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Security officer delivers baby on hospital sidewalk www.privateofficer.com
At 7 pounds, 1 ounce, baby Kellen might not appear to be different than any other baby. Tiffanie Kohls started having contractions at 2 a.m. Sunday. Already the mother of three, Tiffanie thought she had plenty of time. But on the ride to Sacred Heart from Stanley, she learned she didn’t.
“By the time we hit by Melby Road, it was about that time,” says Tiffanie.
Tiffanie and her mother were able to make it to the hospital’s parking lot. Her mother then ran in to get help.
“By the time she came out, I was on the sidewalk and he was on his way,” says Tiffanie. “And I remember looking at the security guard and said ‘You’ve got to help me please.’”
That security guard was Steve Mieschke, who recently retired from the Eau Claire Sheriff’s Department. During his 35 years on the force, he received training as an emergency medical technician. That training certainly helped Sunday morning.
“I started assessing her and found out real quick that she was in the final moments of labor,” says Mieschke.
With the help of another security guard and a nurse, Mieschke delivered baby Kellen on a sidewalk about eight feet from the hospital’s entrance, only 8 minutes after Tiffanie arrived.
So Monday, before going home, Kellen and his mom thanked the man who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Baby Kellen and mom are both home and healthy.
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81 Year old man Tasered during traffic stop www.privateofficer.com
It is the second time since 1998 that police have had to make a show of force during a traffic stop to arrest Glen M. Wilcox, a Fairbanks-based Episcopalian priest and real estate agent.
Court documents allege that officers with Eielson Air Force Base’s 354th Security Forces Squadron pulled Wilcox over just after 1 p.m. Wednesday for going 11 miles over the speed limit on the Richardson Highway.
An officer, identified as a senior airman in court documents, took Wilcox’s license, registration and proof of insurance and wrote him a traffic citation. When he returned to Wilcox’s car, Wilcox refused to accept the documents and sped down the highway, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.
Wilcox disputes that version of events.
“They waved to me and I thought that meant I could go on,” Wilcox said. “They stopped me again and told me to get out of my car.”
Alaska State Troopers were notified of the incident, and the 354th “initiated a high-risk traffic stop” near 336 Mile Richardson Highway. When Wilcox, a former commander of the Civil Air Patrol, again stopped, he initially refused to roll down his window.
He eventually got out of his vehicle and was told to put his hands behind his back, something he claims is physically impossible for him.
“I showed them I could barely touch my fingertips and they insisted,” he said.
Charging documents allege Wilcox used profanity with the airmen. When they tried to handcuff him, Wilcox, described in court documents as being 6 feet 1 inch tall and 250 pounds, allegedly tried to jerk away from the airmen and used his body to push them around, a claim he also disputes.
After several warnings, one of the airmen used a Taser on Wilcox to take him into custody.
“It hurts like hell,” Wilcox said. “I’m laying on the ground when they Tasered me. It’s painful and very sharp.”
Wilcox said the incident left his arms bruised and he had to seek treatment at a doctor. He also obtained a lawyer but would not elaborate on how he intends to pursue the case.
“If I were their base commander, I would put them in jail,” he said. “Four young men in their 20s do not need to Taser and handcuff an 81-year-old.”
The next day, prosecutors dropped a charge of fourth-degree misdemeanor assault against Wilcox. He pleaded not guilty to counts of resisting arrest — a misdemeanor — and failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer, a felony. He later posted $250 bail.
Air Force regulations authorize law enforcement officials to use Tasers to arrest subjects who are actively resisting arrest or noncompliant with law enforcement orders, said Staff Sgt. James Stewart, a spokesman for Eielson. Regulations do not give different directives on how to deal with older subjects.
The airmen used a minimum amount of nonlethal force to resolve the situation, Stewart said.
In May 1998, Wilcox was accused of a similar incident when Fairbanks International Airport police pulled him over for driving with expired tags. Wilcox reportedly became belligerent with police and grabbed and twisted a female officer’s arm. In that case, he had to be pepper-sprayed to be taken into custody.
Wilcox said the truck he was driving at the time had an issue that it would not start again within five minutes of starting it up. He pulled the officer’s arm away to keep her from grabbing the key out of the ignition, he said.
He later pleaded guilty to a reduced count of disorderly conduct and a misdemeanor count of failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer. He successfully completed probation and more than 100 hours of community service.
Several people who said they knew Wilcox for decades wrote letters to the judge before sentencing, saying the incident was extremely out of character for him.
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Armed student arrested, security officer injured www.privateofficer.com
Police were called to Aiken University High School just before 9:30 a.m. after a student told school officials that another student had a gun.
