Jersey City NJ May 12 2022 A second Jersey City school district security guard has been charged with submitting fraudulent insurance claims, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. A security guard employed by the Jersey City Public Schools was arrested by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Insurance Fraud Unit for submitting fraudulent medical claims […]
LANSING, Mich. May 11 2022– A Michigan Brink’s truck driver has been charged with stealing more than a million dollars from 24 ATMs in mid-Michigan in November and December. Authorities said he did it by stashing the cash in his lunch box. Reginald Carman has been charged with stealing $1,060,200 in cash from FDIC […]
Cocoa FL May 6 2022 A Florida woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly pocketing more than $10,000 from a fund created to pay for some Boy Scouts’ trip to Europe. Robin DeRushie, 44, was working as a district committee member for a Scout troop in Cocoa, Florida, when in January 2022 she was entrusted to deposit […]
Seattle WA May 2 2022 In the year since Amazon pledged to become “Earth’s Safest Place to Work,” the serious injury rate at the company’s American warehouses rose 15%, according to a new report from the union coalition Strategic Organizing Center. The report, which was published Tuesday and relies on federal injury data, shows that the […]
BOISE, Idaho April 27 2022 — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed a fine of $14,502 for the security company at the Boise Towne Square Mall for the fatal shooting of a security officer on Oct. 25, 2021. Professional Security Consultants Inc. provides officers for locations such as the Boise […]
PENSACOLA, Fla. March 8, 2022- Two Pensacola bank employees are charged with fraud and identity theft. FDLE agents arrested Tiwuan Williams, 26, and Stephon Pugh-Davis, 27, both of Pensacola, for: scheme to defraud criminal use of personal identification information unlawful use of a two-way communication device conspiracy to commit a felony FDLE states the investigation began […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. February 27, 2022– A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office patrol officer has been charged with official misconduct, a third-degree felony, after investigators discovered he wasn’t showing up for secondary jobs he’d signed up for, Undersheriff Pat Ivey announced Wednesday. Ivey said Officer Dennis W. Hampton, who has worked for JSO for 5½, chose not to resign […]
OAKLAND, Calif. Feb 20, 2022 Dozens of current and former Highway Patrol officers have been charged with racking up more than $226,000 in phony hours in an overtime fraud scheme, California’s attorney general said. The charges announced Thursday stem from a criminal investigation of officers in the East Los Angeles station. Between 2016 and mid-2018, 54 […]
Gainesville FL Feb 18, 2022 A security contractor fired an employee fewer than 10 minutes after they raised concerns with supervisors about COVID-19 and firearm storage safety, a US Department of Labor (DOL) lawsuit says. The DOL says in the suit, filed Monday, that Gainesville, Florida-based VRP Group, doing business as Regius Investigations and Protective Services, […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Feb 14, 2022 The Head of Security at Florida State University’s Strozier Library is accused of stealing thousands of rare comic books from the library’s special collection. FSU Police arrested Todd Peak of Crawfordville on Friday. He is charged with grand theft of more than $100,000, fraud, dealing in stolen property and selling stolen […]