New NY Sept 22 2021 Mayor de Blasio pledged Tuesday to hire private security guards to pick up the slack on Rikers Island amid continued staff shortages in the Correction Department ranks even though a decades-old law appears to bar the city from outsourcing jail jobs. As conditions in the overcrowded jail remain dire, de Blasio said […]
Charlotte NC Sept 21, 2021 Private security officers have been cussed at, spat at, assaulted, and killed while trying to enforce the Covid-19 safeguard rules since early 2020. For the most part, officers have been assigned to duties like taking the temperatures of store customers and restaurant guests, enforcing the social distancing and the face […]
Raleigh NC Sept 18 2021 A man who died Thursday after an early-morning shooting outside a club on North Market Drive was fatally shot by security guards, Raleigh police said Friday. Devon Maleek Bowser, 28, had an argument with employees inside Club Amnesia before he left and returned to the club with a handgun, police […]
Attalla AL Sept 18 2021 No one was injured when a nightclub patron and a security guard exchanged shots at an Attalla nightspot, Attalla Police Chief Dennis Walker said, but a man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the incident. Chief Investigator Doug Jordan said there was a fight early Sunday at […]
Raleigh NC Sept 18 2021 A man who died Thursday after an early-morning shooting outside a club on North Market Drive was fatally shot by security guards, Raleigh police said Friday. Devon Maleek Bowser, 28, had an argument with employees inside Club Amnesia before he left and returned to the club with a handgun, police […]
Attalla AL Sept 18 2021 No one was injured when a nightclub patron and a security guard exchanged shots at an Attalla nightspot, Attalla Police Chief Dennis Walker said, but a man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the incident. Chief Investigator Doug Jordan said there was a fight early Sunday at […]
ANAHEIM CA Sept 12 2021 A transient was arrested Saturday on suspicion of fatally stabbing a Tustin man who was working in Anaheim as a security guard. Andrew Isaiah Godinez, 24, was taken into custody shortly after stabbing, which happened at about 10:15 p.m. at a strip mall in the 1800 block of West Lincoln Avenue. […]
SAN ANTONIO TX Sept 12 2021– Two men have been charged after a shooting outside a Northwest Side bar injured two security officers back in July, San Antonio police said. According to an affidavit, Demarea Quintrell Pleasaince, 20, and Robert Markeith Chaney, 27, are charged with aggravated assault against a security officer after hitting a […]
SEDGWICK COUNTY KS Sept 12 2021 —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting involving a QuikTrip security guard that injured a 23-year-old woman early Friday. Shortly after 2:00 a.m., police were dispatched to a shooting at the QuikTrip in the 700 block of N Broadway, involving a security guard employed by the business, according to Officer […]
Washington DC September 5, 2021 The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced the sad passing of another member of the TSA family. Fort Myers-based Lead Transportation Security Officer (LTSO) Robert Garcia passed away from complications of COVID-19, on August 28, 2021. Garcia joined TSA in November 2002 and served as an LTSO at Lincoln Airport […]