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Lowe?s employee charged with embezzlement www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 26, 2010
Visalia CA Jan 26 2010 A woman police said embezzled money from a home improvement store in northeast Tulare for about a month was arrested Friday morning. Sharlett Villareal, 37, was taken into custody on suspicion of grand theft. She was booked into the Tulare County Main Jail...

Prisons restricting inmate use of FOI laws www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 26, 2010
HARTFORD, Conn. Jan 26 2010 AP Connecticut could join at least a dozen other states by restricting prison inmates from using FOI laws to get personal information to harass or threaten their guards – and, in some cases, prosecutors or other inmates...

Prison guard commits suicide on duty www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 26, 2010
Elizabeth City NC Jan 26 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Authorities responded to a shooting of a correctional officer at the Pasquotank Correctional Institution Monday morning and found the officer outside the fence line...

Priest charged with shoplifting at Wal-Mart www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 26, 2010
WEST CITY, Ill. Jan 26 2010 — A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-year-old the Rev. Steven Poole on Friday. He’s charged with two felony theft counts...

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Man dressed as security guard to commit thefts www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 26, 2010
Canton Ga. Jan 26 2010 By: Brett Davis/ Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ Police have made an arrest in an unusual theft at a store in last year. Police say that a man who dressed up as a security guard and shoplifted two flat-screen TVs from the Target in Canton has been arrested Monday...

BYU employee guilty of $200,000 computer thefts www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 26, 2010
PROVO Utah Jan 26 2010 — A former Brigham Young University employee pleaded guilty Thursday to theft charges for stealing computers and selling them online. Allen Scott Harris, 40, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and two counts of communications fraud, both second-degree felonies...

Nightclub security bouncer shot in Nashville www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 25, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan 25 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ - Police responded to a shooting early Monday morning at a nightclub where a security bouncer was shot. The shooting outside the busy Silverado club in south Nashville happened at around 1:30a...

WV teacher charged with sex assault, incest www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 25, 2010
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. Jan 25 2010 By: Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Authorities have arrested a Mingo County teacher on sexual abuse charges. Mingo County Sheriff Deputies arrested Johnny Ray Dempsey, 36, of Delbarton, on Friday and charged him with sexual abuse and incest...

DuPont employee dies from chemical exposure, security response questioned

Posted on January 25, 2010
Charleston, WV Jan 25 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ ? An employee of the DuPont Company in Belle West Virginia is dead and an investigation by several federal agencies is underway. Carl Fish, who worked at the plant for all of his life died after an accident Saturday in which he was accidentally sprayed in the [...

Cop arrested 6 times in two years www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 25, 2010
Schenectady NY Jan 25 2010 fox23.com Police Officer John Lewis was arrested on Saturday night for what is at least the sixth time in two years. Department officials tell us that they received a call at approximately 6:00 p.m. that a drunk man had left the emergency department at Ellis Hospital, hit a car, and took off...

Man gets 18 years prison for assault on security officer www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 25, 2010
FAIRBANKS AK. Jan 25 2010 ? A 24-year-old Nevada man who beat up a security guard in the parking garage of the federal courthouse and took the guard?s gun, holding him at gunpoint before fleeing, was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison on Friday...

Tweet This; NO phones or laptops in the court! www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 25, 2010
Atlanta GA. Jan 25 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com ? As cellphone devices equipped with digital cameras and video recording capability continue to get smaller while providing better quality images and more people are joining the Twitter crowd or other social networks, concerns for courthouse security is growing...

Nine year old commits suicide at Dallas area school www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
DALLAS TX JAN 24 2010 Source: 39online.com A nine-year-old boy was found hanged in the bathroom of a Dallas-area elementary school in what police said is an apparent suicide. According to reports out of Dallas, the fourth grader was sent to the front office on Thursday afternoon when he asked the nurse if he could use the bathroom...

Comedian, actor Andy Dick charged with sexual assaults www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
Huntington WV Jan 24 2010 Comedian Andy Dick was arrested in West Virginia on Saturday on two felony counts of sexual abuse in the first degree. He was taken to jail where he was soon released on a $60,000 bail. Dick faces 1-5 years in prison if convicted...

NYC Principal inappropriately touched, solicted sex from students www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
New York City NY Jan 24 2010 Source: NY Times A high school principal in Ozone Park, Queens, inappropriately touched or solicited sex from at least four male students at the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture, where he had served as principal since 2006, according a report by Richard Condon, the special commissioner of [...

