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Monthly Archives: June 2011

27/06/11 NC Security officer shot-second man killed at nightclub www.privateofficer.com

    Winston-Salem, NC June 27 2011– Officers with the Winston Salem Police Department say two men were shot at the Los Troncos Bar on South Main Street, Sunday morning. Both victims were taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center for treatment. Detectives said David Sandoval died as a result of his injuries. Malcolm [...]

27/06/11 Stockton CA. security officer shot www.privateofficer.com

  STOCKTON; Calif.June 27 2011 — Stockton police responded early Saturday morning to the 600 block of East Oak Street for a shooting where they said a security guard was involved in a confrontation with an as of yet unidentified suspect. Police said that the suspect fired a weapon, striking the security guard. Police didn’t [...]

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27/06/11 Employee theft leads police to drug arrests www.privateofficer.com

  PADUCAH, KY June 27 2011 – A report of an employee theft leads to four drug arrests in McCracken County. Detectives began an investigation last week when they receiving information that employee thefts were occurring at a local Paducah business located at 3921 Benton Road in McCracken County. Detectives say their investigation revealed 29-year-old [...]

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27/06/11 Prosecutors, police, store security team up against shoplifters www.privateofficer.com

  DeWitt NY June 27 2011 – Shoplifting is a crime that costs both stores and customers. For every dollar spent, as much as seven cents goes to cover items that were stolen. A new plan of attack is trying to turn back the tide of shoplifting. Although better video surveillance and loss prevention teams [...]

27/06/11 Prince George County police-WalMart security bust counterfeiters www.privateofficer.com

  Prince George County MD June 27 2011 Police in Prince George’s County have arrested eight people in connection with a counterfeiting scheme that used a local retailer to exchange fake bills for real ones. The suspects were arrested June 15 at the Walmart on Annapolis Road in Landover Hills, said Lt. Brad Pyle, commander [...]

27/06/11 Ny man charged with assaulting security at Tim McGraw concert www.privateofficer.com

  DARIEN NY June 27 2011 — Seventeen people were charged during Saturday’s Tim McGraw concert at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Genesee County sheriff’s deputies said. Jordan M. Kuhn, 24, of Salzburg Village, Palmyra, was jailed after he allegedly struck a Darien Lake security officer in the face and then fought with security. Kuhn [...]

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27/06/11 TN parolees-sex offenders go unchecked www.privateofficer.com

  Nashville TN June 27 2011 A month after a violent sex offender was found living in a Whites Creek home where someone operated a day care, another offender had moved into the Hallmark Inn hotel and was left alone to baby-sit a 6-month-old girl. Heaven Hamilton was rushed to the hospital that day with [...]

27/06/11 NC Commissioner Jon Barber arrested for shoplifting www.privateofficer.com

    ROWAN COUNTY, N.C.June 27 2011 — A Rowan County commissioner is accused of shoplifting from a local store. Commissioner Jon Barber was charged in connection with an April incident at a convenience store on West Jake Alexander Boulevard in Salisbury. He is accused of stealing a bottle of wine. Some people in Salisbury [...]

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27/06/11 Kohl’s shoplifter nabbed with $1000 of stolen goods www.privateofficer.com

  Wayne NJ June 27 2011 A man was charged with receiving stolen property after he was found in possession of nearly $1,000 worth of merchandise from Kohl’s department store June 17, police said. The Wayne Police Department was notified at 8:39 p.m. by the store on Route 23 North of a shoplifting that occurred, [...]

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27/06/11 Bob’ store employee charged with fraud www.privateofficer.com

  New Britain CT June 27 2011 A teenager is facing larceny charges after police said he used his debit card to refund deposits to himself as part of an ongoing scam earlier this year while working at the Bob’s Furniture Store along Queen Street in Southington. Binly Siriphongsavath, of 34 Dean Drive in New [...]

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27/06/11 Ohio man sues Wal-Mart for false arrest www.privateofficer.com

  Athens OH June 27 2011 A Coolville man is suing the Wal-Mart corporation, alleging that store security personnel at the Athens Supercenter store on East State Street falsely accused him of trying to steal a computer hard drive, then got rough with him, during an incident in January. By the Athens NEWS’ press time Wednesday, [...]

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27/06/11 Security guard, 5 others injured at nightclub shooting www.privateofficer.com

  Dolton IL June 27 2011 Six people were injured in a shooting at a south suburban nightlub early this morning. The shooting happened about 1 a.m. at Mr. Ricky’s 141 Club, 14141 Chicago Rd. in Dolton. Police confirmed the shooting took place in the nightclub but provided no other details. Among those injured was [...]

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27/06/11 Man arrested at Logan International Airport for maling threats www.privateofficer.com

  BOSTON MA June 27 2011 – Massachusetts State police arrested an Illinois man Saturday, after they say he made threats to security personnel at Logan International Airport. State police were called to the scene and took 22-year-old Joseph Haynes of Chicago, IL, into custody. Haynes was arrested at a security checkpoint, after he allegedly [...]

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27/06/11 Ten employees at three Redding bars arrested in sting www.privateofficer.com

    Redding CA June 27 2011 Ten employees at three Redding bars were cited Friday night in a sting operation for allegedly violating security-guard license requirements. Five bouncers at Johnny’s Cathouse on California Street, four guards at the Hen House on Hartnell Avenue and one guard at Bombay’s on California Street were cited for [...]

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26/06/11 San Francisco’s new budget replaces police with private security at hospital www.privateofficer.com

  SAN FRANCISCO CA June 26 2011— San Francisco’s new budget proposes replacing sworn police and sheriff’s deputies with private security guards at San Francisco General Hospital. This is the third year in a row that the Mayor’s office has tried to privatize hospital security. On Friday some administrators, doctors and nurses from SF General [...]

