Missing Person Derek Woodston Buford of Grayson

Derek Woodston Buford, of Grayson, has been missing since Thursday morning. The public’s help is sought in helping locate him.

The family of Derek Woodston Buford, 42, of Grayson is desperate for word on the whereabouts of their missing family member. He never reported to his place of work, Southeastern Builders Supply, 1186 Clark St., Covington, on Thursday morning and has not been seen since.

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Sgt. Rich Long, of the Gwinnett County Police Department, confirmed that a missing person’s case has been opened for Buford and his name and information has been entered in the National Crime Information Center.

Anyone with information or who has seen Buford or his vehicle is asked to call 911 or the Gwinnett County Police Department at 770-513-5000.

Buford description is as follows:

White male
Age: 42
Height: 5’11”

Weight: About 250 to 275 pounds
Short Dark Brown hair
Driving a Silver 2005 Mazda Tribute
Tag # BZK 0784
Atlanta Thrashers car tag on the back of the vehicle

According to his family, Buford requires daily medication for a heart condition. He left without this medication. It is believed he was on his way to work Thursday morning and never made it. The following are routes he possibly would have taken. Family members have scoured these routes without success since Buford’s disappearance.

Possible Routes to work:
1. Hwy 84 to Hwy 78 towards Loganville
Right on Hwy 81 to Covington

2. Hwy 84 to Hwy 78 towards Loganville
Right onto Rosebud Rd
Rosebud turns into Miller Bottom Road turns into Dial Mill Rd
Right onto Gum Creek Rd
Right onto Hwy 81 in Oxford to Covington

3. Hwy 84 to Hwy 78
Right onto Rosebud Rd
Right onto GA-20
Left onto GA-20
Left onto Sigman Rd
Right onto Hwy 138
To Interstate 20 towards Covington to Exit 90

4. Hwy 84 to Hwy 78 towards Loganville
Right onto Rosebud Rd
Rosebud turns into Miller Bottom Rd.
Right onto Hwy 138 to Interstate 20 towards Covington

Buford’s family would appreciate any information or assistance in the search. .

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Identity Theft San Jose Real Estate Agent Convicted

SAN LEANDRO — A South Bay real estate agent has been found guilty of charges including theft and forgery for using a San Leandro man’s identity to purchase a home without his permission, prosecutors said Thursday.

Julissa Gill, 34, was convicted Wednesday by a Santa Clara County Superior Court jury of eight felony counts of grand theft, forgery, identity theft and recording false documents for using the identity of Jose Valdez of San Leandro, said David Lim, a deputy district attorney with the Real Estate Fraud Unit.

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Gill, of San Jose, is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 17. She faces up to seven years and four months in prison.

Jurors took less than three hours to return guilty verdicts on all eight counts, Gill said.

The jury determined that in January 2007, Gill used the name, birth date and Social Security number of Valdez to purchase a house on Curtner Avenue in San Jose for Eddy Niquen and his family without the permission of Valdez. Niquen wasn’t aware of the forged ID, authorities said.

Gill, who at the time worked for Century 21 Su Casa in San Jose, also induced other participants to forge the signature of Valdez on the loan documents needed to secure the purchase of the house, authorities said.

Valdez learned of the crime in March 2007 when he attempted to buy a house and found out his name had been used without his permission. Niquen also ultimately ended up losing the house on Curtner Avenue when he was
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unable to afford the loan payments set up by Gill.

“The theft of an individual’s identity for any purpose is disgraceful, but in this case the crime was especially awful because the result was the loss of a home for Mr. Niquen and his family as well as the hardships faced by Mr. Valdez in having to clean up his credit scores,” Lim said.

Gill was remanded into custody by Judge Jacqueline Arroyo immediately after the verdicts were announced.

She is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

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Wrongful Death Jay Stone Found Dead in Apartment

A missing-persons case has turned into a homicide investigation in Orange County.

Orange County deputies following up on a missing-person call discovered the body of Jay Stone, 25, in his apartment in the Vizcaya Lakes Apartments just off Colonial Drive near Ocoee.

Stone’s parents had said they hadn’t heard from him in three days, and that he’d failed to show up for work, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

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One of Stone’s credit cards has been used recently, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies are on the lookout for Stone’s vehicle, a red 1995 Chevy TrailBlazer with Florida license plate C371LD, which is missing.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Crimeline.

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Electronic Surveillance US Tests Surveillance Balloons

ROMA, Texas — Floating 2,500-feet above U.S. ranchland near the Mexico border, the high-tech cameras onboard a balloon being used by the Border Patrol can easily see a cluster of reporters and the make, model and color of their vehicles a couple of miles away.

In Iraq or Afghanistan, where the technology already has proven effective at spotting attackers, such balloons provide surveillance around bases. U.S. officials think they could be equally helpful in tracking drug smugglers and illegal immigrants along a rugged stretch of the Rio Grande that doesn’t have any fence.

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The Border Patrol is testing two blimp-shaped, helium-filled balloons, which are on loan from the Defense Department. Congressional staff members joined Homeland Security and Defense Department officials Wednesday near the border town of Roma, about 260 miles south of San Antonio, to see what the aerostats can do. Members of the media were given a more limited glimpse of the devices’ capabilities.

The two aerostats — one about 55 feet long, the other 72 feet — are being tested along the border are made in North Carolina by TCOM, a company with its headquarters in Maryland.

At the altitude displayed Wednesday, the white, 72-foot-long balloon is small but visible. Near where it’s tethered, operators inside a windowless shipping container outfitted with air conditioning and three banks of video monitors scan the area, zoom in on vehicles a couple of miles away, switch to infrared and quickly pick up a vehicle moving through a parking lot.

The balloons’ cameras can easily reach across the river to Mexico, but Border Patrol spokesman Henry Mendiola said that isn’t the intent.

