Atlanta GA September 24 2023 A Fulton County investigator is recovering after investigators say they accidentally shot themselves while on duty Friday at the courthouse. SKYFOX 5 flew over the scene just minutes after the 10 a.m. shot was fired at the Fulton County Courthouse in Downtown Atlanta. FOX 5 saw the injured investigator leaving the […]
Columbus Indiana June 8, 2023 A local defendant being sentenced in Bartholomew Superior Court 2 attempted to escape the courtroom and led sheriff deputies on a pursuit while a stun gun was used repeatedly in an attempt to stop him. Sheriff department spokesman Sgt. Dane Duke said courthouse security was sent to Superior Court 2 […]
Chicago IL May 31 2023 Prosecutors say a wild situation erupted earlier this month at the Dirksen Federal Building. Leonard Delaney is facing serious charges after authorities said he pulled a machete before federal employees. The incidents happened back on Wednesday, May 3. In an affidavit, a U.S. Marshal said at 1:47 p.m., Delaney approached within […]
TEXARKANA, Ark. May 30, 2023–A man who allegedly told a federal court security officer that he was going to kill him earlier this year has been charged with lying about his criminal history on a federal firearms application. David Earl Kemp, 59, allegedly had been told previously he could not enter the federal courthouse that […]
Augusta ME March 15 2023 A man will spend more than a year in prison after being convicted of assault on a federal officer at the Muskie Federal Building in Augusta. Derik Broox Wight, 41, plead guilty to assaulting the officer after he entered the federal building in April of 2022. Officials say Wight walked […]
Waukegan WI Feb 18 2023 A man “cowardly” attacked a court security officer and injured them after a Lake County judge sentenced him to seven years in prison on Wednesday for a shooting in Gurnee. Maseo B. Rosser, 22, of Winthrop Harbor, was at the Lake County Circuit Court in Waukegan around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. He […]
Philadelphia PA January 18, 2023 The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Philadelphia is investigating a shooting involving a security officer outside of the federal court building in Philadelphia. A large police presence was spotted on the 700 block of Arch Street outside of the federal building around 9 a.m. on Tuesday. In a press conference held […]
CLEVELAND OH September 15 2022 Starting Wednesday, security guards assigned to four Cuyahoga County courthouses won’t be permitted to carry firearms in those buildings, according to a Tuesday sheriff’s memo obtained by the FOX 8 I-Team. That’s because of a legal opinion recently issued by the county prosecutor’s office on a state statute against carrying firearms […]
Atlanta GA June 19 2022 A Federal Protective Services officer was involved in a shooting Friday afternoon outside the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta, according to authorities. Atlanta police confirmed someone was shot at the downtown building at 75 Ted Turner Drive that houses the U.S. Courthouse. Atlanta police were among a throng of […]
COLUMBIA SC March 18, 2022— A woman held a knife to a Richland County Courthouse employee’s neck March 10, after she was able to pass through security and a metal detector with the weapon, police reports show. Richland County Sheriff’s Office, which handles security at the courthouse in downtown Columbia, did not answer questions March […]