OFFICER DOWN TIFTON GEORGIA

OFFICER DOWN

Police Officer Terry Adams
Tifton Police Department
Georgia
End of Watch: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Biographical Info
Age: 38
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Date of Incident: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available

Officer Terry Adams was killed in a motorcycle accident on Tift Avenue. He was driving with his emergency equipment activated when a pickup truck pulled out of a shopping center and collided with his motorcycle head-on.

He succumbed to his injuries while being transported to a local hospital.

Officer Adams is survived by his wife and four children.

Agency Contact Information
Tifton Police Department
527 Commerce Way
Tifton, GA 31794

Phone: (229) 382-3132

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

75 Yr old school security officer armed with love www.privateofficer.com

Buffalo Grove IL April 23 2009
DailyHerald.com
An angry teenager barged onto the school bus parked outside Buffalo Grove High School to continue some drama with his girlfriend.
Seventy-six-year-old security guard Sven Cederberg, who served in the Marines under John Glenn during the Korean War, calmly stepped into the fray. The teen wasn’t having it.
“He said, ‘Go f yourself.’ He gave me a couple of thunks on my chest,” Cederberg says with the nonchalant air of someone bored with that part of the story.
Cederberg, who lives in Mount Prospect, could have filed a criminal complaint and let a court judge decide the teen’s fate. An outspoken Christian, the forgiving Cederberg didn’t see the point in saddling a kid with a criminal record.
“I’m going to let you make this call,” Cederberg told the teen as he gave him the option of attending a much-less severe peer mediation, where fellow students would determine a punishment.
“With tears in his eyes, he said peer mediation,” Cederberg says. The grateful kid earned a 10-day suspension, a second chance and a lesson that might stick with him for life.
“This guy comes up to me almost every day and shakes my hand,” Cederberg says. “It’s so rewarding.”
Stories of kids shaking Cederberg’s hand or thanking him for some act of kindness are so common, the student newspaper put the security guard on the front page of “The Charger.”
“So many of the students here love Sven because he has such a kind heart,” says teacher and newspaper adviser Lauren Kraft. “He seems to care about each student he comes in contact with.”
One of the student editors-in-chief, Melanie Driscoll, came up with the idea of writing about Cederberg, and reporter Bridget Maloni’s story captured the man.
“He definitely cares for people beyond anything,” senior Katie Palazzolo told Maloni. “It’s the simple things. It’s changing one little thing in another person’s life, things that he knows make a difference.”
The Charger scooped me on a story I’ve known for two decades. I met Cederberg and his wife Nancy through their role as AIDS volunteers, after their 24-year-old son, Kent, a Christian missionary and registered nurse, died of the disease in 1987. Their Love & Action charity told Kent’s story around the globe and offered love and action in communities where people sometimes were steeped in hate and blame.
A former printer, Cederberg ended up at Buffalo Grove High School as a way to continue helping young people handle whatever the world throws their way. When kids lash out, Cederberg responds with forgiveness and compassion.
“I don’t use the baseball bat. I say, ‘This isn’t worth a detention.’ They say, ‘You are right, Sven,’ and that’s the end of it,” Cederberg says.
When an exhaustive search for a student’s missing notebook turned up empty, Cederberg kept an eye peeled.
“Later that evening, at 9:30 I found it. So I took it over to his house at 10 o’clock,” Cederberg says. “This kid is so elated and every day he comes up to me.”
Former toughs headed down the wrong path make a special trip to the school years later to thank Cederberg for making them see the light. A Jewish student who knows how important God and Christianity is to Cederberg wanted to give him credit.
“How do you nominate someone for saint?” the young man asked.
“I’ve got good news for you. I’m already a saint,” Cederberg replied, quoting from a New Testament passage that refers to all believers as saints. “So you can forget about me. I’m OK.”
Embarrassed by The Charger’s coverage, the soft-spoken Cederberg still wrote the students a thank you for their good work and kind words.
That’s how a great-grandparent who is approaching 80 still manages to handle the rigors of being a high school security guard.
“It’s a love approach,” Cederberg says simply. “Without the love approach, it just ain’t going to work.”

