Purse snatcher nabbed with security agent’s help www.privateofficer.com

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CHICOPEE MA Feb 26 2009
therepublican.com – A city man was arrested on a charge of larceny over $250 after police said he grabbed a female shopper’s purse inside the Price Rite Supermarket at 1600 Memorial Drive on Tuesday, but was quickly apprehended at a nearby motel.
Thomas Dougherty, 31, of 74 Hudson Ave., was taken into custody in a room at the Pines Motel by Patrolmen Brian K. LePage and Robert F. Kalisz after he reportedly fled from the store, said Detective Lt. Mark S. Higgins.
The officers responded to a call of larceny of a purse from the shopper’s carriage at 3:30 p.m., and when they arrived determined that the suspect had fled the scene and was being chased by security guard officers.
Higgins praised the quick work by the two officers working with a description given out by store security.
The purse with the victim’s identification and other personal papers was recovered in a dumpster.

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Student arrested after assaulting security officer www.privateofficer.com

PHARR TX Feb 26 2009
themonitor.com — A student at Pharr-San Juan-Alamo North High School has been charged with attacking a security guard at the school, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Although school district officials refused to identify the student, Hidalgo County Jail employees confirmed that a teen had been transferred there on that charge Tuesday evening.
Adrian Zuniga, 17, was formally charged Wednesday with evading arrest, a Class A misdemeanor, and assaulting a security guard, a third-degree felony. If convicted of the felony, he could face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Staff at the county jail said Zuniga had made bail Wednesday and expected him to be released later that evening. He was being held in lieu of a $12,500 bond.
Zuniga was among five other students – four of whom were under the age of 17 – who were arrested during a fight at the campus a few minutes after classes ended at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday.
School officials initially downplayed the incident and said the fight was not gang-related and that no one had been injured, dismissing earlier reports from local media.
“It was just a minor altercation,” said Arianna Vazquez, a spokeswoman for the PSJA school district. “It was just a misunderstanding between two students.”
School and police officials offered contradicting reports about the fight Tuesday evening because it coincided with another incident at the campus, the school district explained Wednesday.
“There were a couple of isolated incidents at the east entrance, one of which resulted in the arrests,” the school system said in a news release it issued Wednesday afternoon. “There was an attempted altercation between two male students, which led security guards to intervene immediately preventing any serious threat.”
Pharr police initially said the incident that resulted in the arrests was prompted by a disruptive female.
Local TV media reported an ambulance was spotted at the school, but police and school officials said it was only there as a precaution and that no one received medical treatment.
“Neither the police department, nor the district is aware of any student taken to the hospital,” the news release states. “In addition, while security and police physically restrained the involved students, neither the police department nor the school district has received any reports of injury to any personnel.”

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Shoplifters also face drug charges www.privateofficer.com

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Kingsport TN. Feb 25 2009
Police responding to a shoplifting call at a Kingsport Wal-Mart ended up making two arrests on drug charges.
According to a Kingsport Police incident report, the officer responded to the West Stone Drive Wal-Mart about 1:15 Saturday morning.

A loss prevention officer had detained a man and woman he had suspected of shoplifting.
Police say that when the Wal-Mart employee attempted to stop the woman, she handed a Crown Royal bag to her boyfriend and told him to run. Following a short struggle with the loss prevention officer, the man was detained.
Police say the Crown Royal bag contained a green leafy substance, several baggies, a pill crusher with white residue, a pack of rolling papers and a scale.
The male suspect, identified as Nathan Kilgore, 35, of 401 Park Ridge Drive, Kingsport, was arrested and transported to Kingsport City Jail. Police say he appeared to be intoxicated, as his speech was slow and slurred and he was unsteady on his feet.
Kilgore is charged with possession of drugs for resale, public intoxication and possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to police, the female suspect initially provided a false name and social security number. She was later positively identified as Jessica Alan Hobbs, 24, of 205 East Ravine Road, Kingsport. She was also arrested and transported to Kingsport City Jail.
Hobbs is charged with public intoxication, identity theft, possession of drugs for resale and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Man commits suicide at hospital www.privateofficer.com

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Seattle WA Feb 25 2009

On Saturday night, a man in his mid-40s told a passer-by he was suicidal and wanted to donate his organs minutes before he fatally shot himself outside the University of Washington Medical Center, according to university police.
The passer-by went into the hospital’s emergency room and told a security officer what the man had said, according to Assistant Chief Ralph Robinson of the University of Washington Police Department.
The security officer called campus police at 6:36 p.m.
Five officers responded and found that the man had moved to an isolated spot between the emergency room and another building, Robinson said. Despite the officers’ repeated commands for the man to drop a shotgun he was holding, the man fired and killed himself at approximately 6:45 p.m. He didn’t threaten the officers and no one else was in danger, Robinson said.
Death investigators with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office are still trying to identify the man.
In late October, former UW custodian Soo Chun, 61, died after setting himself on fire in the UW’s Red Square in full view of numerous witnesses.

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Chicago teacher arrested for sex crimes with student www.privateofficer.com

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Chicago IL. February 23, 2009

By: Brett Davis

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A teacher charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old student who attended a northwest side school where she worked is being held on $110,000 bond.
Linda Pithyou, 29, worked at Lawrence Hall Services which is a not-for-profit treatment center for at risk youth in Chicago.
A spokesperson for the Cook County state’s attorney said that their investigation showed that she arranged to have sex with the teenage male student in a car.
Authorities released few details but said that the teacher was arrested and charged last Friday. Pithyou was dismissed from the school after an internal investigation.

