AMARILLO, Texas Dec 12 2019 The Potter County Attorney’s Office is now putting their plan into practice to staff two volunteer law enforcement officers in Child Protective Services court hearings. There have been no budgeted funds for a bailiff or a security officer for these cases before, but it’s all to make sure they go as […]
DOVER, Tenn. November 8 2019 – Tennessee authorities said a man carrying an ax and drugs walked into a county courthouse and entered a judge’s private chambers, where he was found sitting behind the judge’s desk. According to Stewart County Sheriff Frankie Gray, Michael Dupont, 46, was charged with trespassing, possessing a weapon, disorderly conduct […]
JACKSON COUNTY, Ala. Sept 20 2019 – The Jackson County Courthouse was closed Wednesday morning after a deputy working security shot an armed man. Jackson County Sheriff Chuck Phillips said a man with a handgun on his side entered the courthouse around 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. The man approached the deputy security guards and showed them […]
ASHEBORO, N.C. Aug 24 2019 Deputies have arrested an Archdale woman after she was accused of bringing methamphetamine through the security measures at the Randolph County Courthouse. A deputy with the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office’s criminal interdiction team was working at security at the courthouse Tuesday and came in contact with Brooke Kellemst, 24. Investigators […]
Los Angeles CA July 25 2019 Federal courthouse security officers were involved in a shooting that left one man injured according to the Los Angeles police department. The FBI also said that a second was taken into custody Tuesday after the shooting near the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Police were called to the […]
Oakland County MI July 18 2019 A 20-year-old Pontiac woman was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon after deputies working court security at the Rochester Hills district court. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office deputies noticed a suspicious item in a bag being carried into the 52nd District Court, which services Rochester, Rochester Hills, Lake Orion, Oakland […]
PICKENS, S.C. July 9 2019 Police reported that two homemade pipe bombs were detonated near the Pickens County Courthouse Sunday night. The Pickens City Police Department said the remnants of the two devices were found on the side of the building near the HVAC units. The devices were “intentionally placed” on the exterior un of the courthouse, […]
EPHRATA WA July 4 2019 – A man who assaulted a security guard at the Grant County Courthouse has been sentenced to a year in prison. Joshua Maher, 34, pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree. He also pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver in a separate case that […]
EPHRATA PA May 10 2019 – A Grant County Courthouse security officer sustained a broken kneecap and broken finger in Tuesday’s assault. Phoenix Protective Corp. security guard Jessica Lewis was working at the public checkpoint in the Grant County Sheriff’s Office lobby when she, following protocol, reportedly confronted Joshua Maher after he refused to show his […]
Pittsburgh PA May 1 2019 Authorities are investigating how a loaded handgun in a woman’s purse got past security Tuesday afternoon at Pittsburgh Municipal Court’s main entrance. Allegheny County’s top court administrator said Tuesday evening that the private security guard who was manning the magnetometer when the woman made it through security unchallenged will not be […]