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Monthly Archives: May 2009

WICHITA, Kan May 31 2009. AP – Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in a church where he was serving as an usher. The gunman fled, but a 51-year-old suspect was detained some 170 miles away in suburban Kansas [...]

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Elkhart IN May 31 2009 A 27-year-old Elkhart man was arrested Saturday morning following a burglary at the Forest River plant. Police say they interrupted the burglary in progress after a security guard at the business, in the 29000 block of Old U.S. 33 in Elkhart, called for help shortly after midnight. When they arrived, [...]

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Columbia MD May 31 2009 A Howard County grand jury indicted a 16-year-old Columbia teenager on a slew of charges stemming from the attempted robbery and shooting at a security guard near the Long Reach Village Center in Columbia earlier this month. Darnell Rasheen Furby was indicted Wednesday on charges of first-degree assault; theft of [...]

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NASHVILLE, Tenn May 31 2009- Metro Police have issued a warning for a scam that hits close to home. A man has been promising Section 8 housing vouchers, but takes the applicant’s money instead. Some victims have come forward, but police think there could be many others. One victim is a woman who was staying [...]

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EL PASO TX May 31 2009 — A county constable shot a man who refused to kneel down and put his hands up, according to El Paso County Sheriff’s Spokesman Jesse Tovar. The shooting happened in the parking lot of the El Bandolero nightclub in east El Paso. Sheriff’s deputies say two constables were off-duty [...]

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Manchester CT. May 31 2009 Manchester police said they have arrested a pair of expert shoplifters after a brief chase. According to police, the two women nearly got away with thousands of dollar’s worth of merchandise at the Buckland Hills Mall. A store security official alerted undercover police detectives, and the chase began. Laverne Richardson [...]

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ALBANY, GA May 30 2009(WALB) – Three men arrested in an Albany bank parking lot Thursday are now charged with planning a robbery. Albany Police say a sharp-eyed employee likely prevented a bank robbery. She saw the men acting suspiciously. Police took them in for questioning and now say they were obviously preparing to commit [...]

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NYC NY May 30 2009 Months of negotiations with national security contractors AlliedBarton and FJC have culminated with new union contracts that provide significant wage increases, employer-paid family health care and benefits for some 3,000 City-contracted security officers over three years. “For too long, private security officers were left behind in low-wage, dead-end jobs,” said [...]

Peoria IL May 30 2009 Quick work by security teams at two local hospitals has one man in custody tonight. That man is accused of approaching two women at two area hospital parking decks in the past 24 hours and trying to steal their bags. A Nurse was walking to her car on the third [...]

Chicago IL May 30 2009 A 22-year-old South Side man was charged in connection with the theft of a 9 mm Beretta belonging to a Chicago police officer as he lay critically injured following a traffic crash Wednesday at 98th and Halsted Streets, authorities said tonight. Rasaan Shannon, of the 9800 block of South Morgan [...]

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. May 30 2009– Hundreds of thousands of dollars lying on a city street. It was a shocking discovery for two people on Syracuse’s Northside. One man walking out of a barber shop and another man walking to his car on North Salina Street discovered at least $250,000 had fallen out of an armored [...]

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Queens NY May 30 2009 A Queens public school teacher turned a 2nd-floor classroom into an after-school sex den, luring her teenage student into a torrid fling, prosecutors said. Melissa Weber, 27, a social studies teacher at Middle School/Intermediate School 8 in Jamaica, seduced the 14-year-old male student seven times over the past month, prosecutors [...]

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DENVER CO May 29 2009 – Someone in the crowd at the El Chaparral night club in Denver pulled out a gun and shot two security guards early Friday. One of them died on arrival at the hospital. A manhunt for the suspect was underway. Police say it happened at about 12:50 a.m. The second [...]

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Kansas City MO May 29 2009 Jackson County prosecutors today charged a man with shooting at two women and a security guard in March, injuring a 66-year-old woman with stray gunfire. Prosecutors charged Kenneth W. Thompson, 24, of Kansas City with 15 felonies: seven counts of first-degree assault, seven counts of armed criminal action and [...]

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Denver CO May 29 2009 The former head of security at a Denver charter school has been charged with sexually assaulting a female grade-school student during a five-month period in late 2007 and early 2008. Charged is 47-year-old Victor Ware. Ware worked at the former Challenges, Choices and Images charter school in Denver. He is [...]

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New Orleans LA May 29 2009 The Recovery School District has laid off 45 security guards in a cost-cutting move, according to the district’s security director Eddie Compass. The layoffs, which were announced today, reduce the number of guards working in district-run schools to 77, Compass said. “It’s a tough time for the state from [...]

