing a vehicle in the city on Feb. 10.
The CEO of Renovo Services, David Cowlbeck, didn’t respond to questions sent by e-mail about the fatal shootings. He called the unsolved February wounding of 30-year-old Jason Williamson “a random act of violence.”
“We trust that the perpetrators are quickly apprehended and charged accordingly,” Cowlbeck said in a statement.
Lovette is asking the Alabama Sheriff’s Association to push a bill limiting the hours when repossession companies can operate and requiring them to contact local law enforcement before working in an area.
“There’s a time and place for everything, and 3 a.m. is not it,” said Lovette.
The three states that actively license and monitor recovery agents — California, Florida and Louisiana — report less violence than other states, Taylor said. But most state legislatures aren’t interested in repossession law until people start dying, he said.
“You don’t find many state legislators who have had a car repossessed. They are just unfamiliar with that world,” said Taylor.
Tanks was killed just two weeks after he married Georgia Tanks, who keeps a floral spray at the spot where he died beside the car, which is long gone. She wasn’t at home the night he was killed because she was away teaching Vacation Bible School in nearby Meridian, Miss. She has filed a wrongful death suit in the slaying.
“It’s senseless,” she said, wiping away tears as she looked at their wedding photograph. “The legal stuff I don’t know anything about. I just know God is going to let justice be done.”
Smith, too, is haunted by what happened that night.
“I’ve played it through in my mind a million times to see if I could have done something different,” he said. “I couldn’t have.”
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Shoplifter charged with assault on security agent www.privateofficer.com
Monmouth County NJ Feb 28 2009
Police have arrested a Union Beach man who they say threw a store security guard to the ground when the worker tried to stop him from shoplifting.
Jason S. Connelly, 27, of Cambridge Avenue, was charged Wednesday with robbery and shoplifting.
Around 6:45 p.m., Connelly stole $60 worth of sneakers and $8 worth of socks from Kohl’s on Route 35, but when a security guard confronted him, he grabbed the guard, threw him to the ground and tried to punch him in the face, said Detective Sgt. Louis Torres. Connelly then stopped resisting and pleaded with the security guard to let him return the items, police said.
At that point, police arrived and Connelly was arrested by Sgt. Vincent Imperato.
Connelly was wanted on an outstanding Tinton Falls municipal court warrant.
He was being held today at the Monmouth County Jail, Freehold Township, with bail set at $75,000.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Bank security aids police in capture of rapist www.privateofficer.com
Memphis TN Feb 28 2009
By: Rick McCann
Private Officer News Network
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An intruder robbed and raped a South Memphis woman Wednesday afternoon has been arrested thanks to the calmness of the victim and the assistance of a bank security officer.
Police said that the suspect forced the woman to go to a bank to withdraw money after raping her and it was there that she was able to get help.
The woman told a bank security guard to call police which he did as he then went outside to see if he could assist further.
According to police, the intruder broke into the 40-year-old woman’s house in the 1600 block of Preston about 1 p.m. He demanded money at gunpoint, then raped her.
The man then forced the victim drive to the Regions Bank at Third and Belz, where he ordered her to withdraw money, but woman saw a security officer and asked for his help.
At that point the suspect, identified as Willie Miller, 18, fled and jumped on a city bus as bank security notified police of the suspect’s wherebouts.
Police stopped the bus, and the suspect hopped off and ran, but officers caught him several blocks away.
Miller told investigators it was true that he’d broken into the house, but the sex act was consensual and the woman wanted to give him money.
He’s been charged with aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and evading arrest.
Miller pleaded guilty in 2008 to aggravated burglary and was given a three-year suspended sentence.
Miller is being held in the Shelby County Jail on $500,000 bond.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Woman charged in credit card scam www.privateofficer.com
CHICAGO IL Feb 28 2009 Two women were arrested early Wednesday for allegedly stealing cash using a stolen debit card at a Near North Side Jewel grocery, and police say they may have been involved in a string of similar incidents.
The women, both 23, were arrested about 3 a.m. Wednesday at the Jewel grocery at 1210 N. Clark St., according to police, who said they remain in custody but had not been charged as of early Thursday morning.
Police said the women were spotted allegedly using the stolen credit card in the self-check out lanes and, swiping it several times and each time asking for $100 cash back after a small purchase like gum or soda.
