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OLATHE, Kan.— Olathe Police are trying to locate Ryan Bradley. Bradley is a 23-year-old male who was reported missing on October 9. Police say his left arm is “bowed” and he walks with a slight limp.
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Bradley is 5’6 and 150 ponds with brown hair and hazel eyes. He typically wears a t-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. Ryan was last seen walking to a friend’s house from his residence in the 800 block of East Layton in Olathe.
POLICE have revealed that a man missing in Portsmouth Harbour had fallen off a Wightlink ferry.
They believe he came off an inbound ferry, the Saint Clare, between the Square and the Round Towers, as it was travelling into Portsmouth from Fishbourne.
A huge four-hour search was launched last night near the entrance of Portsmouth Harbour, involving the Solent Coastguard helicopter, lifeboat crews and police.
But this morning the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has confirmed it has stopped its search.
Police are now appealing for a young couple who witnessed the incident to come forward.
Detective Constable Allison Fraser said: ‘Our investigations have revealed that at the time the person came off the ferry, there was a young couple on the Hot Walls with a video camera.
‘We are extremely keen to get in touch with this couple as they may have seen and filmed what happened.
‘We would also like to speak to any foot passengers who travelled to the island on the 5pm sailing from Portsmouth to Fishbourne and any foot passengers on the return journey at 6pm from Fishbourne.
‘We are keen to speak to anyone else who witnessed what happened from the shore or from the ferry.’
Fiona Warren, spokeswoman for the coastguard, said: ‘The search was terminated at 10.40pm after an extensive search was carried out.
‘The search wasn’t successful in regards to finding the missing person.
‘That is the situation at the moment.
‘There are no plans underway to start the search again this morning.
‘There is an instruction for shipping to keep a look out.’
The alarm was raised at 6.35pm last night after a fisherman reported seeing a man in the water.
Hampshire Constabulary say ‘a number of witnesses’ had spotted the person in the water shouting for help.
Police say they have no idea how he came to be in the water, but are investigating whether he had fallen off a ferry.
Aaron Gent, a crewman from Portsmouth RNLI, who was involved in the search, said: ‘We got a pager with reports of a missing person sighted in the water.
‘We searched for four or five hours, quite intensive searching, but unfortunately nothing was found.
‘We were told it was a male, an adult male, that’s all we were given.
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‘We were told he was seen at the entrance to the harbour by a local fisherman. We searched for a number of hours along with the coastguard helicopter but nothing has been found.’
Much of the initial search concentrated on the entrance to the harbour, around the sea wall near Fort Blockhouse, Gosport.
Rescuers also searched the water and shoreline around Old Portsmouth and Southsea. A flare was sent up shortly before 10pm to give crews a better view.
Vessels using the harbour were also informed and had been assisting in the search.
Jeff Baldwin, 28, and his girlfriend, Rosina Moore, 25, from North End, were walking along the beach when they were approached by police officers.
Mr Baldwin said: ‘As they came along the shoreline the police officer just said “if you see anything just call 999 and ask for the coastguard”. We asked “what are we looking for?”. He was a bit reluctant and said it was a missing person and they think he’s an adult.’
Registration for the Recreational Basketball League conducted by the Ramona Branch of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego has started and is being held at the clubhouse at 622 E St. in Collier Park from noon to 6 p.m. on weekdays.
Saturday registration will be held at the clubhouse on Oct. 15 from noon to 3 p.m.
The league is open to boys and girls in third grade through eighth grade. Cost is $90 for Boys and Girls Club members and $150 for non-members. The cost for non-members includes membership in the youth club.
Scholarships are available, and free memberships are offered to children in military families.
The league registration fee includes jersey, pictures, 10 games and playoffs, gym time and league playoff trophies.
League play begins Dec. 10 and continues through March 10.
Games for the third- and fourth-grade divisions are in the Wilson Gym in the Wilson Administrative Center, 729 Ninth St. Games for the fifth- through eighth-grade divisions are in the Olive Peirce Middle School gym, 1521 Hanson Lane.
