Monthly Archives: May 2009
13/05/09 Armored car robbery leaves guard injured www.privateofficer.com
Lancaster CA May 13 2009 Two masked robbery suspects jumped out of a car today and assaulted a Brinks guard who was delivering two bags of cash to a credit union in Lancaster. The armored car robbery occurred in front of Edwards Federal Credit Union at Avenue J-12 and 10th Street West at 12:27 p.m., [...]
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13/05/09 Apartment security officers shot at by trespasser www.privateofficer.com
Indianapolis IN May 13 2009 Toni L Anthony Staff Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Someone shot at apartment security officers near Northeast side and police want to know why. Several security officers on routine patrol of an apartment complex when they heard several gun shots in their area and got out to investigate. The officers [...]
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13/05/09 Security officer finds badly beaten man www.privateofficer.com
Lubbock TX May 13 2009 Lubbock police have identified the men they suspect severely beat Danny Mahaffey, 55, over the weekend. Police Sgt. John Gomez said officials expect charges to be filed this week against Mahaffey’s suspected assailants, whose names aren’t being released pending the filing of charges. A security guard found Mahaffey badly beaten [...]
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13/05/09 Wife of 2003 robbery suspect now charged in crime www.privateofficer.com
St.Croix County WI May 13 2009 The wife of a western Wisconsin man charged in a 2003 armored car robbery drove the getaway car and deposited huge sums of money in a bank, according to charges filed in St. Croix County Circuit Court. Debra Ann Wiegand, 29, of Herbster, Wis., was charged Monday with two [...]
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13/05/09 Waffle House waitress shoots complaining customer www.privateofficer.com
MANNING, S.C. May 13 2009 — A waitress at a South Carolina Waffle House has been arrested and accused of shooting a customer who complained about the service. The Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office says 29-year-old Yakeisha Ward of Manning is charged with assault and battery within intent to kill. Deputies say Ward worked at a [...]
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13/05/09 Police officer injured by fleeing shoplifter www.privateofficer.com
Natick MA May 13 2009 A suspected shoplifter is facing more serious charges than he bargained for, including assault to kill, after allegedly striking a cop with his car while fleeing the Natick Collection mall. State police arrested Anthony Saiete, 30, of Warwick, R.I., tonight on Route 495 north in Bolton early after troopers ended [...]
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13/05/09 Jail inmate assaults hospital security , escapes www.privateofficer.com
Watsonville CA May 13 2009 A County Jail inmate who escaped from Dominican Hospital on Monday night after assaulting a security guard was caught with help from a police dog about 90 minutes later, the Sheriff’s Office reported Tuesday. Nathan J. Anderson, 24, was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical condition and his [...]
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13/05/09 Ohio security officer assaulted, breast biten www.privateofficer.com
Cincinnati OH May 13 2009 A husband and wife woke up Wednesday with a rap sheet after an alleged attack on a Riverbend Music Center security guard Tuesday night that included pulling her hair and biting her breast. Deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office say the melee began around 8:45 p.m. That’s when 30-year-old [...]
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13/05/09 25 cars shot at on California Interstate www.privateofficer.com
Fremont CA May 13 2009 California Highway Patrol investigators say 25 people have now reported having been shot at while driving a stretch of Interstate 680 in Fremont during the last few weeks. Under the cover of darkness, someone has been using a BB gun or some sort of air rifle to target drivers in [...]
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12/05/09 May Is Mental Health Awareness Month www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta GA. May 12 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ May is the month that mental health providers use for Mental Health Awareness and to broaden their reach within the community. Grayce Crockett, a mental health specialist in Charlotte said that workers hold seminars, speak to area employees, and make their services [...]
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12/05/09 Macy shoplifters clobber security but get nabbed www.privateofficer.com
Sugar Land TX May 12 2009 Two Houston men were arrested Saturday after allegedly shoplifting items from a Macy’s store at First Colony Mall. Arrested were Lance Bobby Dike, 19, who was charged with robbery, and Chinedu Drexler Arimonyeotu, 20, who was charged with theft. According to a Sugar Land Police Department spokesman, patrol officers [...]
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12/05/09 Former NYPD officer gets 10 year prison term www.privateofficer.com
PHILADELPHIA PA May 12 2009 (AP) — A former New York City police officer who pulled a gun on three bank tellers during a bank robbery in Reading, Pa., last year, was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison. The former officer, Christian A. Torres, 22, still faces charges in New York in connection [...]
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12/05/09 Shoplifters cause mall evacuation www.privateofficer.com
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.May 12 2009 — Three shoplifters at the Florida Mall caused an evacuation during their getaway. Eyewitnesses say a security guard and two Macy’s employees followed the trio out of the department store into the mall last night. The guard confronted the suspects and asked to search one of the bags they were [...]
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12/05/09 Man points gun at security is fatally shot www.privateofficer.com
FORT WORTH TX May 12 2009 — A 23-year-old man who had been thrown out of an east Fort Worth club was fatally shot by one of the owners early Saturday after reportedly pointing a gun at an unarmed security guard. Police said Monday that they will consult with the Tarrant County district attorney’s office [...]
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12/05/09 Security officer injured by shoplifters www.privateofficer.com
SCRANTON PA May 12 2009 — A security officer at Redner’s Market, 550 N. Seventh Ave., was injured when he was assaulted by the brother of a juvenile shoplifting suspect, city police said. Mark Reilly of Scranton stopped the 16-year-old boy outside the store and was escorting him back inside when the youth’s 18-year-old brother [...]
