Skip to content

PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK

The latest security-police news

Monthly Archives: November 2011

  Reno NV Nov 30 2011 A 54-year-old Reno gambler was arrested after he accidentally left behind a laptop in a downtown casino that was filled with images of child pornography. Jeff R. Stewart on Monday was being held in the Washoe County Jail in lieu of $100,000 cash bail on nine counts of possession [...]

  RAEFORD, N.C. Nov 30 2011 Authorities in a small North Carolina town has again suddenly lost their police chief. Raeford Police Chief Duncan Edward Jaggers resigned suddenly Monday and it may be connected to a lawsuit that has been filed against him for excessive force. Mayor John McNeill would not say why the chief [...]

Tags:

  JOHNS ISLAND, SC Nov 30 2011 – Authorities say a North Charleston Police officer suspected of punching a man in the face at a bar on Johns Island turned himself over to authorities Monday. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office charged 30-year-old Brandon Allen with third-degree assault. The North Charleston Police Department says that Allen [...]

Tags:

  Stillwater Okla Nov 30 2011 A naked man was arrested at a Stillwater bar early Sunday morning. According to Stillwater Police, they received a report that a naked man was being detained by Freight House bouncers at the bar on the 300 block of South Water Street. When they arrived at the Freight House [...]

  Cottage Grove MN Nov 30 2011 Local police busted three women and two girls for stealing nearly 90 pairs of jeans. Police say Caswana Miles, Antenese Baker, Lasonya Miles and the two girls were caught stuffing jeans into shopping bags at the Cottage Grove Kohl’s store Nov. 17. Police stopped the women after they [...]

Tags: , ,

  Independence, MO Nov 30 2011 — The trial of a man charged with the death of an Independence security guard 13 years ago was delayed Monday for unspecified reasons. Jeffrey S. Sauerbry, 39, was charged in 2009 with the first-degree murder of William Kellett, who was found dead in a shed connected to a [...]

Tags: ,

  LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. Nov 30 2011 Former Virginia State Police captain Edward L. Hope Jr., facing sexual-abuse charges involving a juvenile girl eight years ago, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was given a suspended sentence in Brunswick County Circuit Court this morning. Hope, 55, pleaded guilty to a single count of aggravated sexual [...]

Tags: ,

  RICHMOND, VA Nov 30 2011 – The Richmond Police Department has cleared two homicides from the past weekend with the arrest of an individual. The suspect was identified and arrested yesterday afternoon without incident. The suspect in both homicides is a 16-year-old male. He is charged with two counts of murder, two counts of [...]

Tags:

  Miami Fla Nov 30 2011 For fatally stabbing a classmate at Coral Gables High, Andy Rodriguez must serve a 40-year term in prison, plus 10 years of probation, a judge ruled Tuesday. “This is an enormous and senseless tragedy. Two families are forever torn apart and changed,” Miami-Dade Circuit Dava Tunis said. A jury [...]

Tags: , ,

  Hackensack NJ Nov 30 2011 A jury in Hackensack awarded more than $2.1 million on Monday to the family of a Ramapough Indian who was fatally shot in Mahwah during a confrontation with a park ranger five years ago. “We are so relieved for the family,” said Nick Brustin, the attorney who represented Emil [...]

Tags: ,

  Murfreesboro TN Nov 30 2011 A pair of Murfreesboro police officers rescued a baby boy Monday when a man wrapped his hands around the infant’s head and began to “twist as if to break the baby’s neck,” according to an arrest report. Glenn Allen Climer Jr., 35, of Murfreesboro, faces charges of child abuse, [...]

  Bridgeport CT Nov 30 2011 A woman was arrested and charged with fifth-degree larceny after she allegedly stole $918 worth of merchandise from Kohl’s department store on Nov. 26, police said. According to the report, Mary Pagan, 48, stashed jewelry and cosmetics in her own handbag after taking off the tags and placing them [...]

Tags:

  VALERA, Texas Nov 30 2011 – A former Panther Creek Consolidated Independent School District employee has been arrested for theft. According to the Coleman County Sheriff’s Office, Lori Sparks allegedly stole more than $200,000 from the school district. Sparks was the business manager at the district. District administrators said Sparks worked for Panther Creek for [...]

Tags: , ,

  MOUNDSVILLE WV Nov 30 2011 – A 22-year-old Walmart employee faces embezzlement charges after he allegedly assisted in stealing items from the store during a two-week span. Robert Wayne Wise, 22, of Moundsville was arrested earlier this month and charged with six counts of embezzlement and one count of fraudulent schemes. According to the [...]

Tags: , ,

    BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. Nov 30 2011 — A woman accused of delivering drugs to an elementary teacher at school has been arrested. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office says deputies arrested Christy Lynn Sampson Monday. Sampson is 39 and from Wharton. She has been charged with delivery of a controlled substance. They say Sampson [...]

