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NM father kills self, two sons www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 22, 2010
LA PUEBLA, N.M. June 22 2010? New Mexico State Police are investigating the deaths of two boys and an adult in an apparent murder-suicide. State Police Lt. Eric Garcia says two boys ? ages 12 and 10 ? were apparently shot with a handgun by their father, who then killed himself...

Security officer captures armed murder suspect www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 22, 2010
Pensacola Fla June 22 2010 A man was shot to death Monday in the parking lot of an apartment complex off New Warrington Road in Escambia County. The shooting happened at Twin Oaks Villas Apartments at 4600 Twin Oaks Drive at about 9 p.m. A security guard captured a suspect shortly after the shooting, Escambia [...

2 Year old dies in accidental shooting www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 22, 2010
HENDERSON NC June 22 2010 (WTVD) — The Vance County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a shooting that killed a 2-year-old boy Tuesday. According to Sheriff Peter White, Timothy Atwater of Raleigh and his mother were visiting relatives in Henderson when Atwater accidentally shot himself...

Allen University president accused of sexual harrasement www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 22, 2010
COLUMBIA, SC June 22 2010 Source: WIS – The president of Allen University has been accused of sexual harassment by a co-worker. In a 17 page lawsuit filed in US District Court, Dr. Sonya Melton accuses Dr. Charles E. Young of pressuring her to have sex and retaliating against her for refusing to do so...

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Oklahoma security guard charged with molesting 4 yr old www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 22, 2010
DUNCAN, Oklahoma June 22 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATEOFFICER NEWS http://www.privateofficer.com/ — A private security guard working at a Duncan area car dealership has been arrested for sexually assaulting a four year old child. The Marlow man who has been identified as Brian Grant Williams has confessed to sexually assaulting the child four times...

1 Dead, 2 injured in Fort Bragg training accident www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 22, 2010
FORT BRAGG NC June 22 2010 (WTVD) — Military officials say a range control contractor is dead and two other people have been injured during a training accident. It happened Tuesday at Fort Bragg’s Range 77. According to a news release, the range control contractor was taken to Womack Army Medical Center where he died [...

Former South Alabama college student gets prison for sexual emails www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 22, 2010
MOBILE, Ala. June 22 2010 AL.com– If the teenage girl targeted by Tony Ray Frazier had sent him a picture of her genitalia instead of the other way around, he would have faced at least five years in prison. Because the pictures that Frazier e-mailed of his penis did not constitute child pornography, they were [...

Shoot-out leaves Dallas police chief?s son dead www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 21, 2010
LANCASTER TX June 21 2010 (CBS 11 / TXA 21) A shootout Sunday evening left three people dead, including a 37-year-old Lancaster police officer and the son of Dallas Police Chief David Brown. The police officer was shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance in the 900 block of River Bend at around [...

Theft of video games gets man prison term www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 21, 2010
RARITAN TWP. NJ June 21 2010 ? NJ.com The discounts at BJ?s Wholesale Club were apparently not deep enough for a Maple Shade man who helped himself to several video games. Share Jason R. Deopp, 25, was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for shoplifting more than $2,300 worth of Playstation games from [...

East Norriton Township Police Chief dies in crash www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 21, 2010
FORKS TOWNSHIP, Pa. June 21 2010 – A Montgomery County police chief is dead following a crash in Forks Township, Northampton County. Forks Township Police said the accident happened Friday afternoon at 2:52 in the 2600 block of North Delaware Drive, also known as State Route 611...

New Pa. law makes shoplifting a felony www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 21, 2010
HARRISBURG, Pa.June 21 2010 — Up until this week, a specific type of organized crime was just a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania. Now, there’s fresh ink on a law that aims to close that loophole. Organized retail theft is bigger than shoplifting...

WTNH television personality Desiree Fontaine arrested www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 21, 2010
MILFORD CT June 21 2010 Source:New Haven Register ? WTNH-News Channel 8 television personality Desiree Fontaine, who brings viewers morning traffic reports and hosts CT Style, has been chargedMILFORD ? WTNH-News Channel 8 television personality Desiree Fontaine, who brings viewers morning traffic reports and hosts CT Style, has been charged by police with shoplifting at [...

CSX train conductor shot-killed in New Orleans www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 21, 2010
NEW ORLEANS LA June 21 2010 A train conductor was shot and killed in a robbery early Sunday, police said. It happened near Marshall Foch Street and Florida Boulevard on the Norfolk Southern Railroad just after 12:30 a.m. New Orleans Police Department officials said the train was traveling west when it came to stop due [...

Large scale police corruption investigation at Tulsa PD www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 21, 2010
Tulsa Okla June 21 2010 Source: Tulsa World An estimated 15 Tulsa police officers could be charged or serve as witnesses as part of the grand jury investigation into police corruption in Tulsa, a prosecutor leading the grand jury said. The department’s Special Investigations Division is the focus of a law enforcement probe in Tulsa...

Security bouncer shot at Evansville nightclub www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 20, 2010
EVANSVILLE IN June 20 2010? Two people were shot outside the Scores adult night club at 201 S. Fulton Ave. shortly before 3 a.m. today, according to an Evansville Police Department report. Police say the incident occurred after a man was kicked out of the club for causing a disturbance inside and pulled a handgun [...

