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Posted by privateofficernews on July 31, 2009
SUMTER, SC July 31 2009 (WIS) – A former Sumter County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested and charged with having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says 26-year-old Michael Boulware stands charged with second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
“To know that it’s a brother of the law enforcement that I work with around our community and county, very surprising, devastating, and I’m very upset about it.”
Falls says his oldest daughter, just 14 years old, drank alcohol with Michael Boulware. But Thursday, Falls found out a different 14-year-old girl did a little more — she had sex with Boulware.
Now Boulware’s charges aren’t just about giving alcohol to minors; they’ve been upgraded to a felony.
“I just asked her to be open and honest with the investigators, then we’ll go from there,” Falls said.
Falls, especially being in law enforcement himself, never thought his daughter would be involved in something like this.
“We keep a close hand with our kids and you think you know them in and out,” he said. “You still need to check up on them a little more.”
For Falls and for Boulware’s neighbors, who also have young kids, the arrest is a relief.
“We have enough on the streets to worry about, keeping kids out of trouble, and we have a brother in law enforcement ruining it all for us,” Falls said.
Falls says Michael Boulware was a family friend, and that’s how he got to know the girls.
Boulware is scheduled to be in bond court at 3:30pm Friday. If convicted of the latest charge, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
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Pineville, N.C. (metro Charlotte) July 31 2009
By: Rick McCann
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Police say what started out as a shoplifting incident at store in Pineville escalated into a police pursuit and a home invasion with three small children inside alone.
The three men loaded a flat screen television into their car at the BJ’s Warehouse in Pineville without paying for it. As they fled, several store employees tried stopping them and police were called.
Officers followed their vehicle up Interstate 77 and to a neighborhood off Arrowood Road. Police say the men then ditched the car and broke into a house to hide from officers.
From there, the men took off on foot and was later tracked down by police
Rashaan Brown, Larrington Wilson and Duane Jackson have been arrested on a laundry list of charges including felony theft, home invasion, breaking and entering, possession of stolen goods, multiple driving offenses and other charges are pending.
The stolen flat screen TV was recovered from the vehicle, along with other items confirmed to have been stolen from a K-Mart store in Charlotte earlier in the day.
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Lakewood WA July 31 2009
The man accused of fatally shooting a Loomis armored-car guard during a robbery at a Lakewood Wal-Mart in June pleaded guilty this morning to aggravated first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, assault and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Calvin Finley, 35, was accused of killing Kurt Husted on June 2. He agreed to plead guilty to avoid facing the death penalty, according to Mark Lindquist, chief criminal deputy for the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors have already said they would not seek the death penalty against three co-defendants who have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The co-defendants — Marshawn A. Turpin, 20; Odies D. Walker, 41; and Tonie Marie Williams-Irby, 42 — are also charged with robbery and aggravated first-degree murder, the only charge in Washington punishable by death.
If convicted as charged, they will face life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors had until Friday to decide whether to seek the death penalty against Finley.
According to police and prosecutors, Williams-Irby was a floor manager at Wal-Mart who planned the robbery with Walker, her boyfriend, and then recruited Finley and Turpin.
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San Antonio TX July 31 2009
Joshua Rodriguez was keeping more than feet in his shoes recently.
According to an arrest warrant, the 23-year-old was stuffing his footwear with thousands of dollars worth of stolen jewelry.
According to property crimes detectives, Rodriguez was stopped by a security guard at United Parcel Service’s northeast-side warehouse on July 22. Rodriguez is a UPS employee.
Rodriguez was in line, waiting to enter the warehouse as security guards were conducting a random shoe check at the UPS facility. According to the police report, Rodriguez attempted to get out of line when he saw the random search, but guards asked him to stay in line and proceed through the security checkpoint.
The guard reportedly found 16 small bags of jewelry hidden in Rodriguez’s shoes, including gold rings, wedding rings and chains. Some individual items of jewelry were worth $4,000.
The warrant said the items were being shipped to the Kay Jewelers store at the Shops of La Cantera. Police said Rodriguez got his hands on the package en route.
UPS took the stolen property and contacted SAPD to file a police report. They told police Rodriguez was suspected in other thefts, too.
Police arrested Rodriguez on theft charges Wednesday.
