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Monthly Archives: August 2009

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla.Aug 4 2009 (WSVN) –  Police are still searching for one of those accused of killing a security guard after a dash and crash following a weekend robbery at Aventura Mall. Monday afternoon, police announced they are searching for a woman involved in the death of 40-year-old Emily Anderson and the severe [...]

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LAKELAND FLA Aug 3 209- Attend a baseball game at Joker Marchant Stadium and there’s a good chance you might run into Bernard Greenhoe, one of the Detroit organization’s MVPs. But this Tiger doesn’t take the field. He’s 85 and makes his impact with a warm greeting, a good story and a tireless work ethic. [...]

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. Aug 3 2009 — A veteran volunteer security guard for two professional soccer teams in Santa Clara has been charged with sex crimes involving a child, the district attorney’s office announced today. Thomas Anderson, 75, of San Jose, was arraigned Wednesday on eight counts of lewd or lascivious act on a child [...]

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Tucson AZ Aug 3 2009 A man who was shot by an off-duty police officer at the Tucson Mall was suspected of stealing several hundred dollars worth of clothing. The man and two others were walking out of Sears Thursday around 4:30 p.m. when they were confronted by a Tucson police officer who was working [...]

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BROOMFIELD, Colo. Aug 3 2009 (CBS4) Police in Broomfield are looking for two men who robbed a Best Buy store and attacked an employee. It happened Saturday afternoon at the Best Buy at Flatiron Crossing. Police say the men took two hard drives. A security guard tried to tackle them, but fell and scraped his [...]

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Mobile AL Aug 3 2009 An 81-year-old woman with a self-described incontinence problem awaits trial on a charge of public lewdness after Mobile police arrested her for urinating in the bushes in Bienville Square. Police said that they’ve been tightening enforcement in the downtown square in response to complaints, but Lula Mae Battle’s lawyer said [...]

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Auroa IL Aug 3 2009 A 55-year-old security officer at the Premium Outlets Mall, 1650 Premium Outlet Boulevard in Aurora, was pepper-sprayed while trying to stop a shoplifting suspect about 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The suspect, described as a 5-foot 2-inch black woman with black hair and brown eyes, left a store with about $2,400 worth [...]

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Council Bluffs IA Aug 3 2009 Council Bluffs Police are looking for the men who forced their way into the Mall of the Bluffs overnight, and broke into several stores. But investigators may not have a lot to go on. Bluffs officers arrived on the scene during the early morning hours of Sunday, August 2nd. [...]

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PALM DESERT CA Aug 3 2009 – Seven people were arrested in connection with a fight in a bar of the JW Marriott-Desert Springs Resort in Palm Desert, police said Monday. The disturbance in the 74800 block of Country Club Drive was reported at 11:29 p.m. Saturday, police said. Two groups of males were arguing [...]

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Jasper AL Aug 2 2009 A Walker County man who shot up a bingo hall Saturday night while robbing the place was shot and killed by a security guard, according to the Walker County sheriff. William G. Cantrell Jr., 43, was declared dead at the scene after he was shot multiple times by a security [...]

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SEATTLE WA Aug 2 2009 — A bouncer was wounded in the hand by a man who had just been thrown out of a Seattle club. Police say two men were kicked out of the Cooper Cart Cafe early Friday for being disruptive. One angry man threatened to get a gun and shoot up the [...]

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Houston TX Aug 2 2009 A Houston police officer fatally shot a man in Kingwood Saturday night after the suspect grabbed the patrolman’s Taser, pointed it at the officer and threatened to shoot him with it, authorities said. Officer R. Gardiner, who has worked for the department for seven years and patrols the northeast side, [...]

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Chicago IL Aug 2 2009 No, that suspicious package found outside Oprah Winfrey’s studio wasn’t her lunch. Thankfully, it wasn’t a bomb either. At approximately 6:20 a.m. local time, a security guard at Harpo Productions Inc. in Chicago found a dark-colored backpack resting in a flowerbed just outside the studio. Ominous wires were said to [...]

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CHESTERFIELD VA Aug 2 2009- The American Security Group LLC is now offering a $1,000 dollar reward in connection with the murder of one of its security guards. That’s in addition to another $1,000 reward being offered by Chesterfield Crime Stoppers for tips leading to an arrest. The body of 28 year old Damion West [...]

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LODI CA AUG 2 2009 A Lodi High School social science teacher was arrested Thursday afternoon on suspicion he started a relationship with a student three years ago. Andrew Krienke, 35, allegedly began dating his now 20-year-old girlfriend when she was as student at Lodi High in 2006, Lodi Police Lt. Chris Piombo said. Police [...]

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CHICAGO IL Aug 2 2009 A flight attendant says a McDonald’s security guard smashed his hamburger, threw it in the trash, called him a “f—ing homo,” dragged him outside and beat him up. Eugene Taylor says that as he tried to eat at a McDonald’s, a security guard named Sterling, who claimed to be a [...]

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Nashville TN Aug 2 2009 A state appeals court has overturned a Madison County Circuit Court decision on a lawsuit filed against a security company by a woman who was abducted from the parking lot at Old Hickory Mall in 2004. The suit, filed by Maggie Barron against Emerson Russell Maintenance Co., will go to [...]

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Whittier CA Aug 2 2009 A thief broke into seven cars early Friday morning but left most of his loot behind when a security guard interrupted his crime spree. Sheriff’s Lt. Jenny Ha said the suspect, who took stereos and personal items, got away. The incident happened at 2:50 a.m. Friday in the 16000 block [...]

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Rochester MN Aug 2 2009 Two customers at a hotel in downtown Rochester have a temporary new home: The Olmsted County jail. Police Lt. Dan Muyres said the two men, ages 27 and 40, had been staying at the Hilton Garden Hotel at 150 S. Broadway until early today. That is when they were arrested, [...]

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Atlanta GA Aug 2 2009 By the time the sun was up Saturday, Atlanta police and officers from five other agencies had arrested 159 people in a series of sweeps a little more than 24 hours after the mayor and chief promised to address seemingly out-of-control crime. APD officials insisted the region-wide sweeps were planned [...]

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BULLSKIN TWP. PA Aug 2 2009- In what some officials were calling one of the most significant drug busts in Fayette County history, four teams of law enforcement officers raided the Church of Universal Love and Music in Bullskin Township Saturday. During a weekend event dubbed “Funk Fest” at the eccentric and eclectic church, multiple [...]

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