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Tulsa security officer shot www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 02, 2009TULSA, OK May 2 2009 NewsOn6.com Tulsa Police officers say a security guard was shot Saturday while patrolling an apartment complex. The shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. at 38th and Garnett. The security guard told police he was patrolling the complex when he saw a group of people spray painting a bridge...
Teenager steals credit card, flys to California www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009Palm Beach Fla May 1 2009 Someone thought it was odd that a 13-year-old boy was walking alone through San Jose’s airport at a time when he probably should have been safe at home doing schoolwork. That someone was right. A Transportation Security Administration noticed the boy Tuesday evening and alerted a San Jose police officer, who spotted [...
CSX Security officer finds dead body www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009Jacksonville Fla May 1 2009 Police have released the name of a homicide victim whose body was found in a wooded area in Jacksonville Monday. The remains of Terrance Buck Decatur, 30, of Jacksonville was found about 10 a.m. Monday in the 5300 block of West First Street...
72 yr old man charged as serial killer www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009LOS ANGELES CA May 1 2009 — Larry Manchester first saw the body on Feb. 18, 1976. The woman, a 67-year-old retired school administrator, was dead inside her red-and-black ‘65 Chevy Chevelle, two blocks from her west Los Angeles apartment. The young homicide detective popped open the trunk and saw Elizabeth McKeown lying on her side...
Security officer pinned between cars by shoplifter www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009Adelanto CA May 1 2009 A Stater Bros. security guard was injured Tuesday when a man stealing liquor fled the store and pinned him between two vehicles, sheriff’s officials said. San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies said a man left the store at 14168 Highway 395 without paying for a bottle of Jack Daniels and Ketel One vodka...
Correction officer commits suicide after hit-run crash www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009Chicago Il May 1 2009 An off-duty Cook County sheriff’s correctional sergeant apparently killed himself after a three-vehicle, hit-and-run crash last night on Chicago’s Northwest Side, authorities said. Edwin Garcia, 40, was found fatally shot inside his home and was pronounced dead at 12:20 a...
Security officer, 2 others stabbed at bar www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009Rochester NY May 1 2009 democrat and chronicle.com Three people, including a male suspect, were hospitalized early Friday morning with stab wounds following a fight outside a West Main Street tavern in Rochester. The altercation occurred outside the Cafe Underground Railroad at 480 West Main St...
NC Pastor charged with rape www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009JOHNSTON COUNTY NC May 1 2009 (WTVD) — Johnston County deputies have arrested Joseph Kennedy Ragland, the pastor at Church of God in Christ Jesus on Southcross Street in Angier. He’s accused of raping a 16-year-old member of his church. According to warrants, the victim spent the night at Ragland?s house on April 11 after Ragland told [...
Florida radio personality arrested for shooting wife www.privateofficer.com
Posted on May 01, 2009Orlando Fla May 1 2009 Orlando radio personality Edward Shannon Burke of Real Radio 104.1 is behind bars this morning, accused of firing a shot inside his Altamonte Springs area home that injured a family dog and then grazed his wife in the head. Burke, 43, faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and animal [...
Police, security subdue disorderly person at Sea-World www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009Orlando Fla April 30 2009 orlandosentinel.com A sweaty, shirtless man on LSD was shot with a stun gun several times after trying to enter SeaWorld Orlando without paying, according to an Orange County sheriff’s report released Wednesday. Nicholas Casanova, 23, of Miami, wielded a more than 30-inch-wide recycling bin cover as a shield and repeatedly shouted “never, never!” [...
Frequent shoplifter nabbed again www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009Watertown MA April 30 2009 Police reponded on April 21 at 5:30 p.m. to assist security agents at the Marshalls store located in the Arsenal Mall on Arsenal Street for a shoplifting report. Security was detaining a female shoplifter who had attempted to flee with unpaid merchandise...
Charlotte teacher arrested for student relationship www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009Charlotte NC April 30 2009 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Youth Crime/Domestic Violence detectives signed warrants on Ryan Patrick Marshall (DOB 3/5/1972) for taking indecent liberties with a child and disseminating harmful material to minors...
Guard charged with computer thefts www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009Johnston PA April 30 2009 democrat news A former security guard at a Johnstown business is accused of stealing nearly $50,000 in company computers. And as police closed in, authorities said, he took 80 of the computers into a wooded area and set them on fire...
Teacher arrested for having sex with 10yr old www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009DURHAM NC April 30 2009 (WTVD) — A 40-year-old teacher’s assistant at Creekside Elementary is charged with having sex with a 10-year-old boy. Investigators say Gina Marie Watring had intercourse with the child on at least two occasions in April –the first, three weeks ago and a second last Tuesday...
NC Police arrest 17 security guards in sweep www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009GREENSBORO, N.C. APRIL 30 2009 ? Police in a North Carolina city have charged 17 security guards at nightclubs with operating without a proper license. The News & Record of Greensboro reported that police targeted six clubs over the weekend. The sweep occurred after three major crimes, including a homicide, happened at clubs since Easter...