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Seven shot during New Orleans parade www.privateofficer.com

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NEW ORLEANS LA Feb 25 2009
Seven people were injured in a shooting that occurred along the city’s main parade route, marring what had been a picture perfect day with great weather and large crowds.
The incident occurred around 1:45 p.m. along tree-lined St. Charles Avenue as some of the city’s truck parades were passing.
Two young men were shot in the abdomen while four others suffered various graze wounds and shots to the leg and arm as the crowd was sprayed with bullets. None of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening, according to Major Kirk Bouyelas of the NOPD.
Bouyelas said that two suspects were quickly apprehended by nearby officers and three guns had been retrieved from the scene.
The suspects were identified as: 19-year-old Mark Brooks and 18-year-old Louis Lazone, both of New Orleans. They were each booked on seven counts of attempted first-degree murder.
“I think the important thing to note is officers were here, officers were on the scene, and just as with the other shooting, we made a quick apprehension because the officers were on their posts and they were aware of what was going on,” Bouyelas said. “They observed it, they chased down these individuals, and they made these apprehensions.”
The seven people who were injured were all transported to University Hospital.
Among those injured that are in guarded condition include a 20-year-old man who was shot to the abdomen and another 20-year-old man who was also shot to the abdomen.
Those in stable condition include a 1-year-old boy who suffered a graze wound to the back; a 17-year-old woman who was shot to the thigh; a 50-year-old woman who was shot to the right elbow; a 15-year-old young man with an unspecified wound and a 30-year-old man who suffered a graze wound to the thigh.
“It sounded like a string of fireworks, so I knew it was more than one shooter,” said Toni Labat, 29, a window company manager who was near the scene. She was with her two children, a 2-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl.
“Everybody was petrified. They hit the ground, the floats stopped, everybody on the floats ducked,” Labat said.
Labat said one man dragged himself on the ground screaming for help after being wounded and another man was gasping for air and bleeding from his mouth.
City Councilwoman Stacy Head, who was near the scene, said news of the shooting would be ‘devastating’ publicity for the city, which, like the rest of the country, is struggling with tough economic times.
Dr. Jim Parry, 41, a surgeon who was with a gathering of doctors near the shooting site, ran over to tend to one man who he said had been shot in the abdomen. “He kept asking me, ‘Was I shot? Was I shot?”‘
Paramedics arrived and took over for the Air Force reservist.
“I’m off to Afghanistan this summer. Damn, this is more dangerous than Afghanistan,” Parry said.

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Man armed with AK-47 robs armored car www.privateofficer.com

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Phoenix AZ Feb 25 2009

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Police are investigating an armored car robbery that took place in Phoenix Tuesday afternoon.

The robbery occurred at a Wells Fargo bank near Baseline Road and 51st Avenue at about 1:40 p.m.

According to Officer James Holmes, a suspect armed with an AK-47 style assault rifle followed a Loomis Armored car courier into the bank, pointed a gun at him and demanded the courier drop his weapon and the bags of money he was carrying.

The courier complied, at which time the suspect took the money and ran into a red Cavalier parked on the north side of the bank, according to Officer Holmes.

Police said the suspects fled the scene and abandoned the stolen car near 57th Avenue and Baseline Road. Officers canvassed the neighborhood to no avail and the suspects remain at large. No one was hurt.

Police said the Cavalier was stolen Monday from Pure Fitness gym located at 1840 W. Warner Road in Tempe.
The car owner’s gym locker had been broken into and his keys and wallet were stolen, according to investigators.Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stop at (602) 262-6151 or Silent Witness at (480) WITNESS.

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Store security assault leads police on chase www.privateofficer.com

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FULLERTON, Calif. Feb 25 2009—Fullerton police have arrested a man after a high-speed chase in which officers forced the van off the road, shattered the driver-side window and repeatedly beat the suspect after he was pulled from the vehicle.
Police say the driver, who was suspected of beating a security guard, was being chased through Fullerton on Tuesday night when a patrol car bumped his van from behind, causing the van to pull into brush.
A KCAL-TV helicopter camera showed officers surrounding the vehicle before they smashed in the window. Officers appeared to repeatedly order the suspect outside, then pulled him out and beat him repeatedly before taking him into custody.
Police Lt. Doug Cave says the chase started outside a Target store as officers arrived to check out reports of a man trying to attack a security guard with a hammer.
Fullerton is about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

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Mall security charged with assault www.privateofficer.com

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ROSEVILLE, Mich. Feb 25 2009– Several mall security guards are in trouble with the law after a metro Detroit woman said they used excessive force and assaulted her in the parking lot.
The alleged incident happened in the parking lot of the Macomb Mall in Roseville last week.
The woman told Roseville police she had just left the mall and was getting on a city bus when she was attacked by a group of guards and physically assaulted.
What led to the confrontation is not specifically known, but police said the woman had a history with the guards. Police said the woman has been asked to the leave the mall twice since another incident that happened last year.
Police said warrants have been sent to the prosecutor’s office and that assault and battery charges are expected to be brought against the security guards. Police said they hope the people responsible will turn themselves in.
A spokesperson for the mall would not comment on the case or confirm or deny if the guards were still working at the mall.

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First On Scene: Now What? www.privateofficer.com

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Atlanta GA Feb 24 2009
By: Rick McCann
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A stabbing at a college, a robbery at the mall, a heart attack at an office building and it’s a private security officer who will probably be the first on scene.
As more businesses and communities use Private Officers to patrol, secure and protect, there is an increasing reality that when a medical emergency, crime event or other incident requiring immediate response occurs, it’ll be a private person answering the call first and law enforcement coming showing up secondary.

Once the call has been dispatched and the security officer arrives on scène in a primary role, now what?
Besides standing around being just another onlooker or directing traffic or looking confused, there are many duties that the private officer has once on scene.

1. Get Call Clarity- Once the call is dispatched, try to get as much detail about the incident as possible. A man down doesn’t always mean a medical call. It could be a crime scene instead and the man could be a victim of a shooting or stabbing and you may find yourself first on scene in the middle of an armed confrontation, assault or homicide.
If you’re being radio dispatched and the dispatcher is uncertain to the call circumstances have them call back and get more details of the call.

