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Wife’s $30,000 casino loss brings man’s AK-47 threat, arrest, police say www.privateofficer.com
Wilmington DE Feb 27 2013 A Wilmington man who telephoned the casino at Delaware Park and ordered security officers to stop his wife from gambling there was arrested by state troopers after he threatened to shoot up the casino with an assault rifle, police said.
Brandon K. Buchanan, 28, was charged Monday with first-degree reckless endangering, possession of a firearm during a felony, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, said state police Sgt. Paul Shavack.
According to court records, Buchanan’s wife had gambled away $30,000 and he was fed up.
The incident unfolded about 11 p.m. Sunday, when casino security received the call from Buchanan, Shavack said.
According to court records, Buchanan told the security officer, “My wife is at your casino, get her out of there or I am going to come up there with an AK-47 and [expletive] you and that place up.”
The security officer told police that the man’s wife had left the casino “a few minutes earlier,” police said in court records.
About midnight, a trooper went to talk with the security officer, who said he was talking to Buchanan on the telephone.
Buchanan said that a state trooper’s car had just passed him in the parking lot, and the trooper returned to the spot and talked to him as he stood outside his car – a black 2009 Audi 4-door sedan.
When the trooper asked him what was going on, Buchanan replied in “an unsolicited statement” that “I brought the gun down here to scare my wife. She spent $30,000 in this place and I can’t take it anymore. I figured this way, she would realize that I’m serious about this,” according to court records.
When asked if he had any weapons on him, Buchanan said he had a gun in the trunk and the magazines and ammunition were locked in the glove compartment, according to the court documents.
When the trooper searched Buchanan, he discovered a magazine with 20 rounds of ammunition in the back pocket of his pants, Shavack said.
Additional troopers were called to assist and spotted an assault rifle on the rear seat, identified by police as a Hungarian AMD-65 7.61×39 mm — similar to an AK-47 — and in court papers as a UTG-65. Police said they also found 2.5 grams of marijuana along with a pipe on the seat.
Troopers obtained a warrant to search Buchanan’s home and found a Century Arms 7.62 mm assault rifle and additional ammunition along with a 9 mm Ruger semi-automatic handgun, Shavack said.
Buchanan was arrested and charged. He was being held in Young Correctional Institution on $62,350 cash bail.
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Shoplifter tries to punch his way to freedom www.privateofficer.com
An alleged shoplifter is accused of punching a police officer in the face during an arrest at the suspect’s Fond du Lac home.
Fond du Lac police were called at 4:41 p.m. Sunday to Kohl’s Department Store, 913 W. Johnson St., for a report of two shoplifters, said Capt. Steve Klein.
One man, age 20, was taken into custody by store security, but the other man, age 21, fled before police arrived, Klein said.
Officers were able to identify the second man and learned there were two active warrants for his arrest. They went to his home on Forest Avenue and found the man hiding in a closet, Klein said.
“He continued to be uncooperative and wouldn’t show his hands,” Klein said. “He gave officers what they described as ‘a thousand-yard stare’ (looking right through them).”
Officers used a Taser to try to subdue the man, but it had no effect on him. The man fought with officers and punched an officer in the face, Klein said.
“The officer was not seriously injured,” Klein said.
With the help of additional officers, the man was arrested. He is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on the warrants and charges of battery to an officer, resisting arrest, retail theft and disorderly conduct, Klein said.
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Macy employee nabbed burglarizing store www.privateofficer.com
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Police sat that it was an employee of a local store, not a burglar who tried making off with hundreds of dollars of merchandise in the dark of night.
At 5:42 a.m. the burglar alarm sounded at the Macy’s store at the Oaks Mall and security officers quickly responded and discovered a male subject exiting the store with two garbage bags full of store property.
Kolby J. Williams, 22, an employee at the store, was stopped by security officers and Gainesville police soon arrived and arrested him according to a report.
Williams had a key to the store and knew the alarm code but was not supposed to be at work at that time.He had entered the store and filled the trash bags and then set off the alarm.
He was charged with burglary of $511 worth of merchandise.
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Multi-state scam ring busted www.privateofficer.com
An arrest at a Wal-Mart in Austin, Minn., may help break a multi-state scam wide open.
Police arrested a woman who they believe tried to scam the store out of thousands of dollars. Her arrest is linked to a retail scam that stretches across several states.
Investigators say the scam has grown into a major theft ring. Once the suspects buy the merchandise with fake checks, they try to unload it before stores even know they were scammed.
Austin Police arrested 21-year-old Ashley Smith of Rochester at a Wal-Mart late Tuesday afternoon. Officers say she was trying to return close to $2,000 in merchandise bought with a bad check the day before at a store in Sauk Centre.
“An alert employee was suspicious about the return and started doing a little checking,” said Austin Police Chief Paul Philipp.
That checking revealed the Minnesota Financial Crimes Task Force has been investigating a theft ring involving retail stores statewide.
