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Jon Doe, Seattle man with no memory www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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Seattle WA Aug 20 2009
The blond-haired man with the walrus mustache wandered out of Seattle’s Discovery Park three weeks ago, with pressed khakis, an expensive dress shirt, a blue blazer and $600 hidden in his sock. He was uninjured — but said he was confused, lost and frightened.
This much is clear: He is fluent in English, French and German. He possesses a professorial knowledge of European cultural history. He seems to have traveled the world. And he says he is a widower.
But he said he doesn’t know who he is or when he was born. Or how he got here and why. Or whether he even wants to know.
His doctors at Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill campus said they don’t think he’s faking it, but they don’t really know how to help. The cops so far are stumped, too.
Today, the 50-something man with the white ID bracelet that says, simply, “Jon Doe,” is scheduled to be discharged from the hospital. But he has nowhere to go, while he waits and wonders if someone out there is missing him.
“I find myself in tears that I don’t know if I want the memories,” he said. “But if you don’t have an identity, it’s very difficult to survive.”
Jon Doe — he’s fine just being called Jon — said he awoke in the woods of Discovery Park on July 30, groggy, disoriented and dehydrated. He had no wallet, passport or day planner.
He flagged down a Metro bus driver, who called paramedics as it dawned on the man that he recalled only fragments of his life: glimpses of Shanghai during last year’s Beijing Olympics; college professors he said he knew decades ago in Wisconsin, Chicago and New York.
And, most troubling, memories of a 24-year-old wife named Tina, from Wisconsin. He seems certain he found her dead in their bed after she miscarried in early 1985 in Chicago.
His doctors aren’t sure what to make of him.
He seems intelligent, well-educated, articulate and polite and has a Midwestern inflection. The doctors said they find him neither too disturbed by his fate, nor too casual.
Generalized amnesia is considered extremely rare. But the doctors said they have checked his heart, his brain and his nervous system and have ruled out epilepsy, dementia and delirium. They also found no evidence of physical injury.
“We see this from time to time, and normally it turns out to be something else,” said Dr. Brian Larson, a psychiatrist affiliated with Swedish who has been attending to Jon Doe.
“We do see people who are feigning or exaggerating for their own reasons. But I was the third psychiatrist who saw him. And all of us have gotten a sense that he’s very genuine.”
Seattle police have taken Jon Doe’s fingerprints and sent his photograph to police and college organizations around the world. But so far there are no clues to his identity and nothing that suggests he is a criminal or crime victim, said Mark Jamieson, a police spokesman.
But detectives are still trying to find other leads, he said.
Not much help
Jon Doe has not been able to offer them much help.
“The background is extremely foggy,” he said. “There just isn’t much of anything there.”
He recalls little of his childhood or of his profession, he said. He is confident he has spent most of the past two decades abroad. He refers to himself as an “expat.” He knows street directions to the national library in Paris. He knows Vienna, and Googled a university hospital there as soon as he gained access to the Internet. He’s not sure why.
He said he knows he attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago and Columbia University in New York.
His comfort zone is clearly Central European history and politics. He speaks easily and freely on the intricacies of the Habsburg monarchy and of Viennese art and architecture, his speech bouncing from English to German to French.
He said some of his few vivid memories are of specific professors he studied with. Specifically, he named William Berg, a professor of French and Italian literature at Wisconsin, and Istvan Deak, now a professor emeritus of European history at Columbia University in New York.
Jon Doe said he especially recalls delivering a slide-show lecture to Deak’s class at Columbia in about 1989. He said he spoke on the Vienna Secession, an early-20th century Austrian art movement that included artist Gustav Klimt.
But neither Berg nor Deak recognized Jon Doe when The Seattle Times e-mailed a photo to them this week. Deak sent the photo on to several former students from the era, but so far none of them has recognized him either. The Times also contacted professors at the University of Chicago, to no avail.
The Times, with the help of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in Madison, searched death records and university rolls from the 1980s for a woman named Tina who fit Jon Doe’s description.
Nothing matched.
“Exotic phenomenon”
Harrison Pope, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has spent 30 years studying amnesia, said the situation Jon Doe says he is experiencing is not unheard of. But it’s such a “rare and exotic phenomenon” that Pope has never personally met a patient who has total amnesia.
