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Kyle Busch charged with speeding-reckless driving in North Carolina www.privateofficer.com
Mooresville NC May 25 2011 There’s a time for throttling up, and a time for throttling down.
Just days after winning the North Carolina Education Lottery 200, where he posted an average speed of 101.6 mph, Kyle Busch has been ticketed for exceeding that speed on a public North Carolina road.
Busch was cited for careless and reckless driving; deputies observed and clocked him running at 128 mph in a 45-mph zone on Tuesday afternoon.
Busch now joins a list of famous NASCAR drivers who have had a bit of trouble behind the wheel while off the track. Jimmie Johnson once injured himself after sliding off the roof of a moving golf cart. And Richard Petty famously bumped a driver out of the way for going too slowly on Interstate 85 in North Carolina.
Busch was driving on Perth Road between Troutman and Mooresville, N.C. The road, which runs parallel to Interstate 77, is rural, closely lined with trees and has few residences in the area. Busch was cited near the intersection of Perth and Judas roads.
It’s somewhat surprising that more NASCAR drivers don’t get caught by the police … or, at least, their speeding incidents don’t result in tickets. After all, when your job involves driving nearly 200 mph, staying at posted speed limits must feel like crawling. Not that there’s any excuse for tripling the speed limit, of course.
Busch has not yet made a public statement, but one is likely forthcoming.
Teen cop impersonator arrested again with gun www.privateofficer.com
Chicago IL May 24 2011 A teenager who made news two years ago for impersonating a Chicago police officer so effectively that he went on patrol with real police has been arrested again, this time for weapons offenses.
Vincent Richardson, 17, wasn’t carrying a gun when he was arrested for pretending to be a police office in January 2009. This time he was charged as an adult with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and possession of ammunition without a FOID card and appeared at the Cook County Criminal Courts building earlier this month, court records show.
Police said Richardson was arrested May 10 at about 9:30 p.m. after officers got a call of a person with a gun in the 5900 block of South Throop Street. When they arrived officers saw a male fitting the description the caller gave and approached him. Police did a pat-down and found a loaded gun and ammunition.
Police sources said a family member lives on the 5900 block of Throop Street but his address is listed as the 5400 block of South May Street.
Richardson was arrested and appeared the next day in court, where he was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail. He remains in Cook County Jail and awaits a June 1 court date, according to court records and the jail’s Web site.
Cops use hearse to scare kids away from drugs www.privateofficer.com
One Valley sheriff’s office, though, is using a hearse to deter troubled youth from a life of drug addiction.
The hearse is meant to grab your attention. The traditional funeral vehicle is wrapped with words to trigger a reality check. It says things like “Meth your highway to death” and “Don’t let meth make this your last ride.”
Inside the hearse is a coffin. Marshall County Sheriff Scott Walls hopes people will visualize that it could be them in that coffin sooner than they would like if they use meth.
Scott said, “We want kids to realize where meth will lead you. It’s one of those things, a visual aid, it’s attractive to kids, they see it and it’s interest to them.”
The sheriff’s office got the idea from a neighboring department, but never had the funds to put it in place.
That was until a few weeks ago, when someone, wishing to remain anonymous, donated a hearse to the sheriff’s office.
Now the hearse will be brought to schools and events to bring awareness of the dangers of meth.
“I’m a recovering meth addict I’ve used meth for 14 years. I’ve been clean 8 years,” said Kim Kirkland.
She works in the House for Hope, which is a half-way house for meth addicts. She said this hearse will bring the right message to troubled youth.
“The message needs to be really strong because a lot of kids in our community are growing up with parents using meth,” said Kirkland.
“The bottom line is: If you chose to use meth, this is your reality. This is where you can end up,” said Sheriff Scott Walls.
The Marshall County Sheriff’s office knows the best way to prevention is education. They hope this hearse will be a reality check for the younger generation.
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Missing cop now accused of stealing $70,000 from police www.privateofficer.com
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The woman charged with helping Decatur Police Sgt. Faron White escape to Las Vegas knew White had stolen about $70,000 in cash from the narcotics office, according to a document filed Tuesday in Morgan County District Court
White, 48, who was found Monday in Las Vegas, is charged with first-degree theft of property. He is accused of stealing at least $5,000. Richardson, 29, is charged with felony hindering prosecution.
The arrest affidavit for Sarah Elizabeth Richardson, dated Jan. 6 and sworn to by Decatur Police Sgt. Rick Archer, says she met with White about 11:30 p.m. Friday at the Decatur Police Training Center at 4119-A Old Highway 31 South and that “Richardson was aware that White had committed a theft of approximately $70,000 in cash from an evidence safe at the narcotics office.”
She agreed, according to the affidavit, to drive White to the Nashville airport about 6 a.m. Saturday so he could “evade apprehension.”
At the airport, she waited while White bought a ticket (for Nevada) and went to the check-in area, the record shows.
The affidavit also says “Richardson maintained telephone contact with White during the next few days, providing White with information concerning the investigation into his disappearance.”
White’s family reported him missing Saturday. Detectives found evidence of a struggle at White’s office and crews searched the Tennessee River and surrounding areas for days looking for White.
According to an Associated Press report Tuesday, Richardson was a volunteer who had been helping White’s unit and had apparently developed a romantic relationship with the officer, said Decatur Police Chief Ken Collier. Despite the search, the chief said detectives suspected it was all a ruse, according to the AP.
“The investigators involved didn’t fall off the pumpkin truck last week. They sensed something was wrong early on,” Collier said.
He also said White had been under a lot of pressure – an ill father, unexpected household debt and had been making trips to a casino in Tunica, Miss., according to the AP.
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Kidnap victim pounces on gunman, saves family www.privateofficer.com
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Speeding on the Capital Beltway, James Spruill knew he had to act fast. His wife and boys were packed into the family car, and a masked man was in the back seat, jabbing a loaded gun into his 11-year-old son’s ribs.
Twelve hours earlier, two gunmen had forced their way into his Prince George’s County home. Spruill said they tied him and his wife up with cords from a clock radio and a PlayStation, holding them overnight in separate bedrooms and keeping the two children in a third. The men had said they would hold the boys hostage and use his wife, an assistant bank manager, to rob her branch in the morning.
“I wasn’t sure what was going to happen,” Spruill said. “A lot of times, criminals don’t leave witnesses.”
Spruill had gotten lucky once. The gunmen allowed him to drive to the bank. Then, about 7:30 a.m. yesterday, within a few miles of the target, Spruill got another break: In his rearview mirror, he saw a Maryland State Police car approaching quickly on the Beltway’s outer loop near Route 1.
Spruill, 40, began to swerve his red Mitsubishi Gallant slightly. The one gunman who accompanied them didn’t notice — but Trooper Barrington Cameron did.
Cameron, a 22-year-old rookie, pulled the car over and walked to the passenger side, where Spruill’s wife was seated. Spruill glanced back at his son, tilting his head to motion the boy away from the gunman.
In an instant, Spruill was in the back seat, pinning the man’s hands and screaming about the gun. The trooper pulled his weapon, and the ordeal was over.
Late yesterday, the suspect was in custody and a search was on for the other man. Spruill, a maintenance worker with Metro, his wife and children — the 11-year-old and his 8-year-old brother — were back in their home in Clinton, shaken but unhurt
He put his family first, jumping on the guy with the gun,” said Lt. Carl Miller, commander of the College Park barracks. “He did what most people would have done with their families bound up like that. Whether they would have done it to that degree, I don’t know.”
Spruill described the ordeal in an interview, denying the mantle of hero but saying he played “psychological games” with his family’s abductors and gained advantages that made the difference.
“They were a bunch of amateurs,” he said.
The attempted bank robbery, though unusual, comes three months after a similar attempted robbery in Southern Maryland. Both involved a scheme taken straight from the plot of Hollywood thrillers.
Police said yesterday that the assailants timed their attack as the 39-year-old woman returned home from her bank, a SunTrust branch in Silver Spring. At 7:30 p.m., as she entered the house in the 6800 block of Briarcliff Drive, they pounced.
Spruill said he was in the bedroom, preparing for work, when his wife called out. He rushed to the front room, where he saw two men wearing ski masks, one holding a gun to his wife’s head. The men tied up the husband and wife, separating them, and forced the boys into their parents’ bedroom.
The assailants spoke to their hostages in English but communicated with each other in Spanish. Spruill, bound in one of the boy’s bedrooms, said he stayed awake all night, planning and listening as the men rummaged through his kitchen.
“It was like in the movies,” he said. “You just had to think it all through and figure it out. I wanted to keep us all together.”
