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OFFICER DOWN ST. LOUIS MO.
St. Louis Police Department
Missouri
End of Watch: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 23
Tour of Duty: 1 year, 10 months
Badge Number: 937
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Date of Incident: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available
Officer Julius Moore succumbed to injuries sustained in an automobile accident nine days earlier.
He was responding to backup other officers attempting to catch a burglary suspect when a tractor-trailer collided with his patrol car at the intersection of South Broadway and Arsenal Street. Officer Moore was transported to St. Louis University Hospital, where he remained until succumbing to his injuries.
Officer Moore had served with the St. Louis Police Department for two years. He is survived by his wife, three young children, parents, and sister.
Agency Contact Information
St. Louis Police Department
1200 Clark Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63103
Phone: (314) 444-0100
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OFFICER DOWN WINSTON-SALEM NC
Winston-Salem Police Department
North Carolina
End of Watch: Monday, October 12, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 50
Tour of Duty: 27 years
Badge Number: Not available
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Weapon Used: Handgun
Suspect Info: Shot and killed
Sergeant Mickey Hutchens succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained five days earlier after responding to backup another officer at a domestic disturbance call.
A man had gone to a local fast-food restaurant on Peters Creek Parkway to confront his ex-wife. When officers arrived on the scene they encountered the male subject behind the restaurant. The suspect, who was wanted on several warrants, fled on foot.
Both officers pursued the man behind several businesses. A struggle ensued during which the suspect pulled out a handgun and opened fire, striking both officers. Despite being wounded, the other officer was able to return fire and killed the suspect.
Sergeant Hutchens was transported to a local hospital where he remained until succumbing to his wounds five days later.
Sergeant Hutchens had served with the Winston-Salem Police Department for 27 years. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
Agency Contact Information
Winston-Salem Police Department
725 N Cherry Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Phone: (336) 773-7700
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OFFICER DOWN TEXAS
Victoria County Sheriff’s Office
Texas
End of Watch: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 51
Tour of Duty: 24 years
Badge Number: 221
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Date of Incident: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available
Sergeant Tim Olsovsky suffered a fatal heart attack while conducting night qualifications at the department’s shooting range. He had just finished his second relay of shooting when he began to feel ill. A short time later he became unresponsive and EMS was called to the scene.
He was transported to Citizens Medical Center where he passed away.
Sergeant Olsovsky had served with the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office for 13 years and had previously served with the Hallettsville Police Department for 11 years. He is survived by his wife and daughter.
Agency Contact Information
Victoria County Sheriff’s Office
101 N Glass Street
Victoria, TX 77901
Phone: (361) 574-8002
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OFFICER DOWN LAS VEGAS NV
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Nevada
End of Watch: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 30
Tour of Duty: 5 years
Badge Number: Not available
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Date of Incident: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available
Officer Millie Beitel succumbed to injuries sustained the previous day in a single vehicle accident. He and his partner were traveling through an intersection when the driver of another vehicle pulled into their path. The driver of the patrol car took evasive actions, but the vehicle went out of control and crashed.
Both officers were transported to University Medical Center in serious condition. Officer Beitel succumbed to his injuries several hours later.
Officer Beitel had served with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for five years.
Agency Contact Information
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
400 Stewart Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: (702) 828-3394
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Fort Smith teacher arrested for giving booze to minor www.privateofficer.com
Former Cedarville High School Spanish teacher Mark Fears, 47, was arrested Saturday by Crawford County deputies on the school campus on two misdemeanor alcohol-related charges. He resigned his teaching position Monday.
A representative of the Crawford County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said Fears is charged with drinking in public and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Fears is set for a court appearance at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12 in District Court, County Division, she said. He is represented by Eddie Christian of Fort Smith.
According to a Crawford County Sheriff’s Office offense report by Deputy Ernest Schimmelman, at around 7 p.m. Saturday, a Crawford County deputy saw four people run from a back entrance of Cedarville High School to a vehicle belonging to Fears and start to drive away.
According to the report, the deputy stopped them in front of Cedarville Middle School and questioned them about why they ran from the high school.
The 17-year-old driver told the deputy his mother’s boyfriend, Fears, was in the school. When the deputy asked if the boy had anything illegal in the car, the boy told him Fears had a bottle of Seagrams 7 whiskey in the car.
When asked if he had anything to drink, the boy allegedly said he’d taken a drink of whiskey.According to reports, the deputy called the teen’s mother and asked her to pick up her son.
On searching the vehicle, deputies allegedly found a partially consumed liter bottle of whiskey inside a brown paper sack on the front floorboard by the passenger seat, and a case of Budweiser Lime beer fell out of the back when the hatchback was opened, according to the report.
