Portland OR Feb 25 2019 Following one day of trial testimony, a federal judge on Friday morning threw out a case against a 30-year-old man accused of ducking past security officials at Portland International Airport.U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez found there was no evidence that Badr Ziti, 30, ever entered the so-called “sterile area” of the…
Terrace BC Canada Feb 18 2019 A mobile security pilot project is underway in downtown Terrace to try to increase public safety at ATM vestibules after-hours. Following many complaints from customers feeling unsafe, three banks have come together to resolve the issue by contracting Securiguard, a security company, to regularly monitor their facilities throughout the night…
San Francisco CA Feb 15 2019-During the partial government shutdown, screeners at two Silicon Valley airports, San Francisco and San Jose International, moved thousands of people through security checkpoints. Operations at the airports, 35 miles apart, looked similar – uniformed officers reminding people to take off their shoes and put their laptops in plastic bins…
LOS ANGELES, CA February 11 2019— A joint drug bust between Australian and U.S. authorities in mid-January resulted in a record 1.7 tons of methamphetamine, being seized at Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport. Customs and Border Protection announced the seizure of the three containers on Thursday, which were intended to be shipped to Australia before being…
Two men who were citizens of Nigeria, living in Malaysia, and conducting their crimes from behind computers likely assumed they were safe from the reach of American law enforcement when they hacked into university computer systems to steal paychecks and tax returns. But through strong partnerships with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the…
Farmington Hills MI February 1 2019 – Federal agents used a fake university in Farmington Hills to lure alleged phony foreign students who were trying to stay in the United States illegally. The University of Farmington had no staff, no instructors, no curriculum and no classes but was utilized by undercover Homeland Security agents to identify people…
Judges in California and South Carolina have ordered cellphone carriers to disable nearly 200 contraband cellphones used by inmates to orchestrate crimes behind and outside prison walls, the most sweeping order of its kind ever won by corrections officials. It’s an important victory for prison officials who have been frustrated by their inability to stop…
(TNS) — Lockport City School District Superintendent Michelle Bradley said this week that the district does not currently have a date for implementation of its new Aegis facial recognition system. The district is using $1.4 million of its allocated $4.2 million SmartSchools Bond Act funding to implement a new security camera system equipped with Aegis…
The ask comes through a job posting or from someone you meet online. It seems simple and harmless enough: provide your bank account information and allow money transfers to flow into your account. Then move the money elsewhere and maybe earn a little cash for the trouble. Easy, painless, profitable. Right? Wrong. You are likely…
Santa Fe NM Sept 28 2017 Santa Fe Public Schools has begun replacing more than a third of its security guards this week after discovering they did not have the proper state certification for the job. Superintendent Veronica García said four of the seven guards removed from the district’s high schools and middle schools Monday were…
