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Monthly Archives: October 2010

BROWNSVILLE TX Oct 12 2010 – A Brownsville teenager is charged for allegedly trying to sell 17 different kinds of prescription drugs out of backpack at Sunrise Mall on Saturday. Luis Manuel Eliola, 19, of Brownsville was arrested over the weekend at Sunrise Mall on the 2300 block of North Expressway 77. A citizen complained [...]

PALISADES PARK NJ Oct 12 2010 — An off-duty police officer killed in a one-car crash over the weekend was not wearing his seatbelt, according to an accident report released Monday. Patrolman John Ferraioli, 37, was described by his co-workers as eager to take on safety initiatives. He had revived the department’s DWI checkpoint program [...]

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Braintree MA Oct 12 2010 — Police arrested a Dorchester man wanted for a Boston bank robbery after receiving a tip that he was dropped off by a taxicab at the South Shore Plaza. Officers patrolling the plaza were alerted on Friday afternoon, October 8, shortly after 3 p.m. that an individual wanted for robbing [...]

Indianapolis IN Oct 12 2010 – Indianapolis Airport police arrested a US Airways flight attendant for what she was trying to get through security. TSA screeners found contraband under her uniform. For passengers, passing through security to get to a flight is a necessary nuisance. While some have complained about privacy issues with the new [...]

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INDIANAPOLIS IN Oct 11 2010 — Indianapolis police say an off-duty officer working security at a night club was shot while breaking up a fight. Police say 39-year-old Kerry Morse was in stable condition at Wishard Hospital with a gunshot wound to the right shoulder. They say several people believed to have been involved in [...]

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PHOENIX AZ Oct 11 2010 – A valley security guard was severely beaten, and it doesn’t appear that it was a robbery — just a random act of violence. It nearly killed a man named David, who did not want to disclose his last name for fear of being targeted again. He said he has [...]

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Jackson County Fla Oct 11 2010 A paramedic with Jackson County Fire and Rescue was arrested after allegedly reporting a traffic accidentwith injuries that didn’t exist. Wade Allen Welle, 40, of 6593 Old River Road in Baker, was arrested Friday and charged with felony misuse of the 911 system. The arrested stems from an incident [...]

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Turlock CA Oct 11 2010 Authorities have arrested three people for cheating in a casino. Having swindled the casino out of over $20,000, these three are now in custody. In a span over 30 minutes, the cheats managed to accumulate $24,000 dollars before security caught on to the scheme. According to police, the floor supervisor [...]

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Dothan AL Oct 11 2010 A Dothan man recently received a 25-year prison term for beating a 75-year-old hospital security guard during an armed robbery. Assistant Houston County District Attorney Patrick Amason said David Keith Johnson pleaded guilty to three felony charges, which included first-degree robbery and two counts of first-degree theft of property. Johnson [...]

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Indianapolis IN Oct 11 2010 What would you do? That’s what Hoosiers asked each other at cafes, hot dog stands and barbershops after an armored car lost a load of cash in the middle of a Downtown street Wednesday. Would you take the money and run or turn it in? “I’d probably stuff as much [...]

Lancaster PA Oct 10 2010 A Lancaster school teacher was arrested late Thursday night for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old student. The teacher was working in the school until the time of her arrest. Lancaster police said they received a tip in January 2009 that something could be going on between her and one [...]

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Hamilton County OH Oct 10 2010 Three arrests have been made in correlation to robberies of 26 different casino patrons, according to Ohio’s Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters. Kenyatta Erkins, 35, Ugbe Ojile, 34, and Amy Hoover, 25, were all arrested on Thursday at four in the morning in conjunction with the crimes. Erkins and [...]

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Gadsden County, Florida Oct 10 2010 School officials say an East Gadsden High School student severely beat a school’s security officer after the student refused to take off his hat in the cafeteria. We spoke with the officials from the Gadsden County School Board who confirmed that a student assaulted a contracted staff member at [...]

Baltimore MD Oct 10 2010 A lesbian couple was ejected from M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore during the Week 3 game between the Ravens and Cleveland Browns on Sept. 26, according to the Washington Blade. Mary Kate Morris and Nicole Marchetto left their seats at halftime to buy beer and fries, the Blade reports. They [...]

HOUSTON TX Oct 10 2010  - Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine what led to the death of a baby boy in southwest Houston. The nine-month-old child’s mother told investigators she found the baby unresponsive, hanging through the metal railing of her bed. The discovery was made several hours after the child [...]

