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Hoover Dam security nab murder suspects www.privateofficer.com
Hoover Dam security officers found Chester walking along U.S. 93 into Nevada from Arizona and detained him. After running a background check, the guards found an outstanding arrest warrant for the murder of Chester’s parents. Metro Homicide detectives were called and he was arrested.
Chester has been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on two counts of murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, one count of robbery with a deadly weapon and one count of burglary with a deadly weapon. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday.
Hoover Dam Police say Chester was walking toward the dam from the Arizona side of the border. “He wasn’t carrying any additional items with him at all. He seemed very tired, like he had been up all night, and when our officers encountered him he was a little evasive in his questions,” said Chief Anthony Losito with the Hoover Dam Police.
He was allowed to continue walking but officers kept a close eye on him. “He started exhibiting traits of people who might want to take their life at the top of the dam,” said Chief Losito.
He was stopped when he started heading toward a large cliff.
Chester’s friend, 18-year-old Victor Veliz, was arrested Wednesday night. Veliz is facing the same charges as Chester. Police say he was the triggerman in the murder of his friend’s parents.
Read Victor Veliz’s Arrest Report
Police have been searching for Veliz and Chester since the murder was discovered Wednesday afternoon at the Chester’s home in Heritage Village Mobile Home Park near Boulder Highway and Mojave. The couple’s adult daughter called 911 saying she came home and found her parents dead.
Chester was arguing with his parents before the murder, police said. According to the arrest report, Timothy “had talked about killing his parents in the past including wanting to stab his mother.” After the argument, police say Chester went to Veliz’s home and the two returned to the parent’s home.
The report says Chester handed Veliz a gun and Veliz shot the couple.
Veliz’s mother contacted police Wednesday night and told them that her son had committed a double murder. Police went to his house and Veliz surrendered peacefully.
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Arkansas teacher charged in sexual assault of student www.privateofficer.com
The teacher is Timmothy Minton; he has worked for the district for 11 years. The incidents allegedly happened in 2004 with a male student.
Pulaski County Sheriff’s Deputies received an anonymous letter earlier this month with allegation of sexual abuse, pointing the finger at Mills High School Teacher Timmothy Minton.
John Rehrauer with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department says, “We believed from reading the letter that it was from a former student and that turned out to be true.”
Rehrauer says investigators interviewed the former student Tuesday and gained enough information to arrest Minton Wednesday. Rehrauer says the student admits the sexual encounters were consensual, but because he was a minor under the influence of a teacher it’s a criminal offense.
“He has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in the first degree,” Rehrauer adds.
The former student who came forward and signed an affidavit for the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department alleges all the sexual encounters happened after school in a classroom.
Rob McGill with the Pulaski County Special School District explains, “At this point the allegations are alleged. The teacher will be on leave until the investigation is complete and at that point we’ll make decision on what’s appropriate and we want to make sure the teacher has due process.”
McGill legally can’t talk about an ongoing personnel investigation but says he takes the allegation seriously. He continues, “We’re also conducting an internal investigation concerning the allegations. Once all the facts are known then we will make decisions. Our first priority was to ensure protection of the students.”
Rehrauer says they’ve made contact with more possible victims. He says, “If there are other victims out there who believe they’ve been victims, certainly we want to talk to them.”
Police say Minton refused to make a statement during his arrest. If more students come forward more charges can be added. The student who made the initial report now lives in California.
Minton is being held at the Pulaski County jail on $140,000 bond. He will appear before a judge Thursday morning.
Rehrauer says the drug allegations are not part of the Sheriff’s investigation.
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Armed guard pulls gun in possible road rage www.privateofficer.com
A security guard servicing ATM machines with a quantity of cash in his van pulled a handgun on Tuesday when a motorist approached him at a red light on Ind. 49 to complain about his driving, Chesterton Police said.
According to police, at 10:25 a.m. a Porter motorist was northbound on Ind. 49, approaching East Porter Ave., when the security guard passed him on the right and cut him off, making a quick lane change to get in front. When both vehicles stopped for a red light at East Porter Ave., the motorist exited his vehicle, walked up to the security guard’s van, and asked the guard “what his problem was.” At that point, the motorist advised police, the security guard point a handgun at him.
