Bystander 'bear hugged' Pa. town hall shooter-stops killing...
SAYLORSBURG, Pa. Aug 9 2013 AP— A day after a shooting that left three people dead in his rural Pennsylvania community's township building, a witness being hailed as a hero described a chaotic scene...
View ArticlePointe Coupee deputy accused of malfeasance, fired www.privateofficer.com
NEW ROADS LA Aug 9 2013 - A deputy with the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office has been arrested following a drug investigation.Sheriff Bud Torres said 51-year-old Joseph Reed Bueche, of, Ventress,...
View ArticleTeen sues school for $2 million over misuse of Facebook bikini photo...
ATLANTA GA Aug 9 2013To prove a point about the risks of social media, a local school administrator presented a photo of a bikini-clad student at a district wide seminar. Now, the woman is suing the...
View ArticleNJ teen admits luring, strangling 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale...
CAMDEN, N.J. - Aug 9 2013 -- A teenager admitted Wednesday that he strangled a 12-year-old girl who disappeared last fall while out riding her bike, touching off a massive search that ended when her...
View ArticleOcean City lifeguard charged in bomb threat www.privateofficer.com
OCEAN CITY, N.J. - August9 2013 -- Ocean City Police have arrested a lifeguard in connection with Tuesday's bomb scare along the beach front. 21-year old Zachary Kranefield of Millville, N.J. is...
View ArticleThief dressed in golf gear to blend in at country clubs www.privateofficer.com
New York NY Aug 9 2013 What a pair of duffers!A slick thief from Miami dressed up in golf gear to blend in at elite East Coast country clubs — and cleaned out cash and credit cards from locker rooms...
View ArticleDiscrimination Lawsuits On The Rise in Private Security www.privateofficer.com
Charlotte NC Aug 9 2013A security officer recently sued and won a lawsuit against their employer for discrimination, one of many in recent years.ABM Security Services Inc., which employs security...
View ArticleDespite loss prevention efforts, retail theft on the rise...
WEST CHAPEL, Fla. Aug 9 2013—Shoplifters are smart. They work very hard at their craft, says Mark R. Doyle, president of Jack L. Hayes International, a loss prevention/shrinkage-control consulting...
View ArticleSt. Paul security firm employee was homicide victim www.privateofficer.com
St. Paul MN Aug 9 2013 The death of a 25-year-old man on the St. Paul's West Side was a homicide, police said Wednesday. The victim, Brandon James Horst, died of a single gunshot wound, according to...
View ArticleFugitive Wisconsin police officer arrested www.privateofficer.com
RICE LAKE, Wis. Aug 9 2013— A Waupun, Wis., police officer suspected of burglarizing a restaurant in eastern Wisconsin, leading officers on a chase and stealing two vehicles was arrested Tuesday...
View ArticleWoman perches herself in tree for 9 hours in oil pipeline protest...
CASS COUNTY MN Aug 9 2013 -- A Kalamazoo woman spent about nine hours in a tree Wednesday, protesting Enbridge oil pipline construction in Cass County. Police said the woman, who was being called...
View ArticleJewelry store heists turning violent www.privateofficer.com
Charlotte NC Aug 9 2013You may have seen a headline or two in recent months about jewelry store robberies. Most of them are smash and grab types where the thieves rush in, break a few glass showcases,...
View ArticleSuspected shoplifter pepper sprays West St. Paul Walmart security agents...
West St Paul MN Aug 9 2013 A trio of Walmart security guards confronting a suspected shoplifter in West St. Paul got an eyeful of pepper spray from the encounter, prosecutors say. The woman they tried...
View ArticleLongtime police chief of 1 man force-fired www.privateofficer.com
Boones Mill, VA Aug 9 2013 - The longtime Police Chief for the Town of Boones Mill, Lynn Frith is without a job.The 24-year veteran of the one man police force was fired following a five to zero vote...
View ArticleTeen graffiti artist dies after Tasering by Miami Beach cops...
Miami Beach FL Aug 9 2013 At just 17, Israel Hernandez-Llach was already an award-winning artist, on the threshold of acclaim in Miami Beach art circles. He was a sculptor, painter, writer and...
View ArticleMaricopa County Sheriff’s Office employee shot, killed in front of home...
Phoenix AZ Aug 9 2013A Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detention officer getting ready for work has died after he was shot in front of his home in west Phoenix on Thursday morning, authorities...
View ArticleOswego rookie police officer killed in car crash www.privateofficer.com
COAL CITY IL Aug 9 2013 — A rookie police officer from Oswego was killed in a car crash early Saturday on her way home from a training class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Coal City...
View ArticleThree Charged with Participating in Mortgage Fraud Scheme www.privateofficer.com
Hartford CT Aug 10 2013Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned an indictment charging...
View ArticleFormer Vanderbilt Players Indicted On Rape Charges www.privateofficer.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Aug 10 2013– Four former Vanderbilt University football players have been indicted on charges of aggravated rape and sexual battery. This comes after the investigation into the June 23...
View ArticleLawsuit filed against Valero gas station in connection to fatal shooting...
TOLEDO OH Aug 10 2013 -- A lawsuit was filed Wednesday against a gas station after a Toledo man was shot and killed last year.Torian Tall was shot on April 15, 2012 at the Valero Gas Station at the...
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