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Man arrested after ppper spraying security www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 26, 2010
LOS ANGELES CA April 26 2010 (CBS) Authorities arrested a man who allegedly pepper-sprayed and threatened a security guard with a broken beer bottle outside a Hollywood bar early Monday morning. One man is still at large in connection with the incident...

Morgan County teacher sent to prison for student rape www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 26, 2010
Decatur AL April 26 2010 Morgon County ALabama Jessica Heather Defoor, 36-year-old second-grade teacher at Danville-Neel Elementary School, was arrested in July 2008 for allegedly engaging in inappropriate contact with a female student. In August 2009 she was indicted for alleged sex crimes against a female student, 12 to 16 years old...

Yale University doctor slain www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 26, 2010
BRANFORD CT April 26 2010 Source: Hartford Courant An employee at a hospital in New York says a man charged with killing a Yale University doctor outside his Connecticut home had a confrontation with the victim a few years ago. Branford police say 44-year-old Lishan Wang is charged with murder, attempted murder and firearms offenses [...

Violent shoplifter pulls security officers hair out www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 26, 2010
Pohatcong NJ April 26 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff Private Officer News http://www.privateofficer.com/ A Phillipsburg woman is in custody charged with robbery after she violently attacked a store security officer at Wal-Mart in Pohatcong Township on Friday, pulling some of the officer?s hair out of her head, court records show...

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Security officer stabbed breaking up bar fight www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 26, 2010
San Francisco CA April 26 2010 A stabbing at a local bar left two men injured including a security officer. The situation unfolded about 12:50 a.m. Sunday at Kirby’s Sports Bar at 42312 Fremont Blvd. A fight broke out between two groups, prompting a security guard to intervene, police Sgt...

Lawmakers want National Guard to patrol Chicago streets www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 26, 2010
Chicago Il April 26 2010 Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago’s streets. Chicago Democrats John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford said they want Quinn, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Police Supt...

Dallas security agent helps homeless children www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 25, 2010
Dallas TX April 25 2010 Charles “C.J.” Johnson proudly displays dozens of pictures of students on a computer stand in his bedroom. All homeless at one time, they include a boy who once slept in the bushes outside a school. For 15 years, the North Dallas High School security worker has taken them into is [...

Armored car guard sprayed with mace during robbery www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 24, 2010
ARLINGTON, Va.April 24 2010 Source ABC7 – Thieves used pepper spray to rob an armored car in the Crystal City area of Arlington. The truck was parked with a team of guards when, police say, two men figured out how to breach the armored security...

Cobb County GA police officer drowns www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 24, 2010
Cobb County GA April 24 2010 Rescue workers pulled the body a 35-year-old Paulding County man they believe is a missing Cobb County police officer from Lake Allatoona Friday afternoon. Multiple police agencies were headquartered at the Harbor Town Marina off Galts Ferry Road in Acworth as they searched Lake Allatoona on Friday for a [...

GA. KMart gay sex hotspot www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 24, 2010
BUFORD, Ga. April 24 2010– Gwinnett County police are investigating whether the Kmart in Buford is a known location for male sex after more arrests were made this week. “I mean that’s just crazy,” said Rod Bradley, after CBS Atlanta informed the shopper that two men were arrested Tuesday for having oral sex in the [...

Run-away spends night at Bed,Bath & Beyond www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 24, 2010
ROSEVILLE, Mich. — Police said a 15-year-old boy spent Wednesday night inside a Bed Bath & Beyond store, WDIV-TV in�Detroit reported. Investigators said the boy ran away from home and walked into the store just before closing time. He went undetected as employees locked up the store for the night...

Man arrested for threats against Housing Authority officer

Posted on April 24, 2010
EL PASO, Texas April 24 2010 — A 50-year-old man was arrested after police said he threatened the life of a Housing Authority security officer Tuesday in central El Paso. Police said Pedro Villezcas confronted police and housing security officers, on the 200 block of Eucalyptus in retaliation to the arrest of a Villezcas’ family [...

Queens teacher accused of molesting 14 students www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 24, 2010
Queens NY April 24 2010 Nine more Queens schoolgirls have accused a fourth-grade teacher of molesting them, just days after he was arrested for abusing five other students, officials said Friday. The girls spoke up after Simon Watts, a teacher at Public School 15 in Springfield Gardens, was collared on Wednesday...

Texas band director charged with sex with students www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 24, 2010
Burnet TX April 24 2010 Source: News8 Austin An assistant band director at Burnet High School was arrested Friday and is being held at the Burnet County Jail. Roger Michael Williams, 32, is charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a student...

Nevada teacher arrested for placing camera in restroom www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 24, 2010
Washoe NV April 24 2010 A local sixth grade teacher, is caught on video, for allegedly placing a small camera in the staff bathroom at Jesse Hall Elementary School. 43-year-old Terry Rauh, is in jail on ten counts of “Capturing an Image of a Private Area,” after one of his coworkers found the recorder earlier [...

