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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Houston TX OCT 31 2009 chron.com A moonlighting deputy constable was hailed for cool competence Friday for his apprehension of an armed career criminal, who minutes earlier, authorities said, seriously wounded a young doctor during a robbery in a supermarket parking lot. Injured in the 6:35 p.m. Thursday incident at the Kroger at 1990 Old [...]

Fairbanks AK OCT 31 2009 A 24-year-old man who assaulted and disarmed a security guard outside the federal building in Fairbanks has pleaded guilty to felony assault The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that Jarrid Bloom faces a minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison for using a handgun during a violent crime. He pleaded [...]

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Minneapolis MN Oct 31 2009 Amy Klinefelter was sitting down to a night on the computer and some TV Sunday evening when thumps emanating from her basement caught her off guard. Her roommate, Jim Stewart, was downstairs with his American bulldog, watching TV as usual. When Klinefelter went to investigate, she found the 120-pound dog, [...]

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ASCENSION PARISH, LA Oct 30 2009 (WAFB) – A security guard at Motiva is accused of stealing gift cards meant for plant employees. Jake Vanner, Jr. was arrested October 15th and charged with felony theft. According to reports, the Ascension Parish offices of Motiva were burglarized and several Academy Sports gift cards were taken. The [...]

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL OCT 30 2009–West Palm Beach Police have arrested a man whom they say escaped from a mental facility at St. Mary’s Medical Center and stole a security guard’s golf cart as his getaway vehicle. According to investigators, Timothy Gregory punched a 59-year-old female security guard in the face and ‘carjacked’ the [...]

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BURBANK, Calif. Oct 30 2009 — A police sergeant who was being investigated in an FBI probe into police misconduct has committed suicide on the corner of a Southern California residential street. The Burbank Police Department said that 50-year old Neil T. Gunn, a 22-year veteran with the department, was found dead around 11:40 a.m. [...]

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FAIRBURN, Ga. Oct 30 2009 — Jacqueline Connally, a former Fulton County school bus driver, remained in jail Thursday, accused of having sex with a student who rode her bus. Police arrested Connally, 22, at her apartment in Union City on charges of misdemeanor sexual assault, but overnight the charge was upgraded to felony sexual [...]

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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. Oct 30 2009 — Police said a love letter on the social networking web site Facebook sparked an on-campus, profanity-laced fight between two teachers at Rex Hill Middle School in Rex. The altercation allegedly got so out of hand, an officer ended up arresting both instructors. Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom [...]

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Birmingham AL Oct 29 2009  Larry Langford, Birmingham’s mayor and a former Jefferson County commissioner, has been found guilty in his federal bribery trial. Langford, who is 61 or 63, was found guilty of taking about $236,000 in cash and gifts from Montgomery investment banker Bill Blount and lobbyist Al LaPierre. Both pleaded guilty in [...]

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Powhatan VA Oct 29 2009 Five Virginia Department of Corrections officers have been charged with animal cruelty involving the fondling of a K-9 dog and videotaping the two incidents. All five officers were training at the Academy for Staff Development in Goochland County to become K-9 handlers. They were charged across the James River in [...]

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New York City NY Oct 29 2009 A security person who tossed troublemakers from a popular Washington Heights hangout was stabbed to death early Tuesday, police said. Arsene Epouta was knifed in the chest after jumping in the middle of a fight at La Casa del Mofongo. “Our security guard tried to break up the [...]

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COLUMBIA, Mo. Oct 29 2009 — A Boone County jury found Jeffrey Bolden guilty of second-degree murder and second-degree assault on Wednesday night. Prosecutors convinced the jury that Bolden caused the death of Cox North hospital security officer Monte Ruby of Springfield in August 2008. He also assaulted another emergency worker on the same day. [...]

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STUART, Fla Oct 29 2009 — A former Pasco County school teacher was arrested after he showed his genitalia to an undercover sheriff’s detective posing as a 14-year-old girl on an Internet chat room, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said Monday Joel Cupp, 31, of New Port Richey, was arrested on a charge of lewd [...]

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COLUMBIA, SC Oct 29 2009 (WIS) – A former South Carolina legislator has been fired from the state attorney general’s office after authorities say he was discovered in a cemetery with a teenage stripper during his lunch break. Police reports released Wednesday said 66-year-old Roland Corning was stopped Monday after his car was spotted in [...]

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Sioux Falls SD Oct 29 2009 A Sioux Falls man was arrested early Sunday morning after posing as a security guard at a local restaurant in order to grope a guest. Sergio Fabian Arevalo-Velasquez, 25, met a 21-year-old at the door of El Paraiso Restaurant at 2401 E. 10th St. and told her he was [...]