Investigators say stores in Alexandria, Detroit Lakes, Pine City, Sauk Centre, Austin, Rochester, Worthington, Fairmont and even some stores in northern Iowa were all hit with the same scam. They’re all located along major interstates.
So far, investigators believe more than $50,000 in merchandise is involved.
“She knew what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it and it was just part of an ongoing process for her,” Philipp said.
Investigators with the Minnesota Financial Crimes Task Force say the crime extends beyond just Wal-Mart stores, but because of the ongoing investigation they could not release any additional details.
Smith isn’t telling investigators much but the police report details other potential suspects from all over Minnesota. So far though, no one else is in custody.
Wal-Mart didn’t want to comment on this investigation but says the arrest is likely the result of extensive training for employees in hopes of spotting fraudulent activities.
Police say Smith is being held in the Mower County Jail.
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Man arrested for molesting child at Great Wolfe Lodge www.privateofficer.com
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Grapevine police say a Cleburne man was arrested for allegedly molesting a young girl last Friday at Great Wolfe Lodge.
32 year-old Michael Shaw has been charged with Indecency with a Child by Sexual Contact, a second degree felony, after the 8 year-old told her parents Shaw fondled her breast.
Police say Shaw was immediately detained by Great Wolfe security personnel and then arrested by police.
Shaw first claimed he was a registered guest; however police confirmed later he was not. Shaw then claimed he was at the resort with friends; police are still investigating that claim.
Shaw allegedly approached two other girls at Great Wolfe, but physical contact with the 8 year-old victim met the elements of the criminal offense.
Shaw was released from custody Saturday after posting $10,000 bond. The case is still under investigation.
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Martha Vineyard teacher arrested for “hosting” underage parties www.privateofficer.com
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A West Tisbury school teacher was arrested on Tuesday amid charges that he provided alcohol and pornographic materials to minors and hosted underage parties at his Vineyard Haven home.
Daniel K. Johnson, 43, was arrested by Tisbury police at his home on Mariner’s Road and charged with five counts of furnishing alcohol to minors, one count of assault and battery and two counts of dissemination of obscenities to minors. Police also confiscated a personal computer from Mr. Johnson’s home.
He was arraigned in Edgartown district court on Wednesday where he entered a plea of not guilty to the charges. He was released on $5,000 bail.
A police incident report requested by the Gazette, with the names of victims and other personal information redacted, states that a parent went to the Tisbury police station on Dec. 1 to report concerns that his teenage son might be receiving alcohol from an adult.
The nine-page report by officer Daniel Hanavan said the father found his son with a bottle of 100-proof vodka; the father subsequently took the bottle to an Island package store and asked who purchased it. An employee checked the UPC scanning code on the bottle and determined the time and date the bottle was purchased.
During a review of the store’s security video, the father recognized the person on the tape as Mr. Johnson, an industrial arts teacher at the West Tisbury elementary school.
The father then went to Mr. Johnson’s home and spoke to him about his teenage son, a former West Tisbury school student who is now a student at the high school. Mr. Johnson reportedly denied buying the alcohol for the student, and said the boy took the bottle from his truck.
The police report includes an account from a parent who became concerned after her son provided inconsistent information about where he was spending the night on several occasions.
The mother said she spotted her son driving with Mr. Johnson and pulled the vehicle over, telling her son to get into her car. Mr. Johnson then reportedly followed them to a West Tisbury home and came inside to talk. Mr. Johnson, who according to the report had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, told the parents he brought their son to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at a downtown church earlier that day.
The police report also contains an account of a parent who confronted Mr. Johnson, to which Mr. Johnson reportedly replied: “I’m really sorry that this got out of hand and went this far.” The parent then contacted the West Tisbury school and the Vineyard schools superintendent’s office.
The report details numerous interviews with students who said Mr. Johnson routinely purchased alcohol for them and hosted parties at his home attended by underage people, sometimes playing beer drinking games on a table the teacher built in his basement.
The report indicates Mr. Johnson provided his cell phone number to students so they could call him to purchase alcohol.
The report also indicates that Mr. Johnson showed pornographic films and offered to perform sex acts on students.
Mr. Johnson also worked as an emergency medical technician with the Tri-town squad up-Island. He reportedly has been placed on leave from his duties pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.
Tisbury police chief John Cashin said the investigation is ongoing. He encouraged any other students or parents with information to come forward and talk with school or police officials.
Chief Cashin said investigators are analyzing the computer material seized from Mr. Johnson’s house, and he said additional charges could be filed. He praised the students who provided information to investigators.
“These young people who came forward were very courageous to do so. They opened themselves to a lot of scrutiny and deserve credit for their bravery . . . I am sure it was not easy,” he said.
The chief also praised the police work of Officer Hanavan.
Vineyard schools superintendent James K. Weiss confirmed yesterday that Mr. Johnson had been placed on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of an internal school investigation. He said Mr. Johnson has worked at the West Tisbury school since 2001 and is currently a half-time teacher with professional status.
