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Monthly Archives: May 2009

BREAKING NEWS DULARGE, La May 21 2009. – Five people were killed when their recreational fishing boat slammed into a barge sometime late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning in the Falgout Canal in Dularge, about 12 miles southwest of Houma. Captain Samuel Martin of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department said that everyone aboard [...]

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RALEIGH, NC May 20 2009- Trooper Kyle P. Barber, age 46, died yesterday at Wake Forest University Hospital in Winston Salem following a medical procedure related to an on-duty injury that occurred in January 2007. Trooper Barber joined the North Carolina State Highway Patrol in May, 2005. His most recent assignment was Wilkesboro. On Jan [...]

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Riverside CA May 20 2009 One of two teens who approached a young mother in a Target parking lot grabbed her toddler and demanded the woman’s wallet. According to the Riverside Police Department, the 23-year-old woman got out of her car at the Target at 3520 Magnolia Ave. shortly before 8:30 p.m. and was holding [...]

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. May 20 2009 — A fight at a south Charlotte strip club led to a shootout in the parking lot early Wednesday. Police said a group of people began fighting inside the Carousel Club at about 3 a.m. The fight spilled out into the parking lot and gunfire was exchanged. Four people were [...]

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Police officer attempts suicide during stand-off www.privateofficer.com SHREVEPORT, LA May 20 2009 (KSLA) – We have new developments in the case of an Ark-La-Tex police officer who allegedly tried to kill himself. Nurses at LSU Hospital list homer police officer Mike Rayburn in serious condition after doctors performed surgery on him this evening. Police say [...]

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Cleveland OH May 20 2009 The family of a security guard, who was gunned down while on duty in November, is suing the assisted-living facility where he worked and the security company that employed him. In the lawsuit, filed Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Deborah Boyd, mother of Johnnie Boyd Jr., charges that [...]

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MAR VISTA CA May 20 2009 By: Brett Davis Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police say a security officer shot and wounded a 19-year-old would-be robber Tuesday afternoon in Mar Vista. Police were unable to confirm a report that the wounded suspect was shot in both legs, but officer Karren Rayner confirmed that “a robbery [...]

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SHALIMAR, Fla. May 20 2009 — A Panhandle sheriff arrested on a Las Vegas gambling trip with $5,000 in his pocket and $30,000 in a hotel safe pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering and other charges Tuesday. Charles Morris avoided trial by pleading guilty to six counts of conspiracy, theft, fraud and money laundering. The [...]

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COLUMBIA MO May 20 2009 — Christopher Coleman was arrested Tuesday and charged with strangling to death his wife and two sons, Maj. Jeff Connor, deputy commander of the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis, announced Tuesday. Connor made the announcement about 10:30 p.m. Police arrested Coleman, 32, at his parents’ home in Chester [...]

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WOODSTOCK, Ga. May 19 2009 — A Cherokee County high school teacher and her paraprofessional have been arrested after allegedly duct taping a special education student to a chair. Cherokee County officials said Woodstock High School teacher Laurie Peavy and her paraprofessional, Nancy Cheek, duct taped a special education student to a chair in 2008. [...]

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ONONDAGA COUNTY, N.Y. May 19 2009 — Twenty-eight-year-old Mark Gurniak was completing his sixth year as a math teacher at Cicero-North Syracuse high school. But Friday, police arrested him, alleging he robbed a Chase bank in Minoa on Thursday afternoon. Police say he carried a camouflaged colored shotgun and took an undisclosed amount of cash. [...]

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Ocala Fla May 19 2009 Marion County – A music teacher in Marion County has been arrested on lewd and lascivious molestation and battery charges after inappropriately touching two young female students, Marion authorities said. John E. Morrison, 62, of Ocala, is charged with one count of lewd/lascivious molestation and two counts of battery. The [...]

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Los Angeles CA May 19 2009 Los Angeles commuters have been improperly detained, pushed, choked and struck by Metropolitan Transportation Authority security guards, according to interviews and internal law enforcement memos obtained by The Times. Alleged assaults over the last two years have prompted at least 11 investigations by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, which [...]

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NEW ORLEANS LA May 19 2009 – A band teacher at McDonogh 35 high school was arrested Monday on several charges involving sexual contact with juveniles. Patrick Williams, 33, is charged with felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile, four counts of indecent behavior with juveniles, three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile [...]

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CHARLESTON, W.Va May 19 2009 wvgazette.com — Keith Peoples, the fifth Charleston Police Department officer accused of double dipping by working an outside security job while on the clock for the city, allegedly racked up hundreds of hours of overlapping time, prosecutors said Monday. But defense attorney Dwane Tinsley, calling Peoples “a policeman’s policeman,” said [...]