26/06/11 Police charge man in murder of East St Louis security officer www.privateofficer.com

  EAST ST. LOUIS IL June 26 2011 Prosecutors charged Stanley T. Chairs III today with first degree murder for the April shooting death of 22 year-old Joshua L. Miller. Miller was shot on April 23 while working as a security guard in the 1200 block of Cleveland Avenue in East St. Louis. Miller was [...]

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26/06/11 “Port-a John” voyeriusm suspect nabbed in Colorado www.privateofficer.com

  Boulder CO June 26 2011 A man suspected of hiding inside the waste tank of a portable toilet at a yoga festival in Boulder, Colorado was arrested on charges of unlawful sexual contact and invasion of privacy, police said on Friday. Luke Irvin Chrisco, 30, was arrested 100 miles west of Boulder in Vail, [...]

26/06/11 Robbery suspect uses Internet to con Armored Car Company www.privateofficer.com

  ST. LOUIS IL June 26 2011 It would have been a new twist in bank robbery: going online to order delivery of the loot. Mario Darnell Smith, according to federal authorities, posed as the electric company in emails to try to arrange an armored car pickup of about $180,000 from a bank in Chicago. [...]

26/06/11 Jacksonville sheriff’s detective dies attending seminar www.privateofficer.com

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla.June 26 2011 — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is now mourning one of its detectives, who was found dead at the age of 50 while attending a seminar in Daytona Beach. Detective Jim Davis received 29 commendations during his 18 years with JSO. A JSO colleague who was rooming with him at the [...]

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26/06/11 Jacksonville sheriff’s office arrests officer for bank fraud www.privateofficer.com

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. June 26 2011– For the second time this week, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has arrested one of its own. Justin Hike, 21, a community service officer, is facing charges of bank fraud and engaging in schemes to defraud, the result of a month-long investigation by JSO’s Integrity Unit. Police said Hike [...]

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26/06/11 Florida man dies after fighting with nightclub security-patrons www.privateofficer.com

  TAMPA FLA June 26 2011During a night out at a Waters Avenue nightclub, one customer got into several fights – with patrons and with club security, deputies said. Two days later he was dead. Deputies are investigating the June 14 death of 21-year-old Tyler Tourinho. A medical examiner’s report doesn’t list a cause of [...]

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26/06/11 General manager of Birmingham Christian radio station arrested for lewd acts www.privateofficer.com

  Birmingham AL June 26 2011 The GM of a Christian radio station in Birmingham, Alabama is in trouble with the law in Florida. The Birmingham News reports that WLJR-FM (88.5) GM James Ashley Hulgan was arrested by police in Walton County, Florida on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, and exposing himself. It is [...]

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26/06/11 Washington Park police detective Kim Lamar accused of fraud in security company scheme www.privateofficer.com

  EAST ST. LOUIS IL June 26 2011 — A Washington Park police detective and security company owner found himself answering to a judge on Friday on charges of fraud involving the pay of employees at his private security company. Kim Lamar McAfee was charged Friday in federal court with 16 counts of making a [...]

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26/06/11 Former Northside High School security officer aquitted of rape www.privateofficer.com

  Memphis TN June 26 2011 A former Northside High School security officer was acquitted on statutory rape charges Friday after a student testified that they had sex twice in 2009. Mario Harris, 30, was arrested in October 2009 and charged with aggravated statutory rape and statutory rape by an authority figure after the victim’s [...]

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26/06/11 Gang member convicted in security officer murder www.privateofficer.com

  MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 26 2011— A gang member convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard at a Memphis mall has been sentenced to the maximum 25 years in prison with no parole. Judge W. Mark Ward sentenced 21-year-old Terrell Loverson on Friday, The Commercial Appeal reports. Loverson was convicted [...]

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26/06/11 Safeway store security attacked by shoplifting teen girls www.privateofficer.com

  Mountain View CA June 26 2011 One Safeway security guard was attacked and another injured Thursday afternoon while trying to detain two teenage girls who shoplifted cans of baby formula from the Mountain View store, police said. At about 3 p.m., three teenage girls entered the grocery store on California Street and were spotted [...]

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25/06/11 Virginia State Trooper Dies in Traffic Accident www.privateofficer.com

  Richmond VA June 25 2011 The Virginia state trooper killed Friday while responding to a call for help in King George County, was a 28-year-old from Warsaw, Va., the state police said. Adam M. Bowen died instantly in the crash that injured two others, police said.  Bowen was headed west on Route 3 in [...]

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25/06/11 Man arrested at CT airport with throwing stars www.privateofficer.com

  Windsor Locks CT June 25 2011 Connecticut state police say a man tried to board a plane at Bradley International Airport with a set of throwing stars in his carry-on luggage. Shane McDonald, 24, of no address given, was charged with tampering with airport security after the incident early Saturday at the Windsor Locks [...]

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25/06/11 Mexican Mafia arrested in “sophisticated shoplifting” spree www.privateofficer.com

    ALBUQUERQUE, NM June 25 2011 – Police said three Mexican Mafia members were arrested at an Albuquerque mall with dozens of stolen credit cards used in what police call a “sophisticated shoplifting spree.” Police said a concerned citizen alerted mall security. Albuquerque police said Manuel Duarte-Castro, Jose Carlos Peralta-Gomez and Jorge Mada-Cajigas, all [...]

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25/06/11 Houston mall outlaws sagging pants www.privateofficer.com

  Houston TX June 25 2011 Teenagers with sagging pants are everywhere. One Houston mall is trying to put an end to that trend. The Greenspoint mall in Houston recently added a “no sagging pants policy” and says security will ask saggy-panted shoppers to pull their pants up. If they refuse, they will be asked [...]