CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Feb 5 2020 A Brockton man is facing charges after attacking a parking officer giving him a ticket in Cambridge Monday, police said. Officers responding to reports of an assault on Appian Way and Brattle Street at 3:50 p.m. found a man who allegedly hit a parking control officer in the face, shoved a […]
Miami Beach FL December 17 2019 A Miami Beach parking enforcement officer was arrested after police said he extorted a valet company for cash payments in exchange for not enforcing parking violations. The owner of APS Parking LLC told police that Dante Zirio, a 57-year-old city employee, demanded $1,000 a month in exchange for not […]
TAMPA, Fla. December 10 2019 The city of Tampa parking division is working on a list this holiday season, and you don’t want to be on it. The city is flagging unpaid citations – no matter how long ago – and mailing out bills. Just ask Joe Reeser. He says he was stunned to receive a bill […]
KERSEY, Colo. Sept 28 2019 A large private ranch in Colorado has begun enforcing its speed limit by using a private security officer to issue speeding tickets. The Weld County District Attorney said an unusual speeding ticket that garnered attention on Reddit is not something his office would ever enforce but that the ticket […]
LAS VEGAS NV Sept 28 2019 The City of Las Vegas is giving “the boot” the boot and replacing it with the barnacle. As Las Vegas Parking Enforcement Officer Gibson explains in a Sept. 3 video, the traditional boot (that unsightly hunk of metal enforcement officers attach to the wheel of a car with too many […]
ATLANTA GA November 24 2018— A booting company worker shot a man after a parking dispute. According to Atlanta police, the shooting happened in a parking lot at Hughes Spalding Hospital. Police said the driver of a car and a friend returned to their car after a night out at the bar and found it […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. October 19 2018 A veteran parking enforcement officer is facing a criminal charge for allegedly stealing coins from a meter, according to Public Safety Commissioner Steven Paré. Frances Holt, who has worked for the city since 1989, was arraigned Wednesday afternoon on a single misdemeanor charge of embezzlement/wrongful conversion by a municipal employee under […]
Calumet Grenville-sur-la-Rouge Quebec July 28 2018 is cracking down on illegal riverside parking. Concerns have been building recently about people parking their cars along Chemin de la Rivière Rouge, in order to access the Rouge River on private property. The unofficial access points are also causing concerns about water safety and littering. At a special meeting on […]
PROVO, Utah June 18 2018 What started as a boot on a parked car has ended in a $500,000 lawsuit against Brigham Young University student Carl Prince. It began mid-September 2017 when Prince found a boot on his car, which was parked in an area that his Provo apartment complex, Park Plaza, later said was designated […]
Edmonton Canada Sept 20 2017 Be warned. An Edmonton driver’s chances of getting away with illegal parking are set to drop dramatically when city officials roll out their new robo-parking patrol. Car-mounted cameras will automatically check licence plates against the parking payment records while rolling at 50 km/h on downtown streets. A wall-mounted camera will take […]