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Nightclub security bouncer shot in Nashville www.privateofficer.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan 25 2010By: Brett Davis/Staff
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- Police responded to a shooting early Monday morning at a nightclub where a security bouncer was shot. The shooting outside the busy Silverado club in south Nashville happened at around 1:30a.m. police said.
According to the officer’s investigation, a man got into a scuffle just outside of the club with the bouncer, and then another man pulled out a gun and shot the bouncer in the leg. The two men then fled the scene in a car.
Police found the getaway vehicle on Tyler Drive near Lebanon Pike a short time later but no arrests have been made.
WV teacher charged with sex assault, incest www.privateofficer.com
By: Brett Davis/Staff
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www.privateofficer.com Authorities have arrested a Mingo County teacher on sexual abuse charges.
Mingo County Sheriff Deputies arrested Johnny Ray Dempsey, 36, of Delbarton, on Friday and charged him with sexual abuse and incest.
Sheriff’s deputies said that the charges involve an alleged incident back in June but did not elaborate..
Mingo County Superintendent, Dwight Dials, confirms that Dempsey is a teacher at Kermit K-8 and Tug Valley High School.
Dempsey remains in the Southwestern Regional Jail.
DuPont employee dies from chemical exposure, security response questioned
By: Rick McCann/Staff
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– An employee of the DuPont Company in Belle West Virginia is dead and an investigation by several federal agencies is underway.
Carl Fish, who worked at the plant for all of his life died after an accident Saturday in which he was accidentally sprayed in the face with Phoegene. The chemical was used in World War I to “choke” soldiers on the battlefield.
Kent Carper, Kanawha County Commissioner, on Sunday afternoon ordered the release of the 911 tape where plant security officer reported the employees injury. The security guard did not inform first responders that the man had been exposed to a chemical or that there was any type of hazardous situation Carper said.
The guard simply asked for an ambulance due to “a medical emergency,” and did not indicate any further circumstances which caused no further details given to 911 responders.
Therefore, first responders entered the plant without preparations for phoegene treatment.
According to the CDC website, delayed effects from exposure take about 48 hours to occur. These include breathing difficulties, coughing up white to pink-tinged fluid (pulmonary edema), low blood pressure and possible heart failure. These symptoms may occur “even if the person feels better or appears well following removal from exposure. People who have been exposed to phosgene should be monitored for 48 hours.”
The plant has voluntarily suspended production for a safety pause.
As of Sunday night, the following information has surfaced: (1) That OSHA and the Chemical Safety Board may inspect the plant (per the Charleston Gazette); and (2) that a small fire had been reported at the DuPont plant on Sunday evening.
There was no word on whether or not the security guard has been suspended or terminated.
Cop arrested 6 times in two years www.privateofficer.com
fox23.com Police Officer John Lewis was arrested on Saturday night for what is at least the sixth time in two years.
Department officials tell us that they received a call at approximately 6:00 p.m. that a drunk man had left the emergency department at Ellis Hospital, hit a car, and took off.
Investigators say that that man was Lewis – a 15-year veteran of the force who has spent much of the past two years off the job.
Lewis’s troubles with the department date back to 1998 when he was fired for allegedly using a racial slur; an arbitrator later reinstated him.
Since the spring of 2008, Lewis has been arrested numerous times on charges that include drunk driving, stalking, harrassment, and vandalism.
In December, a Schenectady County grand jury indicted Lewis for allegedly hacking into his ex-wife’s e-mail account and threatening her.
Days later, he was apparently stabbed in Berkshire County.
Schenectady Police say Lewis’s termination hearing has been completed and the department brass is waiting for a final decision by an arbitrator.
City residents say that Lewis has already had too many chances.
“Police are supposed to be models for the rest of the society and, certainly, this is not the kind of model that we want to have our kids and the rest of everybody else in the city to portray so, yeah, he definitely needs to go,” says Don Ackerman of Schenectady.
City resident Chuck Tillman says, “He should be thrown off the force in my opinion.”
Lewis is being held at Schenectady County Jail without bail.
A jail officer tells us that Lewis is due back in city court at 9:00 a.m. on Monday.
Man gets 18 years prison for assault on security officer www.privateofficer.com
Saying he heard no evidence that Jarrid Bloom wanted to change his ways, U.S. District Court judge Ralph Beistline sentenced Bloom to 18 years and four months in federal prison.
