CHICAGO IL March 6, 2022 — CTA is expanding the use of security guards to try to deter crime on the Blue and Red lines but union leaders say the city has to do more. CTA released surveillance pictures of three people wanted for taking a man’s phone and attacking him when he tried to get […]
Buffalo NY March 4, 2022 A Jet Blue pilot was removed from a plane’s cockpit in Buffalo on Wednesday morning after a Transportation Security Administration officer told authorities that he appeared “impaired” as he passed through security, authorities said. The pilot, James Clifton, 52, was taken into custody after he registered a blood-alcohol level of .17, […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 2, 2022 A man was shocked with a stun gun at the Nashville International Airport after Metro police said he threatened a passenger and airline employees over wearing a mask. Lucas Cutler, 44, from Alabama, is now facing several charges. ‘He was not being combative’: Witness recalls airport police using stun gun […]
TAMPA FL Feb 12, 2022— During the past several months, an organized ring has brought more than 200 pounds of drugs from Los Angeles into Tampa through the cities’ airports and sent back cash, investigators say. The airport investigation is revealed in an affidavit filed in Hillsborough Circuit Court seeking permission to search a […]
Salt Lake City Utah Jan 30, 2022 A woman accused of stealing luggage at the Salt Lake International Airport has been arrested. Leticia Marie Herrera, 40, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday for investigation of theft and four counts of unlawful use of a bank card. On Jan. 3, Herrera and […]
San Diego CA Jan 26, 2022 The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System has begun onboarding security officers with Inter-Con Security to provide security services on trolleys, buses and on MTS properties, it was announced Tuesday. The first officers began on New Year’s Day and by the end of the month, MTS expects to have 190 […]
SAN FRANCISCO CA Jan 21, 2022 — Police shot and killed a man who was allegedly armed and causing a disturbance at a train station near the San Francisco airport Thursday after he ignored their orders and continued advancing toward them, airport and police officials said. Airport spokesman Doug Yakel said in a statement that […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan 20, 2022 Last year at airports across the country, Transportation Security Administration officers found 5,972 guns during security screenings, breaking a record. It’s a number that eclipses totals from years past, and it’s an issue even more pronounced in Tennessee. Officers hear it all the time — people say they forgot they even […]
HONOLULU HI Jan 18, 2022 State lawmakers grilled airport officials over a recent rash of car thefts at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport and urged them to invest in more consumer-friendly upgrades at the airport. During an informational briefing held by the state Senate’s Ways and Means and Transportation committees on Friday, Sen. Donna Mercado […]
NEW YORK NY Jan 15 2022 Three women are facing federal charges of attacking an airline security worker who tried to block them from boarding a flight at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport in September because of what prosecutors say was problematic behavior, including a refusal to wear a face mask properly. The three […]