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UPS supervisor charged with drugs, thefts www.privateofficer.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 23 2009 — A UPS supervisor was arrested after a tip from a concerned resident on Tuesday night.
Police were called to a business at Dana Way, located south of Hickory Hollow Mall, at about 9:30 p.m. after someone reported seeing a glass jar of marijuana in plain sight in a car.
Richard Traughber arrived while officers were investigating. He owned the car and said the drugs were his
Traughber was taken into custody.
A full search of his car turned up four other bags of marijuana, various prescription drugs and $15,000 worth of jewelry belonging to Kay’s Jewelers, which UPS had paid claims on.
UPS headquarters in Atlanta confirmed Traughber is a supervisor based out of Nashville.
Several UPS workers said Traughber was a great guy who was easy to work with.

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Niagara County teacher arrested for student relationship www.privateofficer.com

Niagara County NY April 23 2009
The Niagara County Sheriff says Newfane High School Teacher, Allan Grogan was arrested for having a relationship with a student under the age of 17.
50 year-old Grogan was charged with Disseminating Indecent Material, two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, and four counts of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree. Grogan posted $5,000 bail at Town of Newfane Court.
Grogan has been ordered to stay away from the victim and any Newfane School facilities.

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Florida officers paragliding in new operation www.privateofficer.com

PALM BAY, Fla. April 23 2009
For the next six months, four men will suit up and take turns hovering in the skies above Brevard County’s largest city, searching for the lost and looking for the out-of-place.
They will be part of Palm Bay Police Department’s “Operation Soar,” a new pilot paragliding program.
The mission: to use the long-established pastime of paragliding to carry out close-ground air searches for missing children or seniors amid the city’s winding canals and heavily wooded areas.
“We’re always pushing the envelope. I just see a lot of law enforcement applications with this,” Palm Bay Police Chief William Berger told Local 6 News partner Florida Today.
The ultra-light aircraft, funded with donations and funds from seized assets, also could be deployed for some above-ground patrols in neighborhoods plagued by burglars or other minor crimes, officials said.
“We’ve got a lot of rural areas in a city that’s 100 square miles. This is primarily for search-and-rescue operations,” Berger said.
He said he believes it will be among the first municipal police departments in the country to make use of such technology in this way.
It’s an ambitious step for a department already known for its innovation in being among the first to seek an unmanned drone for patrols. That plan — which drew national attention and criticism from some local helicopter pilots — failed to get off the ground after the Federal Aviation Administration stepped in.
But officials at the county’s second-largest police agency don’t believe the motorized paraglider, which will not be flown above 400 feet, would run afoul of the federal agency.
The craft, which will be flown for about 45 minutes at a time, also will not be used in pursuits. For that, Palm Bay police will still call on the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, officials said.
The $25,000 paraglider — produced by Dudek Paragliders manufacturers in Poland and emblazoned with the police department’s insignia — was donated to the agency by Ray McMahon, a Cocoa Beach distributor who operates Powered Para Gliding.
The department used $7,000 in seized drug-related funds to install a bulletproof-lined seat, an extra safety chute and a special inflatable vest, officials said.
One key concern was whether someone might fire a gun at the flying officers.
“In law enforcement, there are all types of risks. They could snipe at us while we’re in the patrol cars, as has happened in the past,” said Joe Eakins, an administrator in the Palm Bay Police Department who helped oversee the paraglider initiative. “But with the distance and height, we’ll be less apt to be hit.”
Police administrators are excited by the prospect of doing flying patrols.
“I’ve been flying this type of light aircraft for a year now. The more we flew, the more applications for law enforcement we saw,” Eakins said. “I equate it to police officers being on all-terrain vehicles for beach patrols, mounted horse patrols or having K-9 officers. It just seems like no one else had brought it up.”

