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FEBRUARY 29 2012

SANTA CRUZ CA Feb 29 2012 - A 21-year-old Morgan Hill man was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery following reports of a disturbance early Saturday morning at the Santa Cruz Metro Center.

Officers were dispatched to the Pacific Avenue station around 1:30 a.m., police spokesman Zach Friend said. When they arrived, a Metro security guard was detaining a sexual assault suspect. The guard told police he heard a woman scream “no,” and he went to investigate. The guard said he interrupted the suspect, Kivet Mendoza, who was holding the woman against the building as he attempted to touch her inappropriately while she told him to stop.

When the security guard intervened, Mendoza allegedly refused to obey the guard’s commands and threatened to stab him, Friend said. Mendoza then reached into his front pocket and advanced on the security officer. The two struggled on the ground for a short while before the guard was able to secure Mendoza in handcuffs as Santa Cruz police officers arrived. Police found a folding knife in Mendoza’s pocket.

According to police, the victim had met Mendoza at a party and the two agreed to go to her home. They were waiting to catch a bus there when Mendoza allegedly began to force himself on the woman to her objection, Friend said.

Mendoza was arrested and booked into County Jail on suspicion of multiple charges, including sexual battery, criminal threats and assault with a deadly weapon.

This is a sample of the more serious attacks committed against private security during the past 5 days.

SOUTH HILLS LOSS PREVENTION AGENT STABBED

PUYALLUP WA Feb 29 2012  Police arrested two teenagers Monday night after a shoplifting went awry at the South Hill Mall.
One of the teens is suspected of stabbing a loss prevention officer in the abdomen, Puyallup police Capt. Dave McDonald said. The 21-year-old victim was taken to Tacoma General Hospital and went into surgery for a non-life threatening injuries.
The incident occurred about 7 p.m. Monday. Two loss prevention officers inside Macy’s spotted the two teens, a 17-year-old boy from University Place and an 18-year-old man from Pierce County, take some clothes and leave the store without paying, McDonald said.
The officers confronted the teens outside. Officers suspect the 17-year-old boy stabbed one of the loss prevention officers in the abdomen.
The two were taken into custody with the help of two off-duty Puyallup Tribal police officers who were in the area, McDonald said.
Puyallup police booked the 17-year-old boy into Remann Hall juvenile jail on suspicionof first-degree robbery and first-degree assault. The 18-year-old man was booked into Pierce County Jail on suspicion of shoplifting.

KMART SECURITY AGENT CUT BY KNIFE WIELDING SHOPLIFTER

CHICAGO IL Feb 29 2012 A man who shoplifted knives used one of them to slash a Kmart security guard who was trying to stop him this afternoon in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

It happened about 3 p.m. at the Kmart at 3443 W. Addison St., according to Albany Park District Police Lt. Robert Delaney.

A man who appeared to be in his 20s had taken knives from the store without paying and hid them in his clothing, according to the lieutenant.

When the guard tried to stop the suspect, he pulled out one of the knives and cut the guard’s hand before fleeing into a car that had been reported stolen, the lieutenant said.

The guard has been released from Swedish Covenant Hospital where he was treated for the wound, said the lieutenant.

The thief was not in custody Tuesday night.

ARMED TEENS ATTACKED MALL SECURITY OFFICERS

PEORIA IL Feb 28 2012  - A 17-year-old female was Tased by an off-duty Peoria police officer Saturday night at Northwoods Mall after pulling a knife on a mall security officer, according to Peoria Police Sergeant Joe Benko.

The situation began with a scuffle between two females in the mall’s food court a little before 8 p.m. Saturday. Police report that mall security officer’s witnessed the 17-year-old in possession of a large knife while she fled the scene.

Once out in the parking lot, the 17-year-old female began fighting with three security officers, and police report that the off-duty police officer, who was in uniform, saw a crowd moving toward the scuffle and told them to get back.

During the struggle, the off-duty police officer saw that the 17-year-old female had a knife in her hand while security tried to detain her. The off-duty officer Tased her in the right arm, causing her to drop the weapon.

While the off-duty officer attempted to get the 17-year-old into custody, a 12-year-old girl jumped onto the security guard and wrestled around with him before both suspects were detained.

The 17-year-old was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault with a knife, unlawful use of a weapon, mob action with injury and resisting arrest.

The 12-year-old was taken to a juvenile detention center after being arrested and charged with multiple charges, including three counts of aggravated battery and aggravated battery on a senior citizen, mob action with injury and obstructing police.

MYRTLE BEACH SECURITY FIRES AT MAN ATTACKING WOMEN

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.Feb 27 2012 - One woman is in critical condition after she was shot in the abdomen early Saturday morning.

It happened after 2:00 a.m. at the Tequilla Empire club off Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach.

Police say that two men were reported exiting the bar and making their way to the back of the building. A security guard witnessed one suspect pull out a gun and shoot in a group of people standing behind the club. The security guard said he then shot at the shooter, according to a police report.

The shooter then jumped into a car driver by the other suspect, and both sped off.

Police are still searching for the suspects. The car the two were last seen it was a champagne colored Nissan Altima. It was last seen going south on Kings Highway.

GEORGIA MAN TRIED RUNNING DOWN MALL GUARDS

SAVANNAH GA Feb 27 2012 A Savannah man faces a slew of charges after he rammed two cars with his own, tried to run down a woman and security guards in a parking lot of the Savannah Mall and led police on a pursuit before crashing his own vehicle early Sunday morning, said Savannah-Chatham police spokesman Julian Miller in a statement Sunday afternoon.

Charlton Bynum, 19, of the 1990 block of Price Street was charged with five counts of aggravated assault, felony fleeing to elude, two counts of hit and run, reckless driving, two counts of failure to stop at a stop sign, failure to obey traffic control devices, no valid insurance, failure to maintain lane, switching tags to misrepresent, and expired registration.

Southside Precinct officers witnessed Bynum crash into a car from which a woman was exiting and then chase her and mall security guards around the parking lot attempting to strike them with his vehicle.

Police determined the woman Bynum tried to ram had spurned his advances at a party, according to the statement. The woman, who is a co-worker of Bynum’s, left the party with friends and Bynum followed, allegedly striking one car at Derenne Avenue and Montgomery Street and running several cars off Middleground Road as he pursued the woman to the mall parking lot, at which point the security guards and metro police intervened.

20 PEOPLE SHOT AT TN CLUB INCLUDIING SECUIRTY OFFICERS

JACKSON, TN. Feb 27 2012  – Police in West Tennessee say one man was killed and 19 other people were injured early Sunday when gunmen opened fire in a nightclub.

Jackson Police Lt. Tyreece Miller said officers were called to the Karma Lounge in downtown Jackson at about 2 a.m. Sunday. They arrived to find one man dead, 17 people with gunshot wounds and two who were trampled.

Miller said a dispute between several people led to the shooting at the business, which had advertised a Lane College/Lemoyne-Owen College after-game party on Saturday night. Evidence so far indicates at least three people used handguns to fire into the crowd.

Police said two of the shooting victims were club security guards.

Authorities released photos of two men taken by the club’s video cameras. Miller said investigators want to question them because of their proximity to the events.

Killed in the shooting was Lecarlos Todd, 19, of Memphis.

In addition, two women were treated and released after suffering injuries when they were trampled by the crowd after shots were fired.

POLICE OFFICER-SECURITY ATTACKED BY TRESPASSER

SEATTLE WA Feb 26 2012 - A Seattle police officer was assaulted Friday night as she attempted to arrest a mentally ill trespasser who was spotted wandering through the private gated community of Broadmoor.

The incident began at about 10:25 p.m. Friday when police were dispatched to Broadmoor for a report of a trespasser who refused to stop for uniformed security guards, said Detective Mark Jamieson of the Seattle police.

Officers arrived and were searching for the suspect when one of the officers spotted the suspect and the security guard who was following him, Jamieson said.

The officer attempted to stop the trespasser, but he refused to comply. Instead, the suspect took a swing at the officer, but she was able to block his punch and wrestle him to the ground.

The suspect then grabbed onto the officer’s gun inside her holster. It required the efforts of both the officer and the security guard to forcefully remove the suspect’s hands from the officer’s pistol.

Additional officers arrived soon afterward, and the suspect was taken into custody.

It was later determined that the suspect, a 26-year-old man, is suffering from mental illness and was not taking his medication, Jamieson said.

The officers sustained only minor injuries during the struggle.

JC PENNEY SHOPLIFTERS SHOOT AT LOSS PREVENTION AGENTS

PLEASANT HILL CA Feb 25 2012 - An attempt by a group of women to shoplift items from a store at the Sunvalley mall resulted in gunfire and the arrest of four suspects, police said.

