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Monthly Archives: August 2010

16/08/10 Mail handler pleads guilty to stealing 11,000 packages www.privateofficer.com

HIGHLANDS RANCH CO Aug 16 2010 – An overnight mail handler stole more than 11,000 packages over two years before he was caught by federal agent. Angelo Coiro says he believes that, as an Amazon.com seller himself, some of the products he bought from Schmauder were his own intercepted packages. David Schmauder, a 48-year-old former [...]

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16/08/10 Woman charged with shoplifting 6 times in 2 days www.privateofficer.com

OREM, Utah Aug 16 2010 – Police say an Orem woman was arrested after shoplifting at least 6 times from 4 different stores over a 2-day period. Orem Police Sergeant Craig Martinez said that on Sunday, Marina Rose was arrested after she was caught shoplifting from, Walmart, Target, Smiths and Ridley’s earlier in the day. [...]

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16/08/10 Security officer assaulted during kidnap attempt www.privateofficer.com

Sioux Falls SD Aug 16 2010 A 51-year-old Sioux Falls man is in jail on five charges after police said a verbal attack got out of hand at the Albert House early Wednesday. A security guard knocked on a door at the North Phillips Avenue hotel just after midnight Wednesday when he heard a woman [...]

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16/08/10 Sacramento teacher charged with sexual assault www.privateofficer.com

Sacramento CA Aug 16 2010 A Vanden High School teacher was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Sacramento on suspicion of sexual assault. Carl Testerman, 43, of Davis, was arrested by Davis Police and booked on suspicion of eight counts of sexual battery, three counts of sexual battery with force and one count of lewd and lascivious [...]

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16/08/10 Alert security officer helps nab armed juvenile www.privateofficer.com

Sacramento CA Aug 16 2010 An alert security guard at a state office building in Sacramento helped police nab a juvenile who apparently changed his mind about throwing away a loaded gun, police said. A security guard at the 1000 block of I Street was monitoring the building via security camera when three people near [...]

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16/08/10 Mall security nabs wanted felon www.privateofficer.com

WYOMISSING, Pa. Aug 16 2010– A security guard and a mall employee helped state police in Reading catch a wanted man. It happened at the Berkshire Mall Saturday afternoon. State police say Algis Diaz was wanted on several warrants in Pennsylvania. He was spotted leaving the mall, and police pursued him on foot, so Diaz [...]

16/08/10 Store manager killed by shoplifter making a getaway www.privateofficer.com

HOUSTON TX Aug 16 2010 – Houston police say the manager of a convenience store had confronted a shoplifting suspect before being struck by the getaway driver. Shortly before 10 p.m. Friday, a male suspect entered the Chevron station on South Dairy Ashford and Brant Rock and was confronted by the manager of the store [...]

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16/08/10 Ruckus at rap concert leaves security injured, 5 arrested www.privateofficer.com

NIAGARA FALLS NY Aug 16 2010 — Five people, none of them from Niagara Falls, were arrested after a large disturbance outside the Rapids Theater on Main Street early Sunday morning. Police said they responded to calls of a fight and “security guards attempting to remove persons” from the theater which was hosting the first-ever [...]

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15/08/10 Seminole teacher arrested for having sex with student www.privateofficer.com

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. Aug 15 2010 A Seminole county teacher has been arrested and charged with having sex with one of his students in his classroom while he was teaching at Seminole High School. According to investigators, Craig Meyer, 42, allegedly had as many as 17 sexual encounters with a female student four years ago. [...]

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15/08/10 Martial Arts teacher arrested for molesting student www.privateofficer.com

LA MESA CA Aug 15 2010 — The owner of a martial arts school has been arrested on suspicion of repeatedly molesting one of his 13-year-old students, La Mesa police said Friday. Eric Protas, 38, was arrested Thursday morning on numerous counts of child molestation. He is being held on $1 million bail. Protas, who [...]

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15/08/10 School guard gets probation in porn case www.privateofficer.com

Lake County IL Aug 15 2010 A former security guard at Grayslake North High School admitted Friday that he asked for and received lewd photos of a 16-year-old female student at the school. Christopher Bosak, 26, was placed on probation for two years after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography. Lake County Assistant State’s [...]

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15/08/10 Concord High School Teacher Arrested www.privateofficer.com

WEST HARTFORD CT Aug 15 2010 — A Conard High School music teacher, who resigned earlier this month after allegations surfaced of sexual contact with one of his students, was arrested this afternoon and charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault, police said. West Hartford police said 42-year-old Joseph Marino of Wethersfield, an employee [...]

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15/08/10 Security shoot-kill armed man at Fla. strip club www.privateofficer.com

RIVIERA BEACH FLA AUG 15 2010 A fight inside a Palm Beach County strip club spilled into the street after a group of men were tossed out by club security, only to have one of the men pull a gun and start shooting. Police say the man refused to drop the gun when ordered by [...]

15/08/10 Texas security officer shot-suspect at large www.privateofficer.com

Montgomery County TX Aug 15 2010 Early Saturday morning around 1:15 a.m., Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Taqueria Arandas Restaurant at 25598 I-45 in South Montgomery County in reference to a shooting. Patrol Deputies arrived and found that a private security guard, Jose Maximino Benitez (34 -years-old) of Spring Texas that had [...]

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15/08/10 Off-road race kills 8, injures 12 www.privateofficer.com

LOS ANGELES CA Aug 15 2010 – An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered “bodies everywhere” moments after sailing off a jump at a California race, killing eight people and injuring 12 others, authorities and witnesses said. The crash came shortly after the start of the California 200, a Saturday evening race in [...]

