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Pizza deliverman leads police to kidnap victim www.privateofficer.com
Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals said 46-year-old David Jansen abducted the 24-year-old woman while she was jogging in her Atlanta neighborhood on Tuesday.
Seals said Jansen tied the victim to the seat of a rental car and drove her across state lines to a rental cabin in a remote area.
Authorities said when Jansen ordered a pizza at the cabin, the deliveryman saw the victim lying on a couch bound by ropes.
The victim mouthed to the deliveryman to call 911. The deliveryman left and alerted authorities to what he had witnessed.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they found the victim still tied up on a couch at the cabin.
The victim told authorities that she had been kidnapped from Atlanta and brought to the cabin and raped. She was transported at a hospital.
She told investigators she knows Jansen from work, according to the Mountain Press newspaper of Sieverville, Tenn.
Seals said a search warrant was obtained and detectives entered the cabin and searched it. Seals said detectives found evidence at the scene that substantiated the victim’s story.
Jansen was charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape. He was arraigned before a magistrate, and a $800,000 bond was set. Jansen was being held at the Sevier County Jail Thursday night.
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Off-duty Atlanta officer working security shoots man www.privateofficer.com
The officer told investigators he noticed the man, identifed as Tramaine Miller, 27, in a park known for drug sales near the City Views Apartments on Richardson Street. When he tried to question Miller, he ran to his car, the officer said.
The officer approached the Dodge Charger with his weapon drawn and ordered Miller to put his hands in the air.
“The subject reached under the seat of the car and the officer felt threatened,” Lt. Keith Meadows of the Atlanta Police Department told Channel 2 Action News.
The officer opened fire, hitting Miller in the face.
Miller was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
Police found a cell phone in Miller’s hand at the hospital.
Miller’s father said Miller was at the apartment complex to check on a sick aunt.
Meadows said the officer was placed on a firearm review pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
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Preacher sues CNN security www.privateofficer.com
Dick Christensen has filed a civil lawsuit against the guard, CNN, and Turner Broadcasting. Christensen said he believes the sidewalk is public property. If it is, Christensen said Turner Security shouldn’t have slammed him to the ground and detained him for holding a religious banner there.
His video camera caught the incident on tape.
On video, you can hear the security guard ask Christensen, “You know where the property line begins?” Christensen responded, “I’ve been out here preaching.” The security guard then said, “I didn’t ask you what you were doing. What I’m asking is do you know where the property line begins?”
You don’t see Christensen on camera, but he recorded the encounter with CNN security guards who wanted him off the sidewalk outside of CNN Headquarters.
“I’m standing on public property right now,” said Christensen on the tape. “You think you are,” said the security guard.
Christensen was among a group spreading the gospel, holding religious banners and passing out Christian literature outside McCormick and Schmicks.
When Christensen kept insisting he was on public property, the security guard threatened to arrest him.
Then, it appears the security guard put Christensen on the ground. “What are you guys doing? What are you guys doing,” Christensen said on tape. “I’ve got men on me, on my legs, drilling a knee in my back.”
Christensen said the guards handcuffed him and held him in a CNN office for a couple hours before letting him go.
He has filed a civil lawsuit, accusing CNN, Turner Broadcasting, and Turner Security of false imprisonment, assault and battery, and violating his free speech and free exercise of religion.
“They don’t want this kind of speech out there on the sidewalk surrounding the CNN buildings,” said Christensen.
Christensen’s attorney said the sidewalk is not private.
“A public sidewalk is a public forum. That’s what it’s for,” said Christensen’s attorney, S. Fenn Little.
A CNN representative sent a statement to Channel 2 Action News that said, “We are aware of his complaints but do not agree with his version of events.”
“It’s my opinion that they are hostile to the Christian message,” said Christensen.
The incident took place during the SEC Championship game in December 2008.
Christensen wants a judge to stop CNN and others from detaining people who express their religion or speech on sidewalks.
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Cop accused of double murder on the run www.privateofficer.com
Investigators said they received a tip, which led police to the Greyhound Bus station in downtown shortly after midnight Saturday.
Authorities said they searched buses at the station, but came up empty-handed.
Investigators said Yancey was believed to have boarded a bus heading north to Chicago. Buses leaving the station for Chicago and Cleveland were searched at the next stop in Dalton, Ga., but Yancey wasn’t found.
