Teen Arrested On Suspicion of Stealing From Los Gatos Apple Store

San Jose, the teen may have figured that Los Gatos was so sleepy Thursday night that he could simply stroll up to the brightly-illuminated Apple store in the heart of the tony community, smash the front window with a pick axe and simply walk away with a bag filled with iLoot.
Perhaps he wasn't counting on the rather widespread tradition of actually having 24-hour police officer coverage nearby.
In this case an officer was transporting prisoners to the Santa Clara County Main Jail at 3:25 a.m. when he saw a shattered window and a pick axe on the ground in front of the Apple store on North Santa Cruz Avenue.
Inside the iconic computer store was a 15-year-old suspect, not identified by police because of his age. He had, police said, "borrowed" a family car for the heist.
Even the most-high-powered Apple product may not come up with a good answer as to what the brazen crook was thinking.
"It is naive," said Officer Katherine Mann Friday. "He certainly underestimated that there would be police in the area. Then again, he's 15. He probably wasn't thinking at all."
The officer was already on his way to San Jose to drop off two suspected drunks who apparently had some stolen property of their own and were brawling at Number One Broadway nightclub a couple blocks away from the Apple store.
Looking more closely at the store, which had been burglarized similarly before, the officer saw the bandana-masked burglar,


Upon closer inspection, the officer saw a person inside the store wearing a mask and all black clothing stealing various Apple products.


With the help of additional officers, the person was taken into custody as he was exiting the store.


He was identified as a 15-year-old boy from San Jose.


Officers found him in possession of a duffel bag filled with various Apple products.


Investigators believe the boy acted alone and used a family member's car to drive to the store.


The suspect was booked into Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall on charges of commercial burglary and possession of stolen property.


Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to call the police investigations unit at (408) 827-3209.


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Virginia Tech shooting: Police officer and at least one other killed

WASHINGTON - Soon after Virginia Tech officials at a hearing defended actions taken to notify the campus as a 2007 shooting rampage unfolded, the university on Thursday issued a series of warnings about gunfire on its campus five hours away.


Following the 2007 shootings that left 33 people dead, Virginia Tech expanded its emergency notification systems. Alerts now go out by electronic message boards in classrooms, by text messages and other methods. Other colleges and universities have put in place similar systems.


Virginia Tech officials said a police officer and another person were shot and killed on campus Thursday, and a suspect remained on the loose. During about a one-hour period, the university issued four separate alerts, followed by additional notifications.


The alerts went out even as university officials, including the university's police chief, were in Washington for the administrative hearing about 260 miles from the campus in Blacksburg, Va. The hearing ended less than an hour before the first alert went out. Ernest C. Canellos, an Education Department administrative judge, said he would later issue a ruling on the hearing about Virginia Tech's handling of the shootings more than four years ago.


Universities are required under the Clery Act to provide warnings in a timely manner and to report the number of crimes on campus.


Virginia Tech has appealed a $55,000 fine levied after the 2007 shootings because it says it acted appropriately based on protocols on campuses at that time. The Education Department says the university violated the law by waiting more than two hours after two students were shot in a dorm on campus in the 2007 shootings before sending an email warning. By then, student gunman Seung-Hui Cho was chaining the doors to a classroom building where he killed 30 more people and then himself.


Wendell Flinchum, the police chief, testified that there were no immediate signs in the dorm at that time to indicate a threat to the campus. He said the shootings were believed to be an isolated domestic incident and that the shooter had fled.


Flinchum said that conclusion was based on the isolated nature of the dorm room, the lack of forced entry and what the victims were wearing _ the woman in pajamas, the man in boxer shorts.


The scene, he said, did not suggest an ongoing safety threat.


"I don't believe we could have known that from what the scene presented," Flinchum said.


He said the dead woman's boyfriend initially was identified as a "person of interest." Police were shown a social networking site with the boyfriend holding guns, Flinchum said, and were told he usually dropped her off on Mondays. The shootings took place on a Monday.


The university faces charges of failure to issue a timely warning and failure to follow its own procedures for providing notification.


Parents of some victims have testified that they think their loved ones would have stayed away from campus if they had known of a threat.


James Moore, a department official, testified that even if it had been a domestic incident, there were enough signs that a gunman was on the loose to warrant quicker campus alerts by the school.


The 1990 Clery Act was named after Lehigh University student Jeanne Clery, who was raped and murdered in her dorm room by another student in 1986.


The maximum fine per violation under the law is $27,500. Institutions also can lose their ability to offer federal student loans, but that has never happened.


A gunman is on the loose on Virginia Tech campus after shooting dead a police officer and killing at least one other person.


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The campus is where 32 people died in a massacre four years ago.


The officer was gunned down after carrying out a routine traffic stop on campus.