The motorist yelled to his wife to call 911, returned to his vehicle, and then followed the security guard north on Ind. 49, west on East Oak Hill Road, south on Chalemel Drive, west on Mississinewa Street, north on Morningside Drive, then east on East Oak Hill Road back to Ind. 49, where units from the CPD and Porter Police Department pulled over the two vehicles at Fairhaven Baptist Church.
A loudspeaker was used to order the security guard and his passenger, another security guard—both of them in uniforms—to exit the van, where they were disarmed.
The security guard then gave police this account of events. When stopped at the red light at Ind. 49 and East Porter Ave., the motorist walked up to his van on the driver’s side and began pounding on the window. The security guard yelled at the motorist to step away from the van but the motorist would not “so he held up his pistol in his palm to show (the motorist) he was armed,” police said. When the light turned green, the security guard advised, he left the scene but the motorist continued to follow him until police officers stopped both vehicles.
The security guard added that “he was worried that someone else might have been walking up on the van at the same time as (the motorist) in a robbery attempt” since “he and his partner had a large sum of money in the van at the time of the incident,” police said. “He said he never pointed his handgun at (the motorist) but that he only showed it to him in hopes of getting him away from the van.”
The Porter County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office instructed police to secure statements from both men and to forward the report for review.
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EEOC files suit against U.S. Security Associates www.privateofficer.com
In its suit, the EEOC alleges that security guard Margaret Gibson was subjected to unwarranted discipline, mistreatment, and sexist comments after informing her manager that she was pregnant. Gibson’s manager allegedly commented that a pregnant woman should be at home, not at work, and that Gibson’s focus should be on her children. The manager also complained about Gibson’s pregnant appearance in the guard uniform. Additionally, the EEOC says the manager retaliated against Gibson by firing her for complaining about discrimination. The termination occurred on the same day she turned in her paperwork for maternity leave.
The EEOC also contends that Margaret Gibson’s husband and coworker, Chris Gibson, was fired approximately three weeks later because of his association with his wife. Chris Gibson was terminated after the company allegedly warned him that he would not receive any more job assignments if he could not prevent his wife from pursuing discrimination claims.
Both pregnancy discrimination and retaliation violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. The EEOC filed this suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The federal agency seeks back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for the Gibsons, as well as injunctive relief designed to prevent such discrimination and retaliation in the future.
“In this case, the employer did not recognize and respect the employee’s right to work in spite of her pregnancy status,” said Robert Dawkins, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Atlanta District Office. “There is strong evidence that the manager viewed Ms. Gibson’s pregnancy and childcare responsibilities as problematic. The EEOC will vigorously seek protection of female workers’ right to be free of pregnancy discrimination, as well as the employment rights of individuals who associate with pregnant workers.”
According to the company’s web site, U.S. Security Associates employs approximately 26,000 people and, “based on 2008 annual revenues…is the country’s fourth largest security firm, and the second largest U.S.-owned security provider.”
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at http://www.eeoc.gov.
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Mall guard charged in burglary, thefts www.privateofficer.com
Johnelle Perez, 26, is charged with stealing 63 cell phones, worth more than $16,000, from a locked T-Mobile kiosk at the mall on Sunday, just before the mall opened. The manager told the police that the thief had broken into the locked cabinets sometime between 3 and 11 a.m.
But the thief had left behind a fingerprint, and other evidence, which detectives used to trace the crime to Perez, said Detective Capt. James Desmarais.
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Three charged in drunken disturbance with security www.privateofficer.com
Police say they received a complaint from a security guard about three intoxicated males in the parking lot wandering around and being a nuisance. Police arrived and found Brian R. Fahnestock, 43, of Carlisle, Enrique P. Soler, 50, with no known address, and Rondale Wallace, 32, of Carlisle, in the south side of the shopping center with Wallace passed out on the ground, according to police.
Wallace was transported to the hospital via ambulance for observation, and Soler and Fahnestock were arrested for public drunkennes, police said, noting that an open bottle of rum was found in Fahnestock’s pocket.
While at the police station, Fahnestock punched the cell block’s laminated glass door, causing it to shatter, according to police. He was charged with insitutional vandalism in addition to the public drunkenness and open container citations.
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