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Mall security officer critical after being stabbed www.privateofficer.com
A security guard in her forties is in serious condition after being stabbed Tuesday at North York’s Sheridan Mall, according to Toronto Emergency Medical Services.
The woman’s kidney was punctured in the stabbing, which took place shortly before 6 p.m. on mall property near Jane Street and Wilson Avenue. The woman had been involved in an altercation with someone else at the mall prior to the stabbing.
The victim, who is employed as a theft prevention officer at the mall, was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital in critical condition. Her status has since been upgraded.
The stabbing took place in a Zeller’s restaurant and the victim was in plain clothes.
Police say the suspect is an Asian male in his twenties who was with another person at the time of the stabbing.
Police also say he allegedly tried to steal baby food.
Investigators have recovered the knife used in the attack, locating it in a nearby creek.
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Tufts Medical Center security saves man from suicide www.privateofficer.com
Officer Rommel Clarke said that around 7 p.m. last Friday, he was told that a man was sitting on the edge of the garage wall, high above Boston’s theater district.
“This is basically where he was, right here, with his legs over this side dangling,” Clarke said as he stood by the wall.
“A gentleman was up there, thinking about jumping,” said Boston Emergency Medical Services chief Rich Serino.
“At that point in time, he actually turned around and was hanging off, with just his hands holding on right here,” said Clarke. “That’s when I ran, I grabbed him here and I was basically like this, holding him up.”
Clarke and another responding officer pulled the man, described only as being in his 50s, to safety. He was struggling, despondent and angry he had been saved.
“People say he was in the right place at the right time,” said one of Clarke’s colleagues. “But you can put 100 people in the right place at the right time and in my experience, what distinguishes a hero is the ones that act.”
Clarke is shunning the word hero to describe his actions. He said he has seen the gentleman he saved.
“He’s thanked me. He’s very, very happy,” said Clarke. “Like I told him, he’s got grandkids and he has something to live for and that’s not a reason to jump. So, he’s pretty happy now.”
Clarke was honored at Tufts Medical Center Tuesday.
He called the whole incident very scary.
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Teacher found in sexual position with student www.privateofficer.com
An elementary school teacher from Pitt County has resigned after her arrest this weekend in Wilmington.
Wilmington police say Jessica Wishnask has been charged with indecent liberties with a minor.
Police say early Saturday morning a patrol officer spotted a suspicious vehicle on North 5th Avenue. As he approached the car he saw the seats were down and discovered a 27-year-old woman in intimate contact with a 15-year-old boy.
Pitt County Schools spokeswoman Heather Mayo tells WITN News that Wishnask was an 8th grade English language arts teacher at Pactolus Elementary School.
Mayo says Wishnask began teaching in Pitt County on February 2nd and resigned Monday.
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New Mexico guard charged in 3 murders www.privateofficer.com
For now Marino Leyba Jr., 22, is charged with three open counts of murder in the Friday gunshot deaths Benny Lovato, 50, Sarah Lovato, 17, and her unborn child.
Leyba is being held at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility with prosecutors requesting he be put on suicide watch because of the significant time he could face.
According to the criminal complaint the Lovatos each died from at least one gunshot wound inside their apartment Friday night.
Police said Leyba had been dating Sarah for two years and was the unborn baby’s biological father. She was 36 weeks pregnant.
Sarah’s sister told police that Sarah and Leyba had been arguing on the phone earlier that night and that he later arrived at the apartment and went inside without permission.
Sarah’s sister told officers Benny Lovato ordered him to leave, and they started arguing.
That’s when the sister ran out of the apartment to get help and then heard gunshots. Police reported they found nine shell casings at the scene.
Court records indicate Leyba’s father spoke with his son after the shooting and said the younger Leyba told him what he had done.
In court Tuesday Deputy District Attorney Charles Baldonado said he is not sure if the death of the fetus qualifies as a murder. Under New Mexico law the child has to be born to be considered a human being, he said.
A grand jury will have to make that decision, he added.
Baldonado also said he’s going to try to add another charge–aggravated burglary–which could mean an extra 15 years in prison if Leyba is convicted.
Leyba has no criminal history.
Police said he worked as security guard at USA Security and Surveillance in Santa Fe and was wearing his uniform, which included a handgun and mace, the night of the killings.
His bond remains at $5 million cash.
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12 year old found with bomb at Denver Airport www.privateofficer.com
They took him into custody and detained him for possession of an incendiary device.
Transportation Security Administration agents stopped the boy before 7:00 a.m. and called police.
Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson says the device didn’t ignite and that no passengers or airplanes were in any danger.
He did not release details about the nature of the device.
Officers say the juvenile, whose name was not released, was traveling with family members, and they planned to board a flight to California.
Authorities say the device was in the juvenile’s backpack.Jackson says the police bomb squad was called to the scene, which is a standard precaution during this type of incident.
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Defunct funeral home leaves behind 4 bodies www.privateofficer.com
Lake County Coroner David J. Pastrick calls the situation in the former Serenity Gardens Funeral Home in Gary “unbelievable.”
Leaders of the Northlake Church of Christ called authorities after finding a body bag on a table Sunday.
Pastrick and his staff found one body in the bag, then another in a burial box and finally two more in caskets.
None has been identified.
