Monthly Archives: April 2011
30/04/11 Mall security officer speaks about her kidnapping www.privateofficer.com
DENVER CO April 30 2011 — Before she escaped from the trunk of her own car, the woman who reported being kidnapped from Cherry Creek Mall drove around Denver at gunpoint. Two search warrants obtained by 7NEWS reveal the timeline of events dealing with the man suspected in the Cherry Creek Mall kidnapping and [...]
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30/04/11 Resort security aids in capture of burglars www.privateofficer.com
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. April 30 2011- Police have arrested two burglary suspects in a pursuit that led officers onto resort grounds in Paradise Valley. Thursday afternoon, a Paradise Valley Police Officer spotted a man breaking into a parked vehicle. The officer pursued the suspect on foot, but the suspect jumped into a waiting vehicle [...]
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30/04/11 Cell phone company employee charged in identity theft crimes www.privateofficer.com
Hartford CT April 30 2011 A former Wireless Zone employee was charged with 20 counts each of computer crime and identity theft after police said he stole 75 cell phones from the business. Police said Jason Ryans, 26, of 69 Imperial Drive, Manchester, used other employees’ names to make at least 20 fraudulent inventory [...]
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30/04/11 Shoplifter arrested for arson in K-Mart blaze www.privateofficer.com
SPANAWAY, Wash.April 30 2011 — Police have arrested a woman suspected in the Kmart arson case. Valeria Holler is suspected of intentionally starting what grew to be a two-alarm fire at the store earlier this month. Investigators said Holler, 22, is the woman who was captured by surveillance cameras and had been named [...]
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30/04/11 Former Macy’s employee charged with embezzlement www.privateofficer.com
Palo Alto CA April 30 2011 A former Macy’s employee was arrested at work Wednesday night after an internal investigation uncovered a four-month trail of suspected embezzlement involving thousands of dollars. David Fraire Garcia, 22, was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail by Palo Alto police on two felony charges of embezzlement and [...]
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30/04/11 Former Miss Russia arrested for shoplifting in New York www.privateofficer.com
New York April 30 2011 Miss Russia 1998 and former Miss Universe semifinalist Anna Malova was arrested in the United States for shoplifting in a clothing store, the New York Post reported on Thursday. Anna Malova, 39, was caught stealing a pair of sandals valued at $135 and a hat for $10 at a [...]
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30/04/11 NJ firefighter chases down shoplifter www.privateofficer.com
CLIFTON NJ April 30 2011 — A shoplifter trying to flee the Home Depot on Bloomfield Avenue with $800 worth of unpaid merchandise didn’t stand a chance with Clifton Firefighter Anthony Latona chasing him, according to police. On April 21, at about 9:45 a.m. Clifton firefighter Latona saw the suspect, later identified as Luis [...]
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30/04/11 Community College Security Chief Arrested www.privateofficer.com
PITTSBURGH PA April 30 2011 — County police have charged the head of security at the Community College of Allegheny County’s Allegheny campus with impersonating an officer. Robbie Henderson, 45, was recently named the head of security at the school. He is facing impersonating a police officer charges after investigators said he tried using [...]
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30/04/11 Store security officer pepper spray-beat by shoplifters www.privateofficer.com
McKEES ROCKS, Pa.April 30 2011 — A security guard at a Foodland grocery store in McKees Rocks was sprayed with Mace while confronting a suspected shoplifter early Friday morning. Police said the guard tried stopping a woman from leaving the store, but she ran out and went into Gino’s Bar. Dodo Kemenar said he [...]
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30/04/11 Former Bushnell University employee charged in copper thefts www.privateofficer.com
LEWISBURG PA April 30 2011 — Six thousand, two hundred pounds of copper can bring in a lot of cash. It also brought felony burglary and trespass charges against a 27-year-old Watsontown man accused of stealing copper wire from a Bucknell University facility. Shawn M. Hoffman, a former student employee for Bucknell’s Facilities Department, [...]
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30/04/11 Abercrombie & Fitch employee accused of felony theft www.privateofficer.com
Mentor MI April 30 2011 A former Abercrombie & Fitch employee is accused of stealing more than a $1,000 worth of clothes and money from the store in Great Lakes Mall. The loss prevention manager had noticed the store’s winter inventory was short this February, Mentor Police Lt. Tom Powers said. Consequently, the [...]
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30/04/11 JC Penney security nab repeat offender www.privateofficer.com
Natick NY April 30 2011 Police were called to the JC Penney after store security personnel stopped 18-year-old Shaquia Marie Shephard of Roslindale for allegedly shoplifting. JCPenney in Natick Collection loss prevention agents told police that he woman was spotted concealing numerous items and then leaving without making payment. Shephard was detained by security and [...]
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30/04/11 Nightclub bouncer stabbed by boss over owed money www.privateofficer.com
SAN ANTONIO TX April 30 2011 — A nightclub bouncer on the south side allegedly got into a heated fight with his employer over money, leading to a stabbing. The incident happened after 4 a.m. Wednesday in the 3200 block of Mission Road. Police said the victim got into a vicious brawl over [...]
30/04/11 TBI says Nashville crime is on the rise www.privateofficer.com
Nashville TN April 30 2011 Reported crime rose in Nashville last year, for the first time since 2006. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on Thursday released its final crime statistics for 2010, showing an overall 3.4 percent decrease in crime statewide. But while the state and nearby Middle Tennessee counties saw general declines, Nashville [...]
