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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Atlanta GA Aug 29 2009 Quick thinking by a dozen teenagers may have avoided an apparent school bus hijacking from turning tragic, said witnesses. At about 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, an Atlanta Public Schools bus ran off of Boulevard Road after Arris Pitmon, 23, forced his way onto the bus transporting Forrest Hills Academy students [...]

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Nashville TN AUG 29 2009 The jury could not reach a verdict in the second-degree murder case against former security guard Jeremy Holmes. Judge Randall Wyatt individually polled the jury on the fifth day of trial after nearly six hours of deliberation. All of the 12 members agreed the jury was definitely divided, and no [...]

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. Aug 29 2009 – Seven people were killed and two critically injured at a mobile home located on a historic plantation in southeastern Georgia, officials said Saturday. Glynn County spokeswoman Candice Temple wouldn’t say how they were killed. The county’s police chief, Matt Doering, said authorities discovered the victims when responding to a 911 [...]

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DAYTON, Ohio AUG 29 2009 — Two people are accused of breaking into a Dayton school and trying to steal copper pipes. A security officer patrolling the school heard some noise and went to investigate. The security officer found Joseph Cox, 24, and a juvenile and police said they were trying to steal copper pipes [...]

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Daytona Beach Fla Aug 29 2009 Two of three vehicles stolen from an auto auction in Daytona Beach early this morning escaped pursuit while a third crashed on Interstate 4 near Deltona as it was tailed by a Volusia County sheriff’s helicopter, authorities said. No one was injured in the crash, and a juvenile suspect [...]

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ROANOKE RAPIDS NC AUG 28 2009 — A person considered armed and dangerous for allegedly shooting a security guard is behind bars. Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Jeff Hinton told the Daily Herald this morning with the help of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office Andrew Bell, 17, of Roanoke Rapids, turned himself in last night. Hinton [...]

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Greenwich CT Aug 28 2009 Black iron gates and private driveways are commonplace in Greenwich, a town that values privacy and can afford to keep outsiders at a distance. But with hedge fund chief executives worth billions and swarms of celebrities calling Greenwich home, many people have the option to take their personal security to [...]

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NASHUA, NH AUG 28 2009 On 20 August 2009 at approximately 11:10 hours members of the Nashua Police Department patrol division responded to the Pheasant Lane Mall, 310 Daniel Webster Highway for a shoplifting complaint. A male subject entered Victoria’s Secret and placed a large amount of items in a shopping bag and left the [...]

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Raynham MA Aug 28 2009 Raynham Police Chief Louis J. Pacheco isn’t complaining. He knows that money is tight everywhere, especially money to fully staff his police force and pay detectives the overtime needed to investigate and catch criminals. “As you cut a police department it shrinks down to its basic role,” he said. “If [...]

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AVENTURA FLA Aug 28 2009 – A veteran Flanagan High School teacher has been removed from teaching after being arrested for drunken driving and multiple drug-possession charges, a Broward School District spokeswoman said today. Peter Epstein, 38, who was arrested Aug. 7, was immediately removed from the classroom when teachers returned to work Aug. 17, [...]

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. Aug 28 2009– Sheriff’s officials said Thursday they believe a woman who walked into a police station had been kidnapped as an 11-year-old in 1991 outside her South Lake Tahoe home. Two people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. The woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she [...]

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Holmes County, Fla: Aug 28 2009 A teacher is among 10 suspects arrested for charges relating to methamphetamine. An affidavit from the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office says that an officer and confidential informant went to the home of Mary Williford at 1088 Nettie Street in Noma to negotiate a deal to purchase meth. She was [...]

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Houston TX Aug 28 2009 HPD officer P.L. Marquez was working a part-time security job at an Amegy Bank branch in the 9100 block of the North Loop East about 4:45 p.m. when two men approached the tellers, officials said. One of the robbers turned and pointed a gun at Marquez. The officer held his [...]

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Bethlehem PA Aug 28 2009 A woman charged with scamming dozens of people at an automated bank teller at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem will face trial in Northampton County Court, a district judge ruled this morning. Authorities said Shoumin Chai, 56, of New York, has made a career of stealing at casinos across the [...]

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Southampton NY AUG 28 2009 An off-duty Southampton Town Police officer was killed in a Jet Ski accident while vacationing with his family in North Carolina on Saturday. Michael Nemes, 37, of Eastport was riding a Honda AquaTrax F-12X personal watercraft in Brown’s Inlet in Onslow County, North Carolina, which is located about 120 miles [...]

