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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Tucson AZ July 24 2009 An 18-year-old Tucson man shot and paralyzed outside a south- side convenience store after a failed shoplifting attempt by his buddies filed a lawsuit against Circle K, Valley Protective Services, Inc. and two security guards. On Tuesday morning, the Pima County Attorney’s Office confirmed it will not seek an indictment [...]

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Atlanta GA July 24 2009 BY ELIZABETH THURMAN Women’s Wear Daily(WWD) A renewed spree of brazen robberies that focus on denim is causing anxiety, anger and hardship among retailers in metropolitan Atlanta. The latest thefts at Macy’s at the Lenox Square mall was hit Friday and come after a nine-month lull in a series of [...]

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Philadelphia PA July 24 2009 Police have arrested a 19-year-old North Philadelphia man and charged him with being one of four bandits who stole $220,000 in high end watches during a armed robbery at the Boyd’s Men Store in Center City in June. Police are still looking for three other men in the stickup. Detectives [...]

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SMITHSBURG, Md. July 24 2009– A helicopter crashed onto a western Maryland interstate highway and burst into flames, killing three employees of a flight instruction company and a passenger, the company said Friday. The aircraft was engulfed when firefighters arrived at the scene minutes after receiving a call at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, said Washington County [...]

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Atlanta GA July 24 2009 Memphis TN Two security officers working at different nightclubs were shot overnight. A security officer working at Eddie’s in Memphis was shot after he broke up a fight and one of the suspects went out to his car and got a gun and came back shooting. The security officer is [...]

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NEWARK, N.J July 23 2009 – The mayors of two New Jersey cities and a state legislator are under arrest Thursday as part of a major corruption and international money laundering conspiracy probe. Federal prosecutors say about 30 people have been arrested in the two-track investigation. They include Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, Hoboken Mayor Peter [...]

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TUCSON AZ JULY 23 2009 An Eloy corrections officer who died during an apparent home invasion last Friday was one of three men suspected of breaking into the home. It happened last Friday in the 4400 block of East Benson Highway. Pima County Sheriff deputies responded to a 911 call from a neighbor who said [...]

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Montgomery County PA July 23 2009 A special education teacher at the Pottsgrove High School in Montgomery County was charged today with having sex with a 17-year-old student at the school. Rebecca Ann Harvey, 33, of Stowe, was arrested last Tuesday after an officer on patrol says he found her with the boy in the [...]

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TORONTO, July 22 2009 (UPI) — A Toronto-area man walked out of the lottery office with a $4.4 million winner’s check to waiting police officers who arrested him on outstanding charges. Barry Shell, 45, was at the headquarters of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission Monday to collect his prize, and smiled for official photos [...]

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Fremont CA July 23 2009 A man working as a security guard at an apartment complex on the 900 block of West Tennyson Road was knocked unconscious Sunday and robbed by three men after he told them they were making too much noise. Around 8:55 p.m., the guard approached the men in a stairwell and [...]

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Phoenix AZ July 23 2009 The summer scene at a west Phoenix apartment complex was tranquil Wednesday evening. Parents and children chatted on their stoops as the sun set. They bought ice cream from a vendor’s push cart. One week ago, around the same time of day, residents of the complex were startled by the [...]

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Salt Lake City Utah July 23 2009 saltlaketribune Keith Lorraine Gillins — a Millard High School teacher and former Fillmore mayor accused of having sex with a 17-year-old female student in Millard County — also is charged with having sex with the girl in neighboring Juab County. Gillins, 61, who is now back behind bars, [...]

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LONG BEACH CA July 23 2009 contracostatimes.com – A 23-year-old Long Beach man charged with a felony after a stray shot fired from his gun hit a woman sleeping in her bed more than a mile away pleaded not guilty to the charge Wednesday. Gilbert Fonoti appeared briefly in the Long Beach Superior Court Wednesday [...]

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Suffolk County NY July 23 2009 Suffolk County police have arrested a Long Island teacher for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. Authorities say that an officer on patrol in the West Islip area noticed a gray Honda Accord with two occupants in the parking lot of Westbrook Elementary School around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The [...]

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Pueblo CO July 22 2009 Pueblo police say a security officer was stabbed at the Pueblo City School Administration Building on 11th and Grand overnight. The guard was taken to the hospital and is in serious condition. A district spokesperson says that the officer was not a district employee, but was a private security guard [...]

