Tag: Carjacking: Page 9

Patrol

Chicago Carjacker Opens Fire on Officers

The 10-year veteran was hit in his ballistic vest and shoulder while returning to a marked patrol car after responding to a disturbance call. The suspect who carjacked a vehicle earlier in the evening on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

September 11, 2010

Special Units

California Officer Takes 60 Units of Blood After Gunshot

Fremont officer Todd Young, 39, and a fellow officer had tried to arrest Andrew Barrientos, 20, who was wanted for a string of crimes. Young, who required 60 units of blood during surgery, is in critical but stable condition.

August 27, 2010

Patrol

California Cop, Corrections Officer Arrested in Kidnap, Rape Case

According to Sgt. David McBride of the Ontario Police Department, the woman was walking to her car in the parking lot of Ontario Mills Mall when Westminster police Det. Anthony Nicholas Orban and California Corrections Officer Jeff Thomas Jelinek approached her.

April 4, 2010

Gangs

Grand Theft Auto and Gangs

Gang members, especially juveniles, receive little incarceration and lots of probation for car crimes. To gang members this is like a dog with rubber teeth, lots of bark but no bite. Almost every gang member I came in contact with in East Los Angeles and South Central Los Angeles had several prior convictions for some type of car theft.

March 25, 2010

Patrol

Transient Who Killed Los Angeles Airport Officer Gets Life

William Sadowski, 51, carjacked officer Thomas Scott's patrol vehicle in April 2005, dragging the officer for a quarter of a mile before striking a fire hydrant, killing the officer instantly.

January 16, 2010

Patrol

New Orleans Officer Run Over by Carjacking Suspect Recovering from Injury

A New Orleans police officer mowed down by a carjacking suspect he was trying to apprehend last week is still recovering from a fractured arm, the commander of the New Orleans Police Department's 2nd District said Tuesday.

September 14, 2009

Vehicle Ops

Plainclothes N.C. Cop Carjacked, Pursuit Ends in Fiery Fatal Crash

Police say that in their haste to get away, robbery suspects crashed one car and then carjacked an SUV from a plainclothes Gastonia police officer.

January 8, 2009

Patrol

N.C. Carjacking Suspect Smacked with Frozen Turkey

Fred L. Ervin got his Thanksgiving turkey early this year. A passer-by armed with a frozen turkey used the bird as a cudgel upside Ervin's head Sunday while coming to the rescue of a woman outside a grocery store on Sunday, Fuquay-Varina police say.

November 24, 2008

Patrol

Atlanta Carjack Suspect Shot Dead on I-85

A carjacking suspect was shot and killed by a DeKalb County police officer early Thursday along I-85 in northeast Atlanta, police said.

September 17, 2008

Patrol

Suspect Fires at Police But Hits Auto Theft Suspect

An unknown assailant fired at New Orleans police officers Monday night after they interrupted an apparent auto theft, but the bullet hit one of the alleged thieves, according to police.

September 10, 2008

Patrol

Fatal Errors: Surviving Traffic Duty

It is easy to get careless while engaged in something you do a great deal. If you are a uniformed police officer and don’t work in a jail, chances are that traffic and vehicles are the bread and butter of your existence.

December 31, 2004

Vehicle Ops

Grand Theft Cop Car

Complacency can kill. Whether it's something as mundane as not wearing your seat belt while driving or not wearing body armor during a high-risk entry, failure to take preventive measures can have disastrous results.

September 30, 2003