8—Cleveland Daily Banner—Tuesday, January 5, 2016
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Boy found safe after car he
was sleeping in was stolen
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 6year-old boy has been found safe
after the car he was sleeping in
was stolen from a Philadelphia
convenience store parking lot.
Police were called to the 7Eleven in the city’s Northeast section after 2 a.m. Tuesday.
The sleeping boy’s stepfather
left the car running with the heat
on as he went into the store.
Police say that’s when someone
took off with the car and the child
in the back seat.
Officials say the vehicle was
found abandoned about a half
hour later.
Chief Inspector Scott Small
says the child remained asleep
through the ordeal and wasn’t
harmed. The boy has been
reunited with his family.
Police are continuing to look
for the suspect who fled from the
stolen car.
Firm to pay up after making
workers clock out for bathroom
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A
Pennsylvania company that publishes business newsletters will
pay about $1.75 million to thousands of employees who had to
clock out while going on short
breaks, including for the bathroom.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
reports that a federal judge has
given the U.S. Department of
Labor and the Malvern-based
company, American Future
Systems Inc., until Thursday to
submit proposals on managing
payment.
The company had argued that
it wasn’t required to pay employees for short breaks.
The bill includes back pay and
damages to 6,000 employees at
offices in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and Ohio between 2009
and 2013.
The Department of Labor filed
a lawsuit in 2012 claiming the
company violated the federal Fair
Labor Standards Act because
employees weren’t earning minimum wage when the company
required them to clock out for
breaks.
Family not happy officer out on
bond in motorist’s death
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A
former South Carolina policeman
charged with murder in the
shooting death of an unarmed
black motorist will remain under
house arrest until his trial begins
in the fall.
The release of Michael Slager
on bond Monday was a disappointment to the family of the victim, Walter Scott, said Justin
Bamberg, the attorney for the
family.
“The family is not happy about
Mr. Slager getting bond,”
Bamberg said shortly after
Circuit Judge Clifton Newman
said Slager could be released on
$500,000 surety bond.
Until he was released Monday
evening, Slager had been in solitary confinement at the
Charleston County Detention
Center since the incident last
April.
“This is just another step in the
criminal justice process, and the
family believes at the end of the
day that justice will prevail,”
Bamberg said.
Slager will have to remain at an
undisclosed location in South
Carolina and must have no contact with the victim’s family.
Slager, a former North
Charleston police officer, is
shown on cellphone video firing
eight times as Walter Scott ran
from a traffic stop. The case
enflamed a national debate about
how blacks are treated by white
police officers.
Slager, 34, faces 30 years to life
without parole if convicted of
murder.
Man arrested for vandalizing
mosque on Florida’s Space Coast
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man
accused of vandalizing a mosque
along Florida’s Space Coast, with
lights and windows smashed by a
machete and bacon left at the
scene, has been arrested.
Officers in the city of Titusville
say 35-year-old Michael Scott
Wolfe was taken into custody
Monday. Online jail records show
he’s charged with criminal mischief of a religious building.
Authorities say the suspect
went to the Islamic Society of
Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin
Mosque Jan. 1.
Surveillance video shows the
suspect entering the mosque’s
carport late at night when no one
was there and using a machete to
smash cameras, lights and windows.
Police say the bacon was left by
the front door. Consumption of
pork and products made from
pork is forbidden in Islam.
Wolfe remains behind bars. It
isn’t clear if he has an attorney.
Documents: Officers quickly
rejected suicide in cop’s death
CHICAGO (AP) — At least one
officer responding to the fatal
shooting of a northern Illinois
police officer who staged his suicide to make it look like homicide
thought he might have killed
himself, while others quickly
rejected the idea, newly released
documents show.
Fox Lake Lt. Charles Joseph
Gliniewicz’s Sept. 1 death
touched off an intense manhunt
involving hundreds of officers
and raised fears of cop-killers on
the loose.
Fox Lake officials late Monday
released investigative summaries
of interviews with responding officers in response to a public
records
request
by
The
Associated Press and other news
organizations. The interviews
were conducted by the Lake
County Major Crimes Task Force
on the day of Gliniewicz’s death
and in the following weeks. They
became part of a larger investigation that eventually concluded
the officer who was known in the
rural village as “G.I. Joe” had
shot himself because his theft of
thousands of dollars from a youth
program was about to be
exposed.
A rookie officer who arrived at
the scene noted the position of
Gliniewicz’s right hand — “as if
he was holding a gun” — as a
possible indication of suicide, the
documents show. But that was
rejected by a sergeant, who later
said Gliniewicz was too vain to
kill himself.
“When asked what she thought
may have happened to Lt.
Gliniewicz, Sgt. (Dawn) Deservi
said she didn’t think he would do
something like this to himself
because he was too vein (sic) of
an individual,” task force investigators wrote. “If