Maplewood MN Nov 29 2021 Days after the head of Twin Cities-based Best Buy warned analysts that the retailer was seeing an uptick in crime, numerous shoplifters apparently working in tandem Friday night rushed two metro area Best Buy stores, grabbing high-priced items before fleeing. Both crimes occurred shortly after 8 p.m. on one of […]
Los Angeles CA Nov 29 2021 In another violent incident, a security guard was assaulted Wednesday after a flash mob of looters crashed a Nordstrom’s department store at Topanga Mall in Los Angeles: The attack happened around 6:45 p.m. when a group of five suspects committed a smash-and-grab at the Nordstrom store and ran out […]
OAKLAND, Calif. Nov 28 2021 A security officer has died after he was shot while he protected a San Francisco Bay Area television news crew covering a smash-and-grab theft, part of a rash of organized retail crime in the region. “We are devastated by the loss of security guard and our friend, Kevin Nishita. Our deepest […]
Kennewick WA Nov 28 2021 An armed shoplifter and a security officer exchanged gunfire on Black Friday in the parking lot of the Kennewick Walmart, sending fearful shoppers and employees running for safety. Robbery suspect Alexander Richard Yell, 31, was the only one wounded after reportedly being shot two to three times at close […]
Fort Worth TX Nov 28 2021 Longtime volunteer Frank Diaz has spent the past 30 years patrolling his neighborhood since the program’s inception. “We started because there was a lot of high crime in Fort Worth everywhere,” Diaz said He and his neighbors drive around the Crestwood neighborhood during the day, when they say homes […]
Durham NC Nov 28 2021 Panic erupted at a North Carolina mall filled with Black Friday shoppers when three people were shot — including a 10-year-old boy — and three others injured in what authorities described as a fight between two groups. Gunshots pierced the air at 3:23 p.m. inside The Streets at Southpoint mall […]
San Diego CA November 28 2021 A security officer shot and killed a person wielding a knife Friday at the entrance gate to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, authorities said. The shooting occurred at around noon, San Diego police said. A car tried to enter the depot through the Gate 5 […]
Hoover AL Nov 28 2021 Four people were arrested Friday following a small protest inside the Riverchase Galleria. The protest took place midday inside the Hoover mall in protest of the 2018 shooting death of Emantic Fitzgerald “EJ” Bradford Jr., 21. The shooting happened shortly before 10 p.m. on Nov. 22, 2018, while thousands were getting […]
WASHINGTON DC Nov 28 2021 – A special police officer was assaulted during a theft in the District Wednesday. Authorities say a suspect entered a store in the 800 block of 7th Street in the Northwest around 10 p.m. Wednesday and attempted to leave without paying for items. An on-duty special police officer tried to stop […]
Jefferson County AL November 27, 2021 Two security officers who were shot at an Alabama mining operation did not know that each one had been shot. According to the Jefferson County sheriff’s office, the first security officer was shot early Wednesday morning. Deputies received a call that a man was shot at around 1 […]