“The fact is, we don’t know what causes these rare cases,” he said. “There’s an awful lot we don’t know about the brain.”
Pope thinks the controversial notion of “repressed memories” — the subconscious blockage of traumatic events — is a myth. He said he suspects such cases have biological causes that science doesn’t understand yet.
And because of that, no one really knows how to help, Pope said.
Sometimes the memories just come back. Sometimes they don’t.
Jon Doe doesn’t know where he’ll go once he leaves the hospital. He doesn’t want to go to a homeless shelter, and private agencies have turned him away for lack of ID.
So for now, the man with the walrus mustache has been walking the hospital halls, reading books, doing jigsaw puzzles and waiting.
For what, he said he isn’t sure.
“One thing I’m afraid of if my memory comes back is, will I want it?” he said. “I’m still not sure how well I’ll be able to handle it.”
The blond-haired man with the walrus mustache wandered out of Seattle’s Discovery Park three weeks ago, with pressed khakis, an expensive dress shirt, a blue blazer and $600 hidden in his sock. He was uninjured — but said he was confused, lost and frightened.
This much is clear: He is fluent in English, French and German. He possesses a professorial knowledge of European cultural history. He seems to have traveled the world. And he says he is a widower.
But he said he doesn’t know who he is or when he was born. Or how he got here and why. Or whether he even wants to know.
His doctors at Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill campus said they don’t think he’s faking it, but they don’t really know how to help. The cops so far are stumped, too.
Today, the 50-something man with the white ID bracelet that says, simply, “Jon Doe,” is scheduled to be discharged from the hospital. But he has nowhere to go, while he waits and wonders if someone out there is missing him.
“I find myself in tears that I don’t know if I want the memories,” he said. “But if you don’t have an identity, it’s very difficult to survive.”
Jon Doe — he’s fine just being called Jon — said he awoke in the woods of Discovery Park on July 30, groggy, disoriented and dehydrated. He had no wallet, passport or day planner.
He flagged down a Metro bus driver, who called paramedics as it dawned on the man that he recalled only fragments of his life: glimpses of Shanghai during last year’s Beijing Olympics; college professors he said he knew decades ago in Wisconsin, Chicago and New York.
And, most troubling, memories of a 24-year-old wife named Tina, from Wisconsin. He seems certain he found her dead in their bed after she miscarried in early 1985 in Chicago.
His doctors aren’t sure what to make of him.
He seems intelligent, well-educated, articulate and polite and has a Midwestern inflection. The doctors said they find him neither too disturbed by his fate, nor too casual.
Generalized amnesia is considered extremely rare. But the doctors said they have checked his heart, his brain and his nervous system and have ruled out epilepsy, dementia and delirium. They also found no evidence of physical injury.
“We see this from time to time, and normally it turns out to be something else,” said Dr. Brian Larson, a psychiatrist affiliated with Swedish who has been attending to Jon Doe.
“We do see people who are feigning or exaggerating for their own reasons. But I was the third psychiatrist who saw him. And all of us have gotten a sense that he’s very genuine.”
Seattle police have taken Jon Doe’s fingerprints and sent his photograph to police and college organizations around the world. But so far there are no clues to his identity and nothing that suggests he is a criminal or crime victim, said Mark Jamieson, a police spokesman.
But detectives are still trying to find other leads, he said.
Not much help
Jon Doe has not been able to offer them much help.
“The background is extremely foggy,” he said. “There just isn’t much of anything there.”
He recalls little of his childhood or of his profession, he said. He is confident he has spent most of the past two decades abroad. He refers to himself as an “expat.” He knows street directions to the national library in Paris. He knows Vienna, and Googled a university hospital there as soon as he gained access to the Internet. He’s not sure why.
He said he knows he attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago and Columbia University in New York.
His comfort zone is clearly Central European history and politics. He speaks easily and freely on the intricacies of the Habsburg monarchy and of Viennese art and architecture, his speech bouncing from English to German to French.
He said some of his few vivid memories are of specific professors he studied with. Specifically, he named William Berg, a professor of French and Italian literature at Wisconsin, and Istvan Deak, now a professor emeritus of European history at Columbia University in New York.
