Salt Lake security company issued “Cease and Desist” after employee commits murder
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah October 26 2018
A security guard with a checked criminal past who committed this week worked for a security firm suspected of operating in gray areas including using unlicensed security personnel.
Now, the security guard is dead from suicide and the security firm has been ordered to stop all business.
Questions were raised about why and how that convicted felon was allowed to work as a security guard downtown in the months leading up to a young woman’s murder. Convicted felons are not allowed to be security guards.
The company Melvin Rowland worked for, Black Diamond Security is now being investigated by the state for “unlicensed activity.”
On Thursday, officials confirmed the business was given a “Cease and Desist” order.
“The Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing can confirm that there is an active investigation into the unlicensed activity by Black Diamond Security Group,” said Jennifer Bolton, a Public Information Officer with Utah Department of Commerce.
Black Diamond appears to be unlicensed with the state.
The individual who committed the murder was a convicted sexual predator.
Black Diamond Security was hired by a downtown bar to offer security and assigned Rowland. It is unknown how many other assignments or locations that he worked as a security guard for the company.