Player assessments are Nov. 1 and 3 for boys and Nov. 2 and 4 for girls. All assessments will be in the OPMS gym.
Assessment times for boys are from 6 to 7 p.m. for grades 3 and 4, from 7 to 8 p.m. for grades 5 and 6, and from 8 to 9 p.m. for grades 7 and 8.
Assessment times for girls are the same.
Assessment makeups will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 7 in the OPMS gym.
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Coaches are needed. All prospective coaches must submit a volunteer application and clear a background check before they can draft a team. Visit www.sdyouth.org to download forms.
For more information, contact sports coordinator Susan Willis at 760-788-7564, extension 203.
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Violent crimes, including those committed with guns, are on the increase in Cleveland, and city officials continue to attempt to point the blame at everyone but themselves.
BFA’s Ken Hanson recently wrote about how the city was calling for the repeal of statewide firearm preemption in order to, in their words, address the problem of “gun violence,” instead of recognizing that the only PROVEN method of reducing violence is removing violent persons from circulation, either through imprisonment or by vibrantly empowering the potential victims to remove the violent person when confronted by one.
Now, Cuyahoga County fair board directors are considering a request by law enforcement officials to require criminal background checks for vendors and for people who buy firearms from non-licensed sellers during gun shows at the fairgrounds. This is curious timing, considering the request comes on the heels of a September 25 Plain Dealer editorial entitled “Ohio needs a law to require background checks on all gun sales.”
From the article:
Felonious assault shootings have increased 14 percent in 2011. And there have been 59 homicides so far this year, compared with 50 in 2010. There were 11 slayings this September alone.
[Mayor Frank] Jackson on Tuesday announced a new partnership with federal, state and county law enforcement agencies aimed at reducing gun violence. And Councilmen Zack Reed and Jeff Johnson said Wednesday that they are planning a summit with corporate leaders and other local officials in November to explore ideas about reducing violent crime.
Fair board members said Wednesday that they would consider the requests for background checks on vendors and private firearms sales.
“We have an obligation to do that and we will not take it lightly,” said fair board President Tim Fowler.
The gun shows, which are held several times a year at the fairgrounds, have a mix of federally licensed gun dealers who are required to vet buyers through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and private sellers, who are exempt from such rules. Private sellers are only required to ask for a buyer’s identification to ensure they are Ohio residents.
“The problem is, you don’t know who’s here,” Flask said. “You don’t know who’s selling guns, legally or illegally. You don’t know anything. You just know who you’re renting the space to and he’s the promoter.”
It’s unclear how the background checks for private sales would be done. But it was suggested that licensed dealers could do the checks on those buyers.
Jim Irvine, chairman of the Buckeye Firearms Association, said he doesn’t think it is possible for a licensed firearms dealer to access the background check system for someone else’s transaction. Licensed dealers are only permitted to use the NCIS system for their own sales, Irvine said.
“They need to change federal law to give me the power to do it first,” Irvine said.
Irvine also informed the writer of this Plain Dealer article that gun shows are simply not a source of crime guns, but that fact was not included in the article.
Consider the following from the NRA’s Fact Sheet entitled “The Gun Show Myth.”
The most recent federal study, a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report on “Firearms Use by Offenders,” found that only 0.7% of U.S. “crime guns” came from gun shows, with repeat offenders even less likely than first-timers to buy guns from any retail source. This 2001 study was based on interviews with 18,000 state prison inmates and is the largest such study ever conducted by the government.
Previous federal studies have found few criminals using gun shows. A 2000 BJS study, “Federal Firearms Offenders, 1992-98,” found only 1.7% of federal prison inmates obtained their gun from a gun show. Similarly, a 1997 National Institute of Justice study reported less than 2% of criminals’ guns come from gun shows.
