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Monthly Archives: January 2010

FAYETTEVILLE NC Jan 20 2010 (WTVD) — Two Georgia women are scheduled to make a court appearance today for their involvement in an alleged counterfeit money operation that was run from inside a Fayetteville hotel. Cumberland County Sheriff’s detectives arrested the women Sunday after uncovering the operation. Authorities say 38-year-old Robbin Lynnette Brown and 45-year-old [...]

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MARTINSBURG, W.Va.Jan 20 2010 — A Winchester, Va., man is accused of stabbing a bouncer in the left side of his stomach early Saturday at a strip club in Bunker Hill, W.Va., according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Michael Paul Ritter, 29, was arraigned Saturday by Magistrate Harry L. Snow on one count of [...]

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PHOENIX, AZ Jan 2010 AP– Thousands of immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in Phoenix Saturday in a protest that was aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration efforts and was marked by a clash between a small group of protesters and police officers. Organizers say the protest was meant [...]

Des Moines IA Jan 20 2010 Police have arrested three men early Saturday after one of them allegedly shot and injured a bouncer according to a report. Lafayette Owens, 45, allegedly shot the Hickman’s Pub doorman, Robert Hawthorne, 49, after Hawthorne kept a close watch on Owens while he was at the bar at 2335 [...]

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CINCINNATI OH Jan 20 2010– A man could spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting and killing a bouncer at a Springfield Township bar last year. A Hamilton County jury found 40-year-old Thomas Phelps guilty of aggravated murder and other charges Tuesday from an incident at the Almost Home bar along Hamilton [...]

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Parkersburg WV Jan 20 10 By: Rick McCann PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Parkersburg Police said they responded to the Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital over the week-end after a security officer was robbed at gunpoint Saturday morning. Police said that the officer was his way to deposit the hospital’s money at a local bank when he was [...]

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BREAKING NEWS APPOMATTOX, Va.Jan 20 2010 — A gunman suspected of killing eight people before he disappeared into dense woods in rural Virginia surrendered without incident early Wednesday, Virginia State Police said. Sgt. Thomas Molnar said 39-year-old Christopher Speight approached officers at the scene of the shootings at about 7:10 a.m. and turned himself in. [...]

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Sacramento CA Jan 19 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com Authorities are reporting that a security officer has shot and wounded a man who allegedly pulled a handgun on him. Police said that the incident occurred at a bar on Del Paso Boulevard. The security officer was forced to defend himself after a [...]

Atlanta GA. Jan. 19, 2010 — Tyco International, owners of the ADT business, announced today that it is purchasing Broadview Security, formerly known as Brink’s Home Security. Broadview Security came into existence in June 2009, having formerly been known as Brink’s Home Security. Brink’s Home Security itself was a spin-off of the Brink’s Company, this [...]

Los Angeles CA Jan 19 2010 At least one person was injured and early-morning traffic was tied up today when an armored car overturned on the Golden State Freeway near the Ventura Freeway. The 3:39 a.m. accident on northbound Interstate 5 initially shut down four lanes and resulted in a SigAlert, said CHP Officer Jennifer [...]

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Halifax Nova Scotia Jan 19 2010 Security personnel at the IWK (Izaak Walton Killam) Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be sporting a new look this spring: bulletproof vests. The initiative is a first for a hospital in Nova Scotia. The children’s hospital has ordered 35 vests, which are also slash-proof, at a cost [...]

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DALLAS TX Jan 19 2010 — Police say a man wearing a mask stood outside the PLS Check Cashing store in the 2100 block of Singleton Boulevard Monday morning and waited. “He had actually gone so far as to position himself under one of the surveillance cameras at the store,” said Dallas police spokesman Senior [...]

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BAY MINETTE, Ala.Jan 19 2010 — Baldwin County Sheriff Deputy Mike Malone was killed late Sunday afternoon hunting on or near a train track and was struck and killed instantly by a train, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office announced this morning. The case is under investigation by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, the sheriff’s office [...]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jan 18 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ A security officer foiled a break-in at a Northland Jewelry Store early Monday morning according to police. The security officer was on patrol when he spotted the burglary and notified the police. Numerous police units responded and made netry into the mall [...]

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DALLAS TX Jan 18 2010 — Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle fired a four-year veteran officer Thursday after an eight-month internal investigation found, among other things, that he sent nude photos of himself to a high school student during school hours, kept several people’s ID cards and failed to give copies of tickets to several [...]

