On Thursday, April 18, 2013 the FBI has released photos and videos of the 2 suspects that may be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. Please visit the official FBI website to see of you can help with the investigation. Use extreme caution if you see these men as they should be considered armed and dangerous. Do not try to apprehend them on your own. Contact your local law enforcement or the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), prompt #3, with information. All media inquiries should be directed to the FBI’s National Press Office at (202) 324-3691.
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013‘Piggyback Bandit’ Strikes Teenage Victims
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Everyone is familiar with party crashers, but have you ever heard of anyone crashing high school sporting events just to get a piggyback ride?
A stocky man shows up in a basketball uniform for a game at Century High School in North Dakota. No one objects because the players and coaches assume he is a fan who had come with another team.
“He helped lay out uniforms, got water. He even gave a couple of kids shoulder massages. Creepy stuff like that,” said Jim Haussler - activities director for the Bismarck Public School District. Creepy is good word to describe this behavior, but it gets weirder.
When the game was over, the hefty man hung out with the winning team on the court and asked if he could get a piggyback ride. One player was caught off guard but gave him one.
“He makes himself appear as if he’s limited or handicapped. I think he plays an empathy card, so to speak,” Haussler said. “We didn’t realize what we were dealing with until several days later.”
They later learned that on that Feb. 4 evening, they had come in contact with the Piggyback Bandit. Sherwin Shayegan of Bothell, Wash., is a 28-year-old man who ingratiates himself with high school sports teams. He then hoists his hefty 5-foot-8, 240-pound frame onto the backs of the student athletes.
Shayegan’s strange acts reach back to 2008 and had been mainly confined to Washington and Oregon. Since last fall, he has taken his strange act east to Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, leaving a trail of befuddled athletes in his wake.
Shayegan favors basketball games, but he also sprung himself onto hockey, soccer and football players. This guy either asks for piggyback rides, offers to pay for them or sometimes just springs himself onto some poor, unsuspecting player’s back.
Shayegan has also used the guise of pretending to interview athletes for a term paper, acting as a team manager or simply blending in with the group to get his piggyback thrills.
No one has been able to determine why he does these strange things or who coined the “Piggyback Bandit” nickname.
Shayegan, contacted on his cellphone Tuesday, politely declined to talk about the piggyback rides until he could talk to an attorney. “I’d prefer not to comment, if that’s OK,” he said.
Shayegan has a lengthy criminal rapsheet in Washington as well as nine outstanding warrants in one town in that state. His piggyback games caused him to be banned from high school sporting events in Washington, Oregon, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota.
In October, Shayegan was arrested in Helena, Mont., for jumping on two high school soccer players during a state tournament.
Mark Beckman, executive director of the Montana High School Sports Association said, “What’s disturbing to me is that he is jumping on our young athletes, he is 240 pounds, and he can hurt someone.”
Shayegan pleaded guilty on Feb. 1 to two misdemeanor assault charges. He was fined $730, given a 360-day suspended prison sentence and told not to go to any more Montana high school events. “Go back to Seattle and behave,” Judge Bob Wood told him.
None of this stopped Shayegan. Three days later, he attended the Bismarck basketball game and received another piggyback ride. He also scored another piggyback ride from a hockey player after the game on that same day.
Surveillance video shows Shayegan dressed in a basketball uniform and hanging out with students in the hallway of the Century High School in North Dakota. This one-day spree caused him to be banned from sporting events by the North Dakota High School Activities Association.
Again, Shayegan was not deterred. He took his act to Minnesota that same week and appeared at three basketball games. He even attended one college game. At that Feb. 8 game, Shayegan sat near the St. Olaf bench. As in the Bismark game, everyone assumed he had come with the other team. (more…)
Alleged iPad-Swiping TSA Agent at DFW Airport Arrested
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012This case is part of a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees.
TSA Agent Clayton Keith Dovel was arrested last week on suspicion of stealing numerous iPads from passenger’s luggage at DFW’s airport.
Apparently, Dovel was lifting the iPads from his position where he screened passenger’s checked luggage by hand.
Dovel was caught because one of the theft victims had downloaded the “Find My iPhone” app onto her iPad. She was able to track her stolen iPad directly to Dovel’s house. Police found at least seven iPads at Dovel’s residence.