In the morning, the assailants said one of them would stay at the house with the boys while the other went to the bank with Spruill and his wife.
Spruill fabricated a story to keep the family together. He told the men that his aunt was expected to visit that morning. He told them that if he was forced to call her to cancel the visit, he would find a way to let her know the family was in danger.
The assailants were fooled into changing their plan. The whole family would go to the bank, they decided. But there wasn’t room for both would-be robbers in the car, so one would stay behind.
They headed for the bank, at Elton Road and New Hampshire Avenue. Spruill sped for much of 25 miles, hoping to get pulled over.
When Cameron flipped his lights on, the assailant pulled off his mask, showing his face for the first time. He instructed Spruill to tell the officer that they were headed to breakfast together
On the right shoulder, approaching on the side away from traffic, Cameron asked for his license. Trying to alert the trooper that something was amiss, Spruill handed him his bank card. Cameron had by then noticed that someone in the back seat was making “suspicious movements,” police said.
Cameron asked for his license again. Spruill unbuckled his seat belt and lunged.
After the traffic stop, state police and Prince George’s police surrounded the house, concerned that the second assailant might have a hostage inside. About four hours later, police stormed into the house, finding
Detectives spent part of yesterday working with county police and federal authorities to identify the suspect apprehended in the car. He gave state police interrogators multiple names after his arrest, and police initially described him only as in his teens or early 20s.
About five hours after he was taken to the College Park barracks, the suspect attempted to hang himself by tying his shirt around his neck and to his cell door, police said.
Miller, the commander of the barracks, said the suspect was spotted quickly and cut down by a duty officer before he suffered any injuries. Miller said he was being held overnight at Prince George’s County Hospital Center for a psychological evaluation.
Miller said little is known about the second assailant. He was described as black, 5-foot-7 and 160 pounds and was last seen wearing dark pants and black hooded sweat shirt.
A state police forensics team spent several hours combing through the family’s home. Miller said those samples had not led to an identification last night.
On Sept. 24, a Southern Maryland bank manager and her two young children were abducted at gunpoint from their home. The suspects drove the woman to the PNC Bank she managed in St. Mary’s County and held one of her children hostage while she went inside to get money out of the vault.
The next month, police charged three men and a woman, alleging that they secretly followed the bank manager for several weeks and planned the abduction and robbery. Police recovered about $110,000 of the $168,000 stolen, much of it buried in two safes in the back yard of one of the suspects.
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Carjacking victim rescued by security officer, nurse www.privateofficer.com
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wavy.com – A carjacking victim is alive today because of the efforts of a local nurse and a security guard. It happened Monday, December 8th near the Tinee Giant off Virginian Drive and Thole Street in Norfolk.
Outside the Tinee Giant, strangers called to action and brought together by fate embrace.
“I would have done it for anybody,” said Lillian Harcum.
“Everything is done for a reason and the Lord sent us to help as much as we could,” said Ernest Holiman.
Holiman and Harcum believe they were sent to the Tinee Giant.
When Harcum arrived at the convenience store she had never been to before, she met a man at the door.
“He says lady I’ve been shot and robbed on the interstate and I turn around and look and blood was just flying everywhere,” explained Harcum.
Harcum, a nurse, alerted workers inside and began performing first aid.
“I knew it was bad,” said Harcum.
What she didn’t know was that Ernest Holiman was on his way to help.
“I seen someone on the passenger side of his car fighting him,” said Holiman.
Holiman, a security guard, couldn’t get the image out of his mind. He made a U-turn.
“I immediately put some gloves on and she said get something to tie around his arm,” said Holiman.
Holiman says he grabbed a t-shirt. He also managed to grab the suspect’s weapon, now in the front of the victim’s car.
“I told him I have the gun beside me,” said Holiman.
Holiman says the victim told him he managed to knock the gun out of his attacker’s hand.
“It was real ugly,” he continued.
The violence was tempered only by the beauty of two strangers helping a third.
“He raised his head up and looked at me and I’ll never forget it. He says lady, thank you,” said Harcum.
“Her field is saving lives and she done what she had to do. My job is to protect and serve and I tried to do what I had to do,” said Holiman.
Police say the victim should recover from his injuries.
They have not released any suspect information. If you have any information that can help police, call the Crime Line at 1-888-lock-u-up.