DeKalb County Sheriff Tom Brown said Yancey disappeared from his mother’s home last week after cutting his tracking bracelet. Authorities said Yancey was being monitored by a private probation company.
“Over the past couple of months, Yancey has been depressed,” said defense attorney Keith Adams in a statement released to Channel 2 Action News.
Yancey is accused of killing his wife, Linda Yancey, and a day laborer, Marcial Puluc, last summer.
A judge had released Yancey on $150,000 bond under the condition that he wear an electronic monitor and remain under house arrest.
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GA. chiropractor arrested in MySpace lewd acts www.privateofficer.com
Michael Macaluso, 37, formerly of Smyrna, now of Marietta, pleaded not guilty Friday to child pornography charges. He could face life in prison.
Federal prosecutors said he used his MySpace page to befriend a 15-year-old boy in Connecticut and a 14-year-old boy in New Jersey. They say he convinced them into sending him lewd pictures and then threatened to expose the photos unless they sent him more.
United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said, “We warn our children that they need to know who is really on the other end of their computer, but this case drives that warning home in an unfortunately terrible way. This adult defendant was allegedly posing on-line as a teenager in an effort to entice other teenagers into sending him pictures and videos of themselves engaged in sexual activity, and then threatening them with widespread exposure when the victims wanted to stop. We urge any other victims to contact the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.”
Officials said in one case, Macaluso posed as a 15-year-old boy to befriend a victim. In another case, Macaluso posed as a 16-year-old girl, according to officials.
Acting U.S. Attorney Gentry Shelnutt called the case “a parent’s worst nightmare.”
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Rapper T.I. sent to prison over gun charges www.privateofficer.com
In addition to his prison sentence, he received three years supervised release — which is probation in the federal system.
He is expected to report to prison May 19. Officials said they are trying to find a prison close to Atlanta for him.
“Today I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to all,” the rapper told U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. at sentencing.
The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, already has completed about 1,000 hours of community service and has warned youths about the pitfalls of guns, drugs, violence. He will need to complete 470 additional hours.
Harris pleaded guilty last March after he was arrested in 2007 for trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers just blocks away and hours before he was to headline the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. He was also charged for unlawful possession of machine guns and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
He had faced a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count, until he cut a deal and pleaded guilty last March to the federal weapons charge and was sentenced to one year and a day in prison.
Harris agreed to community service to avoid a lengthy sentence. He has already made 262 public appearances as part of that deal.
Much of that work has been done with children. He was part of a major voting campaign and has an MTV reality show, “Road to Redemption,” to scare teens straight.
Harris is one of the co-chief executives of Grand Hustle Records and one of Atlantic Records’ most successful artists. His sixth album, “Paper Trail,” has sold nearly two million copies. It also charted two smash No. 1 songs, and a third with Justin Timberlake is near the top of the charts.
T.I. said fear was the reason he tried to buy the guns. His best friend, Philant Johnson, was killed following a post-performance party in Cincinnati in 2006. A man was found guilty last year in the murder case.
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2 Year old Atlanta child drowns in bathtub, 2 arrested www.privateofficer.com
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Beer delivery driver killed during robbery attempt www.privateofficer.com
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A beer delivery truck driver was fatally shot Monday after getting into a fight with another man outside a convenience store near Oakland Cemetery, police said.
Jean-Pierre Frantz, 26, of Atlanta, died at Grady Memorial Hospital from a single gunshot wound to the stomach, Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows said.
Police investigators said they hoped to identify the suspect through surveillance video taken while the suspect was inside the BP store, located in the 200 block of Memorial Drive at Hill Street, Meadows said.
The shooting happened about 12:30 p.m.
Frantz was delivering an assortment of beers, including Miller and Coors, to the store, Meadows said.
While he was making the delivery, the suspect walked inside and asked to use the store’s restroom, Meadows said.
Store employees wouldn’t let him.
After Frantz walked outside to get another load of beer, witnesses told police the unidentified man asked him for money, Meadows said.
The two men got into a verbal altercation, which turned into a fistfight, Meadows said.
It started on the side of the building, near an ice machine, and moved onto the pavement in front of the store’s front door, said the store’s manager, who refused to give his name.
“We didn’t know anything,” the manager said. “We were busy with other customers.”
The men traded blows for 30 to 45 seconds before the suspect pulled out a gun and shot the delivery man, Meadows said.
