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Univeristy of Alabama Professor Killed In Wreck www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.May 26 2010 (AP) – Tuscaloosa police are investigating a head-on collision that killed a University of Alabama professor and a teenage motorcyclist. Police said Tuesday that 18-year-old Timothy Dalton Hargrove was speeding when his motorcycle crossed the center line on a Tuscaloosa street Monday evening and struck a car driven by 47-year-old Karin [...

Man arrested after smuggling murdered wife out of hotel www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
Venice Fla May 26 2010 A husband has been arrested after allegedly murdering his wife before smuggling her body out of a hotel on a luggage trolley. Scott Hahn, of Venice, Florida, has been charged with second degree murder after his wife Kimberley’s body was found propped up against his car outside a hotel...

Lexington SC volunteer firefighter charged with arsons www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
SWANSEA, SC May 26 2010 (WIS) – A Lexington County volunteer firefighter is charged with setting a few fires of his own, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission. Forestry officials said Larry Lucius Williamson, Jr., 36, of Swansea, is charged with two counts of arson for starting fires on May 14 and 15 in [...

Vegas Casino Counseling Services Come Underfire www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
LAS VEGAS NV May 26 2010– Imagine you get into a drunken fight at a casino and find yourself getting tossed into a backroom. Any other place you’d get thrown out. Here, you watch a video and are given a choice. Las Vegas Metro Police Officer Jose Montoya tells you United States Justice Associates could [...

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Shoplifter busts security officer in face, breaks tooth www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.May 26 2010 ? Police say a would-be Staten Island Mall shoplifter chipped a security guard?s tooth as she tried to escape with a $39.50 sweatshirt. The suspect, Grethel A. McDonald, 18, of the 700 block of Henderson Avenue in West Brighton, tried to sneak the sweatshirt into a plastic bag just after [...

Former Miami cop accused of running marijuana grow house www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
Miami Beach Fla May 26 2010 A former Miami Beach police officer involved in two fatal shootings last June while on the force has been accused of running a marijuana grow house in Southwest Miami-Dade County. Adam Tavss, 35, was arrested about 10:30 p...

Mobile Alabama fire department stages ?Sick Out? www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
MOBILE, Alabama May 26 2010(WALA) – The Mobile firefighters who came down with a sudden case of “Blue Flu” this past weekend could find themselves in trouble with the city. Mayor Same Jones says if rules or policies were violated, there will be consequences...

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

Posted on May 26, 2010
HOUSTON TX May 26 2010UPDATE – A security guard shot and killed a man at a southeast Houston apartment complex, police told KPRC Local 2. Houston police said a security guard shot and killed Everette Crockett, 21, at the Cullen Park Apartments on Wenda Street near Coffee Street at about 10:30 p...

Security officer stops baby kidnapping www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
RENO, Nev. May 26 2010(AP) – Reno police say they’ve arrested a woman who allegedly tried to snatch a 7-month-old baby from her mother’s arms at a downtown bus station. Police say the mother was carrying her daughter in a front-facing carrier on her chest when 41-year-old Linda Flores allegedly grabbed the baby by the [...

Officer injured, nine arrested in college brawl www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
LEWISTON, Maine May 26 2010A party that got out of control ended with several arrests and an injured officer on the Bates College campus early Wednesday morning, according to police. Investigators told News 8 that students were celebrating on campus Tuesday night when someone called 911 and requested an ambulance for a girl who needed [...

Security companies see rapid growth in Texas www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
HOUSTON TX May 26 2010 – In Harris County there are 302 private security companies. The Texas Department of Public Safety, which oversees the industry, says the number keeps growing. “Communities and individuals are drawing on that resource more so because there are fewer uniformed police officers in neighborhoods than years past,” said city councilman [...

Off-duty police officer shoots man breaking into car www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
HOUSTON TX May 26 2010 – Investigators say an off-duty Houston police officer shot and wounded a suspect at a northwest Harris County apartment complex, one night after a similar incident in a southeast Houston apartment complex. The shooting took place on Tuesday night at the the Bellmeade Apartment Home on Legacy Park Drive near [...

FBI says crime is down nationwide www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
WASHINGTON MAY 26 2010 — The violent crime rate in the United States went down in 2009 for the third year in a row and the property crime rate fell for the seventh consecutive year, the FBI reported Monday. The decline last year amounted to 5.5 percent for violent crime compared to 2008 and the [...

POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN PHOENIX www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
BREAKING NEWS Phoenix AZ May 26 2010 Area police are investigating the shooting death of a police officer early Wednesday. The shooting occurred around 1 a.m. at a gas station-convenience store in west Phoenix. Police responded to a suspicious vehicle in the neighborhood call around 19th Avenue and Indian School Road when the officer was [...

Pure Heroin from Mexico hits US streets www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 26, 2010
WINFIELD, Mo.May 26 2010 ? Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins...

