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South Florida teacher arrested for student sexual assault www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. March 18 2010 (WSVN) — Police arrested a South Florida teacher who, they allege, performed sexual acts with a student, Wednesday morning. According to school district officials, Shedrick Copeland, 29, taught social studies for four years at Robert Morgan Educational Center, at 18180 SW 122th Ave...

Fla. jail guard arrested for helping inmate escape www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. March 18 2010 (WOFL FOX 35) – An inmate who escaped from the Osceola County Jail in February had assistance from a jail guard, according to investigators with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office. Detectives on Thursday arrested Milton Caraballo, Jr...

Fired employee disables 100 cars-via internet www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
Austin TX March 18 2010 More than 100 car owners in and around Austin, Texas recently discovered that their cars wouldn’t start. Or that their horns wouldn’t stop honking — all night long. Or that their vehicle leases were suddenly (and luckily, temporarily) transferred to deceased rapper Tupac Shakur...

Guard arrested for pointing gun during state meeting www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio March 18 2010(AP) – The State Highway Patrol says a man working as a security guard at a state office entered an workers’ compensation bureau meeting and pointed a gun at participants before leaving. Sixty three year old Robert Montgomery of Beaver was arraigned at Portsmouth Municipal Court on Thursday on one count of misdemeanor [...

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TRAVEL ALERT-ALABAMA I-65 www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
TRAVEL ALERT HUNTSVILLE, AL. March 18 2010- The state will close a 16-mile section of northbound Interstate 65 between Lacon and Decatur on Thursday because of a sinkhole found near Hartselle on Friday. Northbound lanes will be closed at 9 a.m. between Exit 318 at Lacon and Vinemont and Exit 334 at Decatur and Priceville, according to [...

Police identify bank robbers killed in shoot-out www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
GALLATIN, Tenn. March 18 2010? Police have identified the subjects killed after the St. Patrick’s Day bank robbery in Gallatin. The suspect who entered the bank in the outfit was 20-year-old David Christopher Cotton from Brentwood. Officials said the suspect in the getaway vehicle was 20-year-old Jonathan Ryan Skinner...

Warrant issued in vehicle death of US Marine www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
MARIETTA, Ga. March 18 2010 — Cobb County authorities have issued a warrant for the arrest of a man blamed for killing a 21-year-old Marine driving home to Alabama in a head-on collision. Cobb County police spokesman Officer Joe Hernandez said Thursday that 71-year-old Bruce Joseph Quayle of Villa Rica is charged with homicide by vehicle, [...

Teen chess champ killed during robbery www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 18, 2010
EAST POINT, Ga.March 18 2010 — A teenager was shot and killed at the East Point MARTA station, authorities said. It happened shortly before 11 p.m. on Wednesday. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim as Anthony Beavers, 19, of Jonesboro...

Security agency owner charged with criminal impersonation www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 17, 2010
Orlando FLA March 17 2010 Source: Orlando Sentinel Suggestion: If you’re tempted to impersonate the Orange County sheriff or Orlando police chief, consider the challenge. Because if you’re a 60-year-old white male, it’s going to be tough to pass yourself off as either Jerry Demings or his wife Val Demings, both of whom happen to be [...

Tennessee State Medical Examiner fired after drug arrest

Posted on March 17, 2010
Nashville TN March 17 2010 The Tennessee Department of Health has terminated its contract with State Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Levy after his arrest on marijuana charges. Levy was arrested Tuesday on drug charges in Mississippi, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety confirmed...

Two bank robbers dressed as leprechauns killed www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 17, 2010
GALLATIN, Tenn. (metro Nashville ) March 17 2010? Two suspects were killed after one dressed as a leprechaun and robbed a Gallatin Bank Wednesday afternoon. The robbery happened at First State Bank at 1135 Nashville Pike in Gallatin around 12:28 p.m. According to witness Bradley Webb, a suspect dressed as a leprechaun walked into a Fifth Third [...

Cornell University concerned about student suicides www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 17, 2010
ITHACA NY March 17 2010– The Cornell University campus is in a somber mood this week, and police still haven’t found the body of a student presumed dead. Police say 21-year-old Matthew Zika has been missing since someone saw a man drop from the suspension bridge over Fall Creek...

UWA security officer arrested www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 17, 2010
Sumpter County AL March 17 2010 A University of West Alabama campus security officer has been arrested. 44-year-old William Dale Flowers of York turned himself in to authorities Monday. Flowers is charged with the alleged misuse of confidential law enforcement data...

Bowling alley disturbance lands man in jail www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 17, 2010
DESTIN Fla March 17 2010 ? A 29-year-old man was arrested for resisting an officer at a bowling alley after employees said he punched a security guard. A deputy responded to Hurricane Lanes Bowling Center in reference to a battery around 11:15 p.m. March 13, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff?s Office arrest report...