Schimmelman reported a witness at the scene told him that Fears had given the teen the whiskey, and both the teen and the witness told Schimmelman that Fears had taken several Xanax tablets earlier on Saturday, the report states.
The report states that deputies detected the odor of alcohol coming from Fears, and that Fears admitted drinking and giving the boy alcohol.
The report states that Fears failed a field sobriety test and, during booking into the jail, an alcohol breathalyzer test registered 0.19. In Arkansas, a person with a 0.08 alcohol level is considered legally intoxicated.
On Wednesday, Cedarville School Superintendent Dan Foreman said Fears submitted his resignation Monday, and the School Board will act on that resignation at its meeting at
Foreman said Fears’ resignation letter simply stated that as of Oct. 12 he resigned all his duties at Cedarville.Foreman said Fears has taught for the school forsix years. He taught Spanish I, II, III and advance Spanish, the superintendent said.
“All of our students are safe, and everything is fine. We’re in the process of advertising for a Spanish teacher,” Foreman said.
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Allied Barton Security fined $50,000 for use of unlicensed guards www.privateofficer.com
The state recently fined a Tukwila security firm $50,000 for using unlicensed guards at locations that included three Puget Sound hospitals.
The Washington Department of Licensing and Allied Barton Security Services signed an order on Sept. 18 in which the company agreed to pay the fine by Dec. 18, according to state documents.
The fine comes from the state’s discovering on two occasions that Allied Barton used numerous unlicensed guards
Following an anonymous 2008 telephone tip, the Licensing Department found 11 unlicensed Allied Barton guards working at Saint Joseph Hospital in Tacoma, Saint Clare Hospital in Lakewood and Saint Francis Hospital in Federal Way.
The state also conducted a routine audit and found Allied Barton used 43 unlicensed guards in late 2006.
No charges nor fines were levied against the guards themselves, the agreement document said.
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Former Marine sergeant arrested on multiple charges www.privateofficer.com
A former Marine Corps sergeant was arrested Tuesday on sex assault allegations moments after he pleaded not guilty to identical charges involving the same alleged victim.
Jonathan Douglas Roy, 24, of Lochbuie, was arrested by Mesa County Sheriff’s Department investigators who sat in on Roy’s plea hearing Tuesday afternoon in District Judge Thomas Deister’s courtroom. Roy, who was free on bond and with his attorney, said nothing and shook his head as he was placed in handcuffs.
Neither Roy nor his attorney, Aaron Norris, appeared to know about the new allegations in advance of Tuesday’s hearing. Roy was arrested on suspicion of two counts of sexual assault on a child, one count of sexual assault on a child as a pattern of abuse, nine counts of violating bail bond conditions and nine counts of violating a protection order.
Since posting bond May 28, Roy allegedly met an underage girl four times at a home in Colorado Springs, as well as hotels in Grand Junction and Fruita, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The two allegedly had sex during three of those meetings, the affidavit said.
The alleged victim, who authorities have said is 14 or younger, is the same Mesa County girl Roy was accused of assaulting in May.
The girl told investigators she ran away from her home and hitchhiked to the Denver area, where Roy picked her up, and they drove to Roy’s mother’s home in Colorado Springs, according to the affidavit.
She said the meetings started after Roy’s release from the jail in May, but before school started in August. Investigators were told the girl had “spoken by phone almost daily” with Roy since his arrest in May.
Investigators said they confirmed Roy had checked into hotels in Grand Junction and Fruita twice in August.
The girl told authorities she hitchhiked a second time to Roy’s mother’s home in Colorado Springs, while the mother was out of town.
According to the affidavit, investigators worked with the girl to record a phone call to Roy. At the time the call was placed, Roy was in Vail, driving on Tuesday to his scheduled court appearance in Mesa County.
“He told her not to admit anything,” the affidavit said.
“Jonathan then asked her if this call was being taped … (girl) began to cry, and I hung up the phone,” an investigator wrote.
Roy’s arrest on Tuesday followed a not guilty plea to charges of sexual assault on a child and sexual assault as a pattern of abuse, involving the same girl.
An active-duty Marine assigned to a reserve unit at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Roy was arrested May 20 on the Mesa County allegations. He met the girl at the Grand Junction Air Show in September 2008, and the two allegedly met at least twice at Grand Junction-area hotels and had sex, authorities have alleged. Roy was married at the time.
Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Heather Benjamin said Roy is no longer a Marine. A Marine Corps spokesman late Tuesday said he wasn’t immediately able to confirm Roy’s status or his departure from the military.
Roy was deployed twice for tours of duty in Iraq, in 2005 and 2006, and was awarded several honors, including the Marine Corps’ Good Conduct Medal.
