JACKSONVILLE, Fla. April 27 2018– The second in command of Jacksonville Airport Authority has admitted to breaking Homeland Security protocol by bypassing security to get thousands of dollars in cash on board a plane to Las Vegas, the I-TEAM learned Thursday. Tony Cugno, chief operating officer for Jacksonville’s four-airport system, admitted to doing this at […]
OKLAHOMA CITY OK April 27 2018 An investigation is underway after an armed private security officer discharged his firearm inside the Oklahoma State Capitol. The security guard has been placed on leave after his gun was discharged at least twice inside a bathroom at the State Capitol. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol confirmed that they investigating […]
SAN DIEGO CA April 27 2018 In response to safety concerns, a growing number of downtown San Diego public restrooms are being staffed with armed security guards. The city of San Diego has added armed guards to secure the public restrooms outside the San Diego Civic Theatre. The 6-month contract began in April and costs $360,000.00. […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. April 26 2018 More than a dozen South Carolina corrections employees pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges related to bribery and bringing contraband into the state’s institutions, a case that was announced a week after a deadly prison riot. The indictments against 14 Department of Corrections employees, including 11 officers, include charges […]
TULSA, Oklahoma April 26 2018 – Police said a man is in the hospital after he was shot by a security guard at a Tulsa QuikTrip Tuesday evening, April 24. The shooting happened at 9:20 p.m. at the convenience store at Admiral and Memorial. Police said the man was trying to shoplift from the store when […]
Casper WY April 26 2018 Casper police officers on Tuesday arrested a man who allegedly walked into the AT&T store inside the Eastridge Mall and assaulted an employee. Charging papers say the employee was working when the alleged assailant walked into the store holding a rock and a plastic soda cup containing diarrhea. The alleged […]
LAS CRUCES NM April 26 2018 – A private security guard fended off a suspect who brandished a knife at a Las Cruces bar early Sunday morning, police said. The suspect, Rene A. McPherson II, 33, of the 300 block of North Roadrunner Parkway, was later arrested and charged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a […]
San Antonio TX April 26 2018 Authorities say an armed man who ran from security at a hotel in downtown San Antonio and tried to force his way into a room has been shot and killed by officers who confronted him. Police Chief William McManus said hotel personnel became suspicious as the man wandered the lobby […]
Washington DC April 26 2018 Edward Kovari’s 18-day journey caged in the back of a private prisoner transport van began at a gas station in Winchester, Va., where the waiter had recently moved from Houston. As Kovari left the station’s convenience store, a Virginia police officer checking out-of-state license plates informed him that his 2005 Pontiac […]
APPLE VALLEY CA April 26 2018 — A 33-year-old man was arrested after authorities say he led deputies on a high-speed pursuit through a school zone here early Tuesday morning. According to authorities, the pursuit began after San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Apple Valley Station deputies observed a black Honda motorcycle speeding and passing motorists on the […]