11-27-2010, 10:11
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Marine Collecting for Toys for Tots Stabbed stopping shoplifter
Shoplifting suspect stabs Marine, police say
By Bianca Cain and LaTina Emerson
Staff Writers
Friday, Nov. 26, 2010
A Marine collecting Toys for Tots donations at Augusta's Best Buy was stabbed in the back Friday while helping to subdue a shoplifting suspect.
Fellow Marines identified the injured man as Cpl. Phillip Duggan, 24, who spent part of Black Friday recuperating at Eisenhower Army Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Tracey Attaway, 39, of Waynesboro, Ga., was jailed and charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a knife in the commission of a crime.
Orvin Smith, a sales manager at Best Buy, said the incident occurred about 1:15 p.m. when a man was seen on surveillance videos placing a laptop under his jacket. Store staff asked Attaway to return the merchandise, and the situation began to escalate.
"He was really irate. A whole lot of energy. ... he finally let go of the laptop, ran out the front door, knocked one of my employees down and pulled out a knife so he could make sure he could get out the front door," Smith said.
Outside the door were four Marines and seven volunteers collecting donations for Toys for Tots.
"(Duggan) clotheslined him, and after that he kind up got up and started swinging a knife around," Smith said.
Gunnery Sgt. Robert Richie said Attaway "came over the top and got (Duggan) in the back."
Attaway ran again but didn't get far before Richie, several other Marines and members of the store's loss-prevention team tackled him in the parking lot and held him until deputies arrived.
Gunnery Sgt. Sherry Barrera, who also serves as the Toys for Tots coordinator, opted to close operations for the day.
"When a Marine gets injured, we just shut it down, go to the hospital, make sure he's OK and make sure he gets proper treatment," she said.
Barrera said Duggan joined the unit about three months ago. Although she has had the opportunity to drill with Duggan only a few times, she said she had heard wonderful things about him.
"My boss, who has served with him before, did say he was an outstanding Marine," Barrera said.
According to Richmond County authorities, Attaway also tried to steal two digital cameras, an Xbox game, a PS3 game and a PS3 game controller with a combined value of $1,365.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/cr...t-stabs-marine
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11-27-2010, 10:18
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The good old days of working loss prevention. Good moonlighting job. I got into a few scuffles at the door. We always had a plan if things went bad. We always assigned ourselves a limb to secure. One time it took four of us to take down a 300 pound lady trying to steal Chicken. She wasn't to happy about being caught.
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11-27-2010, 10:49
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kgoerz
The good old days of working loss prevention. Good moonlighting job. I got into a few scuffles at the door. We always had a plan if things went bad. We always assigned ourselves a limb to secure. One time it took four of us to take down a 300 pound lady trying to steal Chicken. She wasn't to happy about being caught.
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lol I got a clear picture in my mind.
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11-27-2010, 10:53
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*shudders*
Not the mental image I needed this morning.
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11-27-2010, 12:04
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I worked a Christmas season at a Shopko during college. Some evenings I had the opportunity to help itemize the tags and empty boxes recovered by the LP staff. It was pretty mind boggling the amount of stuff stolen each day. Glad the Marine is OK.
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11-27-2010, 12:44
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Good job Marines! With any luck, they gave him a little wall to wall counseling before the police arrived.
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11-27-2010, 23:17
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Good job Marine's! Too many time's I've had to respond to larceny call's where the suspect has assaulted the loss prevention officer and got away.
On a side column, these Black Friday shenanigans are getting out of hand. People are going back to the mid evil era trying to get little Johnny the hottest zoo-dad that just came out.
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11-28-2010, 07:46
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We had a bunch of hoodlums do a smash and grab in Target. They smashed the jewelry counter, grabbed what they could. Then ran for the door. 120 girl tried to stop them. They sent her thru the window. She walked away without a scratch. Told her, was a handful of Target Jewelry worth losing your life over.
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11-29-2010, 15:52
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Semper Fi!
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12-17-2010, 20:00
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update
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