The manager inside heard the gunshot, looked outside and saw the delivery man on the ground, he said.
Another delivery man, apparently the victim’s co-worker, came to his side, the manager said.
The suspect, who fled on foot, was not a regular customer.
“We don’t know who the guy is,” the manager said. “We’ve never see him in the store before.”
Frantz died less than an hour later at Grady.
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Atlanta radio personality wrongly accused of shoplifting www.privateofficer.com
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Richardson, who is considering filing suit, said she and her boyfriend, David Smith, were held for hours by security officers at Arbor Place Mall after Smith was accused of stealing a shirt.
Richardson said the couple was approached in the food court by mall security.
“I just really don’t understand why they chose us out of everybody else that was in the mall,” said Richardson.
Richardson said the couple traveled to Douglas from Atlanta to shop somewhere different.
Smith, a rapper also known as “Montana Da Mac,” said he tried on several Polo brand shirts and bought two of them. Smith said security accused him of stealing the Polo shirt he walked into the store wearing.
The couple said they felt accused for one reason.
“Young and black …there’s no other reason,” said Smith.
Smith said he was first told surveillance video caught him, but after two hours, he said the mall told him the tape was inconclusive.
“It’s not a mistake when you detain someone for almost two hours without any evidence, without any probable cause, without a warrant…that’s false imprisonment,” said attorney Phaedra Parks.
The couple said while they were being held, the officers called them thieves.
When the couple asked for an incident report, they said they were told no.
When contacted by WSB-TV channel 2, the mall said it had no comment.
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Atlanta police officer killed by DUI driver www.privateofficer.com
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American Idol Diane DeGarmo battles identity theft www.privateofficer.com
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An American Idol runner-up fears she will never escape a Melbourne woman who was today ordered to stand trial on charges of stalking.
Entertainer Diana DeGarmo told investigators that “no matter what I do I cannot get away from” the woman.
Ms DeGarmo, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, accused Tanya Maree Quattrocchi of stealing her online identity and harassing her friends and family.
“I cannot have any private or professional life without her infiltrating it,” Ms DeGarmo said in a statement tendered today in Melbourne Magistrates Court.
Quattrocchi, 22, today pleaded not guilty to four charges of stalking Ms DeGarmo and others between November last year and January this year, through electronic messages.
She is accused of posing as a friend of Ms DeGarmo and sending emails of a sexual nature to her, her relations or friends.
Police who raided Quattrocchi on April 25 this year seized two computer hard drives.
The court heard that one had no data and the files recovered from the other showed Ms DeGarmo’s website had been accessed but no date or time of access could be determined.
Quattrocchi was bailed to appear in the County Court next year on conditions that included not accessing any device that allows internet or email access or communicating in any way with Ms DeGarmo or anyone or any organisation connected to her.
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Man accused of stalking CNN reporter www.privateofficer.com
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A Maine man showed up outside CNN’s Atlanta headquarters earlier this month, claiming anchorwoman Robin Meade used on-air body language to tell him to travel to Atlanta, according to a police report.
Atlanta police have not arrested Gregory Fitzgerald, 32, of Lewiston, Me., but advised Meade to seek a restraining order against him, the police report said.
Apparently, CNN or Meade followed through. Fitzgerald was served with a restraining order before he returned to Maine, said his stepfather, Paul Stufflebeam of Lewiston.
The cable television network says Fitzgerald has e-mailed Meade and called CNN more than 30 times since November 2007, expressing a “love interest” in her and asking to meet, CNN security official Chico Robinson reported to police on Sept. 17
Meade anchors the Headline News morning show, “Morning Express with Robin Meade.”
Fitzgerald could not be reached for comment, but Stufflebeam said his stepson is mentally disabled and has never been accused of stalking before. He also said Fitzgerald isn’t violent and that Meade should not fear for her safety.
“He’s a good kid,” Stufflebeam said. “He’s never hurt anybody. He doesn’t have an aggressive bone in his body.”
Fitzgerald told Stufflebeam that he was flying to Atlanta to spend time with a woman he met on the Internet and had been chatting with her for a couple years, Stufflebeam said.
Fitzgerald showed up at the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta on Sept. 16, claiming that Meade told him to come by “waving her hands, blinking her eyes and crossing her legs on television,” the report said.
Meade said that, to her knowledge, she has never met Fitzgerald, the report said.