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Denver CO July 22 2009 The alleged failure of security personnel to revive an 18-year girl is at the heart of a lawsuit against Cherry Creek Mall. Memorie Purser, an employee at American Eagle Outfitters, a long-time Cherry Creek Mall store, died after her heart stopped, a result of a pre-exising condition. Her family is [...]

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OAK HILL TX July 22 2009 – When smoke from a trailer fire was reported in Shady Hollow a few months ago, Deputy Constable Ken Rush responded so quickly that he caught the suspected arsonist throwing empty fuel cans into the back of his truck. “I was right in the area, and it took me [...]

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. JULY 22 2009— Fayetteville police have made an arrest in a shooting that killed one man and injured another on July 12. Avery Dennill Peterson, 25, of 3957 Rosehill Road, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with the first degree murder of Christopher Clark, 27, of 2570 Cumberland Creek Road, as well as [...]

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Dallas TX July 22 2009 News Journal Do you get the feeling you’re being followed? Perhaps it’s not that you hear footsteps or see in your peripheral vision a shadow that dips out of view when you turn your head. It’s cameras. Sometimes hidden, sometimes in plain view, they monitor our motions in restaurants, while [...]

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LEXINGTON, Ky.July 22 2009 — A father was frantically calling 911 to report his missing newborn when he spotted the baby, bleeding from the mouth and clutched in the mouth of a family dog who had carried him from his crib to the heavily wooded backyard. Four-day-old Alexander James Smith was rushed to the emergency [...]

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LAGRANGEVILLE, N.Y.JULY 22 2009 Command Security Corporation (NYSE Amex: MOC) announced today that it has been awarded another substantial new contract to provide security services to a major transportation company at approximately 70 of its locations in 11 states throughout the western portion of the United States. The new contract was awarded by this customer [...]

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Oklahoma City OK July 22 2009 A man shot Saturday by a bank security guard was released from the hospital and booked into jail on a murder complaint on Tuesday, authorities said. Samuel Booth Lewis, 56, was booked at the Oklahoma County jail after being treated for a gunshot wound suffered at MidFirst Bank at [...]

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SAN DIEGO CA July 22 2009 — An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of shooting a Metropolitan Transit System security officer and stealing his gun at an East County rail depot, police said. Marquise Loftis was arrested after officers pulled over a vehicle in the 2200 block of 54th Street around 12:30 [...]

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. July 21 2009 – A 5-year-old boy who suffered a gunshot wound to the head on Monday night has died. Police say the boy and his father were at a drive-thru window at the Walgreens on Durango and Warm Springs when the boy found a gun in the car. The child fired [...]

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COLUMBIA, S.C. July 21 2009– The FBI says a bank robber known as the “Limping Bandit” has been arrested after robbing 23 banks in Georgia and other states across the Southeast. Agents say 51-year-old Cecil Haire of Douglas, Ga., was arrested Friday after witnesses got his license tag number following a robbery at a Mount [...]

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ST. PETERSBURG July 21 2009 – A woman was arrested at St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport Monday after deputies say she accidentally took a gun through airport security. It happened around 7 a.m. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office says 55-year-old Frances Fuller got a pass to assist her elderly mother through security at St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport where [...]

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SCOTTSDALE, AZ July 21 2009 — Police said they arrested two people on Saturday for an armed robbery at a Best Buy electronics store. Officer say at 5 p.m., 38-year-old Joe Zawacki entered the store near 90th Street and Shea Boulevard and shoplifted two laptop computers. As he was leaving the store, store security attempted [...]

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JACKSON COUNTY Fla July 21 2009 wmbb.com A Chattahoochee police officer was fired from his job hours after Georgia law enforcement charged him with rape, child molestation and aggravated sexual battery. Robert Sizemore, 50, of Faceville, Ga., was terminated by Chattahoochee Police Chief Vann Pullen July 18 following his arrest in Decatur County, Ga. Sizemore [...]

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Bethlehem PA July 21 2009 A 45-year-old Allentown man allegedly told a security guard at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem that he had a gun and was willing to use it. Craig Allen Vito, of Hamilton Street, was sleeping at one of the bars inside the casino at 2:21 a.m. Sunday, police allege. When security and [...]

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YONKERS NY July 21 2009 – A Bronx man was arrested after flashing a handgun at an off-duty Yonkers Raceway security officer during a road rage incident in southwest Yonkers, police said. Arrested was Jonathan Ramirez of 2629 Sedgwick Ave. Police said at 5:15 a.m. yesterday the 26-year-old security officer was driving in the area [...]

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