Jon Doe said he especially recalls delivering a slide-show lecture to Deak’s class at Columbia in about 1989. He said he spoke on the Vienna Secession, an early-20th century Austrian art movement that included artist Gustav Klimt.
But neither Berg nor Deak recognized Jon Doe when The Seattle Times e-mailed a photo to them this week. Deak sent the photo on to several former students from the era, but so far none of them has recognized him either. The Times also contacted professors at the University of Chicago, to no avail.
The Times, with the help of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in Madison, searched death records and university rolls from the 1980s for a woman named Tina who fit Jon Doe’s description.
Nothing matched.
“Exotic phenomenon”
Harrison Pope, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has spent 30 years studying amnesia, said the situation Jon Doe says he is experiencing is not unheard of. But it’s such a “rare and exotic phenomenon” that Pope has never personally met a patient who has total amnesia.
“The fact is, we don’t know what causes these rare cases,” he said. “There’s an awful lot we don’t know about the brain.”
Pope thinks the controversial notion of “repressed memories” — the subconscious blockage of traumatic events — is a myth. He said he suspects such cases have biological causes that science doesn’t understand yet.
And because of that, no one really knows how to help, Pope said.
Sometimes the memories just come back. Sometimes they don’t.
Jon Doe doesn’t know where he’ll go once he leaves the hospital. He doesn’t want to go to a homeless shelter, and private agencies have turned him away for lack of ID.
So for now, the man with the walrus mustache has been walking the hospital halls, reading books, doing jigsaw puzzles and waiting.
For what, he said he isn’t sure.
“One thing I’m afraid of if my memory comes back is, will I want it?” he said. “I’m still not sure how well I’ll be able to handle it.”
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Twitter poster sued for defamation www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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CHARLOTTE, NC Aug 20 2009 (WBTV) – In a recent post on Twitter, a woman from Illinois made statements about having a moldy apartment, and she named her apartment complex in the “tweet”.
The complex management company said that wasn’t true and now she’s being sued for $50,000.
“Its called defamation. If you make a false statement concerning someone else and it tends to be defamatory which means there is contempt, scorn, or ridicule in the statement, you can be sued,” said Charlotte School of Law professor Beau Baez.
Baez says there are two things to remember in order to keep your postings online on the right side of the legal line.
Only one set of eyes, other than the person who is the subject of the posting, has to see that message to open you up to the potential for a lawsuit.
Second, if you re-tweet someone else’s defamatory tweet you could be in trouble too.
“We call those people repeaters. If you repeat a false statement you can be held liable just like the person who passed the initial information. The third and fourth person repeater are equally liable under defamation,” Baez said.
The complex management company said that wasn’t true and now she’s being sued for $50,000.
“Its called defamation. If you make a false statement concerning someone else and it tends to be defamatory which means there is contempt, scorn, or ridicule in the statement, you can be sued,” said Charlotte School of Law professor Beau Baez.
Baez says there are two things to remember in order to keep your postings online on the right side of the legal line.
Only one set of eyes, other than the person who is the subject of the posting, has to see that message to open you up to the potential for a lawsuit.
Second, if you re-tweet someone else’s defamatory tweet you could be in trouble too.
“We call those people repeaters. If you repeat a false statement you can be held liable just like the person who passed the initial information. The third and fourth person repeater are equally liable under defamation,” Baez said.
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Toddler dies in sweltering car, security officers questioned www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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AUSTIN TX AUG 20 2009
On the day a toddler was found dead inside a sweltering car, a woman had seen him and reported it to private security guards who unsuccessfully searched for the boy, Austin police confirmed Wednesday.
Austin police Lt. Mark Spangler said the woman saw 18-month-old Daniel Hu within 30 minutes of his father parking the car in a huge Northwest Austin lot last week and thought the infant was still alive.
She told guards about what she had seen, Spangler said, and they “made some effort” to find Daniel. Spangler said investigators are trying to learn what steps the guards took.
Daniel’s father, who has since told detectives that he “just totally forgot” to take his son to day care that morning, found him dead seven hours later.
