NEW ORLEANS LA April 6 2020 – According to the New Orleans Advocate, the public safety director for the New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center stole 80 masks that were meant for health care workers to battle against COVID-19. Vernon Giscombe, 58, was arrested Friday after a state Department of Public Safety officer witnessed a […]
New York City NY April 6 2020 An NYPD auxiliary officer has died due to complications of COVID-19, the latest member of the department’s family to succumb to the virus. Officer Lynford Chambers passed away Thursday, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced on social media. “Our prayers are with his friends & family during this difficult […]
STORMVILLE, N.Y. April 4 2020 A 62 year-old safety and security officer assigned to Kirby/Manhattan Psychiatric Center died Thursday night after contracting the coronavirus. The New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) identified the man as William Plantt. Plantt lived in Brooklyn and had been working as a security officer at […]
Tunisia Africa April 5 2020 Tunisia’s interior ministry has sent a police robot to patrol the streets of the capital and enforce a lockdown imposed last month as the country battles the spread of coronavirus. Known as PGuard, the “robocop” is remotely operated and equipped with infrared and thermal imaging cameras, in addition to a […]
New York City NY April 5 2020 Cops busted a pair of sneaker thieves who broke into a shuttered Brooklyn Foot Locker store and tried to make off with dozens of shoes and baseball caps. The two thieves broke into the back of the athletic shoe store on Pitkin Ave. near Bristol St. in Brownsville […]
NEW YORK NY April 5 2020— NYPD Commissioner Shea announced the passing of Auxiliary Police Lt. Pierre Moise on April 3 from a COVID-19-related illness. The officer had served with the NYPD since 1994. We are saddened to announce the passing of Auxiliary Police Lt. Pierre Moise the department announced. Since 1994, Pierre dutifully served the […]
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. April 4 2020— A 41-year-old El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy, who most recently worked in the county jail, died Wednesday after contracting the novel coronavirus. Deputy Jeff Hopkins was a 19-year veteran of the department, according to the sheriff’s office, which announced his death Thursday. Hopkins previously worked both on patrol […]
Sheriff Kirk A. Coker Hutchinson County Sheriff’s Office, Texas End of Watch Sunday, March 29, 2020 BIO Age 57 Tour 35 years Badge 801 INCIDENT DETAILS Cause Heart attack Sheriff Kirk Coker suffered a fatal heart attack shortly after responding to an unattended death near Fritch, Texas. He had responded from his home to the […]
Police Officer Marco DiFranco Chicago Police Department, Illinois End of Watch Wednesday, April 1, 2020 BIO Age 50 Tour 21 years Badge 19312 INCIDENT DETAILS Cause Duty related illness Incident Date Thursday, March 26, 2020 Police Officer Marco DiFranco died after contracting COVID-19 while on duty. Officer DiFranco had served with the Chicago Police Department […]
Deputy Sheriff Terrell Young Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, California End of Watch Thursday, April 2, 2020 BIO Age Not available Tour 15 years Badge Not available INCIDENT DETAILS Cause Duty related illness Deputy Sheriff Terrell Young died after contracting COVID-19 from an infected inmate at the Byrd Detention Center. Deputy Young had served with the […]