2. Agency Assistance-As soon as the call for help comes in, call 911. Make sure the appropriate assistance, be it fire, medical or police is on their way.
I have heard of colleges and malls waiting to place those calls until a security officer can get on scene and verify the incident.
This is both dangerous and risky.
The majority of private security are unarmed and the level of training is not sufficient to address violent incidents alone.
If a security department fails to call for assistance on a medical call and the person dies because of untimely care, the department will likely face liability issues.
Also, a call of a man with a gun, an assault, mugging etc could easily escalate to the security officer being assaulted, stabbed, shot or otherwise injured trying to detain the suspect and back up would not be on the way.
IMMEDIATELY CALL for assistance!

3. Slow Approach-When arriving to any call, whether by foot, car, bike or other vehicle, the private officer should approach slowly, taking in the scene and monitoring with all six senses.
Don’t Run In! Listen to the sounds, look at the scene, the people and the surroundings, and be prepared for confrontations, bloody scenes, severally injured persons and sometimes chaos.

4. Access The Situation-Determine Priorities-Once you’re sure that the scene is safe to enter and determine what the incident is, now decide what needs to be done first, second, third and so on.
In the case of a medical emergency, even if you are not an emergency medical technician or paramedic, there are still steps that you can take to render some level of first aid.
While some employers restrict their personnel from providing any type of first-aid due to liability issues, the Good Samaritan act will cover any reasonable aid that you give.
Remember your ABC’s.
In a crime scene situation, round up witnesses and corral them in one area, careful not to illegal detain anyone who does not want to stay, secure the scene and don’t let people in or out of the scene and take control of the situation until police arrive. Don’t move or touch anything!

5. Don’t Just Stand There! Do something!
This could be crowd control, traffic control, roping off the scene, getting additional information especially suspect description from witnesses and relaying as quickly as possible to the police. When officers arrive, ask them what they need you to do next and follow their instructions and assist as best as you can.
While the level of training, experience, and employer’s policies will dictate the actions of the private officers once on scene, there will always be a degree of responsibility and prudent steps that should be taken. We have an obligation once we respond to take some type of action and to help in any manner that we can. This does not mean be a hero and get yourself killed. It means think and act reasonably and prudently.
There is an obvious expectation by the employer and those that we protect for the security officer to respond to a situation as quickly as possible and to take some type of action to help rectify the problem, catch the bad guy or to medically assist the person having a stroke, heart attack or in some other way injured.
This is why the National Association of Private Officers recommends that all levels of private security personnel be trained in emergency response, incident management, first-aid and CPR, some level of self-defense and basic security officer duties and responsibilities along with some general criminal and civil law training.
A good rule of thumb to protect yourself and others and to limit any form of liability is to respond and act within the scope of your training, company procedures, and the law.

6. Paperwork-The call isn’t over until you have taken good notes and included all of the who, what, where, when, how and why in your notebook and completed a detailed, accurate written report. Regardless of how minor you think the incident was or your dislike for writing reports or even that the company doesn’t really care if a report is written, write it anyways!
Cover all basis’s and do a thorough job at writing what happened and what you did and this will cover you and your employer from liability should any type of litigation be filed. The report could also become state evidence in a criminal trial so be careful, detailed and truthful in your account of the incident.

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Man charged in arson of Kroger store www.privateofficer.com

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Louisville KY Feb 24 2009
A 38-year-old man has been arrested and charged with setting a fire at the Kroger store on Westport Road yesterday.

Donald McClanhan, of the 1800 block of Jefferson Street, is charged with one count each of first-degree arson and first-degree wanton endangerment.

McClanhan is accused of setting a fire in the stockroom of the store, located at 9501 Westport Road.

The fire apparently started in a load of paper towels, said Maj. Henry Ott, head of the arson squad with Louisville Fire & Rescue.

The fire inside destroyed two flats of goods in the stockroom. McClanhan is also accused of setting a second fire in a dumpster behind the store, Ott said.

No one was injured during the fire but the store had to be evacuated about 4:30 p.m., said Chief Gary Yurt of Worthington Fire.

The fire was under control in about 10 minutes.

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Police officer charged with rape and incest www.privateofficer.com

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SPRINGFIELD MA FEB 24 2009 – A 20-year- veteran of the Springfield Police Department was arrested at police headquarters Monday afternoon on child rape and incest charges.

Pedro J. Martinez, an officer with the squad A uniformed patrol, was arrested at the end of his shift at 3 p.m., said Springfield Police Sgt. John M. Delaney, aide to Commissioner William J. Fitchet.

Martinez was charged with three counts of forcible rape of a child and three counts of incest.
Delaney said Martinez was allowed to change out of his police uniform before he was booked and placed in the police lock up.

The arrest was made by acting Deputy Chief Charles Arpin, Capt. Kevin M. Dudley and Lt. Cheryl C. Clapprood of the Special Victims Unit.

The investigation remains ongoing, Delaney said. Springfield Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet said that Martinez has been suspended immediately without pay for 5 days pending a grand jury indictment.

When the indictment comes in, Martinez will be suspended indefinitely without pay pending the outcome of a trial, Delaney said.

Martinez was appointed to the Springfield Police Department on Nov. 14, 1988.

