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One year old dies from attack from Rottweiler

police605 — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:16:19 +0000

A one-year-old boy has died after a Rottweiler dog snatched him from the arms of another child at his grandparents’ home in Wakefield.

The youngster was found with serious injuries by paramedics and police officers who found him in the back yard of the house where he was spending the Christmas holidays.

Police said the toddler was being carried by a seven-year-old child to the kitchen door, which leads to the back yard where his grandparents’ pet dog was kept.

The seven-year-old intended to stroke the dog but after the door was opened, the dog snatched the one-year-old from the youngster and carried him into the yard.

Clearly distressed, the child then alerted his 16-year-old aunt, who was upstairs at the time.

The teenager attempted to recover the child but the dog would not let go of the child and she went back inside the house to call the emergency services, who arrived and took him to Pinderfields General Hospital.

Detective Superintendent Steve Payne, who is leading the investigation, said: “Clearly our thoughts go out to the family at this tragic time.

“The circumstances of the incident are still unfolding and we are speaking to the children that were present at the scene.

“What we know at this time is that the dog was a family pet, a two and a half year old female Rottweiller, which the family had owned for about six months.

“Although the dog lived in the yard of the premises, it had interacted with members of the family including children, and another dog and cat at the house, and had showed no previous signs of any aggression.

“Armed officers who the scene found the Rottweiller in an agitated state and clearly representing a potential danger to others, and a decision was made to destroy the animal.”

Rottweiler attacks are rare but when they do happen the injuries are significant, Chris Window from the Rottweiler Club said.

“All breeds of dogs are animals. They do revert to animal instincts. If a dog is confronted with a situation they are not used to, they can react unexpectedly,” he said.

He added: “If a dog is brought up in a household where there are no children you have got to be extra careful where children are present.”

2 People Arrested in Deaths of Six People Outside Seattle

police605 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:25:56 +0000

A man and a woman were arrested late Wednesday in connection with multiple homicides in a rural area outside Seattle, Washington, authorities said.
The bodies of six people, who appears to be three generations of one family were found Wednesday at a rural property in Carnation, about 21 miles east of Seattle, Washington.
A boy about age 3, a girl about 6, a woman in their 30s and a man and a woman in their 50s numbered among the victims found at the scene of the crime. Their names were not revealed, but they were “likely three generations” of one family, according to King County sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart, the Associated Press reported.
The cause of death was “most likely gunshots” although no autopsies have been done yet, Urquhart said. According to him, they were most likely killed late afternoon or early evening on Christmas Eve.
Their bodies were found in and around the house, a residential property in Carnation, Urquhart said. The house sits among a cluster of residences and is at the end of a long dirt road on the edge of woods.
A call to 911 was made from the house in the early evening on Christmas Eve, but the call interrupted after about 10 seconds, Urquhart said, according to the AP. He also said the bodies were found by a co-worker of one of the victims who had come to the house because one of the victims, who worked for the Postal Service, did not show up to work.
The arrested man and woman were identified as Michele Anderson, 29, and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe. They both were booked in the King County Jail late Wednesday for investigation of six counts of homicide.
Investigators have not determined a motive for the crimes yet. According to Urquhart, the two suspects are related to the victims.

The investigation is ongoing, Urquhart said. Sheriff’s Detective Bob Conner said earlier Wednesday that authorities were searching the area around the house for other possible victims, but he assured people living nearby there was no further danger.

A 29 year old man fatally shot by police

police605 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:13:30 +0000

Police: Man killed after battling officers

By: SARAH WILKINS – Staff Writer
Sergeant: Siaki Del Rio was armed during fight with authorities OCEANSIDE —- A 29-year-old parolee fatally shot by officers Saturday night wrestled with them and threatened to use a gun on the officers before they fired at him, police said Sunday.

Oceanside resident Siaki Ramon Del Rio died after police said he led officers on a brief car chase that ended when he crashed and struggled with three officers.

Sgt. Leonard Mata said Del Rio carried a loaded handgun at the time of the shooting that was later found in his clothes; Mata could not say Sunday night who found the gun. A passenger in the vehicle with Del Rio was not hurt, he said.

Court records show that Del Rio was involved in from four to eight prior criminal cases from 1996-2001; details were unavailable Sunday.

The pursuit began on Big Bend Way at about 6:29 p.m., after the officers attempted to stop a man, later identified as Del Rio, who they recognized as being wanted for a felony warrant, the sergeant said.

Del Rio, who Mata said was considered armed and dangerous, allegedly took off. Mata said a chase ensued for about four minutes and ended less than two miles away, when the suspect crashed into a shed and chain-link fence at a mobile home park in the 200 block of North El Camino Real.

Del Rio refused to comply with officers’ orders and resisted “violently” when they wrestled with him in an attempt to take him into custody near the vehicle, Mata said. In a news release, Mata said that Del Rio told the officers he had a gun and threatened to use it “as they struggled to gain control of him.”