Sierra high teacher arrested for molesting student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 17, 2010
MANTECA CA March 17 2010- A casual conversation between a parent and a 17-year-old student has led to police arresting a beloved Sierra High School teacher. Jeff Maurer was arrested for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with an unidentified teenage student...

Missing woman found dead under hotel mattress www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 17, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn.MARCH 17 2010 mattress Source: Fox News – The body of a Memphis woman missing since January was found Monday under the mattress of the hotel room where she had been living. On January 27, 2010 Sony Millbrook was reported missing to the Memphis Police Department after she failed to pick-up her children from school...

Police charging for their services www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
Atlanta GA March 16 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Strapped for cash and working with fewer officers police and sheriff departments are now doing what they must do to keep their department afloat including charging for services...

Shoplifting team nabbed in music city www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
NASHVILLE TN MARCH 16 2010 Two women accused of running a shoplifting ring were arrested outside a Nashville shopping center Friday night. Jothany Smith, 24, and Toneka Reid, 27, were charged with theft. The two women were arrested outside the Nashville West shopping Center on Charlotte Pike, according to a Metro Police news release...

Elderly persons committing more crimes

Posted on March 16, 2010
New Zealand March 16 2010 A 93-year-old woman who police apprehended for disorderly behaviour was New Zealand’s oldest offender last year. But shoplifting grannies were the main culprits on a list of the oldest people apprehended by police for the 2008-09 fiscal year, obtained by the Herald under the Official Information Act...

VT. teacher charged with student relationship www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
BARRE VT March 16 2010 – A former Vermont teacher charged with having a relationship with a 16-year-old student was close to reaching a plea deal when he was charged with seeing the girl again, a prosecutor said Monday. John V. Buttura, Jr., 55, of Waterbury Center, remained free after pleading not guilty to violating the [...

Security guard-school bus driver charged in crash death www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
Security guard-school bus driver charged in crash death www.privateofficer.com Montgomery County PA March 16 2010 School-bus driver Frederick Poust III had had no sleep for at least 24 hours when he drove 45 students early on Feb. 17 to a Montgomery County middle school...

Mesa bouncer cut by patron www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
MESA AZ MARCH 15 2010 A Page man was arrested in Mesa Saturday after allegedly causing problems at a bar and cutting a bouncer with a pocket knife. According to police reports, Nathaniel Emmons, 23, entered Priceless Bar in Mesa with his sister around 1:50 a...

BB gun shooting leaves Louisville boy dead www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
Louisville KY March 16 2010 Source: Journal-courier They were close family members, playing with empty air guns with other teens at a relative?s Valley Station home. But neither Dallas Barnes, an 11-year-old fifth-grader at Trunnell Elementary, nor his 16-year-old uncle knew that someone had loaded and pumped one of the BB guns, a Daisy Powerline 880, during [...

Elyria OH police officer shot-killed www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
Elyria OH March 16 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police are reporting that one of their officers was killed in the line of duty overnight. It happened late Monday night when Patrolman James Kerstetter was responding to a call from a mother who said a neighbor exposed himself and kicked in a window...

SC beach jogger killed by plane www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
HILTON HEAD, S.C. March 16 2010 — A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday. Robert Gary Jones, of Woodstock, Ga...

FBI may be your online friend www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
WASHINGTON DC March 16 2010 — The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers [...

Man charged after putting infant in oven www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 16, 2010
PADUCAH, Ky. March 16 2010 (AP) – Authorities in western Kentucky say a man left his infant son in a cold oven, probably for a matter of hours. The Paducah Sun reported 33-year-old Larry C. Long told police he had smoked marijuana at a Paducah restaurant where he works and then came home and drank alcohol...

NC officer dies at end of shift

Posted on March 15, 2010
JEFFERSON, N.C. March 15 2010 A patrolman from Ashe County died at the end of his shift this weekend, according to sheriff’s office director of communications. Patrolman Thomas “Tommy” Andrew Beamer died at the end of his shift on Saturday...

Nightclub shooting leaves man dead-security fails to call 911

Posted on March 15, 2010
Raleigh, N.C. March 15 2010 ? Raleigh police filed charges Sunday after they found a man dead inside a car parked at a Kangaroo store in the 3100 block of Capital Boulevard. Officers were called to the store shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday. They found Sedrick Williams, 23, of Henderson, inside a vehicle...

Tulsa nightclub security officer stabbed www.privateofficer.com

Posted on March 15, 2010
Tulsa OK March 15 2010 Police are reporting that a nightclub security guard has been stabbed outside an East Tulsa bar early this morning. Tulsa Police Corporal Carl Goforth says the security officer kicked four men out of the El Paraiso Bar near 31st and Mingo for causing a disturbance...

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