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30/04/11 Man urinating outside mall pulls gun on police www.privateofficer.com
Harper Woods MI April 30 2011 Two men are in custody today after one pulled a handgun on a police officer in a parking lot near Eastland Center in Harper Woods, police say. Harper Woods Deputy Police Chief Jim Burke tells The Detroit Free Press security officers at the shopping center, located near Kelly [...]
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30/04/11 Campus security, police arrest men with counterfeit merchandise www.privateofficer.com
Wilkesboro NC April 30 2011 Four men were charged with felony trademark violations, and 231 counterfeit Zac Brown Band T-shirts were confiscated outside the Wilkes Community College campus late Thursday night. According to the warrants, N.C. Secretary of State Trademark Enforcement Agent Derek Wiles of North Wilkesboro and Officer Joe Buchanan of the of [...]
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30/04/11 Florida church members robbed by heavily armed men www.privateofficer.com
Sanford Fla April 30 2011 A man who had just been robbed at his church told authorities that the two men who committed the robbery had been armed with large guns. Sanford police today released a recording of a 911 call made in the terrifying minutes after the two masked men robbed three church [...]
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29/04/11 Texas police release photo of person of interest in security officer’s murder www.privateofficer.com
Fort Bend TX April 29 2011 County Sheriff’s authorities are asking for the public’s help identifying a man they are describing as a person of interest in the shooting death of a security guard at a construction site last week. On Thursday, authorities released images of the man that were taken by a [...]
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29/04/11 US Security underbidding wins Colorado courthouse contract www.privateofficer.com
FORT COLLINS, Colo. April 29 2011– If you come to the Larimer County Justice Center next week, you’ll see armed security guards checking your purse and pockets for 25 percent less pay than the guards who did it the previous week. “I will be unemployed,” said Charles Hall, a security guard at the complex [...]
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29/04/11 Detroit security shoots man during burglary call www.privateofficer.com
DETROIT MI April 29 2011 — Detroit police said a security guard shot a man Wednesday at a home at 14500 Abington Avenue. Police said the security guard, who witnesses say is also a neighbor, was responding to an alarm that went off at the home. When he arrived, there was a car [...]
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29/04/11 Shoplifters bite, assault Carson Pirie security agents www.privateofficer.com
Chicago IL April 29 2011 Three women were caught stealing from Carson Pirie Scott at The Plaza, 2500 W. 95th St., and one injured two security officers by biting them, police said. At about 4:30 p.m. on April 18, police received a call that three women were fighting in the store parking lot. According [...]
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29/04/11 Casino security team nabs suspect in chips theft www.privateofficer.com
Chester PA April 29 2011 A Delaware County casino is out $1,500 after an alleged theft from a roulette table, state police said. Daniel Robert Paul of Prospect Park swiped six $500 chips off the table at Harrah’s Chester, police said. When the chips turned up missing during a routine check, casino security reviewed [...]
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29/04/11 Heroic police officer’s last act of bravery saves daughter www.privateofficer.com
Covington LA April 29 2011 A police officer sacrificed his life to save his young daughter when a tornado ripped through their campsite in Mississippi, part of the terrifying band of storms devastating the South. As violent winds tore through their tent, Louisiana police Lieutenant Wade Sharp, 40, flung himself on top of the [...]
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29/04/11 Cook County corrections officer commits suicide www.privateofficer.com
Cook County IL April 29 2011 A 40-year-old Cook County Correctional officer used his service weapon to kill himself Monday after an argument with his girlfriend, police said today. William Washington, of the 20100 block of Sequoia Avenue in Chicago Heights, was pronounced dead at 7:06 p.m. at Saint James Hospital and Health [...]
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29/04/11 ST Louis corrections officer arrested in aiding prisoner escape www.privateofficer.com
St. Louis, MO April 29 2011 – A 51-year-old corrections officer at the Downtown St. Louis Justice Center has been charged in connection with last week’s daring escape from the facility. The Circuit Attorney’s Office charged Mori Farrell with five counts of forgery, two counts of permitting escape and one count of making false [...]
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29/04/11 Drake University security officer assaulted www.privateofficer.com
Des Moines IA April 29 2011 A Drake University security officer monitoring activity around a beer tent near campus early today had his arm slammed in his car door as he tried to climb out of his vehicle. Security Officer Matthew Samann was parked in a university lot in the 1300 block of 31st [...]
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29/04/11 Santa Fe NM deputy caught shoplifting www.privateofficer.com
SANTA FE April 29 2011 — A Santa Fe County Sheriff’s lieutenant faces a shoplifting charge after he was allegedly caught trying to steal inexpensive car care products from Kmart on Tuesday morning. A store security guard caught Jeremy Garcia, 39, opening a car waxing kit and pocketing some of its contents at the [...]
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29/04/11 Arizona security guard arrested for auto burglary www.privateofficer.com
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. April 29 2011— Bullhead City police say a Davis Dam security guard has been arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft. The police department says officers responded to a theft call Wednesday afternoon at Lake Mohave. A couple told police they were down by the lake when they heard breaking glass. Investigators [...]
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29/04/11 Kansas police break student’s arm www.privateofficer.com
Derby KS April 29 2011 Police are investigating whether a school resource officer used excessive force in breaking a student’s arm and giving him a black eye. The department says it investigates any time an officer uses force during an arrest. In this particular case, a student was injured and the officer was unharmed. [...]
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