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12/05/09 College student arrested after failing to clean dorm room www.privateofficer.com
Unity, ME May 12 2009 – Police say a Unity College student who failed to do a thorough cleaning of her dorm room before leaving campus faces criminal charges after security guards found several marijuana plants growing there. The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office said 19-year-old Annica McGuirk of Cabot, Ark., has been charged with cultivation, [...]
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12/05/09 Filene’s Basement security stabbed in escape attempt www.privateofficer.com
Watertown MA May 12 2009 Brett Davis Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ On May 8 at 3:25 p.m. police were dispatched to Filene’s Basement in the Arsenal Mall on Arsenal Street for a shoplifting report. Security agents saw Rickie Lyoms, 42, of 58 West Durham St. 4 in Roxbury, take four bottles of cologne valued [...]
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12/05/09 Police, school security nab stabbing suspect www.privateofficer.com
WILLIMANTIC CT May 12 2009 — – Willimantic police are investigating a stabbing today at Windham High School. A student suffered non-life threatening injuries, police said. Lt. Mary Beth Curtis said police were still actively investigating the incident and had no other information to release. Windham School Superintendent Doreen Fuller said the incident occurred about [...]
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11/05/09 Lebanon TN police officer dies in crash www.privateofficer.com
LEBANON, Tenn. May 11 2009 — The Lebanon Police Department is mourning the death of an officer who was killed in an off-duty motorcycle wreck late Saturday night. Police said Officer Jeff Stone was killed instantly when a car pulled out in front of him at the intersection of South Cumberland Avenue and West Jennings [...]
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11/05/09 “Five Finger Discount” alive and well www.privateofficer.com
Washington DC May 11 2009 washingtontimes.com The “five-finger discount” has a hold on the nation. Pizzas, art supplies, baby formula, diabetic test strips, fancy lingerie, perennial plants ripped from the ground – just about anything is up for grabs in a sour economy as more Americans resort to shoplifting. Some filchers have gone pro – [...]
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11/05/09 Sheriff removes security from courts in dispute www.privateofficer.com
CROWN POINT IN May 11 2009 Lake County Sheriff Rogelio “Roy” Dominguez withdrew security guards from Lake County Government Center’s administrative building Monday morning in an apparent dispute with county officials over a hiring freeze. County Attorney John Dull said Monday the sheriff withdrew the security guards, who have been assigned to public entrances to [...]
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11/05/09 Shoplifting pizza cutter ends in robbery charge www.privateofficer.com
CANTON OH May 11 2009 A Canton man was arrested on a robbery charge after a Wal-Mart store security officer said he fought with her as he tried to get out of the store without paying for a pizza cutter. The item sells for $18.07. Peter A. Vega Jr., 43, who lives at the Stark [...]
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11/05/09 Shooting at Atlanta Krystals leaves one dead www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta GA May 11 2009 One person was dead and another wounded early Saturday following a workplace shooting at a Clayton County fast-food restaurant. Clayton police spokesman Tim Owens said the shooting happened about 5 a.m. at the Krystal restaurant on Ga. 138 in Stockbridge. The Krystal manager and an employee were preparing to open [...]
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10/05/09 Retail Security/Shoplifting News www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta GA May 10 2009 Compiled By: Toni Anthony Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ These are the latest shoplifting arrests and retail security incidents. VALDOSTA GA Valdosta police arrested Appolonia Monique Bowen, 20, on the 1400 block of North Lee Street for charges of shoplifting and interference of an officer, according to reports. • At [...]
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10/05/09 Security Officer Killed In Crash www.privateofficer.com
Hilton Head SC May 10 2009 A 47-year-old Sea Pines security officer was killed while driving to work Friday night when his car struck a 12-foot alligator and then swerved into an oncoming Greyhound bus in Jasper County, officials said Saturday. Steven Newell of Savannah was killed instantly, Jasper County coroner Martin Sauls III said. [...]
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10/05/09 Armed citizen shoots out tire of fleeing shoplifters www.privateofficer.com
Azle TX May 10 2009 A citizen with a “concealed-carry” handgun license shot out a tire on a car full of fleeing shoplifters, then followed them in his own vehicle Wednesday morning, helping Azle police apprehend four people who were subsequently charged with robbery. Police officers from at least three agencies caught up with everyone [...]
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10/05/09 Professor wanted for murder found dead www.privateofficer.com
ATHENS, Ga May 10 2009 (AP) — Cadaver dogs found the body of a wanted professor “beneath the earth” in the north Georgia woods Saturday, two weeks after police say he shot his wife and two other people to death outside a community theater, then vanished. Searchers found two guns near the body of marketing [...]
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10/05/09 Security officer captures burglary suspect www.privateofficer.com
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.May 10 2009 (abc40) — A man from Somerville staying in Springfield on business allegedly tried to break in to two cars and steal their GPS systems while drunk, according to police. James Adler, 43, of 31 Lincoln Ave., Somerville, was staying at the Marriott hotel in Springfield on business Thursday night, police said. [...]
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10/05/09 NY shoplifting sprees lead to arrests www.privateofficer.com
ROCKAWAY TWP. NY May 10 2009 – People who allegedly tried to “grab and go” nearly $6,000 worth of merchandise from Rockaway Townsquare Mall stores were arrested in two separate incidents, police said. Best Buy workers called police to the outer mall store at 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, after detaining Phillip W. Cox, [...]
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