Mr. Weiss said school officials had heard rumors of inappropriate behavior involving Mr. Johnson prior to his arrest. The superintendent said he had a meeting with Mr. Johnson on Monday, the day before his arrest, to give him an opportunity to state his side of the case.
“He denied any involvement at all to me. Then we heard from the police,” Mr. Weiss said.
Following the arrest, West Tisbury principal Michael A. Halt talked to students in grades 4 through 8 about the matter. A letter was also sent home to parents explaining the situation.
Mr. Weiss said he plans to discuss the incident with the staff to emphasize the importance of boundaries between students and teachers to prevent future problems.
“A vast majority of those people — maybe 99.99 percent — are doing a fantastic job and are deserving of the trust we place in them. I hope people do not lose sight of that,” he said.
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Shoplifter charged after pepper spraying security www.privateofficer.com
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A Sioux Falls woman faces serious charges after assaulting security officers who were attempting to detain her in a shoplifting incident according to police .
The woman identified as Lauara Marie Rivera was arrested Dec. 9 after she sprayed a loss-prevention officer who stopped her for shoplifting, police spokesman Sam Clemens said.
At that point security agents stopped Rivera and she became combative and sprayed the officer in the face with Mace, police said.
Other loss-prevention officers assisted in detaining Rivera.
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Theft turns into drug charges for shoplifter www.privateofficer.com
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After being nabbed by Wal-Mart’s officers for trying to steal merchandise, Scott A. Preli tried to hide his drugs — stored in an eyeglass case — behind a computer tower in the room where he was being questioned, according to an arrest report from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.
The report said that Preli, 28, of Zephyrhills, put items totalling $350.80 into a bag and walked out of the store, where he was stopped by loss prevention officers and escorted back inside.
The eyeglass case contained a hypodermic needle, a spoon and two plastic bags containing trace amounts of “an unknown white powder substance.”
He is charged with retail theft and possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held in the Land O’Lakes jail in lieu of $2,650 bail.
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Shoplifter caught after images appear on area news www.privateofficer.com
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Tipsters helped West Des Moines police catch an alleged department store robber who had been at-large for more than two months.
The theft happened about 4:50 p.m. on Aug. 30.
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Security officers wrestle gun away from man www.privateofficer.com
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Elkhart IN NOV 7 2008
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An Elkhart man was arrested after police said he wrestled with a security officer over a gun at Chicago Bar and Grill, 2425 Cassopolis St., early Sunday morning.
Corey J. Edwards, 31, of 2584 Links Drive, Apt. 2A, was arrested on a preliminary felony charge of criminal recklessness and preliminary misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and carrying a gun without a permit around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Elkhart Sgt. Todd Thayer said in a report.
According to the police report, Edwards had been asked to leave the bar by security for an unknown reason. According to witnesses, he then went to the parking lot and retrieved a semiautomatic handgun from his vehicle and fired shots into the air.
Edwards then re-entered the bar, witnesses reported, and security officers wrestled with him to get the gun.
During the altercation, the gun went off and a bullet hit the ceiling. Police said security was able to take the gun and subdued and detained Edwards until police arrived and arrested him. No one was injured in the incident police said.
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Police arrest hotel guest after assault on security www.privateofficer.com
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A New York man was scheduled to be arraigned today on assault and battery charges after he allegedly attacked two hotel employees, including the hotel security officer.
Police said Ian McDonough, 31, of Ballston Spa, N.Y., became disorderly, and when asked to leave, attacked a desk clerk and a security officer at the Holiday Inn on Hingham Street on Friday morning.
Hotel security personnel told police that McDonough was running around the hotel, yelling and screaming and disturbing the other guests. When a security officer confronted McDonough and tried to escort him back to his room, he broke free and ran away.
Hotel security personnel said the man later went to the front desk and assaulted a clerk and another security officer.
Police responding to the hotel took him into custody and have charged McDonough with two counts of assault and battery, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct. He was released on bail and was expected to be arraigned today in Hingham District Court.
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MTSU student charged with arson and threats against school www.privateofficer.com
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MURFREESBORO(metro Nashville ) TN OCT 11 2008 — First came the fires, then the threatening e-mails that warned of “large-scale devastation” at Middle Tennessee State University.
In a post-Virginia Tech world, officials were taking no chances. They shut down classes Thursday as state, local and federal authorities descended on campus to search for and arrest a 19-year-old freshman they believe is responsible.
Justin Davis, of Antioch, will face terrorism and arson charges. He was arrested at 5 p.m. Thursday and is reportedly cooperating with authorities.
Davis’ arrest followed a day of intensified police presence on campus and the cancellation of classes for the rest of the week.
Students packed their cars to get an early start on a fall break that would have started at the end of the day today. Worried parents phoned students on campus to find out what was happening.
Other students remained on campus, unfazed by threats they say are not uncommon around exam time.
“We had one last year, but nothing was canceled quite like this,” said Kelsey Dupre, a sophomore who planned to stick around on campus during the break. “When I heard about the fires (Wednesday) night, I figured they would probably cancel classes.”
