BROOKLET, Ga Sept 22 2021 A Georgia community is in mourning following the death of a police officer due to COVID-19. The Brooklet Police Department announced Monday that Lt. Brandi Stock passed away Sunday night due to complications from the coronavirus. Stock began her law enforcement career in 2009, during which she was an officer […]
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. Sept 22 2021– A man who works as a security guard and an assistant football coach for Miami-Dade County Public Schools was arrested Monday on a charge of sexual battery on a minor by an adult. Dominic Alganon Johnson, 36, was taken into custody at Miami Carol City Senior High School in Miami […]
MOBILE, Ala. Sept 22 2021 An inside job pulled off by a Brink’s armored truck driver will cost him two years of freedom, a federal judge decided Monday. Senior U.S. District Judge William Steele sentenced Jonah Tomoni Dewayan Bessard to two years in prison and recommended that he participate in a substance abuse program. The defendant will […]
New NY Sept 22 2021 Mayor de Blasio pledged Tuesday to hire private security guards to pick up the slack on Rikers Island amid continued staff shortages in the Correction Department ranks even though a decades-old law appears to bar the city from outsourcing jail jobs. As conditions in the overcrowded jail remain dire, de Blasio said […]
Charlotte NC Sept 21, 2021 Private security officers have been cussed at, spat at, assaulted, and killed while trying to enforce the Covid-19 safeguard rules since early 2020. For the most part, officers have been assigned to duties like taking the temperatures of store customers and restaurant guests, enforcing the social distancing and the face […]
CHICAGO IL Sept 21 2021 The Illinois attorney general’s office has announced a new effort to fight organized retail crime, a problem which one national trade organization estimates causes $45 billion in losses each year. Attorney General Kwame Raoul said his office has launched a task force with law enforcement, federal agencies including the Department […]
Hartford CT Sept 21 2021 Amazon employees in Connecticut have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, arguing they are entitled to compensation when they undergo mandatory screenings and searches inside facilities that are considered off-the-clock and therefore unpaid. The plaintiffs — Javier Del Rio, Colin Meunier, and Aaron Delaroche are suing Amazon on behalf of […]
Augusta GA Sept 21 2021 The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Friday shooting that left four people injured and two arrested at a dance club in downtown Augusta. Deputies responded to Sumyung Ho Night Club at 519 Broad St. around 2 a.m. Friday and found four people had been shot. One victim was the […]
HARRISBURG, N.C. Sept 21 2021 — On Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m., the Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant in regards to a large-scale retail theft ring. Responding agencies said the crime was operated out of a home on Valhalla Drive in Harrisburg. Authorities found a large number of stolen goods inside the home. […]
KANSAS CITY, MO. Sept 21 2021 Police in Kansas City are searching for a killer after security guards found a man fatally shot in the city’s Old Westport neighborhood. The security officers reported hearing gunshots around 3 a.m. Sunday in the area of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard, police said in a news release. When […]