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NYC students complain about security’s “climate of fear” www.privateofficer.com
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Queens NY Dec 10 2008Kyle T. Greene
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Students, parents and civil rights activists are demanding a probe of what they call overly aggressive policing at a Queens school, saying safety agents have created a “climate of fear.”
Agents at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica have allegedly beaten students, strip-searched them and routinely forced them to line up for at least an hour for security checks, protesters said Monday at the school.
“We came to Hillcrest because, in our view, there is an educational and civil rights emergency,” said Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
She said Principal Stephen Duch is “complicit” in ongoing problems and has “turned a blind eye” to the aggressive behavior of security agents, who are NYPD employees.
Hillcrest student Rohan Morgan, 16, filed a lawsuit against the city in August after four security agents allegedly handcuffed him and then severely beat him in the dean’s office.
“I was scared and didn’t know what to think,” Morgan said, recounting the incident at the rally.
School has been difficult since then, he said.
“I still have to look over my shoulder,” Morgan said, adding that agents “still mess” with him.
City Education Department officials declined to comment on the lawsuit. But spokeswoman Marge Feinberg said such allegations are taken seriously.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said the July incident was sparked over a cell phone, which is banned in school. When agents tried to pull Morgan aside after his phone set off the metal detector, Morgan resisted, Browne said.
“The student became irate, and pushed and struck the agent,” Browne said. Morgan was taken to Long Island Jewish Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
Trudy Morgan said her son came home with bruises all over his body and suffered a knee injury that required surgery.
“This is not the way they deserve to be treated,” she said.
Hillcrest graduate Kumar Heeralall, 21, said he was the victim of a similar assault in 2007.
“They took me in a room, handcuffed me and beat me up,” said Heeralall, who did not file a suit. “I thought I was the only one that it happened to.”
Hillcrest student Ashley Avery, 16, said other schools don’t have such stringent security.
“Not everyone is carrying a pocketknife,” she said.
But George Geller, who heads the school’s safety agents union, called the claims “outrageous.”
“Inevitably, there are going to be allegations from time to time,” Geller said. “What you heard here today were irresponsible calls to remove safety agents from schools.”
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U.S. Border Patrol Agents Indicted In Drug Case www.privateofficer.com
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A grand jury in Houston returned sealed indictments Dec. 1 against Leonel Morales, 30, of the Border Patrol’s Laredo sector and Salomon Ruiz, 34, of the Rio Grande Valley sector.
Both men made their initial appearances in federal courthouses in McAllen and Laredo on Thursday after the FBI arrested them Wednesday. They will remain in custody until their respective detention hearings next week, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Ruiz, of McAllen, faces four counts including taking about $14,000 in bribes to escort drugs between October 2006 and September 2008, conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine, possessing cocaine and aiding the possession of the drug.
Each of the drug charges carries a sentence of 10 years to life.
It was not immediately known Thursday if Ruiz or Morales had retained lawyers who could comment on their cases.
Border Patrol spokesman Lloyd Easterling said weeding out corrupt agents was something the agency took very seriously.
“We have several open investigations going on,” Easterling said.
The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, Customs and Border Protection Internal Affairs and the Border Patrol participated in the investigations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a prepared statement.
Morales, of Zapata County, faces three counts including taking about $9,000 in bribes to escort drugs between June and August of this year, conspiring to possess cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The FBI arrested Morales without incident late Wednesday.
“The recent arrest of Leonel Morales is a reminder of the sever consequences of succumbing to avarice and the promise of ill-gotten gains,” said Carlos X. Carrillo, the Laredo Sector’s chief patrol agent.
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Police bust Portland shoplifting ring www.privateofficer.com
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kgw.com. — Seven people were arrested in connection with what police think was an elaborate shoplifting ring in downtown Portland.
Portland police said a handful of workers at downtown businesses were buying the stolen merchandise.
Back in September, police said they found stolen goods while arresting drug suspect 29-year-old James Younce
Investigators said Younce confessed to them that he was selling it to a number of food cart vendors and businesses including a food cart at SW 9th and Alder.
Police started surveillance on all of the businesses as undercover agents sold what they said was stolen merchandise to vendors in the 300-block of Southwest 5th.
They would buy everything from socks and designer jeans to perfume and Game boys.
Investigators some of the buyers even gave the undercover officers shopping lists full of things they wanted.