The suspect then fled across a student car park where he shot dead another person.


Armed police raced to the campus and began hunting for the gunman - described as a white male, wearing grey sweat pants, grey hat with neon brim, a maroon hoodie and backpack - by going from building to building.


he shooting comes on the same day as Virginia Tech appealed against a £35,200 fine imposed by the Education Department in connection with the university's response to the 2007 rampage by a student gunman who killed 32 people and then himself.


The campus was immediately put on lockdown and students, busy preparing for their final exams, were told to stay indoors.


They tweeted: "A police officer has been shot. A potential second victim is reported at the Cage lot. Stay indoors. Secure in place."


The alert on their web page reads: "There is an active campus alert in Blacksburg. Everyone should seek shelter or stay where you are. Blacksburg Transit service is suspended until the alert is lifted."


On the school's web page, an alert marked 12:47 p.m. reads: "Reports of Shots Fired- Initial Description: Suspect described as white male, gray sweat pants, gray hat w/neon brim, maroon hoodie and backpack. On foot towards McComas. Call 911."


A picture posted on Twitter shows a body lying in the road covered with a white sheet.


One student was walking home when she came across the police officer's car moments after he had been shot.


She said: "As I walked past his car, police pulled up and when they opened his car door he just fell towards the ground.


"They tried to revive him. As soon as I saw his face I started crying.


"Then the other officers started yelling his name to get him to wake up and that's when it started to hit me."


"It's crazy that someone would go and do something like that with all the stuff that happened in 2007," said Corey Smith, a 19-year-old who was heading to a dining hall near the site of one of the shootings, but stayed inside after seeing the alerts from the school.


"It's just weird to think about why someone would do something like this when the school's had so many problems."


Harry White, 20, a junior physics major, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that he was queueing for a sandwich at a Subway restaurant in a campus building when he received a text message alert about the shooting.


He said he did not panic, thinking instead about a false alarm about a possible gunman which caused the campus to be locked down in August. He used an indoor walkway to go to a computer lab in an adjacent building, where he checked news reports.


"I decided to just check to see how serious it was. I saw it's actually someone shooting someone, not something false, something that looks like a gun," he said.


Mr White said the campus was quieter than usual because classes ended yesterday and students are preparing for the start of exams.


A spokesman for Virginia Tech said: "Shortly after noon today, a Virginia Tech police officer stopped a vehicle on campus during a routine traffic stop in the Coliseum parking lot near McComas Hall.


"During the traffic stop. the officer was shot and killed. There were witnesses to this shooting.


"Witnesses reported to police the shooter fled on foot heading toward the Cage, a parking lot near Duck Pond Drive. At that parking lot, a second person was found. That person is also deceased.


"Several law enforcement agencies have responded to assist. Virginia State Police has been requested to take lead in the investigation.


"The status of the shooter is unknown. The campus community should continue to shelter in place and visitors should not come to campus."


In August the campus was put on lockdown after children attending a summer camp for middle-schoolers reported seeing a 'gunman'.


The alert was sparked after the children told police they saw the man quickly walking towards the volleyball courts, carrying what might have been a handgun covered by some type of cloth.


State and local police combed the area but said they could not find anyone matching their description.


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Jerry Sandusky,s wife react to the Penn State scandal‎ Report

Sandusky originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, married Jerry and together they adopted six children, some were adopted when they were just infants, others were older.


Dorothy ‘Dottie’ Gross Sandusky is mentioned in the 23-page Grand Jury indictment which graphically details the charges against the 67-year-old former Penn State coach.


Mrs Sandusky, 68, attempted to call one of the victims in the weeks leading up to his testimony, despite the fact the now 26-year-old had cut off all contact with Sandusky two years prior.


Dottie’s children once spoke about the opportunity their parents brought into their lives and future..


“My life changed when I came to live here. There were rules, there was discipline, there was caring. Dad put me on a workout program. He gave me someone to talk to, a father figure I never had. I have no idea where I’d be without him and Mom. I don’t even want to think about it. And they’ve helped so many kids besides me. “Who knows how any of us would’ve ended up if we hadn’t become Sanduskys.”


Dottie helped and support her husband throughout his 23 year at Penn State and with his work at Second Mile.


After we had taken in some foster children,” Dottie Sandusky told Sports Illustrated in 1982,


“we saw the opportunities that some kids just hadn’t had. But we’d gotten to the point where we couldn’t take in any more, so Jerry started thinking about starting a group home.” Said Dottie Sandusky.


Mrs. Sandusky is devasted about her husband’s sexual abuse scandal. Especially after it was reported some of the abuse her husband did on these poor children took place at their home in their basement,It is so sad that while many think of Jerry as a Saint, leader of linebackers, molder of men, for his work at the organization. It was at this same place where he picked his victims. He left the Second Mile last fall. Today he has been arrested and charged with 40 counts related to sexual abuse of young boys.