TSA placed Dovel on leave until officials can sort out the situation.
I would think installing video surveillance in the area where luggage is checked would be enough to discourage pilfering by TSA employees, who I am sure are usually honest hard working individuals.
Video surveillance is used in the screening area at John F. Kennedy International Airport and the video recently helped catch a TSA agent who stole $5,000 from a passenger’s jacket. Surveillance video showed TSA agent Alexandra Schmid taking the money from a jacket pocket, wrapping the cash in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom.
The money hasn’t been recovered. Police are investigating whether Schmid gave it to another person in the bathroom.
The 31-year-old Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny and suspended pending an investigation. Her attorney’s name wasn’t immediately known.
It is best to never check items of value in your luggage and to check for your valuables after they have gone through the passenger screening area. If you must check your computers, there are software programs for Macs and PCs that will track your computer should it be lost or stolen.
Scam – Woman Accused of Selling Fake Facebook Stock
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
While most of us learned of Facebook’s planned initial public offering on Wednesday. Marianne A. Oleson of Oshkosh, Wis., has been allegedly selling shares in the popular social networking site since 2011. Now the police have arrested her for fraud and theft.
Prosecutors said Marianne Oleson told acquaintances she obtained $1 million in stock because her daughter was an acquaintance of Facebook’s founder and persuaded several people to buy fictitious Facebook stock.
While some of us would be skeptical, or at least watch The Social Network to fact check the assertion, Oleson reportedly found at least four people willing to believe her.
The complaint against Oleson said one of the people to whom she was accused of selling fake stock was a contractor who did work at her house in September. Oleson paid the contractor for the work with $13,980 worth of fake Facebook stock.
The same contractor also paid $10,000 in cash to the woman for additional stock. He says he grew suspicious when he found she lied about her name and various irregularities on documents that referred to the transaction. (more…)
Atlanta Teens Break into CNN Newsroom to Check Facebook Pages
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Two Atlanta teens apparently couldn’t find an available computer or an open Internet Cafe at 3:30 a.m. They desperately wanted to check their Facebook Pages. Well, the obvious solution came to mind – break into the CNN Headquarters. Surely they will have computers. Yea, that’s a good idea.
Last week, two teenagers were arrested on the fifth floor of the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. They had allegedly broken into the building and were in the process of checking their Facebook pages when they were caught.
Aldayne Fearon, 18, and Francis Mutemwa, 17 scaled a wall and gained access to CNN’s fifth floor newsroom. This occurred after they drove to the Omni Hotel in Mutemwa’s mother’s red Mercedes.
I am sure their parents won’t “like” this situation.
The two were discovered at approximately 3:30 a.m. Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said that officers from the Zone 5 precinct — which is also located in the CNN Center — were contacted by CNN security who reported there was ‘someone in their secure area newsroom.’
Jones, who said that the teens initially refused to give their names, but later identified themselves, confirmed that Mutemwa and Fearon were, indeed, engaged on the popular social media site. They were working on two computers which were not password protected. At the time of their arrest, they were checking their Facebook pages on those computers.
Each was charged with criminal trespassing.
I would have to assume that Facebook will close their accounts and the two will have to get by without getting their Facebook fixes.
Would-Be Robber Uses Staph Infection as Weapon
Friday, January 20th, 2012This story definitely qualifies as a “News of the Weird” story. It sounds like a comedy act rather than something that someone would actually do.
A man apparently thought the threat of an infectious disease would be enough to get a cashier to cough up cash Monday night at a Sharon Internet sweepstakes cafe. “Give me the money or I’ll touch you” was essentially the threat.
Fred L. Parker, 41, was charged with robbery and making terrorist threats for walking into Lucky’s Internet Cafe and starting to touch the walls and machines, claiming he had a staph infection.
Police Chief Mike Menster said Parker then approached the cashier and demanded money. Parker told the clerk if he didn’t cooperate, he’d touch him and infect him with the antibiotic-resistant MRSA staph infection.
“It’s our first case of robbery by threat of an infectious disease,” Menster said. I am sure it is. I don’t even think some of the bigger cities with high crime rates have ever heard this one.
