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Mother goes shopping, leaves 4mth old twins in car www.privateofficer.com
June 22, 2009
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ELLENWOOD, Ga. June 22 2009– A Marietta mother is accused of leaving her 4-month-old infant twins in a car while she shopped at a local Wal-Mart.
Police said it happened Saturday at the Wal-Mart on Anvil Block Road in Ellenwood. Authorities said a passer-by noticed the kids alone in the car and called police.
Police said Janesia Williams, 26, left a crack in the car windows and that’s how authorities were able to remove the children, who were believed to have been inside the vehicle for about 30 minutes.
The twin infants were taken to Southern Regional Medical Center as a precaution. Doctors there said the kids were OK.
Police said the children’s father picked them up from the hospital, but Williams was taken to jail on child cruelty charges.
Williams bonded out of the Clayton County jail Sunday night just after 10:30.
Police said it happened Saturday at the Wal-Mart on Anvil Block Road in Ellenwood. Authorities said a passer-by noticed the kids alone in the car and called police.
Police said Janesia Williams, 26, left a crack in the car windows and that’s how authorities were able to remove the children, who were believed to have been inside the vehicle for about 30 minutes.
The twin infants were taken to Southern Regional Medical Center as a precaution. Doctors there said the kids were OK.
Police said the children’s father picked them up from the hospital, but Williams was taken to jail on child cruelty charges.
Williams bonded out of the Clayton County jail Sunday night just after 10:30.
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PGA player Chris Smith’s wife killed in crash www.privateofficer.com
June 22, 2009
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ANGOLA, Ind. June 22 2009 — A newspaper is reporting that the wife of a professional golfer from Indiana was killed in a car crash.
Beth Smith, of Peru, Ind., wife of PGA Tour player Chris Smith, was killed Sunday when the sport utility vehicle she was traveling in collided with a Greyhound bus transporting a Canadian semipro football team, The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne reported.
Abigail and Cameron Smith, who the newspaper identified as Smith’s children, were listed in critical condition Monday morning at Fort Wayne’s Lutheran Hospital.
Angola Fire Department spokesman T.R. Hagerty said the crash killed an occupant of the SUV. The Stueben County Sheriff’s Department would not immediately confirm who was killed in the crash along Interstate 69 near Angola, in which 12 others suffered minor injuries.
Chris Smith is a Peru resident and has been competing on the PGA Tour since 1991.
Beth Smith, of Peru, Ind., wife of PGA Tour player Chris Smith, was killed Sunday when the sport utility vehicle she was traveling in collided with a Greyhound bus transporting a Canadian semipro football team, The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne reported.
Abigail and Cameron Smith, who the newspaper identified as Smith’s children, were listed in critical condition Monday morning at Fort Wayne’s Lutheran Hospital.
Angola Fire Department spokesman T.R. Hagerty said the crash killed an occupant of the SUV. The Stueben County Sheriff’s Department would not immediately confirm who was killed in the crash along Interstate 69 near Angola, in which 12 others suffered minor injuries.
Chris Smith is a Peru resident and has been competing on the PGA Tour since 1991.
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Four arrested in Fla. shoplifting spree www.privateofficer.com
June 22, 2009
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SEBRING FLA June 22 2009 — A group of Polk County women saw more of Highlands County than they were hoping Thursday after being arrested following an alleged shoplifting spree and a chase through The Bluffs condominiums complex.
According to a Highlands County Sheriff’s Office report Angelina Lynn Cook, 29, of Bartow; Kiela Tanika Crews, 23, of Plant City; Odia Venessa McDonald, 32, of Lakeland; and Tara Lenea Preaster 31, of Lakeland teamed up to steal more than $2,000 worth of men’s women’s and children’s clothing from Marshall’s and an additional $795.14 worth of clothes from JC Penny, but only made it as far as the Kegel Bowling Center.