Though Fitzgerald still has feelings for the anchorwoman, he will not be contacting her again, his stepfather said.
“We talked to him about it,” Stufflebeam said. “We’re going to get some help for him.”
When reached Monday, a CNN spokeswoman declined to comment.
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Hurricane Evacuees Charged With Robbery www.privateofficer.com
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Police said the suspects, three men and a woman, all from New Orleans, stole high priced jeans from the Luna boutique on Peachtree Road Thursday afternoon, walking into the store and grabbing all the jeans they could.
Officers say that they were notified of the theft in the Buckhead area and were on the alert for a Pontiac G-6 spotted leaving the first scene.
A few minutes later, police saw the Pontiac outside the Brazil Fine Italian Menswear in the 1800 block of Peachtree Road, just three miles from the first scene.
Officers moved in and said that they arrested the suspects as they were in the process of loading jeans from the high-priced store into the car.
Police spokesman James Polite said the four, all between the ages of 19 and 20, will be charged with felony theft by taking. Police did not immediately release their identities.
He says the designer jeans, priced from $250 and up, were strewn throughout the car.
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Police arrest panhandler for murder www.privateofficer.com
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Atlanta police charged him with fatally shooting a man he had asked for money early Tuesday outside a Midtown gas station, police said.
The victim was identified as Kashman Avery, 48, of Michigan, according to police and the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office
Police say that at around 2 a.m., Avery and some relatives were at the Shell station on Spring Street and 14th Street, Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows said.
The panhandler, Wanique Odwin, approached Avery and asked him for money, Meadows said.
Avery took exception to the begging and exchanged words with Odwin, Meadows said.
Odwin drew a weapon and shot Avery once in the side, Meadows said. Avery was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died.
Odwin, 26, fled the scene, but was found a couple of blocks away, Meadows said. He was charged with murder, and is being held without bond in the Fulton County Jail.
In an interview with a police detective, Odwin said he pulled out his weapon because he felt threatened by Avery, Meadows said.
Avery’s relatives, meanwhile, described Odwin as the aggressor.
The shooting follows a 30-day crackdown on panhandling by Atlanta police, prompted by a barrage of complaints from the public, including tourists.
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GA. Choir Director Charged With Child Molestation www.privateofficer.com
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Clayton County authorities said they found pictures of the choir director naked with several children. They believe some victims are from Saint Philip Benizi Catholic Church in Jonesboro where he works.
Rafael Garcia, 40, was arrested after officials said they found pornographic images on Garcia’s camera.
The mother of a 6-year-old boy didn’t mince words when she talked about what Garcia is accused of doing to her child.
VIDEO: Clayton County Church Choir Director Accused Of Child Molestation
“I wanted to kill him,” said “Sandy,” an alleged victim’s mother.
Police said Garcia, who rented a room at Sandy and her husband’s home, molested the child in the room and took pictures of the boy and himself engaged in pornographic acts.
“It just was not anything that we ever really suspected or had any idea that this could have been something to happen to us,” Sandy said.
Garcia was the child’s babysitter and the family said they trusted him because he was the choir director at the church.
Police said they found pornographic pictures of other children and they suspect Garcia may have harmed children at the church.
“Please call us if there is any indication that Mr. Garcia has had contact with their children in this manner,” said Sonja Sanchez with the Clayton County Police Department.
“It kills me because it was somebody that my son trusted and felt was a friend. And we trusted him,” said Sandy.
Garcia has been charged with five felony counts of sexual battery, five felony counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, five felony counts of child molestation and five felony counts of sexual exploitation of children.
He is being held in the Clayton County Jail without bond.
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Police arrest security guards for outstanding warrants www.privateofficer.com
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Atlanta GA. Aug 8 2008
Atlanta police arrested two security guards and discovered one guard had outstanding warrants and the other was a convicted felon, according to a police report.
Jovan T. Butler, 29, and Kamara C. Johnson, 31, both employed by Executive Patrol, were arrested Sunday morning after a man accused Butler of pointing a gun at him while the guard was on duty at an apartment complex on Allison Court in southwest Atlanta, the police report said.
The man who made the allegations, Martey Robinson, 21, had been taken into custody for trespassing at the apartment complex where the guards were working, the report said.
Butler and Johnson denied having a weapon in the guards’ vehicle, but an officer found a loaded .45-caliber gun between the driver and passenger seats, the report said.
A background check revealed Johnson’s warrants in the city of Atlanta.
Johnson was arrested for her outstanding warrants on charges of aggravated assault and burglary. Butler was arrested on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, pointing a pistol at another and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to jail logs.
The report states that Butler had a felony drug conviction from 1999, but Butler said in a phone interview Wednesday that he doesn’t have a felony drug conviction, but rather a 2002 felony conviction related to a domestic violence incident and an earlier misdemeanor conviction for marijuana possession.
Butler contended that he did not know there was a gun in vehicle and denied pointing it at Robinson.
When reached by phone, the owner of the company, Willie Manson, said both guards had been with him for less than six weeks.
He said he did not run a criminal background check on Johnson and did not know she had warrants for her arrest. Manson said he knew about Butler’s criminal convictions when he hired him.
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Girls use MySpace to carry out kidnap hoax www.privateofficer.com
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According to police, family members said the girls sent messages through MySpace, a popular social networking website, saying they had been abducted and held against their will. This triggered a massive police response and an all out search for two supposed kidnapped victims.
Now family members say it was all just a lie.
The two girls disappeared Saturday from their father’s apartment on Stone Mills Way after being told by an older sibling that they could not leave the apartment.
Authorities said Steib took her younger sister and left the Stone Mountain location around 10:00 a.m.
The girls soon began sending their messages via MySpace of their kidnapping and police ebegan to canvass the area and a search was launced.
Detectives actively canvassed the entire neighborhood.
The children were located a friend’s house nearby and were taken to police headquarters for questioning.
Authorities said Denesha Steib, 14, and 6-year-old Savannah Henderson were found safe Sunday just before 6 p.m. at a friend’s house where they had been all the time playing a “joke” on their family members. But police aren’t laughing and the children could face possible criminal charges.
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Hospital patients, workers and visitors fall victim to many crimes www.privateofficer.com
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An Open Records Act request from an area news reporter showed that numerous patients have come to Grady for medical care since January 2007 and have left wondering what happened to their valuables or money.
“It’s got to be clearly 180 degrees from what we expect in an institution of care and shelter,” said Atlanta attorney Mark Spix, who says he represented a man whose wife lost an engagement ring after being flown to Grady in October 2004 with fatal injuries. “I just think that is unacceptable.”
There were 260 thefts involving patients, employees and visitors in 2007, compared with 262 in 2006 and 279 in 2005, Grady spokeswoman Denise Simpson said.
Up the interstate and just a few miles from Atlanta at the Keystone Hospital in Marietta, an employee there has been charged with sexual battery after the orderly wheeled the woman from surgery into a private room and fondled her. Police are still searching for the employee identified as Raphael Telles.
The most serious allegation stems from a patient complaint against certified nursing assistant Nathaniel DeLa Cruz. According to a Chandler police report, a chronically ill patient says that DeLa Cruz molested her and performed sex acts in front of her during her several stays at the hospital between 2003 and 2005. She reported the incidents while staying at another Valley hospital in 2007.
A nurse’s aid walking to her car in Pineville North Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte, was gunned down in the parking lot of the Carolina Medical Center by an ex-boyfriend. She was later found in her car by a hospital security officer. A visitor to a California hospital is accosted in the parking lot near her vehicle and knifed to death when she refused to hand over her purse.
While most hospitals do have some form of security including guards, security cameras, electronic key systems and checks and balances to make them a safe secure place to work, visit or be a patient at, it’s fast becoming obvious to many in the security field that hospitals need to do more.
Like a city with a rising crime rate, police officers can’t be on every block John Mason, a healthcare security director and author said. Security officers can not be outside every patient’s room or in every hallway.
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Home Depot managers plead guilty to fraud www.privateofficer.com
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Nahmias said Tesvich received millions of dollars in bribes from vendors and passed on hundreds of thousands to Robinson.
Both face extensive prison sentences in their crimes.
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Police lieutenant quits over sexual misconduct allegations www.privateofficer.com
Police lieutenant quits over sexual misconduct allegations
Alanata Police, Internal Affairs investigators say that they received information that an officer was cruising several areas of the city prowling for sex while on duty.
Residents of midtown Atlanta say that they often say Lt. John Oglesby pulling up to prostitutes and cross dressers and it wasn’t for official business they say.
One resident shot a video of Lt. John Oglesby, who is seen with several neighborhood cross dressers and prostitutes. The resident told local CBS 46 he shot the video because he was tired of seeing Oglesby with cross dressers and hookers so often.
