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June 24, 2009
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CUTLERVILLE MI June 24 2009– Police say Tabitha Reid visited two other churches Sunday before taking an 11-month-old girl from her own church — a crime that confounded her family and the baby’s parents.
Before she allegedly kidnapped the little girl from Kentwood Community Church, Reid pretended to be a nursery attendant at Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church, arriving an hour before services. But staff and parents quickly became suspicious and called police after the woman abruptly left.
“It was a bizarre situation,” Cutlerville East CRC interim Pastor Allen Petroelje said.
“It’s been an upsetting experience, especially since we knew later she did indeed abduct a child at another church.”
Reid also was seen at Good News Baptist Church, 6830 Eastern Ave. SE.
Around noon Sunday, police say Reid took a child from her own church’s nursery, where she worked as a volunteer. Savannah Nolf was missing from Kentwood Community Church about two hours before police found her safe at Reid’s home in the 6700 block of South Division Avenue.
Reid allegedly told police that she once gave up a daughter named Savannah for adoption, but retracted, and said she just wanted to be a mom, court records showed.
None of it made sense to her family or friends.
“Nobody knows why,” Shirley Rowland, the suspect’s grandmother, said Monday. “I don’t know what happened. All I can say is, I’m very sorry that it happened, and I’m just glad the baby is OK. I’m truly sorry that it happened.”
Reid, 19, was charged Monday with kidnapping, a potential life offense, and unlawful imprisonment, a 15-year felony. Before 63rd District Judge Sara Smolenski set her bond at $100,000, Reid, arraigned via video hookup from the Kent County Jail, asked: “Um, do I have to stay here?”
Later, she asked, “So, I have to stay here? That’s my question. Do I have to stay here, or go home?”
Jessie and Tom Nolf were just glad to have their little girl, who turns 1 on Friday, back home. They left her in the nursery while they attended the 11 a.m. service at the Kentwood church, 1200 60th St. SE. During the service, church officials summoned the parents and said they could not find the girl. They asked what Savannah was wearing, and searched rooms near the nursery.
As time went on, the parents become increasingly concerned. Initially, they believed she would turn up quickly.
“At the same time, in the back of my mind, I’m saying, ‘OK, what’s going on?,” the father said. “Where’s my kid? … Is my kid going to end up on the back of a milk carton?’”
Police used surveillance video taken inside the church and identified Reid, who is a registered volunteer. Police issued an area broadcast alerting other agencies that a young woman wearing a sundress, holding a baby in a red dress, was spotted leaving the church. Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Summerhays heard the notice, and recalled seeing a woman matching that description earlier that day walking on 68th Street in the Cutlerville area.
Police went to Reid’s home, and found Reid holding the girl, who was unharmed.
During police interviews, Reid told detectives that she put a daughter, named Savannah, up for adoption two years ago. Later, she told police she made up that story, and told investigators that she “always wanted to be a mother, which (led) her to take” the child,” Detective Jason Richards wrote in an arrest affidavit.
She told police she did not know the child or her parents before taking her, Richards wrote.
“She was caring for the child within the nursery program at Kentwood Community Church, saw Savannah and decided to take her from the church and admitted to taking her back to her residence … where she was subsequently arrested,” the detective wrote.
Savannah’s parents can’t make sense of the abduction.
“We still have no idea what was going through (Reid’s) mind,” Tom Nolf said.
“It was just crazy — it’s all surreal. I’m still in shock.”
He said Reid had put his daughter’s hair up, changed her clothes, and told police the girl belonged to her.
Nolf said he didn’t blame the church, which had a security plan in place, but didn’t know if his family would return. It was only their second visit.
Reid has volunteered at the church since she was 12, and had passed background checks.
“I guess she just snapped,” Nolf said. We’re so thankful to God. I know it’s not always (a good ending). It had to be on Father’s Day, of all days.”
Before she allegedly kidnapped the little girl from Kentwood Community Church, Reid pretended to be a nursery attendant at Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church, arriving an hour before services. But staff and parents quickly became suspicious and called police after the woman abruptly left.
“It was a bizarre situation,” Cutlerville East CRC interim Pastor Allen Petroelje said.
“It’s been an upsetting experience, especially since we knew later she did indeed abduct a child at another church.”
Reid also was seen at Good News Baptist Church, 6830 Eastern Ave. SE.
Around noon Sunday, police say Reid took a child from her own church’s nursery, where she worked as a volunteer. Savannah Nolf was missing from Kentwood Community Church about two hours before police found her safe at Reid’s home in the 6700 block of South Division Avenue.
Reid allegedly told police that she once gave up a daughter named Savannah for adoption, but retracted, and said she just wanted to be a mom, court records showed.