MTSU Police Chief Buddy Peaster said authorities believe Davis acted alone, but the investigation is ongoing.
“We are not going to stop looking into other possible suspects, and we’re not going to stop combing through information that we have received,” Peaster said.
University officials expressed relief that no students, faculty or staff were injured. They also thanked local, state and federal law enforcement agencies for their teamwork.
Classes remain canceled today; students will be expected to return to class on Wednesday after the scheduled fall break. University offices will maintain normal business hours.
The school, 30 miles southeast of Nashville, has a fall enrollment of about 23,900. It’s primarily a commuter university, with 3,500 living on campus in 21 residence halls and apartments. School housing was not evacuated Thursday.
Peaster said Davis was first interviewed as a possible witness in the case after police received information that his roommate might have been involved.
“After we began talking to him he became very cooperative,” Peaster said. He would not say whether Davis admitted or denied involvement.
Davis was a resident of Miss Mary Hall, where police confirmed one of the fires was set.
The Antioch home where Davis’ family reportedly lives was dark Thursday night. The blinds were closed, the lights out and no one answered the door.
A woman who answered the phone about 7 p.m. said, “We have no comment.”
Peaster said the threatening e-mails were sent between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday to him and two other police officers.
Sydney McPhee, president of the university, said one of the e-mails sent from a Yahoo account was received Wednesday by an administrator on the business faculty, threatening the entire student community with bodily harm.
Peaster said the decision to cancel classes was made by an emergency council, which included McPhee.
“We (were) erring on the side of safety because of incidents like Virginia Tech,” he said, referring to the nation’s most deadly university shooting in which more than 30 people were killed on April 16, 2007.
Officials decided not to evacuate campus Thursday before Davis’ arrest, though police presence was intensified and signs were posted at residence halls notifying students not to admit anyone they did not know.
Students had to show an ID before being allowed to enter dorm lobbies.
The FBI issued a no-fly zone over the campus while law enforcement tactical teams swept the area for a suspect or witnesses.
TBI and FBI agents confiscated some computers where the e-mails had been received.
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Murfreesboro Police Department, Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, Rutherford County Emergency Management and MTSU Campus Police were involved in the investigation.
MTSU spokeswoman Lisa Rollins described campus Thursday afternoon as pretty quiet. Students had been taking midterm exams until classes were canceled.
Text message alerts and a mass e-mail alerted students of “a credible threat” and that classes were canceled.
Freshman Jessica Caughlins said that she was sitting in biology class when the text message came announcing classes were canceled.
“I’m really scared,” she said. “It’s creepy. I’m going home.”
Freshman Kenny Ball said he was walking into Peck Hall on Thursday unaware of what was happening. When he reached the entrance, he saw the notice that classes were canceled and the door was locked.
“I don’t even know what’s going on,” said Ball, who isn’t signed up to receive the optional text alerts, available to all MTSU students and faculty.
McPhee said there were several threats.
“There was a general threat to inflict bodily harm to some of our employees,” he said. “Two academic deans received threats. I am not aware of any staff member receiving threats.”
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TV caper lands man in jail www.privateofficer.com
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Loss prevention agents at an area Wal-Mart wasn’t fooled a bit when a man walked out of the store with a TV and a bag with a receipt attached.
Police say that 19-year-old Daniel Bell was spotted by security personnel at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in the 5100 block of Okeechobee Road walking around the store suspiciously.
A security officer watched him Tuesday as he noted loitered in the toy department with a Wal-Mart bag and the $637 LCD television in his cart.
The loss prevention officer watched as the man then began to exit the store without paying for the TV and stopped Bell.
”Bell did have a receipt attached to the package but the receipt was for ice cream and an air freshener,” the affidavit states.
Security personnel took him into custody and notified authorities.
Police arrested Bell on a felony larceny charge, the affidavit states.
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Man charged after masturbating at Target store www.privateofficer.com
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Council Bluffs police officers were dispatched at 5:25 p.m. Monday to 1751 Madison Ave. at Target, in regards to an individual who was in a vehicle in the parking lot masturbating.
Witnesses had seen the individual – identified as Marcello Furertes, 34 – masturbating in his vehicle via the store’s video surveillance equipment. Store security said Furertes could clearly be seen moving his arm in an up and down motion in his genital region while looking at passing females in the parking lot.
Witnesses informed officers the same individual has been arrested at other Target stores in the Omaha area on the same charges.
Officer Ryan Herr noted he had been dispatched to the same address several times before in regards to the same individual masturbating in the parking lot, but the suspect always left before he arrived.
Herr made contact with Furertes in a red Nissan truck with Nebraska plates. Reports indicated Herr noticed Furertes appeared to be fidgeting and had both of his hands down by his lap area. Herr ordered him out of the vehicle, placed handcuffs on him and informed him he was being arrested for indecent exposure.
Reports stated Furertes said he understood the charges, but that he was not masturbating. He allegedly told Herr that he “works sanitation and that he had spilled some cleaner on his groin area earlier in the day. He stated he was just scratching his groin area.”
