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Two Heroes Down: Sheriff Says LEO’s ‘Demonized’
“What do you expect happens when you demonize law enforcement to the extent it’s been demonized?” Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Schultz said at a news conference.
The official story about how two Florida sheriff’s deputies were gunned down in a Chinese restaurant shifted slightly Friday when a deputy standing in for Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Schultz announced that they were shot inside the eatery — not through the window as officials had first reported.

“We know now that the assailant went inside the building and assaulted and killed them,” said Lt. Scott Tummond, who works for the Levy County Sheriff’s Office

Tummond, who said he had a “work history” with one of the slain men, Sgt. Noel Ramirez of the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office, also confirmed that the suspected shooter, 59-year-old John Hubert Highnote, killed himself after fatally shooting the deputies.

“We have no information right now that our officers were able to return fire,” Tummond said.
“No officers engaged with the assailant.” MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/two-heroes-sheriff-says-leos-demonized-learn-multi-video/

 

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Car Theft Solved Too Late to Prevent Waffle House Tragedy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After Travis Reinking allegedly stole a BMW from a Nashville area car dealer last week, police say they found it outside the apartment where he lived. Authorities recovered the car but didn’t figure out who had stolen it until too late.

By then, police say, the 29-year-old with a troubled past had shot four people to death early Sunday in a Waffle House restaurant not far from where he lived in Nashville. If not for the efforts of a patron who wrestled the gun away, many more would have died.

Reinking escaped on foot, shedding the only item of clothing he was wearing, a green jacket. He was found and taken into custody in some woods near the apartments Monday, more than 24 hours later. By then police had searched his apartment, where they say they found the key fob to the stolen BMW.

His arrest ended a manhunt that involved more than 160 law enforcement officers. But it left troubling unanswered questions about his behavior before the shooting — and what could have led to the carnage he is said to have unleashed at the Waffle House.

Construction workers told officers Monday that a person matching Reinking’s description walked into the woods near a construction site, Metro Nashville Police Department Lt. Carlos Lara told reporters. A detective spotted Reinking, who lay down on the ground to be handcuffed when ...MORE

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Two Officers Shot, Critically Wounded at Dallas Home Depot
Two officers and a civilian were shot Tuesday afternoon near a Home Depot in Lake Highlands, police said.

The officers were critically wounded in the shooting about 4:15 p.m. in the 11600 block of Forest Central Drive, near U.S. Highway 75 and Forest Lane, police said. The civilian’s condition was not available.

Multiple news outlets reported that at least one of the officers was shot in the head.

Officers were searching for the suspected shooter, who was reportedly identified as 29-year-old Armando Juarez, near the wooded area and along the creek behind the store.

At nearby Forest Lane Station, DART passengers were not allowed to get off or on the trains in an attempt to prevent the suspect from leaving the area, DART spokesman Mark Ball said. ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/t...ically-wounded-dallas-home-depot-multi-video/

 

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DNA Brings Arrest in Golden State Killer from ’70s & ’80s
A man once sworn to protect the public from crime lived a double life terrorizing suburban neighborhoods at night, becoming one of the California’s most feared serial killers and rapists in the 1970s and ’80s before leaving a cold trail that baffled investigators for more than three decades.

Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was behind bars Wednesday facing four counts of murder and, potentially, dozens of other charges after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the so-called Golden State Killer.

The culprit also known as the East Area Rapist, among other names, is suspected of at least 12 slayings and 50 rapes in 10 counties from Northern to Southern California.

The armed and masked prowler sneaked in through windows at night and surprised sleeping victims who ranged in age from 13 to 41.

When encountering a couple, he was known to tie up the man and pile dishes on his back.

He threatened to kill both victims if he heard plates crash to the floor while he raped the woman. ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/dna-brings-arrest-golden-state-killer-70s-80s-multi-video/

 

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Inmate Orders Mail Bomb from Dark Web with Cellphone to Kill Ex-Wife
A federal jury convicted Michael Young Jr. and Vance Volious Jr. of dealing drugs and plotting to kill Young’s ex-wife with a mail bomb they bought with bitcoin from the Dark Web’s Alpha Bay Market.

United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Young, 32, and Volious, 36, both of Columbia S.C., were convicted of conspiracy, transport of an explosive with the intent to kill, mailing a non-mailable explosive with the intent to kill, and carrying an explosive during the commission of another felony.

Judge J. Michelle Childs presided over the trial and will impose sentence after a pre-sentence report is prepared by the United States Probation Office.