He was booked into the Bexar County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond.
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Conway SC July 31 2009
A Conway, S.C., woman who had video surveillance of a man having sexual intercourse with one of her horses said she found the suspect behind her barn Monday night and pointed a shotgun at his head until police arrived and arrested him.
Rodell Vereen, 50, of Longs, is charged with buggery and trespassing after Barbara Kenley, who owns Lazy B Stables on Coates Road in the Wampee section of Horry County, told officers she had video of the suspect having sex with a horse then wanted to catch him at her barn.
“That stable was my getaway, my stress relief,” said Kenley, who has owned the stable for 20 years. “Everybody has a place they like to go to get away. Now it is totally destroyed. It is the only thing I have in life.”
A family member said Wednesday that Vereen was diagnosed with a “mental disease” more than 10 years ago.
“He’s supposed to be on medication but I don’t believe he’s been taking it,” said Beulah Vereen, also a neighbor. “He’s not a violent man, I know.”
It is the second time Vereen, who works for a landscaping company, has been charged with having sex with a horse at Lazy B Stables. Vereen pleaded guilty to buggery on July 21, 2008 and was sentenced to three years probation, ordered to undergo mental health counseling, and told not to go near Lazy B Stables after he was caught having sex with a horse on Thanksgiving Day of 2007, according to the 15th Judicial Circuit.
Vereen has also been registered as a sex offender since pleading to the buggery charge last year, according to the State Law Enforcement Division.
“I have a false sense of security right now,” Kenley said. “When they arrested him before I thought that was the end of it. Now all of my insecurities are back. I can’t go out there at certain times because I am afraid.”
Vereen will have a probation hearing at 9 a.m. Monday at J. Reuben Long Detention Center in Conway, according to Richard Laskill, a senior agent for the S.C. Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.
A judge will likely determine if Vereen will serve the remainder of his three-year suspended sentence for the 2007 buggery charge.
“Hopefully he won’t get out,” Kenley said. “My goal is to get him away from me and my property.”
Kenley, who lives four miles away from the stable, said she can’t afford a security system for the stables. She said she spent several hundred dollars on the video surveillance system that was used to help identify Vereen.
“In 20 years I’ve never had a problem like this,” Kenley said. “I never knew people did such a thing.”
Kenley said Vereen was having sex with a 21-year-old horse named Sugar. Kenley said the horse is being treated for infections related to the incidents.
Kenley told officers she had video of Vereen “having relations” with one of her horses on July 19, according to a police report. “I had given police surveillance video before and they weren’t able to identify him,” Kenley said. “And I wanted to catch him firsthand. It was just a matter of time before I caught him.”
On Monday night, Kenley said she went to check on the horses and saw an unknown vehicle parked near her property.
Kenley found Vereen behind a barn where the horses are kept and pointed a shotgun at him. Kenley called police on her cell phone and waited for officers to arrive.
“He was very subdued,” Kenley said. “He was like … cold. He may have been in shock.”
Kenley said she asked Vereen what he was doing at the barn and that he said he was looking for a bathroom.
“I told him he was full of crap,” Kenley said. “He apologized and said he didn’t mean to hurt me.”
Vereen admitted to officers that he did have “relations” with a horse on July 19, the report shows. Officers reported that they viewed a video showing the suspect having intercourse with a horse.
Bail was set at $10,000 for Vereen, who is being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center
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Dallas TX July 31 2009
A North Texas woman is asked to leave a Balch Springs Social Security office after a guard accused her of carrying dangerous weapons: her knitting needles
The armed guard came up to me and said I have to take that outside,” said Rachel Vines.
Vines said the only thing she was trying to kill inside the waiting room was time.
“I wasn’t shoving them in people’s faces going, ‘look I have sharp pointy things,’” she said. “I was sitting there minding my own business trying to knit a sock.”
Apparently the Officer determined the five-inch knitting needles were a threat to the safety and security of those inside the building. The Federal Protective Service oversees security inside the building and would not answer questions about the incident, but it did email NBCDFW this statement:
“The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is responsible for keeping federal properties safe and secure for both employees and visitors. If an FPS guard determines that an object carried by a visitor could present a safety risk or be used by another person as a weapon, they may be asked to remove it from the building.”
