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Monthly Archives: October 2009

TULSA, OK Oct 24 2009 — Police are teaming up with local security guards to make the city safer. In their new joint venture, officers and guards will be talking more and coordinating their efforts. The move will not only make it easier for the two groups to work together, it will multiply the efforts [...]

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ANDALUSIA AL OCT 24 2009 New details are emerging in the sex abuse case against a local pastor, as Sheriff Dennis Meeks confirmed Friday there are “multiple” child victims in this “large-scale” investigation. Ralph Lee Aaron, a 54-year-old Andalusia resident, was jailed Wednesday on charges of sex abuse of a child under 12 and sodomy. [...]

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BROOKSVILLE Fla (Tampa) Oct 24 2009 — Three people, including a Hernando County Jail nurse and an inmate, were arrested Friday in connection with an attempt to bring prescription drugs inside the jail. The nurse, Brett Melton, 40, of Spring Hill, is facing charges of possession and trafficking a controlled substance, according to an arrest [...]

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Saraland AL Oct 23 2009 The body of a 57-year-old active-duty soldier was found in his home in Saraland on Wednesday afternoon, and police said evidence at the scene indicated the case is a homicide. The man’s body was found inside the residence at 704 Williams Ave., about a quarter-mile east of Interstate 65. Saraland [...]

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COVINGTON, Ga. Oct 23 2009 — A high-speed chase on I-20 Wednesday night ended in a gunfight between police and a suspect that left the suspect dead. A Georgia State Patrol officer spotted a car going 94 mph on the interstate in Newton County about 9 p.m., said Covington police Lt. Wendell Wagstaff. The trooper [...]

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Miami Fla Oct 23 2009 A Florida Memorial University student faces battery charges, while a campus security officer has been placed on leave following a bathroom tussle involving the student, three guards and allegations of one guard brandishing a gun. The fracas, which police stay started Monday when a security guard saw 19-year-old Emory Mitchell [...]

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Ocala Fla Oct 23 2009 Josh Rutner said he was just doing his job as a Wal-Mart “asset protection officer” earlier this month when he chased a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot. The man, later identified as Marc Ash, was arrested by Ocala police and the merchandise was recovered. The next day, [...]

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HARTFORD CT Oct 23 2009 – A 21-year-old man from North Stonington who robbed a McDonald’s restaurant on Flatbush Avenue before shooting himself in the woods near the Trinity College campus has been identified as Kyle Smith. Smith had told family members he was traveling to Hartford to commit a robbery, then take his own [...]

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CHICO CA OCT 23 2009 A Glenn County sheriff’s deputy died Wednesday night after falling unconscious at his north Chico home. Mark Louis Arnone, 36, had been a deputy for 10 years and also worked as a weekend and fill-in disc jockey at rock and country stations owned by Deer Creek Broadcasting. Glenn County Sheriff [...]

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Sacramento CA Oct 23 2009 Two months after he moved from his Santa Clara home to a brand new Sacramento State University dormitory, Scott Gregory Hawkins told his parents he was adjusting well and liked the roommates in his five-person suite. But in a shocking outburst of violence, Hawkins was bludgeoned to death inside his [...]

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TOPEKA, Kan. Oct 23 2009 — The memory still bothers Ken Keller: A panicked ambulance crew had a critically ill patient, but the man weighed more than 1,000 pounds and could not fit inside the vehicle. And the stretcher wasn’t sturdy enough to hold him. The crew offered an idea to Keller, who was then [...]

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NEW YORK Oct 23 2009 — The Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession on Thursday, and expects to receive a one-year jail sentence. He previously had pleaded not guilty to illegal gun possession charges that carried at least 3 1/2 years in prison upon conviction. Lil Wayne remains free on bail [...]

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.Oct 22 2009 — The maker of TASER stun guns is advising police officers to avoid shooting suspects in the chest with the 50,000-volt weapon, saying that it could pose an extremely low risk of an “adverse cardiac event.” The advisory, issued in an Oct. 12 training bulletin, is the first time that TASER [...]

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BOSTON MA Oct 22 2009 — A pharmacy college graduate made a defiant appearance in federal court Wednesday, hours after being charged with conspiring with two other men in a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq. [...]

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INDIANAPOLIS IN Oct 22 2009 A man who police said was involved in a bizarre robbery in which he hugged and prayed with a frightened store clerk turned himself in after his mother saw him on TV. Indianapolis police Lt. Jeff Duhamell said Gregory Smith, 23, had a gun when he went to the Advance [...]