Concord police responded to the JCPenney parking lot about 5:45 p.m. after members of the store’s security team tried to detain the four women after noticing the shoplifting attempt, Corp. David Dunkley said in a news release.

But the women fought back, assaulting two of the agents and pulling out a gun and firing it, Dunkley said. Nobody was injured by the gunfire, but the commotion helped the four suspects escape, two of them fleeing through the parking lot on foot and the other two in a vehicle.

An officer on Highway 4 spotted the vehicle with two of the suspects. The driver yielded off the Port Chicago Highway exit, where police ordered the suspects out of at gunpoint and arrested the women after finding evidence inside that linked them to the JCPenney robbery, Dunkley said.

All four women were arrested on suspicion of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, battery, brandishing a firearm, possession of a loaded and concealed firearm, possession of stolen property and threatening a victim/witness to a crime, Dunkley said. They were to be taken to County Jail in Martinez.

SOLDIER ARRESTED FOR RUNNING DOWN NIGHTCLUB SECUIRTY

SAN ANTONIO TX Feb 24 2012 - An active duty soldier was arrested early Thursday morning after police say he ran over a security guard in a club’s parking lot and crashed into a wall.

Police said the suspect, an active member of the Army, was picking fights in the parking lot at Graham Central Station nightclub around 2:20 a.m. When things escalated, the suspect got in his Cadillac and drove into the fighting crowd.

The suspect hit a security guard with his vehicle and then sped away, police said.

With another security guard in pursuit, police said the suspect crashed into a median and a wall before stopping in a shopping plaza parking lot at Callaghan and Babcock.

Nearby officers saw the crash and were told by the pursuing security guard of the hit and run. The suspect was arrested and is expected to be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon-vehicle.

The security guard suffered minor injuries to his ankle and arm.

KROGER SECURITY OFFICER STUNNED BY SHOPLIFTER

FORT WAYNE, IN. Feb 23 2012 - A Fort Wayne man who allegedly used a stun gun last week to evade a grocery store’s security guard after a robbery ended up being stunned himself by police when he struggled with an officer who arrested him.

The Journal Gazette reports 36-year-old Billye D. Gaulden was arrested Monday. Police say an officer who chased and tackled Gaulden had to use his Taser gun on him and punch Gaulden to subdue him.

Gaulden faces robbery, unlawful use of a stun gun and resisting law enforcement charges. He remained jailed Wednesday on a $20,000 bond.

Police say Gaulden used a stun device to jolt a security guard at a Fort Wayne Kroger store last week after he and a woman stole items from the store. The woman remains at large.

ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SECURITY OFFICER SHOT

ORANGE COUNTY, FL.

A security guard was shot in the back early Saturday after a gunman fired shots from a car outside the Oasis Club. Orange County sheriff’s deputies said the shooting happened around 1:45am. The night club is located at East Colonial and Wilmar.

A sheriff’s spokesman said a car pulled in front of the club and a man hanging out the window fired a shot at the guard. The victim, identified as 21-year-old Frederick Morgan, was hit in the back.

Morgan was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition.

The suspects sped off in the car, but were tracked by deputies to a home on Indialantic Avenue. Deputies arrested the driver right away, but the suspected shooter jumped out of the car and took off on foot.

The driver of the car was identified as 20-year-old Desiral Rodler. He is charged with being an accessory to the shooting.

SECURITY OFFICER STABBED BY SHOPLIFTER

PHILADELPHIA PA

A security officer was stabbed as he tried to stop a teen from shoplifting at

a gas station.

Police said that the guard grabbed a hold of the teen as he tried walking out of the store with a beer stuck down his pants.

The security officer is in good condition and police are still searching for the teenager.

SECURITY OFFICER ATTACKED AT HOMELESS SHELTER

BERGEN COUNTY NJ Two Bergen County Police officers snagged violent homeless gang member moments after he beat a security guard at a Hackensack shelter, authorities said this morning.

Kimani Porter, 20, had been unruly most of the night and was finally asked to leave, officials at the The Bergen County Housing, Health, and Human Services Center said.

Police sources say Porter has ties to the Bloods street gang. Records show a string of violent crimes that include assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and robbery. He’s been on probation since May.