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Birmingham police officer suffers 2 broken legs in wreck www.privateofficer.com

Birmingham Al April 23 2009
A Birmingham police officer left with two broken legs after an early-morning car wreck Tuesday was in fair condition after surgery, according to Birmingham police and UAB Hospital officials.
South Precinct officers James Miller and Terry Davis were responding to a car break-in when their car left the road and struck a tree, said Birmingham police spokesman Sgt. Johnny Williams Jr.
Birmingham Fire and Rescue workers had to cut Miller from the car.
Both officers were taken to UAB Hospital. Davis was treated for cuts and released.
Police officials said Miller was alert before going into surgery. The surgery went well, but doctors said they would observe Miller overnight and determine whether he needs an additional surgery, Williams said.
The accident happened at 1:30 a.m. in the 3200 block of Clairmont Avenue.

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Shoplifter pulls knife on security officer www.privateofficer.com

Cambridge MA April 23 2009
The security guard at CVS at 624 Mass. Ave. told police a shoplifting suspect pulled a knife on him outside the pharmacy at about 8 p.m. April 14.
Detectives John Crowley and Mark Clavette later stopped suspect Paul Lawrence on Brookline Street between Green Street and Mass. Ave. and allegedly found a black folding knife that Lawrence had allegedly thrown on the sidewalk as the detectives approached.
The security guard told cops he saw Lawrence in the back of CVS stuffing eight bottles of body lotion into a black Brigham and Women’s Hospital shoulder bag at about 7:45 p.m. The guard stopped Lawrence on the sidewalk outside the store and asked him to come back inside the store to fill out some paperwork, according to reports. Lawrence allegedly refused and pulled out a black knife when the guard grabbed his arm, police said. Police said there was a struggle and Lawrence allegedly dropped his bag on the ground before walking away, according to reports.
Lawrence, 46, of 88 Auburn Court, was arrested and charged with armed robbery and on two outstanding warrants.

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Shoplifters “moon” security as they flee www.privateofficer.com

FRANKLIN, Tenn. April 23 2009 – Two women were taken into police custody Tuesday afternoon, minutes after they reportedly stole several items from the JC Penney at the Cool Springs Galleria and then mooned mall security as they fled.
Police were notified of the theft just before 3 p.m. and the security officer was able to provide a description of the getaway vehicle and license plate number to dispatchers.
The women, 29-year-old Lana Holmes and 34-year-old Whitney Lyons, were spotted minutes later and apprehended.
Items worth an estimated $3,100 from JC Penney and four other stores inside the mall, along with a tool to remove security tags from clothing were recovered from the car.
Both women are charged with theft over $1,000 and booked into the Williamson County jail.
They have since been released on $5,000 bond and will appear in court later this month.

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Woman arrested for taking gun to school www.privateofficer.com

