[Scan-DC] Not Scanning - but safety in General

[ltbrown122 at aol.com]

Please provide wide distribution, this guys obviously is still actively messing 
with the fire service.

     All Companies and members are urged to be extremely vigilant for persons 
attempting to gain access to uniforms, equipment and apparatus for unlawful 
purposes.  Such an incident was reported to this office yesterday.  a man 
identified as Marcus Paxton approached one of our stations, displayed a photo ID 
card indicating that he was a member of a company in another county.  The 
officer who reported the incident stated the Marcus is extremely convincing, 
showing familiarity with fire service terms and objects.  After suspicions 
arose, the man was evicted and banned from the station.  Research revealed that 
he has a history of misbehavior in Prince George's County and in the District of 
Columbia.  The following is from the web page of Television station WUSA 9, 
Washington.  Photographs are attached to this email.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WUSA) - At 3:00 AM on July 19, a captain at Fairfax County 
Fire & Rescue Department Station 418 (Jefferson) found an intruder at the 
firehouse. The 25-year-old man told the captain he was a volunteer firefighter 
at another station. The captain didn't buy that explanation. 

The man was wearing a fire department issued shirt and hat police say had been 
stolen from Station 418. According to an email sent to firefighters from a 
detective working the case, more property belonging to firefighters was found in 
the man's car. 
Since that night, the Fairfax County Police Department has been investigating 
Marcus Paxton of Greenbelt, MD. According to a police department spokesman 
Paxton has now been charged with burglary, petty theft and impersonating a 
firefighter in connection with the incident at Station 418. 
Marcus Paxton is a former volunteer firefighter in Prince George's County, 
Maryland, who since 2006, has been involved in a series of unusual incidents 
involving fire departments in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
According to people who know
 Marcus Paxton, a little more than a year ago, 
Paxton began telling friends he had been hired as a career firefighter in 
Fairfax County. The email from the detective working the case indicates Paxton 
applied, but was not accepted as a Fairfax County firefighter. According to the 
message from Detective Mike Nickolas, Paxton "was disqualified after it was 
determined he had been arrested for stealing a DC Fire Department vehicle". 

DC Fire & EMS Department officials confirm Paxton had been hanging around city 
firehouses when a chief's car was taken from the quarters of Engine 2. DC Fire & 
EMS was unable to provide a date for the incident or specifics as to how it was 
handled.
DC sources familiar with Paxton tell 9NEWS NOW he was riding with EMS 
supervisors and on ambulances during 2006 and earlier. Those sources indicate 
Paxton had become such a familiar face many people assumed he was a civilian EMS 
worker. 
Since he was a teenager Marcus Paxton had been associated with the Greenbelt 
Volunteer Fire Department in Prince George's County. According to the station's 
website, by 2006 he had been promoted to the rank of sergeant. 
Paxton was initially suspended and then barred from being a volunteer 
firefighter in the county following his arrest for calling in a false fire 
alarm. According to Maryland court records, the incident occurred on November 
28, 2006. Sources familiar with the case tell 9NEWS NOW investigators determined 
Paxton was driving a Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department utility vehicle when he 
used a cell phone to report a building fire in the Greenbelt area. Paxton was 
caught after he left the phone connected to 911 as he responded to the call. 
Maryland court records indicate Paxton entered a guilty plea.

Despite being barred from emergency operations in Prince George's County, Marcus 
Paxton was still able to secure a ride-along with a county paramedic unit. This 
led to another arrest. Court records show Paxton was charged with impersonating 
a member of an emergency squad after t
he February 17, 2007 incident involving 
Medic 25 in Clinton. 
The ride-along and arrest prompted this email sent three days later to members 
of the Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department by Robert McCoy, who was then 
deputy chief of operations:
A Mr. Marcus Paxton showed up at Station 25 this weekend for a ride-along on 
Medic 25. Mr. Paxton is no longer a member of the Fire/EMS Department and should 
not be on any property for any reason. He may have shown up at other stations 
recently and may have used a different name (Marcus Johnson). I have included a 
picture of Mr. Paxton so there is no confusion and personnel should be aware 
when allowing personnel to ride at their stations. If there are any questions, 
please let me know.  According to court records that case was put on the 
inactive docket.
Sources familiar with the July case in Fairfax County tell 9NEWS NOW the 
investigation continues. The email sent by Detective Nickolas has brought a 
number of leads from fire and EMS personnel

     Companies are advised to inform their members about this person and 
encourage them to be aware of the potential danger from such people.  

     Over two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson warned us that "The price of 
freedom is eternal vigilance."   As the events of September 11, 2001 remind us, 
we need to heed that advice today more than at any time in our history.
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