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Hospital security, police charge man with credit card thefts www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 26, 2010
ALBANY NY Aug 26 2010 — A 50-year-old city man has been charged with stealing credit cards from purses on three occasions inside St. Peter’s Hospital, police said. Michael Frechette of Central Avenue is accused of swiping the credit cards from purses on May 31, June 12 and June 16...

Courageous man saves police officer www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 26, 2010
Miami Gardens Fla Aug 26 2010 A man’s courageous act saved a police officer who crashed his patrol car into a pole Wednesday morning at a Miami Gardens gas station while he fought off an attacker. The officer had responded to a report that a woman had accidentally driven her car into the BP gas [...

Shoplifters ignore 75 cops at store and steal anyways! www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 26, 2010
Portland Or Aug 26 2010 You couldn’t miss the large Portland police presence at the Fred Meyer off Southeast Johnson Creek Boulevard on Wednesday morning. Mounted patrol officers were out front. canine patrol were teaming around and about 60 other uniformed officers from assistant chiefs and commanders to patrol officers and traffic cops were inside...

Security guard killed in armed confrontation www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 26, 2010
SPOKANE, Wash. Aug 26 2010 Spokane police say a 26-year-old security guard was fatally shot in an alley after getting involved in a confrontation with a group outside an apartment complex. The guard killed late Tuesday night was identified as George Hayek, who worked for Securitas Security Services USA...

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Bulletproof vest saves deputy after being shot four times www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 25, 2010
SHAWNEE Okla Aug 25 2010 ? Joe Leeds’ three children remind him daily how important it is to wear his bulletproof vest. Pottawatomie County sheriff’s deputy Joe Leeds holds the bulletproof vest that kept him from harm. Photo provided “Every day when I leave the house, one of them says ‘I love you, Dad ? [...

Subsitute teacher charged with Internet sex crimes www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 25, 2010
ALBANY, N.Y.Aug 25 2010 – A 28-year-old subsitute teacher has been arrested for allegedly going online, and trying to set up a sexual encounter with what he thought were two 14-year-old girls. Nicholas Cramer was arrested because of the incident, which was an investigation led by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, as well [...

SD student brings guns, explosives on first day of school www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 25, 2010
SISSETON, SD Aug 25 2010- A Roberts County teen is behind bars and authorities say they may have prevented a dangerous situation from developing during Sisseton’s first day of school. 18-year-old Joseph Thomas Hansen of Claire City was arrested early Tuesday morning after authorities got a tip that he was making threats against the school [...

Sears security agent assaulted by shoplifters www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 25, 2010
WHEATFIELD NY Aug 25 2010 ?A Sears loss prevention agent was punched and kicked, and suffered a cut on her finger, after a shoplifter drove off while still wearing the handcuffs that the agent had put on her over the weekend. The security officer said that at 3:11 p...

?Bomb in my belly? comment gets man arrested www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 25, 2010
INDIANAPOLIS IN Aug 25 2010 — A man was arrested Monday after he told a security worker at Indianapolis International Airport that he had a “bomb in my belly” at a security checkpoint, police said. Indianapolis police were called to the airport at about 1:30 p...

Metrolink security guard accidentially shoots self www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 25, 2010
St Louis MO Aug 25 2010 By:Brett Davis PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ �Police say that a Metrolink security guard was grazed by a bullet from his own weapon. Poice and EMS responded at around 12:30 a.m. at the Shrewsbury Metrolink station on Lansdowne after getting a 911 call for help...

OFFICER DOWN CHARLES COLLINS KILLED

Posted on August 24, 2010
Officer Charles Collins United States Department of Homeland Security – Customs and Border Protection – Office of Field Operations U.S. Government End of Watch: Sunday, July 11, 2010 Biographical Info Age: 56 Tour of Duty: 8 years Badge Number: Not available Incident Details Cause of Death: Automobile accident Date of Incident: Sunday, July 11, 2010 [...

Security officer shoots bingo burglar www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
HOUSTON TX Aug 24 2010 A man was shot at a bingo hall in northeast Harris County. It happened last night on FM 1960 near Aldine Westfield. Deputies say the man walked up to the door and smashed the door with a hammer. A security guard fearing the safety of the customers and his own [...

Employee of car dealership charged with stealing cars www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY Utah Aug 24 2010 ? An employee at a Salt Lake car dealership was stealing cars off the lot, selling them to his friends and family, then erasing any trace of their existence from the dealership’s computer system, police say. Tony Thomas Taylor, 25, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail [...

Hard Rock casino security nab men for identity fraud www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
BILOXI MS Aug 24 2010 ? Security at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino called police after two men tried to obtain cash by using false identification and a fraudulent credit card, police investigator Steve Schlicht said. The men had gone to separate teller windows at the casino and used the same credit card number [...

Security aid in arrest of 11 during metal theft www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
FLINT MI Aug 24 2010 Seven men have been accused of breaking into a building once owned by General Motors, stealing, and shooting at a security guard and sheriff’s department deputies. Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell says it happened twice last week; once on Wednesday and then again on Friday on Flint’s north side...

Memphis officer arrested for sexual battery of suspect www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
MEMPHIS, TN Aug 24 2010 – A Memphis Police officer bonded out of jail Saturday morning after being charged with felony counts of official misconduct and sexual battery. Women who live near the scene of an alleged sexual battery at the hands of an on-duty officer were so fearful to share their reaction, they asked [...

Ex-marine convicted in murder of pregnant girlfriend www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
GOLDSBORO NC Aug 24 2010 — A jury on Monday convicted a former Marine of first-degree murder in the death of a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape, a charge that stalled the military career he treasured. Cesar Laurean, 23, of Las Vegas, was found guilty of killing Lance Cpl...

Woman Tasered by hospital security want charges dropped www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
Monroe La. Aug 24 2010 An alleged tasing incident at Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe back in December has three women on the opposite side of the law. On Dec. 20, three women, Vana Samaniego, her daughter, Marinette Lebel and sister Marietta Mathews, were accused of trespassing in a third floor waiting room...

Security officer carjacked while on patrol www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
Vallejo CA Aug 24 2010 A Vallejo man is accused of hijacking a private security guard and his vehicle early Sunday. Vallejo police became suspicious when they saw the guard’s vehicle driving on Tennessee Street at 12:57 a.m. with both the driver’s and passenger’s doors open, police Lt...

N.O.P.D. officers who lie will be fired www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
New Orleans La Aug 24 2010 police officers who lie while on the job or file a false police report can be immediately fired under new regulations that will go into effect next week. Superintendent Ronal Serpas announced the changes, along with several other revisions to the rules governing officer behavior, at a news conference [...

US Sheriffs struggle with rising extradition costs www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 24, 2010
ATLANTA GA Aug 24 2010 ? Authorities in Michigan’s Genesee County were jubilant when Atlanta police arrested a suspect in a spate of serial stabbings that left five people dead. They weren’t so thrilled about picking up the tab to get him back...

Bloggers Beware! You can be sued and arrested for your words! www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 23, 2010
Los Angeles CA Aug 23 2010 The Internet has allowed tens of millions of Americans to be published writers. But it also has led to a surge in lawsuits from those who say they were hurt, defamed or threatened by what they read, according to groups that track media lawsuits...

Three killed in Long Beach street race www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 23, 2010
Long Beach CA Aug 23 2010 Three Long Beach residents were killed early Sunday when a car that had been racing down Ocean Boulevard smashed into a concrete sign, police said. The driver of a Mustang was racing the driver of a Taurus eastbound on Ocean just after midnight when the two cars collided; the [...

Court security officer tip leads to capture of fugitive www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 23, 2010
Juneau AK Aug 23 2010 John Angerer, 40, was arrested in Juneau on Anchorage probation violations little more than a month after being released from Colorado’s Boulder County Jail, where he had been held for five months on a charge of second-degree murder...

College offers free tuition to officers who volunteer as campus security www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 23, 2010
BELLEVILLE, Ill. Aug 23 2010 - A southern Illinois university is offering free tuition to law enforcement officers who volunteer as security guards. Lindenwood University’s Belleville campus found itself with more students than its security force could handle...

Speeding, DUI bride arrested but makes reception party! www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 23, 2010
Bellevue WA Aug 23 2010 A bride was arrested speeding down Interstate 405 in Bellevue, Washington after her bachelorette party. The woman is not identified in the report, but police claim she was speeding down the freeway at 90mph and weaving in and out of traffic, when they followed her and pulled her over...

Ga Sonic Restaraunt swallowed by sinkhole www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 22, 2010
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NJ Highway patrol chief gets speeding ticket www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 22, 2010
Paramus NJ Aug 22 2010 Col. Rick Fuentes was traveling northbound in an unmarked state police-issued black SUV on the Garden State Parkway on Friday morning when a trooper stopped him in Paramus, just northwest of New York City. State police spokesman Capt...

Cedar Park police officer dies in motorcycle crash www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 22, 2010
Cedar Park TX Aug 22 2010 A police officer died yesterday while conducting motorcycle training with a senior officer, according to KVUE-TV. Officer Leonard Reed, 41, suffered massive internal injuries in the motorcycle crash and was pronounced dead at St...

Mn. security bouncer won?t face charges in shooting death www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 22, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS MN Aug 22 2010 Hennepin County prosecutors have decided not to charge a bouncer who shot and killed a man outside a bar last month. The attorney’s office has concluded the bouncer acted in self-defense in the July 11 shooting. Minneapolis police had agreed...

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