Dep. James Green saw the car as he was driving south on U.S. 27, said Sgt. Sean Casey. A be-on-the-lookout was put out for the vehicle, a blue Cadillac, to which Green responded when he saw them.
“As he passed the vehicle they got this look like ‘OK,’” Casey said. “The car accelerated pretty quickly.”
Green made a U-turn and followed the women as they pulled into the Kegel Bowling Center parking lot. Their car was parked behind a bus in an apparent attempt to hide it from the deputy.
“One started walking like she was walking into the bowling alley,” Casey said.
Two others followed her while one suspect stayed in the car.
“He called the three back to the car and they started to comply,” Casey said. “Then they went around the side of the bus and that’s when they started to run.”
All four women reportedly climbed the fence into The Bluffs complex, where they managed to elude capture for a few minutes.
Dep. Christopher Gunter and his K-9 partner Wyatt, a bloodhound, were called in to help with the search. The women were soon found hiding in some brush. According to the report, their car was loaded with shopping bags full of clothes and there were also four tin snips, used to cut the theft-prevention devices off clothes, in the car.
All four women were charged with felony retail theft, felony possession of a shoplifting control device countermeasure, resisting an officer without violence and trespassing.
Each woman had her bond set at $3,000.
Crews and McDonald managed to make their $3,000 bond, while Preaster and Cook were still in the Highlands County Jail.
According to a Highlands County Sheriff’s Office report Angelina Lynn Cook, 29, of Bartow; Kiela Tanika Crews, 23, of Plant City; Odia Venessa McDonald, 32, of Lakeland; and Tara Lenea Preaster 31, of Lakeland teamed up to steal more than $2,000 worth of men’s women’s and children’s clothing from Marshall’s and an additional $795.14 worth of clothes from JC Penny, but only made it as far as the Kegel Bowling Center.
Dep. James Green saw the car as he was driving south on U.S. 27, said Sgt. Sean Casey. A be-on-the-lookout was put out for the vehicle, a blue Cadillac, to which Green responded when he saw them.
“As he passed the vehicle they got this look like ‘OK,’” Casey said. “The car accelerated pretty quickly.”
Green made a U-turn and followed the women as they pulled into the Kegel Bowling Center parking lot. Their car was parked behind a bus in an apparent attempt to hide it from the deputy.
“One started walking like she was walking into the bowling alley,” Casey said.
Two others followed her while one suspect stayed in the car.
“He called the three back to the car and they started to comply,” Casey said. “Then they went around the side of the bus and that’s when they started to run.”
All four women reportedly climbed the fence into The Bluffs complex, where they managed to elude capture for a few minutes.
Dep. Christopher Gunter and his K-9 partner Wyatt, a bloodhound, were called in to help with the search. The women were soon found hiding in some brush. According to the report, their car was loaded with shopping bags full of clothes and there were also four tin snips, used to cut the theft-prevention devices off clothes, in the car.
All four women were charged with felony retail theft, felony possession of a shoplifting control device countermeasure, resisting an officer without violence and trespassing.
Each woman had her bond set at $3,000.
Crews and McDonald managed to make their $3,000 bond, while Preaster and Cook were still in the Highlands County Jail.
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Police investigate assault on K-Mart security agent www.privateofficer.com
June 22, 2009
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Rock Hill SC June 22 2209
An employee in Kmart’s loss prevention department who helped retrieve stolen merchandise Wednesday was attacked by the accused shoplifters’ friends that night, police reports said.
The employee was the complainant in a report that led to the arrests of Richard Allman and Andy Cook of Rock Hill and Kathleen Williams of York. They were charged with shoplifting. According to that report, the employee witnessed the shoplifting around 1:45 p.m. at the Cherry Road store in Rock Hill.
Around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, a coworker told the employee something was going on in the parking lot, Rock Hill police reported. The employee told police he noticed a black F-150 with darkly tinted windows, which someone rolled down to take his picture before it drove away.
Around 11 p.m. Wednesday, the second police report states that the employee went outside to smoke and another F-150 pulled up. This one was white with a painting of a wolf on its back window.
