BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. June 24 2017— Sullivan County is struggling to compensate court security officers, and as a result some haven’t worked in several weeks. Sullivan County Circuit Court Clerk Tommy Kerns said Thursday that revenues from court costs are improving to cover pay for court security officers. But seven part-time employees haven’t worked in […]
HOUSTON TX June 24 2017 –– A 20-year-old security guard working at a southwest Houston charter school was caught taking cellphone video of an 11-year-old student in the bathroom, investigators say. Yandry Jimenez Rivero, a Cuban national, has been charged with improper photography. Harris County prosecutor Patrick Stayton released the disturbing details to the media […]
San Diego CA June 24 2017 A security guard who was confronted and restrained by a plainclothes sheriff’s detective on a residential street two years ago was acquitted Friday of all charges related to the 2015 incident. Robert Branch III, 27, faced felony and misdemeanor charges including resisting an officer by force, attempting to spray […]
OTTAWA Canada June 24 2017 – City police officers patrolling the airport in the nation’s capital are getting military-style rifles, but officials say the move wasn’t prompted by any specific security threats. Rather, police say, the issuance of carbine rifles to officers at Ottawa International Airport will simply provide a higher degree of safety for […]
WASHINGTON DC June 24 2017 — A former State Department diplomatic security officer and military contractor was charged with conducting espionage for China after F.B.I. agents found top-secret documents and apparently incriminating messages on a communications device he brought back from Shanghai, the Justice Department said on Thursday. The man, Kevin Patrick Mallory, 60, of […]
Brisbane AU June 24 2017 A former armoured cash-car driver who was the mastermind of a brazen series of armed robberies which netted $176,000 – including an “inside job” on a fellow security cash guard — has been jailed. Bradley Scott Kennedy, 39, was in the District Court in Brisbane where Judge Terry Martin […]
MIAMI FL June 22 2017– A Hialeah man who works as a security guard was arrested Wednesday after he pulled over a city of Miami police officer because she was talking on her cellphone, authorities said. According to an arrest report, Officer Kenia Fallat was driving west on Southwest Seventh Street, approaching 13th Avenue when […]
Granbury TX June 22 2017 Thomas Milford Willis, 39, was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of deadly conduct – discharge of a firearm on Tuesday. He was sentenced to 5 years probation. Willis was a supervisor for Huron Security, providing security services to the Indian Harbor […]
CLEVELAND OH June 22 2017 – Ohio City residents say they’ve had enough with the rash of car break-ins that’s hit their neighborhood. Luckily for them, there’s one less perpetrator off the streets. As WKYC spent Tuesday afternoon talking to Ohio City residents about the recent car break-ins, a St. Ignatius High School security guard […]
SANDUSKY OH June 22 2017 — Police arrested 11 people at Cedar Point after a huge brawl, with people being pepper-sprayed and a man hit with a Taser when he attempted to take an officer’s gun. A unruly crowd of hundreds believed to have been park patrons and Cedar Point staff encircled officers and combatants about […]