“Especially in this area upriver from La Joya where we have no infrastructure, we have no technology, everything down here is still being done by boots on the ground, and so this type of technology would make our job a little more efficient,” he said.

The 72-foot model can stay airborne for at least 14 days. While the aerostats can’t cover nearly the range of a helicopter or drone, they are far less expensive to operate and can be moved if needed.

Since the testing began Aug. 10, the balloons already have assisted agents. “We have seen some successes off of the aerostat in the testing phase,” Mendiola said, declining to give details.

On the border, agents already employ an arsenal of surveillance tools that includes airplanes, helicopters, drones, boats, ground-based sensors and agents equipped with night-vision goggles.

Last year, the U.S. government dumped SBInet, a yearslong attempt to build a “virtual fence” along the border that cost nearly $1 billion. The Border Patrol tested a similar balloon-mounted surveillance system in Arizona in March, and a variety of other Defense Department devices are also expected to be tested.

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Fraud Investigation Mary Teresa Whitman Few Charged

DURHAM — A Durham woman has been charged with insurance fraud after investigators say she altered police reports.

Mary Teresa Whitman Few, 43, submitted a claim for $3,950 worth of stolen property to American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida in February. She then submitted a related police report the next month, according to a news release from the N.C. Department of Insurance.

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American Bankers received a report directly from the Durham Police Department that differed from the one Few submitted, the release states, and representatives found other discrepancies between a claim Few filed in April 2011 and official reports. Investigators say Few altered the documents to obtain payments, according to the news release.

Few is charged with one felony count each of insurance fraud, obtaining property by false pretense and attempting to obtain property by false pretense. She is being held in the Durham County Jail under a $10,000 secured bond.

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Fraud Investiation Brittney Latham Indicted

JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) — A Lowndes County grand jury has indicted a woman from Columbus for insurance fraud.

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The Mississippi attorney general’s office says 22-year-old Brittney Latham lied on a report to Safeway Insurance Company about the damage to the 2001 Chevrolet Impala she was driving.

Latham was arrested this week by state investigators.

If convicted, she could get up three years behind bars.

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Wrongful Death 2 Killed in When Driver Crossed Line

WESTMORELAND, N.H. (AP) – Police say an 87-year-old driver crossed the center lane of traffic and struck a bevy of motorcyclists participating in a New Hampshire memorial ride, killing two of them. Six other people were hurt.

Police say as many as 200 motorcycles were riding on Route 12 on Saturday morning in Westmoreland when a car driven by Walpole resident Robert Lockerby swerved into their lane.

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Killed were 59-year-old Gary Champney, of Alstead, and 41-year-old Aaron Robar, of Newport. Five other motorcyclists and Lockerby’s 87-year-old wife were hurt. Two were airlifted to hospitals.

Police say neither speed nor alcohol appears to be a factor in the crash.

The ride was in honor of Army Spc. Justin Rollins, a Newport native who was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb in March 2007.

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Missing Person Gabrielle Swainson of South Carolina

The FBI has joined the search for a South Carolina cheerleader who vanished without a trace from her bedroom.

Gabrielle Swainson, 15, disappeared between 3:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. last Saturday, during the time her mother was at work, police said.

When mother Elvia Swainson returned home Saturday morning, Gabrielle’s bed was empty.

“I grabbed my phone and started calling her number. The number rang a couple of times then it stopped,” Swainson said.

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Several more attempts to reach her daughter went straight to voicemail, she said.
PHOTO: Police in South Caroline are searching for cheerleader Gabrielle Swainson, 15, who seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
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Although there were no signs of foul play, investigators believe the teen’s disappearance was not voluntary.

“Her purse was still there with her charger for her phone in it and all the ingredients of her purse like her wallet and her credit card, everything is still there,” said Chandra Cleveland-Jennings, a private investigator hired by Swainson.

Cleveland-Jennings said there has been no activity on the teen’s phone since her disappearance. Police have not said whether they have been able to locate a signal.

Gabrielle missed the first day of her sophomore year of high school on Thursday at Ridge View High School, where she had just made the junior varsity cheerleading squad.

“I don’t know what has happened. I don’t know how it happened and this is really a nightmare. It really is,” Elvia Swainson said. “It’s the worst situation a parent could be in.”

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Missing Person Missing NC Couple Found Dead in Texas

BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. — Authorities say the bodies of a Henderson County doctor and her husband have been found in a hotel room in Galveston, Texas, nearly a week after they disappeared.

Investigators with the Galveston County Medical Examiners Office said a hotel employee found 53-year-old Leslie Cargile and her 58-year-old husband William on Friday. The room was locked from the inside.

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Authorities say the deaths don’t appear to be homicides, but are awaiting autopsy results. Investigators say a number of medicine samples were found in the couple’s room.

The couple was last seen on Aug. 18, and they were reported missing Monday morning when Leslie Cargile didn’t show up at her clinic to see patients.

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Wrongful Death Man’s Body Found in Iowa

A body was found in rural Iowa, leading to an all day stand-off with authorities. A neighbor found the body of 47-year-old Gregory William O’Hare in the middle of the road in Linn County at about 8:30 this morning. An autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death of this man. His death is believed to be a homicide.

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The believed suspect, 63-year-old Martin Paul Wilkinson, refused to come out of his home. Authorities resorted to using tear gas to bring the man out, and then used a stun gun to get him under control. He was then taken to the hospital and treated for minor injuries before being arrested.

This is a strange situation. What could be going on between these two men, leading to one’s murder? Surely there will be more details available when the autopsy is complete.

Iowa does have a lot of unusual things going on these days, with all the attempted kidnappings recently, as well as the abduction of cousins, Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Cook. The search for them is still in full swing, even as leads subside.

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