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Woman sues Sears after being mugged www.privateofficer.com
A woman is suing retail giant Sears, Roebuck and Co. for more than $100,000 for allegedly failing to provide security when she was mugged in a store parking lot in Chicago.
Christine Granberry’s lawsuit claims that on Nov. 15, 2007, she drove to the Sears on 1334 E. 79th St. and parked her car in the store’s parking lot.
After she finished shopping, she returned to her car and was “knocked off her feet, violently slammed into the pavement and then repeatedly kicked by an assailant attempting to steal her purse,” the suit alleges.
The suit claims Granberry suffered “serious and permanent bodily injuries” and “extreme and prolonged physical pain” from the assault, and will continue to suffer for the rest of her life.
The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court on Friday, claims Sears Holdings Corp. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. are liable for failing to monitor or provide a security presence in the parking lot, failing to maintain working surveillance cameras in the lot and failing to come to her aid during the assault.
The suit seeks more than $100,000.
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Nightclub security nab man with stolen gun www.privateofficer.com
Security at a Belltown nightclub detained a man who was armed with a stolen handgun early this morning. The man was turned over to Seattle police, who booked him into jail.
Seattle police responded to the club in the 2200 block of Western Avenue just after 2 a.m. after club security detained the man. When officers arrived the man was already in handcuffs, and security had possession of the firearm, police said
According to police, the man had exchanged words with another man inside the club. Once the club closed, the suspect armed himself with a handgun because he was afraid the other man might shoot him.
At some point, the suspect encountered the other man outside the club. The suspect pulled the handgun from the rear of his waistband and held it in his outstretched hands. Club security, who were also armed, ordered the suspect to the ground at gunpoint. He complied and they took him into custody and recovered the weapon.
The weapon, a Taurus semi-auto pistol, had been taken in a robbery a week ago, police said.
The suspect was booked for investigation of possession of a stolen firearm.
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Off-duty officer shoots shoplifters during assault www.privateofficer.com
Prince George’s County police shot a man who came at them with an automatic rifle Friday after he had tried to rob an armored truck near the Capital Beltway and then fled into a Beltsville home. It was one of two incidents Friday in which county police shot suspects.
In the Beltsville incident, Police Capt. Misty Mints said the man had barricaded himself in the home but came out with an SKS automatic rifle with a banana clip. Officers opened fire, and the man was hit, Mints said. He was taken to a hospital and was in serious but stable condition, police said.
Witnesses told police that a second man with a handgun fled before the shooting, Mints said. But police have not been able to find him or confirm that he was part of that incident. They think the man with the assault rife acted alone.
As that was unfolding in Beltsville, an off-duty county officer shot and wounded two women as they dragged him with their car while fleeing the scene of a shoplifting in the College Park area, said Officer Henry Tippett, another police spokesman. He said the officer had been working as a security guard at a store in the 7300 block of Baltimore Avenue.
He pursued two women from the store after a shoplifting. As they drove off, his arm got stuck in the door of their car. As the vehicle kept going, he drew his gun and fired, Tippett said. The officer and shoplifting suspects were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
The Beltsville incident started about 3:30 p.m. when a man walked up to an armored truck stopped along Powder Mill Road, Mints said. The armored-truck driver showed the would-be robber his gun, prompting the man to get back into his own car. As the armored truck began moving, the man followed.
The armored-truck driver called 911, Mints said. After the car cut off and stopped the armored truck, the suspect pulled out the rifle and opened fire at the truck, hitting it three times, police said. An officer on a nearby traffic stop arrived as the shots were fired and began shooting at the suspect. The suspect got back into his car, and police chased him to Beltsville. Police said shots were fired on Interstate 95 during the chase.
A neighbor who lives behind the Beltsville house said the owner of that house said he answered a knock at the door and was shocked to find a man holding an automatic rifle. The man with the gun said, “I need help. I need help. I need your keys,” the neighbor said, recalling the account the homeowner gave.
The homeowner told the gunman: “I don’t have keys to give you,” said the neighbor, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she said she has a sensitive job. The neighbor said the homeowner grabbed his child and fled the house safely.
The gunman then went downstairs in the house, where a renter lived, the neighbor said. She said the homeowner told her the armed man allowed the renter to leave the house unharmed.
The gunman then came out with the rifle and was shot by police about 4:30.
Police Chief Roberto Hylton said police showed heroism and restraint. “I’m so proud of the response of my officers to save the lives of the . . . armored car employees. This was an heroic effort. He didn’t think about his own life, only the safety of the employees. Quick response. Proper tactical approach. So proud.”
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