Swim teacher charged with molesting boys www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 20, 2010
CANAAN CT JUNE 20 2010 Source-Hartford Courant A 32-year-old man was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with sexually assaulting two young boys while he was their swim instructor two years ago. Martin Gingras is charged with first-degree sexual assault and two counts of risk of injury to a minor...

Deputy Sheriff Dean Ridings dies in boat accident www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 20, 2010
Deputy Sheriff Dean Ridings Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office Virginia End of Watch: Saturday, June 19, 2010 Biographical Info Age: 52 Tour of Duty: 6 years Badge Number: 390 Incident Details Cause of Death: Boating accident Date of Incident: Saturday, June 19, 2010 Weapon Used: Not available Suspect Info: Not available Deputy Dean Ridings was killed [...

Missing Nashville woman, stepfather found dead at Wal-Mart www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 20, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. June 20 2010 NewsChannel5? The bodies of a missing woman and her stepfather have been found in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market in Nipper’s Corner. Police confirmed that the bodies of Jamella Finnie and Craig Townsend were found around 8:30 a...

JOIN US TONIGHT FOR CHAPTER TALK!

Posted on June 20, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010 JOIN US TONIGHT FOR CHAPTER TALK! This will be our last public discussion on the opening of our new Area Chapters. If you are interested in being a Chapter Manager/ACM or being involved in your area chapter you won’t want to miss this program! If you have questions, comments or suggestions [...

Rock Hill Walmart employee is accused of stealing

Posted on June 19, 2010
Rock Hill SC June 19 2010 Source: The Herald A Rock Hill Walmart employee is accused of stealing $1,500 in cash since May. Willie Thurman, 20, of Rock Hill was arrested Thursday after he was caught on surveillance video stealing from the Old York Road store, according to a Rock Hill police report...

Former Burke?s employee arrested in theft www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
LUFKIN, TX June 19 2010 (KTRE) – Lufkin Police have arrested a former employee of Burkes Outlet, accused of stealing more than $1,500 worth of merchandise from the store. According to Det. J.B. Smith, the warrant was obtained Dec. 31, 2009, for Danielle Lakay Williams, 23, following an investigation into internal theft reported by Burkes...

Shoplifter gets prison in $30,000 theft www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
GULFPORT MS June 19 2010 Source: Herald Sun ? An 18-year-old Gulfport resident will serve time in prison for his role in a shoplifting ring that used his home as a repository for more than $30,000 in stolen clothes. Circuit Judge Roger Clark sentenced Andrea Samuel Lee Pruitt to 20 years and suspended 13, leaving [...

Teenage girl arrested in mall burglary www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
NILES OH June 19 2010 By: Rick McCann/Staff PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS www.privateofficer.com A 16-year-old girl who broke into a mall amd was nabbed by security has been arrested. Police say the brazen teenager broke into Eastwood Mall about 3 a.m. Wednesday...

Loomis employee charged in $130,000 theft www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
Erie PA. June 19 2010 Source:Timesnews.com Erie police have recovered most of the $130,000 that was taken from an armored-car company on Friday. Much of it had been stuffed in a vacuum cleaner in an apartment building that was managed by the suspect’s mother...

Woman commits suicide by lying down in front of train www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
TROY, Ohio June 19 2010– A woman apparently committed suicide by lying on railroad tracks as a train passed Friday morning, June 18. Troy Police Capt. Chris Anderson said the preliminary investigation suggests the death was suicide. CSX train operators sounded the train’s horn when they saw the woman on her back and she flinched [...

5 Die in Seattle fire www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
Seattle, WA June 19 2010 Source: King5 News Hundreds gathered at Key Arena in Seattle to say goodbye to five lives lost in Saturday’s fire. 22 year old Eyersalem Gebregiorgis, 13-year-old Jospeh Gebregiorgis, 7-year-old Nyella Smith, 6-year-old Nisreen Shamam and 5-year-old Yaseen Shamam died Saturday when their home in Fremont was destroyed by fire...

Lesbian constable commits suicide www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
London England June 19 2010 by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Police Constable Lara Goldie, 28, committed suicide recently amid allegations from her in her suicide note that homophobia at the Haringey police station, North London, where homophobic. Haringey is one of the northern most boroughs in Greater London...

Minn. tornados leave destruction, deaths www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
ALBERT LEA, Minn.June 19 2010 ? As tornadoes bore down on southern Minnesota, Angie Woodside called her in-laws and said they should rush to her house west of Albert Lea, where there was a basement to take cover. Her mother-in-law, Kathy Woodside, refused...

Security officer rescues woman from carjacker www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
HOUSTON TX June 19 2010 — A police chase from Houston to Winnie ended Friday with the arrest of a carjacker. The incident police say started as a robbery at an apartment complex in the 600 block of Wilcrest where a security officer heard a woman screaming in the parking lot...

Security officers nab man taking inappropriate pictures of children www.privateofficer.com

Posted on June 19, 2010
SAN ANTONIO TX June 19 2010 — When a security guard approached 41 year old Joseph Cadena at Splashtown Thursday, officials say he lied about taking inappropriate pictures at the park. Bexar County authorities say he turned over his camera, but fumbled while trying to break a memory card inside his pants...

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