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Monthly Archives: February 2011

21/02/11 Tacoma man arrested for smashing up Macy’s store www.privateofficer.com

TACOMA, Wash.Feb 21 2011 – Tacoma police arrested a man for investigation of malicious mischief after a disturbance at the Tacoma Mall Sunday. Police spokesman Mark Fulghum said the man broke items in the Macy’s department store. No shots were fired, despite initial calls to 911 about gunshots. Witnesses told the News Tribune of Tacoma [...]

21/02/11 Veteran Poughkeepsie, N.Y., police officer shot to death www.privateofficer.com

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Feb. 21 2011 — A veteran Poughkeepsie, N.Y., police officer and a man who had just fatally shot his wife were mortally wounded in a shootout at a train station, police said. All three died Friday at area hospitals, The Poughkeepsie Journal reported. Mike Archer, a witness to the gunfight, told WCBS-TV, New [...]

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20/02/11 City employee charged in theft www.privateofficer.com

WEBB CITY, Mo. Feb 20 2011 — A former city employee has been charged with a felony count of theft after an investigation reportedly turned up money missing from her department. Ronda M. Alves, who was employed as the permits clerk in the Public Works Department, was charged Monday with theft in excess of $2,000 [...]

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20/02/11 Payless Shoe Store employee faces theft charges www.privateofficer.com

WAYNE NJ Feb 20 2011 — Police have charged an employee of the Payless Shoe Store at the Wayne Hills Mall in connection with a theft from the store, police said. The theft of $720.04 was reported Friday, and mall employees said someone who worked at the shoe store was seen entering the business before [...]

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20/02/11 Store employee charged with stealing credit card info www.privateofficer.com

SCRANTON PA Feb 20 2011 – A former employee of Boscov’s at the Mall at Steamtown wanted on two separate arrest warrants for theft turned herself in to Scranton police on Wednesday morning. Police said Gracie Ann Lopez, 20, of 531 Beech St., Scranton, took a customer’s Boscov’s credit card number and used it to [...]

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20/02/11 Canada plans legislation to expand citizen arrest authority www.privateofficer.com

Canada Feb 20 2011 Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced legislation Thursday intended to expand legal protection for people making citizen’s arrests or trying to defend themselves or their property against a criminal act. Harper announced the new legislation — which has been expected since late last year — at a downtown Toronto press conference along [...]

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20/02/11 Counterfeit money at Target store leads to arrest www.privateofficer.com

Clarkstown NY Feb 20 2011 A 20-year-old Bronx woman is accused of using a bogus $100 bill to buy merchandise at Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, according to Clarkstown police. Police said Sarah Larocca was arrested after security officers at the Target department store discovered the counterfeit bill at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and contacted [...]

20/02/11 St. Charles Target store employee-friend charged in thefts www.privateofficer.com

ST. CHARLES IL Feb 20 2011 – A St. Charles department store employee is accused of stealing more than $3,000 by providing excess change during transactions with a friend, according to a St. Charles police report. Loss prevention officers from Target, 3885 E. Main St., reportedly told St. Charles police they have evidence employee Nicole [...]

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20/02/11 Undercover TSA agent slips gun past body imaging scanner at DFW airport www.privateofficer.com

Dalls TX Feb 20 2011 An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Administration. The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she [...]

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20/02/11 Grand jury will hear case of grandmother who threw child to death at Tysons Corner mall www.privateofficer.com

Fairfax VA Feb 20 2011 Kathlyn Ogdoc remembered that she held the door open for her two-year-old daughter and her mother as they headed from the food court at Tysons Corner Center to the parking lot. When Ogdoc looked back, she saw her mother scoop up the toddler, Angelyn, as if to keep up with [...]

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20/02/11 Arizona may restrict cops from working as private investigators www.privateofficer.com

PHOENIX AZ Feb 20 2011 — Arizona law could soon change the limits of what police officers are allowed to do in their free time. It was the off-duty work of a Tolleson police officer that prompted lawmakers to propose Senate Bill 1020. The bill would make it illegal for active or reserve police officers [...]

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20/02/11 Wackenhut Security completes name change to G4S www.privateofficer.com

JUPITER Fla Feb 20 2011 — The nation’s second-largest security firm is dropping the Wackenhut name, a brand that for decades was synonymous with watchmen in tan uniforms. After two mergers and the construction of a new corporate home in Jupiter, the former Wackenhut now is known as G4S, the name of its British parent. [...]

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20/02/11 Cal Highway patrol officer, postal worker arrest each other www.privateofficer.com

HOMELAND CA Feb 20 2011 – A California Highway Patrol officer allegedly pulled a gun on a postal driver who almost hit the officer’s car with a truck, and each placed the other under “citizen’s arrest” until authorities arrived and let them go, a sheriff’s deputy said today. The contracted U.S. Postal Service delivery driver [...]

20/02/11 Garda Armored Truck Looses Cash in Cleveland www.privateofficer.com

CLEVELAND OH Feb 20 2011 — Garda Security officers driving an armored car on Valentine’s Day about 8:30 a.m. are still looking for a bag of cash that fell out of a side compartment door on the vehicle when they turned onto Carnegie Avenue near East 40th Street. According to the police report, the security [...]

20/02/11 Police shoot-kill man in security officer assault www.privateofficer.com

Silver Spring MD Feb 20 2011 A man armed with an ice pick was shot and killed by a Montgomery County police officer during a confrontation Saturday evening in downtown Silver Spring, a police spokeswoman said. The shooting occurred about 5:15 p.m. outside the City Place Mall on Colesville Road near Georgia Avenue, spokeswoman Lucille [...]