Security Officer Michael Shaffer was escorting him out of the South River Street shelter Friday night when Porter began hitting him in the face and head, knocking him down, Bergen County Police Chief Brian Higgins said.

Porter then began kicking Shaffer, who hit his head against a wall, the chief said.

A judge ordered Porter held on $25,000 bail, charged with aggravated assault. Meanwhile, authorities were checking out his resident status.

Shaffer was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center for injuries to his head, face and ribs before being discharged.

FRESNO MALL SECURITY OFFICER STABBED

FRESNO CA A security officer was stabbed at the Manchester Mall in central Fresno just before 6:30 p.m. today, Fresno Police said.

The guard was attempting to apprehend a shoplifter when he was stabbed in the shoulder, Lt. Phil Cooley said.

The security officer is listed in stable condition right now.

The suspect ran out of the mall and was seen running with a juvenile, Cooley said.

No further details were immediately available.

2 TN NIGHTCLUB SECUIRTY OFFICERS STABBED

MILLINGTON, TN A customer and two security guards were stabbed after a fight at a Millington bar early Saturday morning.

Shelby County investigators were called to Lorraine’s Lounge at 6553 Navy Road just after 2:00 a.m. Saturday. The victims were stabbed after a fight broke out as the bar was closing.

“They hit a customer for no reason, and my guys who got hurt tried to stop it,” said Lorraine’s Lounge owner Curtis Pettigrew.

Pettigrew said as his security guards were trying to break up the crowd in the parking lot, a person who had been previously banned from the bar struck another patron in the head.

According to the Shelby Sheriff’s office, two Lorraine’s Lounge security guards Jeffrey Williams and Monterio Hurd, and a female patron, Amy Clark, all suffered stab wounds from a razor blade type of instrument.

Clark was transported to Methodist North, where she was treated and released. Hurd and Williams were transported to the MED, where Williams underwent surgery for extensive internal injuries. Williams is listed in stable condition.

Pettigrew said his security guards were only trying to do their job by keeping the peace. He said he is saddened that the night ended in violence.

“It hurts me to know that my people just got hurt for nothing,” said Pettigrew.

Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (901) 528-CASH.

2 MEN ARRESTED FOR STABBING LOWE’S SECURITY AGENT

WARNER ROBINS GA Feb 22 2012 Two men face aggravated assault and felony shoplifting charges after allegedly stabbing a Lowes’ security guard in the chest.

Warner Robins police spokeswoman Tabitha Pugh says 58-year-old Alfred Thomas and 62-year-old Robert Broady, both of Macon, were arrested Friday.According to police, security guards saw the men shoplifting from the Lowes on Watson Boulevard on Feb. 7.When officers tried to stop them, Pugh says, one of them stabbed an officer in the chest.

She says the officer’s injuries were not life threatening.

Thomas and Broady are being held in the Houston County jail without bond. Both are charged with aggravated assault and felony shoplifting. Pugh says more charges are pending.

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FEBRUARY 28 2012

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.

A security guard was shot in the back early Saturday after a gunman fired shots from a car outside the Oasis Club. Orange County sheriff’s deputies said the shooting happened around 1:45am. The night club is located at East Colonial and Wilmar.

A sheriff’s spokesman said a car pulled in front of the club and a man hanging out the window fired a shot at the guard. The victim, identified as 21-year-old Frederick Morgan, was hit in the back.

Morgan was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition.

The suspects sped off in the car, but were tracked by deputies to a home on Indialantic Avenue. Deputies arrested the driver right away, but the suspected shooter jumped out of the car and took off on foot.

The driver of the car was identified as 20-year-old Desiral Rodler. He is charged with being an accessory to the shooting.

SECURITY OFFICER STABBED BY SHOPLIFTER

PHILADELPHIA PA

A security officer was stabbed as he tried to stop a teen from shoplifting at

a gas station.

Police said that the guard grabbed a hold of the teen as he tried walking out of the store with a beer stuck down his pants.

The security officer is in good condition and police are still searching for the teenager.

SECURITY OFFICER ATTACKED AT HOMELESS SHELTER

BERGEN COUNTY NJ Two Bergen County Police officers snagged a violent homeless gang member moments after he beat a security guard at a Hackensack shelter, authorities said this morning.

Kimani Porter, 20, had been unruly most of the night and was finally asked to leave, officials at the The Bergen County Housing, Health, and Human Services Center said.