IAD investigators say that they were alerted to the situation and began investigating and conducted surveillance on Oglesby while he was suppose to be on duty patrolling the city.
The say that they found Oglesby was routinely out of his assigned zone in Buckhead for hours at a time and even recorded him soliciting for sex acts.
“When are you gonna beat me again?” asked Oglesby on the tape.
Hmmm?” asked the second person.
“When are you gonna beat me again?” Oglesby repeated.
CBS 46 also obtained audio tape of some of the conversations that investigators said Oglesby had while on duty in his patrol car.
“Did you know that if everybody didn’t do anything that was bad for them they wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning? Like for instance smoking a cigarette, chewing gum, sucking (expletive),” Oglesby said.
“I’m a lady,” the other person on the tape said.
“Well, all the ladies I know do it,” Oglesby replied.
CBS 46 reporter Joanna Massee confronted Oglesby on Thursday.
“Did you make any sexual comments to anybody in your car at all?” Massee asked.
“No,” Oglesby replied.
“We heard you ask ‘When are you going to beat me again?’ What did that mean?” Massee asked.
“I never said that,” Oglesby said.
“You made many references to oral sex,” Massee said.
“You said it, not me,” Oglesby answered.
According to police officials, Oglesby retired from the Atlanta Police Department before administrative charges could be filed.
Investigators said that Oglesby’s actions were not criminal because no money had exchanged hands or was discussed during the times that they had him under surveillance.
Maj. C.J. Davis emphasized Thursday how hard the department is working to cut out allegedly corrupt officers
. “We have noticed a pickup in the number of tips we get internally, and we feel that our officers want good officers working alongside them,” Davis said.
Davis said she was disturbed by Oglesby’s sex talk and concerned that a supervisor would leave his watch for such unprofessional pursuits.
Because the lieutenant left the department before any administrative hearings could be conducted, he will be elgible to receive his pension and benefits a police official said.
“Grandpa” bank robber captured in Georgia www.privateofficer.com
ATLANTA GA. NOV. 13 2007
Perry Georgia police arrested a man the FBI had named the “Grandpa Bandit” Saturday at a hotel just off I-75 in Houston County.
The FBI said Bobby Joe Phillips, 64, is suspected in seven bank and credit union robberies in Knoxville, Tenn., and in Suwanee, Covington and Warner Robins in Georgia.
Phillips, who is from Covington, was being held in Houston County Jail until his first court appearance, which has not been scheduled.
The FBI said a Perry police officer saw Phillips’ red Chevrolet S-10 in the Holiday Inn parking lot around 7:30 a.m. and moments later saw him walking toward the pickup truck. The officer arrested Phillips without incident.
Phillips robbed the First Georgia Community Bank in Covington on Sept. 20, the First Tennessee Bank in Knoxville on Oct. 1 and again on Oct. 12, the SunTrust Bank in Suwanee on Oct. 24, the Tennessee Members 1st Federal Credit Union in Knoxville on Nov. 1 and again on Friday, and a bank in Warner Robins on Thursday, according to the FBI.
In each robbery, Phillips allegedly gave the bank teller a note demanding money and flashed a handgun that was in his waistband. Authorities called him the Grandpa Bandit because of his age.
Police and FBI agents are investigating whether or not the suspect is involved in other robberies in Tennessee and Georgia.
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Students Gone Wild; Police Respond By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
Students Gone Wild; National Police Response By; Rick McCann www.privateofficer.com
ATLANTA GA. Oct. 26, 2007
School resource officers, sworn police officers or deputy sheriffs have been in schools across the country for years. And with the police presence has come increased arrests, physical police response in cases of fights and student outbreaks and some schools which have looked more like rioting city mobs then school campuses. Police using teargas and pepper spray and tasers to subdue and quell student fighting, outbreaks and disturbances. In recent weeks there have been numerous school shootings and school hostage situations some as large and scary as the shootings earlier this year at Virgina Tech.
Just this week a fight at a Florida school involved more than 300 students who also caused major damage at the school and took a small army of police and teargas to quell the disturbance and bring order. Another such incident on Thursday in Greesboro North Carolina where police there had to call several times for reinforcements and used teargas to help bring a large fight in a high school gym under control. Several smaller incidents in other school districts this week including Nashville Tennessee and a school in Michigan and New Jersey causes law enforcement to question whether or not students are getting more violent amongst themselves and against the police. Frequent outbreaks in schools across the nation do appear to be a common place
occurrance.