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Mother and daughter arrested for plotting murder www.privateofficer.com

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Dallas TX Feb 24 2009
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Kenneth Hughes was at work early Monday when detectives asked him to come to Dallas police headquarters and answer some questions: Did he and his wife and daughter have trouble getting along? Were there problems within the family?
Hughes, 57, says that he told them no. Afterward he learned what the questions were about. Officers were arresting his wife of 33 years and their daughter, who they said had tried to hire someone to kill him.
“It just floored me,” Hughes said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Tammie Lafawne Lewis, 31, and her mother, Shirley Bilbrey Hughes, 56, were booked into the Dallas County Jail about 10 a.m. Each is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail and faces charges of solicitation to commit capital murder. Police say they planned to collect on Kenneth Hughes’ life insurance policy.
When detectives told him his wife had confessed, Hughes requested to speak with her but was told he couldn’t. Later he explained what he might have said to her.
“I guess I’d ask her if it was true and ask her why,” he said. “I don’t understand.”
Hughes and his wife lived in a three-bedroom brick house in Garland. Lewis, the elder of their two daughters, moved in last year with her 10-year-old son after a divorce.
Hughes said he got along well with his wife, who looks after infants at a child-care center.
“She’s the best-natured woman you’d ever see,” he said. “She gets along with everybody. We very seldom ever argue.”
Hughes said he and his daughter, who works on a loading dock for a delivery company, have had their troubles since she moved in, but none were significant.
“Same things as when she was a kid,” he said. “She knows to pick up after herself. Just such things as that.”
Police say that on Sunday, Lewis contacted an unnamed witness, offering him $25,000 to kill her father. The witness contacted investigators, who sent an undercover officer with him to make the deal.
About 4 a.m. Monday, Lewis met with an undercover officer in the parking lot of a Dallas shopping center. She gave him a pistol as collateral and to serve as the murder weapon, police say. She said she wanted it done as soon as possible, and afterward she and her mother would pay the fee out of Kenneth Hughes’ life insurance settlement, police say.
For years, Hughes has worked as a dispatcher for a waste company. He has a $200,000 life insurance policy and $200,000 more in accident insurance, he said. “She knew I had it,” he said of his wife. “We have to renew it once a year.”
Police did not detail Shirley Hughes’ involvement in the alleged plot, except to say she admitted conspiring with her daughter. Relatives were shocked the mother would be accused of such a crime.
“When we heard about this, I told my husband, ‘You’ve got to be kidding; she was framed or something,’ ” said Debbie Bilbrey, who is married to Shirley Hughes’ brother. “Because Shirley wouldn’t do that.”
Police confirmed Monday they had never been called to the Hughes home in the 2700 block of Cedar Elm Lane in Garland.
Bilbrey said the Hugheses had problems like any couple, but none seemed serious.
“She worshipped that man,” Bilbrey said. “She used to make me so mad because she’d fix his plate and carry it to him every night for supper. I kept telling her you’re spoiling him rotten.”
Bilbrey had less to say about Lewis.
“I don’t know, I think she just went to the wayward side or something,” she said. “I don’t want to say anything bad about her.”

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Former officer charged with counterfeiting money www.privateofficer.com

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Wellston MO Feb 24 2009
stltoday.com— A man is charged with counterfeiting money during a time when he was a Wellston police officer, federal prosecutors said Monday.
David L. Dausman, who lives in Collinsville, was indicted last week on charges of making and possessing counterfeit currency and forging the seal of a federal agency.

He is expected in court today to enter a plea of not guilty.

The Feb. 19 indictment says Dausman made 14 counterfeit $100 bills and two fake $50s in January, and possessed 18 counterfeit $100 bills, four fake $50s, two fake $20s and four fake $10s between August 2008 and the end of January.

He also forged a Department of Homeland Security seal on a document that said he graduated from a criminal investigator course at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, the indictment says, to bolster his Wellston personnel file.

Dausman, reached at his home, denied that he had made any counterfeit money.

He said that he had collected the fake bills from local businesses and was arrested by county police in a narcotics case before he could turn in the bogus money.

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HOLYOKE MA Feb 24 2009 – A Holyoke teacher and her 15-year-old male student, reported missing on Feb. 16, were found last night in a Morgantown, West Virginia hotel. “We have her in custody, we have the student in a safe situation,” Holyoke Mayor Michael J. Sullivan said this morning, adding the student is physically unharmed.

Holyoke Police Chief Anthony R. Scott said the teacher, Lisa Lavoie, of Ludlow, is being held on a charge of enticement.

The police chief said a component of that charge is statutory rape. “Based on statements we have heard we believe there is statutory rape involved,” Scott said. Lavoie works at the Maurice A. Donahue Elementary School, and the 15-year-old student, whose name was not released because of his age, is an 8th-grade student there. Sullivan said there is some indication to the teacher and student had some kind of personal relationship for some time but the extent of that relationship is not known. Lavoie has been a teacher for only five months, Sullivan said.

The boy’s parents filed a missing persons report with Holyoke police on Feb. 16, according to Holyoke Mayor Michael J. Sullivan. Lavoie was reported missing to Ludlow police by her parents on Sunday.
“Then it became an issue of waiting for the court system, for (Hampden District Attorney William M. Bennett) to get a warrant,” Sullivan said. Bennett obtained the warrant about 9 p.m. last night based on information gathered in Holyoke about the boy and teacher and the nature of their relationship, Sullivan said.

The boy’s parents first raised concerns about an improper relationship between their son and the teacher on Feb. 13, Sullivan said. Investigators used financial information to track the pair to Vermont and then to Morgantown, West Virginia, last night where they were discovered in a hotel room, Scott said.

Lavoie and the 15-year-old remain in West Virginia this morning. She is scheduled for a rendition hearing later today, Scott said. Scott did not know when either will be returned to the area. “We don’t know if she is going to fight rendition,” Scott said, adding that her family has hired a lawyer. Sullivan said arrangements are being made to return the boy to Holyoke where he, as the law requires, will be turned over to the state Department of Children and Families, which will investigate.

The Holyoke school system needs to learn from the incident and proceed carefully before acting to prevent such a thing from happening again, Sullivan said. “We have to learn from this, we can’t go in a panic mode and put all kinds of barriers and obstacles in the way of teachers,” Sullivan said. The mayor described the incident as a “violation of trust” on the part of the teacher.

