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College security officer attacked, injured www.privateofficer.com
contracostatimes – An Antelope Valley College security guard nursed a sore arm on Wednesday after she was attacked on a campus parking lot by a guy with an apparent beef against cops, authorities said.
The incident, initially reported as a possible stabbing, occurred at 9:14 p.m. Tuesday, according to Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials.
“An unknown male assailant used an unknown object to scratch her left arm and ran off,” said Lt. Stefanie Fredericks of the sheriff’s Lancaster Station. “It was not a stabbing. No sutures were needed.”
Deputies, college police, and contracted security officers fanned out over the campus, but the assailant eluded them, Fredericks said, adding that his motive was not immediately clear.
“He made some comments with reference to her being a cop,” Fredericks said. “That’s all we know at this point.”
The security guard — who works for Regional Patrol Services, a contractor, according to Antelope Valley College police — was treated at a hospital for abrasions and released, Fredericks said.
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Criminal charges against security guard dismissed www.privateofficer.com
On Friday, charges were dropped against now-former Habersham Medical Center Security Officer Jerry Lee Hunnicutt.
Hunnicutt was charged Wednesday with false public alarm, a felony, after a suspicious package he allegedly placed in the vestibule of the new emergency department resulted in implementation of the hospital’s emergency response plan.
After being checked by a bomb detection dog from Hall County, an apple pie carton bearing a note that stated “Look inside” was determined not to be a threat.
A dismissal of warrant document filed Friday and signed by Chief Assistant District Attorney Eddie Staples states the warrant was dismissed because “the state cannot make out a case.”
Sheriff Joey Terrell isn’t happy that the charges filed by his officers were dropped, because he believes Hunnicutt’s actions created a public alarm. However, after conferring with Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Brian Rickman, he said he understands that case law won’t support the charge.
“I’m frustrated, but I’m not trying to be critical,” Terrell said shortly after learning of the dismissal on Friday. “The courts changed the laws the legislators passed.”
“In today’s times, we have to take things like this seriously,” Terrell said.
“We had three fire trucks, four deputy cars, three investigators, the GBI bomb squad, an ambulance and basically the emergency room shut down,” Terrell said. “If that’s not a public alarm, I don’t know what is.”
“We did our job,” Terrell said. “If we have another one tomorrow, we’re going to handle it the same way. It caused a public alarm – if that’s not a public alarm, I don’t know what is.”
“The right thing was done,” Rickman said. “It was taken seriously and everyone’s safety was protected.”
The circumstances of the case, however, won’t allow it to proceed criminally.
“What the guy did wasn’t smart, what the guy did wasn’t advisable, but every goofy thing that somebody does is not necessarily a crime and punishable by statute,” Rickman said.
In Hunnicutt’s case, “it’s not a crime,” because no threat was made, Rickman said. “The statute and the case law is not going to allow it to proceed.”
Prior to Wednesday’s event, Hunnicutt had been employed by the hospital for 13 years.
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Security officer helps raise funds for basketball team www.privateofficer.com
Lutter moaned and groaned.
It sounded like karma.
Lutter, 28, is a security officer for AIB College of Business. Students say he is very good at his job – it’s just unfortunate that his job is to dole out $25 tickets to parking violators on school campus.
Lutter estimates that he has written $1,000 worth of tickets since he took the job in June. That led students Bryant Blay and Brian Maruska to pose a leg-waxing challenge to Lutter: If the pair could raise $300 from students and faculty members, Lutter would painfully shed the hair from his lower legs.
Blay and Maruska collected $302 in less than a week.
“It wasn’t hard at all,” Blay said. “Everybody pitched in a couple bucks.”
Dozens of students gathered in the school’s gymnasium Wednesday to watch Sarah Lamberti, a hair stylist from Altoona, rip strips of hair from Lutter.
“The longer (the hair) is, the more painful it is,” Lamberti told Lutter that night. “I didn’t bring trimmers.”
That thought lingered for about a half hour while students held Fear Factor-style homecoming activities. They ate messy foods blindfolded and stuck their faces in cat litter.