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LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ind. May 19 2009 — In Lawrence County, a Bedford police officer and a woman who recently broke up with him are dead, and investigators said they believe it’s a murder-suicide case. The Lawrence County Coroner said 35-year-old Kyle Brown and 29-year-old Kathryn Tucker died of apparent gunshot wounds Monday morning and that [...]

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Sebastopol CA May 19 2009 pressdemocrat.com An armed man forced a Brink’s guard to lie on the ground during a lunchtime robbery Monday that shocked onlookers gathered near a downtown Sebastopol bank One witness described the robber walking toward the Brink’s truck parked outside the Bank of America on Healdsburg Avenue pointing what appeared to [...]

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MADISON WI May 19 2009(WKOW) — Madison police arrested five teens outside of East Towne Mall for their roles in at least one burglary. Just after 7:40 Sunday morning police responded to the mall where security staff members were chasing five teens. Police say the teens had just stolen a number of items from the [...]

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska May 19 2009 ktuu.com — A teacher, coach, mentor and youth group leader is behind bars, charged with 14 felony counts of sexually abusing a minor. Police arrested 25-year-old Jenson Eugene Seifert on Friday at Birchwood Christian School. And because of his close contact with so many children, police fear there could be [...]

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TAMPA FL May 19 2009 – It’s about as close as most of will ever get to $5 million in cash. The Seminole Hard Rock and Casino in Tampa is unveiling a new exhibit Monday morning— the largest amount of money ever publicly displayed at a casino. Several armed guards and casino employees escorted the [...]

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LAROSE, La May 19 2009 ― The 15-year-old 8th grader who fired a shot into a ceiling at Larose-Cut Off Middle School before turning the gun on himself may have had more ambitious plans that were detailed in a loose-leaf journal found inside his backpack. Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said a backpack found at [...]

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DURHAM NC May 19 2009 (WTVD) — A Creekside Elementary teacher’s assistant charged with having sex with a student has been indicted. Gina Marie Watring, 40, now faces charges she raped a child, first-degree kidnapping, felony child abduction, and indecent liberties with a child. A Durham grand jury also indicted her on the previous charge [...]

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Atlanta GA May 18 2009 Three months after 9/11, the New York Times ran a quiet story that highlighted a developing trend concerning a sudden increase in the number of police officers retiring from their jobs for careers with private security companies. “The heightened hunger for private protection in the aftermath of history’s worst terrorist [...]

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Seattle WA May 18 2009 Seattle police are looking for a man who was involved in an assault and break-in Friday afternoon. Just before 6 p.m., police received a report of a security guard fighting with a knife-wielding man at a store in the 5200 block of 40th Avenue North. As police were on their [...]

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FLORENCE, Ariz May 18 2009 — A police K-9 left in a Florence patrol car has died, said Detective Walt Hunter of the Florence Police Department. Vysta was in the vehicle alone for 40 minutes earlier this week, Hunter said. Hunter said it’s a car designed specifically for police K-9 units. “The bond between officers [...]

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TAMPA FLA May 18 2009 – A Bartow woman was arrested early today on a charge that she hit a nightclub security guard in the face with a shoe, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. The guard then used pepper spray on Karen Cruz, 23, an arrest report said. Cruz and a group of friends [...]

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Tucson AZ May 18 2009 Tucson Police arrested an Utterback Middle School teacher on Friday. Police say 36-year-old Joseph O. Massey was booked into the Pima County Jail on two counts of Sexual Conduct with a Minor. Authorities say he is being investigated for having an inappropriate relationship with a female student. Police say a [...]

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Reno NV May 18 2009 Three Reno men were arrested this morning after they refused to leave a bar and one of them allegedly stabbed a security guard. Several men were asked to leave El Cortez Lounge, 235 W. 2nd St., about 7:10 a.m. Police say they refused to leave and got into a physical [...]

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CANTON, Ga. May 17 2009 — Police officers shot and killed a suspect after receiving a report of a man with a gun at a Kmart store in Cherokee County Saturday morning. The shooting happened just after 11 a.m. at the Kmart at 1751 Marietta Highway in Canton. Canton police officers responded after a caller [...]

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Orlando Fla May 17 2009 Orlando police officers thought they were safe from city layoffs, but 15 officers out of 700 on the force will soon be out of a job. That has some residents concerned about how the city will be able to fight crime. “It doesn’t sound like that many but we need [...]

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