CHICAGO IL Jan 19 2021 — A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in a secured area at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months. Aditya Singh, 36, is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan 13, 2021 A 42-year-old man has been arrested after investigators say he ran through a roll-up door on a bag belt at Nashville International Airport and onto a secure ramp over the weekend. An arrest warrant states Airport police were dispatched around 1 p.m. Sunday to a bag belt, where there were reports […]
San Francisco CA January 9 2021 BART plans to use nearly $2 million budgeted to fill six vacant police officer positions to hire social work-trained civilians to respond to homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction that plague the train system. They are not replacing the police positions in this process; they just are not hiring additional […]
SEDONA, AZ Dec 22 2020 A Sedona police officer fired his service weapon during a struggle with a man he was trying to arrest Sunday, according to Sedona police. It happened around 10:30 a.m. at the Sedona Airport. Sedona Police Department Chief Charles Husted says officers were called by airport officials who said three people, two […]
Rosemont IL Dec 20 2020 Terrell D. Lee, 28, of 2056 W. 80th Place, Chicago, was charged with criminal trespass and obstructing justice. At approximately 12:49 a.m. Nov. 28, police responded to the CTA station, 5701 N. River Rd., for a report of a man threatening security with a knife. Lee allegedly struggled with […]
Washington DC Dec 4 2020 A controversial U.S. program to monitor “high-risk” passengers at airports and on domestic flights has been poorly managed, with some fliers continuing to be monitored after they were not longer considered a risk, a government audit found. The Transportation Security Administration failed to “plan, implement, and manage the Quiet Skies […]
Denver CO Sept 20 2020 One of the first things RTD’s interim General Manager Paul Ballard noticed when he rode the agency’s commuter rail lines were the armed security guards stationed on every train checking tickets. “It’s very different to have security guards doing that type of work. So I made a mental note to […]
St Louis MO Sept 16 2020 City sheriff’s deputies this week will begin providing security on MetroLink trains in St. Louis as part of an expansion of an agreement with the region’s light rail system that put deputies at some transit centers earlier this year. Bi-State Development CEO Taulby Roach and St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts […]
FLINT, Mich. Sept 1 2020 Police at Bishop International Airport have a new tool to check passengers’ temperatures, run them through facial recognition software, check license plates and more from afar. The airport is the first — and one of the only businesses in the United States — to deploy the Smart Helmet by Italy-based KeyBiz. […]
DENVER CO Aug 17 2020 A confrontation over trespassing on BNSF Railroad property in Denver on Saturday led to a stabbing and a fatal shooting. Denver police said a railroad police officer detained a suspect on the suspicion of trespassing and found a felony warrant. At that point, the suspect allegedly pulled out a knife and […]