“This is not something we take lightly,” Sullivan said. Sullivan said Lavoie will be immediately placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of her case.

“If convicted of any criminal charges she loses her licensure in the state of Massachusetts,” Sullivan said. Sullivan said here is no indication the boy was troubled in any way, adding that he is a good athlete and well-liked at the school.

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Austin TX Feb 24 2009
When police at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport asked Jake Lee, 41, what was in his bag, he replied, “It’s my bomb,” according to an arrest affidavit.
scan found the bag contained a solid mass, and security officials tested the outside of the bag for nitrates. The tests came back positive, but officers did not see wires or objects that looked like detonators, according to the affidavit.
Finally, Lee told police the solid mass was bean paste, which is sometimes used in Asian cuisine. Lee said he didn’t know why he told authorities he had a bomb.
Lee was arrested and charged with making a false alarm or report, a state jail felony that is punishable by up to two years in jail.
Lee was released form the Travis County Jail on $2,000 bail.

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PAWTUCKET RI Feb 24 2009
pawtuckettimes.com — A woman who was described as being “like a daughter” to her former employer and his wife was led away in handcuffs from Superior Court on Monday afternoon to begin serving a sentence for embezzling over $540,000 from the couple’s business.
Rhonda L. Hastings, 40, was sentenced on Feb. 13 by Superior Court Judge Susan McGuirl to 20 years in prison on one count of unlawful appropriation of more than $1,000 and one count of access to a computer for the purposes of fraud. She was ordered to serve two and a half years at the Adult Correctional Institution and two and a half years on home confinement, with the remaining 5 years suspended with probation.According to Beryl Kenyon, spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Office, Hastings had originally been charged with three counts, including larceny over $500–a felony. However, she pled guilty to the other two counts in December of 2008 and the felony charge was dropped.As part of the sentencing, Hastings was also ordered to make restitution for the $540,000 once she is released from prison.Hastings is accused of embezzling over $540,000 from her longtime employers, Joseph and Joann Pietrantonio of Johnston. She had worked as bookkeeper for the couple, who formerly owned two Dollar Depot Plus stores, one on Smithfield Avenue in Pawtucket and the other in Cumberland.According to Joseph Pietrantonio, Hastings took the money over an approximate 20-month period. He said she began slowly, taking cash and delaying payment to vendors. She then allegedly gained unauthorized access to a $270,000 line of credit that Pietrantonio had with Bank RI, and began using it to cover the money she was embezzling, he said.Pietrantonio said he had trusted Hastings, who had worked for him almost 20 years, including at a former gift shop business he had owned and as a store manager for the Dollar Depot Plus stores. He said he only began to notice that something was wrong when the stores’ armored car pick-ups, that had always occurred twice a week, were reduced to once a week or once every other week.
Both Joseph and Joann Pietrantonio said they had always had a close relationship with Hastings and her family. “We never had children of our own. We considered her like a daughter,” said Joann. She added that Hastings had spent some holidays with the couple and had admitted that they “were like second parents to her.”
Joann added that in 2003, Hastings told her employers that she was suffering from stage four cancer, which turned out to be untrue. The couple said she maintained a convincing ruse that included doctor visits and treatments, furthering drawing on the couple’s sympathy.
Joann Pietrantonio said the cancer story came into play frequently as the couple were catching on to the embezzlement and began to question Hastings and press her for records and explanations, Oftentimes, Joann said, when asked to supply a document, the young woman would say she felt ill from her cancer treatments and suddenly retreat to the ladies room.
The Pietrantonios said that they later found that Hastings was using the cash to support a quietly lavish lifestyle. She had moved to a farm in Holliston, MA, where she kept over 60 dogs and other livestock. She made renovations on the property, and also reportedly purchased a motorcycle and other vehicles for herself, a boyfriend a others, they said. “The money is all gone,” Joseph said.
In addition, Joseph Pietrantonio said he discovered that Hastings was buying expensive presents for some of the other Dollar Depot Plus employees, allegedly to buy their silence. These included, he said, tickets to sporting events, limousine rides, catered parties and even a car for one individual.
The Pietrantonios said that by the time the embezzlement was discovered, so much had been stolen that they were forced to close the two Dollar Depot Plus stores. Joseph Pietrantonio said that in addition to Hastings’ actions, he also blames Bank RI personnel for not checking more carefully into the line of credit and the transactions that were taking place. He said he has lawsuits pending against both Bank RI and his accountant, who he did not name.
According to Rhode Island State Police court records, on Feb. 15, 2006, detectives from the Financial Crimes Unit, assisted by members of the Massachusetts State Police, arrested Hastings, at her home at 415 Concord St., Holliston, Mass., as a fugitive from justice due to a warrant for unlawful appropriation over $1,000. She waived extradition and was returned to Rhode Island State Police headquarters, where she had been arraigned and released on $25,000 personal recognizance.
The first count that Hastings was charged with included a misappropriation of funds that occurred between Jan. 1, 2004 and Sept. 30, 2005, according to the Attorney General’s Office. After further investigation, she was also charged with a second count of fraudulently using a computer from Jan. 1, 2005 through Sept. 30, 2005, to draw down on the line of credit in order to cover the massive shortfalls in the operating expenses and payroll for Empire Merchandising Corporation, doing business as Dollar Depot Plus.
On Monday, the Pietrantonios sat in the front row of Judge McGuirl’s courtroom to witness the execution of Hastings’ sentence. “I feel violated. I trusted this girl,” Joseph stated, just before the proceedings started. Joann added, “And she never once said she was sorry.”
Hastings, appearing with her attorney, was asked by Judge McGuirl if she wanted to address the court. She did so briefly only to thank McGurl for giving her some extra time to make child care arrangements. Then, she was placed in handcuffs and led out, offering a slight smile of acknowledgement to her father and another relative sitting in the courtroom.
When contacted about the Pietrantonio’s lawsuit against Bank RI, spokesman Stephen Hourihan said he was aware of the case but it is the bank’s corporate policy to not comment about any matters involving pending litigation. -30-