“It was a missed opportunity,” Spangler said. “If everything had fallen into place, the child would have been located and we hope would be alive today.”
Kesen Hu, Daniel’s father, has been charged with endangering a child, a state jail felony for which he could receive two years behind bars. Prosecutors have said the charge and penalty could be increased because it involved a death.
Daniel died of hyperthermia, according to an arrest affidavit. The temperature in Austin that day was 82 at 9 a.m. at Camp Mabry and peaked at 104, according to the National Weather Service.
On the morning of Daniel’s death, Spangler said, the woman — whom he declined to identify — showed up for work about 30 minutes after Hu, who arrived at his PayPal job at 9:20 a.m. She parked next to Hu’s car.
She went inside her office building, where she alerted one of three guards about the infant. Spangler said he is unsure how, or if, the woman followed up.
“Whether she gave them locating information for her, and whether they did or didn’t get that, I don’t have any clue,” Spangler said. “She may have believed in her mind that she reported the incident and the child was being located.”
Spangler said he did not know where the woman works but said investigators have questioned her. The office complex has several businesses, including Freescale Semiconductor.
He said a guard who took information from the woman took steps to find the car. However, Spangler said he didn’t know the specifics.
“I am assuming that he looked to the best of his ability and didn’t see what was reported to him,” he said.
Spangler said detectives took statements from security guards on the day of the incident but have not formally interviewed them. He said he did not know the names of the companies for which they worked.
Austin police said they did not receive a 911 call about the incident before the child was found.
They are investigating whether a 911 call might have been routed to dispatchers in Williamson County. The parking lot is in the Austin police patrol area but in Williamson County.
Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, whose office has charged Hu, declined to comment Wednesday.
Jan Null, a meteorologist and adjunct professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University who has studied hyperthermia deaths in children, said it doesn’t take long for children left in a hot car to die. The length of time depends on the outside temperature, time of day, how the child is dressed, how well the child is hydrated and whether the car is in direct sunlight, he said.
Considering those variables, a child left in a car in the middle of the day in sunlight can die in less than 30 minutes or it can take up to an hour earlier in the day, Null said.
“I don’t want anyone to think, ‘Oh, I’ve got an hour,’ ” he said. ‘The screaming message is, never leave your child for any amount of time at any time of the day in the car.”
On the day a toddler was found dead inside a sweltering car, a woman had seen him and reported it to private security guards who unsuccessfully searched for the boy, Austin police confirmed Wednesday.
Austin police Lt. Mark Spangler said the woman saw 18-month-old Daniel Hu within 30 minutes of his father parking the car in a huge Northwest Austin lot last week and thought the infant was still alive.
She told guards about what she had seen, Spangler said, and they “made some effort” to find Daniel. Spangler said investigators are trying to learn what steps the guards took.
Daniel’s father, who has since told detectives that he “just totally forgot” to take his son to day care that morning, found him dead seven hours later.
“It was a missed opportunity,” Spangler said. “If everything had fallen into place, the child would have been located and we hope would be alive today.”
Kesen Hu, Daniel’s father, has been charged with endangering a child, a state jail felony for which he could receive two years behind bars. Prosecutors have said the charge and penalty could be increased because it involved a death.
Daniel died of hyperthermia, according to an arrest affidavit. The temperature in Austin that day was 82 at 9 a.m. at Camp Mabry and peaked at 104, according to the National Weather Service.
On the morning of Daniel’s death, Spangler said, the woman — whom he declined to identify — showed up for work about 30 minutes after Hu, who arrived at his PayPal job at 9:20 a.m. She parked next to Hu’s car.
She went inside her office building, where she alerted one of three guards about the infant. Spangler said he is unsure how, or if, the woman followed up.
“Whether she gave them locating information for her, and whether they did or didn’t get that, I don’t have any clue,” Spangler said. “She may have believed in her mind that she reported the incident and the child was being located.”
Spangler said he did not know where the woman works but said investigators have questioned her. The office complex has several businesses, including Freescale Semiconductor.
He said a guard who took information from the woman took steps to find the car. However, Spangler said he didn’t know the specifics.
“I am assuming that he looked to the best of his ability and didn’t see what was reported to him,” he said.
