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Monthly Archives: October 2009

OFFICER DOWN Deputy Sheriff Francis David Blake Burnet County Sheriff’s Department Texas End of Watch: Saturday, October 3, 2009 Biographical Info Age: 42 Tour of Duty: 5 years Badge Number: Not available Incident Details Cause of Death: Automobile accident Date of Incident: Saturday, October 3, 2009 Weapon Used: Not available Suspect Info: Not available Deputy [...]

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Canton MI Oct 5 2009 Police say that a 47-year-old Canton man has been arrested for the alleged assault of a security guard after an altercation at a local theater. Police said that the 36-year-old man from Southfield was causing a disturbance near the entrance of the Royal Oak Music Theater about 10:30 p.m. When [...]

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Pomona CA Oct 5 2009 Police are looking for one of two men who got into a gun battle with a 71-year-old security guard at a 7-Eleven store earlier this week. Officers are looking for Eric Oliveros, 24, of Pomona in the incident that started before midnight Wednesday when two men and a woman drove [...]

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Colorado Springs CO Oct 5 2009 A security guard in Colorado Springs was slightly hurt foiling a robbery Friday night. Colorado Springs’ police report the guard confronted a man in the parking lot of a strip mall on South Academy Boulevard. The man reportedly asked if the guard was a police officer, and when the [...]

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HORRY COUNTY SC Oct 5 2009 A Green Sea man was charged with pulling the fire alarm at Conway Medical Center early Thursday, according to a police report. Mark Anson Strickland, 42, was charged with pulling the fire alarm at 1:50 a.m. Thursday at the hospital at 300 Singleton Ridge Road, police said. A security [...]

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South Holland MI Oct 5 2009 Two men from Oklahoma were charged Friday with aggravated bank robbery in connection with a heist Thursday morning at the First National Bank of South Holland. The incident led to a high-speed chase and shootout through the south suburbs and down Illinois 394, where it ended in a four-vehicle [...]

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Jackson MS Oct 5 2009 Rebecca Coleman realizes she has a huge task as she moves from overseeing 50 police officers at Jackson State University to almost 500 at the Jackson Police Department. But the 57-year-old said she’s ready, pending approval from the City Council. “The ultimate is to become the chief, and I had [...]

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Baltimore MD Oct 5 2009 An 18-year-old Columbia man who pleaded guilty to assaulting an apartment security guard was sentenced Friday to 8½ years in jail, with all but 18 months suspended. Derrod Petterson, of the 8800 block of Flowestock Way, was one of several teenagers to confront the guard last May while the man [...]

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Muhlrnburg Township PA Oct 5 2009 A shoplifter ran from the Fairgrounds Square Mall more than a half-mile along a busy highway as a witness followed in a car, then jumped off a bridge onto the Carpenter Technology Corp. property before he was arrested, police said Wednesday. Angel L. Tolentino, 41, of the 200 block [...]

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Miami Fla Oct 5 2009 Former Florida A&M University student Marcus Barrington, 23, was sentenced Monday to 84 months (or 7 years) in federal prison for his involvement in a March grade change scandal. Barrington’s accomplices and FAMU students, Lawrence Secrease, 22, and Christopher Jacquette, 27, pleaded guilty and are currently serving their 22-month sentences. [...]

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Houston TX Oct 5 2009 Wet roads played a role in two separate accidents that left two law enforcement officers dead Saturday night. Precinct 3 Deputy Constable Robert Clenney, 38, was en route to an off-duty security job when his small SUV was hit from behind by another car on South Main in East Harris [...]

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LAS VEGAS, NV Oct 2 2009 – Las Vegas Police have arrested 18-year-old Timothy Chester in connection with the murder of his parents, Thomas and Carla Chester. Police have been looking for Chester since Wednesday afternoon. Hoover Dam security officers found Chester walking along U.S. 93 into Nevada from Arizona and detained him. After running [...]