Parker also gave the cashier a note identifying himself as an “officer with the U.S. gambling commission,” Menster said.
Parker told the cashier he had a deadly and highly contagious disease and offered to walk away if the cashier gave him money, police said. The cashier refused to cough up the money and Parker uneventfully left the cafe.
Customers and the cashier gave police a detailed description of Parker and he was arrested without incident a short time later at Rite Aid. Maybe he was getting medicine for his symptoms. I doubt this guy has an infection, but if he doesn’t, he may be wishing he did. He might have a better chance of beating an infection than the charges he now faces.
Parker is being held in Mercer County Jail after failing to post bond. He is awaiting a preliminary hearing set for Feb. 1.
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Seven Teens Charged in Beating – Posted to YouTube
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Seven teens were charged early Wednesday in the attack and robbery of another teen. The attack was caught on tape and posted to YouTube.
The attack occurred on Chicago’s southside in an alley in the 2700 block of South Shields on Sunday at around 4:00 p.m.
Because of his age, Raymond Palomino, 17, was the only person in the group charged as an adult, with robbery and aggravated battery. The other six attackers are two 16-year-old boys, three 15-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl. They were all charged as juveniles and also charged with one count of robbery and one count of aggravated battery. Their names and pictures were not released due to their ages.
Allegedly, the girl is the one who shot the video of the attack that was then posted to YouTube. The video shows five males kicking and punching the victim while ridiculing him with racial slurs. Eventually, the victim was able to run away, was taken to a local hospital, treated, and released.
After the video went viral, friends and relatives recognized Raymond — the only attacker not wearing a ski mask — and called his father, who then called the cops on his son.
Stolen from the victim were a pair of gym shoes, a wallet and cash.
Although the victim is of Asian descent according to The Associated Press, and racial slurs can be heard on the video, the police say the crime does not appear to have been racially motivated. (more…)
Hand in the Cookie Jar: Girl Scout Official Steals Over $311,000
Friday, January 13th, 2012Talk about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
Former finance director of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, Yaasmin Hooey, 35, admitted on Tuesday to stealing more than $300,000 from the organization.
That money could buy a lot of cookies! However, Hooey wasn’t spending the money on cookies. Instead, she was leading a lavish lifestyle. According to the District Attorney’s Office, Hooey spent the stolen money on cruises, cosmetic laser procedures and a $13,000 diamond ring. She also spent $18,000 in bars and restaurants. That’s a lot of food and drink even by upscale restaurant standards. She is going to miss those yummy meals in prison.
Ms. Hooey plead guilty to second-degree grand larceny and admitted stealing $311,568 between September 2008 and December 2010. According to Assistant District Attorney Lauren Littman, “She began stealing from the non-profit as soon as she began working for them.” (more…)
Man Caught and Jailed After Facebooking a Store Burglary
Thursday, December 29th, 2011I am always shocked at how much personal information people are willing to share on their social sites, but seriously, this is definitely a case of TMI (too much information).
An 18-year-old Pittsburgh man is accused of burglarizing a local market with three teens. They were discovered after the teen posted pictures on his Facebook page showing the suspects displaying some of the loot.
Isaiah Cutler, the only adult suspect, has been in jail since Friday in the Dec. 12 burglary.
Authorities report that 17-year old Cutler, along with two 14-year-olds, stole more than $8,000 worth of cash, cigarettes, candy, and checks from the business. About an hour later, Cutler posted pictures of the teens posing with what they stole on his Facebook page, police said.
Well, I guess they’re just stupid kids,” Detective Valerie Milie said Monday. “They thought they could put (the pictures) out there for their friends who friended them on Facebook to see. But the one kid had 200 friends, but not only were they friends, some of them were relatives who became concerned and called police.”
Police were already tracking down the teens based on the Facebook photos and the surveillance video from the store by the time the parents determined what happened, Milie said.
“The kids came home with shopping bags full of new Michael Jordan tennis shoes and clothes, and (the parents) said, `Where did you get the money?”‘ to buy such things, Milie said.
The younger suspects have been charged in juvenile court and have been released to their parents.
Cutler was scheduled to be in court yesterday on charges of theft, burglary and conspiracy.
Sources: MSNBC, CBS News