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VIRGINIA BEACH VA Feb 24 2009
By: Brett Davis
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Police said that a heist was reported Monday at 2:24 p.m. at the Bank of America at 281 Independence Blvd.
Investigators say that an armored truck was making a delivery of money when two armed men robbed the guard and took an undisclosed amount of cash according to police spokeswoman Margie Long.
Investigators think the two men left one vehicle in the bank parking lot and departed in another, she said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Solvers at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Why do professionals risk their careers? www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA Feb 23 2009
By: Rick McCann
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So far this year more than one hundred and forty teachers across the country have been arrested on charges of prostitution, possession, and sale of drugs, being drunk in class, assaulting students and teachers and the alarming and growing number of arrests for having sex with students.
Firefighters, police officers, and doctors also have made national headlines at a steady pace this year charged with everything under the sun.
A firefighter in Kentucky in full uniform and on duty is caught shoplifting and arrested. An off duty Prattville Alabama police officer last week led police on a high speed pursuit and was arrested for having cocaine and other charges relating to the chase.
In Nashville Tennessee several weeks ago, two doctors are charged in a prescription drug scheme accused of selling their goods across the line in Kentucky in an operation police say was all about greed. Doctors selling their souls and their career for the almighty buck.
Another shoplifting arrest in the past month involved a Georgia police chief caught shoplifting a few items that were worth less than fifty dollars from a Wal-Mart store. While the store opted not to prosecute, he lost his job anyways and his name and his illegal deed now part of the police department’s history and the police chief’s life.
And in Brunswick Georgia, the School Superintendent was fired this week for having porn and questionable material on his Blackberry device.
While outsiders may look at these headlines as just humans messing up or just people out to make a dollar, to an insider who knows what it takes to obtain any professional level job, it’s a sad and almost unimaginable choice that so many make.
We all make mistakes and have weaknesses and I’m as guilty as the next but when a person has worked for years, gone through years of schooling and training and in some cases an entire lifetime to obtain a certain level within their profession and then to cross the line that brings them down, it’s hard to understand what they were thinking.

In the case of a police officer, firefighter, or other civil servant, the individual has gone through a long testing and selection process to be accepted into the academy. It’s not like Barney Fife where Sheriff Taylor hands him a badge and swears him all in thirty seconds and now he’s a deputy or police officer.
Numerous steps in the testing and selection takes months and the training academy can also take 3-6 months and if the person passes that he then goes through more training before being put on the job.
A teacher in most cases has at least sixteen years of education and has also gone through a testing and selection process to obtain their position and we all know the education and training that doctors and lawyers have to go through before they begin their careers.

Yet, for a few moments of pleasure or a little bit of extra cash or for the thrill of stealing and getting away with it, a career is damaged or destroyed, a life is scared, a reputation and trust is torn apart, people are hurt and the act is forever recorded in stone and in the minds of those you love the most and who you promised to protect and serve, and the oaths and ethics that all professionals swear to abide by is now meaningless and shredded by poor decisions, greedy hearts and thoughtless acts.

In this world, what we value most is shrinking as is the right between right and wrong. But careers in many professions are getting harder to obtain especially in this sour economy and we must begin to value our postions, our profession, our oath and yourself and understand that an adventure with a young teenager or a few petty items at the store or a fat bank account will not yield the rewards that a long honest career will.

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Police Officer Glen Ciano

Suffolk County Police Department New York

End of Watch: Sunday, February 22, 2009
Biographical InfoAge: 45

Tour of Duty: 22 years

Badge Number: Not available
Incident DetailsCause of Death: Vehicular assault

Date of Incident: Sunday, February 22, 2009

Weapon Used: Automobile; Alcohol involved

Suspect Info: Apprehended

Police Officer Glen Ciano was killed when his patrol car was struck by a vehicle being driven by an intoxicated operator.Officer Ciano was responding to assist a fellow officer who had stopped a vehicle with stolen license plates. His patrol car was struck by a vehicle making a left turn onto Commack Road from Vanderbilt Parkway. The force of the collision sent the patrol car off the road and into a utility pole. The patrol car burst into flames, killing Officer Ciano.The suspect was arrested at the scene and it was determined that he had been operating his vehicle under the influence of alcohol.Police Officer Ciano had served with the Suffolk County Police Department for 22 years and is survived by his wife and two children. He was assigned to the 2nd Precinct.

Agency Contact Information:

Suffolk County Police Department

John Barry Police Headquarters

30 Yaphank Avenue

Yaphank, NY 11980

Phone: (631) 852-6000

Please contact the Suffolk County Police Department for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.

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Topeka KS Feb 23 2009
Washburn Rural High School security officer Russ Greene’s name is fitting.
When he isn’t keeping the halls of the school safe, Greene can be found collecting plastic bottles and other recyclable items
Greene is helping the school become green.
WRHS has received recognition for its recycling efforts. In 2007, the school was applauded by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. It was the first in the state to receive the Kansas Green School Award.
But there are several people, including Greene, who work behind the scenes to make sure the program works. Greene said when he was attending school in the 1960s and 1970s, recycling was an automatic activity.
“You recycled the pop cans,” he said. “It never occurred to me that you wouldn’t.”
So it seems fitting that he is encouraging students to make the world a better place through recycling.
“The amount of plastic we generate is just massive,” Greene said. “It’s easily a thousand pieces of plastic each day — probably more.”
The high school has three lunch periods. As lunchtime comes to an end, students place their recyclable materials into bins, and Greene makes sure the bins are emptied into a 40-gallon container and taken to the recycling bins located just outside the school.
“With all of the talk about global warming, it surprises me these isn’t more awareness,” he said. “We’re obviously saving a lot of money but keeping it (recyclable items) out of the landfills is the main thing.”
Greene used to teach advanced placement history at WRHS. After that, he served as supervisor at the Shawnee County Department of Corrections, where he also was heavily involved in recycling. Greene became a school security officer in the Auburn-Washburn school district in 2002.
WRHS teacher Clif Hess has been a major proponent of recycling for many years and has implemented several recycling programs at the school. Hess said he is very proud of Greene’s efforts.
Hess also said he has been contacted by districts who are interested in the WRHS program, especially in this tough economic time.
Martin Weishaar, Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 communications coordinator, said Hess’ program has had an impact on trash reduction in the district.
“The volume of trash that we must pay to have removed has been reduced,” Weishaar wrote in an e-mail. “The district currently contracts for 13 trash containers for all schools costing $36,000 annually. Each container costs about $2,800 annually. Without the efforts of Mr. Hess, the district would probably have had to add two more containers, one at the middle school and one at the high school.”