Each of the officers fired their weapons; Del Rio was pronounced dead at the scene, the sergeant said.

One officer injured his shoulder during the confrontation, but he did not need to be hospitalized, Mata said. The other two officers were not hurt.

Police would not release the officers’ names Sunday. They are on regularly scheduled days off and have not returned to duty, he said.

Del Rio’s passenger was questioned and released, Mata said.

Several residents who live near where the shooting took place recalled police activity the night before. The area —- which is just north of Mission Avenue and is made up largely of mobile home communities for seniors and apartment complexes —- was quiet Sunday afternoon.

“Oh, I heard it. … It was loud,” George Chapman said of the gunfire and commotion. “I knew there was a chase. I knew something happened.”

Chapman said he heard from six to eight shots, some coming in rapid fire, and at first thought it was rival gunmen shooting at each other.

The shooting was the latest of several violent incidents reported in the area. According to police, a man was stabbed in the face on Fredricks Avenue in May after allegedly attempting to sexually assault a female acquaintance. A month earlier, a drive-by shooting in the same location left three people injured, while a shooting in March at Fireside Park left another man injured.

Del Rio is survived by his wife, Diana, an investigator for the county medical examiner’s office said. Efforts to contact Del Rio’s family were unsuccessful Sunday.

Contact staff writer Sarah Wilkins at (760) 740-3524 or swilkins@nctimes.com. Comment at nctimes.com.

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Criminal Escapes Without Warrant, Commits More Crimes

police605 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:06:58 +0000

Criminal Escapes Without Warrant, Commits More Crimes

By Meredith Mendez (ABC 26 News)

Thursday, November 08 2007

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Pearl River Police Chief Bennie Raynor says his detectives did everything by the book, but, according to other police agencies, taking a week to get an arrest warrant like this signed is far from normal; in fact it usually happens within just hours.

Pearl River resident Trina Smith responded to the news with this statement, “That shocks me.” There was no public announcement that someone escaped from the Pearl River Jail and neighbors around town say that’s information they needed to know, “I don’t see why they wouldn’t. It actually kind of makes me mad.”

On October 29th, Dennis Smith, who also goes by the alias Dennis Dickerson, walked away from the back area of the Pearl River jail where he was working as a trustee. Smith was being held in jail on misdemeanor traffic charges according to Police Chief Bennie Raynor, “Around five o-clock we usually lock them back down and I guess he decided he was going to leave before then.”

Normally, police would immediately get an arrest warrant signed so Smith would go on the NCIC computer system, which would have alerted all law enforcement around the country to be on the lookout for Smith. However, when we asked Police Chief Raynor when the warrant was issued, he had several different answers, “We had the warrant signed that night, that evening.”

After several moments he said, “I don’t want to say it was signed that evening because we looked for him that evening and couldn’t find him and it probably wasn’t signed until that previous morning.” And then after looking on his computer files, Raynor said, “And on November 5th, Detective White issued a warrant for the arrest of Dennis Smith for simple escape.”

That means, for seven days, Smith was on the loose, without anyone outside of Pearl River looking for him. In the days after his escape, sources say Smith traveled to Mississippi, kidnapped a woman, brought her back across state lines into Louisiana, raped her and then left her severely beaten here along Interstate 59.

Later that night, just down the interstate, investigators tell us Smith robbed a 58-year old man at knifepoint after the man helped Smith get gas for his truck.

Detectives say both were felony crimes. When we asked Raynor if the warrant had been signed immediately and Smith’s name had been put in the NCIC computer and agencies all around were on the lookout for the wanted criminal if he might have been picked up quicker, Raynor responded, “Yes, ma’am, he may have, I don’t know, yes ma’am.”

It’s a question that Pearl River neighbors want answered as well according to Smith, “If he escaped, why didn’t everybody know that. They do it from St. Tammany Parish Jail, if somebody escapes, it’s on the news, it’s in the paper, they let people know to be on the lookout.”

Raynor said, “This is not a common practice that we wait for two or three days before we get a warrant signed, as soon as we’re able to get one signed, we get it signed, I promise you, you can ask anyone of my policemen, they love to arrest people.”

Early this morning, in Mississippi, Jones County Sheriff’s Deputies finally did catch up to Smith, arresting him at his mother’s home. Smith is currently behind bars in Mississippi until investigators figure out just where he will face criminal charges first.

Trooper kills man on I-5

police605 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:28:02 +0000

Trooper kills man on I-5

By Pamela Sitt

Seattle Times staff reporter

A state trooper shot and killed a 27-year-old Olympia man who had gotten out of a car on an Interstate 5 onramp, taken off his clothes, run around in traffic, and struggled with the trooper Tuesday afternoon, police said.

The man, whose name was not released, died at the scene, said Trooper Cliff Pratt.

The trooper was not injured in the incident, which occurred near Federal Way. The State Patrol has asked the Federal Way Police Department to conduct the investigation.