Herr did not see or notice any sign of a stain on Furertes’ jeans. He was transported to Pottawattamie County jail and charged with indecent exposure.
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Chillicothe OH A woman assaulted a Chillicothe Walmart security agent after being confronted about attempted shoplifting Friday.
According to the Chillicothe Police Department, a Walmart loss prevention officer witnessed Traci Ramsey selecting about $170 worth of merchandise about 4:30 p.m.
After being stopped at the door, Ramsey tried to use an old reciept to leave without paying. When the loss prevention agent didn’t buy her story and grabbed Ramsey to stop her from leaving, Ramsey punched her in the stomach.
According to the police report, The security agent then restrained Ramsey in a headlock and other employees helped escort her to an office when the police officer arrived.
Officers have charged Ramsey with one count of robbery and she is being held in the Ross County jail pending a bail release. The WalMart agent was not injured in this arrest..
Authorities say that a West End man was arrested Saturday afternoon after police say he stole three pieces of lingerie worth $440.
According to court documents, 46 year-old Kenny Killings went to the Saks Fifth Avenue Downtown where he allegedly selected three intimates items, then hid them under his clothes as security agents watched his every move.
Police officers responded to the store after store security apprehended Killings while he was leaving the store without paying.
Killings is charged with theft, and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday at 9:00 a.m
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Two men are being held in a California jail who Tigard police say could be the fake bank security guards who fooled a couple of business people into giving up their night deposits.
The men, whose names were not released by Tigard police, face unrelated burglary charges in Alameda County, Calif. One is 19 and the other is 20. They were considered transients, not UC Berkeley students.
They were arrested about a week ago by University of California at Berkeley campus police in connection with a string of dormitory burglaries. During the investigation, campus police detectives discovered several odd items, such as fake security guard uniforms, security badges, ID cards, a pair of handcuffs and a blue sign instructing people that the night deposit box was broken and to give their deposits to the guards.
Tigard police discovered the arrests when California law enforcement officials sent a message about the case to Corvallis police, said Jim Wolf, Tigard Police Department spokesman. The message was forwarded to Tigard, which jumped on the case and obtained evidence photos and mug shots from Alameda County law enforcement.
Detectives said victims of the scam identified photos of the suspects.
Wolf said the issue has been turned over to the Washington County district attorney’s office, and his department expects a grand jury indictment “soon.”
The odd case began Aug. 15 when two businesspeople reported that fake security guards outside the Wells Fargo Bank, 9200 Washington Square Road, took their deposits.
Police said the two white men used very good disguises to con victims into handing over their bank deposits by presenting themselves as security guards, saying the night deposit box outside the bank is broken. The scam artists were wearing blue uniforms, with identification cards, some type of security badges and guns. They were standing in front of the night depository box attached to the bank Friday evening.
The men advised both victims that the night depository was out of service and they would collect any deposits and provide them to the bank the following morning. The two suspects had a black box, which they used to collect and store the deposits.
Both victims noticed a blue engraved sign positioned over the night depository door saying “Out of Service,” and both said the entire operation and appearance of the men looked “official.” In both cases, the victims gave their bank deposits to the men.
The bank has no knowledge of the two suspects and never authorized anyone to collect deposits from customers. Bank officials advised that they had no problems with the night depository that evening or ever.
The same scam was aired by the BBC program “The Real Hustle”, a television show that uses actors to scam people in everyday situations:.
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A shoplifting arrest turned into a bomb scare at an Indianapolis gas station when police found explosives materials similar to those used in the Columbine High School massacre.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers found CO2 cartridges, about a pound of gunpowder and a gas can rigged with gunpowder Monday after stopping two men on suspicion of shoplifting a local Target, Lt. Jeff Duhamell told FOXNews.com.
“What concerns me is the CO2 canisters, if in fact they were going to make cricket-type explosives, which is just a miniature pipe-bomb-type deal,” Duhamell said.
Those empty canisters can be filled with gunpowder to make the “cricket” explosives used by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the 1999 Columbine attack that left 13 dead.
Gregory Killion, 22, and Daniel Filskov, 18, were arrested on charges of possession of destructive devices and theft when police pulled them over at a Shell Station after receiving a shoplifting call from a Target store.
As they removed Nintendo games and a Wii from the backseat of the suspects’ Pontiac, the officers noticed “a plastic bottle shoved under the handle of a gas can that contained a black powdery-like substance,” according to the police report.
Thinking they had found narcotics, the officers opened the bottle and discovered incense and a paper towel as well as gunpowder, the report said.
“At this time, we believed we had a homemade pipe bomb and we exited the vehicle and took both of the suspects to a safe location,” police wrote in the report.
Bomb crews were called in to handle the explosives.
Killion was arrested last month on a domestic violence charge, Duhamell said. Filskov does not have a criminal history.
