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Monthly Archives: May 2010

WEST MEMPHIS ARK MAY 20 2010(CNN) — Two police officers were fatally shot and another two were wounded Thursday in two separate shootings allegedly by the same suspects in West Memphis, Arkansas, police said. The suspects, who were using an assault weapon, were themselves fatally shot. The incident began around 11:40 a.m. (12:40 p.m. ET), [...]

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Columbus Oh May 20 2010 A shoplifter was sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison yesterday for stealing from an East Side store before trying to escape by ramming an undercover police officer’s van. On Tuesday, Homer Hendrix, 37, of Meridian Road on the East Side, was found guilty of aggravated robbery and robbery [...]

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HOLYOKE, Mass.May 20 2010 (WWLP) – A shoplifting arrest at the Holyoke Mall resulted in the apprehension of an attempted murder suspect from South Carolina. Holyoke Police Chief Anthony Scott told 22News, police arrested 31-year old Ira Paul Tuesday on a shoplifting complaint at the Target store. Target’s Corporate Loss Prevention said Paul and two [...]

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — May 20 2010 source:KOAT Corporate retailers and police agencies held a summit Wednesday in Albuquerque on how to stop a growing shoplifting problem. Major retailers such as Walmart, Walgreens, and Target were at the summit, showing that shoplifting is a huge concern for stores– and it’s not just kids stealing a pack [...]

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EVANS, Ga.May 20 2010 – The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office is looking for an accused shoplifter. On May 6, a man entered the Kohl’s department store at Mullins Crossing in Evans. A Kohl’s loss prevention employee noticed that the man took several different types of clothing into the dressing room, but the employee stated the [...]

Barboursville WV May 20 2010 Police reports from the Barboursville Police Department provided the following information: Officers investigated eight shoplifting complaints since Wednesday, May 12, including that day’s arrest of Ray Anthony Dwayne Davis. The 22-year-old from Salt Rock was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting, receiving/transferring stolen property, battery, possession of a controlled substance and public [...]

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Fairlawn OH May 20 2010 By:Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police say that a shoplifter fleeing the Summit Mall struck a mall security officer with her vehicle injuring the officer. Arrest warrants have been issued for 41-year-old Elizabeth A. Barkly of Akron who police have been able to identify as the driver of the [...]

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Nashville, TN May 20 2010- Nashville Metro Youth Services detectives late Monday night booked a 27-year-old West Nashville woman on a charge of criminal homicide for killing her newborn son in March. Rachel Meadows was located last night on 54th Avenue North and was arrested without incident. On March 3, the police department received notification [...]

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Puerto Rico May 20 2010 Legendary golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez and his wife were robbed at gunpoint early today by four men who broke into his Puerto Rico home, bound the couple and fled with cash, jewelry and other items, according to a report on TMZ.com Rodriguez, 74, told TMZ that the men were in [...]

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HENRY COUNTY, Ind.May 20 2010 (WISH) – Police say a former Henry County Hospital security guard groped a patient. The alleged incident took place April 5, but the arrest was made earlier this week. Andy Wilson, 44, is charged with one count of sexual battery. Since 2004, Wilson worked at the Henry County Hospital as [...]

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AURORA CO May 20 2010 With a bloody bandage on his hand, Trevor Stewart calmly approached a Jefferson County security guard late last month and confessed to killing his father. “I’m going to be honest with you,” Stewart, 22, said when the guard asked about the blood. “I just killed my dad.” That exchange and [...]

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Atlanta GA May 202010 source:ACJ.com A Florida man tried to bring a loaded handgun through a security checkpoint at the Fulton County Courthouse, authorities announced Wednesday. Douglas Fitzgerald, 43, of Cantonment, was carrying a .44-caliber Magnum with six hollow point bullets in a leather bag that he placed on the scanner, Fulton County Sheriff Ted [...]

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Berks PA May 202010 Mark D. Groff, a campus police officer at Penn State Berks, strained to find the words to describe what his recent professional award means to him. Groff, 39, is the recipient of the 2010 law enforcement officer award given by the American Society for Industrial Security’s Schuylkill Valley Chapter No. 128. [...]

Travis County TX May 20 2010 A man was arrested Wednesday at Travis County’s Criminal Justice Complex after telling security guards he was carrying a bomb. Police said Richard Allen Dougherty pointed to a bag going through security and told a deputy there was a bomb inside. He later said he was joking but was [...]