Gulf Breeze Fla April 23 2009
The 61-year-old mother of a Gulf Breeze High School student was arrested Monday morning in the school’s front parking lot for possessing a concealed .38-caliber handgun and a pocket knife under a trench coat she was wearing.
Judy Hall, of 1139 Finch Drive in Gulf Breeze, apparently was trying to make a point about security at Gulf Breeze High before she was arrested by Officer Kerstan Tatro, the Gulf Breeze Police School Resource Officer.
Hall was charged with bringing a gun onto the school campus, resisting arrest without violence and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.
Ironically, the incident occurred on the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting massacre in Littleton, Colo., in which 15 people, including two student gunmen, died in one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.
Monday’s drama unfolded at 9:05 a.m. near the front entrance to the school. Hall had an appointment with Tatro to discuss an issue concerning her freshman son when Tatro saw Hall and the boy talking outside Tatro’s window. Tatro determined there was a problem and went outside to intervene.
Tatro engaged Hall, who curiously had taken a trench coat from her truck and put it on moments earlier.
“Anyone could walk into the school with a trench coat on and a gun in their pocket and start killing people,” Hall told Tatro, according to the police report.
She continued to say that she had a .38 gun in her pocket at that very moment.
Shocked, Tatro asked Hall if she was serious. She replied, “Yes.”
Tatro took Hall into custody, and a pat-search revealed a handgun in the pocket of the trench coat. Hall resisted arrest, and a further search uncovered a folding pocket knife in her possession.
Several fellow GBPD officers arrived to assist Tatro and found another loaded handgun in Hall’s truck, which was parked in front of the high school entrance. Tatro intervened before Hall could put that weapon in her pocket.
After Hall was transported to police headquarters, officers searched her home and recovered five more weapons, including two handguns, two rifles and a shotgun. Various calibers of ammunition were also recovered. Hall was transported to Santa Rosa County Jail in Milton, where she was being held Tuesday as Gulf Breeze News went to press.
Gulf Breeze High Principal Sylvan Ladner said the situation was handled expediently and effectively, and no one was in danger of being hurt, thanks to Tatro’s alert, quick action.
“There was no threat of violence or danger to any of the students or any person here at the high school,” Ladner said. “(Hall) did have a firearm, but it was not loaded. It was not capable of creating any level of violence to anyone.”
The fact that a separate loaded gun was found in Hall’s vehicle prompted some parents in communication with Gulf Breeze News to question Ladner’s assessment. But Ladner insisted the incident was handled as it should have been.
“We did everything possible (to diffuse the situation),” he said. “We have outside doors that were secured. There are some doors that the students have to come in and out of the building. The resource officer’s office is located near the front entrance.
“The Gulf Breeze Police Department did a fantastic job. They were here immediately and resolved the situation as quickly as possible.”
The school initiated an automated voice message/e-mail to all parents to inform them of the situation and ease their fears. Some excited students sent text messages or made calls to parents on cell phones, informing them of the incident and discussing numerous rumors.
Some alarmed parents went to the school to check on their children’s safety. An assistant principal said 170 students checked out as a result of the incident.
School begins daily at 9:15 a.m. at Gulf Breeze High. The incident occurred about 10 minutes prior to that time, and the parking lot was filling with students’ vehicles at the time.
Gulf Breeze News visited the campus at about 10:15 a.m., and there was no visible indication anything out of the ordinary had occurred. Students were gathered on a deck area on the east end of the school building, and other students walked to the U.S. Highway 98 overpass to get to class at the field house.
By noon, local media remote broadcast trucks had gathered in the field house parking lot to file live reports. Later, footage on WEAR-TV 3 showed Hall being led from police headquarters into a cruiser to be transported to Santa Rosa County Jail in Milton, where she was ordered to be held without bond.
Hall told a reporter “to read about it in the paper,” then winked and made a kiss gesture to the camera.

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Security officer opens fire on shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 23 2009– What started as a shopping trip at the Fashion Cents store near Linwood Boulevard and Prospect Avenue turned into much more when two women decided to skip the check out and make a run for it, police said.
Kansas City police Sgt. Robert Zimmerman said a security guard blocked their path with his personal vehicle. He said the driver rammed the guard’s car with her vehicle and the security guard fired one shot.
Community activist Alvin Brooks was at a monthly board meeting at the Ad Hoc Against Crime office in the same strip mall when he heard the shot. “I looked out and saw the truck moving on.”
Police believe the security guard hit the suspect’s radiator when he fired the single shot. As the woman sped away, they left a trail of fluid and debris behind, officers said.
A police helicopter helped searched for the women, who were last seen in a dark blue van. No arrests have been made.
“Once you use violent force to try and stop somebody from stopping you from stealing something in a shoplift, it becomes a robbery, which in turn becomes a felony,” said Zimmerman.

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Security guard charged with school arson www.privateofficer.com

Miami Beach Fla April 23 2009

Miami Beach police arrested a school security guard Tuesday after he admitted lighting two fires at the EF International Language boarding school just after midnight.
No injuries were reported, but 300 students and staff members were forced to evacuate the school in the 2400 block of Collins Avenue.
Henry Morgan, 21, the security guard, started a fire in a clothes dryer in the school’s basement and extinguished it himself, according to a police report.

