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Monthly Archives: March 2009

COLCHESTER, N.Y. Mar 26 2009 – State police say a 69-year-old man is charged with grand larceny and unlawful disposal of human remains after he stashed his 98-year-old mother’s dead body in a freezer so he could keep cashing her Social Security checks. Roland Auslander also was charged with forgery and resisting arrest. He was [...]

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VINELAND NJ Mar 26 2009 — A city woman was arrested after she tried to sneak into the nursery at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center and kidnap a newborn baby, police said Wednesday night. Lisa N. Maines, 34, fled the hospital after a security guard stopped and questioned her, but was found later Wednesday [...]

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Dayton OH March 25 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Serial bank robber Roderick Sample walked into the U.S. Bank in downtown Dayton yesterday and handed a teller a note-”this is a robbery-give me all of the hundred dollar bills, I’ve got a weapon”. He had done this at least three times [...]

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CLAYMONT, Del. Mar 25 2009 (AP) — A Delaware county man who allegedly stole two diamond rings worth more than $3,600 from a Claymont, Del., Kmart is in police custody. Delaware State Police say Ridley Township police and Kmart security employees identified 22-year-old Nicholas Kowal of Secane, as the alleged thief. He and 24-year-old Jessica [...]

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YORK, SC(Charlotte NC metro) Mar 25 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Authorities said that began an investigation into inappropriate behavior of a junior high coach and teacher after a student’s parents contacted them. Investigators did not release much detail but said that Vernon LaMarcus Cheek, 27, is accused of engaging [...]

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SAN DIEGO CA Mar 25 2009 Authorities in San Diego say police have killed a mechanic at a city bus complex after the man shot two co-workers, killing one of them. Police Sgt. Bob Dare says a report came in early Tuesday of two people shot at the Metropolitan Transit System bus complex. Transit System [...]

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Sumpter SC Mar 25 2009 Sumter Police said three women are facing several charges after they reportedly stole tools valued at $570 from Sears at Sumter Mall and then hit an officer with a Jeep Cherokee after being confronted. Shannon Wallace, 30, of 133 N. Charleston Road, Darlington; and Emma Dalyrymple, 57, of 3124 Sunny [...]

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Gainesville Fl Mar 25 2009 By: Rick McCann Private officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police sat that it was an employee of a local store, not a burglar who tried making off with hundreds of dollars of merchandise in the dark of night. At 5:42 a.m. the burglar alarm sounded at the Macy’s store at the [...]

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CANTON OH Mar 25 2009 By: Brett Davis Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Security personnel at a Wal-Mart said that they watched a 29-year-old city man shoplifting and when they tried to stop him they were assaulted. Leo J. Scarpazzi of 3229 Arbor Rd. SW is accused of hiding his merchandise on his person at [...]

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BELMONT, N.C. Mar 25 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Police say that officer was injured by a shoplifter trying to make an arrest over the week-end. Belmont police are asking for the public’s help to find the pair of shoplifters who ran over a officer on Friday afternoon. An officer [...]

Austin MN Mar 25 2009 An arrest at a Wal-Mart in Austin, Minn., may help break a multi-state scam wide open. Police arrested a woman who they believe tried to scam the store out of thousands of dollars. Her arrest is linked to a retail scam that stretches across several states. Investigators say the scam [...]

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Deland Fla Mar 25 2009 Brett Davis Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ A transient who was given a trespass warning at a DeLand Walmart Monday afternoon returned later in the evening, armed with two knives, and got into a struggle with a security guard at the store, police said. John Wayne Mooney, 58, faces charges [...]

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Conroe TX Mar 25 2009 AP At 1 p.m. Tuesday the FBI announced the arrest of a 23 year veteran of the Conroe Police Department for allegedly robbing the 1st Bank of Conroe, located at 2201 Westview in Conroe on Aug. 11, 2008. Sgt. Michael Tindall was arrested this morning at the FBI field office [...]

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Columbus OH Mar 25 2009 A security guard for the Waffle House, 1050 E. Dublin-Granville Road, was shot in the leg at 2:34 a.m. March 21 while standing outside in front of the restaurant, Columbus police reported. The guard, a 21-year-old man, was shot in the right leg. Police reported hearing several shots filed in [...]

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NORTH MIAMI Fla Mar 25 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network www.privateofficer.com Police reported that a security officer was approached by a gunman who tried to rob him at the Peoples Bank, 680 NE 124th St., at 7 a.m. March 9. According to authorities, the security guard parked his 2004 GMC Yukon and [...]

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HARRISBURG, Ark. Mar 25 2009 pine bluff commercial.com- A man accused of killing a security guard at a lumber plant has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder. Bruce Wade Pennington, 62, entered the plea Monday in the May 12 shooting death of Dorman Ray Cooper, 26. Cooper was [...]

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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. Mar 24 2009– Authorities say two spring breakers ended up dead after a suspected hit-and-run driver crashed while fleeing police. Panama City Beach Police say 20-year-old Dakota Matthews, of Birmingham, Ala., was driving early Sunday morning when his Nissan Altima left the road and hit 20-year-old Randy Nolan, of Auburn, Ala. [...]

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NEW ORLEANS LA Mar 24 2009 — A shoplifting suspect being transported to jail Friday afternoon climbed out the window of a police car on the Pontchartrain Expressway and ran off, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman said. Col. John N. Fortunato said an officer was transporting three prisoners from the east bank to the [...]

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  MANSFIELD LA Mar 24 2009 — Another DeSoto Parish educator has been arrested. This time, the teacher, Cindy Marlene Wyatt Cobbs, 30, was charged with drug possession and providing liquor to minors at her Grand Cane home, where weekend parties involving juveniles were commonplace, DeSoto investigators said. The teachers’ arrest is the second this [...]

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Idaho Falls ID Mar 24 2009 Police say a former hospital patient caused quite a scene at the Emergency Room on Saturday and was tased while reaching for a loaded gun. It happened in the parking lot outside the Emergency Room at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. According to an officers report, 46 year old [...]

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OSCEOLA COUNTY Fla Mar 24 2009 – Two suspects are under arrest after a chase through two Central Florida counties. The chase came to an end near Boggy Creek Road and Boggy Creek Terrace Monday afternoon. Orlando police said Cynthia Pressley, 21, and Johnny Weaver, 35, robbed an Old Navy store on Conroy Road, hitting [...]

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Bar fight ends in shooting www.privateofficer.com COLUMBIA, SC Mar 24 2009 By: Brett Davis Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Richland County deputies said that a fight inside the Champ Bar and Grill on West Beltline Boulevard broke out at around midnight Saturday and later led to an exchange of gunfire that wounded a bouncer and [...]

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Philadelphia PA Mar 22 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ A security officer was shot in the head inside a Wynnefield Heights Pathmark Sunday afternoon and the suspect is on the loose. The shooting happened at around 2:30p.m. in the Pathmark located at 4160 Monument Rd. and was packed with shoppers, investigators [...]

BUTTE, Mont. Mar 22 2009 – A small plane crashed Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 17 people, including several children, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. The single engine turboprop plane crashed about 500 feet from the airport in Butte while attempting to land, said spokesman Mike Fergus. The Montana Standard [...]

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DES MOINES, Iowa Mar 23 2009 – An Iowa school custodian and labor union activist who was once job shadowed by then-presidential candidate Joseph Biden was arrested Thursday after a lobbyist witnessed an apparent purse theft at the Iowa Capitol. Authorities say Marshall Clemons, 38, of Cedar Rapids, grabbed two women’s wallets before he was [...]

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TAMPA FL Mar 23 2009 — A frightened student at Liberty Middle School told resource Officer Donna Showalter another girl had posted a threat against her on MySpace.com, a social networking site popular with teens and young adults. In the past, Showalter would have had to ask the girl to print out the comments and [...]

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Montgomery AL. Mar 23 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police say that a security officer has found a Montgomery man who was shot to death inside his car next to the Rose Supper Club late Thursday night. Police responded to a call at about midnight about gunshots in the area, said [...]

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Aurora CO Mar 23 2009 By: Brett Davis Staff Reporter Private Officer News Network www.privateofficer.com An early morning robbery on Saturday at a Wal-Mart Super Center in Aurora has police looking for a suspect who assaulted a store security agent as he fled. Police say that the incident started out as a shoplifting of electronic [...]

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TRACY CA MAR 23 2009 — A 39-year-old substitute teacher has been arrested after Tracy Police detectives said he inappropriately touched eight girls over two days while working at their elementary school and had several images of child pornography at his home. Jesse Llorente III, of Tracy, was booked into San Joaquin County Jail on [...]

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WACO TX March 22, 2009 Saul Gallegos, who was arrested after a chase that started when a Lott police officer who was working as a nightclub security guard, fired shots at a car whose driver rammed another vehicle in the club parking lot, has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with the incident. His [...]

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