NYC students sue over excessive force, assaults www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
New York City NY Jan 24 2010 Five public school students and their parents are suing the city, claiming that school safety officers employed by the New York Police Department have wrongfully handcuffed, assaulted and arrested students. A class-action suit filed Wednesday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn by the New York Civil Liberties Union and [...

Family of murder victim may sue security companies www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
Jersey City NJ Jan 24 2010 hudsonreporter.com �More than a month has passed since downtown Jersey City resident Jacqueline Reyes was stabbed to death in her apartment in the Paulus Hook Towers. Neighbors in the building are still asking how the alleged killer could have evaded security to get in, and her family?s lawyer said they may [...

NY Dairy farmer kills cows, commits suicide www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
COPAKE, New York Jan 24 2010 AP- An upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself, state police in New York said. State police discovered the body of Dean Pierson, 59, in his Copake barn on Thursday...

Woman murdered in church parking lot www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
Youngstown OH Jan 24 2010 AP Youngstown’s start to 2010 is a deadly one. Police found the murdered body of an elderly woman on the city’s South Side Saturday morning. Police were called to Saint Dominic’s Church on Lucius Avenue around 9:30 Saturday morning...

State plans to lay off facility security officers www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 24, 2010
Porterville CA Jan 24 2010 According to local union members, the state has plans to lay off the entire security guard force at the Porterville Developmental Center (PDC) in May. The 28 security guards who are on the payroll of the Office of Protective Services ? a branch of the state Department of Developmental Services ? [...

Hospital security allowed to issue tickets www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 23, 2010
Vancover Canada Jan 22 2010 Three Northumberland Hills Hospital security employees will be authorized to issue tickets on vehicles parked illegally at the hospital, following Cobourg council’s vote Jan. 18. Council voted that a bylaw be prepared to authorize John Loohuizen, Phillip Lunn and Dwayne Labrosse to enforce hospital parking rules...

School security guards arrested for computer thefts www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 23, 2010
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. Jan 23 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com Two security guards are off the job and under arrest today after an undercover investigation caught them red handed stealing school computers. The two men who had worked as security guards for Highland Park schools were arrested by the Wayne County Sheriff’s department after a local news [...

JC Penney security agent sent to jail for voyeurism www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 23, 2010
OLYMPIA, Wash.Jan 23 2010 ? A former loss prevention agent at the J.C. Penney store at Olympia’s Capital Mall has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for voyeurism. The 35-year-old Michael Anthony Olivas of Shelton pleaded guilty last month and was taken away in handcuffs after Thursday’s sentencing in Thurston County Superior Court...

Gaylord security officers get first union contract www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 23, 2010
Oxon Hill, MD Jan 23 2010 ?A five-year contract has been reached between the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center and 32BJ that provides significant improvements in wages and benefits for 71 private security officers who keep guests, employees and visitors safe and secure...

?Peeping? teacher arrested on sex charges www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 23, 2010
High Point NC Jan 23 2010 A Davie County high-school teacher who was charged with peeping at a juvenile in a restroom stall at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Winston-Salem was arrested this afternoon in High Point and charged with sexual offenses involving a minor...

Disney guard arrested for child porn www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 23, 2010
KISSIMMEE FL Jan 23 2010 — A Walt Disney World security guard found himself on the other side of the law after being arrested for possession of child pornography. Investigators said Rodney Dillon had large numbers of pictures and videos on his computer, in addition to fantasy stories regarding the sexual abuse of children...

Shoplifting incident turns into brawl at Wal-Mart www.privateoffcer.com

Posted on January 23, 2010
Saginaw Township MI Jan 2 2010 By: Brett Davis PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ A brawl at a local Wal-Mart store has landed three people in jail according to police. The fight with store security officers started inside a Saginaw Township Walmart after security agents stopped them for shoplifting...

Family sues nightclub over wrongful death www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 21, 2010
Amarillo TX Jan 21 2010 The family of an Amarillo man who died of injuries after being tossed out of a local strip club has filed a wrongful death federal lawsuit against the club owner and a bouncer convicted of manslaughter in the man’s death...

Family Dollar security guard assaulted www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 21, 2010
GARY IN Jan 21 2010 An 80-year-old Gary man working as a security guard at Family Dollar, 500 W. 5th Ave., was assaulted Monday night by a customer who fled with three cell phones. Albert Fondren told police a man he knew as “C-Low” came into the store at 7:10 p...

Bank security officer arrested for theft www.privateofficer.com

Posted on January 21, 2010
Madison WS Jan 21 2010 – A security officer at a local financial institution is charged with stealing thousands of dollars from the bank. Kenneth Hamberger is accused of stealing more than $20,000 from Citizens Community Federal Bank where he was employed for 15 years...

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