Pastrick says the bodies may have been there since 2006, when the funeral home’s business license was revoked after several people filed complaints.
Gary police and state agencies are investigating.
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Bar fight, assault on security leads to arrest www.privateofficer.com
Police officers chased and tried to stun a man with an electric charge after he ran from El Rio Nilo, 7474 Monterey St., late Sunday night, police said.
Enrique Leyva, 31, got into a fight with a security guard outside the downtown bar near Monterey and Martin streets about 11:51 p.m. Sunday, police said. Staff called 911 and police arrived moments later.
Leyva ran across the street southbound toward Sixth Street when officers arrived. Police saw him holding something in his right hand as he ran and instructed him to stop, but he kept running, Sgt. Jim Gillio said. At least one officer deployed his electronic stun gun from an unknown distance, but the prongs did not extend long enough to penetrate Leyva’s skin. Less than a minute later, though, at least four officers caught up with Leyva behind the Oakwood Lounge near the corner of Sixth and Monterey streets and detained him there, police said.
Police charged Leyva with fighting in public and resisting a peace officer.
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Tn child,8, found hanging in tree www.privateofficer.com
Police said Alex Cotten, 8, was found hanging from a tree during a fishing incident while his two brothers, foster father — who’s a reserve deputy — and another full-time deputy were with him.
“I just want questions answered, what’s going on, what happened to my son,” said Alex’s biological mother, Christy Kennedy, who has been fighting to regain custody of her three children.
She received news Monday night that her middle child was dead.
“The phone call was (that) he got in a car wreck,” said Kennedy. “And then later on, when I got to the hospital, the foster family told me otherwise.”
Kennedy said the foster family told her Alex was killed in a hay baling incident. A Rutherford County incident report said he disappeared at a pond during a fishing trip after his foster father, Cam Sandstrom, made him go to the barn as punishment for being hyperactive.
The report said Alex’s foster grandfather, Sid Sandstrom, arrived 15 minutes later and found the boy hanging from a tree by baling twine. Now, investigators are wondering if the child killed himself.
“It would be odd for a child that young (to commit suicide), but you never know what motivates a child or what they’re thinking,” said Dan Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department. “It could’ve been an accident. We don’t know. It could’ve been intentional.”
Vickie Cotten, Alex’s biological grandmother, said she’s concerned about the other two boys. DCS said because of the ongoing investigation, the boys are being removed from the house — a routine precaution.
“They weren’t watching,” said Cotten. “Would it have happened if they would’ve been watching him?”
Deputies said the case will be investigated as a homicide until details lead them in a different direction.
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Security use excessive force on Greyhound Bus patron www.privateofficer.com
A father trying to get to work says security at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Minneapolis beat, tased, and maced him Monday night.
Minneapolis Police are backing up Troy Cooper’s story, saying private security may have gone too far.
Cooper had a ticket for the last bus to Chicago last night. But security prevented him from getting on that bus after he asked to use the bathroom. That’s when he got beaten up.
“No one should be treated the way that man treated me. No one,” he said.
Cooper says Wolf Security Officer Chris Ebbert wouldn’t let him use the restroom without a ticket—which he didn’t have since he purchased his fare online.
Cooper admits calling 22-year-old Ebbert a ‘toy cop.’
“He grabbed my shirt and ripped my shirt and pulled me back. I turned around and told him, don’t put your hands on me again,” Cooper explained.
Cooper tells 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he tried to leave the building, when Ebbert tased him twice. Outside, Ebbert then allegedly hit him 15 times with a baton and another officer then maced him.
Security did not call Minneapolis Police until after they used all that force.
“I believe that there’s some questions the security company may have to answer to,” said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Jesse Garcia. “The police should have been called sooner.”
Police declined to charge Cooper with assault and even drove him home.
The 42-year-old spent part of Tuesday in the emergency room at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale and missed his first day at work as a pipe layer in Chicago. It’s the only income for his wife and six children.
“I was wrongly treated and I don’t want it to happen to anyone else,” he said.
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Oceanside police captain forced to shoot son www.privateofficer.com
San Diego County Sheriff’s Lt. Dennis Brugos says Capt. Reginald Grimsby reported the shooting at his Fallbrook home early Saturday morning.
Brugos says Grigsby told investigators that his son, Reginald “Reggie” Grigsby Jr., came to the couple’s home and got into an argument with his mother.
Brugos says the captain tried to help his wife when the argument turned violent but could not stop the attack so shot his son.
Both the mother, Reginald “Reggie” Grigsby Jr.,, and her son were taken to hospitals with injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening.
The younger Grigsby used to play football at San Diego State University.
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Delaware trooper commits suicide www.privateofficer.com
Delaware State Police Cpl. Joshua A. Giddings, 32, apparently committed suicide at his Smyrna home Tuesday, May 26. Giddings was arrested May 11 after an investigation revealed he engaged in sexual relations with a woman he had arrested in exchange for not taking her to court.
Delaware State Police reported that emergency personnel were dispatched at about 6 p.m., to a home in the unit block of Wheeler Circle in Smyrna after receiving a report of an unresponsive man.
The man was found in the shed at the residence. He was unresponsive. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.
He was identified as Joshua A. Giddings.
Foul play is not suspected, police said. The incident is a suspected suicide, but the investigation is continuing by the Smyrna Police Department.
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