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Martial Arts teacher arrested for molesting student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 15, 2010
LA MESA CA Aug 15 2010 ? The owner of a martial arts school has been arrested on suspicion of repeatedly molesting one of his 13-year-old students, La Mesa police said Friday. Eric Protas, 38, was arrested Thursday morning on numerous counts of child molestation...

School guard gets probation in porn case www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 15, 2010
Lake County IL Aug 15 2010 A former security guard at Grayslake North High School admitted Friday that he asked for and received lewd photos of a 16-year-old female student at the school. Christopher Bosak, 26, was placed on probation for two years after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography...

Concord High School Teacher Arrested www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 15, 2010
WEST HARTFORD CT Aug 15 2010 ? A Conard High School music teacher, who resigned earlier this month after allegations surfaced of sexual contact with one of his students, was arrested this afternoon and charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault, police said...

Security shoot-kill armed man at Fla. strip club www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 15, 2010
RIVIERA BEACH FLA AUG 15 2010 A fight inside a Palm Beach County strip club spilled into the street after a group of men were tossed out by club security, only to have one of the men pull a gun and start shooting. Police say the man refused to drop the gun when ordered by [...

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Texas security officer shot-suspect at large www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 15, 2010
Montgomery County TX Aug 15 2010 Early Saturday morning around 1:15 a.m., Montgomery County Sheriff?s deputies were dispatched to the Taqueria Arandas Restaurant at 25598 I-45 in South Montgomery County in reference to a shooting. Patrol Deputies arrived and found that a private security guard, Jose Maximino Benitez (34 -years-old) of Spring Texas that had [...

Off-road race kills 8, injures 12 www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 15, 2010
LOS ANGELES CA Aug 15 2010 ? An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered “bodies everywhere” moments after sailing off a jump at a California race, killing eight people and injuring 12 others, authorities and witnesses said. The crash came shortly after the start of the California 200, a Saturday evening race in [...

Flint Michigan security officer killed at apartment complex www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 14, 2010
FLINT, Michigan Aug 14 2010? A friendly and hard-working security guard was assaulted, believed to have been shot and killed early Aug. 14 while working his patrol shift at the River Village Apartments, police said. LaGarda Security Co. guard John Andrew Mick, 53, was dead at the scene on Brookhollow Court when police responded just [...

Houston security officer shoots-kills knife wielding man www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 14, 2010
HOUSTON TX Aug 14 2010� Police northeast Houston are investigating a deadly shooting involving a security guard. A Spartan security guard says he responded to a disturbance in an apartment on Greens Road near Wayforest. When the security guard asked the men inside to quiet down, police say one of the men threatened the guard [...

Kansas City security officer finds dead body www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 14, 2010
Kansas City MO Aug 14 2010 By:Brett Davis/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ A private security officer on foot patrol discovered a dead person and notified police. KCPD has released the name of the man killed early Friday on 24th Street near Quincy Avenue...

Private Officer International announces 2010 Uniform Contest winners!

Posted on August 14, 2010
Atlanta GA. Aug 14 2010 The Private Officer International association, a security-police organization with members across the nation and around the world recently announced the winners of their first annual Best Dressed Officer-Best Looking Patrol Vehicle contest...

Restaurant shooting leaves 4 dead, 4 wounded www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 14, 2010
BUFFALO, N.Y.Aug 14 2010 ? A shooting outside a restaurant in downtown Buffalo early Saturday left four people dead and four wounded, police said. The victims were leaving a large party inside the City Grill bar and restaurant about 2:30 a.m. when gunfire erupted, police and witnesses said...

Serial killer nabbed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airport www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
Atlanta GA Aug 13 2010 Romie Shaked was at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Wednesday night, ready to board Delta Flight 152 to Tel Aviv, when everyone was asked to wait at the gate. It was nearly 10 p.m. when the 12-year-old Israeli girl grabbed an empty seat in the terminal...

Ala. inmate attacks officer, dies after scuffle www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
CLAYTON, Ala. Aug 13 2010? An Alabama inmate who attacked a female guard at a rural prison died of injuries he received while being restrained by other officers, prison officials said Thursday. The death of Rocrast Donnell Mack, 24, is being investigated by the Alabama Department of Corrections and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, said [...

Motorcycle gang taunts injured trooper www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
SEATTLE WA Aug 13 2010 Police are searching for a group of motorcyclists who authorities said caused a trooper to crash and then returned to the scene to taunt him as he lay trapped in his wrecked cruiser. Trooper Brian Salyer was trying to catch up to a group of motorcyclists speeding southbound on Interstate [...

Fla police chief accused of having phoney degrees www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. Aug 13 2010 Fruitland Park’s police chief is facing a state investigation. WFTV was in Tampa Wednesday as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) found cause to look into Chief Mark Isom, who was given a raise for worthless bachelor’s and master’s degrees that came from a diploma mill...

