Clayton County GA May 4 2020 Three people arrested in an armed robbery of a Waffle House in North Macon were employees of a Waffle House in Clayton County, police said. The trio also may have been involved in seven other armed robberies of Waffle Houses throughout Georgia, according to a news release from the […]
Ontario Canada May 4 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an enormous demand for security guards, whose job descriptions have been expanded to include temperature checks, grocery store crowd control and — in at least one case — removing bodies from a morgue. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 333 says 1,500 security jobs are […]
FLINT, Mich. May 3 2020 – A security officer was shot and killed at a Family Dollar in Flint, according to Michigan State Police. Lt. David Kaiser says cars were dispatched to the store on Fifth Avenue around 2 p.m. on Friday. The suspect ran into the high-rise apartments behind the store. The security officer was […]
BROOKLYN, N.Y. May 3 2020— John Scrivani retired from his work in disaster response management in New York City about a decade ago. He moved to Spotsylvania County seeking a calmer life, but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought him back home. He typically commutes to work in Richmond as the Director for Safety, Security and […]
Orange County FL May 3 2020 A man arrested for camping at Walt Disney World’s Discovery Island told police he didn’t know he was trespassing on what looked to him like a “tropical paradise,” police sa The man, who was taken into custody Thursday, had been on the island since Monday or Tuesday to camp […]
SAN FRANCISCO CA May 3 2020 A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy shot a dog Thursday morning at a hotel being used as a shelter in San Francisco during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, sheriff’s officials said. Around 10 a.m., two deputies assigned to provide law enforcement services at the shelter at 1231 Market St. responded to […]
SAN FRANCISCO CA May 3 2020 – In an internal email obtained by KTVU from San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott to officers on Friday, the chief said, “Thin Blue Line masks shall not be worn by our on-duty members.” San Francisco police were out in full force Friday afternoon to respond to people who were […]
MIAMI FL May 2 2020— A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a telecommunications specialist are accused of stealing personal protective equipment, toilet paper and other supplies from an agency warehouse in Florida amid shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The officials, who were not authorized to discuss […]
Stockton CA May 1 2020 A disturbance and an assault involving a security officer has led to the arrest of a seventeen-year-old. Police said that a security guard attempted to remove a 17-year-old male suspect from a property in the 400 block of East Weber Street for causing a disturbance at about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday. […]
SAN ANTONIO TX May 1 2020 – A 53-year-old deputy died Thursday morning, before medical officials were even able to tell him he had COVID-19. According to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Timothy De La Fuente has been assigned to the detention center for about a year. The jail has had a recent outbreak of COVID-19 […]