Huntsville Alabama May 14 2023 Huntsville Hospital Health System’s patients, visitors, and staff are head-over-paws for Mollie the German shepherd, who is believed to be the first hospital-based security K9 in the state. Mollie’s primary purpose is sniffing out illegal narcotics, a job for which she is certified through the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association as […]
Richmond, Virginia May 14 2023– An altercation between two male co-workers inside a stairwell at VCU Medical Center North Hospital resulted in one of the men being fatally shot early Wednesday morning. Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Police received a report just after midnight on Wednesday that shots were fired and there was an active threat […]
Houston TX May 12 2023 Texas Children’s Hospital is facing $15,625 in penalties after a security officer was hospitalized in an attack, according to federal authorities. During the Nov. 10, 2022, attack, authorities said the security officer was responding to an alert when they were pulled to the ground by an “aggressive” patient. The pediatric patient […]
Annapolis, MD May 5 2023— A police impersonation suspect returned to the Anne Arundel Medical Center on Tuesday and threatened to shoot a hospital security guard, officials said. Officers identified the suspect as 64-year-old Glenn Anthony Atkins of Annapolis. Authorities said they arrested an intoxicated Atkins on Monday outside the Annapolis hospital. Police accused Atkins […]
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. May 5 2023– A Johnstown man was jailed Thursday, accused of assaulting a Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center security officer when he was a patient, authorities said. City police charged Martin Joseph Homola, 44, of the 400 block of Vine Street, Townhouse Towers, with aggravated assault, simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment. According to […]
Woodstock IL April 18 2023 A Lake in the Hills man was charged with punching a security guard at a hospital in Woodstock and attempting to punch an EMT, court documents show. Mitchell A. Thompsen, 27, of Lake in the Hills, was charged with aggravated battery of a security officer, aggravated assault on an emergency […]
Anchorage, Alaska April 10 2023 — So this moose walks into a medical building… While that could be a setup to a bad joke, it actually happened in Anchorage on Thursday. A young moose trudging through the snow looking for a meal spotted green plants in the lobby of a medical building in the Providence Alaska […]
Floyd County GA April 10 2023 Authorities are investigating an exchange of gunfire that took place in a hospital parking lot this week. LaGrange police said on Wednesday at 5:05 p.m., officers received reports of shots being fired at the WellStar West Georgia Medical Center on Vernon Road. When officers arrived, several witnesses told them shots […]
Charlotte NC April 8 2023 A civil lawsuit has been filed by the person Novant Health security officers are accused of assaulting in 2022. In the suit, the plaintiff said he was arrested at Roof Above Men’s Shelter and taken to the hospital on Feb. 8, 2022. He alleged that Novant and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers […]
Galesburg IL April 1 2023 A 49-year-old Galesburg woman was arrested Saturday night after assaulting staff at OSF St. Mary’s Medical Center. Galesburg police responded to the hospital Saturday around 10:20 pm for a disturbance. Officers met with a 35-year-old security guard who said he was battered by a woman who was trying to leave […]