Killion was also charged with resisting arrest and battery with injury toward an officer after allegedly telling police he would “beat himself up and blame us for it,” according to the report. Killion allegedly struck his head against the side of the police car and kicked out a door, injuring an officer.
An investigation is under way as to how the pair planned to use the explosives. Filskov told police he was “trying to make a firework with the gunpowder,” officers wrote.
“I don’t think these kids are in school or anything of that nature,” Duhamell said. “Ever since 9/11, we’re more attuned to check things of this nature out and be thorough.”
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Two sisters and a friend were arrested Wednesday after they went on a back-to-school shoplifting spree at the Natick Collection, police said.
Elena Shields, 17, her sister, Sarah L. Shields, 21, and Amanda E. Winkler, 18, were arrested at 5:44 p.m. after they stole more than $1,400 worth of clothing from three different stores, said police spokesman Lt. Brian Grassey.
Lord & Taylor security agents said they saw the three women go into the changing room with several items, and emerge with less. Security saw the girls go outside and put the merchandise in a car,” Grassey said.
The women were stopped, and when officers searched for what they took from Lord & Taylor’s, they also found several items stolen from J. Crew and Nordstrom, two other stores in the mall, police said.
Items stolen included several shirts, skirts, dresses and sweaters, Grassey said.
The Shields sisters, of 39 Tanglewood Road, Sterling, and Winkler, of 9 Gates Terrace, were charged with two counts of larceny of property worth more than $250, receiving stolen property worth more than $250 and conspiracy to commit a crime.
All three are scheduled to be arraigned in Natick District Court at a later date.
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Duct tape leads to shoplifting, drug arrests www.privateofficer.com
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Officer Casey Grimm pulled over a green 2001 Ford Explorer that had a temporary registration duct taped to its rear during his patrol of Route 46, just after 10 a.m.
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Bar security captures purse thief www.privateofficer.com
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A nightclub security person at Broadway Louie’s bar at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, caught a man who took a purse from a different bar in the area.
Joshua Cain, 23, of Medina, OH, walked into Broadway Louie’s holding a purse and walked directly to the bathroom of the bar.
The bouncer detained Cain, called Broadway at the Beach security and the man was arrested. According to a Myrtle Beach police report, Cain admitted that he took the purse from a chair at Senor Frogs.
Police called numbers from a cell phone in the purse and were able to locate its owner, who came to the office and verified that nothing had been taken from the purse.
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Security officers capture burglary suspect www.privateofficer.com
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Collinsville police believe they will be able to solve more than 20 burglaries from one arrest.
Police were called early Wednesday to the Holiday Inn in Eastport, where security officers had spotted a man they said was breaking into a vehicle on the lot and were able to apprehend and detain him, according to a release from Collinsville police.
Police officers arrived and investigated and soon arrested Thomas M. Friese, 20, of Collinsville. According to police, subsequent investigation by officers led to the recovery of several items stolen in a rash of vehicle burglaries of the last two months and identification of at least two more suspects.
Police estimate they will clear more than 20 burglaries, according to the release.
Friese was charged Thursday with burglary but is expected to be charged with additional counts of felony burglary.
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Hoover police were called to an area mall to assist loss prevention agents trying to detain a shoplifter and when they arrived found that he had fled on foot.
Officers say that they searched the area and was able to find Domingo Lezama Ortiz, 37, of Alexander City and have charged him with third-degree robbery and obstruction of justice by using a false ID in connection with the robbery Monday at the JC Penney at the Riverchase Galleria, according to a report.
Police said Ortiz tried to steal two pairs of shoes, seven pairs of jeans and 14 shirts from the store about 1 p.m. and when security agents confronted him, he pushed a security officer and struggled with him as he tried to get away.
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A man was arrested Sunday after Arizona State University police said he attempted to steal copper and brass from storage facilities underneath a parking structure.
An ASU police aide reported seeing Mark Adam Marchbanks, 41, walking into the Fulton Center Parking structure at College Avenue and University Drive.
Marchbanks had also attempted to take copper and brass from two other areas, Hardina said.
When ASU police arrested Marchbanks, they found methamphetamine and a pipe in his possession, according to police.
He was arrested on suspicion of burglary, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and a felony warrant.
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Police investigating a string of lewd acts on the Samford University campus say that they have made an arrest and charged a Birmingham man with indecent exposure in a string of incidents that has occurred over a lengthy period of time.
Investigators say that they arrested Richard Hightower last Sunday night as he was in the act of being a “peeping tom”.
According to a press release from the Homewood Police Department, Hightower would sneak up to the windows of a girls dorm room and take pictures.
Police and campus safety officers have been receiving numerous complaints and have been seeking the suspect for a long time, an officer said.
Dana Wilkes said that the school had notified them of the incidents and sent out emails telling them what the suspect looked like and the administration was on top of this guy she said.
But that knowledge didn’t help the unease they felt with the suspect lurking around at night. “It was really scary. Just us being girls even in a group it was kind of scary because you just didn’t know. I had no idea what he looked like except that he was a white male” says freshman Jessi Leffler.
