British Columbia Canada November 23 2019 More than two years ago, a young woman found herself separated from her friends at a Kamloops area ski resort festival. She was heavily intoxicated and stumbling through the snow when she came across a security guard and asked for help getting home. He offered to walk her to […]
BAY CITY MI Nov 23 2019 – Grady Emmons started Precision Risk Management Group in 2006 to provide such services as surveillance investigations and secure diamond transport. But in 2018, Emmons changed the company’s name to Marijuana Security Operations to become a security player in the nascent Michigan cannabis industry. Now MSO provides security planning, armed […]
TAMPA, Fla. Nov 23 2019 Four women arrested on shoplifting charges in central Florida claim they wanted to steal clothing to raise money to attend a funeral. The Pasco Sheriff’s Office arrested 24-year-old Moet Pope, 19-year-old Vinesha Howard, 20-year-old Cedriana Lawson, and 17-year-old Dai’zha West. Deputies said the group tried to walk out of a Polo […]
Charlotte NC November 23 2019 According to a new report from The Freedonia Group, guarding revenues reached $29 billion in 2018, representing 43% of all private security service revenues. Revenues by service include: guarding (includes patrolling, monitoring surveillance equipment, and overseeing stationary locations) security monitoring (includes planning security systems, performing maintenance and reviews, reacting to events, […]
Chicago IL November 23 2019 The family of a woman killed in the shooting last year at Mercy Hospital filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the hospital, its security contractor and the estate of the deceased shooter. The 12-count suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court by the family of Dayna Less, accuses Mercy […]
REDDING, Calif. Nov 23 2019 Redding police say a man was arrested for a hate crime at the Redding Library on Tuesday afternoon. Police say the suspect recently arrived from Florida and has been arrested twice in two days. Police were called to the Redding Library shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday for reports that a man […]
JONESBORO, Ark. November 23 2019 Jonesboro police arrested a man accused of threatening hospital staff with a knife. According to a probable cause affidavit, police were called to St. Bernards Medical Center on Sunday, Nov. 17 due to a man with a knife. There, the officers saw several security guards and hospital staff standing at the […]
Chicago IL November 22 2019 A reported shoplifter is dead after a struggle with store security officers and employees. It all happened at the Jewel-Osco store, 3531 N. Broadway, about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday and police say that this is an ongoing investigation. As onlookers gathered around the checkout area of a Lakeview East grocery store […]
PRESS RELEASE Albuquerque, New Mexico November 23 2019 James Baldinger, 51, a former private prisoner transport officer with the Prisoner Transportation Services of America LLC (PTS), was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a female during transport. According to court documents, Baldinger worked as […]
LEMAN TWP., Pa. November 22 2019 A group claiming that they were indigenous Native Americans to the Pocono Mountains forcefully entered a building and took a security officer hostage in an attempt to “take the land back,” according to Pennsylvania State Police. Police received a call on Nov. 18 that a group of armed people were […]