LEXINGTON, Ky. February 4 2019 A man is behind bars after reportedly punching a security officer at the Lexington Public Library. According to an arrest citation, the security officer found 39-year-old Christopher Davis viewing pornography on a library computer on Jan. 27. The security officer reportedly asked Davis to leave, and began escorting him out […]
Gloucester MA Jan 31 2019 Visitors to Gloucester’s Sawyer Free Library can expect to see some new personnel — uniformed security officers aimed at keeping tabs on their safety and maintaining the library’s peace — beginning next week. The library’s Board of Trustees is bringing aboard six former police officers — most retirees from […]
PHOENIX AZ January 7 2019— The Phoenix Police Department has booked a man who is accused of aggravated assault after he pulled out a gun during an altercation with security guards at Burton Barr Central Library. Police say 36-year-old Cedric Broger was arrested Saturday after the incident at the Phoenix library located at Central Avenue […]
STAMFORD CT December 29 2018 — A 34-year-old Norwalk man was arrested on Wednesday for refusing to comply with an order to not enter the Ferguson Library, police said. Michael Joseph Larocco was told to stay off the premises of the Broad Street library because of a past incident in which he allegedly caused a scene […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. November 21 2018 Police say that a library security officer helped them to arrest a man who was showing porn to several children on a library computer. Police were called by the security officer after Ceequaon Slaughter was seen by the security officer sitting between three minors, showing them a porn video on […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. November 10 2018 A 65-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday after he was reportedly caught masturbating in the reference section of the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library. Virginia Beach police say they were called to the library on Virginia Beach Boulevard around 5 p.m. to address the incident. The man was located and […]
Topeka KS October 12 2018 A Topeka woman was arrested after fighting with police at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Wednesday afternoon. Shortly after noon, an off-duty officer recognized 53-year-old Linda R. Marshall and found out she had a warrant. The off-duty officer and officers from the Topeka Police Department attempted to stop […]
ATLANTA GA April 20 2018 Atlanta police are reporting that a woman who works as a contract security officer at the downtown Atlanta library, had scissors held to her throat while a man hiding in the building tried to make her perform oral sex on him late Sunday night after the library closed. A surveillance […]
MINNEAPOLIS MN March 11 2018 – Police officers and deputies aren’t the only ones learning how to administer Naloxone, the medication used to rapidly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The Hennepin County Library, which oversees 41 locations, is working on a plan to train their security staff on how to use it. “I’ve seen […]
Boston MA Feb 26 2018 A man attacked a woman from behind at a public library near Boston on Saturday and stabbed her repeatedly with a hunting knife, killing her and injuring an elderly man who came to her aid, authorities said. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said the 22-year-old woman was studying or doing work […]