Tags: ,

  ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. Nov 30 2011 — A dance teacher at Peninsula High School has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a female student. 36-year-old Anthony Angellano, of Wilmington, was arrested on Monday. He faces five counts of oral copulation with a minor and one count of digital penetration with [...]

Tags: , ,

  Topeaka KS Nov 30 2011 A stocky white man with a shaved head, who wore glasses and a Carhartt jacket, breached store security early Saturday to steal at least $200,000 from Walmart, 1301 S.W. 37th, Topeka police said Monday. As of Monday, no one has been arrested in the aggravated burglary of the store [...]

  NORTH ATTLEBORO MA Nov 30 2011 – A Rhode Island man, described in court as a convicted habitual shoplifter, allegedly sprayed Mace at a bystander who attempted to stop him from fleeing a store at Emerald Square mall during a busy holiday shopping weekend. The suspect, Russell C. Alves, 45, of Providence, was eventually [...]

Tags: , ,

  MANCHESTER NH Nov 30 2011 – A purse-snatching at the Mall of New Hampshire was thwarted Monday night when a crowd of Sears’ employees, mall security staff and shoppers chased the thief into the parking lot and held him until police arrived. The accused thief, Trevor Drew, 21, of 314 Dubuque St., didn’t submit [...]

Tags:

  Boca Raton Fla Nov 30 2011 The loot would have made an extravagant Thanksgiving feast. A 63-year-old Boca Raton man was arrested the day before Thanksgiving as he tried to make off with a bounty of stolen steak, lobster, champagne and shrimp from a Publix supermarket, Boca Raton police said. Allen Lay tried to [...]

Tags:

  Foley Minn.Nov 30 2011 — The city council in Foley, Minn. voted Monday to hire private security guards to patrol city streets next year, ending a lengthy debate that had attracted the attention of Attorney General Lori Swanson. Officials in the central Minnesota city said the change will save $53,000 a year and was [...]

Tags:

    Correctional Officer Buddy Ray Herron Oregon Department of Corrections, Oregon End of Watch: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Bio & Incident Details Age: 42 Tour: 4 years Badge # Not available Cause: Stabbed Incident Date: 11/28/2011 Weapon: Edged weapon; Knife Suspect: Charged with murder Correctional Officer Buddy Herron was assaulted and fatally stabbed along [...]

Tags: , ,

  LINCOLN COUNTY, Tenn.Nov 29 2011 – A man wanted for shooting two law enforcement officers in Alabama and Tennessee was taken into custody early Tuesday morning. The suspect, Joseph Scott Shriver, 23, was caught just before 4 a.m. when officers spotted his car in a field about two hours after the second shooting. The [...]

Tags: , , , , ,

  Gilroy CA Nov 29 2011 On Sunday evening, Chris Shimek told his teenage boys to go grab something to eat. He wanted to talk to their mother alone. When they returned from an In-N-Out Burger, their father, a veteran San Jose police sergeant, was dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Their mother, Lynn, [...]

Tags: , , ,

  HOUSTON TX Nov 28 2011—A security guard was shot to death and a manager was injured during a robbery at an illegal game room in northeast Harris County early Monday, according to Harris County Sheriff’s deputies. It happened in the 17300 block of Beaumont Highway at Sheldon Road around 5 a.m. Harris County Sheriff’s [...]

    NEW YORK CITY NY Nov 29 2011 (AP) — An off-duty New York City police officer subdued and handcuffed an intoxicated passenger who attacked a flight attendant Sunday during a scuffle aboard a JetBlue plane. Officer Anibal Mercado intervened after Antonio Ynoa of Brooklyn punched a flight attendant in the face early Sunday [...]

  SEATTLE WA Nov 29 2011 (AP) — The manager of the Sears store in downtown Seattle says an elderly man has repaid — with interest — cash the man says he stole in the late 1940s. KING-TV reports that the man hand-delivered an envelope Monday addressed to “Sears manager.” Inside were a note and [...]

  ATLANTA Ga Nov 29 2011 — Police officers shot and killed a woman in an Atlanta home when she didn’t comply with orders to stop stabbing her young daughter, who also died, authorities said Monday. Police and fire rescue personnel were called to the home Monday afternoon and were told an 8-year-old boy had [...]

Tags:

  RALEIGH NC Nov 29 2011 — Three associates of Governor Beverly Perdue were indicted Monday on felony charges related to her election campaign. Trawick Hamilton “Buzzy” Stubbs and Juleigh Lee Sitton face obstruction of justice and filing false reports charges. Peter Anthony Reichard faces a single count of filing a false report. The announcement [...]

Tags: , ,