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8 Dead, police officer shot in NC nursing home shooting
Carthage, N.C. Mar 29 2009
wral.com — A gunman walked into a Moore
County nursing home Sunday morning, fatally shooting eight people and injuring three others, including a police officer, Carthage Police Chief Chris McKenzie said.
The shooting happened around 10 a.m. at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center, 801 Pinehurst Ave., a 110-bed rehabilitation, nursing and Alzheimer’s care facility in Carthage.
McKenzie did not offer a motive for the crime or say what the suspect’s relationship to the facility might be. He said seven of the deceased were patients and one was an employee of the facility.
“The shooter entered the facility heavily armed and began shooting at people in wheelchairs,” Sen. Harris Blake, R-Moore told WRAL News.
While meeting with families Sunday at First Baptist Church, 108 McNeill St. in Carthage, Blake said he knew two patients at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center. Neither person was injured, he said.
The police officer, who was the first to arrive at the scene, was shot in the leg, McKenzie said. The officer shot the gunman who was transported to the Moore Regional Hospital for treatment.
“It’s a horrible event in any size town, particularly though when you deal with a small town such as Carthage. It’s hard. This is my town, this is my small town. I was born and raised here. So yeah, I take it to heart a little bit. All you can do is move forward,” McKenzie said.
Multiple law enforcement agencies, including Carthage Police Department, Moore County Sheriff’s Office and State Bureau Investigation, are investigating.
Numerous calls to the nursing home were not answered.
Sky 5 video of the scene shows nearly a dozen law enforcement vehicles and yellow tape roping off what appears to be the front of the building.
Pinelake, which opened in 1993, recently got a five-star rating, the highest possible, from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the federal insurance programs.
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The gunman was also injured before he was apprehended by police after the 10 a.m. shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehab in the town of Carthage, Police Chief Chris McKenzie told several television stations. A police officer was also hurt.
“It’s a horrible event in any size town, particularly, though, when you deal with a small town such as Carthage,” McKenzie said. “It’s hard. This is my home, my small town. I was born and raised here so, yeah, I take it to heart a little bit. All you can do is move forward.”
Gretchen Kelly, spokeswoman at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in nearby Pinehurst, said six people were brought to the hospital from the nursing home. Kelly said two of the injured died at the hospital, but it wasn’t clear if those two were among the six initially reported dead by police.
Kelly said two other patients had been discharged, while two were still being treated. She wouldn’t release further details on the injuries or conditions of those hospitalized.
McKenzie said the gunman wasn’t a patient at the nursing home, located about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh, but didn’t offer any further details on what the gunman’s motive might have been.
Late Sunday afternoon, authorities appeared to be conducting a search of the nursing home’s parking lot, which they had blocked off with yellow police tape. Among the items they found was a camouflaged-colored rifle or shotgun, which was leaning against the side of a Jeep Cherokee.
The road leading to the home was filled with parked cars, both of police and relatives of those living at Pinelake. Howard McMillian, of Lakeview, said he raced to the scene as soon as he heard about the shooting. His 56-year-old sister lives at the nursing home, and McMillian said his brother had gotten a call from officials saying she was unharmed.
“I know she’s real nervous,” McMillian said. “I just want to make sure she’s OK.”
A nursing home Web site said the facility that opened in 1993 has 110 beds, including 20 for those with Alzheimer’s disease.
Calls to the nursing home by The Associated Press rang unanswered Sunday, and McKenzie and several state law enforcement agencies didn’t immediately return messages or declined to comment. Police planned a news conference for later Sunday afternoon.
Carthage is a small town of roughly 1,800 people in the North Carolina Sandhills, an area popular among retirees and home to several noted golf courses, including the famed Pinehurst resort and its No. 2 course that regularly hosts the U.S. Open.
Pinelake Health and Rehab was last inspected in May, and the review resulted in an overall five-star — or “much above average” — rating from federal Medicaid officials.
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Trooper Mike Haynes
Montana Highway Patrol
Montana
End of Watch: Friday, March 27, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 28
Tour of Duty: 2 years, 6 months
Badge Number: 159
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Vehicular assault
Date of Incident: Monday, March 23, 2009
Weapon Used: Automobile; Alcohol involved
Suspect Info: Killed in collision
Trooper Mike Haynes succumbed to injuries sustained five days earlier when a car being operated by an intoxicated driver struck his patrol car head-on on US 93 near Kalispell.
The drunk driver was driving the wrong way on the highway when the collision occurred at approximately 2:40 am. The intoxicated driver was also killed in the collision.
Trooper Haynes had served with the Montana Highway Patrol for 2 1/2 years. He is survived by his wife, two young children, and parents.
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Mall security officer helps rescue child www.privateofficer.com
“One of the first things that went through my mind, besides trying to save this little girl, was ‘I’ve got children and what if this was me. I’ve got to do everything I can to make sure she makes it,’” Williams said.
He’s a security officer with the Kingsport Town Center (formerly Fort Henry Mall).
On March 9, Williams was on routine foot patrol inside the mall when he received a call from office personnel that a small child was crying and screaming, and the mother was reporting her daughter was having trouble breathing.
“When I got to them, she was holding her daughter in her arms, and I observed that she was semiconscious — a little bit awake but disoriented,” said the officer.
“I took (the girl) from the mother because she was very upset, and then I started to try and get her to respond to me while I informed the other officer to contact 911 to have emergency personnel come to the mall.
“I went ahead and relocated her outside because a crowd was starting to form, and when I exited the building I noticed that she went completely limp and went unconscious on me. I checked and she still had a pulse, but she had quit breathing.”
Williams had previous training in CPR and other resuscitation techniques during his time as a volunteer firefighter, skills he said came back almost instantly as he tried to keep the little girl breathing and awake until an ambulance arrived.
“I cleared her airway and then gave her two small breaths. At that point, she came back and was crying,” Williams said. “There are certain ways to administer CPR to an adult and a child, so I had to make sure I was doing the right procedure because they are way different.”
The girl, whose family lives in Kingsport, stopped breathing again and Williams had to administer two more small breaths, which got the toddler breathing again.
Williams said he managed to keep the girl awake until the ambulance crew arrived just minutes later, and then she was handed off and taken to an area hospital for treatment.
That’s when Williams said the adrenaline started to subside and he began thinking of his two girls at home.
“Your first responsibility is to provide safety and help to the public. But even when you are doing that, you can’t help but think of what you would do if it was your child lying there,” he said.
“I think if it were not for that training, I don’t know what would have happened. I might have frozen up. You just never know. But with the training they provide for us here at the mall, it all came back quickly.
“This was the first time I had done the breathing technique on a child. With a child, you flip them over (with their face opposite you) and you pat their back to make sure they are not choking. I’ve got kids, and it’s a scary thing when you have to try and help them, but you do what you are trained to do.”
The family of the child could not be reached for comment, but they told mall management that the 2-year-old has recovered from what her mother said was a small seizure brought on by a high fever.
Mall Manager Kevin Harmon said Williams has earned the title of “hero” because of his unselfish act and his quick thinking.
“He is to be heavily commended for helping this little girl. Because of his specialized training, and just knowing the kind of person J.J. is, he deserves all the credit that can be heaped upon him,” said Harmon.
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Nashville teacher charged with rape www.privateofficer.com
A quirk of Tennessee’s criminal background checks allowed a rape suspect to be hired as a teacher in Metro Schools.
Ronald Boykin, 40, was arrested March 22 in Nashville on two counts of rape, one count of sexual battery by an authority figure and one count of attempted sexual battery by an authority figure dating to 2005, when he was working in a Chattanooga high school. A Donelson Middle School teacher hired by Metro Schools in 2007, he was picked up after a routine traffic stop turned up the charges.
Three background checks on Boykin initiated by Metro Schools did not detect the outstanding warrants, said Noelle Mashburn, spokeswoman for the district. The most recent check was in October.
That’s because background checks run for school districts do not include warrants, said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm.
“A fingerprint-based criminal history for a teacher is what’s statutorily required,” Helm said. “There is no Tennessee database that can be searched for outstanding warrants unless you’re in law enforcement.”
Also allowing Boykin to slip through the cracks: Tennessee’s teacher database, which flags educa
tors who have committed serious offenses, doesn’t include those without teaching licenses. Boykin’s job in Chattanooga didn’t require a license.Boykin was returned to Hamilton County this week, but Metro police say they have identified at least two Nashville students who say Boykin touched them. Police are investigating more cases and are asking Donelson Middle parents to contact 862-7540 if they have any information.