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14/08/10 Flint Michigan security officer killed at apartment complex www.privateofficer.com

FLINT, Michigan Aug 14 2010— A friendly and hard-working security guard was assaulted, believed to have been shot and killed early Aug. 14 while working his patrol shift at the River Village Apartments, police said. LaGarda Security Co. guard John Andrew Mick, 53, was dead at the scene on Brookhollow Court when police responded just [...]

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14/08/10 Houston security officer shoots-kills knife wielding man www.privateofficer.com

HOUSTON TX Aug 14 2010  Police northeast Houston are investigating a deadly shooting involving a security guard. A Spartan security guard says he responded to a disturbance in an apartment on Greens Road near Wayforest. When the security guard asked the men inside to quiet down, police say one of the men threatened the guard [...]

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14/08/10 Kansas City security officer finds dead body www.privateofficer.com

Kansas City MO Aug 14 2010 By:Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ A private security officer on foot patrol discovered a dead person and notified police. KCPD has released the name of the man killed early Friday on 24th Street near Quincy Avenue. Kenny R. Warren, who lived in Kansas City, was 27 years old. [...]

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14/08/10 Private Officer International announces 2010 Uniform Contest winners!

Atlanta GA. Aug 14 2010 The Private Officer International association, a security-police organization with members across the nation and around the world recently announced the winners of their first annual Best Dressed Officer-Best Looking Patrol Vehicle contest. 1st Place Uniform-Brian Crist-Delaware 2nd Place Uniform-Robbie Judkins-Florida 1st Place Vehicle-Wausau Hospital 2nd Place Vehicle-Statewide Security Patrol See [...]

14/08/10 Restaurant shooting leaves 4 dead, 4 wounded www.privateofficer.com

BUFFALO, N.Y.Aug 14 2010 – A shooting outside a restaurant in downtown Buffalo early Saturday left four people dead and four wounded, police said. The victims were leaving a large party inside the City Grill bar and restaurant about 2:30 a.m. when gunfire erupted, police and witnesses said. Police were investigating witness reports that an [...]

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13/08/10 Serial killer nabbed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airport www.privateofficer.com

Atlanta GA Aug 13 2010 Romie Shaked was at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Wednesday night, ready to board Delta Flight 152 to Tel Aviv, when everyone was asked to wait at the gate. It was nearly 10 p.m. when the 12-year-old Israeli girl grabbed an empty seat in the terminal. Fulton County Jail Elias Abuelazam, [...]

13/08/10 Ala. inmate attacks officer, dies after scuffle www.privateofficer.com

CLAYTON, Ala. Aug 13 2010— An Alabama inmate who attacked a female guard at a rural prison died of injuries he received while being restrained by other officers, prison officials said Thursday. The death of Rocrast Donnell Mack, 24, is being investigated by the Alabama Department of Corrections and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, said [...]

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13/08/10 Motorcycle gang taunts injured trooper www.privateofficer.com

SEATTLE WA Aug 13 2010 Police are searching for a group of motorcyclists who authorities said caused a trooper to crash and then returned to the scene to taunt him as he lay trapped in his wrecked cruiser. Trooper Brian Salyer was trying to catch up to a group of motorcyclists speeding southbound on Interstate [...]

13/08/10 Fla police chief accused of having phoney degrees www.privateofficer.com

FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. Aug 13 2010 Fruitland Park’s police chief is facing a state investigation. WFTV was in Tampa Wednesday as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) found cause to look into Chief Mark Isom, who was given a raise for worthless bachelor’s and master’s degrees that came from a diploma mill. After 26 [...]

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13/08/10 Secrets may be hidden in your web photos www.privateofficer.com

New York Aug 13 2010 When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program “MythBusters,” posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more than that he drove a Toyota Land Cruiser. Embedded in the image was a geotag, a bit of data [...]

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13/08/10 Woman rams car into entrance of Ga. jail www.privateofficer.com

GORDON COUNTY, Ga.Aug 13 2010 — A 24-year-old woman tried to crash her 2005 Toyota Corolla into the front entrance of a building that houses both the Gordon County Sheriff’s Office and the county jail on Thursday, Sheriff’s Office officials said. Officials told Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Regan that instead, the woman struck [...]

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13/08/10 Police hunt woman who used homemade bomb to start hospital fire www.privateofficer.com

Miami Fla Aug 13 2010 Police are looking for someone who may have used a Molotov cocktail to start a fire inside the University of Miami Hospital. The hand made incendiary device was used to wreak havoc at the hospital last week, setting an area on the second-floor corridor near the administrative offices ablaze on [...]

13/08/10 Mother of bullied student sues school for wrongful death www.privateofficer.com

YORK VA Aug 13 2010 — — Alise Williams, mother of a Grafton High School freshman who committed suicide, has filed a $10 million wrongful death civil lawsuit against York County school and law enforcement officials. After Christian Taylor hanged himself at the family home May 31, Williams said he had been repeatedly bullied at [...]

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13/08/10 Security guard charged with impersonating police, again www.privateofficer.com

Santa Cruz CA Aug 13 2010 Last week, Officers took a report from several residents of the Nantucket Bay Apartments who complained about the private security company at their complex. They claimed a security officer had been conducting vehicle stops with a red light and issuing parking citations. Jacob Rogers (Age 21), from Coastline Security [...]

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13/08/10 Pregnant security officer assaulted by shoplifters www.privateofficer.com

Boynton Beach, FL, Aug 13 2010 – A trio of women caught shoplifting at the Boynton Beach Mall added to their legal woes when they hit a pregnant security guard in the face. Then police found marijuana on another, and discovered another woman linked to the accused had an outstanding warrant for her arrest. The [...]