Showing posts with label Sheriff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sheriff. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2012

Suspect in custody in Ohio high school shooting -Video

A gunman opened fire inside a high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, wounding five students, officials said. A suspect was in custody.
FBI agent Scott Wilson said there was one suspected shooter. He wouldn't discuss the extent of the students' injuries. The Geauga County Sheriff's Office told CBS News that the suspect turned himself in after being chased out of the school by a teacher.
The sheriff's office also identified the victims as four male students and one female student.
Earlier, Civil Deputy Erin Knife of the sheriff's office said the shooting was reported around 7:30 a.m. at the

1,100-student Chardon High School about 30 miles east of Cleveland.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Judge Weighs If Casey Anthony Should Pay $500G Tab

Casey Anthony's attorney said Friday that Florida authorities are trying to recoup the money spent investigating her 2-year-old daughter's disappearance only because of "sour grapes" over the woman's acquittal on a murder charge.


Judge Belvin Perry said after hearing arguments on the issue that he would not issue a ruling until at least Sept.





22. He could extend that date but said he hopes to rule by then.


Anthony was acquitted in July on charges of murdering her daughter, Caylee. But the 25-year-old was convicted of four counts of lying to authorities. She told officers a baby sitter had the child. Authorities later learned the baby sitter never existed, but the investigation drained manpower.


Anthony has appealed her convictions.


Several agencies, including the sheriff's office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement, filed expenses of more than $517,000.


Anthony was not in court Friday and is serving probation in an undisclosed location in Florida. After the hearing, defense attorney Cheney Mason said she was progressing well.


"She's fine," Mason said as he walked out of the courthouse. "She's getting help and she's being taken care of and protected. That's all I can tell you."


Asked about Anthony's financial outlook, Mason said that it is unchanged.


"I know of no deals with anybody and of nobody making any money," Mason said. "Casey has no money. She's indigent -- period. So why are we doing this? Why are we wasting more and more taxpayers' money chasing a ghost?"


Mason called the state's attempt to make his client pay such high investigative costs unfair.


"What you have in essence is the state claiming 100 percent of the costs for a case they lost. ... That to me has nothing to do with justice. It has to do with sour grapes," he said.


Prosecutors spent the morning calling a handful of witnesses representing the four agencies seeking reimbursement. State attorney Linda Drane Burdick said though the totals seem high, all the costs arose from four lies Anthony was convicted of telling. -- The sheriff's office has asked for $293,123; the state attorney's office has asked for $141,362; the FDLE is seeking $71,939; and the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation is asking for $10,362.


She said it was unfair for taxpayers to cover those costs.


"But for Mrs. Anthony's lying at the beginning of this case, there would no investigative costs," Drane Burdick said. "... It would not have occurred if Mrs. Anthony had it in her to tell the truth."


The state is not seeking to get back money spent helping Anthony's defense or the money spent to sequester the jury during trial.


Anthony's lead defense attorney, Jose Baez, was not in court Friday.


Instead, Mason attacked the state's assertions, saying it was trying recoup all of its costs for the investigation and not just those related to what prosecutors say were Anthony's lies.


Mason pointed to dates well after the October 2008 murder indictment and December 2008 discovery of Caylee Anthony's remains that were included in the agency tallies. He also argued against court reporter invoices that didn't take place until 2010 and 2011, well after the investigative phase of the case.


"I think it's time (Florida state attorney) Lawson Lamar's office accepts the fact they lost this case," Mason said.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Gladwin native, Deputy in Wyoming, dies attempting rescue

Relatives tell 9 and 10 news that the body of a deputy sheriff in Wyoming, originally from Gladwin County has been recovered.
The search for 29 year old Bryan Gross had been going on for three days in Converse County, Wyoming.
He was part of a search crew looking for a 14 year old girl who was reported struggling in the waters of the North Platte River in Converse County. 
She was rescued and hospitalized, but when officers counted their own afterward, Gross was missing. 
Since then the search has been on, but 9 and 10 news has learned that the body of the Gladwin High School graduate was found today. 
Gross reportedly joined the department in Converse county three or four months ago and was recently married. He was 29. 
He has several cousins who work in law enforcement in Roscommon County. 

Monday, March 14, 2011

2 deputies slain, 2 wounded in small Va. town

A small southwestern Virginia community is again dealing with a deadly shooting rampage that this time killed two deputies and wounded two more before the suspect who may have been trying to rob a salvage yard was fatally shot by police.
Buchanan County deputies investigating at Roger's Service Center in Vansant on Sunday afternoon were met by gunfire from long range, Virginia State Police said. Two were hit and died at the scene. Two others who arrived also were shot, said State Police Sgt. Steve Lowe.One deputy has life-threatening injuries and the other was in serious condition, state police said. No names were released late Sunday.
Christina Stiltner lives across the street from the salvage yard in the southwestern Virginia area and had just walked into her home with her 10-year-old son when she heard "pow, pow, pow."
She opened her front door and saw one deputy run into a neighbor's yard. She heard another "pow" and the deputy went down. He was one of the injured, she said.
"It scares you so much," she said. "I sat there thinking 'what's the number to 911'? It shocked me so badly, I didn't know the number to 911."
Residents said such violence is rare in the rural area of about 1,000 people, though in January 2002, a student opened fire on the Appalachian School of Law campus in Grundy just down the road from Vansant after learning he had flunked out of school.
The school's dean, a professor and a student were killed in the attack. Three other students were wounded. The shooter, Peter Odighizuwa, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
"This is a laid-back community. Everybody knows everybody," said Tivis O'Quinn, 68, who has lived in Vansant for 40 years and operates a business less than a mile from the salvage yard. "Nothing like this ever takes place, except for the law school shooting."
Police did not release what sort of weapon was used, but Lowe said the suspect shot from long range. The owner of the salvage yard told police his business was being robbed and he had blocked the suspect's vehicle with his own.
After the shooting, the search was on for the suspect. State police and other officers found him about two hours later and after "some sort of engagement" they shot and killed him, Lowe said.
"I'm not sure what the confrontation was when they encountered him," Lowe said. "Apparently he was identified as the right person."
Lowe said he didn't know if the man fired on police, or if he was armed at the time.
Stiltner said she knew all the deputies involved in the attack because they would often stop by the gas station and restaurant where she works.
Stiltner said she wasn't allowed to return to her home seven hours after the shootings ended. Several other residents were out of their homes late Sunday.
Vansant is a former coal mining town in the mountainous region of southwestern Virginia. O'Quinn said the community experiences "little petty thefts now and then," but nothing like what occurred Sunday.
On display in O'Quinn's office was a 2011 calendar of the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department. The photo features the department's 47 members, including Foster and 24 uniformed deputies.
Buchanan County Sheriff Ray Foster called the shooting "one of a kind" for his department but declined to say anymore.
According to the website The Officer Down Memorial Page, the last Buchanan County sheriff to die in the line of duty was in 1975 of a heart attack. The website lists four on-duty deaths for the department since 1905. The last by gunfire was in 1964.