SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 3, 2017 Dozens of travelers were forced to clear out of Salt Lake International Airport Sunday morning after a canister of bear spray was accidentally discharged inside Terminal 1. Jasen Asay, spokesman for Salt Lake International Airport, told Gephardt Daily the bear spray was set off by an airline employee after […]
Pershing County NV Sept 4 2017 A man rushed past layers of security officers into a massive fire at the Burning Man festival’s signature ceremony, suffering burns that left him dead just hours later. Authorities are investigating the death of Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, who broke through a two-layer security perimeter during the Man Burn event […]
Troy NC Sept 3 2017 A North Carolina college is offering a bird’s-eye view to enhanced public-safety innovation with the opening of a drone academy this fall. Located 50 miles south of Greensboro, Montgomery Community College will launch the NC Public Safety Drone Academy to prepare regional emergency service members and first responders with the needed […]
North Park CA Sept 3 2017 A man who was 17 when he was involved in a shootout with a security guard during a botched marijuana dispensary robbery in which one of his cohorts was killed was sentenced Friday to 65 years to life in state prison. Kurese Bell, now 20, was convicted last year of […]
Mobile AL Sept 3 2017 A woman has been arrested after police say she stole shoes, ran out a store and jumped in a car, all while leaving her 5-year-old son behind. Surveillance footage on Aug. 26 showed Debrina Scott, 24, as she fled a Shoe Station in Mobile, Alabama, with security guards and her child […]
YOUNGSTOWN OH Sept 3 2017 Reports said a man who had his bond revoked Thursday after a hearing in municipal court faces new charges after assaulting a court security employee and a city police officer. Terron Jones, 18, whose address is listed as homeless, now faces new charges of felonious assault and resisting arrest after […]
COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. Sept 3 2017 – Police arrested a man after his encounter with a girl at the Target store on Southpark Boulevard in Colonial Heights. The 12-year-old girl was inside the store with her family Thursday afternoon when she told police a man approached her with an odd question. The man, later identified as […]
Toronto Canada Sept 3 2017 A program that puts police officers inside Toronto’s public schools to protect students has been temporarily scrapped following complaints by Black Lives Matter and pro-immigration groups. The School Resource Officers program has been in place since 2008. It was started in response to the 2007 fatal shooting of 15-year-old student Jordan […]
Anchorage, Alaska Sept 3 2017 – Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Jafari Lewis-Daniel, 22, and his brother, Jarron Lewis-Daniel, 23, of Anchorage, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess for their roles in an armored car robbery in December 2014. Jafari Lewis-Daniel pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a bank robbery, […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Sept 3 2017 Officers were called out to Brix Lounge early Friday morning to confront two men for allegedly being intoxicated in public and threatening a security guard, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. Witnesses at the nightclub tell a different story. “I have never seen a security handle someone like if they were […]