Arrested were; 37-year-old Anna Maria Saucedo, 35-year-old Adrian Saldana-Galvez, 34-year-old Nohemi Mendez-Rivera, 22-year-old Octavio Hernandez, 33-year-old Maria Baltierra, 68-year-old Enriqueta Quezada, charged with attempted theft and solicitation to commit theft.
Younce was arrested on a drug warrant. Police said the victimized stores cooperated in the undercover investigation.
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Security guard arrested for car break ins www.privateofficer.com
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A parking garage security guard at San Francisco International Airport has been arrested for allegedly burglarizing vehicles parked in the lot, authorities said today.
Andrew Kenneth Ridley, 24, was taken into custody Wednesday during the execution of a search warrant at his Daly City home.
The arrest came at the end of a three-week investigation by San Mateo County sheriff’s detectives and the San Francisco Police Department’s airport bureau.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Wesley Matsuura said authorities were notified by New South Parking, the company that operates the airport’s parking garages, that they had learned one of the guards at the lot had been stealing from cars.
Matsuura said the burglaries occurred at multiple lots including Lot DD, the airport’s long-term parking lot. He said investigators know of at
least three specific burglaries but said there may have been more.
The search of Ridley’s home yielded allegedly stolen items including laptops, BlackBerrys, GPS devices, cell phones and backpacks, Matsuura said.
Ridley was arrested on charges of auto burglary, possession of stolen property and possession of burglary tools.
He said investigators are still trying to locate the owners of some the items, and asked anyone who may have been a victim of such a burglary to call the sheriff’s office at (650) 821-6200.
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Body of dead shoplifter found www.privateofficer.com
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http://www.privateofficer.com/— One month after jumping into the Willamette River to avoid the clutches of Valley River Center security guards, the fate of suspected shoplifter William Christopher Griffith is known: His body was found washed ashore about 20 miles north of Eugene.
Benton County sheriff’s officials identified Griffith, 37, as the person whose body was discovered Sunday along the river by deer hunters near Dodge Island Road, east of Monroe.
“It’s a sad ending to this case,” Eugene police spokeswoman Melinda Kletzok said.
Before this week, police were unsure of Griffith’s fate.
He dove from the Maurie Jacobs bike bridge in Eugene into the chilly waters of the Willamette on the night of Oct. 30.
At the time, Griffith was being chased by mall security guards who said he stole a bracelet and a pair of shoes from Macy’s.
Kletzok said the guards tried to persuade Griffith to come back to shore, but he did not heed their advice.
Eugene police and Lane County marine deputies searched several hours that night for the suspected shoplifter, with no luck.
At the time, investigators said it was possible that Griffith — whose identity was not known — found his way to a riverbank and escaped.
Officials with the state Medical Examiners Office concluded that Griffith likely drowned, although the cause of death is officially undetermined.
Benton County Sheriff Diana Simpson said it took some effort to figure out that Griffith was the person who ran from the guards in Eugene.
“The detective working on the case learned of the shoplifting incident and was able to get the surveillance tape from Macy’s,” Simpson said.
“The body was decomposed to the point where no facial identification could be made, but (Griffith) was wearing the same T-shirt,” she said.
Police showed an earlier mug shot of Griffith to mall security guards, who “were 90 percent sure” it depicted the person who fled Macy’s and jumped into the river, Simpson said.
Oregon State Police investigators identified Griffith through fingerprints.
Court records show Griffith lived in Eugene. Simpson said police notified Griffith’s family in Arkansas of his death.
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Authorities say Starnes committed the acts on four boys between 1969 and 1981. One of the alleged victims told the Morning News of Florence that he was a member of a junior police force when he was molested.
Investigators had been made aware of these incidents recently and after completing their initial reports, turned them over to a grand jury to decide if there was enough probable cause to issue a warrant. The jury agreed that there was.
No one has said why these allegations are just now surfacing or whether or not Starnes has an attorney.
Bennettsville Police Chief Larry McNeil told WBTW-TV that Starnes has been placed on administrative leave from his job as a training officer.
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Three teenage shoplifters thought it was just another beer run as they headed to a local grocery store with thoughts of not buying, but stealing some brew and whatever else they could get out of the store with.
Santa Rosa police Sgt. Rich Celli said a 6:35 p.m. call of a strong-arm robbery in progress at the Lucky store on Bicentennial Way involved one person confronted by security officers after allegedly trying to steal liquor. As the store security officers tried to detain that individual, two more men entered the store and attempted to intervene, pushiing the security officers in an attempt to help their friend escape..