“You have never made a wise choice in your life,” Beistline said, chastising Bloom during Friday’s sentencing hearing. “You were destined to be shot, beat up or incarcerated.”
The judge called Bloom a “petty thief” who has spent five of his six adult years behind bars. Bloom had been out of jail only 21 days when he was caught by security guard Louis Maloney breaking into cars in the parking garage at the federal courthouse on July 7.
“If you had just said, ‘Oh, you’ve got me’ and walked out with the security guard you’d probably be out of jail by now,” Beistline said. “You escalated it at every point along the way, and now you’re facing decades in jail.”
Bloom, who had been in Alaska for only eight days after moving to Fairbanks from Reno, Nev., started a fight with Maloney after the security guard found a small tinfoil cube of marijuana on him during a search. Bloom punched Maloney a half dozen times in the face, breaking his eye socket, before wrestling the guard’s gun away. Holding Maloney at gunpoint, Bloom took the guard’s baton and wallet before pointing the gun at a car and shooting the tire. He ordered Maloney to wait 40 seconds before doing anything and fled on a bike.
Fairbanks police caught Bloom on his bike outside the courthouse. He had Maloney’s baton and wallet, and the gun was located nearby.
Bloom pleaded guilty in October and struck a plea deal with the state.
Bloom received 10 years for using a handgun during a violent crime and the rest of the time for assaulting a law enforcement officer. He also was ordered to pay $10,500 in restitution to Maloney and will face five years of probation when he gets out of prison. Three other felony charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement.
Maloney, who underwent surgery in August to repair his eye socket, spoke at Friday’s sentencing hearing. He said he thought Bloom was going to kill him.
“I figured death was imminent,” Maloney told Beistline. “My biggest fear was what he would do with my duty weapon to someone else.”
Maloney, who is undergoing physical therapy as a result of injuries to his shoulder suffered in the fight, said the incident with Bloom continues to haunt him. He still has a hard time sleeping, breaks out in cold sweats and is “always on guard.”
Addressing Bloom, he told the 24-year-old to “count his blessings.”
“If this had happened on my property or in my house, the outcome would have been very different,” Maloney told Bloom.
Maloney, who works full time for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was working as a part-time security guard at the time of the incident. He said he missed a month of work at his regular job and hasn’t been cleared to go back to work as a security guard yet, forcing his wife to take a part-time job in addition to her full-time job.
Bloom, dressed in orange prison garb, apologized to Maloney and said what he did “was the worst decision of my life.” He couldn’t explain why he made that decision.
“I don’t know what happened,” he said, dabbing tears from his eyes with a Kleenex. “I can’t explain a motive. I went crazy.”
Bloom’s attorney, federal public defender M.J. Hayden, asked for a prison term of 15 years, noting that Bloom had a lengthy criminal record but was not prone to violence. Bloom previously was convicted of felony counts of grand theft auto and possession of a stolen vehicle in Nevada.
“He doesn’t have a history of violence,” she said. “This was a horrific offense, but it was not something he planned. It was a case of unfortunate circumstances that pulled together all at the same time.”
U.S. Assistant District Attorney Stephen Cooper recommended a sentence of more than 20 years, citing his “extensive” criminal history, which began when he was 13 years old.
“We’re dealing with somebody who is recidivist on a grand scale, and he’s only 24 years old,” Cooper said.
Bloom will serve his time in a federal penitentiary in Nevada.
Tweet This; NO phones or laptops in the court! www.privateofficer.com
By: Rick McCann/Staff
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http://www.privateofficer.com — As cellphone devices equipped with digital cameras and video recording capability continue to get smaller while providing better quality images and more people are joining the Twitter crowd or other social networks, concerns for courthouse security is growing.
The ban beginning Feb. 1 in Erie County Common Pleas Court in northern Ohio will also include iPods and smart phones such as Blackberries.
Court systems in Georgia, Connecticut and several other states also prohibit these devices because of cases around the country where jurors sent electronic messages such as Tweets or texts during trials.
Erie County Ohio Sheriff’s Lt. Joe McPeek, head of court security, says there is also a concern about people taking pictures of defendants and posting the images on the Internet.
The ban does not apply to lawyers, police, county employees and reporters the sheriff said.