Spangler said detectives took statements from security guards on the day of the incident but have not formally interviewed them. He said he did not know the names of the companies for which they worked.
Austin police said they did not receive a 911 call about the incident before the child was found.
They are investigating whether a 911 call might have been routed to dispatchers in Williamson County. The parking lot is in the Austin police patrol area but in Williamson County.
Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, whose office has charged Hu, declined to comment Wednesday.
Jan Null, a meteorologist and adjunct professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University who has studied hyperthermia deaths in children, said it doesn’t take long for children left in a hot car to die. The length of time depends on the outside temperature, time of day, how the child is dressed, how well the child is hydrated and whether the car is in direct sunlight, he said.
Considering those variables, a child left in a car in the middle of the day in sunlight can die in less than 30 minutes or it can take up to an hour earlier in the day, Null said.
“I don’t want anyone to think, ‘Oh, I’ve got an hour,’ ” he said. ‘The screaming message is, never leave your child for any amount of time at any time of the day in the car.”
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Hill Air Force Base security nab man who crashed through checkpoints www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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Salt Lake City NV Aug 20 2009
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base’s south gate was closed temporarily Wednesday morning after an unauthorized person tried to enter the base.
Around 4:15 a.m., a man drove to the gate, where guards ask for base identification from all drivers.
The man didn’t produce any identification, said Rich Essary, spokesman for the 75th Air Base Wing. And when the guard asked the man to wait while he contacted his supervisor, the man tried to drive through the gate.
The guard activated restraining barricades, which rise up from the street to block fleeing vehicles, and the man’s SUV crashed into them.
The man left his car and escaped on foot, eventually jumping a fence to avoid being caught, Essary said.
Security forces began patrolling the base looking for the man and implemented security measures to protect assets, such as F-16s, which are kept on or near the flight line.
About 10 a.m., the man was spotted by a flight-line worker near the east side of the base. Security forces arrested the man and were still interviewing him as of 4 p.m., Essary said.
The south gate was closed for about three hours, and vehicles were rerouted through the base’s west, southwest and north gates, snarling traffic in Clearfield during the morning commute.
The man’s name has not been released, but Essary said security forces found various pieces of identification in his SUV.
The man is expected to be turned over to local law enforcement, Essary said.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base’s south gate was closed temporarily Wednesday morning after an unauthorized person tried to enter the base.
Around 4:15 a.m., a man drove to the gate, where guards ask for base identification from all drivers.
The man didn’t produce any identification, said Rich Essary, spokesman for the 75th Air Base Wing. And when the guard asked the man to wait while he contacted his supervisor, the man tried to drive through the gate.
The guard activated restraining barricades, which rise up from the street to block fleeing vehicles, and the man’s SUV crashed into them.
The man left his car and escaped on foot, eventually jumping a fence to avoid being caught, Essary said.
Security forces began patrolling the base looking for the man and implemented security measures to protect assets, such as F-16s, which are kept on or near the flight line.
About 10 a.m., the man was spotted by a flight-line worker near the east side of the base. Security forces arrested the man and were still interviewing him as of 4 p.m., Essary said.
The south gate was closed for about three hours, and vehicles were rerouted through the base’s west, southwest and north gates, snarling traffic in Clearfield during the morning commute.
The man’s name has not been released, but Essary said security forces found various pieces of identification in his SUV.
The man is expected to be turned over to local law enforcement, Essary said.
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Gunman storm teacher’s lounge at elementary school www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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Moreno Valley CA. Aug 20 2009
Education officials plan to re-evaluate security procedures after a gunman stormed a teacher’s lounge at a Moreno Valley elementary school early Wednesday morning and robbed three teachers.
Officials want to enhance security procedures, including adding security patrols and closing certain access points to schools, said Superintendent Rowena Lagrosa, of the Moreno Valley Unified School District.
Box Springs Elementary School Principal Sam Stager said the man entered the open-access campus at 6:50 a.m., before students arrived. The man got into the teacher’s lounge from a side or rear entrance where he robbed the teachers at gunpoint, demanding their purses, Stager said.
The women gave him their purses and he ran off the campus carrying a small handgun.
No one was injured and no arrests had been made as of Wednesday evening.