Evidence presented at the trial revealed that while incarcerated in the South Carolina Department of Corrections, Young obtained a contraband cellphone smuggled into the Broad River Correctional Institution.

Young used that contraband cellphone to run a drug business distributing marijuana he obtained from a California supplier and from purchases on the Dark Web. ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/inmate-orders-mail-bomb-dark-web-cellphone-kill-ex-wife/


Manhunt for Armed & Dangerous Deputy Slaying Suspect
FBI Announces $20,000 Reward for John D. Williams

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Somerset County Sheriff’s Office, and Maine State Police are asking the public for help and offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of John Daniel Williams.

In the early morning hours of April 25, 2018, Williams allegedly shot and killed Corporal Eugene Cole of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office in the town of Norridgewock, Maine.

Following the murder, Williams stole Corporal Cole’s marked cruiser, drove to the Cumberland Farms in Norridgewock, and committed a theft.
Williams fled the scene of the theft in the cruiser.

Shortly after 5:00 a.m., the cruiser was located abandoned off of Martin Stream Road in Norridgewock.
An arrest warrant was issued out of Somerset County Superior Court in Skowhegan, Maine for murder of a police officer. ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/manhunt-armed-dangerous-deputy-slaying-suspect-multi-video/

 

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Hero Down: Nogales Police Officer Jesus Cordova Murdered
Nogales Police Department Officer Jesus Cordova was fatally shot on Friday after responding to a carjacking.

The incident started Friday at around 3 p.m. in the Mesa Verde Drive area when Officer Cordova was responding to a report of a carjacking, according to Nogales International.

The officer saw the suspect vehicle fleeing the area and initiated a traffic stop
Videos have surfaced on social media which appear to show people rush in to video the critically injured officer in his patrol car.

The officer’s patrol car had numerous gunshot holes in the windshield, both driver’s side windows shot out, and the passenger side window shot out, as well as bullet holes in the car’s body.

Shots were fired during the traffic stop, leaving the officer critically injured. The suspect fled from the scene. ....MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/hero-nogales-police-officer-jesus-cordova-murdered-video/


How Over 200 LEO’s Caught Sheriff Deputy’s Killer Suspect
Police were confident they had been able to contain suspected cop killer John Williams in the marshy, wooded area near Bear Mountain and Lost Brook, west of Route 139, where the towns of Norridgewock and Fairfield meet.

“Each day we assembled teams from federal, state, local and county agencies to slowly and methodically search the difficult terrain — each day moving, searching for evidence and any signs of movement by the suspect,” Lt. John Cote, currently the second in command at state police and soon to be sworn in as colonel and chief of the Maine State Police, told reporters Saturday afternoon.


The suspect was Williams, a 29-year-old man from Madison whom police say shot and killed Somerset County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Eugene Cole in the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 25, then stole his cruiser and tried to rob a convenience store.
Cole’s cruiser was found abandoned on Martin Stream Road.

Williams was on the run. Cole, a 13-year police veteran, was the first Maine police officer to die in a shooting in nearly 30 years.

What followed over the next four days was a sprawling, frantic manhunt involving an estimated 200 armed police officers, sheriff’s deputies and game wardens from all over Maine and from New Hampshire and Massachusetts as well as federal authorities from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Border Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service. ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/200-leos-caught-sheriffs-deputy-killer-suspect-multi-video/

 

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R.I.P. Officer Cordova, another blue brother down

 

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Police In D.C., New York Revise Shooting Policies In Response To Vehicle Ramming Attacks
Two decades ago, amid a growing controversy over police shootings in the nation’s capital, officers in the District were largely barred from firing at moving cars.

The rules didn’t apply if someone in the car was firing at police, but officials concluded that in most cases, the practice was dangerous and ineffective. Bystanders could be hit, and shooting at a car usually didn’t stop it anyway. Other departments nationwide adopted similar policies.

Now, however, several major cities are loosening those rules to deal with a new threat: terrorists in trucks mowing down and killing pedestrians. Police in Washington, New York City, Chicago and Las Vegas have begun allowing officers to fire at moving vehicles to stop such ramming attacks. While concern about the tactic remains, authorities say that, in extreme instances, trying to shoot the driver might be the only way to save lives.

“We have to balance the threat to the community with the idea we don’t want to use fatal force unless we absolutely have to,” said D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham. “It’s really important to make sure officers completely understand this is a special circumstance, a last resort, but one that may be necessary.”

