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Monthly Archives: April 2010

24/04/10 GA. KMart gay sex hotspot www.privateofficer.com

BUFORD, Ga. April 24 2010– Gwinnett County police are investigating whether the Kmart in Buford is a known location for male sex after more arrests were made this week. “I mean that’s just crazy,” said Rod Bradley, after CBS Atlanta informed the shopper that two men were arrested Tuesday for having oral sex in the [...]

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24/04/10 Run-away spends night at Bed,Bath & Beyond www.privateofficer.com

ROSEVILLE, Mich. — Police said a 15-year-old boy spent Wednesday night inside a Bed Bath & Beyond store, WDIV-TV in Detroit reported. Investigators said the boy ran away from home and walked into the store just before closing time. He went undetected as employees locked up the store for the night. Police said the boy found [...]

23/04/10 Corrections officer killed, wife shot in custody dispute www.privateofficer.com

HAMILTON NJ April 23 2010 Source:NJ.com — The manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a New Jersey Corrections Officer and wounding of his wife this morning ended this afternoon when police found the man in a Ewing Township cemetery and he committed suicide, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Ralph Johnson, [...]

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23/04/10 Coast Guard calls off search for missing oil rig workers www.privateofficer.com

NEW ORLEANS LA April 23 2010– Coast Guard officials on Friday suspended the three-day search for 11 workers missing since an explosion rocked an offshore oil rig, saying they believe the men never made it off the platform that erupted into a giant fireball. Coast Guard Capt. Peter Troedsson said he spoke with all the [...]

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23/04/10 Mall security chase jewelry thief www.privateofficer.com

Trumbell CT April 23 2010 One person is under arrest after a frightening jewelry heist at a crowded mall in Trumbull. Four men ran into Harstans Jewelers inside the Westfield Shoppingtown in Trumbull Thursday night dressed in dark clothes, began smashing the glass display cabinets and stole dozens of pieces of jewelry, police said. At [...]

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23/04/10 Mall security officer suffers broken leg in theft attempt www.privateofficer.com

KENTWOOD, Mich. April 23 2010 (WZZM) – A Woodland Mall security guard is hospitalized with a broken leg after chasing a suspected shoplifter. Around 10:30 a.m. Friday, a female guard was trying to stop a woman suspected of stealing merchandise. As the suspect drive off, police say she hit the security guard with a vehicle, [...]

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23/04/10 Boy Scouts of America must pay $18.5 million in sex abuse case www.privateofficer.com

PORTLAND, Ore.April 23 2010 AP — A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to a man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in what is believed to be the largest such award against the organization. Lawyers for Kerry Lewis had asked the jury to award at least [...]

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23/04/10 Fla security guard nabbed in porn arrests www.privateofficer.com

POLK COUNTY, Fla. April 23 2010 Polk County officials arrested dozens in a child pornography investigation, including an Isleworth Country Club security guard. Cutting edge software is making it easier for law enforcement across the state of Florida to target those suspected of downloading and trading child porn, according to Polk County detectives. A high-profile [...]

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23/04/10 Teacher charged with having sex with 14yr old student www.privateofficer.com

LAUDERHILL, Fla.April 23 2010 (WSVN) — Police have arrested a former Lauderhill Middle School teacher for allegedly having a year-long relationship with a 14-year-old male student. Police arrested 25-year-old Kristen Sullivan Tuesday, after the 14-year-old boy’s mother found out the two were allegedly having sex. Sullivan’s former students came to her defense Thursday afternoon. “She [...]

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23/04/10 Ala. troopers foil kidnapping www.privateofficer.com

EVERGREEN, AL April 23 2010 (WSFA) – A note and the keen eye of an Alabama State Trooper are being credited for finding three kidnapping victims. The hunt started after someone found a letter in the women’s bathroom of a south Alabama truck stop. It said the woman and her children had been kidnapped and [...]

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23/04/10 Men rob Fla. mall, hold officer at gunpoint www.privateofficer.com

St. Augustine Fla April 23 2010 Three men are in custody and one remains a fugitive following an early Friday morning burglary to a store in the Prime Outlets mall off Interstate 95 in St. Augustine. The St. Johns Sheriff’s Office said a security guard discovered the burglary to the Gucci store about 2:30 a.m. [...]

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23/04/10 Security guard training school under attack www.privateofficer.com

CHICAGO IL April 23 2010 (CBS) ― West Side businessman Paul Villareal says his security-guard training center has been beseiged by vandalism and threatening words from one city official. There has always been friction between between Paul Villareal and his neighbors. But the visit by a notorious political operative, nicknamed by one newspaper columnist “little [...]

22/04/10 Henry County police officer dies in wreck www.privateofficer.com

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. April 22 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com The Georgia Highway Patrol is investigating a fatality accident late last night involving a Henry County police officer. Authorities say that Police Officer James Jimmy Franklin Carter Jr., was killed Wednesday night in a traffic accident on his way in to work. [...]

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22/04/10 Security officer shoots armed man www.privateofficer.com

Chicago IL April 22 2010 A man was shot by a security guard after he lunged at people with a knife late Wednesday in the West Side Austin neighborhood. About 10:30 p.m., a security guard shot a 31-year-old man in the leg when the man lunged at employees with a knife in the 5100 block [...]

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22/04/10 Boston police turn up heat on civilian flaggers www.privateofficer.com

Boston MA April 22 2010 Source: boston.com Lynn Williams, a construction worker in a yellow vest, was standing in the middle of a South Boston intersection, holding a sign warning drivers to slow down, when police showed up and ordered her to stop, she said. “They threatened to arrest me,’’ she said. “Wasn’t that nice [...]