No charges against Boykin have been filed in Nashville.
He is the second Metro Schools teacher arrested on sex-related charges this month. Ronald B. Anderson, executive principal of Kennedy Middle School in Antioch, was arrested March 6 on 12 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. He was charged with sexually abusing two teenage boys from his church years ago.
Boykin, who taught a behavior program for struggling students, was busted for making an illegal left turn onto westbound Interstate 24 from the Second Avenue on-ramp, police said.
Officers discovered his license was expired and ran an in-depth check, which turned up the warrant in Hamilton County.
In 2005, Boykin was suspended from his job as an educational assistant at Brainerd High School after police launched an investigation into misconduct that occurred before the start of school. A warrant for his arrest was issued in
2006, according to Metro police.
School districts that request background checks get a nationwide search of any records the FBI holds that contain the fingerprint of the applicant, so a report is generated any time they’ve been fingerprinted and arrested in the United States.
Until this week, Boykin had never been arrested on the Chattanooga charges.
Criminal warrants are contained in a name-based database called the National Crime Information Center or NCIC, commonly used by officers during investigations or traffic stops.
Serious offenses against teachers must be reported to the state Board of Education and are tracked in a statewide database available to other Tennessee systems and the public. But it only applies to licensed educators, which at the time of the Chattanooga incidents Boykin was not.
Records show that Boykin did not request a teaching permit until 2007. The next year, he was granted an alternative teaching license.
Mashburn, the district spokeswoman, said she did not know the status of Boykin’s employment, adding that he would not return to the classroom until the investigation was complete.
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Mobile Alabama judge arrested for kidnapping, sodomy www.privateofficer.com
al.com Herman Thomas, while a Mobile County circuit judge, checked male inmates out of Metro Jail to exert control over them and force them into sexual activity, according to indictments released Friday.
About a year after stepping down from the bench, Thomas was arrested Friday outside the same jail on charges of kidnapping, sodomy, extortion, sex abuse and ethics violations.
The bow-tied lawyer known for his energetic support of community programs, his time as a University of South Alabama trustee and for presiding over legal cases since the 1990s found himself standing against a wall to have his jail mugshot taken.
A special grand jury met for three weeks this month and returned 57 felony charges against Thomas. The indictment lists nine alleged victims, each of them current or former inmates.
“These are very serious charges,” some carrying up to life in prison, said District Attorney John Tyson Jr. Thomas was taken into custody outside the jail as his attorney, Robert “Cowboy Bob” Clark, held an afternoon news conference amid reports of an impending arrest.
With a handful of other lawyers looking on in support — and Thomas remaining quiet and answering no questions — Clark suggested his client’s indictment was motivated by racism.
“This is racism at its very finest. We ought to be proud we elected those bastards,” said Clark in an apparent reference to Tyson and former Thomas colleagues on the bench.
As Clark was speaking, an investigator with the District Attorney’s Office quietly walked up to Thomas, tapped him on the shoulder, whispered something to him and then accompanied Thomas — without placing him in handcuffs — to the jail 10 feet away.
There, Thomas was photographed and booked, with bail set at $287,500, according to the jail log. He was later released.
Each of Thomas’ alleged victims at one time faced charges in Mobile County Circuit Court, according to online court records. The allegations against them ranged from criminal mischief to murder. At least eight of the alleged victims appeared on Thomas’ docket, according to court records.
One of the inmates went before Thomas on multiple occasions over the years for several felony charges. He was eventually sent to prison for a short time, but Thomas ordered him released early.
Finally, he ended up sentenced in federal court and later released. He has since been accused of murder and attempted murder.
According to Friday’s grand jury allegations, Thomas “knowingly” subjected the young men “to sexual contact, by forcible compulsion.”
In one case, Thomas is accused of forcing an inmate to have oral sex with him. Also, Thomas used the inmate’s labor to benefit himself, according to the indictment.
The indictment repeatedly makes reference to Thomas “paddling and/or whipping” inmates.
When Thomas was a judge, he had a storage room furnished like an office just steps from his eighth-floor chamber at Mobile Government Plaza. It was there, several criminal defendants have alleged in affidavits and in court, that Thomas would ask to paddle their buttocks.