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Meriden CT May 29 2009 myrecordjournal.com In a chilling 911 call Wednesday morning, police dispatchers heard a man apologize while a woman screamed. The man asked for officers to come to a house at 54 Spice Hill Drive. Seconds later, they heard five gunshots. Police arrived to discover the bodies of Michelle Barrows, 32, and [...]

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BANTAM CT May 29 2009 — A New Milford man who allegedly assaulted a security guard and tried twice to run him over during a shoplifting incident, was ordered held on $25,000 bond on several felony charges. Dakota R. Griffing, 18, 38 Birchwood Drive, hoped he would be released from custody so he could return [...]

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ATLANTA GA. May 29 2009 — A Snellville man was arrested on suspicion of abducting an Atlanta woman and driving her to Sevier County, Tenn., where the alleged victim told authorities she was raped. Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals said 46-year-old David Jansen abducted the 24-year-old woman while she was jogging in her Atlanta neighborhood [...]

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SCHERERVILLE IL May 29 2009 A St. John man pushed an elderly man to the ground after threatening his life and stealing about $20 from his wallet, police said. Erick Kegebein, 35, 11475 W. 93rd Ave., was charged Thursday with robbery, a Class B felony, according to an affidavit. The victim, who turns 81 next [...]

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Lincoln NE May 29 2009 Lincoln Police say a shoplifting incident at Shopko at 3400 North 27th Street turned violent Thursday afternoon, and ended in the arrests of four people from Marshalltown, Iowa. Police say 34-year-old Jose Lopez and 28-year-old Maria Cardenas were inside Shopko, when they put six cans of baby formula, worth $26 [...]

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NEW YORK May 29 2009 (AP) — A plainclothes policeman who drew his gun while chasing someone he had found rummaging through his car was shot and killed by a fellow officer who was driving by and saw the pursuit, the police commissioner said. Commissioner Raymond Kelly said 25-year-old Omar J. Edwards died after being [...]

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Orland Park IL May 29 2009 A Braidwood man was charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly relieved himself on a security officer at a festival in the parking lot of Orland Square Mall in Orland Park police said. The man, identified as Joshua Obrakta, 25, of the 300 block of Orchard Lane was acting [...]

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KINGS CREEK, N.C. May 28 2009 wsoctv.com– Investigators in Caldwell County said a man who shot two deputies, an 8-year-old girl and her father was found dead from a gunshot wound after deputies fired back. The shootings happened early Thursday morning in the Kings Creek community. Investigators said the entire incident was sparked by a [...]

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Birmingham AL May 28 2009 al.com A 22-year-old Birmingham man charged with murder in a Friday morning Irondale shooting death has been a Brighton police officer for about a year, Brighton Mayor Angelo Hinkle said tonight. Chevis Finley was booked into the Jefferson County Jail Friday night on $75,000 bond. Hinkle said Finley is on [...]

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HIALEAH, FL May 28 2009–The Hialeah Police Department has arrested Maria Guzman Hernandez and charged her with sexual battery. Mrs. Hernandez was a 6th Grade teacher at Our Lady of Charity School, in Hialeah. According to police she had an intimate relationship with a 15-year-old male student she met at the school. The school’s principal [...]

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PEORIA, Ariz. May 28 2009– Two people who died in a small helicopter crash on Friday have been identified as Peoria police employees. Peoria police Officer Mike Gauchat, 41, and police services Officer Donna Cullum, 45, died when the two-seat homebuilt Safari helicopter they were in crashed west of Interstate 17 just south of Black [...]

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Tulsa OK May 28 2009 A former school security guard was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison for molesting a girl he met at Hale High School. Tracy Sullins, 49, pleaded no contest in April to one count of lewd molestation. He did not have a deal with prosecutors to govern his punishment. Tulsa [...]

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Junction City KS. May 28 2009 A Junction City High School teacher was in the Geary County Detention Center on Thursday after being arrested in connection with an unlawful sexual relationship with a student. Junction City Police Chief Bob Story identified the arrested woman as Micha A. Cook, 27, a physical education and health teacher at [...]

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Bethlehem PA May 28 2009 A Coopersburg couple face assault charges after Bethlehem police said they struck a Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem security officer early this morning when he told them the bar was closing. Larry L. Scholl, 60, and Antoinette Scholl-Hermans, 58, will both be sent summons for charges of simple assault, harassment, disorderly [...]

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