People in the waiting room used words like “ridiculous” and “outrageous” when referring to the guards move to make Vines remove the needles.
Vines did put her yarn and knitting tools in the car but said she’s still flabbergasted by the whole ordeal.
“I cant even fathom what he was thinking,” she said. “That I was going to harm someone by knitting? I just don’t get it.”
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Pensacola Fla July 31 2009
A middle school teacher from Meridian, Miss., was arrested Thursday afternoon after he drove to Pensacola thinking he was going to have sex with a 15-year-old female.
In reality, the suspect, Clifford Holloway, 56, of 7759 Lizalia Road, Meridian, Miss., had set up a meeting with an undercover police officer who had been communicating with him since mid-June on MySpace, a news release from the Pensacola Police Department said.
Holloway has been charged with two counts of sexual assault on a child 16 years or older, two counts of transmitting pornography to a minor and one count of traveling to have sex with a minor. Additional charges are pending.
The suspect is a science and physical education teacher at Northeast Middle School in Meridian, Miss. He has been a teacher in the Lauderdale, Miss., County School District for 28 years.
Holloway was arrested around 3:30 p.m. Thursday after a member of the Northwest Florida Child Pornography Task Force saw him driving in the area of Palafox and Cervantes streets. Pensacola Police Officer Chris Wilkinson said Holloway drove to Pensacola on Thursday and arrived here around noon planning to meet a 15-year-old female at a local motel around 2:20 p.m. and have sex with her.
Detective Tarlanda Gooden began investigating Holloway after Capt. Paul Kelly received a telephone call on June 15 from a concerned Pensacola mother who said her 16-year-old daughter had been communicating with a 56-year-old man via MySpace on the computer. The mother learned of their communications after checking her daughter’s MySpace page. The victim told Gooden she had had sex twice with Holloway in March at a Pensacola motel.
Wilkinson began communicating with Holloway via MySpace on June 27 as part of an undercover investigation where he pretended to be a 15-year-old female. Wilkinson said he and Holloway communicated with each other almost daily on the computer, and that a few weeks after they began talking, the suspect asked about them meeting in Pensacola.
In both investigations, Holloway transmitted nude photographs of himself over the computer to the 16-year-old victim and to Wilkinson. He also asked both victims for nude photographs of themselves; Gooden said the 16-year-old victim complied.
As part of the on-going investigation, Wilkinson will do a forensic analysis of Holloway’s computer and cell phone to determine if he has been in contact with other minors.
Officers with the Pensacola Police Department, Escambia and Santa Rosa sheriff’s offices, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and State Attorney General’s CyberCrimes Unit participated in Thursday’s arrest.
Wilkinson said Holloway used the screen names MySpace.com/Golfcoach18 and Golfcoach18@Yahoo.com.
Any teen-agers who may have been in contact with Holloway or knows someone who has had contact with Holloway is asked to contact Detective Tarlanda Gooden at 435 – 1972.
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Posted by privateofficernews on July 30, 2009
Atlanta GA. July 30 2009
Since its creation four months ago, the Dunwoody Police Department has arrested nearly 30 people for boosting more than $50,000 worth of clothes from Perimeter Mall.
Victoria’s Secret, J. Crew, Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister Co. are among the stores that have been hit.
The biggest arrest came last month when three “professional shoplifters” from New York City were caught with $22,295 worth of merchandise, Sgt. Mike Carlson said.
Felipe Torres, 26, Yuliana Flores, 23, and Luisa Chavez, 23, used a device to pull sensors off the clothes before stuffing them in bags, Carlson said.
“They worked as a booster team,” Carlson said. “They would just rip off the sensors and walk out. When mall security notified us, we started watching these three. They went out to their car and unloaded three times.”
The trio was arrested in the parking lot. Each was charged with felony shoplifting, possession of burglary tools and theft by receiving stolen property.
Carlson said police will keep working with mall security to reduce shoplifting.
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Beaufort SC July 30 2009
A security guard was robbed at gunpoint at a Beaufort mobile home park Saturday night but fled empty handed, according to a report by the Beaufort County sheriff’s office.
