SCHENECTADY NY December 16, 2022— A Troy woman has filed suit against Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady for alleged assault by casino security guards during a July incident. The suit was filed in state Supreme Court in Rensselaer County on Dec. 13 with plaintiff Alexandria Dzembo alleging that she was dragged away from a gaming […]
ORLANDO, Fla. December 16, 2022 An unarmed hotel security officer was among several people shot by a man with an AR-15 rifle during a shooting rampage police reported. The 19-year-old Georgia man upset about how he had been treated by an area resort, armed himself with an AR-15-style weapon and walked into the lobby of […]
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. December 16, 2022– Police are hoping a new image taking from security footage will help investigators in the manhunt for a murder suspect accused of killing a Gwinnett County correctional officer. It’s been more 48 hours since police found 59-year-old Officer Scott Riner shot to death in the parking lot of the […]
Las Vegas NV December 16, 2022 The private Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas is using an artificial intelligence system to detect school security threats. The preschool through 12th grade Jewish school is contracting with SparkCognition, an Austin, Texas-based company. SparkCognition spokesman Stephen Gold told the Review-Journal the technology integrates with the school’s existing cameras […]
Athens Georgia December 16, 2022 A woman who was arrested earlier this month has been indicted after federal prosecutors say she sent a bomb threat to the Democrats’ campaign headquarters in Athens, where she was employed as a security guard, ahead of the runoff election for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat. Jessica Diane Higginbotham, 35, of Elberton, […]
NEWBURGH NY December 16, 2022– An incident in the parking lot of Newburgh Free Academy Main early Wednesday morning involved an assault on a security guard. According to initial reports, at around 7:10 a.m. a security officer was struck by a car in the parking lot after which a parent and student in the vehicle […]
PORTLAND, Ore. December 16, 2022— The shooting of a 16-year-old student outside Cleveland High School on Monday came just weeks after several Jefferson High School students were injured in separate shootings near that school. The shootings have redoubled conversations about school safety in Portland. “If there’s one place in the community that people should feel […]
GLENDALE, AZ December 16, 2022— Glendale police officials say they used a ‘drive stun’ function of a Taser on a shoplifter over a dozen times at WalMart after they say the woman was resisting arrest. A spokesperson for the Glendale Police Department says that an off-duty officer was assisting loss prevention at the WalMart near […]
Washington DC December 15, 2022 A federal jury convicted a Maryland security guard today of tax evasion. According to court statements and evidence presented in court, Gaston Gilberto Reyes, of Germantown, did not file income tax returns with the IRS for the years 2015 through 2020. During this period, he did not report more than […]
Gloucester City NJ Dec 15 2022 A South Jersey school district plans to equip its schools with a new tool: bullet-resistant portable shields to protect teachers and students in the event of an active shooter in the building. The Gloucester City school system could be the first district to put the lightweight steel safety shields […]