Tulsa police, security team up to fight crime www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009Tulsa OK April 30 2009 fox23.com There’s a new security force in some high crime neighborhoods. It’s a partnership that officers say targets a source of the problem in many crime-ridden areas and apartment complexes. It’s an effort between Tulsa police officers and security guards at housing complexes...
Gwinnett County deputy sheriff killed in dispute www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009DACULA, Ga. April 30 2009 wbstv.com — An off-duty Gwinnett County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed early Thursday morning. Corporal D. P. Schiralli, the spokesman for the Gwinnett County police department, sent an e-mail to WSB-TV Channel 2 saying the deputy was shot at 2770 Austin Ridge Drive in Dacula...
Second driver charged in drag racing deaths in Charlotte www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009CHARLOTTE, N.C. April 30 2009 — A judge set bond Wednesday for the second driver charged in a deadly street racing crash. Carlene Atkinson, 44, turned herself in to police Tuesday. Police said she was racing 20-year-old Tyler Stasko earlier this month when Stasko crashed into another car, killing a woman, her 2-year-old daughter and a boy [...
Security officer injured in crash www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 30, 2009Honolulu HI April 30 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ Authorities said that an accident involving a moving truck sent a private security officer to the hospital with minor injuries yesterday. Police said that the truck collided with a guard shack at The Waterfront at Puuloa ...
Security officers aid in burglary arrest www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009Colorado Springs CO April 29 2009 Colorado Springs officers were dispatched to the Citadel Mall, late Tuesday morning, regarding a possible car break-in in progress. As the officers responded, Mall Security advised CSPD Dispatchers that the suspect was running westbound...
Recent shoplifting arrests in Natick www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009NATICK MA April 29 2009 - Three local teens were arrested Friday night at Burlington Coat Factory on Speen Street on theft charges, police said. Vanessa Tanaira Cruz, 17, of 99 West Central St., Natick, was arrested at 7:40 p.m. and charged with larceny over $250, forgery of a document and uttering a false document, police [...
Riding an ATV could land Alabamians in jail www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009Mobile Al April 29 2009 Al.com ATV riders are chewing up terrain and tax dollars, according to state and local officials, who are cracking down on riders. All-terrain vehicles roaring down roadsides are causing erosion and landslides and wreaking havoc on construction projects, according to the Alabama Department of Transportation...
Cleveland school fight lands 9 in jail www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009CLEVELAND OH April 29 2009 Brett Davis Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ ? Police reported that nine students were taken into custody Tuesday following a fight at Cleveland’s South High School. A district spokeswoman says the incident involved a fight among girls that had started off campus last night and carried over into the school...
Deputy sheriff resigns after wife steals patrol car www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009LAKELAND, Fla., April 28 2009 (UPI) — A Polk County, Fla., deputy with 21 years service resigned after his wife, a convicted felon, took his patrol car for a spin, sheriff’s officials said. Deputy Charles Buckner, 44, turned in his badge after his wife, Gail Buckner, 38, allegedly used the car for a joy ride in [...
Security officer charged in UPS thefts www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009Berea, OH April 29 2009 By: Rick McCann Private Officer News Network http://www.privateofficer.com/ - A security guard whose job it was to monitor a UPS warehouse was caught on camera– stealing cameras! Police have arrested Michael Mencke is also accused of stealing a GPS unit, a cell phone and more...
TSA to take over some subway security duties www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009New York City NY April 29 2009 MYFOXNY The New York Police Department is shrinking, and the department can’t hire the number of cops it would like to. Fox 5 News has learned that help is coming from security screeners at the area airports. They’ll be replacing some police officers in the subway who do bag searches...
Hospital security aids in capture of carjacking suspect www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 29, 2009Rocklin CA April 29 2009 Early Sunday morning, Roseville Police officers arrested a woman on suspicion of carjacking and several other charges. At 1:11 a.m. Sunday, April 26, Roseville Police officers responded to a carjacking that had just occurred in the parking lot of Kaiser Hospital, 1600 Eureka Rd...
Security officer shoots, kills bank robber www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 28, 2009STOCKTON, CA April 28 2009- Stockton police said a suspected robber was fatally shot by an armored truck employee who interrupted a robbery at a bank just outside Weberstown Mall Monday morning. Police said events unfolded just after 11:30 a.m. at the Bank of the West in the shopping center parking lot, which is located at [...
Triple murder leaves small Alabama community in shock www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 28, 2009Fairhope AL April 28 2009 al.com A man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of three persons in south Baldwin County on Saturday night was killed Sunday afternoon in a high-speed gunbattle with deputies on Interstate 10, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said...
Police charge two with felony theft at JC Penney www.privateofficer.com
Posted on April 28, 2009St. Cloud MN April 28 2009 Local police have arrested two women on felony theft charges after St. Cloud Police responded to a shoplifting complaint. Officers said that they were dispatched at 8 p.m. Friday to the J.C. Penney, 4201 Division St. W, St. Cloud...
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