A security guard called police, who arrested the women — one who of whom was still inside and the other outside running away, police said.
They had allegedly stolen about $1,000 and both have prior arrest histories with Chicago Police.
The pair may have been involved in similar incidents described in a community alert issued by Belmont Area detectives Wednesday. The alert was issued after a man met two women outside a River North bar last month and later discovered his bank debit card was missing and $8,600 was withdrawn from his account.
Detectives said there have been numerous incidents downtown and on the Near North Side in which men have been approached by women “offering a ride or a good time.”
The women convince the victims to withdraw cash from an ATM, watch him enter his PIN and later take his credit/debit card without his knowledge and use it at self-checkout lanes at the Jewel stores at 1224 S. Wabash Ave., 1210 N. Clark St. and at Ohio and State.
In last month’s incident, after the women got the man’s card, they purchased a low-priced item at the South Wabash Jewel, then depleted the man’s bank account by $8,600 by withdrawing cash in $100 increments, the alert said.
Police advise men to be alert to suspicious people extending invitations to “go for a ride” or who offer a “good time.” Additionally, police advise against carrying an excessive amount of cash and/or credit cards.
“It’s the perfect crime,’’ according to a police source, who said the crimes are hard to prosecute for at two reasons.
The victims often don’t want to come forward because they don’t want their names used, especially if they are married; and the amounts are not significant enough for the bank to aggressively seek action.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Security agents nab sexual assault suspect www.privateofficer.com
Boise ID Feb 28 2009
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Boise police arrested a man Thursday after he grabbed and forcibly held and kissed two young boys in a crowded supermarket. The suspect was a stranger to the boys, police said.
Netra P. Mishra, 27 of Boise, is charged with kidnapping and battery.
Police detectives are searching for more possible victims.
On Saturday around 12:30 p.m., Boise police were called to the Winco grocery store on the 8200 block of Fairview Ave.
Store security employees were detaining a man after a woman reported to them that the man had just grabbed, forcibly kissed and held her 5-year-old son.
After viewing store security video, officers found the man had also attacked a 10-year-old boy in much the same way just prior to attacking the 5 year old.
It appears the older boy was also shopping with his mother. However, it appears the boy’s mother didn’t see the attack, and the boy didn’t tell her after he ran from the man. Detectives have since located the family and interviewed the boy.
Officers say the evidence indicates the suspect approached the first boy and talked to him briefly as the two walked behind the boy’s mother. The boy’s mother turned out of the aisle, and the attack occurred. The boy was eventually able to wrestle himself away and run.
The suspect attacked the second, younger boy just feet from his mother as she picked out items from store shelves. The suspect apparently used his body to block the mother’s view of the attack.
The mother turned and saw the suspect holding her son, yelled at the suspect, and he walked away. The woman then went and alerted store employees.
Boise police detectives have learned Mishra has only been in Boise for the past month, staying with family in an apartment complex near Hartman Street and Fairview Ave.
He speaks Nepalese and does not have any immigration holds, said police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower.
Anyone with information about Mishra or possible additional victims, or anyone who may have been shopping in Winco and seen the suspect or witnessed these attacks but has not been interviewed by police is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 343-COPS.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
NYC Security officers to get back pay www.privateofficer.com
NEW YORK, NY February 28, 2009
By:Brett Davis
Staff Reporter
Private Officer News Network
http://www.privateofficer.com/ —500 private security officers in Bew York City have hit paydirt but the money was already theirs. Security officers are getting close to $300,000 in back pay and benefits, thanks in part to an investigation by an area news reporter into a city security contractor.
The recent settlement of the workers claims was secured by City Comptroller Bill Thompson. Back in 2006 television station WNYC looked into complaints from employees and their union that Tristar Patrol Services was shortchanging workers who protect city buildings and the Staten Island Ferry.
WNYC’s probe found that just a few years earlier, the state comptroller cited Tristar for misrepresenting the training and qualifications of the guards, and the Tristar’s owner was previously convicted of assualt and forced to resign from the Port Authority police force.
