Lebanon PA June 24 2019 WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital has been faulted by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for using pepper spray and handcuffs on a patient in need of mental health care. It’s second time in a month a local hospital was faulted for using too much force against a patient in mental health […]
PITTSBURGH PA June 23 2019 A 21-year-old Pittsburgh resident and Syrian refugee accused of planning an attack on a Christian church on the city’s North Side and providing resources to ISIS has been arrested. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, was arrested Wednesday based on a federal complaint charging him with one count of attempting to provide […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. June 23 2019 – David Knox has an old picture of his son as a little boy, wearing Knox’s South Carolina Highway Patrol uniform. But recently, his now 22-year-old son wore his own uniform as he was escorted across the stage by his father to get his patrol commission at the Highway Patrol’s […]
Corporal Jose “Speedy” Espericueta Mission Police Department, Texas End of Watch Thursday, June 20, 2019 Bio Age Not available Tour 13 years Badge 350 Incident Details Cause Gunfire Weapon Handgun Offender Shot and killed Corporal Jose Espericueta was shot and killed as he and other officers attempted to apprehend a subject who had threatened family […]
Trooper Jerry L. Smith Nebraska State Patrol, Nebraska End of Watch Thursday, June 20, 2019 Bio Age 51 Tour 5 years Badge 373 Incident Details Cause Automobile crash Trooper Jerry Smith was killed in a vehicle crash when his patrol car was struck head-on by another vehicle on Highway 26, two miles west of Bridgeport, […]
Rochester NY June 22 2019 A security guard will not face any criminal charges after a Monroe County grand jury determined his actions were justified in the fatal shooting of a man in early January. The licensed security guard was justified when he shot and killed Bradley Thomas, 26, in the parking lot of the […]
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. June 22 2019 Terre Haute Police officers responded to Vendors Village at Honey Creek Mall in reference to an alarm Saturday night around 10:15 P.M. Police said a group of suspects entered the store and hid out until the store was closed. After the store closed, police said the suspects were gathering up items […]
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. June 22 2019— An investigation is underway after hotel security found a woman dead in a hot tub. The woman from Greensboro was found face-down and unresponsive and security officers and police performed CPR while waiting for EMS. The incident was reported at the Patricia Grand at 2710 North Ocean Boulevard. The […]
NEW YORK NY June 22 2019 New York’s controversial public schools chancellor is calling it a seminal moment in history. The city has announced it’s scaling back police involvement with incidents that are considered “low level offenses” in schools. Talking through emotions instead of punishing students is now the focus in New York City school system. […]
GREELEY, Colo. June 22 2019 A security officer discovered a deceased man lying under a pile of concrete material and called 911. Authorities said that the 24-year-old man died in an accident at an asphalt plant in northeast Colorado. The Greeley Tribune reports that the firefighters responded about 9 p.m. Tuesday to the accident at the […]