The three men in the truck “made reference to putting their friends in jail earlier” and attacked him, the police report stated. The employee was able to get to the sidewalk and run into the store, but police said he suffered a sprained right hand.
No surveillance video of the incident was available, but the employee told police the next morning, when he reported the attack, that he believed his coworker, the woman who sent him outside before his picture was taken, was involved.
All three men in the truck are unidentified, but the employee was able to describe two of them in detail. All three were about 20 years old, Hispanic men with black hair and brown eyes.
The driver of the white F-150 had closely cut hair and two tear drops tattooed under his right eye, the police report stated. He had the text “MS-13” tattooed under his left eye and again across his neck.
The second attacker wore a blue bandana and had “404” tattooed on his hand and “MS-13” tattooed across his upper chest.
The case remains under investigation.
An employee in Kmart’s loss prevention department who helped retrieve stolen merchandise Wednesday was attacked by the accused shoplifters’ friends that night, police reports said.
The employee was the complainant in a report that led to the arrests of Richard Allman and Andy Cook of Rock Hill and Kathleen Williams of York. They were charged with shoplifting. According to that report, the employee witnessed the shoplifting around 1:45 p.m. at the Cherry Road store in Rock Hill.
Around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, a coworker told the employee something was going on in the parking lot, Rock Hill police reported. The employee told police he noticed a black F-150 with darkly tinted windows, which someone rolled down to take his picture before it drove away.
Around 11 p.m. Wednesday, the second police report states that the employee went outside to smoke and another F-150 pulled up. This one was white with a painting of a wolf on its back window.
The three men in the truck “made reference to putting their friends in jail earlier” and attacked him, the police report stated. The employee was able to get to the sidewalk and run into the store, but police said he suffered a sprained right hand.
No surveillance video of the incident was available, but the employee told police the next morning, when he reported the attack, that he believed his coworker, the woman who sent him outside before his picture was taken, was involved.
All three men in the truck are unidentified, but the employee was able to describe two of them in detail. All three were about 20 years old, Hispanic men with black hair and brown eyes.
The driver of the white F-150 had closely cut hair and two tear drops tattooed under his right eye, the police report stated. He had the text “MS-13” tattooed under his left eye and again across his neck.
The second attacker wore a blue bandana and had “404” tattooed on his hand and “MS-13” tattooed across his upper chest.
The case remains under investigation.
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NYPD officer arrested in shoplifting incident www.privateofficer.com
June 22, 2009
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New York City June 22 2009
An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested for shoplifting from a Queens athletics store, The Post has learned.
Thirelle Taffe, 38, was picked up for swiping sandals from a Sports Authority on Northern Boulevard in Long Island City around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, officials said.
She was charged with petit larceny and given a desk appearance ticket.
Taffe, who lives in East New York, Brooklyn, was immediately suspended by the NYPD for 30 days without pay, a police spokesman said.
An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested for shoplifting from a Queens athletics store, The Post has learned.
Thirelle Taffe, 38, was picked up for swiping sandals from a Sports Authority on Northern Boulevard in Long Island City around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, officials said.
She was charged with petit larceny and given a desk appearance ticket.
Taffe, who lives in East New York, Brooklyn, was immediately suspended by the NYPD for 30 days without pay, a police spokesman said.
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South Dakota teacher charged with sex crimes with students www.privateofficer.com
June 22, 2009
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RAPID CITY, S.D.June 22 2009 (AP) A former high school music teacher in the Rapid City area is accused of sexual misconduct with students.
Thirty-one-year-old Sommar Chaffee is charged with solicitation of a minor and exploitation of a minor. She was arrested in Sioux Falls over the weekend and released on a $1,500 bond.
The charges against Chaffee are felonies. They each carry a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a $4,000 fine.
Hill City Superintendent Mark Naugle has declined comment, saying it’s a personnel matter. The school board in April voted not to renew Chaffee’s contract.
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