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Monthly Archives: January 2010

ERIE, Pa. Jan 6 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ A fire at an area casino was discovered by a security officer and State police have arrested an Ohio man for allegedly setting the fire. Police said that the fire was set to a restroom at the Presque (presk) Isle Downs & Casino [...]

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Fontana CA Jan 6 2010 A 43-year-old teacher is in jail this morning after being arrested for investigation of inappropriately touching two girls at Dale Elementary School in Fontana, according to city police. Clark Alexander Mahoney was arrested at 4:30 p.m. Monday and booked into West Valley Detention Center for on suspicion of committing a [...]

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Deputy Sheriff Josie Greathouse Fox Millard County Sheriff’s Office Utah End of Watch: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 Biographical Info Age: 38 Tour of Duty: Not available Badge Number: Not available Incident Details Cause of Death: Gunfire Date of Incident: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type Suspect Info: At large Deputy Josie Fox [...]

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Niagara NY Jan 5 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Security officers at a local casino charged Timothy Day, 50, 1626 Genesee St., Buffalo, with disorderly conduct at 7:19 p.m. Saturday after causing a disturbance at Seneca Niagara Casino. Police responded to the casino and spoke to security officers, who reported Day was [...]

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ORCHARD PARK NY Jan 5 2010 An Olean man passed out and collapsed on a snowbank, with his two children and a third child standing around him crying after Sunday’s Buffalo Bills game in Orchard Park, authorities said. Jeffrey A. Miles, 34, was charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, Orchard [...]

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SAN JOSE CA JAN 5 2010 A security guard at the Fry’s Electronics store in San Jose was stabbed Monday evening by a suspected shoplifter, according to police. The suspected shoplifter got away. The security guard was not seriously hurt. San Jose police officer Jermaine Thomas did not provide a description of the suspect. He [...]

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MADERA, Calif. Jan 5 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ — Authorities in California are confirming the crash of a federal helicopter which killed everyone on board. The California Department of Fish and Game says three of its biologists were killed in a helicopter crash in the Sierra National Forest, and the pilot [...]

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Akron OH Jan 4 2010 Source: Ohio.comAmy Messner said her big brother, Scott Michael Roberson, had been taking care of her all of her life. Over the weekend, it was Messner who was taking care of her brother as the Cuyahoga Falls woman planned a memorial service for ”Scotty,” a CIA security officer killed by [...]

HUNTSVILLE, AL Jan 4 2009– The body of a Lacey’s Spring man was recovered at noon Sunday at Ditto Landing marina, nearly 12 hours after he jumped into the frigid Tennessee River to elude Morgan County Sheriff’s deputies. Cause of death for Gary Wayne Brown, 43, was drowning, not hypothermia, according to Madison County Coroner [...]

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BOSTON MA Jan 4 2010 A local inventor with first-hand knowledge of what’s inside Anthony Galluccio’s toothpaste is casting doubt on the state senator’s claim that dental hygiene caused him to fail a breathalyzer test, the Cambridge Chronicle reported. Galluccio, who was ordered to submit to random alcohol testing last month after he pleaded guilty [...]

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.Jan 4 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ – After a lengthy investigation involving fraud and theft, police have arrested a man and woman who was involved with stealing $25,000 from a federal program that provides meals for low-income and at-risk children. Investigators said that they became aware of a local company [...]

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QUINCY, Wash. Jan 4 2010 A Grant County Sheriff’s deputy was killed in a car crash near Quincy Sunday night. Grant County Emergency Services spokesman Kyle Foreman tells KIRO 7 that Deputy John Bernard was on routine patrol when he was involved in a one-car accident. The crash happened at SR 283 and Road #5 [...]

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LAS VEGAS NV Jan 4 2009 — A man dressed in black walked into a federal building Monday in downtown Las Vegas and opened fire with a shotgun, killing a court security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before he was shot to death in a running gunbattle. The gunfire erupted moments after 8 a.m. [...]

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HOUSTON TX Jan 3 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Police are investigating a stabbing of a security guard at Methodist Hospital. The security officer was attacked Friday night in the emergency room at the hospital but a spokesperson at the hospital said they do not know why. Methodist Hospital said thar the [...]