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. Feb 23 2009– The Glynn County Board of Education voted unanimously Friday to terminate the contract of Superintendent Michael Bull over allegations that he used his school-issued BlackBerry device to access pornographic material.
The school system’s IT system flagged that inappropriate content was accessed and notified managers.
“The board acted swiftly and appropriately in this matter, keeping in mind that the bottom line is doing what is best for our school system and its students,” Chairman Millard Allen said.
There was no indication that content was illegal and there was not criminal investigation, but school officials were consulting their attorney whether the violation of policy should be reported to the Professional Standards Commission.
Bull was in his fourth year as superintendent and had received accolades for improving academic performance in the school system. The board recently extended Bull’s contract through 2011 and raised his annual salary to $167,648.
The board appointed Howard Mann, assistant superintendent for operations, as acting superintendent until a superintendent search can be completed and a permanent superintendent can be hired.
“Our focus for the Glynn County schools will continue to be on ensuring that all schools make Adequate Yearly Progress and that our current building projects are completed on time and under budget,” Mann said. “We will continue to be committed to excellence in education for our 12,000 students.”

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MANATEE COUNTY FLA Feb 23 2009 — A 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customer’s laptop Saturday after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account, the sheriff’s office said.
Cory R. Kinney turned as if he were going to leave the store, then suddenly turned back around and grabbed the customer’s laptop computer and ran out, the sheriff’s office said.
Two people in the parking lot tackled Kinney in the parking lot and held him there until the Ellenton Mall Security Guard arrived.
The customer got the laptop back and Kinney was charged with robbery by sudden snatching.

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RAY CITY, Ga. Feb 23 2009

By: Rick McCann

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http://www.privateofficer.com — Emergency workers said that two women were killed over the week-end in what police say was an explosion of a methamphetamine lab.

Firefighters say that explosion caught the south Georgia home on fire but Georgia authorities are not saying yet what exactly killed the woman until an autopsy can be preformed .
Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John Oxendine said the blast about 5 a.m. Friday peeled back the roof of the double-wide manufactured home in Ray City in Lanier County.
Lanier County Coroner Patches Phillips said the victims, identified as Annie Ruth Powers, 65, and Constance Bennett, 37, were found in the residence and pronounced dead around 6:30 a.m.
Authoriries had identified enough evidence to determine that the woman was probably cooking the drug when the explosion occurred.

Oxendine’s office is assisting local authorities in the investigation.

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ST. PETERSBURG Fla Feb 23 2009 — A drunk and distraught man threw a grenade at two police officers Friday night in a botched attempt at “suicide by cop,” authorities said.
Joseph John Hyde did not get his wish. And the grenade turned out to be disarmed.
Police gave this account:
St. Petersburg officers Courtney Zak and Wayne Pete answered a report around 9:40 p.m. of a disturbance at Hyde’s home, 5021 34th Ave. N. A group was arguing over paw prints a cat left on somebody’s car.
Hyde threatened to hurt several people, including a child living in his home. Hyde said he had been drinking all day.
Then Hyde reached for what the officers thought might be a weapon.
One officer tried to stun Hyde with a Taser, but that didn’t stop him from throwing something at the them: a hand grenade.
Police later learned the explosives had been removed.
Hyde, 58, was charged with resisting arrest, two counts of felony aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest without violence and disorderly intoxication.
He was held in lieu of $10,350 bail.
After he was in custody, Hyde said he hoped the grenade would scare the officers into shooting him.
“From outward appearances, an observer would believe it to be real,” said Lt. William Korinek. “They would have had cause to shoot him.”

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ALBUQUERQUE NM Feb 23 2009 (KRQE) – Over the weekend, the Albuquerque Police Department’s Bomb Squad responded to three bomb calls. At two of the calls, they found chemical bombs.
The first one was left in front of a northeast Albuquerque Smith’s on Friday night. Shoppers inside the store told management they heard a loud bomb, which prompted a call to police.
When the bomb squad arrived, they found the chemical concoction and took it in as evidence, along with two juveniles. The improvised bomb left 15 people injured.
The very next day, Saturday afternoon, another chemical bomb was found in a Target alleyway on Montgomery and Wyoming.
Police were able to take the bomb into evidence before it exploded. If it had exploded the injured would have been limited since it was left in the alley.
However, that also left police with limited clues because no witnesses saw who dropped it off.
“That one, they’ll have to do an entire investigation really based on nothing but the bottle,” Albuquerque Police Department Spokesperson Officer Nadine Hamby said.
It will take a day at the lab to determine if the chemicals inside both bombs are similar, which will only prolong the bizarre investigations.
“If it is a prank, it’s not a funny prank,” Hamby said.
Prank or not, the past two incidents have put many on high alert.
Sunday morning the bomb squad was called out again Albuquerque Academy, a local school.
The security guards on campus spotted a suspicious looking package made of two pvc pipes that was left outside the school’s music department.
“There was a note attached to this unit as well, it kind of alarmed people,” Hamby said.
The tune of the security guards suspicions would fall flat, as the package turned out to be a homemade musical instrument.
“The tag was the name of the student,” Hamby said.