Even though the girls we spoke with didn’t know anyone allegedly victimized by Hightower, they still say it’s creepy just knowing he was out there. “Girls would have their entire blinds closed and there would be a portion of it open and they’d see a white hand with a camera or like a man’s face, a freshman said.
The Samford campus is a closed campus at night with security officers at checkpoints and roving campus safety officers on patrol.
This isn’t Hightower’s first charge of indecent exposure. He spent four years in a Mississippi prison for similar offenses. And last November he was busted on the University of Alabama campus for indecent exposure, sexual abuse, public lewdness, and other crimes.
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By: Bryan Hill
Security News Magazine
Security has been increased at a Simpsonville Middle School after a student was arrested and suspended for wearing a T-shirt with a noose and a reference to the Ku Klux Klan.
Greenville television station WYFF says some students at Bryson Middle School stayed home Friday, fearing violence after the T-shirt worn by an eighth-grader angered both black and white students the day before.
Police say that the student, whose name was not released lifted another shirt that he had on revealing the racist T-shirt in the lunchroom.
School officials and law enforcement officers were notified and the student has been charged with disturbing school and recommended for expulsion.
Police say rumors are spreading at the school and on the Internet about possible violence over the shirt.
No one in this small community wants to speculate why the student wore the shirt or what would make him display such an inflamatory hate filled message but people are talking amoung themselves and police and school officials are watching for an outbreaks of fighting or racial problems because of the shirt incident.
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Police were notified by Sears loss prevention team that they were attempting to detain a shoplifter, later identified as Jose Molina-Montalvo and that he was struggling with them.
Waterford Chief of Police Murray Pendleton on Thursday defended tactics used by police in the arrest.
Based on Lt. Brett Mahoney’s report of the incident, Mahoney arrived on the scene, Pendleton said, the man had smashed the case and started to run. Pendleton said Mahoney chased the man through several departments of the store..
At that point, Pendleton said, Officer John Bunce arrived on the scene and attempted to use a Taser to subdue the man. Pendleton said the Taser’s batteries were not properly charged and the gun misfired. At that point, officers on the scene reported that the man refused to be handcuffed and continued resisting officers. In their report, Pendleton said, the officers said that because the Taser didn’t work, they then used their “closed fists” to bring the man under control.
Witnesses to the arrest notified the local newspaper of the incident saying that in their opinion the police overdid it and used too much force to subdue the man and the newspaper contacted Molina-Montalvo, at his home, and he admitted to stealing a digital camera from the store but said Waterford police went too far in the arrest, shoving him to the ground outside the store and repeatedly kicking and punching him in the head and chest.
Molina-Montalvo said that as he walked out of the store and headed for the exit he noticed a police officer. He tried to retreat and ran for a few feet but realized he had nowhere to go, he said.
“I saw a cop point something yellow at me,” Molina-Montalvo said. “I think it was a Taser. I tried to put my arms up and head for the ground. That’s when one cop pushed me to the ground. I think he even used the Taser. I don’t know how we ended up outside, but one cop is on me, one kicked me and someone kept punching my face.”
“I know what I did was wrong,” said Molina-Montalvo, but “the way they handled the situation was wrong. They were beating me up like I really did something bad.” Montalvo sustained minor scratches and bruising during his arrest.
Pendleton said the officers acted appropriately in a situation in which a man was actively resisting arrest.
The local newspaper The Day, said about a dozen people witnessed the incident, some taking photos with their cell phones.
We did however talk with Anthony Bianco, a regional loss prevention manager for a major retailer and a retired police officer from Florida. We asked him in his current or previous duties if force was ever necessary in the arrest of a suspect and just how much force should be used. He pointed out that the officers were met with a fleeing suspect who after being physically detained still put up a fight to the point that the officers tried to deploy their taser gun which would have been reasonaable force under the circumstances. When the Taser malfunctioned, the officers continued to use force by punching Montalvo to bring him into submission so that he could be handcuffed. To the public, seeing four or five cops piled up on one person especially using physical force may have seemed a bit too much but in reality it was the level of force required to bring the suspect under control. If he had complied with their demands to be handcuffed the shoppers would have just seen a routine arrest and officers escorting a prisoner out the door to their waiting police cruisers.
The public needs to realize that it’s not always as bad as it looks Bianco said. What if he had gotten away from the officers and pulled a knife or a gun and taken one of the shoppers hostage or worse, shot them.
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11 People arrested for check scheme www.privateofficer.com
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Birmingham AL. Nov. 29, 2007
Eleven people are accused of participating in a bogus check-cashing scam that targeted six banks and caused more than $400,000 in losses, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
Darryl Cook, 47, of Lawrenceville, Ga., and Melvin Glenn Petty, 52, of Birmingham are among the defendants named in an indictment returned by a grand jury in Birmingham. The two men earlier were identified by federal officials as recruiting homeless people and drug addicts to cash counterfeit checks, paying them with crack cocaine for their work.