Police are not sure if he ran through the neighborhood or to a waiting car on Athens Drive, which runs past the school and homes, Stager said.
Moreno Valley police officers arrived within minutes after a school custodian called them but the suspect had already fled.
The three teachers were sent home for the day; substitutes took their places. The school district’s crisis management counseling team was also called to the campus, Lagrosa said.
Parents were notified of the incident through an automated call system, Lagrosa said. Students were not told of the robbery and continued their normal school day.
“It’s terrifying. We’re a very close-knit community and school,” Lagrosa said. “We’re just in disbelief that this could happen. We want this to be a safe haven for our students and staff.”
The Moreno Valley Educators Association was unavailable for comment.
Moreno Valley’s elementary schools have a private security firm that patrols the area after hours until 6:30 a.m. One school resource officer patrols each of the district’s middle schools and each high school has a full-time Moreno Valley police officer on campus.
Education officials plan to re-evaluate security procedures after a gunman stormed a teacher’s lounge at a Moreno Valley elementary school early Wednesday morning and robbed three teachers.
Officials want to enhance security procedures, including adding security patrols and closing certain access points to schools, said Superintendent Rowena Lagrosa, of the Moreno Valley Unified School District.
Box Springs Elementary School Principal Sam Stager said the man entered the open-access campus at 6:50 a.m., before students arrived. The man got into the teacher’s lounge from a side or rear entrance where he robbed the teachers at gunpoint, demanding their purses, Stager said.
The women gave him their purses and he ran off the campus carrying a small handgun.
No one was injured and no arrests had been made as of Wednesday evening.
Police are not sure if he ran through the neighborhood or to a waiting car on Athens Drive, which runs past the school and homes, Stager said.
Moreno Valley police officers arrived within minutes after a school custodian called them but the suspect had already fled.
The three teachers were sent home for the day; substitutes took their places. The school district’s crisis management counseling team was also called to the campus, Lagrosa said.
Parents were notified of the incident through an automated call system, Lagrosa said. Students were not told of the robbery and continued their normal school day.
“It’s terrifying. We’re a very close-knit community and school,” Lagrosa said. “We’re just in disbelief that this could happen. We want this to be a safe haven for our students and staff.”
The Moreno Valley Educators Association was unavailable for comment.
Moreno Valley’s elementary schools have a private security firm that patrols the area after hours until 6:30 a.m. One school resource officer patrols each of the district’s middle schools and each high school has a full-time Moreno Valley police officer on campus.
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OFFICER DOWN- Tampa officer killed www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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TAMPA FLA AUG 20 2009 – An arrest has been made in late Wednesday’s shooting death of Tampa police Cpl. Mike Roberts.
Humberto Delgado, 34, who gave his address as 324 Country Club Drive in Oldsmar, was arrested and charged shortly before 5 a.m. today with first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer and carrying a concealed firearm.
Roberts, 38, was an 11-year veteran of the Tampa Police Department. He recently had been promoted from the department’s K-9 unit and just Wednesday took a position with the hit-and-run squad, where he was on track to become a detective.
The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Wednesday, when Roberts responded to a report of a suspicious man pushing a shopping cart full of items near Nebraska Avenue and Arctic Street. There have been several burglaries in that area, police said.
Police said a fight ensued after Roberts confronted the man and tried to use his Taser.
Delgado ran across the road and Roberts tackled him, police said. Delgado pulled out a pistol and hit Roberts on the head, police said.
Delgado then shot Roberts, police said. Roberts was wearing a protective vest, but the bullet went through an exposed area under his arm. Delgado ran back to the shopping cart and grabbed a canvas bag as another officer arrived. Delgado pulled an AR-15 assault rifle from the bag and aimed it at the second officer, police said. Delgado then fled while the officer stayed to assist Roberts, police said.
Hillsborough Fire Rescue paramedics worked on Roberts, but he died about an hour later at Tampa General Hospital.
As word of the shooting spread, dozens of officers, police Chief Steve Hogue and Mayor Pam Iorio gathered at the hospital late Wednesday.
“It’s a tragic day in Tampa today,”‘ an emotional Hogue said early today outside the hospital. “We’ve lost a veteran police officer.”
