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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Chester PA Sept 18 2010 Senior citizens were the target of a pair of bandits Thursday who allegedly robbed three people, carjacking one of them, in two separate incidents. In both instances, the senior citizens had crossed the bandits’ paths at a casino. One of the men, identified as Jerome Watkins, 25, of the 500 [...]

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CORPUS CHRISTI TX Sept 18 2010 — Two people injured in an explosion at a beach motel Thursday have been released from the hospital while a third, the hotel’s manager Kim Royal, remains in a San Antonio burn unit. Royal is in serious condition at Brooke Army Medical Center, friends and hospital representatives said. Fire [...]

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New Orleans LA Sept 18 2010 A security supervisor for the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots has filed a discriminatory lawsuit against his former supervisor after he lost his job for payroll fraud. Claiming violations of his civil rights, Kendrick M. Rayford filed suit against Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company on Sept. 6 in [...]

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HENDERSON NV Sept 18 2010 — An off-duty Henderson police officer shot and killed a man early this Friday during a domestic dispute. A City of Henderson spokesperson said the suspect, who was armed with a gun, confronted the woman and the 32-year-old Henderson police officer. The suspect was the estranged husband of the woman. [...]

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Cincinnati OH Sept 18 2010 A mother-daughter shopping trip in Springdale ends with the mother behind bars. Police say 38 year old Elizabeth Keller used her two daughters to help her steal hundreds of dollars worth of clothing from Dillard’s in the Tri-County Mall. Officers says Keller and her kids gathered jeans, jackets, and t-shirts [...]

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. Sept 18 2010 — Police arrested a Lawrenceville man accused of showing up drunk to the city’s municipal court to answer to previous public intoxication charges. Police charged 49-year-old Phillip Ingram with being under the influence at City Hall. It happened after an officer believed he smelled alcohol coming from Ingram Tuesday. Ingram [...]

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Houston TX Sept 18 2010 A teacher from Sealy was indicted on multiple charges by a federal grand jury Wednesday for allegedly molesting and taking pornographic pictures of children in a kindergarten class in Curacao. Stephen Wayne Sudduth, 35, is charged with engaging in illicit sexual conduct with students in a foreign country, production of [...]

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QUEENSBURY NY Sept 18 2010 — A 29-year-old woman was arrested Thursday after assaulting a security officer who confronted her as she attempted to leave a K-Mart store with stolen merchandise, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office says. Amandra Mosher was leaving a Super K-Mart store on Dix Avenue at about 5:30 p.m. when a security [...]

Marcellus NY Sept 18 2010 – Onondaga County Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested a substitute teacher in Marcellus who they say had sexual contact with a 14-year-old boy. Floyd Bailey, 70, of Kinderwood Lane in Marcellus, has been charged with a felony criminal sex act and two misdemeanors, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual [...]

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OKLAHOMA CITY OK Sept 18 2010 — Administrators at Oklahoma City Public Schools are taking some extra security precautions following the murder of a high school student. Thursday afternoon, Oklahoma City Police started piecing together the murder investigation for 16-year-old Deantwon Johnson. Johnson had been missing for a few days. Police say the body had [...]

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California Sept 17 2010 Rangers were dispatched to the Furnace Creek Ranch Resort just after 3 a.m. on September 9th to investigate a report of shots fired. The ranch is a large resort complex managed by Xanterra Corporation and is a private inholding within the park. Rangers regularly respond to the full range of emergencies [...]

BANGOR, Maine Sept 17 2010 — A campus security officer at Maine’s Husson University is facing drug charges after a Bangor police officer allegedly spotted marijuana in her briefcase. The Bangor Daily News says 29-year-old Kimberly Bailey of Bangor was charged with possession of a usable amount of marijuana and the sale or use of [...]

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Los Angeles CA Sept 17 2010 One current and two former Los Angeles Airport Police officers have filed a lawsuit accusing department officials of discriminating against white officers and giving black officers preferential treatment in promotions and disciplinary action. The suit, filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges that black officers were [...]

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Middletown, Conn. SEPT 17 2010 – School Resource Officers are being pulled out of Middletown Public schools effective immediately. The Board of Education made the move saying they don’t see eye-to-eye with the Police Department on the role of the officers. It comes just weeks after a resource office Tazered a high school student in [...]

Salem Al Sept. 16 2010 –The morning after a fire erupted at Dudley Lumber Co. in Salem, Ala., employee Cliff Roberts was mulling the emotions of seeing a major part of his workplace destroyed. “It was terrible,” he said Wednesday as embers continued to send a slight draft of smoke into the air. “It’s like [...]