Jakeima Rohrbach, 18; William Kammerer, 18; and Andrew Pomele, 22, all of Santa Rosa, were rounded up by responding police and store security and now all are being held on suspicion of robbery, police said.
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Authorities are looking for two black men who robbed the Harris Bank, 2746 W. 5th Ave., at 11:11 a.m.
Investigators ask that anyone who recognizes the truck involved in the robbery contact the FBI’s GRIT office at (219) 885-1055.
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Authorities say that they were told by an employee of Dillard’s department store that while she was sitting outside of Dillard’s, at around 5pm, having a smoke break on the third floor garage area near the food court she was approached by a man who exposed himself to her.
The man began to masturbate in front of her as he came closer and before leaving asked for a cigarette.
Responding officers found twenty one year old Luis Angel Maldonado Fuentes of Whitehall who was identified as the suspect in the incident and he was taken into custody and is held without bond at the county jail on charges of gross sexual imposition.
Police did not release the identity of the dillard’s employee but say that she was not hurt in the incident.
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The first occurred at 1:30 p.m. at the store, in the 300 block of South White Horse Pike, when three people — Mark Zadroga, 27; Donlee Wheeler, 28, and Meghan McCrane, 29, all of Atco — were stealing tools from the store’s outdoor retail section, police said.
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Police say a bar customer “created a disturbance.” He was being disorderly and unruly according to witnesses and the security officer and he was asked to leave the premises.
Investigators say someone flagged down a passing police car on South Mendenhall around midnight, Tuesday, April 08, 2008, and told the officer that a man had been shot. Police say when they arrived on the scene, they found Andre McLaren, 38, lying dead in the parking lot of the business.
According to investigators, the security officer told police McLaren became unruly and was escorted outside of the bar. The guard says McLaren then started doing donuts in the parking lot and the security officer went to confront him and that is when he felt the McLaren was aiming for him so he fired his gun at the truck, hitting the driver several times.
The vehicle came to a stop resting up against a light pole.
Investigators are questioning the security officer. It is unknown of any charges will be filed.
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Police say that the victim had exited her car and was on her way to the store located at 8100 block of south John Young Parkway when she was approached by a man who was armed with a handgun.
The incident took place Tuesday about 6:15 a.m. as the victim, 35, stopped to pick up a few items.
Police say that the second count of kidnapping is because the victim’s 15-month-old daughter was inside the car during the attack.
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On Tuesday, in a small county in Indiana just across the river from Louisville Kentucky, those dangers became evident to a local probation officer and the community as he was faced with a violent confrontation with a probation violator.
Deputies say Amanda Overstreet was meeting with her probation officer when she was told that she had a violation and would be taken into custody. The probation officer notified the Clark County Sheriff’s Office who sent a deputy to the office to pick up Overstreet. during the wait for the deputy’s arrival, Overstreet and the probation officer waited and things seemed normal until the arrival of the sheriff’s deputy.
It was at that point, when the deputy walked in to take custody of Overstreet that things went very bad. Overstreet pulled a handgun from her purse before she could be handcuffed and pulled the trigger but the gun did not fire.
The officers were able to snatch the gun away from Overstreet and subdue her without anyone getting injured.
Overstreet was arrested and is now being held on a $100,000 bond at the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville. Overstreet faces numerous new charges after the incident.
It is not known if the probation officer was armed or why Overstreet had not been handcuffed prior to the arrival of the deputy.
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Suspected jewel thief accussed in second theft www.privateofficer.com
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Atlanta Ga. April 10 2008
Police say The Shane Company in Alpharetta wasn’t the only victim of an employee suspected of pocketing $1.2 million in jewels.
Suspect Sara Lane Tolar, 30, of Marietta had found a job at another jewelry store and, after working there only three weeks, had already absconded with two watches worth $17,000, police said.
At the time of her arrest late last month, police were only aware of the Shane Co. case. Then, Tolar told them she was working at Capetown Diamond Corp. in Roswell.
“I didn’t know she was working at the other jewelry store,” said Alpharetta Detective Corey Miller.
Capetown Diamond Corp.’s management wasn’t aware anything was missing from its inventory, Miller said.
Tolar is charged in the theft of $1.2 million in expensive pieces from The Shane Company and $17,000 from the other store.