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Suffolk County NY Feb 23 2009
A drunken driver who had been busted for DWI just last month broadsided a veteran Long Island cop’s car early Sunday, killing the 45-year-old officer in a fiery crash, cops said.
Suffolk County Officer Glen Ciano was on duty and en route to help his partner when he died – leaving cops and advocates asking how the reckless motorist still had a license.
Jose Borbon of Plainview plowed his 2007 Dodge Magnum into the squad car at Vanderbilt Motor Parkway and Commack Road in Commack about 4:15 a.m., police said.
Borbon, who was not injured, stayed at the scene and was charged with DWI – his second DWI rap in less than two months.
“Somebody with a DWI under their belt clearly doesn’t belong on our streets,” said Wiley Norvell, spokesman for Transportation Alternatives.
“It’s clear that when people drive drunk they give up their privilege to drive, and we should have the guts to enforce it.”
Ciano, a father of two who lived in Bayport, was making a left-hand turn when his car was struck, sending it spinning into a utility pole. The car caught fire and quickly exploded, witnesses and cops said.
Borbon was busted in Nassau County on Jan. 4 on charges of drunken driving, holding more than one license, criminal possession of a gun and various moving violations, court documents show.
He still held a conditional license that allowed him to drive to specific locations set by the state’s drunken driver rehab program.
Borbon’s license had also been suspended in 2007 after he was involved in four crashes in one year, records show. It was reinstated two months later.
Chief Dominic Varrone of the Suffolk County police said Ciano was a highly regarded veteran with 22 years on the force.
A steady stream of mourners and well-wishers brought flowers to the scene of the crash, and flags hung at half-staff at the 2nd Precinct stationhouse in Huntington as officers mourned the loss of one of their own.
Ciano’s neighbors described him as a devoted husband and father who went out of his way to help friends repair cars, fix lawn mowers – and even hang holiday lights.
“He always helped,” said neighbor Ina Scotto, 69. “He was a very good man. He was a very good father.”
Witnesses heard the crash from the McDonald’s across the street.
“There was an explosion, and I saw a lot of fire,” said Daisy Ramirez, 37. “I went outside and saw a mangled wreck of steel and rubber.”
The flames erupted so rapidly there was no chance of rescuing Ciano from the car, cops said.
According to Borbon’s MySpace page, he is a father of twins and has a young wife.
Next-door neighbors on Borbon’s block say he comes from a good family and that he liked to work on his car in the driveway of the home where he lived with his parents. He was often seen on weekends washing and waxing the Dodge Magnum without a shirt, neighbors said.
Borbon’s family was huddled Sunday in their tidy home, but his mother said they would not comment until they had spoken to a lawyer.

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Jackson County MS Feb 22 2009
A fired Bay High School teacher arrested Friday allegedly had sex with a teenage girl who sheriff’s deputies believe was one of his students.
Steven Seth Tadlock of the 4700 block on Gibson Road in Ocean Springs was charged with having sex with a minor, according to Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd.
The sheriff said that Tadlock, 25, was accused of having sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl in November.
Byrd said that the sexual incident allegedly took place at Holland Trailer Park off of Ocean Springs Road, where Tadlock lives.
“He was in a position of trust,” Byrd said. “School officials trusted him; parents trusted him; students trusted him.”
Tadlock posted $10,000 bail and was released shortly after his arrest by county Judge Larry Wilson.
Bay-Waveland School District officials terminated Tadlock last week.
As a faculty member for two years at Bay High, Tadlock taught Spanish. He sponsored school-related clubs and assisted with the band, according to the school’s Web site.
Superintendent of Education Kim Stasny said in a written statement that Tadlock was fired “for violation of school policies.”
“The allegations presented to us were of such a nature that we were required to notify local law enforcement agencies.” Stasny wrote. “This matter is under investigation by authorities and the school district is cooperating with the police department in that investigation.”
Stasny added that until the investigation is completed, “all personnel rights are exhausted, no further details can be provided by the school district.”

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J Feb 22 2009 – Atlantic City police arrest a man who allegedly tried to steal more than $1200 worth of lobsters.
It happened at Bally’s Hotel/Casino, located at 1900 Boardwalk, around 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Security at Bally’s said the clothes on 38-year-old Anthony Jones looked especially bulky when he was seen leaving an employee kitchen.
That’s because, they said, he had 91 frozen lobsters stashed in them and his backpack.
Police said Jones had an outstanding warrant from Egg Harbor Township.
Jones was charged with theft, criminal trespass, burglary, and contempt of court.
His bail was set at $10,000.

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LOS ANGELES CA Feb 22 2009
NBCLosAngeles.com — Security screeners at Los Angeles County’s 48 court buildings last year confiscated 53,302 knives, 24,783 scissors, 21,014 razors, 8,208 pairs of handcuffs and 114 stun guns — enough to equip a small army, it was reported Friday.

Those figures form one of the more interesting — and unsettling — statistical categories in the latest L.A. County Superior Court annual report, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The review found that the number of banned weapons seized jumped to 245,868 from 199,015 two years earlier, according to The Times.

A total of 21 million screenings were performed in the L.A. court system, the nation’s largest, in the first 10 months of last year.Other items found included assorted hand tools, brass knuckles and a sword disguised as a cane, The Times reported.

Screeners also seized seven unspecified lethal weapons, two daggers and two handguns.

In one instance at the Long Beach courthouse, security personnel found a gun hidden inside a woman’s diaper bag, according to The Times.

The woman had come to see her husband, who was appearing in court to face charges of making terrorist threats and who was unaware she was carrying the gun, according to the newspaper.

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