At approximately 11:00 .m. sheriff’s deputies responded to Dixie Rentals Mobile Home Park, 12 County Shed Road, in reference to an armed robbery that occurred moments earlier. Upon arrival, deputies made contact with the 55-year old male victim, a security guard for the community, who said he had been robbed at gunpoint by two unknown men.
The victim said he had been making his rounds through the neighborhood, when he was approached by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
The suspects demanded the victim’s wallet. The victim complied, and while one suspect searched through the wallet, the second suspect began searching through the victim’s truck, taking the keys from the ignition. The suspects then tossed the victim’s wallet and keys on the ground near the truck, and fled the area on foot in an unknown direction.
The victim was unharmed, and reported nothing was stolen during the incident.
The suspects were both described as black males between the ages of 20-25, both approximately 5’10”, 150 lbs. One was wearing a white shirt and black pants, the other wearing a black shirt and black pants.
The sheriff’s office is asking anyone with any information to please contact either Investigator SSgt. J. Hiers at 470-3439 or the Beaufort County dispatch center at 843-524-2777.
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Nashville TN July 30 2009
A Metro Nashville Public Schools security officer sustained minor injuries Tuesday evening after being struck by a car while on duty, a spokesperson for Metro Nashville Public Schools has confirmed.
At the time of the incident, the security guard was completing a routine patrol on foot around Percy Priest Elementary School, according to MNPS’s Noelle Mashburn. The guard saw a parked car in a lot nearby the school and went to investigate, shining his flashlight to look in the windows.
As the guard stood near the vehicle, the car drove away quickly, and the car “rolled” against the guard as it sped away, according to Mashburn. Injuries to the guard were minor, and the guard will soon be returning to his job
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TULSA, OK July 30 2009 — Three teens are behind bars after Tulsa Police officers found a loaded pistol in their vehicle overnight.
Tulsa Security was patrolling the area of McClure Park in the 7440 block of East 7th Street, when they spotted a pickup truck in the parking lot after park hours.
The security officers approached the vehicle and found three teenagers inside.
After talking to the teens, the security officers decided to search the pickup truck and found a loaded .45 caliber pistol.
Tulsa Police were called to the scene where they arrested the three teens.
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SANTA ANA CA July 30 2009- A security guard investigating suspicious activity at an apartment complex was shot at, but the bullets missed him, police said.
The incident began at 7:10 p.m. Wednesday when the security guard working at the Villa del Sol apartment complex at 810 South Sullivan St. was attending a resident meeting and two kids told him they saw “suspicious guys,” said Santa Ana police Cmdr. Tammy Franks.
The security guard found two men and tried to talk to them to determine if they lived at the complex, Franks said.
The men refused to stop and one of them turned around and fired two shots at the security guard, Franks said.
The men then ran to an adjacent mobile home complex at 631 South Sullivan Street.
The man armed with the gun was described as Hispanic, between 19-22 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 150 pounds. He was wearing a white and gray flannels.
The second suspect was described as Hispanic, between 19 – 22 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, about 150 pounds with short black hair. He was wearing black clothing.
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WORCESTER, Mass. July 30 2009 — A baby girl cut from her mother’s womb was found and a woman arrested after acquaintances became suspicious of her claims that she was the baby’s mother, police said.
The body of the girl’s mother was found Monday in a closet at her Worcester apartment. It was not until an autopsy that authorities discovered the fetus was missing.
The girl appeared to be in “fairly good health” at a New Hampshire hospital Wednesday, Worcester Police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said.
Julie Corey, 35, of Worcester, Mass., and a male companion were arrested in Plymouth, N.H., where police found them with the child. Corey was charged as a fugitive from justice and is to be arraigned in district court in Concord, N.H., on Thursday. She was in custody and could not be reached for comment late Wednesday, and Worcester police did not know whether she had a lawyer. Police in New Hampshire said the man was released.
Police said Corey had reportedly gone to New Hampshire to relocate. A newspaper report said she arrived at a Plymouth homeless shelter Tuesday night. She told workers there that the girl was 6 days old and identified herself as the mother but had no information on the child, according to the Union Leader in New Hampshire.
Corey was arrested the next afternoon as she tried to leave the shelter with the infant after workers alerted police and a nurse began photographing the baby with her cell phone, the report said.