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Santa Rosa CA Aug 28 2009 pressdemocraft.com A former Santa Rosa police officer charged with four armored car robberies in Sonoma and Marin counties apparently used his knowledge as a patrolman – and a former armored car company employee – to pull off the lucrative heists In court Wednesday, prosecutors filed 10 felony and one [...]

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Bucks County PA Aug 27 2009 A 43-year-old Bucks County high school teacher has been arrested on charges stemming from an alleged sexual relationship he had with a 17-year-old female student over a five-month period of time. Other teachers in the district knew about the alleged sexual relationship and did not report it, say school [...]

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PICAYUNE MS Aug 27 2009 — A public housing security officer attempting to serve paperwork to a resident on Lewis Circle found what he believed to be methamphetamine activity. Picayune Police Deputy Chief David Ervin said the department received a call about the find at about 5:22 p.m. on Tuesday from the security officer. Apparently [...]

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Santa Clara CA Aug 27 2009 A special-education teacher at Wilcox High School who is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old female student was arraigned this afternoon on multiple felony charges. Edward Slate, 41, was charged with two felony counts of oral copulation with a minor, two felony counts of sexual penetration of a [...]

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MADISON WI Aug 24 2009 (WKOW) — Police arrested one man after an attempted robbery that occured early Sunday morning at the Super 8 Motel on Madison’s south side. According to a police incident report, Brandon L. Waddell, 29, entered the Super 8 Motel on the west Beltline highway just after midnight. Waddell approached the [...]

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Baltimore MD Aug 24 2009 After violence and shootings at the Inner Harbor, followed by the mayor saying she wants cops to be more aggressive and the city’s top cop saying that officers need to be more vigilent, it should come as no surprise that we’d end up with a confrontation between police and citizen. [...]

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Queens NY Aug 24 2009 A Javits Center security guard coming home after working a late shift Sunday was struck and killed by a Lexus driven by an 18-year-old, police said. Donald Bryan, 32, took a cab home from the Manhattan convention center, arriving at his Ozone Park, Queens, home just after 1 a.m., police [...]

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ARCHDALE, NC Aug 24 2009 (WTVD) — The SBI is investigating the death of a UNC student on I-85 Sunday morning in Randolph County. According to The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student newspaper, Courtland Smith was reportedly shot and killed by police after an altercation in Archdale, which is near Greensboro. Police reports indicate Smith [...]

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BELLVILLE, Texas Aug 24 2009 – The search is on for five suspects police said shot and killed a man in Bellville. Police said Dr. Jorge Mario Gonzalez, a prominent Houston doctor and rancher, was gunned down on his own property on Saturday. Dr. Gonzalez was chief of the Critical Care Section of the Methodist [...]

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SANTIAGO, Chile Aug 22 2009 – Chile said Friday that tests show swine flu has jumped to birds, opening a new chapter in the global epidemic. Top flu and animal-health experts with the United Nations in Rome and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were monitoring the situation closely, but said [...]

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Las Vegas NV Aug 22 2009 A jury on Thursday awarded $535,000 in damages to a Fresno poker player who said Club One casino security guards roughed him up after he got into an argument with a card dealer. Nshan “Nish” Minasian, 59, of Fresno suffered a torn rotator cuff on his left shoulder after [...]

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Littleton teacher arrested for student relationship www.privateofficer.com Littleton CO Aug 22 2009 44-year-old high school English teacher was arrested at her home in Douglas County Wednesday night on suspicion of having had a sexual relationship with a student. The former Collegiate Academy student, now 21, told investigators last week that he had a relationship with [...]

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Southampton NY AUG 22 2009 A man was arrested on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton for brandishing a knife at his niece and firing a shotgun at a security guard on Monday, New York State police said. Albert Marshall, Jr., 37, was intoxicated and while arguing with his niece, Nicole B. Johnson, 23, menaced [...]

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Bay Minette AL AUG 22 2009 Police arrested a Bay Minette Middle School teacher Friday morning after he appeared to be intoxicated and fell asleep during a seventh-grade English class, authorities said. Nicholas Taylor Pope, a 25-year-old special-education teacher and assistant football coach, was charged with public intoxication and illegal possession of prescription drugs. It’s [...]

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ST. LOUIS MO AUG 22 2009 – A federal lawsuit filed Friday alleges that a 15-year-old student at Imagine College Preparatory High School was beaten by staff and a St. Louis police officer. Named in the suit are Genesa Smith, a teacher; Eugene Page, a St. Louis police officer who the suit said is Smith’s [...]

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