The city selected a new contractor to supply security guards and now those previous security officer’s may get all of the money that has been due them. A spokesman for the New York secretary of state, which regulates the guard industry, says Tristar’s license was revoked in 2007.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
TBI Agent killed in Iraq www.privateofficer.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Feb 28 2009
A Tennessee National Guard soldier who died in Iraq when Iraqi policemen opened fire on U.S. soldiers was a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent with a strong sense of patriotism, his boss said Thursday.
First Lt. William E. Emmert, 36, died Tuesday in Mosul, according to a Department of Defense news release.
The attack also injured three other Tennessee National Guard soldiers, Guard spokesman Randy Harris said.Emmert was deployed at the end of January to serve as a platoon leader in the 269th Military Police Company, 117th Military Police Battalion, from Murfreesboro.Two Iraqi policeman opened fire during a U.S. military inspection of a police post in northern Iraq, killing Emmert and an interpreter.
The Tennessee National Guard would not release the names or conditions of the other three soldiers. The unit of about 170 soldiers remains in an area around Mosul, Harris said.Emmert had worked for the TBI Criminal Investigation Division as a field agent in Lincoln and Moore counties since 2007.
TBI Director Mark Gwyn called Emmert an “outstanding” agent.”Not only was he an excellent investigator, but more importantly, a tremendous person full of integrity, character and patriotism,” Gwyn said. “He is a true American hero and will be greatly missed by all who knew him personally and professionally.”Emmert’s father told The Associated Press the family was making funeral arrangements and planned to meet with military officials.The attack has renewed concerns about insurgents infiltrating Iraqi security forces.
The shooting was the fourth attack in the region since late 2007 with suspected links to Iraqi security units.The two policemen began shooting as the Americans toured an Iraqi police unit guarding a key bridge in Mosul, about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, police spokesman Brig. Gen. Saeed al-Jubouri said.
Al-Jubouri denied reports that the gunmen could have been insurgents dressed in police uniforms — a tactic used before in suicide bombings and attacks.
“Absolutely these were policemen,” al-Jubouri said.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Security officer robbed; police officer shot during chase www.privateofficer.com
BATON ROUGE, LA Feb 28 2009 (WAFB) – A decorated police lieutenant was shot Friday morning in Baton Rouge while trying to arrest a teenager, who was also shot.
Police say the gun battle happened off Van Gogh Avenue around 3:45am in the Melrose East neighborhood. The whole ordeal started when a security guard called police to report he had been robbed at an apartment complex in an area known as Mall City.
Lieutenant Bobby Glaser, the commander of the K-9 division who is known to work nights, got the call and noticed a young man fitting the robber’s description. From there, it’s unclear as to what happened next, but eventually the officer and the suspect got into what amounts to a gun battle.
Investigators say they exchanged several shots, during which the teenage suspect a teenager was hit in the arm and took off running. Glaser, a 24-year veteran with the police department, was shot in both legs. Although he was bleeding badly, the officer was still able to get to his radio and relay information, like descriptions, to his fellow officers so they could eventually catch the 16-year-old.
Ambulances took both the officer and the 16-year-old suspect to the hospital. They are both expected to survive. Now investigators have to piece the entire incident back together.
The police department’s academy class is getting a first-hand look and invaluable training through this experience. It is eye-opening insight to prove how their lives could be on the line at any moment. The cadets are also helping investigators look for clues.
Lots of alphabetized evidence markers were placed near the officer’s police car. Every letter, from A to at least W, represents shell casings and other pieces of what could become evidence.
Police say the teen will be charged upon his release from the hospital, but they haven’t determined exactly what those charges will be. They say because he is a juvenile, his identity cannot be released.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 28, 2009
Security officer deploys Taser during fight www.privateofficer.com
Cincinnati OH Feb 28 2009
By: Brett Davis
Staff Reporter
Private Officer News Network
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Police say that a security guard had to deploy his Taser during a fight at a neighborhood bar.
Police said that when they arrived at Debbie’s Destiny on Northland Boulevard around 2 a.m. they found the victim of the assault on the floor unconcious.
Police think a man hit the victim in the head with a glass mug.
A security guard at the bar tried to stop attacker with a taser but the man was able to pull away and flee the bar.
The victim is at University Hospital this morning.
Police are still searching for the suspect and said that the security officer was not injured during the fight.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Armed and Off-Duty www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta GA Feb 26 2009
By: Rick McCann
Executive Director
National Association of
Private Officers
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Always on duty is a tag line that many law enforcement officers have either put on themselves or become accustomed to the thinking of such because of movies, the public’s general opinion, or possibly departmental policy.