Here’s an example from incidents in New Jersey during a one week period.
VINELAND NJ — Police arrested 14 students in less than a week on a variety of charges ranging from assault to weapons possession and disorderly conduct. Eight students were arrested during a brawl that police said could be gang-related.
In the most recent incidents, police arrested three teens at Vineland High School and Landis Middle School about 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The following details were released Wednesday by police about the rash of student arrests:
· A 15-year-old male student was charged with possession of two pocketknives at Landis Middle School. The juvenile, who said he was afraid other students would attack him, was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon and released to his parents.
· A 16-year-old male was charged with possession of a razor blade at Vineland High School 9-10.
· Another 16-year-old boy was charged with disorderly conduct at the 9-10 building when he attempted to fight another student on a bus during dismissal.
· Eight boys, ranging in age from 14 to 16, were charged with disorderly conduct when police broke up a large fight in a field on the north side of Chestnut Avenue at Spring Road on Tuesday afternoon.
Detective Lt. Tom Ulrich said police believe the fight was gang-related, but he declined to elaborate.
“This fight occurred at 2:30 after school was dismissed, and we’re working with school administrators to determine exactly why it occurred.”
Ulrich said several other youths involved in the fight escaped on foot.
· A 15-year-old boy was charged with assault on a school employee for allegedly pushing a security guard at Vineland High School 11-12 on Tuesday afternoon.
The juvenile allegedly refused to sit down on a bus and was told to get out of the vehicle by the security officer. He refused and pushed the officer in the process. The teen was held at the county detection center.
· Around 1:30 p.m., another 15-year-old boy was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest during a disturbance at the tennis courts at Vineland High School 9-10.
The suspect did not show up for morning class and was marked absent. He refused orders from security and staff to leave the school property, and Officer Brian Pooley of the Juvenile Unit used pepper spray during the arrest of the unruly teen.
· One person was arrested during a disturbance at a Vineland High School football game last Friday night.
Salman A. Yusuff Jr., 18, of Walnut Manor Apartments on East Walnut Road was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Police ordered several people to leave the school property because of a disturbance in the bleachers, but Yusuff refused and resisted when officers attempted to handcuff him.
Yusuff is a senior at the high school, according to police.
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Sandy Springs GA. Oct. 22. 2007
A 22-year-old man who was walking to work had his right leg severed Sunday morning when a motorist eluding an officer struck him and kept going, Sandy Springs police said.
The victim, Anthony Bevis, was critically injured and underwent surgery Sunday afternoon at North Fulton Regional Hospital. Barring any medical complications, he was expected to survive, police said.
Doctors, however, were unable to reattach his leg, said police Lt. Steve Rose. Rose said Monday that Bevis’ condition was upgraded to serious overnight.
The driver of the car, Mario Smith, 28, of Roswell, was arrested after he struck three other cars and then tried to flee officers on foot, Rose said.
The incident began shortly before 10 a.m. when an officer pulled Smith over in a parking lot in the 7800 block of Roswell Road, Rose said. He did not know the reason for the stop except that it was for a minor traffic violation.
Rose described what happened next:
A check of Smith’s driver’s license revealed the man had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear in court in Fulton County to answer to a charge of theft. The officer told Smith he was going to arrest him and had cuffed one of the man’s hands when the motorist began to resist.
Smith got back in to his car and drove off, and the officer had to let go of the man’s hand so that he would not be dragged along. The suspect headed south on Roswell Road, but the officer did not pursue.
“The guy had such a head start on him that the lieutenant told him not to pursue,” Rose said. Instead, police dispatchers put out a radio bulletin for other officers to look out for the car.
A short time later, Smith struck Bevis as he was crossing the street in the 7500 block of Roswell and kept going, police said.
Patrol cars converged on Smith’s vehicle in the 6000 block of Roswell, near Hammond Drive. While trying to drive past the officers, Smith allegedly struck three other cars. then got out of his own vehicle and tried to run, but was apprehended.
Smith’s flight lasted about 12 minutes, police said.
He was booked into the Fulton County Jail, charged with four counts of hit and run, obstruction of an officer, serious injury by vehicle, fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, theft by taking, marijuana possession and seven traffic offenses.
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