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Monthly Archives: January 2010

LOS ANGELES CA Jan 12 2010 — Police are searching for two men suspected of shooting and critically wounding a security guard at a strip mall in Hollywood. The shooting was reported at 6:23 p.m. Monday in a parking lot at Santa Monica Boulevard and Western Avenue, said Sgt. Alex Ortiz of the Los Angeles [...]

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Colorado Springs CO Jan 12 2010 Police are looking for two people who they say opened fire on security officers at an area Wal-Mart. CPD released the photos of the two people they believe the fired shots inside the north-side Wal-Mart on Jan. 5. Police are looking for Jason Robert Lopez, 38, and Carmen Angela [...]

ATLANTA GA Jan 12 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ – Authorities are investigating the death of one person who was killed in a fire at a church building in northeast Atlanta Tuesday morning, according to Atlanta Fire Department officials. A structure fire was reported at the Druid Hills Baptist Church in the [...]

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Lancaster PA Jan 12 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police are looking to arrest a man they say was involved in a shoot-out with provate security officers outside a Manheim Township nightclub earlier this month. According to police, Keith Martin Thompson, 29, formerly of Rockland Street, displayed a handgun during an altercation [...]

Cleveland OH Jan 12 2010 news-herald.com A Cleveland woman was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for stealing groceries at a Willowick Marc’s and then striking a security guard with her car as she escaped. Atosha Redrick, 32, and 26-year-old Cleveland resident Tiffany Sanders left the Lake Shore Boulevard store in August without paying [...]

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NEW HAVEN CT Jan 12 2010 Source: NHRegister— A rookie police officer is scheduled to face a judge later this month in connection with an alleged drunken outburst at a bar on a night when he was supposed to be working. He will face the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday, however, to determine whether he [...]

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Minneapolis MN Jan 11 2010 By: Brett Davis/ Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Authorities have arrested one of their own and accuse him of being an armed robber. Police said that the 28-year-old Minneapolis police officer may be connected to a string of local robberies was arrested Thursday, Jan. 7. Timothy Edward Carson was booked [...]

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MANNING, SC Jan 11 2010(WIS) – A Manning Elementary School employee has been charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor. According to an incident report, on December 22, 2009, 44-year-old John Raleigh Nelson, Jr., was arrested in the parking lot of a McDonald’s in Manning. The report states a woman asked Nelson if he [...]

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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. Jan 11 2010(AP) – A 43-year-old western Nebraska teacher has been charged in two counties with first-degree sexual assault of a child. Shaun Kissack was recently arrested in Grand Island and has been charged in Hall and Cheyenne Counties. Investigators say Kissack had sexually abused a person under 12 over the last [...]

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NEWMAN, CA Jan 11 2010 source:newmanwire - A Stanislaus County high school teacher was arrested and faces charges after allegedly carrying on a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student at the school, according to Newman police. Daniel John Burgin, 36, of Newman was arrested and booked into Stanislaus County Jail Friday on nearly 100 counts of [...]

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ST. Louis MO Jan 11 2010 A St. Louis man was killed early today in a head-on collision in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70. Michael E. Owens, 35, of the 3600 block of South Compton Avenue, died this morning after being struck by a driver heading west in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70. [...]

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Montgomery AL Jan 11 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Officers responding to a report of gunfire at a local nightclub at around 11:30pm found two people dead in the parking lot. Police have identified the victims as Michael Montgomery, 38, of Coosada and James Poole, 17, of Montgomery. Montgomery, who was head [...]

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JACKSON, MS Jan 11 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Authorities said that a security officer came to the aid of a shooting victim involved in an altercation at a Jackson convenience store. Shortly after three o’clock Saturday morning officers responded to Jubilee Food Mart in the 3200 block of Highway 80 where [...]

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LEESBURG Jan 10 2010 Daily Commercial News– A man allegedly beaten with a pool cue Tuesday outside a restaurant by a bouncer and found on the street in a pool of his own blood is in stable condition. Leesburg police Capt. Rob Hicks said Robert Hamer did not sustain any life threatening injuries in the [...]

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Corporal James Szuba Mishawaka Police Department Indiana End of Watch: Saturday, January 9, 2010 Biographical Info Age: 42 Tour of Duty: 7 years, 10 months Badge Number: Not available Incident Details Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Date of Incident: Saturday, January 9, 2010 Weapon Used: Automobile; Alcohol involved Suspect Info: Not available Corporal James Szuba [...]