None of it made sense to her family or friends.
“Nobody knows why,” Shirley Rowland, the suspect’s grandmother, said Monday. “I don’t know what happened. All I can say is, I’m very sorry that it happened, and I’m just glad the baby is OK. I’m truly sorry that it happened.”
Reid, 19, was charged Monday with kidnapping, a potential life offense, and unlawful imprisonment, a 15-year felony. Before 63rd District Judge Sara Smolenski set her bond at $100,000, Reid, arraigned via video hookup from the Kent County Jail, asked: “Um, do I have to stay here?”
Later, she asked, “So, I have to stay here? That’s my question. Do I have to stay here, or go home?”
Jessie and Tom Nolf were just glad to have their little girl, who turns 1 on Friday, back home. They left her in the nursery while they attended the 11 a.m. service at the Kentwood church, 1200 60th St. SE. During the service, church officials summoned the parents and said they could not find the girl. They asked what Savannah was wearing, and searched rooms near the nursery.
As time went on, the parents become increasingly concerned. Initially, they believed she would turn up quickly.
“At the same time, in the back of my mind, I’m saying, ‘OK, what’s going on?,” the father said. “Where’s my kid? … Is my kid going to end up on the back of a milk carton?’”
Police used surveillance video taken inside the church and identified Reid, who is a registered volunteer. Police issued an area broadcast alerting other agencies that a young woman wearing a sundress, holding a baby in a red dress, was spotted leaving the church. Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Summerhays heard the notice, and recalled seeing a woman matching that description earlier that day walking on 68th Street in the Cutlerville area.
Police went to Reid’s home, and found Reid holding the girl, who was unharmed.
During police interviews, Reid told detectives that she put a daughter, named Savannah, up for adoption two years ago. Later, she told police she made up that story, and told investigators that she “always wanted to be a mother, which (led) her to take” the child,” Detective Jason Richards wrote in an arrest affidavit.
She told police she did not know the child or her parents before taking her, Richards wrote.
“She was caring for the child within the nursery program at Kentwood Community Church, saw Savannah and decided to take her from the church and admitted to taking her back to her residence … where she was subsequently arrested,” the detective wrote.
Savannah’s parents can’t make sense of the abduction.
“We still have no idea what was going through (Reid’s) mind,” Tom Nolf said.
“It was just crazy — it’s all surreal. I’m still in shock.”
He said Reid had put his daughter’s hair up, changed her clothes, and told police the girl belonged to her.
Nolf said he didn’t blame the church, which had a security plan in place, but didn’t know if his family would return. It was only their second visit.
Reid has volunteered at the church since she was 12, and had passed background checks.
“I guess she just snapped,” Nolf said. We’re so thankful to God. I know it’s not always (a good ending). It had to be on Father’s Day, of all days.”
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Three charged with Xbox 360 thefts www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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CARROLLTON, Ga. June 24 2009 — Police arrested three men Monday, charging them with stealing Xbox 360 games from 11 Wal-Mart stores in Georgia and Alabama.
Investigators said Levar Raymone Thornton, 29, of LaGrange, Tyrell Maurice Myers, 18, of Conley and Union City resident Michael Cunningham, 19, bought Xbox games at Wal-Mart, removed the real games and replaced them with a blank compact discs. The suspects then returned the games to Wal-Mart for cash refunds and sold the real games on eBay, according to police.
A fourth person may be involved in selling the games on line, police said.
The loss to Wal-Mart was estimated at about $10,000.
Officials said Myers and Cunningham are students at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton .
Investigators said Levar Raymone Thornton, 29, of LaGrange, Tyrell Maurice Myers, 18, of Conley and Union City resident Michael Cunningham, 19, bought Xbox games at Wal-Mart, removed the real games and replaced them with a blank compact discs. The suspects then returned the games to Wal-Mart for cash refunds and sold the real games on eBay, according to police.
A fourth person may be involved in selling the games on line, police said.
The loss to Wal-Mart was estimated at about $10,000.
Officials said Myers and Cunningham are students at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton .
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Man charged with assaults on security, police www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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Greenwood SC June 24 2009
A Greenwood man is facing charges after allegedly assaulting a pair of security officers at Self Regional Medical Center.
Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office arrested Brian Tillman Bowie, 28, and charged him with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.
According to sheriff’s office reports, deputy Richard Jones was at the hospital on June 4, sitting with Bowie after the suspect had allegedly been picked up on probate papers.
While I was sitting with Mr. Bowie he became loud and boisterous, so the hospital staff decided to give him a shot to calm him down,” Jones reported.