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STAMFORD CT Jan 18 2010 – Norwalk police responded to a shooting early Sunday at Enigma Cafe and Lounge in East Norwalk that left a bouncer and a patron with bullet wounds, police said. The men’s injuries are not life-threatening, Police Chief Harry Rilling said. Anthony Franklin, 22, a bouncer at the Greek-American restaurant on [...]

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Dover DE Jan 18 2010 Delaware River Port Authority Cpl. Christopher Milito routinely changed tires for stranded motorists and changed the lives of people considering suicide on area bridges. “We don’t have residents in our town. People may use our facilities just once on a trip from California or England, or they may use our [...]

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Mashantucket, Conn. Jan 18 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ — Authorities arrested an intoxicated Norwich man after he became belligerent with casino security officers after being thrown out of a nightclub at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods. Police said Keith D. Emmons, 25, of 303 Mohegan Park Road in Norwich, was forced [...]

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CONWAY, S.C. Jan 18 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com — A shoplifting suspect has died after a fight at a South Carolina Wal-Mart. Conway police reported Sunday that police got a call about a fight at the store just after 8 p.m. Friday.when officers arrived they found that security officers had tried [...]

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Atlanta GA Jan 18 2010 (AJC.com) police say they’ve arrested nine 30 Deep gang members — ranging from 14 to 19 years old — who pulled off a pair of smash-and-grab burglaries early Sunday morning. Officers acted quickly after a group of thieves rammed a Ford Taurus through the entrance to the Focus Clothing Store [...]

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Birmingham AL Jan 18 2010 A man suspected of various drug store robberies, including at least one in Shelby County, was arrested last weekend by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. James Matthew Hobby, 30, called deputies to his residence in Clay, claiming an armed intruder shot him. According to a department press release, while deputies [...]

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NEWMAN CA Jan 17 2010 – A popular Orestimba High School teacher and coach was arrested Friday on charges of engaging in a sexual relationship with a female student. Police Chief Adam McGill said Daniel J. Burgin, 36, was taken into custody Friday evening. The arrest stunned the close-knit school and reverberated through the community, [...]

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OMAHA, Neb. Jan 17 2010 A security guard was injured and another man is dead after two shootings at the Shark Club at 72nd and Center streets. Officers responding to the shooting call found the security guard inside with a gunshot to the mouth. He was taken to the Creighton Medical Center in critical condition. [...]

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FRACKVILLE PA Jan 17 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com – Authorities were called to the Schuylkill Mall after a Shenand-oah teenager sprayed a mall security guard with invisible ink Friday, according to state police at Frackville. Police said a 15-year-old male, who has not been identified, sprayed a 44-year-old uniformed security officer [...]

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Albuquerque NM Jan 17 2010 kob.com A man accused of participating in the gang beating of a car dealership security guard who later died has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Marc Goodman-Nevarrez pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, kidnapping, conspiracy and larceny in the 2007 murder of Susan Schmidt. Goodman-Nevarrez is described by the [...]

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Anne Arundel MD Jan 17 2010 A County high school teacher has confessed to having sex with a 17-year-old student on multiple occasions, according to police and charging documents. Kristyn Nicole Breeds, 29, a special-education teacher and indoor track coach at Northeast High School in Pasadena, has been charged with three counts of fourth-degree sex [...]

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Michigan Jan 17 2010 Legal questions were raised in the courtroom of Associate Judge William Balestri Friday afternoon over a September, 2009, traffic stop by Lake Holiday subdivision security guard. Colleen M. Orzech was driving near her home in Lake Holiday outside Somonauk on Sept. 6 when she thought she heard a bottle crash against [...]

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Hoover (metro Birmingham) AL Jan 17 2010 The four victims killed in the fire at the Days Inn in Hoover on Saturday night were college students heading back to their campus in Mississippi, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office reported Sunday. The four young women were on their way back to Mississippi University for Women, which [...]

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Jersey City NJ Jan 17 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police responded to a reported burglary inside a construction site at 445 Washington Blvd. and were able to make an arrest Officers got the call of a burglary in progress from a security guard at the AJD Construction Site and when police [...]

ROSELLE PARK NJ Jan 16 2010– A substitute teacher was arrested Thursday night and charged with having sex with a Roselle Park High School student, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s office. Nickolas Genovese, 20, who is the son of a Roselle Park school board member, worked at the high school in late 2009, according [...]

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