Nightclub adds security charge to patrons tab www.privateofficer.com

San Antonio TX April 13 2010 A nightclub hot spot plagued with car burglaries and crime is now charging patrons for their own safety. They’re increasing security but who should be paying the tab?

On a busy night, more than 2,000 people head to the area near San Antonio College. Apparently not everyone is a Saint when you park your car along Main Street.

“You have vandalism, break-ins, fights,” said David Amrollah, the owner of Bexar County Protective Services. Club owners hired his private security team to patrol the lot. “Because it was getting out of hand, they had to figure something out.”

But now they are collecting a buck from each driver to help offset security costs. It’s like a cover to cover safety cost.

“We had at least two instances a week when somebody said their car was broken into,” said Amrollah.

The cash also helps pay for the parking spaces. The property is actually leased from the Alamo Community College District.

“We worked on this with A.C.C.D. for about 15 months before getting this deal in place,” he said.

The security team is also proactive in stopping tipsy drivers from getting behind the wheel.

With almost 800 cars on a busy night, that’s 800 dollars to help offset costs. The new fee took effect March 10th.

Security officer shot during robbery of nightclub www.privateofficer.com

Security officer shot during robbery of nightclub http://www.privateofficer.com

SAN ANTONIO TX Jan 17 2009

BY: Rick McCann
NTL. ASSOC. PRIVATE OFFICERS
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Police said that they responded to a robbery and shooting and have several suspects in custody. The robbery happened at the Wild Zebra Strip Club off of Northeast Loop 410.

Police say that one of the men walked into the club and robbed the front desk.
Two security officers/ bouncers heard the commotion and chased him to a nearby apartment complex.

He and one of the bouncers then got into a scuffle, and police say the suspect pulled out a gun. “The gun was misfiring,” explained Officer Joe Rios of the San Antonio, Police Department. “After several misfires, the gun went off one time and struck the security in the chest.

After he realized he was shot, he decided to turn and run.

“Within an hour after the robbery, police arrested two men that they say are responsible for the hold-up and shooting.
Vernon Dean and Brad Stewart were taken into custody by officers without incident. Investigators said it was Dean who robbed the club and shot the bouncer.

They believe Stewart was driving a getaway car.Dean said that he was sorry for shooting the victim. I didn’t know I shot him.

I just tried to scare him Dean told an area television station.Dean is facing two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of aggravated assault.

Stewart is facing aggravated robbery charges. Both men were evacuees from New Orleans. Police also say that Dean admitted he tried robbing other people in the days leading up to robbery at the Wild Zebra.

The security person was transported to Brooke Army Medical Center where he is listed in stable condition.

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Police Officer Robert Davis

San Antonio Police Department Texas

End of Watch: Monday, December 1, 2008
Biographical Info Age: 26

Tour of Duty: 1 year

Incident Details Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle

Date of Incident: Friday, November 28, 2008

Officer Robert Davis succumbed to injuries sustained four days earlier when he was struck by a patrol car while clearing flares at the scene of an earlier accident.

A nearby officer was responding to backup another officer at a shoplifting call when his patrol car collided with another vehicle near the intersection of Potranco Road and Hunt Lane. The collision knocked the patrol car into Officer Davis.Officer Davis was transported to a local hospital where he was put on life support. He was removed from life support four days later and succumbed to his injuries.The officer driving the patrol car was also seriously injured in the crash.

Officer Davis had served with the agency for 1 year. He is survived by his wife.

Agency Contact Information;

San Antonio Police Department

214 W. Nueva

San Antonio, TX 78204

Phone: (210) 207-7484

Please contact the San Antonio Police Department for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.

Police seeking killer of college librarian www.privateofficer.com

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SAN ANTONIO TX OCT 15 2008

Kyle T. Greene
NTL. ASSOC. PRIVATE OFFICERS
www.privateofficer.com — Police and college administrators Tuesday were searching for a motive in a shooting that claimed the life of a 37-year-old librarian at Northeast Lakeview College.
Eric Reno, the school’s president, said that there appeared to be no problem between the shooter, Alan Godin, 62, and the victim, Devin Zimmerman, 37.
“I wish we had an explanation for why this happened, but we don’t,” Reno said

Police said that Godin walked into the college’s library at 2:15 p.m. Monday and fired four or five times at Zimmerman. Godin, who is also a librarian, then sat down and waited for police to arrest him. The suspect was charged with murder and was being held in the Bexar County Jail on $250,000 bond.
Derek Adair, a student at the community college, which is located in Live Oak, said that he and about 20 people who were in the library at the time ran for the nearest door after they heard the gunshots.
“People screaming, running, a lot of pandemonium,” he said. “People just going every which way, just trying to get out before anyone else was shot.”
Reno said he doesn’t think that increased campus security would have prevented the incident.
“I don’t know how anyone would predict something like this happening,” he said. “This is not something you plan for or can prevent.”
Students were shocked over the violence that happened at a place where most expect to feel safe.
“I think that’s terrible,” a male student said.
Classes were canceled Tuesday but counselors were available to talk with students about the incident.

