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NC High School student Tased, arrested during fight www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 10, 2010
Gaston NC Sept 10 2010 A school resource officer warned an Ashbrook High School student three times to stop fighting Wednesday before using a stun gun on him, according to police. ?When they didn?t comply he used the Taser after numerous warnings,? said Gaston County Police Capt...

Police warn Penn State students about flasher, rapes www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 10, 2010
University Park PA Sept 10 2010 Police alerted Penn State University students after a man exposed himself to more than a dozen women, officers said. The alert was sent out to students on the school?s main campus in State College. Police said 10 of the incidents happened on campus within the past year...

Security officer faces armed man at gunpoint www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 10, 2010
SARASOTA COUNTY Fla Sept 10 2010 – A Bradenton security guard is being called a hero, after diffusing a potentially deadly situation. Captain Schusler’s night started just like any other. “You hope it never happens, and when it does you hope that you trained properly; but in the end it’s what we do...

OFFICER DOWN-Auxiliary Lieutenant Dan Kromer

Posted on September 09, 2010
Auxiliary Lieutenant Dan Kromer Taylor Police Department Michigan End of Watch: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Biographical Info Age: 54 Tour of Duty: 20 years Badge Number: Not available Incident Details Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Date of Incident: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Weapon Used: Automobile Suspect Info: At large Auxiliary Lieutenant Dan Kromer was struck [...

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Atlanta area shopping center fire-bombed www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
EAST POINT, Ga. Sept 9 2010 — Fire investigators told Channel 2 Action News that they believe someone intentionally set a fire that engulfed a Family Dollar and Piggly Wiggly grocery store early Wednesday morning. The fire chief told Channel 2 Action News reporter Erin Coleman that the fire is suspicious...

Catholic teacher charged with sex crimes against a student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.Sept 9 2010 — A former Catholic school music teacher is behind bars after he turned himself in to face accusations that he committed a sex crime on a student. Wednesday morning, at St. Andrew Catholic School in Coral Springs, parents reacted to the arrest of 37-year-old Miguel Cala, a former music teacher [...

Southern Union State Community College has new chief www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
Roanoke AL Sept 9 2010 After 18 years in law enforcement sheriff’s investigator Jimmy Holmes will start a new job Monday at Southern Union State Community College overseeing security. SUSCC interim President Amelia Pearson said the college hired Holmes to be over security at the three campuses–Wadley, Valley and Opelika...

Penn. teacher sexually assaulted several students www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
MONESSEN, Pa.Sept 9 2010 — A former teacher at Monessen High School was arrested Tuesday afternoon on charges that she had sexual contact with several female students. Ashley Herre-Bagwell, 29, is accused of having sexual encounters with students on a number of occasions, police said...

Music teacher charged with sexual assault of student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
Detroit MI Sept 9 2010 A 58-year-old music teacher has been accused of criminal sexual activity after one of his teen students broke a four-year silence regarding alleged incidents that he said occurred in 2006 and 2007. Gregory Stahl, who has taught privately and at Milford Music for several years and is also involved in [...

Security officer exchanges gunfire with burglary suspects www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
San Antonio TX Sept 9 2010 A man in his late 20s was shot in the arm early Wednesday, when he reportedly exchanged gunfire with a security guard just west of downtown, San Antonio police said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was in police custody at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital...

School employee charged with sexual assault of student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
Omaha NE Sept 9 2010 A Sarpy County judge decided Wednesday there is probable cause to move forward with a case against a Logan Fontenelle Middle School employee. Fifty-eight-year-old Clifton Stovall was charged with third-degree sexual assault on a child...

Court security officer arrested after accidental shooting of co-worker www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
Denver CO Sept 9 2010 A private security guard at the Arapahoe County Courthouse accidentally wounded another security officer while using his pistol to calibrate a security scanner this morning. The Olympic Security Services officer sent his a 9mm semi-automatic handgun under the X-ray scanner, then lifted the gun and snapped back in the magazine, [...

Alabama promotes website to locate missing Alzheimer patients www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
Hoover AL Sept 9 2010 The Hoover Police Depart�ment is promoting an online se�cure government website where families can share information with police about their relatives with Alzheimer’s or dementia in case they become lost. Officer Joe Jones, who is spearheading Hoover’s initiative, said the program puts identify�ing information at an officer’s fingertips to help [...

Florida security guard charged with burglaries www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
STUART, Fla. Sept 9 2010– A Stuart assisted living facility security guard was arrested after police said said he broke into residents’ rooms and stole their jewelry. Raymond Loprinzi, 51, of Port St. Lucie, was arrested Friday on three counts of burglary and three counts of theft...

Shoplifter uses snake to threaten security officer www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 09, 2010
STOCKTON CA Sept 9 2010 ? A 16-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday night in connection with robberies in which a live snake was used as a weapon, police reported today. Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, an officer was near Empire Theatre, 1825 Pacific Ave., when he recognized the boy suspected in the Monday night robbery of [...

