Archive
Security officer shoots burglar hiding in his truck www.privateofficer.com
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 brakes and saw an 18-year-old man in the backseat. The two men began fighting.
“I noticed he had something big in his pocket so I was like, ‘Stop or I’m going to shoot.’ He didn’t stop so I shot. I went for the legs because I didn’t want to kill the dude,” said Amaya
The burglar was taken to the hospital. Amaya was not hurt.
Follow Us On Twitter/privateofficer
Join Us At MySpace/privateofficernews
Join PRIVATE OFFICER
INTERNATIONAL
School security officer injured in traffic accident www.privateofficer.com
Brad Deegan, 49, of Homewood, was directing traffic in an area near the school’s north building, 800 Governors Highway, in Flossmoor, when he was hit on his side and knocked hard to the pavement, said David Thieman, director of human resources at the high school.
The vehicle, a 1996 Chevrolet Blazer, was driven by an H-F student.
Deegan was taken to South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, then transferred Friday afternoon to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn for more observation. Thieman said Deegan suffered a head injury when he fell to the pavement.
“We understand that he’s doing well now and taking visitors,” Thieman said Monday morning.
Thieman said the SUV was traveling along an access road between the high school’s two main buildings when it struck Deegan near the north building’s parking lot.
Flossmoor Deputy Police Chief Mike Pulec said the teen was alone in the car at the time of the accident.
“He said the windshield was ex- tremely foggy at the time and he didn’t see the security officer,” Pulec said.
Police said the 16-year-old driver was driving on a learner’s permit. He was ticketed for not having a valid driver’s license, driving too fast for conditions and failure to yield to a pedestrian.
The teen’s mother, Shari Gray, 43, 18721 Harding Ave., Flossmoor, was charged with allowing an unauthorized person to drive.
Gray and her son are due to appear at the Markham Courthouse at 9 a.m. Dec. 14, police said.
Follow Us On Twitter/privateofficer
Join Us At MySpace/privateofficernews
Join PRIVATE OFFICER
INTERNATIONAL
Former hospital guard sent to prison for child porn www.privateofficer.com
Kent Preston Gilley of Trenton, Ga., a former policeman in northeast Alabama, was sentenced Monday. He pleaded guilty in June.
An FBI agent’s affidavit shows Gilley used the computers in the medical complex on several occasions in 2008.
The affidavit shows that when Gilley was informed about the child porn investigation in December 2008, he told the agent he would “rather be charged with murder.”
Gilley’s attorney, Anthony Martinez, and hospital representatives declined comment Monday.
Follow Us On Twitter/privateofficer
Join Us At MySpace/privateofficernews
Join PRIVATE OFFICER
INTERNATIONAL
Walt Disney security charge man with fondling woman in pool www.privateofficer.com
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 kicking after she saw Caesar Pinto approach again when the next wave came.
A park security guard watched Pinto after the Sunday incident until Orange County deputies arrived. The man was at the park with his mother.
Disney says the arrest shows that kind of behavior won’t be tolerated at the park.
At least five similar arrests have been made in the past few months at Orlando water parks, including another at Typhoon Lagoon, Sea World’s Aquatica and Universal’s Wet ‘n Wild.
Follow Us On Twitter/privateofficer
Join Us At MySpace/privateofficernews
Join PRIVATE OFFICER
INTERNATIONAL
Alabama PTA president arrested for stealing money www.privateofficer.com
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 department released a statement on Albritton’s Oct. 16 charge.
According to the statement, an investigation showed Albritton spent money belonging to the Newton Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization for personal matters.
She was booked into the Dale County Jail and released on $5,000 bond.
Dale County Schools Superintendent Donny Bynum said he had no comment on the case.
Court records show the case is set to go before a grand jury in January.
Follow Us On Twitter/privateofficer
Join Us At MySpace/privateofficernews
Join PRIVATE OFFICER
INTERNATIONAL
Off-duty MGH security officer kills patient who stabbed doctor www.privateofficer.com
Police identified the attacker as Jay Carciero, 37, of Reading. He was a patient of the psychiatrist he repeatedly stabbed just after 2 p.m. yesterday at MGH’s Bipolar Clinical and Research Program, on the fifth floor of a Staniford Street medical office high-rise, police said.
The doctor was identified by a relative as Astrid Desrosiers, a licensed psychiatrist since 1993 who grew up in Haiti, where she graduated medical school in 1986.
The security guard was named as Paul Lagone of Reading by Fox 25 News. Last night, a police cruiser was parked outside his house, and the family declined comment. Lagone’s father and brother told Fox he heard the doctor’s screams and broke through her office door. He told Carciero to drop the knife, and when Carciero lunged at him, Lagone shot him. He used his sweater to stem Desrosiers’ bleeding.
Sources said Desrosiers – seriously injured and listed in stable condition yesterday – was no match for Carciero – described as 6 feet 4 inches and husky. She suffered wounds throughout her body. Her hands were slashed from trying to block the attack, sources said.
“It was gonna take a gun to bring him down,” said a first responder. Lagone, who was not officially identified, shot Carciero three times – once in the head and twice in the torso – the first responder said.
“He was certainly heroic; we’re happy he was here,” Bonnie Michelman, MGH security director, said of the guard, who police said was licensed to carry a firearm.
Police Commissioner Edward Davis said the guard interceded just in time. “He produced a weapon and ordered the suspect to drop the knife,” Davis said. “And when the suspect did not comply, he shot the suspect.”
Desrosiers, who completed her postgraduate work at the Harvard University School of Public Health, has three sisters who live in Florida and work as nurses, said Isabellie Desrosiers, who is related to the victim by marriage.
“She’s a remarkable woman. She’s very smart,” Isabellie Desrosiers told the Herald last night. “Most of her family is in Boston. I haven’t been able to speak to them. They’re all at the hospital.”
Gregg Renchkovsky, 35, of Charlestown was on his way to pick up his girlfriend at MGH when he saw “police coming from every direction.
“The first thing that goes through your mind in these days is terrorism,” he said. “I thought it was some sort of bomb threat.”
Luz Ramos, 43, of Dorchester, who works in the building next door, saw Desrosiers being taken out on a stretcher.
“She was bleeding quite badly,” Ramos said. “I’m scared. I work next door. You have to keep your doors locked because you don’t know who’s around.”
Carciero was fired from his job as manager of food and facilities for a hospital vendor, according to an online article for In These Times magazine. He was portrayed as a whistle-blower in the story, which described him as “a stocky, intense man” who “lives with his wife and three children in a small blue American flag-flying clapboard home.”
This is the second time in a week that MGH has been rocked by violence. A serial sex offender is accused to trying to rape a female hospital employee Thursday
Follow Us On Twitter/privateofficer
Join Us At MySpace/privateofficernews
Join PRIVATE OFFICER
INTERNATIONAL
