Washington DC July 22 2020 The president of two unions for private security guards and other workers in the Washington region pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $50,000 in union funds. The plea from Sandra M. King, 62, of Owings Mills, Md., came six years after the unions’ previous president pleaded guilty to the same […]
Toledo OH July 4 2020 A Dick’s Sporting Goods loss prevention employee was fired from his job, according to a company statement Friday, after being arrested, though not charged by police for assaulting a man who was suspected of shoplifting food items. A video posted to Facebook Thursday showed the loss prevention employee, whose name […]
ATLANTA GA June 22 2020 – Russell Richardson, former DeKalb Medical Center, Inc. (DeKalb Medical) Director of Security, has pleaded guilty to fraudulently using hospital funds to acquire multiple handguns that he then sold for his personal benefit and financial gain. “Richardson abused his position at the hospital, and manipulated the system for personal profit,” […]
NORWALK, CT June 17 2020— A former employee of Bloomingdale’s in The SoNo Collection was arrested this week on a charge of second-degree larceny after police said she defrauded the store out of about $14,000. Stamford resident Summer Parkman, 36, of Stillwater Road, surrendered to Norwalk police on June 5. Police said Parkman is accused of […]
HELENA MT June 17 2020— A former GardaWorld employee convicted at trial of spending stolen money from an armored truck on gambling, day trading and a trip to France, was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. After a four day trial in January, […]
Queens NY June 16 2020 A security guard at Aqueduct Racetrack was charged Monday as the “inside man” in the armed heist of more than $280,000 there — with the feds saying he committed another robbery with one of the crooks more than 20 years ago. Lafayette Morrison was accused of telling pal Lamel Miller […]
Denver CO May 21 2020 A cannabis security company based in Colorado has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower-court decision requiring state-legal marijuana businesses to adhere to federal labor laws such as overtime pay. In its petition, Helix TCS argues that a ruling last September by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th […]
Sacramento CA May 3 2020 Amazon yesterday settled for $11m with staff at its California warehouses who’d sued it over uncompensated wait times for security checks as they began and ended shifts. As with all settlement deals, Jeff Bezos’ firm did not admit liability, the document, filed in a Kentucky federal court yesterday, confirmed. Unfortunately for […]
HONOLULU HI April 26 2020 Two men have been charged in connection to an armored van heist, according to the Attorney General’s Office. Twenty-three-year-old Ameer Davis of Kaneohe was charged by federal complaint with bank theft as an agent of, or as a person connected in a capacity with a federally insured bank on April 20. […]
Charlotte NC April 12 2020 In a recent survey of Private Officer International members and social media followers, 143 security employees currently working on the frontline said that they have not been issued PPE during the COVID-19. Of those who responded, 27 percent were working in retail big box and specialty stores such as pharmacies, […]