The move to broaden the circumstances under which officers are authorized to use deadly force comes as police nationwide have been under scrutiny for the shootings of unarmed people, many of them black men ...MORE

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Indiana Police Officer Shot, Killed in Line of Duty
The suspect in the shooting that left a Terre Haute police officer dead has now died, a Terre Haute TV station and the Associated Press are reporting.
Police, during a news conference tonight, confirmed the suspect’s death in a shootout with police at the apartment complex.

The suspect in the deadly shooting of a Terra Haute, Ind., police officer has been injured and is detained, Indiana State Police reported through its Twitter account.

The person who opened fire, shooting and killing an officer, was a suspect in a homicide at the Garden Quarter Apartment Complex, a city police spokesman said.

The suspect and officer have not been named.

FIRST REPORT

A Terre Haute, Ind., police officer has been killed in the line of duty in a shooting outside an apartment complex Friday evening.

The Indiana State Police are reporting, via the ISP Twitter feed, that the suspect is barricaded inside a residence at the Garden Quarter Apartment Complex ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/indiana-police-officer-shot-killed-line-duty-learn-video/


Chicago Manhunt Continues for ATF Shooting Suspect
The ATF continued its call for the public’s help after the ambush-style attack on one of their agents early Friday morning
There’s a large police presence in the area of the shooting. There are also protesters who were frustrated with that presence. More than two dozen people outlined claims of intimidation, harassment and mistreatment by officers as they try to find the attacker.

The group said while they feel for law enforcement, gunfire in the neighborhood happens on a daily basis and they don’t see a similar police response.

“Just because you’re wearing a badge, it matters more? How do you think that makes us feel,” questioned protester Mayra Salinas
Police said they want to build relationships with residents in that neighborhood. ...MORE WITH VIDEOS

https://americansecuritytoday.com/chicago-manhunt-continues-atf-shooting-suspect-multi-video/

 

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Indiana Police Officer Shot, Killed in Line of Duty
The suspect in the shooting that left a Terre Haute police officer dead has now died, a Terre Haute TV station and the Associated Press are reporting.
Police, during a news conference tonight, confirmed the suspect’s death in a shootout with police at the apartment complex.

The suspect in the deadly shooting of a Terra Haute, Ind., police officer has been injured and is detained, Indiana State Police reported through its Twitter account.

The person who opened fire, shooting and killing an officer, was a suspect in a homicide at the Garden Quarter Apartment Complex, a city police spokesman said.

The suspect and officer have not been named.

FIRST REPORT

A Terre Haute, Ind., police officer has been killed in the line of duty in a shooting outside an apartment complex Friday evening.

The Indiana State Police are reporting, via the ISP Twitter feed, that the suspect is barricaded inside a residence at the Garden Quarter Apartment Complex ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/indiana-police-officer-shot-killed-line-duty-learn-video/

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Marshals Arrest 148 Fugitives in 10th Annual ‘Operation Justice’
Throughout the month of April, the U.S. Marshals Service honored and recognized victims of crime by conducting “Operation Justice 2018.”

The month-long enforcement initiative involved 16 law enforcement agencies from Maricopa and Pinal counties.
In order to have the greatest impact on victim crimes, the operation employed a systematic and sustained approach to target and arrest violent fugitives wanted for higher level felony crimes including Homicide, Robbery, Sexual Assault, Dangerous Drugs, and Aggravated Assault.

Operation Justice is one of many multi-agency fugitive apprehension programs coordinated by the U.S. Marshals Service through task force networks at the local level,” said David P. Gonzales, U.S. Marshal for the District of Arizona.

Law enforcement is more efficient and effective when we all work together. The goal is to make our communities safer by arresting dangerous career criminals who continue to commit serious crimes while on the run.” ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/m...gitives-10th-annual-operation-justice-videos/

 

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Women’s Bodies Found at Kidnapping Suspect’s Home ID’d
Authorities on Monday identified the three women whose bodies were found last week at the Springfield home of a man currently being held on kidnapping charges.

Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni’s office identified the women as Ernestine Ryans, 47, and America Lyden, 34, both of Springfield, and Kayla Escalante, 27, of Ludlow.

The women’s remains were found at 1333 Page Boulevard in Springfield, where Stewart R. Weldon, 40, had been living until his arrest on May 27. Weldon’s mother owns the home.

Ernestine Ryans’ brother, Anthony Ryans, said his sister moved from Hartford to Springfield earlier this year with her 12-year-old daughter and was reported missing on March 22. ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/womens-bodies-found-kidnapping-suspects-home-idd-multi-video/