PORTLAND, Ore. Aug 15 2020— Portland State University announced Thursday that starting this fall, Campus Public Safety officers will begin conducting campus patrols without firearms. Instead, officials say they will have tasers. The university also announced a new process to reimagine campus safety. PSU says this is an effort that will look carefully at all […]
HOUSTON, Texas Aug 5 2020 An off-duty Houston police officer shot and killed a man who had just forcibly disarmed and taken a firearm from a uniform security officer. According to Chief Art Acevedo, the officer-involved shooting, which happened at the METRO Transit Center in downtown near Travis and Pierce on Tuesday, was captured on the […]
EL PASO, Texas June 24 2020 Police say a Las Cruces man allegedly tried to take a police officer’s taser Sunday evening. Sergio Sotelo, 26, is facing three charges of battery on a peace officer and two counts of resisting arrest, according to a news release from the Las Cruces Police Department. He was arrested just […]
Hamilton County TN May 5 2020 Hamilton County deputies arrested a man after they say he assaulted a deputy and security officer at the courthouse on Monday afternoon. HCSO spokesperson Rachel Frizzell says 39-year-old Donald Scott Trivett created “a disturbance” at the Hamilton County Courthouse and was asked by a deputy to leave. Frizzell says Trivett […]
MADISON, Wis. Feb 14 2020 Three armed men were able to ambush, rob and disarm a security officer arriving for work at a check cashing business in Wisconsin police said. As the security officer pulled up outside a Madison check cashing store early Wednesday morning, before the shop even opened, the men stormed him according […]
Houston TX January 15 2020 Two men attempted to rob an armored truck Monday morning in west Houston but left empty-handed, according to the FBI. The men approached the security guard this morning while she was in the 6400 block of San Felipe, officials said. They managed to disarm her but did not take […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. January 3 2020— A security guard was robbed Thursday morning in Midtown after trying to give someone a ride home. Memphis police responded to gunshots being fired call in the area of Poplar and Cleveland at around 3 a.m. That’s where they met the 51-year-old security guard, who told them that he had […]
LAS VEGAS NV January 1 2020 A man working as an apartment security guard was robbed of his work gun early Monday morning while on patrol, according to police. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lt. David Gordon said it happened around 1:56 a.m. Dec. 30 at the Mirabella Apartments at 2850 East Bonanza Road near Eastern Avenue. […]
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. December 14 2019 Lake County Sheriff’s Office said they’re looking for two of the four men who robbed several people at gunpoint in an internet casino and, in the process, handcuffed a security guard and took his gun Friday morning. Steve Manor and Zakee Garhi were both arrested for allegedly robbing several people […]
Calcasieu Parish LA December 7 2019 The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery that occurred early Friday morning at 2:00a m, at a casino on Highway 397 in Lake Charles. According to a media release from Kim Myers, investigators learned three suspects entered the casino, one armed with a handgun. Two of […]