Cuff 'N Stuff
The Internal Newsletter of the Wise County Sheriff's
Department
02-25-00
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Cuff 'N Stuff 02-25-00 |
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Dumb Crooks A dyed-in-the-wool robber It wasn't hard to figure out who robbed the Universal 1 Credit Union in Dayton, Ohio. It was the man who showed up for work with red dye stains on his stomach, shirt and jacket - the same man who drove the black pickup truck as the get-away vehicle that could be traced to him. Mark Anthony Brown was arrested where he works at the Goodyear Service Center a few hours after the robbery of the credit union at the Dayton Mall. After showing a gun to a teller around 2:50 p.m., the robber stuffed the cash - including an about to explode dye pack - inside his shirt, FBI Special Agent Michael Bush said. Brown also led police to a stolen .40-caliber handgun and more money from the robbery in a room safe at a Dayton motel, authorities said. Got weed? Coolidge, Arizona. Just a couple of weeks ago, an officer stopped a juvenile in violation of our curfew law. The juvenile was carrying a boom box-type stereo. Hand-written on the top of the boom box, mocking the familiar milk commercial, were the words "Got weed?" The Officer, reading the words out loud, said "got weed?" The juvenile replied "yeah" and proceeded to pull a dime bag from his pants pocket. Felon applies for job as corrections officer On February 2, 2000, Jefferson County deputy sheriff's captured a fugitive from Bartholomew County, Indiana. The suspect was wanted for non-support of a dependant child, a C-felony and ended up with a $180,000 bond. The deputies arrested the suspect at his home without incident, although he was absolutely dumbfounded on how they found him. It turns out that the 47 year-old male suspect had decided to change careers and was trying to get hired at a state prison as a corrections officer. After conducting a routine criminal background check, the prison officials found that he was wanted according to a NCIC hit and then notified the sheriff's Warrant Division. The deputies didn't have the heart to tell him his prospective employer gave him up.
Legal Issues - Search and Seizure HOT PURSUIT JUSTIFIED WARRANTLESS ARREST IN SUSPECT’S RESIDENCE. A man called the police to report that several people were “acting disorderly” and driving a moped around in the parking lot of the apartment complex where the complainant lived. An officer responding to the call saw the defendant driving a moped with no license plate light, and the defendant was not wearing a helmet. The officer asked the defendant, who was intoxicated, to stop. When the defendant got off the moped, he let it go and it fell against a parked car. The officer ordered the defendant to stop, but the man ran toward an apartment. The officer chased the suspect, who ran into an apartment. While the officer did not see which apartment the man had entered, the complainant told the officer it was apartment 34. When the officer knocked on the door of the apartment, a woman answered and let the officer in. Once inside, the officer found the defendant lying on a bed and arrested him for evading arrest. Subsequently, he was charged with DWI. The defendant claimed that the officer’s warrantless arrest violated the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, that there was no exigency excusing a warrant, and that the officer was not in “hot pursuit” because he was not in continuous and immediate pursuit. At his suppression hearing, the defendant testified that he had pulled the moped into his apartment complex, got off, and went into an apartment. He denied hearing the officer order him to stop, or running into the apartment. He also denied that the moped fell over onto a parked car. HOLDING: Article 14.05 of the Code of Criminal Procedure prohibits an officer from entering a residence to arrest the resident without a warrant in the absence of consent or exigent circumstances. Whether pursuit into a residence to make a warrantless arrest is reasonable is determined by the seriousness of the offense and whether the pursuit was continuous and immediate. Evading arrest has been held to be a sufficiently serious offense to create an exigency justifying warrantless entry into a home. The defendant in this case did not dispute this point. The defendant did contend, however, that when the officer pulled his patrol car into a side street, backed up, and then proceeded, he was not in hot pursuit. Further, the officer lost sight of the defendant after the man began to run toward his apartment. No requirement exists in Texas‘ hot pursuit law that an officer must have continuous and uninterrupted visual contact with a suspect. If, for example, a person being chased turns a corner and is briefly out of the view of a pursuing officer, there is still hot pursuit if the chase is immediate and continuous. A person who runs into a residence may be followed by the officer, even if the officer does not see him enter the residence. “As long as the police are in the process of chasing the offender for the purpose of apprehending him for a serious crime, they may enter the residence under Article 14.05.” If an officer pursues a person from a public place in which he is attempting lawfully to arrest the person, the “hot pursuit” is not defeated merely by the suspect escaping into a private place. Here, the defendant began to evade arrest in the parking lot. The officer pursued him, immediately and continuously, into the apartment. Consequently, the arrest was lawful. LaHaye v State, 1 S.W.3d 149 (Tx. App. – Texarkana 1999).
From the Chaplain - Marilyn Featherstone LIFE: THE RULES
What We've Learned We’ve learned that you can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you’d better know something.. We’ve learned that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do, But to do the best you can do. We’ve learned that it’s not what happens to people that’s important, It’s what they do about it. We’ve learned that you can do something in an instant, That will give you a headache for life. We’ve learned that no matter how thin you slice it, There are always two sides. We’ve learned that it’s taking us a long time to become the persons we want to be. We’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. We’ve learned that you can keep going, Long after you think you can. We’ve learned that either you control your attitude, Or it controls you. We’ve learned that sometimes when we are angry, we have the right to be angry, But that doesn’t give us the right to be cruel. We’ve learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, But we are responsible for who we become. We’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, And only seconds to destroy it. We’ve learned that credentials on the wall, Do not make you a decent human being. Reprinted from the JUSTICE JOURNAL
Bulletin Steel Dart Ammunition Cartridges The Ottawa, Kansas, Police Department seized several modified 22LR ammunition cartridges that did not have the lead projectile in place. A steel dart inside a plastic sleeve was inserted instead. All normal powder from the 22 round and primer were still intact These darts easily penetrated a standard level II bullet-resistant vest. The pointed steel dart went through the vest and approximately 1 inch further into a 2 by 4 inch wooden board behind the vest. The accuracy between rounds varied greatly. Although these rounds do not function in all firearms because of the length of the overall modified shell, they still pose a serious threat to law enforcement officers. |
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