NC man gets prison for polluting river www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
Charlotte NC Sept 8 2010 A man will spend eight months in federal prison and pay a quarter-million dollar fine after pleading guilty to spilling thousands of gallons of fuel oil into the Catawba River, officials said Tuesday. Daniel Still, Jr, of Lincolnton, had been hired by a developer to demolish the Belmont Dyers textile [...

Newark airport baggage handlers charged with smuggling drugs www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
NEWARK NJ Sept 8 2010 ?The shipments kept coming, month after month, usually hidden in gym bags stowed in the underbelly of a Continental Airlines jet on its regular route from the Dominican Republic to Newark, authorities said. And month after month, they said, the shipments of cocaine were seized before they could hit the [...

Truckers get security training as past of federal Observer program www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
Washington DC Sept 8 2010 After the first two years of a three-year program, 18,100 truckers have completed training in a federally funded trucking security program known as First Observer. In August 2008, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded a $15...

Police use Taser to subdue unruly CT. student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
MIDDLETOWN ,Conn.Sept 8 2010 — A student at Middletown High School was subdued with a stun gun on Friday afternoon, according to police. Police said during lunch on Friday, one of the Middletown Police Department’s school resource officers became aware of a 17-year-old male student arguing loudly with a school staff member...

Murdered security officer hard worker, well liked www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
Cummings GA Sept 8 2010 David Casto worked every day. He had two jobs and an hour commute each direction, but it was worth it to him. He had purchased a Winder townhouse and was saving for a car and a cruise. Casto, a security guard, was shot and killed during a robbery at a [...

Police charge man in Fla hospital disturbance www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
Sept�8 2010 Officers from the Marianna Police Department responded to the Jackson Hospital at the request of hospital security in reference to a disturbance. Upon arrival, officers made contact with security who advised of a complaint of a doctor in the emergency room possibly being battered and made reference to some subjects in the far [...

NJ Police chief?s second job raises question www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
MEDFORD NJ Sept 8 2010 ? The Medford police chief’s job at a Pennsylvania casino is raising more questions about public safety in the township, a week after a Courier-Post investigation revealed high-ranking officers were ordered to conduct special residential patrols in Shamong...

Jackson High School student charged with assault on security www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 08, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. Sept 8 2010 — Jackson police arrested a 17-year-old at Provine High School after school officials said he tussled with a school security guard. Police were called to the high school Tuesday morning after the student began acting violently and refused to follow the direction of teachers and school personnel, officials said...

Couple sue NY Giants and stadium for game day assault www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 07, 2010
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Sept 7 2010? The New York Giants have been sued by a woman and her husband who claim she was attacked by fans during a New York Jets game played at Giants Stadium last year. Michelle Munoz says she attended the Sept. 20 game against the New England Patriots and was assaulted [...

Security officer shot in the head-police make arrests www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 07, 2010
Cummings GA. Sept 7 2010 The masked gunmen who robbed an Ingles in Cumming late Sunday night, killing a security guard, had help from an employee who was in the store at the time, authorities said. Enlarge photo Channel 2 Action News Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department investigates the fatal shooting of a security guard at [...

Teacher holds students at gunpoint during ghost story

Posted on September 07, 2010
Chattanooga TN Sept 7 2010 A Sequoyah High School teacher was charged Sunday with allegedly holding at gunpoint teenagers who were ghost-hunting in a graveyard on Saturday night, authorities said. Stacy Swallows, 45, of Shipley Cemetery Road in Sale Creek, was booked at 8:52 a...

Security officer killed during grocery store robbery www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 06, 2010
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga.Sept 6 2010 — A security guard is dead after a group of gunmen opened fire inside a local grocery store. The shooting happened at the Ingles store on Canton Road in Forsyth County just before midnight Sunday. Forsyth County deputies have been dealing with a series of robbers in the county and [...

Missing airport employee found dead in terminal ceiling www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 06, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS MN Sept 6 2010– Police are investigating the death of an electrical worker whose body was found in the ceiling at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). Robert Germundson of Coon Rapids was found around noon Saturday in the ceiling of Concourse E at the Lindbergh Terminal...

School security tells student to remove flags from vehicle www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 06, 2010
NORTHGLENN, Colo. Sept 6 2010– A high school student in Northglenn is upset that campus security told him to remove the large American flags flying from his pickup truck because it might make others uncomfortable. Jeremy Stoppel told 7NEWS he got a ticket at Northglenn High School last Thursday for squealing his tires...

Drug dealers use cloned vehicles for transports www.privateofficer.com

Posted on September 06, 2010
ZAPATA, Texas Sept 6 2010 – The driver was wearing a deputy’s uniform and swore he was a real law officer. But to the Border Patrol agents manning a checkpoint here, something just looked funny about the pickup truck with Webb County sheriff decals...

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