Pensacola FL December 3 2019 A Florida woman is in custody after faking a medical issue during a flight, which ultimately forced the plane to be diverted, in order to get a bigger seat. The woman, who has not been identified, falsely claimed to have a medical issue during a Friday morning American Airlines flight […]
LAS VEGAS NV November 22 2019 Authorities say a person was shot and injured by Las Vegas police on a tarmac next to a terminal at McCarran International Airport. A police statement says a person described as a suspect was hit in the shooting at about 4 a.m. Thursday and that preliminary information indicated that no […]
TEMPE, AZ Nov 18 2019 A pair of light rail security officers were allegedly threatened by a man who was holding a large knife and threatening them, according to court documents. Tempe police report that on November 5, they responded to the light rail platform near 5th Street and Mill Avenue when security officers reported […]
Albuquerque NM October 26 2019 Two Albuquerque transit security officers have been on paid leave for more than two and half months while the district attorney considers filing criminal charges against one of them. It’s all stemming from a July incident that was caught on camera in which one of the security guards is seen […]
Tucson AZ October 21 2019 A man was arrested after claiming to have a bomb in his car after driving onto the Tucson International Airport’s airfield during a chase with police early Friday morning. Tucson Airport Authority police received reports of a driver on the airfield around 1:20 a.m., said TAA spokeswoman Jessie Butler. The […]
ORLANDO, Fla. October 8 2019– A woman was escorted off a plane at Orlando International Airport Sunday after boarding a Delta flight to Atlanta with neither a ticket nor identification. A passenger said she called a flight attendant to her assigned seat when the woman refused to move. “She said very bluntly, ‘I’m not moving,’” […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Aug 18 2019 A bizarre story from the Greater Rochester International Airport: A security worker was caught on tape passing a note with a mean message to a traveler. As a result, she lost her job. That traveler, Neal Strassner, said the worker gave him a note as he was passing through the security […]
LONDONDERRY NH Aug 11 2019 — Police have charged an airport security guard with simple assault after he allegedly harassed and touched a Dunkin’ worker inappropriately in the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport last week. Jeffrey Betterini, 54, of Epping turned himself in on a warrant Wednesday. Police say he is accused of sexually harassing a young woman […]
Chicago IL August 3 2019 Security guards with dogs are no longer patrolling CTA platforms amid questions about whether the guards, employed by a private contractor of the transit agency, had been property trained to handle the animals. Instead, two-person security teams are being used, CTA spokesman Brian Steele said Thursday. The muzzled dogs for […]
KEY WEST, Fla. July 23 2019 An airlines worker is accused of assaulting a deputy at an airport in the Florida Keys. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrested 42-year-old Angel Arley Medeiros of Key West on Saturday. Deputies said Medeiros, an American Airlines employee, had to surrender his Secured Identification Display Area badge due to a […]