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Missing Nashville girl found after 6 years http://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.
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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Woman arrested for trading kids for birds http://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.
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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Repo industry becoming more violent http://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.”
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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February 28, 2009
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Shoplifter charged with assault on security agent http://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.
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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February 28, 2009
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Bank security aids police in capture of rapist http://www.privateofficer.com
Memphis TN Feb 28 2009
By: Rick McCann
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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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February 28, 2009
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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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February 28, 2009
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Security agents nab sexual assault suspect http://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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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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February 28, 2009
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NYC Security officers to get back pay http://www.privateofficer.com
NEW YORK, NY February 28, 2009
By:Brett Davis
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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.
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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TBI Agent killed in Iraq www.privateofficer.com
February 28, 2009
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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.
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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February 28, 2009
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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.
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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February 28, 2009
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Security officer deploys Taser during fight http://www.privateofficer.com
Cincinnati OH Feb 28 2009
By: Brett Davis
Staff Reporter
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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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