Whether Mrs Sandusky was worried by any such behaviour is not yet known. What is established is that she has been by Sandusky’s side since the mid-1960s, when they married. She met Sandusky in Washington a few years before. He endearingly called his wife ‘Sarge,’ because she was in charge in their home.


Just shy of seven years ago, my life and the lives of my two children were turned upside down. The man I had been married to for more than a decade had been arrested as a part of an FBI sting to bring down NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, an advocacy group for pedophiles that supports an “end to the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships.” I was a well-educated, philanthropic, 39-year-old mother who, until recently, was living a charmed Dallas life, married to a well-liked dentist who had been living a lie for our entire relationship.
A former youth-ministry volunteer at a local church, an energetic volunteer at our kids’ elementary school, and a favorite at their Y-Guides outings, my ex-husband, Todd, turned out to be a criminal who brought tremendous harm, both physically and emotionally, to prepubescent boys. He was an “inner circle” member of NAMBLA—a member of its board of directors—wanted by the feds. Throughout our marriage, which ended in a confusing divorce shortly before the FBI swept in, I believed him when he said he was traveling to dental conventions—when in fact, he was attending pedophile conferences. He kept a secret mailbox at the local post office, where he received his pedophilia newsletters and other suspicious mail. We never found any proof of illegal Internet activities—his hard drive had been cleaned—except for a printed-out receipt for a porn video of young boys.


“I understand,” State College Detective Ronald Schreffler testified Sandusky said. “I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won’t get it from you. I wish I were dead.”


Sandusky – who maintains he is innocent – has since been charged with 40 criminal counts, accusing him of molesting eight young boys between 1994 and 2009. Two PSU administrators who have since stepped aside have also been charged with failing to notify authorities of a 2002 incident reported by an eyewitness.


The 11-year-old was only identified as the former assistant football coach’s sixth alleged victim. In 1998, his mother tried to make Sandusky promise never to shower with a boy again, but he wouldn’t make that promise, Schreffler testified.


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Geezer Bandit drops clue that may lead to his capture

Investigators hope a bank robbery in San Luis Obispo on Friday will lead to the arrest of the Geezer Bandit, responsible for 16 heists, most in San Diego County.


For the first time in the nearly 2 1/2-year string of Geezer Bandit robberies, a dye pack stuffed next to the money exploded soon after the robber made his escape from a Bank of America branch in San Luis Obispo.


Such explosions leave the money soaked in red dye and can also burn the hands or face of the robber or leave dye marks that are difficult to wash off.


The suspect in the San Luis Obispo robbery fits the description of the gun-waving man who appears to be in his 60s or 70s and is known as the Geezer Bandit.


If the robber is actually a younger man wearing a theatrical mask, the mask could also have burn marks or dye coloring, said officials, who hope the red-colored money or burn marks lead to a tip about the robber's identity and whereabouts.


It's perhaps the clue that will reveal who this alleged master of disguise really is. The serial robber's series began in August 2009. Now, it's possible it could be coming to an end if authorities develop key information from the botched holdup.


"There was either a day planner or address-type book that was left behind," San Luis Obispo Police Department Capt. Chris Staley said. "I'm not sure what was contained inside that book, and we will be processing it obviously as evidence and turning it over to the FBI."


During his getaway from a Bank of America branch in San Luis Obispo last week, the robber was surprised with a hidden exploding dye pack. He left behind red-stained cash in a nearby parking lot, along with a planning book.


"I sure hope it is the break we're looking for in the case, and I'm hopeful that whatever evidence we were able to recover will lead to his identification," Staley said.


It's also possible authorities now have a better description of the clever crook's getaway vehicle -- a white 5-series BMW sedan -- that peeled away from the crime scene.


"It departing the parking lot at a high rate of speed and a citizen obviously thought it was suspicious," Staley said.


Investigators also say he dropped the demand not that he presented to the teller.


A San Diego National Bank employee who came face-to-face with the Geezer Bandit during a January 2010 holdup in Point Loma described her encounter.

Los Angeles Police Evacuate Headquarters Due to 'Unspecified Threat'

DEVELOPING: Los Angeles police evacuated their downtown headquarters Tuesday after a "suspicious" item was found in the building's lobby, local media reported.


Personnel cleared the offices shortly after 10:30 a.m. local time, according to KCAL-TV.


LAPD officials said a manila envelope was dropped off at the building and run through the X-ray machine around 10:30 a.m., when officers decided that the item warranted additional scrutiny.


The lobby was cleared as technicians with the department's bomb squad checked out the item. Shortly before 11, the issue was resolved and people were allowed to return to the lobby.