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ALBUQUERQUE NM Jan 9 2010 (AP) – Police are investigating the death of an employee at an Albuquerque Wal-Mart who collapsed following a shoplifting incident at the store. Police say David Johnson died in a store office where two shoplifting suspects were being held Saturday after allegedly trying to steal $28 worth of merchandise. Johnson [...]

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Muhlenberg Township PA Jan 9 2010 A Reading woman’s bail was revoked after she stole a sweater at a Muhlenberg Township store on her way to a preliminary hearing on a retail theft charge, officials said Thursday. Security officers at Burlington Coat Factory in Fairgrounds Square Mall stopped Deanna L. Gomez, 29, of the 400 [...]

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North Little Rock AR Jan 9 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police say that an attempted robbery turned deadly Thursday night when two men entered a store and tried to rob it. Officers say two black males threatened clerks at Dodge’s Store on East Broadway with a gun, and demanded money. Sgt. [...]

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Orlando Fla Jan 9 2010 Orange County deputies are investigating the robbery of an armored car outside a Bank of America branch this afternoon, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies were called to the bank at 7220 W. Sand Lake Road about 12:30 p.m. Witnesses told deputies that a white or Hispanic male pulled [...]

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Fairfax VA Jan 9 2010 Tom Jackman Washington Post A former Fairfax County police officer, whose wife was slain in 1991, was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison for abducting her twice in the months before her death, but he has not been charged with killing her. Bruce Webster, 69, a former patrol officer [...]

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GENESEO NY Jan 9 2010 By:Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ —-Authorities have arrested a substitute teacher in Mt. Morris after officers say that he sent indecent material to a minor. Investigators said that they were notified of the incident and arrested Adam Steen, 24, of Mt. Morris Friday. Steen also served as a volunteer [...]

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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine Jan 9 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Two women are in South Portland police custody after they were involved in a purse-snatching at the Maine Mall. Police said Terroni tried to distract a woman at the food court Friday while Snowdon grabbed her purse but the woman noticed what [...]

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LONG BEACH CA Jan 9 2010 Source:Telegram Press– Children played happily Saturday in the street outside an apartment complex on the 500 block of East Pleasant Street, oblivious to the horror that occurred inside Friday night when a 7-year-old boy was stabbed to death. The boy was killed at about 9 p.m. Friday. His 27-year-old [...]

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CHESTER PA Jan 7 2010 — On most nights when Richard Gibney is fulfilling his duties as an emergency medical technician at Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack, he is tending to scrapes, scratches and bruised knees. But two days after Christmas, the 23-year-old security guard found himself at the center of life-saving efforts for a [...]

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SACRAMENTO CA Jan 7 20101 FOX40.com – A teacher at Sierra Oaks Elementary School in Sacramento County has been arrested, accused of performing lewd acts on multiple children. Investigators arrested 25-year-old instructor Shane Vicars shortly after 3:00pm Wednesday following allegations the teacher had inappropriate contact with minors. Vicars was an after-school instructor for the Discovery [...]

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Myrtle Beach SC Jan 7 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police say that a 39-year-old female school teacher has been charged in Brunswick County after an investigation into child rape. Police officials say that a teacher has been charged with three sexual assault related charges that involved a 15-year-old student, according to [...]

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MIAMI FLA Jan 7 2010 Source: AirportSecurity NEWS- A Toledo man was taken off a Detroit-bound jet and arrested Wednesday night after making racially threatening comments and taking a “combative posture” toward city police who responded to Miami International Airport, authorities said. Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of 1216 North Ontario St., was charged with disorderly [...]

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Phoenix AZ Jan 7 2010 Two 19-year-old charter-school students were shot and a 10-year-old was slightly injured Thursday afternoon as they left Esperanza Community Collegial Academy in north Phoenix. The two 19-year-old victims suffered “non-life-threatening injuries” and were taken to an area hospital, said Officer Luis Samudio, a Phoenix police spokesman. The 10-year-old was also [...]

Salina KS Jan 6 2010 Source: Salina.com A security guard’s observation of a suspicious vehicle led members of the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force to two active methamphetamine labs in Salina Tuesday. Two Salina men were arrested in connection with the labs — one in a house and a portable lab in a pickup truck, Lt. [...]

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Cleveland OH Jan 6 2010 Inappropriate “horseplay” with a juvenile offender and not institutional understaffing led to the death of a Cleveland-area youth corrections officer, an investigation unveiled yesterday concluded. The Ohio Department of Youth Services found that guard William Hesson, 39, died at the Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility after 17-year-old inmate Hubert Morgan [...]

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