Roberts is survived by his wife and 3-year-old son. Police said he won a lifesaving award in 2005 and had received dozens of letters of appreciation from citizens. He had also served in the Air Force and Army.
“May his son grow up knowing that his father was our hero,” Iorio said in statement this morning.
The mayor offered condolences and prayers to Roberts’ wife, son and extended family and the family of the Tampa Police Department.
“Corporal Roberts served as an example of the outstanding commitment and dedication of our police force,” Iorio’s statement said.
Roberts was known for his sense of humor and practical jokes that could make anyone smile, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. He was also a goalie for the Tampa Police Department hockey team.
“We’ve got 50 police officers crying right now,”‘ Hogue said.
“He was the best, and that’s what we lost tonight,” Iorio said at the hospital.
A police dog tracked Delgado to the backyard of a nearby residence on Yukon Street. He had three pistols and the rifle on him when arrested, police said. The shopping cart contained military-type gear and numerous ammunition magazines for the guns. The man had a receipt saying the guns were purchased in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Hogue said the call started out routine – a suspicious person – and quickly turned dangerous.
“This is the nature of police work,”‘ Hogue said.
A woman who lives near the scene said she heard a popping sound shortly after 10 p.m. She then heard an officer on an intercom shouting, “Backup, backup, backup.”
“There were a whole bunch of cops immediately,” said the woman, who would identify herself only as C. Williams.
Williams said she had moved to the area only a few months ago. “It makes me want to pack and move,” she said.
Tampa police say they investigated six homicides in the first six months of this year. Roberts’ death marks the seventh slaying since July.
Humberto Delgado, 34, who gave his address as 324 Country Club Drive in Oldsmar, was arrested and charged shortly before 5 a.m. today with first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer and carrying a concealed firearm.
Roberts, 38, was an 11-year veteran of the Tampa Police Department. He recently had been promoted from the department’s K-9 unit and just Wednesday took a position with the hit-and-run squad, where he was on track to become a detective.
The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Wednesday, when Roberts responded to a report of a suspicious man pushing a shopping cart full of items near Nebraska Avenue and Arctic Street. There have been several burglaries in that area, police said.
Police said a fight ensued after Roberts confronted the man and tried to use his Taser.
Delgado ran across the road and Roberts tackled him, police said. Delgado pulled out a pistol and hit Roberts on the head, police said.
Delgado then shot Roberts, police said. Roberts was wearing a protective vest, but the bullet went through an exposed area under his arm. Delgado ran back to the shopping cart and grabbed a canvas bag as another officer arrived. Delgado pulled an AR-15 assault rifle from the bag and aimed it at the second officer, police said. Delgado then fled while the officer stayed to assist Roberts, police said.
Hillsborough Fire Rescue paramedics worked on Roberts, but he died about an hour later at Tampa General Hospital.
As word of the shooting spread, dozens of officers, police Chief Steve Hogue and Mayor Pam Iorio gathered at the hospital late Wednesday.
“It’s a tragic day in Tampa today,”‘ an emotional Hogue said early today outside the hospital. “We’ve lost a veteran police officer.”
Roberts is survived by his wife and 3-year-old son. Police said he won a lifesaving award in 2005 and had received dozens of letters of appreciation from citizens. He had also served in the Air Force and Army.
“May his son grow up knowing that his father was our hero,” Iorio said in statement this morning.
The mayor offered condolences and prayers to Roberts’ wife, son and extended family and the family of the Tampa Police Department.
“Corporal Roberts served as an example of the outstanding commitment and dedication of our police force,” Iorio’s statement said.
Roberts was known for his sense of humor and practical jokes that could make anyone smile, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. He was also a goalie for the Tampa Police Department hockey team.
“We’ve got 50 police officers crying right now,”‘ Hogue said.
“He was the best, and that’s what we lost tonight,” Iorio said at the hospital.
A police dog tracked Delgado to the backyard of a nearby residence on Yukon Street. He had three pistols and the rifle on him when arrested, police said. The shopping cart contained military-type gear and numerous ammunition magazines for the guns. The man had a receipt saying the guns were purchased in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Hogue said the call started out routine – a suspicious person – and quickly turned dangerous.
