COLUMBIA, S.C. May 21 2022 After an April shooting that injured at least 12 people at Columbiana Centre in Columbia, the mall is stepping up security with a new four-legged guard. Columbiana Centre announced Thursday that K-9 Carlos is joining the mall’s security team. Carlos is a firearm-detecting canine trained by Shallow Creek Kennels. FOX affiliate […]
CHICAGO IL May 19 2022 A security company is proposing K-9 teams to help protect Chicago’s streets and public spaces. Action K9 Security is home to about 80 trained dogs who work with guards to keep the public safe. Timothy Clancy, the company’s Vice President of Operations, says his dogs have found more than 20 guns […]
CHICAGO IL April 25 2022 The latest solution to Chicago’s skyrocketing shoplifting problem has four legs and a tail. As CBS 2’s Tara Molina reported, a gun-sniffing dog already found a firearm on somebody at the Neiman Marcus store on Michigan Avenue. Molina got in contact with a local security company providing those same services – […]
Braintree MA Feb 2, 2022 The South Shore Plaza in Braintree is boosting security measures with K-9 patrols, additional cameras and more in the wake of a deadly shooting in a store. The fatal shooting of 26-year-old Dorchester man Dijoun Beasley a week ago was the latest in a string of shootings at the mall. The […]
OGDEN UT Jan 14, 2022 — Criminal charges were filed against an unruly McKay-Dee Hospital patient after security officers shot him with Tasers and a security dog was injured during efforts to subdue him. Ogden police arrested Jason Dean Crane, 41, on Thursday after hospital security called for help about a patient who had […]
Durham NC Dec 22, 2021, The Streets at Southpoint is putting a dog on patrol to detect firearms after a Black Friday shooting and other incidents of guns being brought to the mall. The German shepherd named Cigan, trained and supplied by Florida-based security company Southern Coast K9, will patrol common areas and entrances with […]
Deptford NJ Aug 3 2021 Two people were charged with disorderly conduct at a protest Friday outside a restaurant in Deptford where, one day earlier, a private security officer with a K-9 dog charged at another man in the restaurant’s parking lot. The confrontation Thursday, outside Adelphia Restaurant, was captured via 15-second video and posted […]
Cocoa FL June 25 2021 The Cocoa Police Department is investigating after one of its patrol dogs was found dead in a police car in Melbourne Wednesday afternoon, according to the agency. K-9 Zena, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois, was found by her handler while he was checking on her during a training class at Melbourne’s Criminal […]
Tuscaloosa AL April 25 2021 Warning: This story contains graphic images of injuries caused by a police dog bite. At the hospital in Tuscaloosa, Derek Stokes said doctors examined the bite from the police dog and discussed whether they would have to amputate his arm. “I was like ‘amputation?’ I went from going to Walmart […]
GREENSBORO, N.C. April 25 2021— The next time you go to Four Seasons Town Centre you might come across a four-legged friend with a nose to sniff out trouble. A 2-year-old German Shepherd named Rocco has joined the mall’s security team to help boost safety. “When you go shopping you don’t expect to see a […]