In most cases, the Press-Register does not publish the names of people who are alleged to be victims of sex crimes; the newspaper is not printing the names of the men identified in the indictment against Thomas.
After leaving the jail and with Thomas behind bars, Clark showed up at a Tyson news conference and began ranting again about the district attorney and his office.
Investigator Tony Goubil asked Clark to leave. Red-faced, Clark said that he was not going anywhere unless he was placed under arrest.
“OK, you are under arrest,” Goubil told him before leading him out.
A little later, a calmer Clark returned, saying Tyson had permitted him to stay as long as he kept quiet, and that he was not, after all, under arrest.
Tyson said Clark’s accusations that Thomas’ troubles stem from racism at Government Plaza are “absolute nonsense.”
Nicki Patterson, the chief assistant district attorney, later pointed out that all the alleged victims are black. Thomas is black.
Tyson said his office began investigating Thomas shortly after he resigned his office in October 2007. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, the Mobile Police Department, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division assisted in the investigation, Tyson said.
Thomas’ resignation came in the face of a pending trial before Alabama’s Court of the Judiciary, where he was charged with dozens of ethical violations.
Tyson said his investigation is not over and that the special grand jury could be called back into session at any time.
He used the news conference to invite anyone to come forward if what happened to the alleged victims “happened to you. We would be very interested in hearing from you.”
Earlier Friday, all the judges on the circuit bench recused themselves from presiding over Thomas’ case.
Presiding Circuit Judge Charles Graddick said late Friday that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb had appointed retired Marengo County Circuit Judge Claude Neilson to handle Thomas’ proceedings.
“I am flabbergasted. The only thing I’ve known Herman Thomas to be guilty of is helping people,” said Willie Huntley Jr., a lawyer who knows Thomas professionally and through their work together with 100 Black Men of Mobile, a civic organization on which Thomas serves as secretary of the executive committee.
Criminal charges brought against former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas could result in the immediate suspension of his license to practice law, a state bar officials said Friday.
The Alabama State Bar does not comment on specific cases. But the Montgomery-based organization’s general counsel, Tony McLain, said the bar seeks the immediate suspension of lawyers facing criminal charges when authorities believe the defendants to be a threat to the public or their clients.
Typically, those cases involve allegations of theft from clients, McLain said.
When the bar seeks an immediate suspension, the accused attorney can request a hearing within seven days to contest it.
Short of an immediate suspension, McLain said, bar officials monitor criminal cases. If an attorney is convicted of a felony or certain misdemeanors, a bar committee decides on a punishment ranging from 45 days’ suspension to disbarment.
A disbarred attorney can apply for reinstatement after five years, McLain said.
The bar association also can discipline an attorney without a criminal conviction if bar panel determines his actions violated his oath as a lawyer.
Following leaving the bench in 2007, Thomas began working in the Mobile office of attorney James Brandyburg.
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Thousands mourn at Oakland officers funerals www.privateofficer.com
Officers Mark Dunakin, John Hege, Ervin Romans and Daniel Sakai were remembered for their dedication to their families, friends and a gritty job they loved despite the dangers.
Police said Hege and Dunakin were gunned down March 21 when the two motorcycle officers pulled over a 26-year-old parolee during a traffic stop. Romans, Sakai and the parolee died later in a shootout when the city’s SWAT team stormed an apartment where the man was hiding.
The violent confrontation was the biggest single day, gun-related loss of life for law enforcement since four federal agents died 16 years ago during a raid on the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas.
The officers’ caskets were draped in American flags and shepherded to the Oracle Arena that passed under a giant U.S. flag held up by two fire truck ladders as they entered the parking lot. Among those speaking at the service Friday were Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and state Attorney General Jerry Brown, a former Oakland mayor.
A spokesman for Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums said the mayor was attending the service, but was asked not to speak by at least one family of the victims. Paul Rose said he did not know which family made the request or the reason.
Acting Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said at the start of the service that the officers were “our brothers.”
“They rest in peace, because they were men of peace,” he said.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama thanked the officers in a letter read by Oakland police chaplain Jayson Landeza, saying: “Our nation is grateful for the men and women who work in law enforcement. Their commitment to their fellow man will never be forgotten.”
New York City Police Lt. Tommy Ng, who attended the ceremony, said the tragedy brought back memories of Sept. 11. He said he was not surprised by the outpouring of support for his colleagues in Oakland.