Jones and three hospital security officers reportedly went with a nurse to Bowie’s room to administer the shot. Bowie reportedly became agitated, and said he didn’t want an injection.
Bowie assaulted security and the police officer and had to be restrained.
A Greenwood man is facing charges after allegedly assaulting a pair of security officers at Self Regional Medical Center.
Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office arrested Brian Tillman Bowie, 28, and charged him with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.
According to sheriff’s office reports, deputy Richard Jones was at the hospital on June 4, sitting with Bowie after the suspect had allegedly been picked up on probate papers.
While I was sitting with Mr. Bowie he became loud and boisterous, so the hospital staff decided to give him a shot to calm him down,” Jones reported.
Jones and three hospital security officers reportedly went with a nurse to Bowie’s room to administer the shot. Bowie reportedly became agitated, and said he didn’t want an injection.
Bowie assaulted security and the police officer and had to be restrained.
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Family affair at Wal-Mart leads to arrests www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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CANTON OH June 24 2009
Police arrested three Portage County residents Monday after a young man was accused of stealing from a Canton Wal-Mart while his father and a young woman with a gun waited in the parking lot.
Police arrested three Portage County residents Monday after a young man was accused of stealing from a Canton Wal-Mart while his father and a young woman with a gun waited in the parking lot.
All three remained in the Stark County Jail Tuesday on charges stemming from the 7:15 p.m. incident at the store at 3200 Atlantic Blvd. NE.
Jail records said Gregory A. Legg, 20, of 7603 Yale Rd. in Atwater, was seen removing a knife blade from the hardware section of the store and using it to remove items from their packaging and concealing them. The jail records said he had more than $100 in merchandise when store security approached him.
He pushed a security officer and resisted as the officer brought him to the security office, the jail records said.
Officers also found the young man’s father, Todd A. Legg, 42, of the same address, waiting outside the store. The elder Legg was waiting with an 18-year-old Ravenna area woman who was hiding a gun under her leg in the vehicle they arrived in, jail records said.
Gregory Legg was arrested on charges of robbery, criminal tools possession and menacing, and he remained in jail Tuesday, held in lieu of $52,000 bond, jail records said.
His father was arrested on a carrying concealed weapons charge and held in jail without bond on a felony receiving stolen property warrant from Portage County, and the girl remained in jail on a $2,000 bond for a carrying concealed weapons charge.
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Security union sues TVA www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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Knoxville TN June 24 2009
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The labor union for TVA’s nuclear security guards sued the federal utility today for refusing to bargain with the union after switching the guards at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant from a contract employer to TVA’s payroll.
The United Government Security Officers of America and its Local 22 affiliate filed the lawsuit in federal court in Knoxville after TVA hired virtually all of the contract guards at Browns Ferry but initially refused to bargain with the employees’ union about the change.
Last week, TVA began phasing out its contract with Pinkerton Government Services and bringing nearly all of the contract guards onto TVA’s own payroll at Browns Ferry. Similar transitions are planned over the next month at TVA’s Sequoyah and Watts Bar nuclear plants.
In its lawsuit, the union claims TVA is not negotiating with the Government Security Officers of America as required of successor employers.
“We’re asking the TVA to play by the rules that govern all employers,” the union’s general counsel, John A. Tucker, said in a prepared statement today. “They shouldn’t be allowed to undermine the rights the officers had of security officers employed at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.”
TVA announced last fall it was ending its Pinkerton security contract and bringing the nearly 500 guards at the Browns Ferry, Sequoyah and Watts Bar nuclear plants under TVA employment this summer. The move comes a decade after TVA contracted out the nuclear security staff to Pinkerton.
“The TVA is playing a 10-year shuffle, contracting out its security officers, then bringing them back in-house,” said James Carney, the international president of for the guards union. “It is a shell game being done intentionally as a way to bust wages, cut benefits and suppress any gains the security officers have made.”
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The labor union for TVA’s nuclear security guards sued the federal utility today for refusing to bargain with the union after switching the guards at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant from a contract employer to TVA’s payroll.
The United Government Security Officers of America and its Local 22 affiliate filed the lawsuit in federal court in Knoxville after TVA hired virtually all of the contract guards at Browns Ferry but initially refused to bargain with the employees’ union about the change.
Last week, TVA began phasing out its contract with Pinkerton Government Services and bringing nearly all of the contract guards onto TVA’s own payroll at Browns Ferry. Similar transitions are planned over the next month at TVA’s Sequoyah and Watts Bar nuclear plants.
In its lawsuit, the union claims TVA is not negotiating with the Government Security Officers of America as required of successor employers.
“We’re asking the TVA to play by the rules that govern all employers,” the union’s general counsel, John A. Tucker, said in a prepared statement today. “They shouldn’t be allowed to undermine the rights the officers had of security officers employed at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.”
TVA announced last fall it was ending its Pinkerton security contract and bringing the nearly 500 guards at the Browns Ferry, Sequoyah and Watts Bar nuclear plants under TVA employment this summer. The move comes a decade after TVA contracted out the nuclear security staff to Pinkerton.
“The TVA is playing a 10-year shuffle, contracting out its security officers, then bringing them back in-house,” said James Carney, the international president of for the guards union. “It is a shell game being done intentionally as a way to bust wages, cut benefits and suppress any gains the security officers have made.”
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Unarmed jail guard tackles inmate with 9mm gun www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. June 24 2009
wftv.com — According to Osceola County investigators, a jail inmate somehow got a 9mm gun and attempted to escape. However, his plan was thwarted by a female guard who tackled him to the ground.
The shake down started late Tuesday afternoon. A special response team from the Orange County jail suited up with their thick vests, long guns and hard helmets.
They went in to search the Osceola County jail cell by cell, for any other weapons, contraband or evidence in Monday night’s armed escape attempt.
Osceola sheriff investigators are trying to find out how Angel Santiago got a 9mm handgun into the jail.
The State Department of Corrections says he’s serving three life sentences for attempted murder and was transferred to the Osceola jail eight months ago to stand trial for armed robbery.
“The gun was not a law enforcement issued gun. We are also trying to find out where the gun came from, certainly it’s an active case at this point anything and everything is possible,” said Osceola Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain.
The sheriff’s office says Santiago had just made a phone call and was being taken back to his cell when he pulled the loaded handgun on the jail guard and ordered him into an empty cell.
The guard told investigators that Santiago threatened to, “blow my head off.” Santiago then orders the guard to radio fellow guards to tell them that he was ok.
The jail guard, Gerson Roche, was forced to switch close with Santiago.
A female guard, Reeshemah Taylor, said she heard whispering and went to check it out. That’s when she tackled Santiago and kept him down until more guards arrived to help.
Jennifer Marin was not able to visit her husband due to a lockdown that was implemented Tuesday.
“I’ll be really mad and kind of upset with the people here for not doing there part to control everything around him,” she said.
The jail guards are not armed. Inmates and their visitors are separated by glass and steel.
Eyewitness News learned that Santiago was caught with a broken razor in state prison over one year ago.
wftv.com — According to Osceola County investigators, a jail inmate somehow got a 9mm gun and attempted to escape. However, his plan was thwarted by a female guard who tackled him to the ground.
The shake down started late Tuesday afternoon. A special response team from the Orange County jail suited up with their thick vests, long guns and hard helmets.
They went in to search the Osceola County jail cell by cell, for any other weapons, contraband or evidence in Monday night’s armed escape attempt.
Osceola sheriff investigators are trying to find out how Angel Santiago got a 9mm handgun into the jail.
The State Department of Corrections says he’s serving three life sentences for attempted murder and was transferred to the Osceola jail eight months ago to stand trial for armed robbery.
“The gun was not a law enforcement issued gun. We are also trying to find out where the gun came from, certainly it’s an active case at this point anything and everything is possible,” said Osceola Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain.
The sheriff’s office says Santiago had just made a phone call and was being taken back to his cell when he pulled the loaded handgun on the jail guard and ordered him into an empty cell.
The guard told investigators that Santiago threatened to, “blow my head off.” Santiago then orders the guard to radio fellow guards to tell them that he was ok.
The jail guard, Gerson Roche, was forced to switch close with Santiago.
A female guard, Reeshemah Taylor, said she heard whispering and went to check it out. That’s when she tackled Santiago and kept him down until more guards arrived to help.
Jennifer Marin was not able to visit her husband due to a lockdown that was implemented Tuesday.
“I’ll be really mad and kind of upset with the people here for not doing there part to control everything around him,” she said.
The jail guards are not armed. Inmates and their visitors are separated by glass and steel.
Eyewitness News learned that Santiago was caught with a broken razor in state prison over one year ago.
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Northmont High School teacher arrested with minor girl www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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ENGLEWOOD, Ohio June 24 2009 — A Northmont High School assistant football coach and head track coach was arrested in Clinton County early Tuesday, June 23, after he was discovered in a parked car with a 17-year-old Englewood girl, according to a report in the Wilmington News Journal.
Deputies said Loren P. Meadows, 35, of Union, was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing official business.
Meadows is the wide receivers coach and the strength and conditioning coordinator for the Thunderbolts football program, as well as Northmont’s head boys and girls varsity track and field coach.
According to the News Journal, the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office received a report at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday of a vehicle parked in the driveway of an abandoned house on Clarksville Road. Deputies found Meadows and a teenage girl inside the vehicle. Both of them were partially undressed.
“Initially, when asked his age, he (Meadows) tried to pass himself off as being 17 as well,” Lt. Pete Smith of the sheriff’s office told the newspaper. “With the help of the on-board computers that we have now, we were able to pull up his age and Social Security number and we found he was 35 years old.”
Meadows was taken to the Clinton County Jail and later released on bond.
Deputies said Loren P. Meadows, 35, of Union, was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing official business.
Meadows is the wide receivers coach and the strength and conditioning coordinator for the Thunderbolts football program, as well as Northmont’s head boys and girls varsity track and field coach.
According to the News Journal, the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office received a report at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday of a vehicle parked in the driveway of an abandoned house on Clarksville Road. Deputies found Meadows and a teenage girl inside the vehicle. Both of them were partially undressed.
“Initially, when asked his age, he (Meadows) tried to pass himself off as being 17 as well,” Lt. Pete Smith of the sheriff’s office told the newspaper. “With the help of the on-board computers that we have now, we were able to pull up his age and Social Security number and we found he was 35 years old.”
Meadows was taken to the Clinton County Jail and later released on bond.
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Houston police officer shot and killed www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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HOUSTON TX June 24 2009—An undercover Houston police officer was killed Tuesday night in a shootout at a Walgreens parking lot.
Officer Henry Canales, 42, was shot during a reverse sting operation that was being conducted by HPD’s Burglary, Theft and Auto Division around 9:40 p.m. outside the pharmacy at Bellaire and Hillcroft in southwest Houston.
It’s one of those areas in town where—it’s one of our higher-crime areas. That’s why we’re targeting that area of town,” HPD Lt. Scott Dombrowski said.
During the sting, the officers were advertising that they had stolen televisions for sale to see if the suspects would purchase them.
Houston police spokesman Victor Senties said the shooter had given the undercover officers money when things went terribly wrong.
According to police, the gunman followed Canales to the back of a rental truck and pulled out a pistol.
The two exchanged gunfire, and Canales was struck once. Both the officer and the suspect fell to the ground.
Police said a second officer rushed over and tried to handcuff the suspect.
But as he struggled, the suspect broke one hand away and fired two shots at the second officer.
Those shots missed, and the second officer returned fire, killing the suspect.
Three other suspects – two men and a woman – fled the scene in a vehicle, but they were later caught.
Police shut down part of Highway 288 so a medical transport could rush Canales to the hospital.
Houston Transtar cameras captured a steady stream of emergency vehicles headed to Ben Taub.
Canales died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
Police Chief Harold Hurtt early Wednesday said 42-year-old Canales was an outstanding officer and individual.
Canales was a 16-year veteran with the police force and had spent 12 years in the Tactical Division.
During his time with the Tactical Division, Canales was part of a group called “Beat the Heat.”
The organization tried to get kids to stop street racing.
Six years ago, Canales told 11 News he hoped to help kids understand that race tracks were a lot safer than racing on the street.
Canales leaves behind a wife and two children: 15-year-old Henry Jr. and 17-year-old Stephanie.
New Jersey police officer commits suicide www.privateofficer.com
June 24, 2009
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NORTH BRUNSWICK NJ June 24 2009 — A veteran township police officer died Saturday after apparently shooting himself at his home, the department announced Monday.
In a statement, police said Patrolman Thomas Szabo died at the home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The statement did not identify his hometown, though it is believed to be East Brunswick.
Szabo was hired in 1994 and had received several commendation letters, Police Director Kenneth McCormick said in the news release. He also was awarded a 2007 Lifesaving Award for resuscitating an individual and a 1999 Medal of Merit award for capturing an armed robbery suspect and recovering the weapon.
The Kean University graduate was certified as an emergency medical dispatcher, the release said.
Szabo’s family has requested a private service be held on Thursday, June 25, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Peace in North Brunswick.
Additional details were not immediately available.
In a statement, police said Patrolman Thomas Szabo died at the home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The statement did not identify his hometown, though it is believed to be East Brunswick.
Szabo was hired in 1994 and had received several commendation letters, Police Director Kenneth McCormick said in the news release. He also was awarded a 2007 Lifesaving Award for resuscitating an individual and a 1999 Medal of Merit award for capturing an armed robbery suspect and recovering the weapon.
The Kean University graduate was certified as an emergency medical dispatcher, the release said.
Szabo’s family has requested a private service be held on Thursday, June 25, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Peace in North Brunswick.
Additional details were not immediately available.
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