Police sources say Porter has ties to the Bloods street gang. Records show a string of violent crimes that include assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and robbery. He’s been on probation since May.

Security Officer Michael Shaffer was escorting him out of the South River Street shelter Friday night when Porter began hitting him in the face and head, knocking him down, Bergen County Police Chief Brian Higgins said.

Porter then began kicking Shaffer, who hit his head against a wall, the chief said.

A judge ordered Porter held on $25,000 bail, charged with aggravated assault. Meanwhile, authorities were checking out his resident status.

Shaffer was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center for injuries to his head, face and ribs before being discharged.

FRESNO MALL SECURITY OFFICER STABBED

FRESNO CA A security officer was stabbed at the Manchester Mall in central Fresno just before 6:30 p.m. today, Fresno Police said.

The guard was attempting to apprehend a shoplifter when he was stabbed in the shoulder, Lt. Phil Cooley said.

The security officer is listed in stable condition right now.

The suspect ran out of the mall and was seen running with a juvenile, Cooley said.

No further details were immediately available.

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FEBRUARY 24 2012

PLEASANT HILL CA  – An attempt by a group of women to shoplift items from a store at the Sunvalley Mall resulted in gunfire and the arrest of four suspects, police said.

Concord police responded to the JCPenney parking lot about 5:45 p.m. after members of the store’s security team tried to detain the four women after noticing the shoplifting attempt, Corp. David Dunkley said in a news release.

But the women fought back, assaulting two of the agents and pulling out a gun and firing several shots at the security agents, Dunkley said. The loss prevention officers escaped and was not by the gunfire, but the commotion helped the four suspects escape, two of them fleeing through the parking lot on foot and the other two in a vehicle.

Police located the fleeing vehicle and ordered the suspects out of at gunpoint and arrested the women after finding evidence inside that linked them to the JCPenney robbery, Dunkley said.

The names and ages of the suspects were not immediately available late Thursday, but police said all were adults.

All four women were arrested on suspicion of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, battery, brandishing a firearm, possession of a loaded and concealed firearm, possession of stolen property and threatening a victim/witness to a crime, Dunkley said. They were to be taken to County Jail in Martinez.

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VA. WALMART DISTRIBUTION CENTER SHOOTING LEAVES 1 DEAD

DINWIDDIE, VA -  An employee at the Wal-Mart distribution center in Dinwiddie just south of Richmond shot his manager, then shot and killed himself Wednesday afternoon, according to the Dinwiddie County Sheriffs Office.

The shooter was a 32-year-old Petersburg man who had worked in the shipping department for 9 years. He was working on the day-shift and had just returned from his lunch break when he opened-fire, according to the Sheriff’s office. He shot his manager one time in the leg. He also fired two shots at deputies responding to the shooting before turning the gun on himself. The manager’s injuries are described as non-life-threatening.

Authorities say the manager had worked at the facility for 18 years. Authorities say she’s a 40-year-old Petersburg woman, but are withholding her and the gunman’s names until their families are notified. Sheriffs say they don’t have any indication that there was any dispute between the two.

The shooting took place around Noon Wednesday at the 1.1 million square foot facility off Route 460 in Dinwiddie. Sutherland Elementary School, located nearby, was placed on lockdown during the investigation. The lockdown was lifted around 1:45 p.m.

BURGLAR SHOOTS SECURITY OFFICER

CHICAGO IL. A security officer is fighting for his life after being shot. Police say that it appears that the security guard may have interrupted a burglary at a warehouse just after 2 am.

Police say that they are checking for security camera footage and canvassing the area for leads.

The security officer is listed in critical condition at this time.

LOWES SECURITY AGENT STABBED BY SHOPLIFTER

WARNER ROBINS GA Two men face aggravated assault and felony shoplifting charges after allegedly stabbing a Lowes’ security guard in the chest.

Warner Robins police spokeswoman Tabitha Pugh says 58-year-old Alfred Thomas and 62-year-old Robert Broady, both of Macon, were arrested Friday.

According to police, security guards saw the men shoplifting from the Lowes on Watson Boulevard. When officers tried to stop them, Pugh says, one of them stabbed an officer in the chest.

She says the officer’s injuries were serious but not life threatening.

Thomas and Broady are being held in the Houston County jail without bond. Both are charged with aggravated assault and felony shoplifting. Pugh says more charges are pending.

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