“When one of us is hurt, all of us are hurt,” Ng said before the service. “We’re all brothers.”
Minneapolis Police Sgt. Steve Blackwell said he and three other officers drove from Minnesota to the service in Oakland, even though they didn’t know the slain policemen.
“It’s a national tragedy, so it cuts pretty deep,” Blackwell said. “We want to let the people of Oakland see that we care. I hope that this city finds strength from this tragedy to move ahead.”
Oakland police officer John Wilson, a 25-year veteran of the force, said he knew the four slain officers and promised that their memories would live on.
“They made the ultimate sacrifice,” Wilson said. “They will never be forgotten.”
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Casino security detain woman who plowed into crowd www.privateofficer.com
A woman plowed her car into a group of people waiting for their cars at the Valet area of Sam’s Town Casino on Boulder Highway early Saturday morning.
Four people, including one reportedly paralyzed from the crash, were transported to UMC Trauma in critical condition.
The driver of the car was immediately detained by Casino Security and later taken into custody by Metro officers.
Investigators with Metro’s Major Crimes Investigative Unit later responded to try and determine what happened.
Unconfirmed reports say incident was an act of violence spawned by an altercation between two groups of people which took place minutes earlier inside the casino.
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Daytona tourist falls to her death www.privateofficer.com
The victim was identified as Heather Crawford of Frostburg, Maryland. She was on vacation with her boyfriend.
According to police, the woman was either sitting on the railing or standing on a chair when she fell just after 3:00am. A security guard at the hotel heard a loud noise and went to investigate.
The woman was found lying next to a dumpster. She was pronounced dead at the scene by rescue workers.
Foul play is not suspected.
On March 22, a 16-year-old boy from Minnesota died after falling from a 24th floor balcony at the Ocean Walk Resort.
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Menacing man with stick arrested at mall www.privateofficer.com
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When mall security officers and township police went to talk to a man wearing a towel on his head and carrying a stick as he walked through the mall for several hours, he assaulted them, Stark County Jail records said.
Jail records said Ernest C. Isles, 29, of 1139 18th St. NE in Canton, “made several aggressive moves” toward the police officer before hitting him and taking his police baton. Then the police officer pulled out his gun, the jail records said.
Isles was arrested at 3:54 p.m. Friday in the Westfield Belden Village mall parking lot, 4320 Everhard Rd. NW. He was charged with felonious assault and resisting arrest. He was also arrested on an unrelated assault warrant.
Jail records said police were called to the mall by security officers who said Isles was inside the mall, wearing a black coat with a blue stripe and wearing a towel on his head. He also carried the stick as he walked through the mall for about four hours, the jail records said.
Stark County Court records show Isles went to prison in 2004 for felonious assault.
He remained in jail this morning, held in lieu of $50,000 bond, jail records said.
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Security officer suspended for using belt on child www.privateofficer.com
A security guard has been removed from Kozminski Elementary School for allegedly beating a student with a belt, Chicago Public Schools authorities said Friday.
Officials are now investigating whether Reginald Lanier struck any other students with belts that were allegedly hanging in a copier room of Kozminski, at 936 E. 54th St., CPS spokeswoman Monique Bond said.
A 9-year-old boy told CBS2 News that the security guard took him to a room and beat him with a studded belt.
“I think it’s abuse,” the third-grader said.
The child’s mother filed a police report against Lanier on March 12, and Lanier admitted to police that he had disciplined the child, Bond said.
The incident follows testimony last month by new Schools CEO Ron Huberman that he wanted to speed up investigations of abuse allegations.
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Vegas cops use Twitter to get word out www.privateofficer.com
Las Vegas NV Mar 29 2009
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New technologies are allowing people to connect faster and more often, but now law enforcement is using social networking sites to help them solve crimes.
Twitter offers subscribers a way to communicate with others using short messages. Now Metro is using it to send out alerts about crimes and to help with the search when children go missing.
“These things get out within four to five seconds after we hit enter — they are posted and they are out to the world,” said Metro Officer Ramon Denby.
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Twitter users can now get messages right from the LVMPD, letting them know where an accident has caused a road closure or even allowing them to see the alleged store robber, “We can actually post photos on Twitter. We can actually post videos on Twitter that the user will be able to go on and see a robbery video we posted.”