She faces charges of theft by receiving and theft by deception after allegedly attempting to sell some of the stolen jewelry to a Marietta jewelry store on Good Friday.
Additional charges from Cobb County may be forthcoming, said Cobb Detective David Dunkerton.
Tolar remains in the Cobb County jail. Alpharetta police will present evidence to a grand jury this month.
Miller said Tolar apparently worked alone.
Tolar worked at the Shane Company for about 18 months, but was fired in February after a store audit, Miller said.
Tolar had been working at Capetown Diamond Corp. in Roswell for two or three weeks when she was arrested.
In February, a routine company-wide audit at The Shane Company showed a discrepancy of items in the books and items in-house, Miller said.
The company determined that Tolar had been responsible for inventorying all the pieces they believed were stolen, he said.
From state records, Miller learned Tolar had transactions with jewelry stores in Cobb County.
Miller alerted Dunkerton to be on the lookout for stolen jewelry that Tolar might be selling.
The next day, a jeweler in Marietta notified Dunkerton that a woman approached him about selling him some jewelry. When the woman returned, she was arrested.
A search of her car revealed stolen jewelry worth about $63,000, Miller said. It was then the woman confessed and said she was already working at another jewelry store, he said.
Dunkerton said Tolar named or described 14 places where she had sold items.
Thus far, about 50 pieces have been recovered, Miller said. He estimated their value to be in the six-figure range. Most of the pieces were valued between $2,500 and $15,000.
“Most of that will be gone,” Dunkerton said. “After 30 days, the precious metal dealers will dismantle the pieces and melt down the gold and create their own or sell the scrap gold to a wholesaler.”
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Mall security, customers battle to subdue robbery suspect www.privateofficer.com
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Police say that a Tampa man snatched an expensive Rolex watch from the Gause & Son Jewelers in the mall and then tried to fight his way out of the store.
In the mall at 3100 College Road, saleswoman Maria Kirkland told Officer Warren Brown that a man entered the store at around 3pm and asked to look at a Rolex. After looking at several watches, he walked to the other side of the store, she said. Thinking that was odd, Kirkland notified Rodney Gause, who stood at the entrance.The store also called the mall security office for assistance and security officer Terry Geromel responded to the store.
The man allegedly asked Kirkland if he could see the Oyster Perpetual Submariner Rolex watch, worth $25,250. When she showed him the timepiece, he grabbed it and ran.
Employees and mall security subdued Yorge Alvarez, 23, until police arrived, according to an Ocala police report.
Geromel caught him, and the suspect punched the security officer twice in the face, according to the police report. Employees and a shopper helped the security officer detain Alvaraz until police arrived and got him into custody.
Alvarez is charged with strong-arm robbery and battery on a security officer.
Geromel, whose face was swollen and scratched, refused medical attention.
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Daniele Francesco Nucci, 26, of the 100 block of Jordan Lane, is accused of trying to pay for a drink at the Chick-Fil-A counter using the fake bill about 7 p.m. Friday, but the employees immediately turned him away and called mall security and the police.
While they looked for him, an employee of the nearby Borders Books and Music store approached Sgt. John Gilmer, a county police officer who was moonlighting at the mall, to report a similar transaction within the past 30 seconds.
Gilmer and mall security officers began to search the mall and immediately found Nucci, who had on him 15 counterfeit $50 bills in addition to $240 in legitimate currency. Nucci attempted to flee but was quickly apprehended behind a business in the 100 block of Defense Highway.
After the foot pursuit, he complained of chest pains and problems breathing. Nucci was transported to Anne Arundel Medical Center.
He was charged with two counts of knowingly passing counterfeit documents, possessing counterfeit currency and resisting arrest.
The Secret Service Baltimore field office was contacted. It is unknown whether Nucci will also face federal charges.
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Security officer attacked with hammer, knife www.privateofficer.com
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Armstrong was taken to Cape Regional Medical Center by Middle Township Rescue for treatment in the emergency room for a neck wound. Hospital officials said he received treatment and was released from the hospital.
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www.privateofficer.com8 Teens arrested for attack on girl www.privateofficer.com
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According to the victim, the girls bragged that they planned to post the beating on YouTube and MySpace.
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Police arrested Casey Jones, 31, of Madbury on Friday at the Merrimack County jail where he is being held on the drug possession charge.
