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Monthly Archives: April 2010

MONTICELLO NY April 8 2010 – A 20-year-old physical education teacher at the Light and Life Christian Academy in Liberty has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing children. Sullivan County Sheriff’s officials said Joshua DiMeo was arrested on April 1 when he went to the home of a 13-year-old female victim with the intention [...]

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CORAL GABLES FL April 8 2010 (CBS4) ―       Coral Gables police released surveillance video Thursday of a jewelry store heist that involved a ruse in which one of the thieves appeared to be wheelchair bound. The release of the surveillance video comes nearly two weeks after the March 27th incident. That morning, police say [...]

Pasco County, Florida April 7 2010– A drunk driver caused a crash that left an armored car overturned in Pasco County Tuesday afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The crash happened at Dale Mabry Highway and US 41. Investigators say the armored car flipped over several times after getting hit by a sedan. Both drivers [...]

Miami Fla April 7 2010 The family of a 39-year-old security guard shot and killed last month outside a Miami nightclub is joining Miami police department officials on Wednesday in pleading for the public’s help in finding the suspected killer. Relatives of Luis Diaz, along with Miami homicide detectives, are urging the public to help [...]

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ONTARIO, Calif. April 7 2010 (CBS/AP) Westminster Police Officer Anthony Nicholas Orban swore to protect his community and defend the rights of citizens, but he allegedly failed to uphold that oath. He is accused of abducting a 24-year-old woman from a mall parking lot in Ontario, Calif., forcing her to drive to a commercial complex [...]

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VIRGINIA BEACH VA April 7 2010 A security guard was injured Monday morning when a gunman opened fire in the parking lot of a Haygood nightclub, police said Tuesday. The shooting was the second in the past week near Hartz Cafe, at 1049 Independence Blvd. Both incidents occurred between 2:15 and 2:30 a.m., and both [...]

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Dallas TX April 7 2010 A private security guard shot at a man stealing her pickup outside the Dallas municipal courts building this afternoon, police said. Guard shoots at car thief The shooting occurred about 2 p.m. in the 2000 block of Main Street when the woman saw the robber driving away in her blue [...]

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COWPENS, S.C. April 7 2010 (AP) — Three volunteer firefighters in South Carolina have been charged with setting a mobile home on fire last month. Spartanburg County deputies told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg that 21-year-old William Dustin Crisp and two 16-year-old men were arrested late Monday on second-degree arson charges. The men are members of [...]

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GREEN BAY WI APRIL 7 2010 Police say inappropriate text messages between former teacher Ryan Zellner and his victims date back to 2007 and Zellner had sexual contact with multiple female students…sometimes right on school grounds. Zellner is behind bars in Manitowoc County jail, accused of sexually assaulting multiple female students at Kiel High School. [...]

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Augusta County VA April 7 2010 Source: Associated Press A phone tipster led authorities to the man charged in Monday’s shotgun attack on two Blue Ridge Parkway sunset gazers. The suspect was arrested today by Augusta County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team officers, authorities said. The suspect, Ralph Leon Jackson, 56, was arrested about 3:15 p.m. [...]

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Houston TX April 7 2010 Two men have been arrested and accused in the slaying last month of an off-duty security guard outside a restaurant in southwest Houston. Andres Morales, 24, and Eduardo Ramirez Cortez, 28, are charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of Manuel Rangel Aguirre, 47, in the 8000 block of [...]

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BIRMINGHAM, AL April 6 2010(WBRC) – A man suspected of shoplifting and leading police on a high-speed chase that ended with a deadly car crash was charged Tuesday with murder. Birmingham Police, in a statement to FOX6 News, said Christopher Mitchell, 21, of Hayden, had been charged with the murder of Pamela Cupps, 51, of [...]

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SAN ANGELO, Texas April 6 2010— Two women are accused of robbing the Sherwood Way Walmart on Saturday after a run-in with Walmart security personnel, San Angelo police said. According to a police news release, a store security officer saw a woman put items in her purse and then leave without paying for them. She [...]

Clarksville TN April 6 2010 Clarksville police arrested a 17 -year-old teen today after their investigation revealed he set fire to toilet paper in the aisle K-mart. According to a news release from Officer Jim Knoll, spokesman for Clarksville Police, the 17-year-old was charged with aggravated arson for starting the fire at K-mart located at [...]

Riverside CA April 6 2010 Local police were looking for at least two men who wounded an armored-car guard Monday outside a Bank of America branch in the Canyon Crest area and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police were called at 12:51 p.m. to the Town Centre shopping complex after shots were fired, [...]