The department has only been on the messaging service for about a week, but already they’ve seen many reasons to use it, like when a little boy wondered away from his home.
“This is huge, because if we have people on their cell phones who subscribe to this site, as they are taking their kids to school and dropping their kids off, they may see this little four-year-old wandering around in his pajamas,” said Denby.
Metro includes the number for CrimeStoppers in its messages, so anyone with information can call. However they say they don’t check for replies, so don’t send a tip back on Twitter. They are off to a good start. Already they have over 150 followers signed up to receive their messages.
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Shoplifting news and arrests www.privateofficer.com
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Juan J. Rivera, 29, of 230 E. Second St., Apt. 5, Jamestown; Adeline M. Rodriguez, 18, of 230 E. Second St., Apt. 5, Jamestown, and Carmen M. Rodriguez, 23, of 230 E. Second St., Apt. 5, Jamestown, were charged with one count each of petit larceny. They were charged and released to appear in Ellicott Town Court later.
Slidell LA
Krista A. Giacona, 20, 831 Ashville Drive, Slidell, theft under $300 by shoplifting and possession of marijuana.
Emily M. Shockey, 19, 2119 Pine St., New Orleans, theft under $300 by shoplifting.
SIERRA VISTA AZ
douglasdispatch.com — Two Douglas men are accused of shoplifting after they were caught with merchandise from four area stores in their car on Friday.
Brandon M. Arevalo, 23, and Joseph G. Arvizu, 19, both of Douglas, allegedly stole a digital camera from Walmart in Sierra Vista around 12:30 p.m. by cutting the cable securing the item and then fled the scene with the camera, according to a Sierra Vista Police report.
Police spokeswoman Officer Tracy Grady said the two men returned to the store around 2 p.m. and were watched by security personnel who saw Arevalo and Arvizu allegedly attempt to steal two flat screen televisions. Their attempt to take the TVs “out through the garden center part of the store was unsuccessful,” Grady said.
The two suspects then went to their car and were driving out of the parking lot when they were stopped by Sierra Vista police, she said.
It was then the “plain sight doctrine,” came into play, the spokeswoman said.
Articles seen with in a person’s sight can be used to help build a case if a crime is suspected and other merchandise is seen, Grady said.
The items from three different stores at the Mall at Sierra Vista that were in the car also were reportedly shoplifted, she said, adding that during the search of the vehicle a concealed weapon was found
Dillard’s, Famous Footwear and Spencer Gifts were the three mall stores involved.
The two have been charged with shoplifting, attempted shoplifting and carrying a concealed firearm, Grady said.
Arevalo and Arvizu were taken to the Cochise County Jail facility in Sierra Vista where on Monday they were each being held on a $4,000 bond.
Vineland NJ
Sasha L. Green, 21, of Walnut Manor Apartments, was charged Sunday with shoplifting at Acme on South Main Road. She also was processed on two unrelated warrants. Green was transported to the Cumberland County Jail, where she was held in lieu of bail.
Chicago IL
A Midlothian man was accused of shoplifting at Chicago Ridge Mall after he fell from a ceiling while trying to hide, police said.
Laroy Getz, 29, of the 14300 block of South Kolin Avenue was charged with resisting arrest and retail theft in the March 4 incident, police said.
After he was spotted allegedly shoplifting at the mall, police said, Getz allegedly ran inside a nearby business where he removed several tiles from a ceiling and climbed up, before falling onto the floor, police said.
Bridgewater NJ
Rosario Scalici, 39, of Rockaway was charged with shoplifting a $100 Bluetooth at Costco in the Bridgewater Promenade.
Samar G. Zahalan, 25, of Newark was charged with shoplifting at Macy’s in Bridgewater Commons mall. A store security officer saw Zahalan place a $50 sweat shirt in her purse and leave the store, police said.
FRAMINGHAM MA – An Arthur Street woman was charged with shoplifting at the local Stop & Shop on Friday afternoon.
Patricia Acosta-Depinho, 26, of 204 Arthur St., was charged with shoplifting at the store around 12:35 p.m., police said
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Oak Lawn IL
Retail Theft- Lauren Green, 11929 Stewart Ave., Chicago, was charged with retail theft after store personnel at Kmart, 4101 W. 95th St., spotted her stealing a pair of shoes and socks from the store March 12, police said.