A number of years ago when crime was increasing in metropolitan areas, agencies asked that any officer carrying a weapon or driving a “take home” police vehicle while off-duty get more involved in criminal activity that they either saw or heard via the police radio. Some departments even required that off-duty officers respond to priority type calls when in the area of the call and to get involved in criminal activity that they observed including moving violations.
But armed and off-duty doesn’t have the same meaning for private security personnel. While many supervisors and managers of private security firms and departments are required to be on-call during certain times and may even be required to carry arms during
those hours or once they arrive on their employer’s property, it does not equate to being armed for the purpose of enforcing laws or responding to or getting involved in activities that are not occurring in or around their employment location or employer’s property.
While being armed does give a person a certain level of comfort and security in situations that may be or may become violent, dangerous or cause the person to become a victim of crime, the reactions of the off-duty security person should be no more than that of a reasonable and prudent citizen who has a concealed carry permit.
Being an off-duty security officer is no different that being a plumber or a doctor or a painter who is off work even if the security officer is armed.
While some citizens do get involved in chasing suspects in crimes that the person has witnessed and in some cases make a difference in whether or not the suspect is caught and brought to justice, it is a dangerous action even for the off-duty law enforcement officer and should be done with reasonable care and caution.
I know that packing heat can sometimes make us feel bullet-proof and ten feet tall, but in reality, we’re not Superman and we need to make that split second decision with due care.
Personally, I’ve been involved in many of those off-duty chases and I know that there’s not much time if any to react to a purse snatcher who has just knocked an old lady down while grabbing her purse and I’m definitely not trying to discourage anyone from getting involved. I am however invoking a word of caution and suggesting that a person take reasonable actions.
Off duty private officers are often times observant and suspicious by nature which is a good thing. This trait can help the person to be alert to possible criminal activity or persons or situations and when this occurs the security officer should contact the police and not get involved other than to observe and report.
While responsibilities and required response may be different for the officer on their job, this is public streets and the officer has no authority or jurisdiction more than that of a private citizen.
Recently two incidents were mishandled by off-duty security personnel that got both of them arrested for impersonating a police officer.
In the first incident, the private officer saw several people arguing and walked over and flashed his badge and told them to split. One of the persons involved in the argument called police and because a badge was flashed and words said, the security officer was arrested.
In the second incident, the security officer in plainclothers wearing his security badge on his belt and his firearm walked into a nightclub and when the bouncer asked he was a police officer he said something that was taken as a yes and the police were called and the security person arrested.
Carrying weapons off-duty if you have a permit to do so is fine, but carrying, flashing or wearing badges and guns is only going to get you in trouble.
People getting involved in their community whether as a volunteer fireman, neighborhood watch or in any area that makes a difference is important and so is citizens who are alert and crime smart and has a nose for when something doesn’t look or smell right. But it’s important to stay within the boundaries of the law and to notify law enforcement when there is a legal issue, suspicious person, vehicle, or incident.
Know what you can and can not do and make all decisions smart, prudently and with much thought.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Four mall security officers charged with assault www.privateofficer.com
ROSEVILLE MI Feb 27 2009 – Four security officers at Macomb Mall are facing assault charges after police say they followed a woman onto a bus and handcuffed her after a confrontation at the shopping center.
A fifth person — a young adult in a program designed to give kids interested in law enforcement a glimpse into a police work — was also involved in the incident, officials said.
The five are being accused of improperly handcuffing and detaining the woman, officials said. Security guards don’t have police powers and may detain someone for police only if that person has committed a crime in their presence, according to police.
The four guards and the youth all turned themselves in and were arraigned on assault and battery charges in the 39th District Court, Roseville Deputy Police Chief Anthony Cona said. Assault and battery is a 93-day misdemeanor.
Cona identified the defendants as Edward Mazaluaskas, Gregory Taylor, Dewayne Brown, Jamar Pennington and Tywuan Brintley. A judge set bond for each of the defendants at $5,000.
Police say the incident occurred at about 2 p.m. on Jan. 27
Mall security told police the woman had been banned from the shopping center and when she returned was told to leave.