“This is the nature of police work,”‘ Hogue said.
A woman who lives near the scene said she heard a popping sound shortly after 10 p.m. She then heard an officer on an intercom shouting, “Backup, backup, backup.”
“There were a whole bunch of cops immediately,” said the woman, who would identify herself only as C. Williams.
Williams said she had moved to the area only a few months ago. “It makes me want to pack and move,” she said.
Tampa police say they investigated six homicides in the first six months of this year. Roberts’ death marks the seventh slaying since July.
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Target security agent’s alertness ends counterfeit scheme www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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Henry County GA Aug 20 2009
WSB Radio) Henry County Police have arrested four people they believe were involved in writing counterfeit checks from Atlanta to Warner Robins.
Captain Jason Bolton tells WSB a security guard at the Target on Jonesboro Road showed a police officer surveillance tape showing a man passing a counterfeit check to buy electronics.
“The detective then started checking some of the surrounding businesses, went across the street to the Best Buy, where he actually observed that same suspect at the counter fixing to pass another counterfeit check for some electronics there,” said Bolton.
When he confronted 19-year-old Sabir Grant of Warner Robins, they got into a scuffle. A McDonough police officer who was in the area arrested him.
They soon realized that three other men, who worked with Grant were in the area and they were arrested.
“It looks like all four of them were involved in a counterfeit check ring. Over the course of the last month, they had been purchasing items at different stores from Atlanta all the way to Warner Robins with these counterfeit checks,” said Bolton.
Police believe Grant, along with 22-year-old Eric Simmons of Snellville, 24-year-old Abdoul Diomande of Acworth, and 26-year-old Brandon Wyatt of Sandy Springs, hit various stores including Target, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, and CVS.
WSB Radio) Henry County Police have arrested four people they believe were involved in writing counterfeit checks from Atlanta to Warner Robins.
Captain Jason Bolton tells WSB a security guard at the Target on Jonesboro Road showed a police officer surveillance tape showing a man passing a counterfeit check to buy electronics.
“The detective then started checking some of the surrounding businesses, went across the street to the Best Buy, where he actually observed that same suspect at the counter fixing to pass another counterfeit check for some electronics there,” said Bolton.
When he confronted 19-year-old Sabir Grant of Warner Robins, they got into a scuffle. A McDonough police officer who was in the area arrested him.
They soon realized that three other men, who worked with Grant were in the area and they were arrested.
“It looks like all four of them were involved in a counterfeit check ring. Over the course of the last month, they had been purchasing items at different stores from Atlanta all the way to Warner Robins with these counterfeit checks,” said Bolton.
Police believe Grant, along with 22-year-old Eric Simmons of Snellville, 24-year-old Abdoul Diomande of Acworth, and 26-year-old Brandon Wyatt of Sandy Springs, hit various stores including Target, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, and CVS.
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TX. police officer commits suicide after kidnapping ex-girlfriend www.privateofficer.com
August 20, 2009
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BROOKSHIRE TX Aug 20 2009— Officials say a police officer who kidnapped his ex-girlfriend has committed suicide.
The officer, with the Katy school district freed his estranged girlfriend Wednesday evening and apparently shot and killed himself.
Police had been negotiating with Julio Reyes, 38, since about 2 p.m. Wednesday. He was accused of abducting Rachel Hillsman, 24, also a Katy officer, and had barricaded himself in a home.
Investigators say Reyes abducted Hillsman in front of her two young children Tuesday morning in Brookshire, a small town about 37 miles west of Houston.
Shortly after Hillsman’s abduction, officials launched a statewide manhunt and established roadblocks in the Brookshire area.
The officer, with the Katy school district freed his estranged girlfriend Wednesday evening and apparently shot and killed himself.
Police had been negotiating with Julio Reyes, 38, since about 2 p.m. Wednesday. He was accused of abducting Rachel Hillsman, 24, also a Katy officer, and had barricaded himself in a home.
Investigators say Reyes abducted Hillsman in front of her two young children Tuesday morning in Brookshire, a small town about 37 miles west of Houston.
Shortly after Hillsman’s abduction, officials launched a statewide manhunt and established roadblocks in the Brookshire area.
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