Man commits suicide at shooting range www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
EAST PIKELAND PA May 25 2010 ? A 50-year-old Chesterbrook man shot and killed himself in the shooting range of French Creek Outfitters, 270 Schuylkill Road, Sunday afternoon, police said. Police Chief Jim Franciscus said that the 50-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld until notification of next of kin, entered French Creek Outfitters around [...

TX teacher?s aide charged with sex assault on student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
Garland TX May 25 2010 source:DallasNews A teacher’s aide at Naaman Forest High School in Garland has been arrested on a charge of sexual assault of a child, police said. Dennis Connor, 27, was being held in the Garland jail. His bond was set at $25,000...

NY teacher charged with sex crimes with student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
Canandaigua NY May 25 2010 37-year-old Canandaigua Academy teacher Marla Gurecki-Haskins surrendered to police yesterday in the small Western New York town of Canandaigua on charges related to sexual conduct involving three male students. Gurecki-Haskins, who has been teaching for fifteen years, pleaded not guilty to one felony count of disseminating indecent material to a [...

Md. ROTC instructor charged with sex abuse of student www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
COLUMBIA, Md.May 25 2010 – An Atholton High School ROTC instructor was arrested Monday night and charged with having sex with a 17-year-old female student at the school. 51-year-old Charles Ray Moore of Bowie was charged with sexual child abuse and sexual abuse of a minor by a person in a position of authority...

US Border Patrol Agent Dies in Wreck With Bull www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
RACHAL, Texas May 25 2010– A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and another critically injured when their vehicle collided with a bull and a tree Sunday evening. Agents Mark Van Doren and Adelaido Martinez were travelling west along Farm-to-Market Road 755 west of Rachal when their patrol sedan collided with a bull standing in [...

Man slugs woman in theft of iPod www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
NASHUA NH May 25 2010 A man has been arrested accused of punching woman for her iPod A Massachusetts man punched a woman in a mall parking lot, snatched her iPod and hid in the grass before being caught by a security guard, police said. Thomas Hart, 22, of Woburn, Mass...

Wal-Mart employee fired for stopping shoplifter www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
WICHITA, Kansas May 25 2010 (KSN) ? A Wal-Mart worker hailed as a hero for stopping a shoplifter was fired Saturday. Wal-Mart refuses to comment but Heather Ravenstein says she was told she was being let go because of her actions Friday. ?My stomach started turning instantly,? said Ravenstein...

Jewelery store robbed of Rolex watches www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa May 25 2010 West Des Moines police have an expensive mystery to solve. On Sunday afternoon, at least three people went on a theft spree at Valley West Mall. Police said they targeted Joseph’s Jewelers and took some of the best watches from inside the store while it was open...

Man arrested for attacking hospital security with knife www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
Santa Rosa Fla May 25 2010 Police arrested a man on charges he attempted to pull a knife on a hospital security guard Monday morning. Allen Rubin Newsom Jr., 47, was charged with aggravated assault on medical staff. Police said a security guard at Bay Medical Center confronted Newsom after he spotted him attempting to [...

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

Posted on May 25, 2010
HOUSTON TX May 25 2010 — A security guard shot and killed a man at a southeast Houston apartment complex, police said Monday. Residents at an apartment complex in southeast Houston say a security guard shot and killed one of the people who lives there...

School locked down after school resource officer assaulted www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
STAFFORD VA May 25 2010 ? An 18-year-old Stafford man was arrested Monday after assaulting a school resource officer in a back parking lot at North Stafford High School. Reginald Latson, of Ripley Road in Stafford, was charged with malicious wounding of a law enforcement officer, assault and battery of a law enforcement officer and [...

Katy TX police kept busy with shoplifting incidents www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
Katy TX May 25 2010 Police rounded up several suspected shoplifters from Katy Mills Mall this week, including a woman who tried to walk out of Neiman Marcus wearing a $560 pair of shoes she hadn?t paid for. Joanna Tobacco, 25, of Houston was charged with Class A misdemeanor theft May 17 and booked into [...

Truck stop security officer robbed at gunpoint www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP NJ May 25 2010 ? Police are seeking a man they say robbed a Petro Truck Stop security guard at gunpoint May 20. Police said the man entered the guard shack of the station on Rising Sun Road at about 10:20 p.m. and pointed a black automatic handgun at the guard, forced him [...

Student hangs herself after being bullied at school www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
PORT ST. LUCIE FLA May 25 2010 source KTLA — Police are investigating the apparent suicide of an 11-year-old girl whose diary indicates she was being bullied at school. Police say Celina Okwuone hanged herself in her closet Thursday night. The 5th grader was found by her parents just before midnight...

Hotel security, police investigate missing man www.privateofficer.com

Posted on May 25, 2010
Atlantic City NJ May 25 2010 press of atlantic city Anguished family members of a missing Hudson County man last seen at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort pleaded Monday for his return, hours after Atlantic City police said he was added to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database as a missing person...

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