Dothan AL Sept 17 2010 A 28-year-old man burst into tears after a Houston County judge sentenced him to serve 23 years in prison for a robbery at Target. Tony Lamar Wilson, who had seven prior felony convictions, pleaded guilty to the robbery and to running over a Target security guard. Dothan police arrested Wilson [...]

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Ridgewood NJ Sept 17 2010 The head of security at Ridgewood High School (RHS) was bumped by a car Thursday morning while directing traffic in the high school parking lot, according to RHS Principal Jack Lorenz. Carlos Pinto, the chief of security at Ridgewood High School (RHS), did not have serious injuries but was taken [...]

Jackson MS Sept 16 2010 Convenience stores are often targets for violent crimes in the Capital City. Councilman Kenneth Stokes has been pushing for an ordinance for some time that would require these stores to hire security guards. After a deliveryman was shot and killed at a convenience store last week—he’s proposing an ordinance that [...]

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HONOLULU Hawaii Sept 16 2010 – A veteran Honolulu police officer is scheduled to appear before an Oahu judge next month after being arrested on suspicion of shoplifting. John F. Rapozo, 56, has 25 years of service with HPD and is assigned to the Narcotics-Vice Division. He was detained outside the Wal-Mart store in Pearl [...]

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Reno NV Sept 16 2010 An unarmed security guard got into a struggle with an armed robbery suspect and with the help of a business customer detained him on Wednesday, the Reno Police Department said. Joslin Griffith, whose age and city of residence were not immediately available, was booked on suspicion of attempted robbery with [...]

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WEST SPRINGFIELD MA Sept 16 2010 – A newly retired, veteran Springfield police officer died on Wednesday morning in an apparent suicide that stunned his former colleagues, according to a Springfield Police Department spokesman. Sgt. Thomas E. Long, 59, died at his home in West Springfield, according to Sgt. John M. Delaney, aide to Springfield [...]

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Baltimore MD Sept 16 2010 About 100 afternoon shoppers were stuck in a shopping center parking lot Wednesday and a school was placed on lockdown after a security officer fired shots at two men with guns who tried to rob a pharmacy, officials said. The incident unfolded about 3:15 p.m., police said, in the Loch [...]

North Port, Florida Sept 16 2010 — A man has been arrested on battery and indecent exposure charges after police say he performed a lewd act in a Sarasota Walmart. The Herald Tribune reports 28-year-old William Tyler Black performed a sex act on himself in the Walmart because he saw several “hot girls” in the [...]

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Bear, Del.Sept 16 2010 — Delaware State Police are investigating an attempted robbery at the Happy Harry’s in Glendale Plaza, Bear, in which the suspect was shot. The incident occurred at approximately 4 a.m. Sept. 15, when a suspect, identified as Thomas Maney, 31, of New Castle, allegedly entered the front door of the store [...]

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Marathon Fla Sept 16 2010 Keys detectives late Tuesday confirmed the identity of an Islamorada man shot to death over the weekend as Henry Allwardt, 70. The security guard at the Moorings Resort was found dead in his bedroom at 500 Pirates Lair Road, in a downstairs apartment. Tuesday, his family in Germany was notified. [...]

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CORPUS CHRISTI TX Sept 16 2010 — Mall security caught two middle-aged thieves Tuesday trying to drive away with lawn equipment taken from the bed of a truck in the mall parking lot. Officers were called about 4 p.m. to a mall in the 5400 block of South Padre Island Drive after reports of an [...]

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Columbus Oh Sept 16 2010 Police are investigating two bank robberies this week, one in which a security guard shot at a knife-wielding man and another by a woman whom police have dubbed the “church lady bandit.” The robbery by the woman occurred about 2 p.m. Monday at the KeyBank at 1990 E. Dublin-Granville Rd. [...]

CINCINNATI OH Sept 16 2010 – A Springfield Township mother has been indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury for allegedly forcing her 2-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters released cell phone video on Wednesday that shows the daughter of 21-year-old Jessica Gamble smoking marijuana. Investigators said Gamble provided her daughter [...]

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CINCINNATI OH Sept 16 2010 – A Woodlawn police officer escaped injury after three men shot at him with semi-automatic rifles Thursday morning. The bullets broke windows and flattened tires of the SUV the officer was driving at the time. Investigators said at least ten shots were fired. Investigators said it happened as Woodlawn Police [...]

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Washington DC Sept 15 2010 A Virginia state police trooper died Tuesday after making a training dive in Lake Anna, the state police said. Trooper Mark D. Barrett, 41, was part of a team making deep-water dives in the lake, which is about 70 miles southwest of Washington, the state police said. Barrett. (Va. State [...]

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