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Tulsa OK April 6 2010 – A man is in jail after officials say he threatened to detonate a bomb inside Tulsa International Airport Sunday evening. Timothy Harlow Hathaway was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on a complaint of threatening a violent act with an explosive. He is being held without bond pending a [...]

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Louisville KY April 6 2010 Source:Courier-Journal.com Paul Barth, the longtime McMahan Fire chief who chaired the Crusade for Children’s board of directors, has been indicted on federal charges of embezzling at least $189,000 in Crusade funds. Barth, 53, faces 16 charges accusing him of taking the money from a fire district account earmarked for the [...]

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HOUSTON TX April 6 2010 By: RICK MCCANN/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com – Police say that they have responded to a robbery attempt at a local business overnight. According to detectives two masked suspects whose plan to rob a northwest Houston drug store was foiled by an armed security guard. The two suspects walked into [...]

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OFFICER DOWN Police Officer Hector Ayala Montgomery County Police Department Maryland End of Watch: Sunday, April 4, 2010 Biographical Info Age: 31 Tour of Duty: 7 years Badge Number: Not available Incident Details Cause of Death: Automobile accident Date of Incident: Sunday, April 4, 2010 Weapon Used: Not available Suspect Info: Not available Officer Hector [...]

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LIVINGSON, Tenn. April 6 2010 – An Overton County Sheriff’s deputy has died after falling into a sinkhole near Hilham, about 9 miles west of Livingston. Deputy Chad Pritchard was searching for a body in a cold case homicide Tuesday morning. He was on Rocky Mound Road in Hilham near Standing Stone State Park when [...]

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Carrollton GA April 5 2010 Two security guards at a Carrollton nightclub killed a 26-year-old man early Sunday after he shot one of them while aiming for someone else, authorities said. The guards shot Octavis Mabry of Carrollton at least twice in the chest after he wounded Kevin Ridley, 23, of Decatur outside L.C.’s Lounge, [...]

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NEW YORK April 5 2010 (UPI) — An night of annual Easter night “nonsense” at New York’s Times Square included gunfire, injuries and 54 arrests, a security guard said. Police said young adults roamed Sunday night into early Monday through the area, storming businesses and harassing pedestrians. Three people were shot in violence possibly related [...]

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MEMPHIS, TN (APRIL 4 2010 WMC-TV) – Two security guards were shot late Friday night at a popular South Memphis skating rink. Memphis police said the shooting happened just after 10:00 p.m. at the Crystal Palace on South Third. According to police, two security guards were shot as they broke up a disturbance in the [...]

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PORTLAND, Ore. April 4 2010 (AP) — A district attorney has denied access to records from a police investigation into the death of a 6-year-old Oregon girl who a medical examiner concluded committed suicide. Brad Berry, the DA in Yamhill County, southwest of Portland, said in a letter to The Associated Press that the public [...]

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. April 4 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Authorities in Greene County Alabama said that Sheriff Ison Thomas has died on Saturday morning of cancer. Sheriff’s Department officer Chaquita Davis said Thomas died at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa. Thomas was elected sheriff of the west Alabama county in 2006. No [...]

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DAYTON, Ohio April 4 2010– A security guard who was shot outside a Dayton apartment complex on Tuesday died on Saturday. Jim Locker, who worked with Moonlight Security, died from injuries sustained after being shot outside Western Manor Apartments on James H. McGee Boulevard. Dayton police said Christopher Beatty Jones opened fire on Locker and [...]

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Greenville April 4 2010 A Greenville nightclub security guard was shot in the leg while on duty early Saturday after refusing entry to a young man, he said. Johnnie Franklin Barnhill, 43, was working at the door of the Hillsdale nightclub at 1421 Hillsdale Street at 12:30 a.m. when a young man tried to gain [...]

TRENTON, N.J. April 4 2010 — Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state’s capital, police said. Details of the arrests were announced at a Saturday evening news conference outside police [...]

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CLEVELAND OH April 3 2010 — Cleveland Browns nose tackle Shaun Rogers has been charged with carrying a concealed weapon after he allegedly tried to take a handgun through airport security. A Cleveland city prosecutor filed the fourth-degree felony charge Friday. It alleges that Rogers carried a .45-caliber Kimber semiautomatic with eight rounds in his [...]

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MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. April 3 2010– A parolee from Texas who was being extradited to California attempted to kill an extradition agent during an escape, sheriff’s officials said. Nakiea McAfee, 32, was being extradited Thursday from Texas to California to stand trial for sexual assault and kidnapping charges.At about 9:30 p.m., McAfee tried to escape [...]

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