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Pulaski Ark Oct 2 2009 A Mills High School French teacher suspended for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student. Wednesday, is behind bars. 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 [...]

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Chesterton Ind Oct 2 2009 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 [...]

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ATLANTA GA Oct 2 2009 – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Roswell, Ga.- based U.S. Security Associates, Inc., one of the nation’s biggest national security guard companies, for violating federal law when a manager subjected a female security guard to pregnancy discrimination and then terminated [...]

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. Oct 2 2009 projo.com– A former security guard at Providence Place mall is now accused in a crime he used to be hired to prevent. 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 [...]

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Carlisle PA Oct 2 2009 Three men were cited with public drunkenness and one was charged with institutional vandalism after police found them in the Giant Food Store Shopping Center at 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to Carlisle police. Police say they received a complaint from a security guard about three intoxicated males in the parking [...]

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NEW CITY NY Oct 1 2009 — A Long Island businessman left a court hearing this morning on charges of violating state minimum prevailing wage laws, only to be arrested outside on a felony perjury count. Emmanuel Odigie, owner of Northeast Security Guard Services, was charged with second-degree perjury. He had appeared in court on [...]

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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. Oct 1 2009— A man who went to an Atlanta suburb police department for a background check on a job application wound up under arrest as a suspect in a 1976 Missouri slaying. Lawrenceville police Capt. Greg Vaughn said Tuesday that 65-year-old Johnny Wright went to the department last week for a routine [...]

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SHENANDOAH PA Oct 1 2009 – A security guard for a Schuylkill County school district is in jail on charges he made written threats to kill a principal and suggested there would be a school massacre like the one at Virginia Tech. Carlos L. Cintron III, 25, of 125 S. Gilbert St., Shenandoah, was taken [...]

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SALEM MA Oct 1 2009 — A Salem teenager called mall security and Salem police Saturday after she allegedly wasn’t paid for a small bag of marijuana she said she sold to two D’Angelos employees. Samantha Medina, 17, of Salem now faces a charge of sale of a controlled drug after she called police when [...]

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WILMINGTON, NC Oct 1 2009(WECT) – The former head of a private policy agency in Wilmington has pleaded guilty to manufacturing child pornography in Federal Court. In October 2008, a 14-year-old reported being sexually assaulted by Joe Guarascio. He was arrested, and an investigation revealed sexually explicit photographs of a child on his phone and [...]

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Victorville CA Oct 1 2009 Two armed men with towels draped over their heads robbed a Victorville hotel early this morning, officials said. A security guard and clerk were gagged and bound with duct tape inside the Hilton Garden Inn’s business office about 3:10 am. by a pair of robbers who stole a safe and [...]

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Oct 1 2009– A Metro police officer and four others have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of international firearms trafficking. Federal investigators said Metro Officer Edwing Ronal Morales and the others were charged in a conspiracy to purchase guns to send to two separate drug cartels in Guatemala. The [...]

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Birmingham AL Oct 1 2009 Twenty Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies slated for unpaid leave amid the county’s budget woes will instead be working for the Birmingham Police Department. Sheriff Mike Hale, Chief A.C. Roper and Mayor Larry Langford met Tuesday morning to discuss the transfers. “This is the saddest day of my professional career to [...]

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DEERFIELD, N.Y. Oct 1 2009— Whatever drove Utica police Investigator Joseph Longo Jr. to stab his wife to death before then fatally stabbing himself inside their Deerfield home Monday afternoon may forever remain a mystery. After one of Longo’s young sons discovered his injured parents upon returning home shortly before 4 p.m., his father was [...]

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Wisconsin deputies demoted after Facebook video incident CHILTON, Wisc.Oct 1 2009 — One eastern Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy has resigned and another has been demoted after a video on Facebook showed them and others burning a dummy in a department uniform. The video taken last month shows the deputies burning a uniformed effigy propped against a [...]