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Couple charged with trading 5yr old for apartment, car www.privateofficer.com

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SAN ANTIONIO, Texas Aug 26 2008 A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman’s 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter.
Jennifer Richards, 25, and her married boyfriend, Sean Michael Block, 40, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Stein Nowak on Friday. Richards is charged with using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor. Block is charged with distributing child pornography.
Nowak ordered Block held. Richards’ detention hearing was delayed until Tuesday, the San Antonio Express-News reported Sunday.
According to an affidavit, the investigation began when an informant told the FBI about a text message allegedly sent by Block reading: “Nice piece 5 yrs old belongs to my gf and she wants to sell it.”
Richards and Block crafted a deal that, in addition to the apartment and used car, included child care for Richards’ 10-month-old daughter, whose sexual service the couple intended to sell later, Rex Miller, the FBI’s lead agent on the case, testified.
The couple had also hoped to blackmail the informant, Miller said.
Richards “was of the belief that these sexual interactions would be a positive experience for (her daughter) and that Richards would receive sexual gratification” from watching, according to the affidavit.
Authorities said both children are no longer in Richards’ custody and that neither child was sold for sex.
After reviewing computers the couple used and listening to taped conversations, Miller determined Block and Richards were making further plans to abduct, rape and “carve up” a teenage runaway.
Block allegedly sent an e-mail with a link to a Russian child pornography site, according to the affidavit.
Ronald Guyer, Block’s lawyer, acknowledged the severity of the charges. But Guyer told the judge that there was no evidence that the behavior progressed beyond Block’s fantasy.
“There has been no action on his part,” Guyer told Nowak.
Richard’s attorney did not return a call or e-mail left Sunday.
The couple worked at the Cheesecake Factory at North Star Mall, where he was a bartender and she was a waitress.
Court records show that Block’s now-estranged wife Sarah Block filed for a protective order earlier this week on behalf of the couple’s 14-month-old child. Her lawyer said she filed for divorce Friday.

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Texas schools track truants with GPS www.privateofficer.com

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San Antonio TX. Aug 25 2008
Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets using satellite technology.

But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets, with Global Positioning System monitoring, will infringe on students’ privacy.

Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the peace, said she anticipates that about 50 students from four San Antonio-area school districts – likely to be mostly high schoolers – will wear the anklets during the six-month pilot program announced Friday. “We are at a critical point in our time where we can either educate or incarcerate,” Penn said, linking truancy with juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity.

“We can teach them now or run the risk of possible incarceration later on in life. I don’t want to see the latter.” Penn said students in the program will wear the ankle bracelets full-time and will not be able to remove them.

They’ll be selected as they come through her court, and Penn will target truant students with gang affiliations, those with a history of running away and skipping school and those who have been through her court multiple times. “Students and parents must understand that attending school is not optional,” Penn said. Penn said the electronic monitoring is part of a comprehensive program she started four years ago to reduce truancy. She cited programs in Midland and Dallas as having success with similar electronic monitoring measures.

But Terri Burke, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said requiring students to wear the GPS devices full-time raises privacy concerns.

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Security officer murder trial underway in San Antonio www.privateofficer.com

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San Antonio TX July 1 2008

By:Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ A trial is underway in the murder of a private security officer who was gunned down in November 2005.
Ali Almeaarek reportedly was at the Greyhound Bus Station when a security officer assigned at the station became suspicous of his behavior and decided to question Almeaarek.
Police say that Dwight Peek, the security officer, found a gun in his backpack and notified police for assistance but while police were on the way, Almeaarek struggled with Peek and shot and fatally wounded him.
Police were able to apprehend and arrest Almeaarek who authorities soon found out was on the run from killing his girlfriend in austin a day earlier.
The trial was temporary delayed earlier in the week when a juror disappeared but resumed shortly after a bailiff located the person.

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Six Flags security officers ambushed, assaulted, robbed www.privateofficer.com

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SAN ANTONIO TX June 25 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private officers

http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police say that two armed men wearing Halloween masks ambushed two security officers during an attempted robbery early Monday at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.
According to a police report, the armed men broke into the theme park around 3 a.m. and surprised the security officers.
After the men bound the security guards’ hands with zip ties, the men drove the guards to the back of the administration building, the report stated.
Moments later, one of the security officers was ordered to ring a bell to the vault area, the report stated.
But when the vault was inaccessible, one of the men, armed with a sledgehammer, broke the rear door of the administration building.
The security officers were able to open the vault and then locked themselves inside for their own safety.
The men didn’t take any money but they took some belongings from the security officers and fled the scene in a Fiesta Texas security truck.
Police were notified and searched the area for the men but have not yet located them.
Both security officers were shaken but not injured.
Six flags Fiesta Texas has not released any statement regarding the robbery as of this time.

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