Myrtle Beach SC Jan 3 2010 Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Security officers working at a local nightclub called police after several armed men caused a disturbance at the club early New Year’s morning. Security officers at Club Groove on Broadway Street called police to report a man with a gun inside the club. [...]

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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. Jan 3 2009 tampabay.com – A former Pinellas County middle school teacher was arrested in New York, accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. Michael Scaringe was a respected music teacher at Bay Point Middle School until 1995, when a 15-year-old female student accused him of molesting her in his office. Scaringe was [...]

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SAINT PAUL, Minn.Jan 3 2010 — A man accused in two traumatic home invasions is now behind bars in the Ramsey County Jail. 53-year-old Michael Lee Pye has been on the run from police for nearly two weeks. He’s accused of breaking into two St. Paul homes beating up one resident and tying up another. [...]

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Atlanta GA Jan 2 2009 PRESS RELEASE The 2009 Security Officer Deaths and Injuries Report compiled by the PRIVATE OFFICER International association was released today, Thursday December 31 2009 and it showed that security officer deaths are down slightly but injury to private security officers continue to rise. The association monitors all on the job [...]

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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Jan 2 2010 —Police in northeastern Pennsylvania are searching for a suspect involved in an altercation in which a security officer was assaulted at a bar and at least one shot was fired. Police say the incident happened around 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day at the Luna Bar in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Luna [...]

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DELAND, Fla. Jan 2 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK www.privateofficer.com – Some days it just don’t pay to come to work. Ask the loss prevention agent at Bealls Outlet in Deland. Police said that when the security agent tried stopping two women who he observed shoplifting, one of them sprayed mace in [...]

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Charlotte NC Jan 2 2010 Charlotteobservor.com A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting two women in his patrol car had previously been accused of domestic violence, and in 2005 was ordered not to own or carry a firearm, according to court documents. Court records show that two women previously accused Marcus Ramon Jackson [...]

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Greensboro, N.C. Jan 2 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK http://www.privateofficer.com/ — Another North Carolina teacher is in trouble with the law for having sexual contact with a student. Police said that a Greensboro middle school teacher was arrested Wednesday and charged with sex crimes against children. Harold Robert Grant Jr., 57, of [...]

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Palm Springs CA Jan 2 2009 mydesert.com Security guard Doak Roberts can be seen patrolling the streets of Old Town La Quinta on most Friday and Saturday nights. Roberts, working a Christmas Eve day shift last week because of the holidays, enjoys the responsibilities of his job. “I patrol, I do lock-up at night,” he [...]

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Brookline MA. Jan 1 2010 A Massachusetts middle school teacher has reportedly been placed on paid administrative leave after being charged with robbing two banks. Gail Rasmussen, a 49-year-old teacher at Hollis-Brookline Middle School, was arrested and charged with two counts of unarmed robbery after turning herself into police in Concord, UnionLeader.com reports. Rasmussen, of [...]

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CHICAGO IL Jan 1 2010 (UPI) — A Chicago man said he was denied entry to one of the city’s nightclubs by a bouncer who told him the club did not allow “white boys with braids.” Austin Pedigo, 22, said he organized a party for more than a dozen friends at nightclub Soundbar complete with [...]

Dupont PA Jan 1 2009 source:timesleader.com The treasurer of a Dupont volunteer fire company who admitted to losing about a quarter million dollars gambling was charged by police Wednesday with stealing more than $60,000 from the organization’s relief association. Thomas Lyons, 31, of Main Street, Avoca, told investigators he used most of the money to gamble [...]

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Troy OH Jan 1 2010 Source: Dayton News Police say a teacher at the Upper Valley Joint Vocational School in Piqua has been arrested on suspicion of sexual contact with a student there. Capt. Chris Anderson of the Troy Police Department said Thursday, Dec. 31, that Eric Williams, 32, was arrested by a Troy police [...]

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Des Moines IA Jan 1 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police detectives said that an alert private security officer patrolling the city overnight found two kidnapped victims. Police said that they are now searching for the three people who left a mother and son out in the cold early on Friday, [...]

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Jan 1 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK www.privateofficer.com A traffic infraction has landed four Tennessee basketball players, including starting senior forward Tyler Smith, in jail overnight. Police said that all of the men are facing felony gun and misdemeanor drug charges. A Knoxville Police Department spokesperson said the 23-year-old Smith, [...]

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