Lutter’s legs were the main event.
He sat for 20 minutes while Lamberti and Jerry Kindhart, the school’s women’s basketball coach, went to work on his left shin and calf. The lower calf stung the most.
The single leg took so long to wax that students let Lutter’s right leg off easy. Lutter said he would shave it to match.
“I’m definitely never doing that again,” he said.
It could have been worse though:
“I’ve seen guys so hairy you can’t see their skin,” Lutter said. “It would have taken a lot more money if I was like that.”
Students will donate the $302 to the basketball team. Kindhart said he’ll put it toward a machine that catches basketballs underneath the hoop and spits them back out to players.
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Teacher accused of putting “Hit” on student www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta GA Nov 18 2009
A Georgia teacher reportedly has been placed on paid administrative leave after being charged with making terroristic threats against a 16-year-old student.
Randolph Forde was arrested last month after being accused of asking the student at Mundy’s Mill High School whether or not he was gay, threatening to hit the student and later offering another student money to kill the boy, MyFoxAtlanta.com reported.
Citing a police report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Forde asked another student to “put a hit” on the teenager.
“The suspect advised the witness that he would pay him to kill the victim,” the report states.
Forde denied have any interaction with or making any statement about the alleged victim, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The teen’s mother is outraged.
“A teacher threatens to kill your child, that’s the most disturbing,” Marcia Killebrew told MyFoxAtlanta.com. “It could have really happened.”
Forde’s attorney, Borquaye Thomas, said his client asked the student if he was gay after seeing the boy dance inappropriately with another male student, the newspaper said.
The student didn’t seem to have a problem with the question until he got into trouble for another incident, according to the Journal-Constitution.
“All of the students knew Mr. Forde was joking. The other students said Mr. Forde always plays around with them like that,” Thomas told the paper. “The student only complained after he was getting suspended.”
Forde was released from jail on $10,000 bond and ordered to avoid the student, the Journal-Constitution said. He is waiting for his case to go before a grand jury.
School officials postponed a Tuesday employment hearing aimed at deciding whether Forde will face disciplinary action. It will now be held after Thanksgiving
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Security spots burglars, aids in capture www.privateofficer.com
TACOMA WA Nov 18 2009
Tacoma police arrested three men late Sunday on suspicion they got into a fenced Tacoma Public Utilities lot and tried to steal expensive pieces of metal, officials said Monday.
A security guard working at the utility’s main office at 3628 S. 35th St. spotted three men on surveillance cameras about 11 p.m., police said. The men got into a fenced lot and started to throw several pieces of metal back over the fence line.
Police were called and officers surrounded the area. The men were seen jumping back over a fence and going into a nearby field that is part of the old Tacoma airport.
A Pierce County sheriff’s dog was called in and tracked down and held two suspects. They were treated at Allenmore Hospital in Tacoma for minor injuries, police said. A third man gave up to police without incident.
The three men were booked into the Pierce County Jail on Monday on suspicion of second-degree burglary.
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Woodbridge teacher charged with sexual assault on child www.privateofficer.com
Woodbridge NJ Nov 18 2009
James I. Clancy, 35, of Crampton Avenue in Woodbridge proper, was arrested at Woodbridge Police headquarters on Nov. 11 and was charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.
Jim O’Neill, spokesperson for the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, said authorities are not revealing if the 14-year-old was a student at the middle school where Clancy taught.
Clancy, who has been an English teacher at the school for the past seven years, was suspended following his arrest, authorities said.
Police started an investigation last week after information on the matter came to the attention of law enforcement.
Investigator James Kelly of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and Detective Robert Ptaszynski of the Woodbridge Police Department determined that Clancy had relations with the student in Edison in June 2006, authorities said.
Through their investigation, police found that Clancy made lewd comments and sent lewd emails to the student in Woodbridge during that time, authorities said.
Anyone with information is asked to call
Kelly at 732-745-3600 or Ptaszynski at 732-634-7700.
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