The woman told police after she got on a bus to leave, a confrontation ensued and security officers handcuffed her and held her, Cona said.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Mall security, police nab jewelry thief www.privateofficer.com
MIAMI TWP. OH Feb 27 2009 A man who police said stole a $22,500 watch from a Dayton Mall jewelry store is facing a felony theft charge.
Montgomery County Prosecutors on Thursday, Feb, 26, approved a fourth-degree felony grand theft charge against Trevor L. Holloway, 37.
Holloway, of Cincinnati, and an accomplice were arrested Wednesday afternoon outside on Osterman Jewelry Store said Maj. John DiPietro of the Miami Twp. police.
The man with Holloway has yet to be charged.
“By the time they left the store got in their car and got to 741 and 725, we were on top of them,” DiPietro said. “I’m very proud of how well our system worked in this case.”
DiPietro said a pair of men entered the Osterman Jewelers in the Dayton Mall shortly before 5 p.m. and asked to see a Rolex watch that was on display. When the store clerk removed the watch from the case, one of the men snatched it, and they ran from the mall.
DiPietro said that thanks to a grant from the Homeland Security Department, the Miami Twp. police have sophisticated communication links to the Dayton Mall. He said the department has access to video surveillance camera images from mall security and direct radio links to the mall’s major retailers.
“The idea is to make the mall a harder target for terrorists, but the system has a lot of day-to-day benefits when it comes to controlling crime,” DiPietro said.
DiPietro said a pair of officers patrolling near the mall were in radio contact with mall security moments after the theft occurred and were able to spot the suspects at the main intersection just northwest of the mall parking area.
The officers found the stolen watch in the car and also found drugs and cash, DiPietro said.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
MetroLink security aid in robbery arrest www.privateofficer.com
ST. LOUIS MO Feb 27 2009– A MetroLink security supervisor who heard a gunshot chased two robbers from the Delmar Loop Metro station about 8:30 a.m. today.
One suspect is in custody. Police are looking for a second.
Willie McCuller, chief of Metro Security, said no one was injured in the incident.
McCuller said a security supervisor for Metro heard a gunshot and was told that a man had just been robbed on a walkway between the platform and the parking lot at the Delmar station.
The supervisor chased two robbers for several blocks, McCuller said.
Metro police and Seventh District officers with the St. Louis Police Department caught one suspect and are looking for a second, McCuller said.
The suspect taken into custody was 17 or 18 years old, police say. When they arrested him, police recovered a gun and the robbery victim’s wallet.
The second suspect is believed to be 15 to 17 years old.St. Louis police spokeswoman Schron Jackson couldn’t confirm that the robbers fired the gun during the holdup. J
ackson said in an email that ballistics tests would have to determine that. But Dianne Williams, a Metro spokeswoman, said her understanding of the incident was that a “warning shot” of sorts was fired by the robbers and that sound is what first alerted the Metro police that something was happening.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Ohio student points gun at security www.privateofficer.com
LORAIN OH Feb 27 2009
Brett Davis
Private Officer News Network
http://www.privateofficer.com/ — A Lorain junior high school student is facing the likelihood of expulsion after school administrators say he pointed a gun at a security guard Thursday.
According to the superintendent, the Whittier Junior High School student had had a previous run-in with the security guard and confronted him in the gym. The student pulled out the gun and aimed it at the guard.
The security guard tackled the student and retrieved the weapon. Another student who was with the student with the gun tried to run, but administrators caught him too.
The second student did not have any weapon or history with the guard according to administrators.
The superintendent says the weapon was a pellet gun.
The school does not have metal detectors but staff say they had practiced for just such an incident and say the training is why the situation was resolved quickly.
The school was put in lockdown while the situation was resolved.
Counselors were made available to the students who witnessed the confrontation.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Target security agents injured when shoplifter goes berserk www.privateofficer.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.Feb 27 2009
Brett Davis
Staff Reporter
Private Officer News Network
http://www.privateofficer.com/ Two Target loss prevention agents were assaulted when they stopped a shoplifter. Both security officers suffered minor injuries during the incident on Monday after a shoplifter went berserk and tried to choke them, police said.
Police said that the suspect, thirty seven year-old Steve Fumando was subdued and has been arrested on several charges after the 5:30 p.m. incident, in which the Great Kills man allegedly “went crazy” after being caught trying to steal a Blu-Ray DVD player.