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Palm Beach Fla Oct 29 2009 When a Tri-Rail passenger missed the last train at the Lake Worth station, a security guard offered to give her a ride to a station in Fort Lauderdale. Instead, she told police, the guard assaulted her. Peter Alan Crumb, 40, of The Acreage, was booked Tuesday evening into the [...]

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WEST JORDAN Utah Oct 29 2009 — A former teacher’s assistant accused of having sexual intercourse with two 15-year-old students was arrested this week. Andrea Billingsley, 31, was picked up at her home Tuesday and arrested on suspicion of forcible sexual abuse, forcible sodomy and distributing pornographic materials to minors, said West Jordan police officer [...]

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NEWPORT TN Oct 29 2009 (WATE) — Five people have been arrested in a large counterfeit bust in Cocke County. Two suspects were arrested initially: • Charles Wayne Sprouse, 30, of Del Rio • Joie Warren, 36, of Del Rio Sprouse and Warren are facing a total of 374 federal counts of criminal simulation. Three [...]

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SALYERSVILLE, Ky. Oct 29 2009 (AP) — Police say a teacher at North Magoffin Elementary School has been arrested on drug trafficking charges. Darrell B. Patrick, 46, of Salyersville, was arrested Tuesday on six counts of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. A news release from Operation UNITE, an anti-drug initiative, says investigators conducted an [...]

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Tucson AZ Oct 29 2009 A former security guard has decided to let Pima County Superior Court Judge Christopher Browning decide if he was legally prohibited from carrying the gun he used to shoot and paralyze a suspected shoplifter. Joshua Kosatschenko and Nicholas Kagas were working security at a south-side convenience store last June when [...]

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DEER PARK NY Oct 29 2009 – Suffolk County Police are investigating the shooting death of a Bay Shore man who beat and attempted to rob an off-duty police officer early Tuesday morning. An off-duty Nassau County detective was attacked by two men who tried to rob him while he was at a 24-hour car [...]

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Nassau NY Oct 29 2009 A Hicksville man was arrested Tuesday night after he sneaked into an employee-only area of Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola and stole a wallet from a woman’s purse, Nassau police said. A witness saw the suspect, Frank J. Adams, 23, of 230 Nevada St., take the wallet, which held cash and [...]

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Greely CO. Oct 29 2009 Alcohol, football and a handgun apparently do not mix any better than drinking and driving. The trio put Greeley resident Timothy Pollard, 37, behind bars under a $100,000 bond on Sunday, facing felony charges of attempted manslaughter and second-degree assault after his friend was shot in the head at his [...]

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HOUSTON TX Oct 28 2009 (KTRK) — A security guard shot a burglar hiding in the backseat of his truck in southwest Houston. The shooting happened around 2am on Clarewood and Alder in southwest Houston. Security guard Miguel Amaya was on his way to work overnight when he heard a noise. He slammed on the [...]

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Homewood IL Oct 28 2009 A dean’s assistant who works security at Homewood-Flossmoor High School is improving and due to be released from the hospital in a few days after being struck by a vehicle Friday morning in a parking lot at the high school, a high school spokesman said. Brad Deegan, 49, of Homewood, [...]

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Oct 28 2009 (AP) — A former security officer at Erlanger Medical Center has been sentenced to 10 years and five months in federal prison for using computers at the hospital’s medical complex to receive images of child pornography. Kent Preston Gilley of Trenton, Ga., a former policeman in northeast Alabama, was sentenced [...]

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Oct 27 2009– A 19-year-old Fort Lauderdale man was arrested after allegedly fondling a woman in the wave pool at Walt Disney World’s Typhoon Lagoon. Investigators say the 30-year-old victim at first thought it was an accident when she felt someone grab her bikini and touch her. She began yelling and [...]

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DOTHAN, Ala. Oct 28 2009 (AP) — A Midland City woman has been charged with stealing more than $4,000 from the Parent Teacher Association chapter where she was president. The Dothan Eagle reports Tuesday that Dale County Sheriff’s investigators have charged 35-year-old Brandace M. Albritton with theft of property in the first degree. The sheriff’s [...]

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Boston MA Oct 28 2009 A burly mental patient bent on hacking his doctor to death was shot dead by a quick-thinking, off-duty security guard who encountered the crazed man stabbing the shrink in a gruesome attack at a Massachusetts General Hospital clinic yesterday, police said. Police identified the attacker as Jay Carciero, 37, of [...]

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ESSEX, Md. Oct 27 2009 — A Baltimore city police officer delivered the fright of a lifetime to a haunted house employee, pulling a gun on the chain-saw-wielding man at the end of his act, authorities said Monday. Sgt. Eric Janik, 37, was charged with assault and reckless endangerment for pointing his service handgun at [...]

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