Several people called 911 around 2:30 p.m. to report that a man had jumped out of a moving car near the onramp at South 320th Street and was “doing everything from taking his clothes off to running down the ramp and striking cars with his belt as they drove by,” said Trooper Cliff Pratt, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol. “Once he made it onto I-5, he was laying down in traffic and running back and forth, trying to cause collisions.”

It took about 15 minutes for the State Patrol to arrive, Pratt said. The man tried to choke the trooper, and hit him repeatedly, possibly with his belt, Pratt said.

The scuffle continued after the trooper used his Taser on the suspect, Pratt said, and the trooper shot him.

The trooper, whose name was not released Tuesday, has been with the State Patrol for 11 years. He has been placed on standard administrative leave, the Federal Way Department said.

Detectives are interviewing the female driver and two juvenile passengers who had been in the car with the man.

“They, as well, had been calling 911,” said Stacy Flores, spokeswoman for the Federal Way department. “We don’t know the relationship between them.”

Passengers on a stopped bus witnessed the incident, Flores said.

Pamela Sitt: 206-464-2376 or psitt@seattletimes.com

Man brutally murders his wife

police605 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:20:54 +0000

Police arriving at the home of a retired British school teacher to tell her that her husband was critically injured in a car crash instead stumbled on a gruesome find — the woman’s battered corpse stuffed among the presents under the couple’s Christmas tree.

Police in West Sussex, England, say Roger Goswell, 66, rammed his car into a tree just two miles from their home, after bludgeoning his wife, Susan, 61, and crudely trying to hide her body beneath the tree, the Daily Mail newspaper reported. Roger Goswell later died at the hospital.

Click here to read the full article in the Daily Mail of London.

Police forced their way into the home when no one answered the door despite a parked car in the driveway.

A spokesman for the West Sussex Police would not confirm the couple’s name, but told the Daily Mail, “a murder inquiry has been launched.”

A man admitted he beat his girlfriend’s 2 year old son

police605 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:19:55 +0000

EASTON, Pa. — A man who admitted he beat his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son offered an excuse that angered a judge: He said he’s not a morning person.Juan Arreola, 20, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts each of endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment and simple assault. Prosecutors said while moving into a new apartment with his girlfriend on June 7, Arreola kicked her son out of the way, then squeezed the toddler’s face.While looking after the boy three days later, he punched the boy twice, prosecutors said. Arreola’s girlfriend brought the child to a hospital later that day, where he was diagnosed with bleeding around the brain. Photos show the boy with severe bruising on his face and back.

When Northampton County Judge F.P. Kimberly McFadden asked Arreola Friday if that’s how he regularly treated 2-year-olds, he replied: “I was working till midnight. I’m not a morning person.”

McFadden said she was almost speechless.

“You’re going to look at me straight in the face and say ‘I’m not a morning person,’?” she asked.

The judge ordered Arreola to undergo psychological and psychiatric evaluations and set sentencing for Dec. 14. The maximum penalty is a state prison term of more than 20 years.

Woman charged with slashing death of 6 year olld son

police605 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:07:28 +0000

DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A woman armed with a 13-inch kitchen knife killed her 6-year-old son by slashing his throat early Saturday, then turned the weapon on herself, Gloucester County authorities said.

It was not immediately clear what spurred Martina Harding, 42, to attack her son inside their Deptford Township home, authorities said. Harding’s husband — who authorities say witnessed at least part of the attack — and the couple’s 9-year-old daughter were also home at the time but were not injured.

Martina Harding underwent surgery for a throat wound at Cooper Medical Center in Camden and was expected to recover from her injuries. She was charged Saturday night with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, child endangerment and weapons offenses.

When police arrived at the home around 7:30 a.m., they found Harding’s son, Jared, bleeding profusely in the living room. He was taken to Underwood-Memorial Hospital in Woodbury, where he died a short time later.

Neither police nor the state Division of Youth and Family Services — which will launch an investigation due to the boy’s death — had been called to the home in the past.

Va. man dies after being arrrested

police605 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:50:22 +0000

Va. man dies after being arrested

Patrick County Sheriff Garry Brown said a state trooper answered the call and was the first on the scene.

The trooper located the person — later identified as Robert Leonard Hall, 58. Carpentieri said that Hall, when confronted, reportedly stepped into the roadway and pulled his pants down.

When the officer attempted to arrest Hall, Carpentieri said, Hall resisted. A passing motorist stopped and helped the trooper handcuff the subject, he said.

According to Carpentieri, the trooper and the motorist noticed that Hall’s arm was turning blue and Hall reportedly went into cardiac arrest not long afterward. The trooper performed CPR on Hall and called for the rescue squad.

Hall was taken to R.J. Reynolds Patrick County Memorial Hospital in Stuart and was pronounced dead later in the day, Carpentieri said

The officer’s name is not being released and Carpentieri said he did not know the name of the driver who stopped to assist the officer. Brown said the driver was from Patrick County.

Brown also said the sheriff’s office had dealings with Hall in the past, but would not comment on the circumstances.

The incident is being investigated by the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation.