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Woman arrested at airport with gun www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 16, 2010
CLEARWATER, Fla.May 16 2010 ? A Florida woman has been arrested after authorities say security screeners found a handgun in her carry-on bag at St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport. Authorities say Kristy Louise Grove, of Fort Myers Beach, was ready to board her flight to Chattanooga, Tenn...

Security officer injured during theft attempt www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 16, 2010
MICHIGAN CITY IN May 16 2010 A female security guard at Marquette Mall was hurt while trying to stop a shoplifter. According to Michigan City police, the officer Thursday afternoon tried confronting a woman who ran out of Sears without paying for cameras...

Michigan school systems changes from in-house security to contract services

Posted on May 16, 2010
Southfield MI May 16 2010 Public Schools here are contracting security guards, rather than continuing to employ them, Deputy Superintendent Kenson Siver said. On Tuesday, the Board of Education approved a three-year contract with Southfield-based Guardian Guard Services beginning July 1...

Off-duty mall officer dies in boating accident www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
Boston, MA May 15 2010 ? A 15-foot recreational boat sank in Plymouth Harbor Tuesday, May11, 2010, leaving a 19-year-old man dead and another recovering, as reported by The Boston Globe. The Coast Guard received a mayday call at approximately 11:30 p...

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Arrested security guard smuggles gun into jail www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
Laredo TX May 15 2010 A gun is smuggled into the Webb County Jail, in the underwear of an offender. He was arrested by Laredo police and somehow the gun went undetected. Authorities are now looking into how officers could have missed the weapon. An off duty security officer caught speeding in south Laredo lands [...

Mall security guard given prison term in rape case www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
Purvis, Ms May 15 2010(WDAM)- A former security guard at the Turtle Creek Mall charged for attempted statutory rape was sentenced today in Purvis. Cody Perry was arrested back in March, 2008 for inappropriate sexual contact with a 13 yr old girl. After reaching a plea deal on May 4th, Cody Perry, 22, was sentenced [...

Man attempts to kidnap girl at church-commits suicide www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
ATLANTA GA May 15 2010 (AP) – State investigators are scouring the Nissan Xterra owned by a man who killed himself after a standoff with Atlanta police in hopes of finding evidence that may link him to a missing Georgia woman. Authorities believe that James Scott Carringer was the man who attempted to abduct a [...

CT bouncer arrested

Posted on May 15, 2010
DANBURY CT MAY 15 2010 — A bouncer at a local club was arrested on weapons charges early Friday after police found him in possession of a loaded handgun, authorities said. Carlos Sanchez, 29, of Bridgeport, was charged with third-degree assault, carrying a pistol without a permit, interfering with officers and possession of an electronic [...

Accused student imposter arrested for rape www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
DALLAS TX May 15 2010 ? A 22-year-old man accused of posing as a high school basketball star in West Texas was charged with sexual assault Friday after an underage girl reported having sex with him last summer when she thought he was a teenager, police said...

Pierce County deputy sheriff kills in-laws=commits suicide www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
GIG HARBOR, Wash. May 15 2010 source:kings5news ? A Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy shot his in-laws Friday night in Gig Harbor in a dispute. The deputy has been identified as Allen Myron, a 11-year veteran of the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department...

1 Killed in crash with armored car www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
GLENDALE AZ May 15 2010 source:abc15.com — Police say a man was killed Friday in a collision between a compact car and armored car in Phoenix. Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Scott Walker said the crash involving a Honda Civic and the armored car occurred around 3:30 p...

Six arrested in Phoenix home invasion www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
PHOENIX AZ May 15 2010 — A 22-year-old Phoenix woman who was kidnapped during a home invasion has been freed from her captors. Police said the suspects were armed with handguns and demanded drugs and money when they forced their way into a home near 59th Avenue and Indian School Road on May 5...

Security aids in arrest of sex assault suspect www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
King County WA May 15 2010 A man was arrested Thursday night after he allegedly groped a woman at a Seattle hotel, according to police. At about 11:45 p.m., officers responded to the hotel in the 1400 block of Sixth Avenue. The victim told officers that while she was standing at the front desk a [...

Parking attendants-meter maids trained to watch for terrorists

Posted on May 15, 2010
LAS VEGAS NV May 15 2010 (AP) – Parking attendants and meter maids could be the nation’s latest line of defense against terrorist attacks. A new government program aims to train thousands of parking industry employees nationwide to watch for and report anything suspicious – abandoned cars, for example, or people hanging around garages, taking [...

Church secretary charged with stealing more than $200,000

Posted on May 15, 2010
HARALSON COUNTY, Ga.May 15 2010 — A former church secretary is accused of stealing more than $200,000 over a ten year period, investigators said. Dawn Taylor Robinson, 40, of Buchanan, was arrested Thursday, said Haralson County Sheriff Eddie Mixon...

Law firm partner accused of putting camera under female employee?s desk

Posted on May 15, 2010
ATLANTA GA May 15 2010 source:wsbtv.com — A partner in a metro Atlanta law firm is facing criminal charges on suspicion of unlawful surveillance. Cobb County police said a female employee of Merritt and Tenney Law Firm told them that she found a video camera hidden under her desk...

Myrtle Beach patrol runs over sunbather www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 15, 2010
MYRTLE BEACH SC May 15 2010 A man who was sunbathing on the beach at Eighth Avenue North in Myrtle Beach was run over by a beach service truck Friday afternoon and taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. The sunbather did not seem to have life-threatening injuries and was moving his legs and arms [...

Gang member found guilty of security officer?s murder www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
Palm Springs CA May 14 2010 A 20-year-old Palm Springs gang member was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder and robbery charges in the fatal beating of a security guard. A seven-woman, five-man panel deliberated about six hours before convicting Jerrett Lewis, who was 17 at the time of the June 9, 2007, attack on [...

Former hospital security guard pleads guilty to arson www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
Clarksville TN MAY 14 2010 A former Clarksville security guard pleaded guilty to arson charges for a fire in August 2009 at the old Gateway Hospital. Thomas Jerry Sexton pleaded guiltyThursday in Judge John H. Gasaway’s court. On Aug. 2, Sexton, who was a security guard at the hospital, allegedly damaged the old facility at [...

Home Depot shoplifters threatened to shoot security www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
MESA, AZ May 14 2010– A trip to a Mesa Home Depot store took a dramatic turn after workers say two men threatened to shoot security officers after surveillance cameras caught them trying to steal from the store. After being approached, the two men took off in different directions...

Shoplifters bring request lists with them-assault store personnel www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan May 14 2010? Two of the three women arrested May 7 in Clinton Township in a shoplifting scheme are from Flint. Flint residents Ryanesha Swims, 22, and Chelan Cooper, 20, were arraigned Monday on charges of second degree retail fraud and receiving and concealing property worth $1,000 to $20,000, said Clinton Township [...

Man tried committing suicide with car bomb www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
OATMAN, Ariz.May 14 2010 ? A man has been arrested after apparently attempting to commit suicide by driving a car rigged to explode off of a cliff in northwestern Arizona. Mohave County Sheriff’s officials say 55-year-old James Lyle Pierson, from Washington state, was booked Wednesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct involving a dangerous instrument...

Judge gives man 19 yrs prison for shooting security officers

Posted on May 14, 2010
SAN DIEGO CA May 14 2010 — A man who shot two security guards and an assistant manager outside a Mission Valley restaurant after being told to leave was sentenced Wednesday to 19 years in state prison. Mark Bautista, 24, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in the [...

Accused child molester commits suicide on Interstate 95 www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
Port Went-worth GA May 13 2010 An accused child molester from Bloomingdale fatally shot himself during a brief roadside standoff Wednesday morning in Port Went-worth. Richard A. Wiley, 55, had been sought by authorities on child molestation charges since Saturday morning, according to Bloomingdale police Chief Thomas Gossett...

Some crimes are dropping but murders buck trend www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
Chicago IL May 14 2010 Crime is dropping throughout much of the country, but statistics show that one category of violence is bucking the trend: murder. Some of the nation’s largest cities?New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia?are reporting slight increases in murders so far this year, according department records...

Man leaps off casino parking garage, in critical condition www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind.May 14 2010 — A man is in critical condition at University Hospital after police say he ran from officers and leaped from a parking garage at Hollywood Casino Monday night. Lawrenceburg police say officers were called to the fifth level of the casino pavilion parking garage for two intoxicated men who were trying [...

Mall security rescues duck and nine ducklings www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
PHILADELPHIA PA May 14 2010 FOX NEWS- Here’s a heroic happy-ending “tail” of how a mama and her baby ducks were saved from peril. The anxious mom waited with her nine ducklings trapped beneath a sewer grate outside the Franklin Mills Mall...

Woman arrested for having child?s legs handcuffed www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. May 14 2010 localnews8.com — A woman was arrested on child abuse charges after a Metro Detention Center guard said she brought her toddler to the jail with handcuffs on his leg, Albuquerque TV station KOAT reported. The guard spotted the handcuffs on the leg of Monique Cotto’s baby over the weekend...

Dozens of TSA officers identities stolen www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
BOSTON MA May 14 2010 (Reuters) ? A Massachusetts couple has been charged with stealing the identities of dozens of Transportation Security Administration officers, who screen passengers and baggage at U.S. airports. A federal grand jury accused Michael Derring, 48, and Tina White, 47, on Wednesday of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, alleging they stole [...

Former teacher charged with kidnapping, sex assault www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 14, 2010
Monroe LA May 14 2010 A former West Ridge Middle School physical education teacher charged last year for false imprisonment of a girl has been arrested on a sexual battery charge. Jamie Lynn Avant, 28, was booked into the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center on one count of sexual battery...

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