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NEWARK NJ Oct 22 2009– A casual chat at a coffee cart in Newark Liberty International Airport sparked a national security threat and a full-blown U.S. Secret Service investigation today on the eve of President Barack Obama’s visit to the state. John Brek, 55, of Linden, was charged today with a third-degree count of making [...]

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CLEVELAND OH Oct 22 2009 — The Cleveland police sex crimes unit arrested St. Joseph Academy drama and choir director Patrick Janson at his Westlake home this morning on a warrant for sexual battery involving a former student. The sex crimes unit had been investigating a report of an illicit relationship between a teacher and [...]

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Spartanburg SC Oct 22 2009 Jeffrey Lostraglio’s Gore-Tex jacket is supposed to be impenetrable to water, but Monday it unexpectedly needed to block the teeth of a Pennsylvania man. Lostraglio was helping Spartanburg Public Safety Officer Roger Morton arrest a shoplifting suspect who authorities say had head-butted Morton three times and assaulted two WestGate Mall [...]

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Seattle WA Oct 22 2009/seattlepi.com The Seattle firm handling security for 25 state liquor stores is in financial trouble and is in danger of losing its state contract. The firm wants to reinvent itself and keep the contract under a different name. The state is saying: Prove that your reinvented finances can handle the contract [...]

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AIKEN CTY, S.C.Oct 22 2009—An Aiken County woman has been arrested on four counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and four counts of lewd acts. Tammy Joy Key, a former teacher at Leavelle McCampbell Middle School, was arrested by Aiken County deputies. The sheriff’s office says the alleged incidents occurred between August 2005 [...]

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HARRISBURG, Pa. Oct 22 2009 – A woman is charged with stealing perfume from a department store and biting a security guard who confronted her. Police said Monday that 36-year-old Karla Brushell was spotted shoplifting a “substantial quantity” of women’s fragrance at the Sears store in Harrisburg. Authorities say when store security confronted Brushell, she [...]

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APPLETON WS Oct 22 2009 — A 27-year-old man was taken into custody Sunday night after he plowed the vehicle he was driving into a traffic pole and fled the scene. Police said the incident happened a little after 7 p.m. The man was attempting to turn onto College Avenue from S. Oneida Street and [...]

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Oct 22 2009 – A Winston-Salem middle school drama teacher was arrested Saturday on charges of sexual misconduct with a student. Investigators arrested 57-year-old Ralph Surridge after an administrator with the Forsyth County School District received a tip that the teacher was having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Surridge is a drama [...]

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EL PASO TX Oct 22 2009 — A 16-year veteran police officer shot and killed himself days before he was scheduled to appear in court on two felony charges, the county medical examiner said today. Javier Alonzo, 43, died Tuesday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, said Dr. Paul Shrode, the county medical [...]

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Mobile AL. Oct 21 2009 A sergeant with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office killed himself Tuesday afternoon after negotiators pleaded with him for almost two hours to surrender his handgun. Sheriff Sam Cochran said the sergeant “became very distraught” about 3 p.m. and barricaded himself inside a workroom in the back of Sheriff’s Office headquarters [...]

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 MOBILE, Alabama Oct 21 2009 – Police arrested a couple they say were cooking cocaine inside their room at the Days Inn in Tillmans Corner. Following a lead, police staked out the motel Saturday and waited for Jermaine Marisett to leave. Police pulled him over on a traffic stop and found [...]

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Albuquerque NM Oct 21 2009 kob.com A security guard on board an Albuquerque city bus when it collided with a car Saturday spoke exclusively with Eyewitness News 4 about the frightening experience. The crash happened Saturday on Central Avenue at the I-25 overpass. Surveillance video on the bus first broadcast on Eyewitness News 4 has [...]

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PHILADELPHIA PA Oct 21 2009 philly.com- Authorities say a former airport screener has admitted stealing laptop computers and a video-game system from passengers’ checked luggage in Philadelphia. Troy Davis was an officer with the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport. Authorities say a baggage handler spotted Davis removing a laptop from a suitcase on [...]

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SALISBURY, Md. Oct 21 2009- Authorities have arrested a man accused of getting drunk and acting disorderly at the Centre at Salisbury mall. Salisbury police say that on Saturday, Oct. 17 at around 6:15 p.m., officers responded to a report of a disorderly person in the food court of the mall. Police say that upon [...]

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South Bend IN Oct 21 2009 City and county police surrounded South Bend Regional Airport on Monday night searching for a burglary suspect who tried to board a Chicago-bound bus. The suspect, wanted on burglary charges, was identified by airport security as he tried to board a Greyhound bus departing from the airport. He fled [...]

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