Terron Cornelison, 18, was taken into custody in a stairwell, and police said they found a .32-caliber handgun in his locker.
The weapon was loaded with a single bullet, police said.
An ambulance was sent a short time later to treat a security officer with minor scratches.
The school was placed on lockdown for about an hour, but no students were injured in the incident.
Cornelison is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center pending an arraignment.
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Security guard charged in cold case murder www.privateofficer.com
Investigators declined to say how 28-year-old Nancy Klinger was killed but they said Larry Hite has always been a person of interest in her disappearance.
Hite, 53, was arrested at his brother’s house in Riverside and booked at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of murder. Bail was set at $1 million.
He is expected to be charged on Wednesday and arraigned in San Bernardino Superior Court on Thursday.
“I knew he killed her but we couldn’t prove it,” said retired sheriff’s Capt. Mike Howell, who investigated Klinger’s disappearance decades ago and recently asked the county’s cold case team to reopen the case. “I am ecstatic.”
Klinger was a single mother with three kids when she went missing Aug. 29, 1986. Investigators said Klinger left that day to meet Hite, who worked as a security guard then and now, and never returned.
Her roommates turned over a phone number that eventually led sheriff’s detectives to Hite. But since her body had not yet been found, detectives had little to go on.
Someone found Klinger’s remains March 4, 1988, near the iron bridge in East Highland. An autopsy was unable to determine how she died. Investigators declined to say what new evidence led to Hite’s arrest.
Hit moved to Lake Havasu City, Az. shortly after Klinger’s death and was eventually convicted of two rapes there in 1987 and 1991.
He was released from the Arizona State Penitentiary last year and moved to Riverside. Hite is not listed on the Megan’s Law Web site and it is unknown whether he registered as a sex offender, as required by California law.
Anyone with information on Klinger’s death is asked to call sheriff’s Detective Greg Myler or Sgt. Frank Montanez at (909) 387-3589. Anonymous tipsters may call (800) 78-CRIME.
Two indicted for using fake poker chips at casino www.privateofficer.com
William Reece Lancaster, 49, and Mark Vernon Edmiston, 45, are accused of victimizing the Seneca Cayuga Grand Lake Casino near Grove from Sept. 11 through Oct. 8. Assistant U.S. Attorney Trent Shores said authorities believe that the case involves more than $25,000.
The indictment was one of two released Tuesday in unrelated cases as a result of the Tulsa federal grand jury’s regular monthly meeting.
Lancaster, of Webb City, Mo., and Edmiston, of Joplin, Mo. are accused of cashing in counterfeit chips, exchanging them for legitimate chips, introducing bogus chips into play and meeting to divide the “illegally and fraudulently stolen funds and money of the Seneca Cayuga Grand Lake Casino.”
Shores said casino security personnel eventually detected the alleged activity.
The pair were arrested in early October but are currently free on bond, records show.
Shores would not comment about how the pair are suspected of acquiring the chips
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NYU student commits suicide www.privateofficer.com
University and police officials said the student, Andrew E. Williamson-Noble, a junior from Irvington, N.Y., jumped from the 10th floor to the lobby at the Bobst Library about 4:30 a.m.
John Sexton, the university’s president, said in an e-mail message to students and the faculty that “indications are that he took his own life.”
Mr. Williamson-Noble was found on his back; a suicide note was later discovered in his room, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want to be identified discussing an ongoing investigation.
At least nine students at N.Y.U. have committed suicide since 2002, including four in 2004. In an effort to curb the problem, university officials made several changes in 2005, including the installation of plexiglass panels around the perimeter of the atrium of Bobst Library, where two students had jumped to their deaths. The university also restricted access to balconies, expanded counseling services and created a 24-hour hot line that students could call about suicide concerns.
The plexiglass panels — which are about eight feet high — apparently did not prevent Mr. Williamson-Noble from jumping to his death.
“If you come to Bobst regularly you can probably find spaces on the stairs, but you would have to be pretty determined,” said Paige Collins, a 19-year-old student, standing outside the library. “It would take a while to climb over.”
Ms. Collins said students were not allowed above the second floor after 1 a.m. Security guards patrol the area, she said, but the elevators are not shut down.
“We heard about it in my last class,” Brooke Asemota, 19, said about the latest death. “One of the girls in the class was on his floor in a dorm. She said she never would have expected this; they all used to hang out, and he seemed happy.”
“It’s really high,” she said of the plexiglass barrier. “You could probably squeeze between gaps in places, but only just, and you’d have to try really hard.”
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