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In 2006, an FBI study of criminals who attacked law enforcement officers found that within their sample, “None of the [attackers’] rifles, shotguns, or handguns … were obtained from gun shows or related activities.” Ninety-seven percent of guns in the study were obtained illegally, and the assailants interviewed had nothing but contempt for gun laws. As one offender put it, “[T]he 8,000 new gun laws would have made absolutely [no difference], whatsoever, about me getting a gun. …I never went into a gun store or to a gun show or to a pawn shop or anyplace else where firearms are legally bought and sold.”
With so few criminals obtaining weapons at gun shows, officials are, once again, focusing the blame in the wrong area. Rather than pinning the blame on gun shows, law enforcement should focus on the fact that criminals get their firearms though unregulated means, such as through black market channels, or by stealing them.
A Morgan County Sheriff’s Department process server was arrested Friday on charges stemming from accusations that he sold prescription medication out of his county patrol unit while on duty.
Steven Eugene Parker, 49, of 159, J. Blocker Road, Eva, faces three counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance.
Morgan County Sheriff Ana Franklin said a narcotics division stopped Parker on Friday morning on Sixth Avenue in Decatur and executed arrest warrants. He was booked into Morgan County Jail on $30,000 bond.
Parker has been an employee of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department for 23 years. Franklin said the Sheriff’s Department has suspected Parker of being involved in illegal drug activity “for quite some time.”
“Citizens of Morgan County have the right to expect that their vehicles, equipment and county tax dollars not be used to further the commission of crimes,” a statement from the Sheriff’s Department stated. “This is not a behavior that is widespread nor accepted by other employees in the Sheriff’s Office.”
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Parker was selling his personal prescription medication as well as others, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Franklin said she does not believe others in the department were involved with Parker’s alleged activities.
“If information leads us in that direction, we will look into it,” she said.
Prescott police arrested a man Saturday on charges including attempted second-degree murder after a process server who posted papers at the man’s home told police the man shot him in the back as he walked back to his vehicle.
An officer booked Larry Stewart, 57, of Prescott into the Yavapai County Jail on charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault and three counts of firing a weapon in city limits.
Bob Palmer of Palmer Investigations said on Saturday his employee was serving Stewart with a civil summons and complaint. “He wouldn’t come out of the house. When you’d walk up to the house he’d close the drapes and wouldn’t answer the door,” Palmer said. “We tried to serve him four times before.”
Since Stewart had previously refused to open the door, the court had granted an alternate means of service to post the papers on the front gate and mail them, Palmer said.
The server told police and Palmer that he taped the paperwork to the locked front gate and was walking back to his vehicle when Stewart stepped out of his home and shot him with a handgun, Palmer said. The server made it back to his vehicle and called 911.
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The victim was shot once in the lower right side of his abdomen and was taken to Yavapai Regional Medical Center for treatment for non-life-threatening injuries, said Lt. Andy Reinhardt, Prescott Police Department spokesman.
“After we responded to the scene, officers called Stewart, and he came out of his residence within 10 minutes and was arrested,” Reinhardt said. “Stewart refused to talk to officers after his arrest.”
Reinhardt said SWAT was not called out for the incident.
Palmer said a police detective came by his office Monday morning to get a copy of the paperwork that had been taped to the gate, because it was found ripped up at the scene.
Twenty people in South Florida, including licensed real estate agents and mortgage brokers, were charged in a $40 million bank and mortgage fraud scheme, according to several law enforcement groups involved in the investigation.
From March 2006 through June 2008, the defendants conspired to submit false loan applications and related documents to multiple banks to obtain mortgage loans and home equity lines of credit, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
All the defendants are from the Miami area. Most are real estate agents or mortgage brokers, but the indictment also lists a title agent, a bank manager and an appraiser.
The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, receipt of gifts for procuring loans, and providing gifts for procuring loans. The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of property and money derived from the fraud. If convicted, the defendants face a maximum penalty of up to 30 years in prison on each count.
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“Even by South Florida fraud standards, today’s prosecution is shocking,” said U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer. “Never before have we seen so many real estate and bank industry professionals charged in a single indictment. In addition, the defendants’ $40 million fraud spanned two years and resulted in $20 million in actual losses to the victim banks.”
As part of the scheme, brother and sister team, Alina Rubi, a mortgage broker, and Camilo Garcia, a mortgage broker and real estate agent, used Ivette Carreno, then a manager at Regions Bank, to obtain approval of nearly 200 fraud-based HELOCs.
Alina Rubi, Camilo Garcia, and his wife, Dianelys Garcia, and other co-defendants, prepared false documents, such as proof of employment, tax returns and property deeds, to support loan applications that were replete with false statements, according to the indictment.
Other co-defendants prepared mortgage and HELOC applications on behalf of unqualified borrowers and buyers. The loan applications, which were submitted to lenders, contained numerous false statements regarding the borrowers’ and buyers’ employment, income and other information necessary for lenders to assess their qualifications to borrow money.
Some of the false statements included misrepresentations that the borrowers were doctors, dentists, engineers, or engaged in other high-paying professions.
On some occasions, the defendants used the HELOC proceeds to later purchase the very properties for which they had obtained the HELOC loans.
Lake Elsinore residents Kevin Harrison, 41, and Tiffani Fryer, 41, were both arrested around 9:30 a.m. yesterday at a residence in the 16800 block of Ulmer Street for forgery, methamphetamine possession and other crimes.
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A fraud investigation in Lake Elsinore led to two arrests and one dead dog Tuesday morning, police are reporting.
According to a report from Sgt. Patrick J. Chavez of the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station, Kevin Harrison, 41, and Tiffani Fryer, 41, were both arrested around 9:30 a.m. yesterday at a residence in the 16800 block of Ulmer Street for forgery, methamphetamine possession and other crimes.
The investigation took a turn when two large dogs at the residence became aggressive, the sergeant reported.
“There were two large dogs inside the residence when [an] altercation ensued and advanced aggressively on both detectives. Harrison was … ordered to contain the … dogs,” Sgt. Chavez reported.
“Detectives immediately backed outside of the residence to the front lawn as the larger of the two dogs charged the detectives. … Fearing for their safety, one detective fired his service weapon killing the dog,” the sergeant reported.
According to Sgt. Chavez’s report, Fryer – who is now the main suspect in the case — was arrested outside the residence on Ulmer Street. Harrison, the sergeant said, ran to the home’s front door and attempted to get inside after Fryer’s arrest.
Investigators were able to stop Harrison from the closing the door behind him and a short struggle ensued in the entryway of the residence, the sergeant reported.
“There were two large dogs inside the residence when the altercation ensued and [they] advanced aggressively on both detectives,” he reported.
Harrison was ordered to contain the dogs as detectives backed outside of the residence to the front lawn, Sgt. Chavez reported, but not before the larger of the two dogs charged and was subsequently shot to death.
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The other dog was contained by Harrison and the dead animal was taken from officers by Animal Friends of the Valley, the sergeant reported.
Harrison was taken into custody for forgery, methamphetamine possession and several outstanding warrants. Fryer was taken into custody for burglary, forgery and methamphetamine possession. Both were booked into the Southwest Detention Center pending a criminal filing with the District Attorney’s Office.
Another reason why our health costs are astronomical is because the federal bureaucracy is incapable of stemming the massive Medicare fraud that is costing us as much as $90 billion a year.
In an outstanding investigation by the AP, the news service found that in many cases as soon as Medicare yanks a license on fraud charges, it gives the license right back. Yep. Your tax dollars at work.
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Regulators fighting an estimated $60 billion to $90 billion a year in Medicare fraud frequently suspend Medicare providers, then quickly reinstate them after appeals hearings that government employees don’t even attend, according to an Associated Press review.
Federal prosecutors say the speedy reinstatements — though helpful to legitimate suppliers who get snagged on technicalities or minor violations — amount to a missed chance to cut off the flow of taxpayer dollars to bogus companies that in many cases wind up under indictment. Some store owners have collected tens of thousands of dollars even after conviction, prosecutors told the AP.
Making matters worse, Medicare officials have failed to collect anything from the security bonds that were instituted two years ago specifically to discourage crooked providers from vanishing at the first sign of trouble from regulators. Millions of dollars sit unrecovered; officials blame the delay on personnel changes.
PLATTSBURGH — In Clinton County, one prosecutor and an investigator work only on fraud cases.
Their efforts are funded by a Crimes Against Revenue Program (CARP) grant, one of just 22 awarded to New York state counties by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services this year.
The $82,000 funding is intended to allow focuses on crimes against public revenue, such as welfare, Medicaid, or unemployment and Workers Compensation fraud. It helps investigate people who fail to pay taxes on both legally and illegally gained income, cigarette smuggling and other types of fraud, too.
ALL TAXPAYERS LOSE
There are, said Diana Livermore, administrative assistant at the Clinton County District Attorney’s Office, numerous cases already being prosecuted in Clinton County under the grant.
“It’s important for people to understand that these frauds affect every taxpayer in the county,” she said. “If these monies are being fraudulently spent, they aren’t going to roads, police, or other places where they are needed.”
Of the cases already handled by the District Attorney’s Office Livermore notes that most have been frauds involving small amounts of money, but, she added, it’s still money that could be going to someone who deserves it.
Other cases, however, have involved much larger frauds.
One example is Neil A. Ahrent, 46, of Plattsburgh, who was arraigned on May 26 on one felony count of third-degree insurance fraud. Charges stemmed from allegations that Ahrent was receiving Workers Compensation payments while he was selling illegal drugs.
Under New York state law, even illegal income is considered income.
Ahrent pled guilty to a reduced charge of fifth-degree Workers Compensation fraud in July. He paid restitution in the amount of $15,252.09, and he is prevented from receiving any further Workers Compensation benefits associated with his claim.
ANONYMOUS TIP LINE
Another case involves Donald R. Velie Jr., 43, of Saranac, who was arraigned August 25 in Clinton County Court on seven fraud-related charges, including two counts of first-degree perjury, one count of third-degree grand larceny, three counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing and one count of Workers Compensation fraudulent practices.
It is alleged that Velie, a correction officer, accepted Workers Comp benefits while he worked as a private contractor in Clinton County. His case has been adjourned until Oct. 31.
As an integral part of ongoing Crimes Against Revenue investigations, the District Attorney’s Office has set up a tip line where people can report cases of fraud.
Livermore said fraud can take any number of forms, among them cigarette smuggling, failure to claim legal or illegal income and failure by welfare recipients to report a significant other living with them.
“Almost everyone knows someone who is committing some type of fraud,” she said. “The tip line is anonymous, and the more information people are able to give us, the better able we will be to investigate.
MAKE THE STATE WHOLE
“Restitution is the main thing here,” said Assistant District Attorney Nick Evanovich, who leads the Crimes Against Revenue prosecution team. “Anyone can make a mistake. On something like this, we may be willing to work with you if you are willing to come forward and take responsibility and make the state whole.”
The program will ultimately become self-sustaining, the DA’s office said, with monies recouped from prosecutions going back into funding it in years to come.
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“The money ultimately goes back to the state, then they can reinvest it back into infrastructure and boost funding levels of other programs that have been cut because of the economy,” Livermore said.
“The state has invested $26 million into the program, and they expect it to bring in $86 million,” said Evanovich.
Recent arrests also include Angela Sheffer-Gonyea, 44, of Plattsburgh, who was arraigned last week on one count each of third-degree grand larceny, one count of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing and Workers Compensation fraudulent practices, all felonies.
It is alleged that Sheffer-Gonyea, a former registered nurse with the Clinton County Home Healthcare Unit, has continued to work in her own capacity without reporting that fact to her insurance carrier.
She is scheduled to return to court on Nov. 21.