The baby’s mother, Darlene Haynes, was eight months pregnant. Her body was found by her landlord, William Thompson, who said a “horrifying smell” led him to her apartment, where he found her body wrapped in bedding in a closet. Her death was ruled a homicide.
“It’s horrific,” Thompson said Wednesday. “There’s no words to describe what’s going on in this building today.”
The exact cause of Haynes’ death has yet to be determined pending toxicology tests, but Worcester Police Detective Capt. Edward J. McGinn Jr. said the autopsy indicated Haynes suffered head injuries.
Police said the 23-year-old had apparently been dead for several days, and that she hadn’t contacted family or friends since Thursday.
Haysha Toledo, a 17-year-old neighbor, said neighbors used to hear fighting from the apartment Haynes shared until recently with her boyfriend, Roberto Rodriguez.
“We used to hear her crying and screaming but no one ever really did anything,” Toledo said, adding that neighbors did not want to get involved.
Haynes had a restraining order against Rodriguez, who allegedly pushed her into a glass table in June and cut her arm, then grabbed her by the throat and slapped her, according to court records. Court records also showed Rodriguez was charged with hitting Haynes in 2008 in a case that was continued without a finding.
In June, Haynes described the 24-year-old Rodriguez as her boyfriend of several years. Her landlord said Rodriguez moved out of the apartment last month.
Rodriguez was interviewed by authorities. He told WCVB-TV that Haynes was “a nice girl.”
“She had her problems, you know, but nobody deserves to go (through) what she went through,” he said.
Family members said she had three other children.
Her youngest, an 18-month-old girl, is in state custody, according to Department of Children and Families spokeswoman Alison Goodwin. Family members had been looking after her.
Karl Whitney, Haynes’ uncle who is acting as a spokesman for the family, said Haynes’ grandmother, Joanne Haynes, is raising the two other children, Jasmine, 5, and Lillian, 3.
He told the Telegram & Gazette that Haynes had picked the name Sheila Marie for her fourth child.
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Chicago IL July 30 2009
A diamond shipment worth nearly $2 million went missing somewhere between New York and Chicago.
An armored car service was supposed to deliver the diamonds to the Jeweler’s Row on Wabash Avenue on Wednesday, but when it got there, it was noticed that the diamonds were missing.
Police believe the theft happened during the commute and said the armed car service also stopped in Kentucky prior to its arrival in Chicago.
The diamonds are valued at $1.7 million, police said.
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PASCO, Wash July 30 2009– A security breach at the Tri-Cities Airport. Security staff say it appears one of their own walked away while on the job.
Security officials aren’t saying much. They’re still not sure what exactly happened. Here’s what we’re told: it appears a security official working at the metal detector left the post while still on the clock.
As for how long, TSA officials aren’t sure. They tell us it appears less than a minute. The problem is there were no cameras set up, and they’re not sure if any passengers walked through without the proper check.
To err on the side of caution, about 160 passengers had to de-board, then re-board. That total process took close to two hours.
One of the big questions is post 9/11, how could something like this happen? We’re told it’s a rarity.
“I think this is a fluke, a one time incident,” says Chris Cox with U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “As we get more information, if we can share it, we will. And I think it’ll be readily resolved. I’d rather have a delay than a security incident.”
There is no word on any penalties the officer may face. TSA is investigating. But there is a lesson to be learned–if this ever happens to you, alert either a law enforcement agent or a TSA.
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Las Vegas NV July 30 2009
Police say a 2-year-old girl who was shot by her 4-year-old brother has died of her injuries.
The Clark County Coroner’s office says 2-year-old Elizabeth Zeferina Serrano died Sunday at University Medical Center.
Las Vegas police say the girl was taken to a hospital before police were called about 8:30 p.m. Thursday to a house west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Police say the 4-year-old boy was handling a loaded 9mm handgun when it fired, striking the girl in the torso. Investigators say the father was home at the time, but the weapon was not properly secured. No charges have been filed.
Also, no charges have been filed against the father of 5-year-old Giovanni Kopystenski. This child shot accidentally shot himself in the head after finding a loaded gun in his father’s vehicle.
District Attorney David Roger says there are laws in place to deal with these situations but the real issue is public awareness.
“Rational people understand if you leave firearm unsecured in a household with children, with teens, bad things can happen. Why roll the dice with a child’s life. Secure the firearm period,” Roger said.
There are no specific laws that address children and guns and the proper safety protocols. These cases fall under child abuse and neglect statutes which also apply to child drownings and leaving a child unattended in a car. The law states that if a parent intentionally places his child in harms way, that parent may be charged with abuse or neglect. The use of the word intentional makes it difficult to prosecute.
Roger does cites two cases and examples where parents were parents were charged.
“We had cases several years ago where one family kept their firearm in the dryer another family kept their gun on top of the refrigerator and the kids got a hold of it and killed another child. We charged those parents with crimes.
These shootings undergo a two-step process. First, police investigate. Second, they present the facts and make a recommendation to the District Attorney. It is up to the DA to decide whether to prosecute.
Parents found guilty of a criminal act can be sentenced up to 20 years in prison.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. July 29 2009 — Police are looking for a team of women who stole thousands of dollars worth of clothing from a store in north Charlotte.
Store surveillance video shows nine women, including one with a baby, crowding around a cashier at Famous Mart on North Tryon Street. While the clerk was distracted ringing up the stacks of clothing, some of the thieves pushed carts loaded with merchandise out the door.
As the flustered clerk kept folding items, the final thief simply walked away without paying.
Store owner Louis Sinkoe said he’s never seen anything like it.
“They had so much commotion going on, cell phones and talking and noise. You just lose track of your surroundings,” he said. “They just overwhelmed the cashier.”
It was the biggest rip-off in Famous Mart’s 50-year history.
Police admit it’s an unusually well-coordinated crime that other stores should be aware of.
“Usually suspects continue to do something until they get caught, so (we need) vigilance on the store owners’ and managers’ part and employees,” said Sgt. Ken Schul of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Police said they haven’t seen any similar crimes recently so they don’t know if the group is based in Charlotte or elsewhere.
The women drove off in a blue Chevrolet Impala and tan Ford LTD.
Anyone with information about the identities of the thieves is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
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Forest Park IL July 29 2009
One-time Berwyn alderman Michael Phelan filed a battery and malicious prosecution suit Monday against Wal-Mart and its security staff at the Forest Park store in connection with a year-old incident.
According to the suit, Phelan and a security guard had a disagreement. Police were called though details about what happened are not outlined in the suit. An official at the store signed a disorderly conduct complaint against Phelan with Forest Park police, according to the suit. The official told police he recognized Phelan as “somebody who had given patrons and employees a hard time in the past, being rude, and making racial remarks” and that police had been summoned to the store on other occasions, but Phelan had always left before police arrived. The disorderly conduct complaint was later dismissed, the suit states.
Phelan was leaving the store after shopping, and the security guard asked to see his receipt, according to Phelan’s attorney.
“He felt accosted by the security guard,” said Matt Karchmar, Phelan’s attorney.
Phelan then asked to see the manager, but security denied his request, according to Karchmar, and then the confrontation turned violent.
“The security guard threw him to the ground and then after that, police were called.”
At the time of the July 27, 2008, incident, Phelan was a Berwyn alderman, but the incident had caused “great embarrassment, humiliation and damage to his reputation,” the suit charges. The suit seeks at least $50,000 in damages.
Forest Park police and a WalMart spokesperson also could not be reached about the incident.
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ATHENS, Ga. July 29 2009– Athens-Clarke County police have arrested a 26-year-old man for being a peeping Tom in the women’s room at a Target.
Police say Luis Mesqueda Hernandez was caught on security cameras by security personnel sneaking into the women’s bathroom at the store Sunday afternoon and using his cell phone to take photos of a woman.
The store’s security officers detained Hernandez until police arrived.
Hernandez was transported to the city jail and later released on bond.
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Springfield, MO July 29 2009–A first degree robbery charge has been filed against Keith Freibe, 37, of Springfield.
Police report Friebe tried to steal a cell phone from the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 2825 N. Kansas Expressway on Sunday. Friebe allegedly pulled a knife and assaulted the store security officer.
The loss prevention agent continued to wrestle Freibe to the ground and was able to hold Friebe until police arrived. The security officer was treated for a fractured leg.
Friebe is being held without bond.
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