On the morning of April 1, two men attempted to shoplift 18 cans of Nestle’s baby formula worth $167. Employees tried to stop them from leaving the store with the carriage of baby formula and hypodermic needles fell out of the coat of one of the men who put up a struggle.
The men fled in a gray Mazda.
Evidence led investigators to a 5 Heartwood Lane apartment where, the next day, they arrested Megan Wilcox, 24, of Concord, on warrants for forgery and two counts of issuing bad checks issued, respectively, by Bridegwater and Moultonborough police. Also arrested was Daryl Clough, 35, also of Concord, for violating parole.
Later that day, police found the Mazda parked at 5 Heartland Lane with Jones and Jeffery Bibbo, 35, of Manchester, inside it. Each was charged with possessing heroin. Bibbo also was arrested for violating bail conditions on a prior shoplifting charge.
Police continue to investigate whether the incident is related to other baby formula thefts in the Concord area.
None of the people arrested have small children, police said. Baby formula is a popular item to shoplift to resell for cash to buy, among other things, illegal drugs, police said.
Jones’ bail is $5,000 cash. He will be arraigned in Concord District Court later this morning.
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www.privateofficer.comPolice charge teens with mall arsons www.privateofficer.com
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Police, fire and EMS personnel were summoned and quickly responded to the Walden Galleria fearing for the worse.
It was a wild night for police and fire fighters at the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga. There were 3 fires, one at J.C. Penney, one at the food court, and one at Best Buy. Investigators believe all 3 are connected and all are arson. “These fires were just set by some paper products and some matches. We’re in the process of investigating those fires and we do have some surveillance video taken of possible suspects.” said Cheektowaga Police Captain John Glascott
Police released several pictures from that surveillance video of the 2 persons of interest and police say that tips did come into their office and they have been able to make two arrests in the arsons.The two teens, ages 16 and 17, were under arrested this morning however police have not released their names or photos yet but said that they will have a press conference later in the day. .There was no major damage, and two of the fires burned themselves out. One fire was extinguished by mall security, but 2 stores were evacuated. “We closed down J.C. Penney and Best Buy for a short period of time until we were sure they were safe.” said Glascott
We could have a real disaster here said a police officer. Things could have gone bad fast and people could have been hurt or worse. Thank god none of that happened and hopefully these teens will be punished and understand the severity of what they did he said.
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Charleston WV April 8 2008
An Elkview woman was charged with stealing several hundred dollars worth of merchandise from Kmart.
State police were called to Kmart at the Crossings Mall Tuesday afternoon after a security officer had taken custody of a woman who tried to steal several items, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
The security guard told police Tessa Leigh Shafer, 25, of Hurricane Road, was seen placing items in her coat pockets without paying for them, the complaint said.
As the security guard watched Shafer, he saw her attempt to leave the store with a shopping cart full of merchandise, the complaint said.
The total value of the merchandise was $643.96, the complaint said.
Shafer told police she was stealing items for her and her baby, the complaint said.
She is charged with shoplifting and giving false information to police.
Former FEMA worker pleads guilty to identity theft www.privateofficer.com
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Some say that justice was not served and others agree in anger and frustration. They’re talking about the guilty plea in Federal court in Washington DC of Robert Davis, 44 of southeast D.C. who admitted in court that while employed by FEMA, he took advantage of at least 200 people including at least 30 who were Hurricane Karina victims. He plead guilty of stealing their identity, fraudulently opening credit accounts in their names and charging at least $156,000.
Davis used the identities of at least 74 victims to open accounts with the Home Shopping Network, QVC and others. Some items he received included diamond jewelry, designer watches and digital cameras.
The U.S. Attorney says Davis stole the identities while working as a FEMA human services specialist. About 30 of his scams involved victims of natural disasters.
Davis also worked as a clerk for various mortgage companies in the District.
After obtaining personal information, Davis called retailers and opened credit accounts in their names..
For all of his ill deeds and broken lives and heartaches that he left behind him, Davis agreed to a plea deal which found him guilty of one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of wire fraud. He could have easily been charged with at least 200 counts of each and faced life in prison. Instead, he received a bargin on Friday from the prosecutor’s office and now only faces four to seven years whn he’s sentenced in June.
With good behavior and early release, that amounts to less than two years behind bars.
The U.S. Attorney’s office said in their press release that is was a good sentence for Davis’s crimes and a win for the victims. It sounds like it was good for their office and a win for them.
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