Secrets may be hidden in your web photos www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
New York Aug 13 2010 When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program ?MythBusters,? posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more than that he drove a Toyota Land Cruiser. Embedded in the image was a geotag, a bit of data [...

Woman rams car into entrance of Ga. jail www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
GORDON COUNTY, Ga.Aug 13 2010 — A 24-year-old woman tried to crash her 2005 Toyota Corolla into the front entrance of a building that houses both the Gordon County Sheriff’s Office and the county jail on Thursday, Sheriff’s Office officials said...

Police hunt woman who used homemade bomb to start hospital fire www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
Miami Fla Aug 13 2010 Police are looking for someone who may have used a Molotov cocktail to start a fire inside the University of Miami Hospital. The hand made incendiary device was used to wreak havoc at the hospital last week, setting an area on the second-floor corridor near the administrative offices ablaze on [...

Mother of bullied student sues school for wrongful death www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
YORK VA Aug 13 2010 ? ? Alise Williams, mother of a Grafton High School freshman who committed suicide, has filed a $10 million wrongful death civil lawsuit against York County school and law enforcement officials. After Christian Taylor hanged himself at the family home May 31, Williams said he had been repeatedly bullied at [...

Security guard charged with impersonating police, again www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
Santa Cruz CA Aug 13 2010 Last week, Officers took a report from several residents of the Nantucket Bay Apartments who complained about the private security company at their complex. They claimed a security officer had been conducting vehicle stops with a red light and issuing parking citations...

Pregnant security officer assaulted by shoplifters www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
Boynton Beach, FL, Aug 13 2010 – A trio of women caught shoplifting at the Boynton Beach Mall added to their legal woes when they hit a pregnant security guard in the face. Then police found marijuana on another, and discovered another woman linked to the accused had an outstanding warrant for her arrest...

CT. school security supervisor gets pink slip www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
NEW BRITAIN CT Aug 13 2010 ? The anticipated lay-off of more than 100 staff members has not only caused a shuffle in teaching positions and classroom sizes but also in security staff at New Britain High School, district officials said. The job of custodial/security supervisor held by Plummer Carroll for the past six years [...

Baton Rouge man gets life sentence in murder of security guard www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
BATON ROUGE, La. Aug 13 2010� – A 28-year-old Baton Rouge man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a life sentence in the 2007 slaying of an elderly security guard at Pete’s Farmer’s Market. The Advocate reports prosecutors agreed to take the death penalty off the table if Derrick Williams signed a [...

Cleveland school security chief carjacked, robbed www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
CLEVELAND OH Aug 13 2010 Police in Cleveland say the top cop for the city’s school system was robbed at gunpoint in his car while stopped at a red light. Police say Cleveland schools Security Chief Lester Fultz was held up late Tuesday night by a man who jumped into his back seat, pointed a [...

Heart patient says Chicago hospital security beat him up www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 13, 2010
CHICAGO IL Aug 13 2010 He went to the hospital to see the cardiologist and wound up in the emergency room after he says security beat him up. You can see the bruises all over the body of James Spidle. He says the officers went on the attack, but they’re trying to put the blame [...

Vanden High School teacher arrested for sexual battery of teen www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 12, 2010
FAIRFIELD CA Aug 12 2010 – A married Fairfield high school teacher was arrested Tuesday in Solano County and charged with sexual battery and assault on a minor under the age of 14. Carl Michael Testerman taught English at Vanden High School until yesterday’s arrest...

Philidelphia school security chief resigns www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 12, 2010
Philadelphia Pa. Aug 12 2010 James Golden Jr. resigned yesterday as the Philadelphia School District’s top school-safety official, district officials confirmed.”The district appreciates that under his leadership, we have experienced a reduction in violent incidents,” Superintendent Arlene C...

Jersey nightclub security charged with weapons, license violations www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 12, 2010
TRENTON NJ Aug 12 2010 ? An anonymous call reporting a man with a gun led to the arrest of a local bar?s private security team as police found them geared up as if they were ready for war, or at least for a brutal game of paintball. In the arrest, police seized a bevy [...

Dallas ISD police officer chargd in theft from school www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 12, 2010
Dallas TX Aug 12 2010 A Dallas ISD police officer and a school clerk have been arrested on accusations of stealing activity fund money from Pinkston High School. Officer James Ellison and Tracey Blair each face two felony charges of theft of property by a public servant between $500 and $1,500 and tampering with a [...

Security officer attacked by 3 men in serious condition www.privateofficer.com

Posted on August 12, 2010
Ypsilanti MI Aug 12 2010 A female security guard on foot patrol at Maplewood Apartments in Ypsilanti Township was attacked by three men Tuesday night, causing serious injuries, police said. http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/24599681 No arrests have been made, and the motive of the attack isn’t clear, said Washtenaw County Sheriff’s spokesman Derrick Jackson...

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