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Tampa Fla May 20 2010 A man was shot dead late Wednesday outside MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, according to myFOXtampabay.com. The victim was reportedly killed by security guards outside the Dale Mabry gate of the base at around 6:45pm. He had tried to crash through the gate, and charged at an FBI agent [...]

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BRADENTON BEACH FLA May 20 2010 Security guard William Bennett had no idea who they were at first. All he knew was that managers at the Tortuga Inn told him to ask the rowdy guests to settle down. When he did, an argument started, which led to a call to the Bradenton Beach police department, [...]

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MIAMI FLA May 20 2010 — A Miami-Dade police officer and two other men face several charges for what authorities say was the orchestrated theft of a man’s gambling winnings. The arrest warrant says Det. John Villar Jr. pulled over a car on April 28. Villar was in plain clothes, wearing a police badge and [...]

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Louisville KY May 20 2010 A city waste management employee ending her shift Wednesday afternoon was struck and killed by a garbage truck at the Louisville Metro Solid Waste Management facility in the 600 block of Meriwether Avenue, police said. The employee was identified as Darlene Brown, 51, of the 1200 block of E. Burnett [...]

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RACINE WI May 20 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com – Police from multiple cities and towns have responded to a location outside a night club in Racine where a security guard was reportedly shot. Police said that there were numerous shots fired during a large fight in the parking lot outside Park [...]

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Salisbury MD May 19 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Police are reporting the arrest of a local teacher for sexually assaulting a 13 year old female. Investigators say that the female was not a student but the biological daughter of the teacher. Police are not saying how they came to begin their [...]

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HOUSTON TX May 19 2010 – A Houston police officer has died from injuries received in a rollover crash on the I-45 feeder road. It happened Tuesday around 11:45 p.m. near East Troy Street. Police said Officer Eydelmen Mani, 30, was assisting in a chase when he left the road, ran over signs, slammed into [...]

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Geneva IL May 19 2010 Norberto Trujillo-Zuno, 49, of the 1600 block of South 13th Avenue, was charged Saturday with simple assault and retail theft, according to a police report. Police responded to a report of a retail theft in progress at Meijer, 855 S. Randall Road, that involved a man running from the store [...]

Atlanta GA May 19 2010 by:Frosty Wooldridge When the rate of immigration exceeds the rate of assimilation as it accelerates in the United States today, our civilization stands in the cross-hairs of deadly consequences. Paris, France illustrates a clue to our own future. Sydney, Australia brings it home like gang busters. Holland’s Theo Van Gogh [...]

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Atlanta GA May 19 2010 Two Birmingham women who posed as police officers to scam elderly people have been arrested, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. The women, Katina Jetuan Jones, 39, and Paula A. Youngblood, 55, are accused of swindling two Fayette County residents and one Clayton County resident. The suspects are being [...]

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Trenton NJ May 19 2010 Trenton’s schools were reportedly left without security guards Monday when all of them apparently called out of work on the same day. The Trentonian reported that, the city’s Police Department was called in to provide security. The “sick-out” comes as the guards and other school workers face layoffs in a [...]

TAMPA Fla May 19 2010 — Two days after a grave was found disturbed at Woodlawn Cemetery, police arrested a man at the graveyard Tuesday night with bones in his backpack. A security guard spotted Andres Sotelo Rivero, 41, and another man walking away from the disturbed grave Tuesday night and told them to stop, [...]

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MILWAUKEE WI May 19 2010 Source:WISN Milwaukee County’s privatization efforts have raised questions about what the county knows about those doing its work. WISN 12 News learned a security guard paid to transport patients is serving prison time for sexually assaulting one of them. The private security guard was paid by a county contractor. Two [...]

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Nogales AZ May 19 2010 A Nogales police officer has been arrested on charges that he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl. Officer Mariano Garibay is charged with “several counts” of sexual conduct with a minor, according to a police department news release. According to the release, the department received information regarding the [...]

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BEDFORD, N.Y.May 19 2010 — The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was charged with drunken driving after a police officer saw her run over a curb outside a suburban school, authorities said Tuesday. Police had responded to the Kennedy home twice in the week before the arrest but said no crimes had been committed [...]

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Chesapeake VA May 19 2010 Court documents reveal 31-year-old Michael Boyd was arrested Monday for sending nude pictures of himself to someone he believed to be a 16-year-old girl. The case against Chesapeake Police Officer Michael Boyd started one week ago with a call to police. Court documents obtained by NewsChannel 3 only say the [...]

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