When security stopped Fumando, he allegedly began fighting and punching the security officers. He is now charged with misdemeanor assault, harassment, and petit larceny, and is jailed in lieu of $1,500 bail.
Kimberly Bethie, one of the loss prevention agents said that the 6-foot, 220-pound Fumando tried to choke her during the assault.
Both security agents received minor injuries during the incident.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Dead body found in car ticketed 7 times www.privateofficer.com
GAINESVILLE, Fla. Feb 27 2009
wpbf-tv.com– A car found in a Gainesville neighborhood with a dead body in the back seat had been ticketed seven times by city parking enforcement.
Police found the body when a resident called authorities Monday afternoon to report the car, which had been parked on the street for days.
A preliminary autopsy helped police identify the body as 42-year-old John Waldo, who had been missing since Feb. 11.
Police said the autopsy revealed no obvious cause of death. Investigators are awaiting toxicology results, which may take up to six weeks.
City records show the first ticket was issued to the 2001 BMW on Feb. 12, the day after Waldo was last seen alive.
A Gainesville city spokesman pointed out that ticket officers are not trained police officers but work out of the city’s public works department.
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Security officers take down robbery suspect www.privateofficer.com
Spokane WA Feb 27 2009
valley news: Police arrested two 17-year-old robbers last night relating to a Tuesday afternoon robbery when the two males robbed a male victim near 2nd/ Howard. One of the males pointed a black colored semi-auto handgun at the victim and demanded money. The suspects fled the area on foot with an undisclosed amount of money.
On Wednesday evening the victim called 911 to report that he saw the same suspects standing near the STA Plaza at 701 W. Riverside. Spokane Police Officers arrived and both suspects fled on foot running in opposite directions.
Officers chased the first suspect as he repeatedly shoved his hands in his waistband as if he was trying to access a weapon. Robber number one eventually stopped next to a parked car where he tried to hide a stolen semi-auto handgun and was apprehended.
The second robber was arrested by STA security. He was also found to be in possession of a second stolen handgun. Both handguns were stolen during burglaries. One of the burglaries was from the Spokane Valley area on February 11, 2009. The second gun was stolen in the Tacoma area.
Both teenage suspects claim to be from the Tacoma area and are are charged with multiple felonies. The first robber was charged with 1st degree robbery, possession of a stolen firearm, and 2nd degree possession of a firearm. The second robber was charged with 1st degree robbery, 1st degree unlawful possession of a firearm and 2 counts of possession of a stolen firearm.
They were both booked into the Spokane County Juvenile facility on Wednesday, but knowing how the juvenile justice system works in Washington State, both are presumably were out “kiddy jail” before the officers even finished their reports and are probably searching for another crime to commit
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Posted by privateofficernews on February 27, 2009
Police recover stolen gun from shoplifters www.privateofficer.com
CONCORD CA Feb 27 2009
mercurynews.com — Two suspects in a shoplifting at a lingerie store were arrested after efforts to conceal the crime that were as semi-transparent as the items they’re accused of stealing, police said.
The theft also led officers a stolen firearm in the getaway car, said police Cpl. Kerry Cerletti.
A man and woman walked into Sarah’s Bare Necessities, 1865 Adobe St., about 1:05 p.m. Wednesday, walked around the store, chatted with the clerk and then tried to leave out the front door, but the store security alarm went off.
The clerk approached the two and asked them to return whatever they took. The pair refused, argued with the clerk and then got into their car and drove off, but so slowly that the clerk was able to take down a license plate number. She then called police.
About 15 minutes later, an officer stopped a car and two occupants that matched the descriptions given by the clerk, who was brought to the scene to identify the pair and give police a description of some of the stolen items, Cerletti said.
When officers began searching the car, the woman confronted them, trying to get in their way before she was subdued and detained. Besides items stolen from the store, they found a loaded handgun that had been reported stolen in Antioch.
Shanoria Sasser, 20, of Pittsburg, was arrested on suspicion of theft, possession of a concealed handgun and possession of stolen property. She was held in West County Jail in Richmond on $40,000 bail.
Nineteen-year-old Bay Point resident Travis Richard was arrested on suspicion of theft and was held in County Jail in Martinez on $40,000 bail.
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