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22/04/10 Philly cop arrested for exposing self on duty www.privateofficer.com

Philadelphia PA April 22 2010 A Philadelphia police officer was arrested Wednesday on charges that he exposed himself to a woman while on duty. Officer Joseph Harvey, a seven-year member of the force, also has been suspended for 30 days with intent to dismiss. Harvey, 35, is charged with indecent exposure, official oppression and false [...]

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22/04/10 Woman bites FBI agent during Delta flight www.privateofficer.com

ATLANTA GA April 22 2010– A Lithonia woman is in trouble after authorities said she yelled racial epithets at a pregnant woman and bit a federal agent during a Delta flight from Atlanta to New York. FBI officials said it happened Sunday on Flight 1788. In a complaint filed in federal court, FBI special agent [...]

22/04/10 Woman caught stealing baby at NC hospital www.privateofficer.com

Durham, N.C.April 22 2010 — A woman accused of trying to abduct an infant from a Duke University Hospital nursery planned a similar crime in Henderson, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Tanisha Weaver, 28, of 18 Shannon Road in Louisburg, is charged with abduction of children. District Judge Brian Wilks raised her bond from $20,000 to [...]

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22/04/10 Atlanta therapist arrested for swindling patients www.privateofficer.com

ATLANTA GA April 22 2010 Source:news2– An Atlanta therapist accused of swindling her patients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars is now in jail. Buckhead therapist Colleen Higgins was arrested in an Iowa motel, she’d been on the run for a year. She was booked in an Iowa jail and faces multiple counts of [...]

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22/04/10 Ga. jail break-3 prisoners on the loose www.privateofficer.com

COLUMBUS, Ga. April 22 2010— Authorities are looking for three Georgia inmates they say escaped through a faulty window at Harris County Jail Monday night and could be headed for Texas and Alabama. Sheriff Mike Jolley says 37-year-old Joe William Seaborn and 21-year-old Jamaal Hakeem Castille left through a window around 9:30 p.m. He says [...]

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22/04/10 Gunmen kidnap guests, security guard from hotels www.privateofficer.com

MEXICO CITY April 22 2010— Armed men raided two hotels in the center of Monterrey, Mexico’s industrial capital, early Wednesday morning, hauling away four guests and as many as three staff members and sending a wave of panic across a city that has experienced a spate of violent episodes in recent weeks, the authorities said. [...]

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21/04/10 Alabama cop gets probation in sex crimes

FLAGLER BEACH FL APRIL 21 2010 A former Alabama police officer arrested during a “Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator” sting in Flagler Beach in 2006 was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years’ sex offender probation. Todd Spikes, 44, also must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. The sentencing was part [...]

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21/04/10 American School for the Deaf teacher arrested www.privateofficer.com

WEST HARTFORD, Conn.April 21 2010 Source: News 3 — A student teacher at the American School For The Deaf in West Hartford has been arrested on charges he had an inappropriate relationship with a minor while in New York. New York state police said Micah Brown, 30, was arrested Wednesday after a two-month investigation. Police [...]

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21/04/10 Prison towers being replaced by cameras www.privateofficer.com

CAMP HILL, Pa.April 21 2010 Source: AP — In the movies, it’s the prison guard perched in the perimeter tower who spots the escaped prisoner and sounds the alarm. In reality, video cameras and electrified fences are replacing the watchful, pacing corrections officer. As prisons across the country look to reduce manpower and cut costs, [...]

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21/04/10 Dozens injured, 11 missing in LA. oil rig explosion www.privateofficer.com

NEW ORLEANS LA April 21 2010 – An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing. Most of the 126 workers on the rig Deepwater Horizon were believed to have escaped safely after the [...]

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21/04/10 Harmony teacher arrested for sex with student www.privateofficer.com

Atoka County Okl. April 21 2010 Shocking news out of Atoka County as a teacher with Harmony schools near Atoka was arrested for sex with a minor student. Atoka County Undersheriff Tony Taylor said as deputies investigated the alleged incident, 24-year-old teacher Samuel Bellows came to the sheriff’s office and confessed to the crime. He [...]

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21/04/10 Spencer NC teacher arrested for sex offenses with student www.privateofficer.com

SPENCER NC April 21 2010 Source:Salisbury News — Police arrested a former North Rowan High School teacher and coach this morning on charges of sex offenses involving a student. Zachary Greene, 29, is charged with three counts of sex offense with a student, a felony, said Sgt. Eric Ennis, acting chief of the Spencer Police Department. [...]

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21/04/10 Police voice concern over security at hospital www.privateofficer.com

San Mateo CA April 21 2010 Source: Daily Journal An alleged rape of a 23-year-old female psychiatric patient by another patient with a long criminal history highlights the high frequency in which the San Mateo Police Department responds to the county hospital for a variety of calls including patient assaults against hospital staff or sexual [...]

21/04/10 DeKalb County cutting security due to budget www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA April 21 2010 DeKalb County will run out of money to pay for security by the end of month if it continues at its current staffing level, officials said on Tuesday. In response, the county is now trimming security at 13 county buildings, including the DeKalb Grady Health Center, senior centers and several [...]

21/04/10 Atlanta engineer arrested for shoplifting www.privateofficer.com

ATLANTA GA April 21 2010 (MyFOX ATLANTA) – A Wal-Mart greeter turned the tables on a city of Atlanta engineer who police said tried to steal a low priced electronics item. Samuel Oliver is a veteran employee of 21 years with the government and his arrest has sparked a widening investigation. Oliver was an engineer [...]

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