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Atlantic City NJ Oct 10 2010 A Brooklyn man was arrested in Atlantic City today after mugging and beating one casino patron, then stealing chips at a second casino. Hosameldin Ismail, from Brooklyn, is behind bars after being arrested by security guards at the Tropicana Casino Resort. In the first attack, Ismail was caught on [...]

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Polk County Fla Oct 10 2010 Two former sheriff’s deputies filed a federal lawsuit in Rome Friday morning alleging their civil rights were violated in their dismissals from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Barry Henderson and Johnny Moats are filing the action against Polk County, Sheriff Kelly McLendon, Chief Deputy Sheriff Shayne Garrison, Deputy Sheriff [...]

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GARY IN Oct 10 2010 — A reserve officer charged with stealing computers from his employer was terminated from the volunteer force by the Gary Police Civil Service Commission at its meeting Thursday night. Timothy Scher, who was working for the Gary Community School Corp. as a security guard, was arrested at Roosevelt High School [...]

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Pearl Harbor October 10 2010 A 41-year-old man, upset after he was told to leave a secured area of Pearl Harbor, allegedly threatened a security officer with a knife, police said. The security officer told the man to leave an unauthorized area of Pearl Harbor about 2:45 p.m. yesterday, police said. A short time later, [...]

CLINTON, Oklahoma Oct 10 2010 — A Clinton man pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma Sanford C. Coats said 21-year-old William Jeffery Brady confessed to planning a fake armed robbery that would have taken money from the two tribes. Brady worked [...]

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COLTON Ca Oct 10 2010 – A security manager who worked at several school sites in the Colton Joint Unified School District was arrested after he was caught stealing money from Colton High School on Friday, police said. Surveillance video shows Joe C. Trujillo, a 45-year-old Grand Terrace resident, enter a classroom and search for [...]

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COOKEVILLE TN Oct 10 2010 — A South Carolina man was arrested here yesterday for allegedly driving around the Walmart parking lot naked, police said. David A. Youngblood, 50, of Piedmont Highway, Greenville, South Carolina, is charged with indecent exposure in the case, according to a warrant taken by Cookeville Police Officer Joe Greenwood. It [...]

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MYRTLE BEACH SC Oct 9 2010 A security guard for a Myrtle Beach apartment complex was stabbed three times after he told a man who was not staying at the property to leave, according to a police report. The 47-year-old victim told police he saw the man, who appeared intoxicated, standing by the steps of [...]

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Wilmington DE Oct 9 2010 State police are looking for three people who threatened a store security guard with a knife during a shoplifting incident Tuesday in Brandywine Hundred. A man and woman took three pairs of sneakers and concealed them under their coats about 5:10 p.m. at the Sports Authority at 1100 Rocky Run [...]

MIDDLETOWN NY Oct 9 2010 — A Middletown brother and sister assaulted an officer and a security guard Thursday near the Twin Towers Middle School, police say. Police did not release the officer’s or security guard’s names; the brother and sister are younger than 16, and the police did not release their names. Middletown police [...]

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Kennewick WA Oct 9 2010 Two Kennewick men are in jail in connection with the late-night burglary of the Les Schwab Tire Center on Clearwater Avenue in Kennewick. Officers from Moon Security were called to the tire retailer and found a door open and items that had been stacked outside just after midnight Monday. Kennewick [...]

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Arab AL Oct 8 2010 A Guntersville pharmacist with drug stores in Albertville and Arab is facing drug charges. Arab police arrested Timothy Neal Bishop, 62, of Guntersville, Thursday morning. He faces three counts of distribution of a controlled substance, according to a release issued by Arab police investigators. Bishop, a past president of the [...]

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WAWARSING NY Oct 7 2010 — A 15-hour manhunt ended Wednesday evening with the arrest of a rehab facility patient suspected of killing a guard there and wounding another employee while fleeing. Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum said Richard N. Giga, 25, was taken into custody shortly before 6 p.m. at an unoccupied house [...]

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HOLYOKE, Mass.Oct 8 2010 – Holyoke police say they have arrested a man and a woman who tried to steal nearly $2,000 worth of coats from a department store, before leading a chase into West Springfield. In a news release, Holyoke Police Chief Anthony Scott told 22News that police arrested Amanda Desmond, 30, and Jonathan Landry, [...]

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LILBURN, Ga. Oct 8 2010 — Lilburn police said a man wanted in connection with the assault of a 14-year-old girl at a Walmart store has surrendered. Police said David Michael Berusch, 26, of Lilburn, turned himself in to Lilburn Police Wednesday evening. “I would like to thank all of the media outlets who covered [...]

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