Henry County police officer dies in wreck www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
HENRY COUNTY, Ga. April 22 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com The Georgia Highway Patrol is investigating a fatality accident late last night involving a Henry County police officer. Authorities say that Police Officer James Jimmy Franklin Carter Jr...

Corrections officer killed, wife shot in custody dispute www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
HAMILTON NJ April 23 2010 Source:NJ.com — The manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a New Jersey Corrections Officer and wounding of his wife this morning ended this afternoon when police found the man in a Ewing Township cemetery and he committed suicide, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office...

Coast Guard calls off search for missing oil rig workers www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
NEW ORLEANS LA April 23 2010– Coast Guard officials on Friday suspended the three-day search for 11 workers missing since an explosion rocked an offshore oil rig, saying they believe the men never made it off the platform that erupted into a giant fireball...

Mall security chase jewelry thief www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
Trumbell CT April 23 2010 One person is under arrest after a frightening jewelry heist at a crowded mall in Trumbull. Four men ran into Harstans Jewelers inside the Westfield Shoppingtown in Trumbull Thursday night dressed in dark clothes, began smashing the glass display cabinets and stole dozens of pieces of jewelry, police said...

Mall security officer suffers broken leg in theft attempt www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
KENTWOOD, Mich. April 23 2010 (WZZM) – A Woodland Mall security guard is hospitalized with a broken leg after chasing a suspected shoplifter. Around 10:30 a.m. Friday, a female guard was trying to stop a woman suspected of stealing merchandise. As the suspect drive off, police say she hit the security guard with a vehicle, [...

Boy Scouts of America must pay $18.5 million in sex abuse case www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore.April 23 2010 AP — A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to a man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in what is believed to be the largest such award against the organization. Lawyers for Kerry Lewis had asked the jury to award at least [...

Fla security guard nabbed in porn arrests www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
POLK COUNTY, Fla. April 23 2010 Polk County officials arrested dozens in a child pornography investigation, including an Isleworth Country Club security guard. Cutting edge software is making it easier for law enforcement across the state of Florida to target those suspected of downloading and trading child porn, according to Polk County detectives...

Teacher charged with having sex with 14yr old student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
LAUDERHILL, Fla.April 23 2010 (WSVN) — Police have arrested a former Lauderhill Middle School teacher for allegedly having a year-long relationship with a 14-year-old male student. Police arrested 25-year-old Kristen Sullivan Tuesday, after the 14-year-old boy’s mother found out the two were allegedly having sex...

Ala. troopers foil kidnapping www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
EVERGREEN, AL April 23 2010 (WSFA) – A note and the keen eye of an Alabama State Trooper are being credited for finding three kidnapping victims. The hunt started after someone found a letter in the women’s bathroom of a south Alabama truck stop...

Men rob Fla. mall, hold officer at gunpoint www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
St. Augustine Fla April 23 2010 Three men are in custody and one remains a fugitive following an early Friday morning burglary to a store in the Prime Outlets mall off Interstate 95 in St. Augustine. The St. Johns Sheriff?s Office said a security guard discovered the burglary to the Gucci store about 2:30 a...

Security guard training school under attack www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
CHICAGO IL April 23 2010 (CBS) ? West Side businessman Paul Villareal says his security-guard training center has been beseiged by vandalism and threatening words from one city official. There has always been friction between between Paul Villareal and his neighbors...

Woman caught stealing baby at NC hospital www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 22, 2010
Durham, N.C.April 22 2010 ? A woman accused of trying to abduct an infant from a Duke University Hospital nursery planned a similar crime in Henderson, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Tanisha Weaver, 28, of 18 Shannon Road in Louisburg, is charged with abduction of children...

Atlanta therapist arrested for swindling patients www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 22, 2010
ATLANTA GA April 22 2010 Source:news2– An Atlanta therapist accused of swindling her patients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars is now in jail. Buckhead therapist Colleen Higgins was arrested in an Iowa motel, she’d been on the run for a year...

Ga. jail break-3 prisoners on the loose www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 22, 2010
COLUMBUS, Ga. April 22 2010? Authorities are looking for three Georgia inmates they say escaped through a faulty window at Harris County Jail Monday night and could be headed for Texas and Alabama. Sheriff Mike Jolley says 37-year-old Joe William Seaborn and 21-year-old Jamaal Hakeem Castille left through a window around 9:30 p...

Gunmen kidnap guests, security guard from hotels www.privateofficer.com

Posted on April 22, 2010
MEXICO CITY April 22 2010? Armed men raided two hotels in the center of Monterrey, Mexico?s industrial capital, early Wednesday morning, hauling away four guests and as many as three staff members and sending a wave of panic across a city that has experienced a spate of violent episodes in recent weeks, the authorities said...

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