As firefighters arrived, Morgan went to another room and lit a second fire, investigators said.
Surveillance videos captured the incident, and police said they found a purple lighter in Morgan’s backpack. He then admitted to starting the fires to detectives. Police charged him with felony arson of an occupied building.

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Vegas police want more tips from strip employees www.privateofficer.com

WASHINGTON DC April 23 2009
reviewjournal.com — Southern Nevada authorities are seeking to make greater use of thousands of front line resort workers such as valets and housekeepers to tip off police to shady behaviors and possible criminal and terrorist activity, Congress was told today.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said law enforcers are stepping up their outreach to the Strip and downtown hotels, and also to private guards who live and work in Las Vegas.
In our community there are over 6,700 private security professionals, and thousands more valet attendants, housekeepers and bell captains, each poised and capable of detecting suspicious behaviors indicating criminal activity,” Gillespie told a Senate homeland security subcommittee on preparedness.
“We are working to harness this incredible force multiplier,” he said.
Gillespie said Las Vegas police are closing on an agreement for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to pay for an analyst to work within the Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Center.
The so-called “fusion center” is where representatives of 13 federal, state and local agencies — roughly 60 professionals — work fulltime to monitor potential threats of all kinds.
The new analyst would sift through reports and tips from hotels, where workers have been trained to report suspicious activities.
“Aides, the bellfolks, valets, walk around these businesses all the time,” Gillespie said in an interview after the hearing. “We get a lot of calls now about suitcases and packages, things where years ago they just picked it up and threw it in the garbage or put it in lost and found.”
With the addition of an analyst dedicated to the resorts, “we are looking to make that more of a day-to-day type function within the fusion center,” Gillespie said.
“I think it is very foolish of us to live in the community that we do and not to incorporate that aspect of the community,” he said.
Gillespie added authorities “recognize and completely understand” the civil liberties concerns of integrating the private sector into stepped up law enforcement.
“I firmly believe we can work that out,” he said.
Gillespie described the workings of the Southern Nevada fusion center at a hearing on how state, local and federal officials were working to combat drug trafficking and other crimes.

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Custom officer commits suicide at St. Paul airport www.privateofficer.com

St. Paul MN April 23 2009
An officer of U.S. Customs & Border Protection was found dead of a gunshot wound Tuesday afternoon at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport in an apparent suicide.
Authorities said that the employee, a male who hasn’t been identified, was found in his car with a gunshot wound.
Patrick Hogan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Airports Commission did not go into detail about the shooting but saifd that the incident took place in an employee parking area, in the airport’s ramps, which is not accessible to the public, Hogan said.
Airport police are investigating the incident and a police report is not yet available.

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Police seek ATM guard robbery suspect www.privateofficer.com

Phoenix AZ April 23 2009
Phoenix police were searching Wednesday morning for a man who attempted to rob a security guard loading money into an ATM.
The man made off with a money bag – that was empty.
Police received reports around 8:30 a.m. of an armed robbery in progress, possibly involving a Loomis armored truck, at a Fry’s Food Store near 67th Avenue and Indian School Rd.
A Loomis security guard was getting ready to service the ATM inside the grocery store when a man “bum-rushed him and knocked him down,” according to police Lt. Cheryl Gipson-Thurman.
The man attempted to take the security guard’s gun but was unsuccessful. The suspect then took the guard’s money bag before fleeing out the back of the store.
The bag had nothing inside of it, according to Phoenix Officer James Holmes.
Gipson-Thurman said the guard was “shaken up but unharmed.”
Police believe the crime was planned. Witnesses reported seeing the suspect “hanging around the store” for up to an hour before the incident, Gipson-Thurman said.
Witnesses described the suspect as a Black man in his 30s with a pockmarked face. He was wearing all black clothes.
The Fry’s store was closed indefinitely following the incident as police searched the surrounding area for the suspect.

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