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20/02/11 Little Rock teacher resigns after prostitution arrest www.privateofficer.com

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.Feb 20 2011 – A high school teacher in Little Rock has resigned after school officials learned she pleaded guilty in November to a prostitution charge. McClellan High School algebra teacher Solona Islam, who had been put on paid administrative leave, told Fox16.com she resigned because she didn’t want to have the school [...]

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20/02/11 Wal-Mart security assists police in bank robbery investigation www.privateofficer.com

Oroville CA Feb 20 2011 Police arrest a suspect in Wednesday’s robbery of the Chase Bank on Oro Dam Blvd. Cynthia Santana, 41, was arrested around 6 o’clock Friday evening after police received a tip from Wal-Mart security. Investigators say Santana, who is from Chester, is the woman captured on surveillance cameras during the robbery. [...]

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19/02/11 NC nightclub security officer shot to death www.privateofficer.com

Greensboro, NC Feb 19 2011– A security guard at The Player’s Club on High Point Road was shot and killed early Friday morning, according to Greensboro Police. Officers responded to the club around 2:45am in regards to a fight. When they arrived, the discovered the security who had been shot and subsequently died. The name [...]

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19/02/11 NY printing business employee guilty in million dollar theft www.privateofficer.com

BINGHAMTON, NY—Feb. 19, 2011—With offices in eight Upstate New York communities,the company announced that former employee Brian Steele entered a guilty plea in the Broome County Court to the charges of grand larceny and forgery on Monday. Steele admitted to stealing from the family-owned company nearly $1 million, making this one of the largest such [...]

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19/02/11 American Airlines employee charged with 66 counts of theft, credit card fraud www.privateofficer.com

San Jose CA Feb 19 2011 A former American Airlines employee at Mineta San Jose International Airport is facing 66 felony charges for allegedly stealing and using customer credit card numbers. Prosecutors claim Micheline Johnson, 49, of Concord, skimmed customers’ credit card numbers for several years while she worked as a customer service agent. They [...]

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19/02/11 Cleveland school employee charged in felony thefts www.privateofficer.com

CLEVELAND OH Feb 19 2011 — A woman who worked for Cleveland Schools is accused of embezzling $18,630. According to Maria Russo, the public information coordinator for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, Janice Pink-King, 54, of Cleveland, was indicted on charges of theft in office, theft, unauthorized use of a computer system, money laundering and [...]

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19/02/11 Chicago Best Buy’s employee charged in refund scheme www.privateofficer.com

Chicago IL Feb 19 2011 A Best Buy employee was arrested and accused of siphoning off $384 from product returns dating from Dec. 28 and Jan. 21. Chartyra J. Hill, 23, of Chicago was charged with theft at 11 a.m. on Feb. 17 a the Evanston Police Station. Police, working with loss prevention agents, accuse [...]

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19/02/11 Gun-wielding woman grabbed clothes at California Victoria’s Secret store www.privateofficer.com

Victorville CA Feb 19 2011 A gun-wielding woman grabbed clothes from a Victoria’s Secret store in Victorville, tried to rob a gas station in Fontana, and repeatedly evaded officers until a deputy nudged her speeding SUV out of control, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said. Now Nicole Alissa Holmes, 31, of Phelan, has been arrested [...]

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19/02/11 Murder at El Paso International Airport investigated www.privateofficer.com

El Paso TX Feb 19 2011 Police have a man in custody and a woman detained after a man was shot and killed inside a vehicle parked outside the El Paso International Airport on Friday. Darrel Petry with the El Paso Police Department told KFOX14 police officers were called out to the deadly shooting that [...]

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19/02/11 Target security agent stabbed by shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

MIDWEST CITY, Oklahoma Feb 19 2011– One suspect is in custody and police are searching for two others involved in an attempted theft and stabbing at a Midwest City Target Friday morning. Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes said three individuals allegedly attempted to leave the store at 7305 S.E. 29th without paying for three [...]

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19/02/11 S.D. police officer arrested for inticing teen for sex www.privateofficer.com

Huron SD Feb 19 2011 A Huron police officer is accused of solicititing a minor and sending sexually explicit text messages to a 15 year old girl. 38 year old Tony Beerman was arrested Wednesday after a two month investigation. He took an oath to serve and protect the residents of Huron, but now police [...]

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19/02/11 Family sues Valor Security after son is killed during chase www.privateofficer.com

Orange County, FLA Feb 19 2011– The family of a teenager who was killed while running from security guards wants the security company to pay. 15-year-old Raheem Key was killed last June when he ran into the path of an SUV. He was running from security guards at the Waterford Lakes Town Center. Those guards [...]

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19/02/11 Three dead after crashing into NJ school www.privateofficer.com

PINE BEACH NJ Feb 19 2011 — Two years ago, Matthew Budesa was a focused high school senior who wanted to pursue a career in municipal law enforcement, a former teacher said. On Thursday, Budesa, now 20, was one of three young adults found dead inside a car that crashed into a brick exterior wall [...]

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19/02/11 NJ pedestrian struck by armored truck www.privateofficer.com

CHATHAM NJ FEb 19 2011 — A 48-year-old Chatham woman was injured Friday when she was hit by an armored car while attempting to cross Main Street, police said. At 8:40 a.m., police were called to the corner of Main Street and Coleman Avenue where they learned that a woman had attempted to cross Main [...]

19/02/11 U.S. Social Security Administration security officer receives award www.privateofficer.com

DANVILLE, Va.Feb 19 2011 — An emotional morning in Danville as local heroes were honored for their bravery. Security officer Jason Alsbaugh was stabbed at the Danville Social Security Office February 3. Thursday, he and three others were recognized for how they hanled the crisis. Michael Astrue, Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration, visited [...]

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