Cook and Petty are charged with conspiracy, counterfeiting securities (checks) and bank fraud. Cook also is charged with aggravated identity theft.
Prosecutors said the men’s scheme, running March to August, involved the use of bogus checks that looked as if they were drawn on real bank accounts belonging to businesses. Each of the checks, authorities said, were made payable to their nine co-defendants, who would cash the checks at different bank branches.
Others charged with bank fraud in the scheme are:
Derrick Elton Everett, 36.
Vera Mae Johnson, 36.
Otis Isaiah Boyd, 69.
Harold Madden, 42.
Lester Renfroe Russell Jr., 45.
Robert Lee Jones, 56.
Raymond William Boykin, II, 40.
Willie James Monroe, 77.
Willie Homes Jr., 71.
“Despite how organized, creative and daring the schemes may be, time after time, participants are caught and prosecuted,” said U.S. Attorney Alice Martin.
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AIKEN, S.C Nov. 28, 2007– A bank teller had a million reasons to deny this transaction.
Police say a man offered a $1 million bill and tried to open an account. The employee refused and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, said Aiken County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.
Alexander D. Smith, 31, of Augusta, Ga., was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery, said Frank.
The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a check that had been stolen in a burglary earlier in the day. Other charges could be pending .Smith has a bail hearing scheduled Wednesday, but Deputy Angela Shunn of the Aiken County Detention Center did not know if he had an attorney.
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Monkey meat,religous freedom and criminal charges center of trial www.privateofficer.com
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NEW YORK N.Y. Nov. 24, 2007 – From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat.
Now, the tribal customs of Manneh and other West African immigrants have become the focus of an unusual criminal case charging her with meat smuggling, and touching on issues of religious freedom, infectious diseases and wildlife preservation.
The case “appears to be the first of its kind relating to that uniquely African product,” defense attorney Jan Rostal wrote in a pending motion to dismiss. “Unfortunately, it represents the sort of clash of cultural and religious values inherent in the melting pot that is America.”
At the center of the case in federal court is a modest woman with nine children and a history of domestic discord.
The case dates to early 2006, when federal inspectors at JFK Airport examined a shipment of 12 cardboard boxes from Guinea.
They were addressed to Manneh and, according to a flight manifest, contained African dresses and smoked fish with a value of $780.
Instead, stashed underneath the smoked fish, the inspectors found what West Africans refer to as bushmeat: “skulls, limbs and torsos of non-human primate species” plus the hoof and leg of a small antelope, according to court papers.
Three days later, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents were at Manneh’s door, where she told them she ran a smoked fish importing business.
According to the agents, she initially denied ordering any bushmeat from Africa or ever eating it while in the United States.
But after she consented to a search, the agents came across a tiny, hairy arm hidden in her garage.
“Monkey,” she explained, claiming the arm was sent to her out of the blue “as a gift from God in heaven.”
Federal prosecutors hit Manneh with smuggling charges that accused her of violating import procedures and suggested she was a menace to man and beast alike.
A criminal complaint cited evidence that the illegal importation of bushmeat encourages the slaughter of protected wild animals.
More ominously, the complaint warned of “the potential health risks to humans linking bushmeat to diseases like Lassa fever, Ebola, HIV, SARS and monkeypox.”
Defense attorney Rostal has countered by accusing the government of picking on a poorly educated immigrant.
Her client’s only offense, she said, was her inability to grasp Western attitudes and highly technical regulations regarding bushmeat.
Defense papers also argue that the U.S. demand for the meat involved in the Manneh case — from Africa’s green monkey population — is “too small to have any significance for conservation.”
Manneh, 39, testified last year that before arriving in the United States more than 25 years ago, monkey meat was critical to her religious upbringing.
At age 7, “I was baptized and they used that for the baptizing ceremony,” she told a judge.
Manneh is already serving a two-year sentence in state prison for trying to run over a woman she suspected of sleeping with her husband, Zanger Jefferson. If convicted of the federal charges she faces up to five more years in prison and deportation.
“The government’s taking a woman away from her children,” complained Jefferson, who’s struggling to raise the children alone. “It’s very depressing, especially with the holidays right around the corner.”
The prosecution also has dampened spirits at the church in Staten Island where Manneh and other African immigrants once packed the pews to practice a religion blending Christianity and tribal customs.
One of the few worshippers left, Leona Artis, says the congregation’s appetite for monkey meat is deeply misunderstood.
Take Thanksgiving.
“Where some people have turkey, we’ll have monkey meat,” Artis said. “I’ve been eating it all my life. It’s delicious.”
Baptisms, Easter, Christmas, weddings — all are occasions for eating monkey, Manneh’s supporters said in a sworn statement filed with the court.
The statement was vague about how the meat is obtained, but explains that it always arrives dried and smoked. Once blessed by a pastor, “we usually prepare it by cooking it for several hours into a stew,” they said.
For them, the exotic import is more than just food.
“We eat bushmeat,” they said, “for our souls.”
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