Security Guard

A security guard at the Community College of Philadelphia was fired Tuesday after police found about $10,000 worth of the college's computer equipment in his Deptford home, a college spokeswoman said. Marjorie Osherow, the director of public relations for the college, declined to release the man's name but said he had been a full-time security guard at the school for the last eight years. He had a clean disciplinary record at the college, Osherow said, and was fired as a result of his involvement in the equipment theft.

An attempt to apprehend two suspected thieves from the John Wanamaker store in the Plaza at King of Prussia Mall led to one arrest and a store security officer's being hospitalized this week after he was struck by the getaway car. According to Upper Merion police, at 8:29 p.m. Saturday security officer John Hutelmyer saw two men cut the cable that held leather coats on a rack in the store's youth department. One of the men grabbed the jackets and both fled the store with Hutelmyer in pursuit.

Fred Bibbo interviewed Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron last weekend. Fred Bibbo is a security guard at Comcast SportsNet. Is this picture fuzzy or what? Bibbo, 40, began his new "career" when Mark Jordan, CSN's executive producer of special projects, needed someone with wrestling knowledge to interview the stars of "Ready to Rumble. " Bibbo has been a pro wrestling fan since his younger days in Ridley Park. Jordan liked Bibbo's work so much that the two went to New York to chat with the stars of the new film, "The Legend of Bagger Vance.

The security guard sat in a chair by a desk in an office at Franklin Mills mall, despondent and bleeding from the head. "Is he dead?" asked the guard, 50-year-old William Haag, when a Philadelphia police officer entered the office. "Is he dead?" It was not yet dawn on Feb. 5, a clear, bitterly cold morning. A short distance from the office, the Franklin Mills security vehicle that Haag had been driving sat 35 feet down an embankment on the mall's fringe, battered and empty.

Joseph E. Hill Jr., 29, a 6-foot-6 security guard who said he "lost it" when he discovered that a toddler he was baby-sitting had soiled his pants, blinked back tears yesterday when a Common Pleas Court judge sentenced him to seven to 20 years in prison for fatally beating 23-month-old Lamar Mitchell in July 1993. Defense attorneys had asked for a sentence of less than three years, arguing that Hill was a hard-working, "kind, considerate and gentle person" with only one other brush with the law. But Common Pleas Court Judge James J. Fitzgerald 3d said that, in this case, "the court must balance between punishment and rehabilitation.

It was sleuthing that would have made Philip Marlowe proud. Private eye Russell Kolins was hired by a defense lawyer to get evidence that would clear a veteran state security officer of charges that he impersonated a Philadadelphia cop to stop and harass a Narberth woman last Oct. 6. The woman testified yesterday at a Municipal Court trial for John McCabe, 53, accused of impersonating an officer and harassment, that the man who stopped her...

The shoplifter took more than his loot when he made his getaway from the Center City Strawbridge & Clothier store on March 9. He drove off with a store security guard, according to the district attorney's office. The guard, Aaron Rice, was so determined to catch the thief outside of the 8th and Market streets store that he grabbed the roof of the guy's car and held on until the auto hit a taxi about a block away. Rice was not seriously injured. During Alonzo Wallace's drive for freedom, he drove the car into Police Officer John Hughes, injuring the officer's leg. Common Pleas Judge James Murray Lynn recounted the offense while sentencing Wallace, 24, of 25th Street near Wolf, to six to 12 years in prison.

A security guard at a U.S. Navy research facility in Montgomery County was discovered missing from his post Thursday night, and authorities said they believed that the man had drowned in a water-filled quarry. Mary Ann Brett, a public information specialist at the Naval Air Development Center in Warminster, identified the missing guard as Samuel Neely, 64, of the 7500 block of Woodstock Street, Philadelphia. Detectives from the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said that there was no indication of foul play and that Neely apparently had drowned accidentally in the 65-foot-deep Oreland Quarry on Walnut Avenue in Springfield Township.

A security guard at the city's Youth Study Center admitted yesterday to filing false time sheets over the last four years and agreed to reimburse Philadelphia $16,400 he wrongly received in overtime. The guard, Ronald Lucas, 46, of 1514 Guilford Place, will serve two years' probation in a program for first-time offenders. In addition, under the agreement approved by Municipal Judge Georganne V. Daher, Lucas agreed to repay Philadelphia out of his city pension payments and will not work as a city security guard during the next three years.

WHEN ERICA CODY'S fiance was killed in December, leaving the 26-year-old woman to raise their 1-year-old son on her own, the last thing on Cody's mind was worrying about drama at work. But Cody, who works for Delaware Avenue-based McGinn Security as a contracted guard at Philadelphia University in East Falls, said her employer made an already stressful time worse. "When he gets killed, they give me a hard time for the days I had to take off for the funeral," Cody said in a recent interview.

The first time I walked into a supermarket in northern Israel, I was surprised when a guard stopped me to check my handbag. How could I have shoplifted? I hadn't even stepped into the store. Then I realized he was checking for a bomb, far more concerned with what I might sneak into the store than what I might sneak out of it. The security measures I've grown accustomed to in Israel, where I've lived for the past 20 years, await many Americans since the deadly attack at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

A road-rage incident turned into a shootout Sunday afternoon in North Philadelphia when a private security guard and another man traded fire at 13th and Wallace Streets around 2:15 p.m., police said. It was not immediately clear who fired first, or how many shots were fired. The security guard pursued the man, who was in a car with several others, police said, to the 800 block of Reno Street. The man then jumped out of the car, the security guard reported, and barricaded himself in an apartment building.

A road rage incident turned into a shootout Sunday afternoon in North Philadelphia when a private security guard and another man traded fire at 13th and Wallace Streets around 2:15 p.m., police said. The security guard pursued the man, who was in a car with several others, police said, to the 800 block of Reno Street, where the one man jumped out of the car and barricaded himself inside an apartment building. The car he exited, a silver Buick Century with Delaware tags, drove away, police said.

A Sicklerville man pulled a knife during a brawl at a night club in Cherry Hill, stabbing three patrons and a security guard early Sunday morning, police said. Daniel Skillings, 32, of the unit block of Hampshire Road, has been charged with aggravated assault with injury, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose. The fight broke out at 2:09 a.m. at Top Dog America's Bar & Grill, 2310 West Marlton Pike, when two patrons began to fight on the second-floor dance floor.

A New Jersey man has been arrested in the theft of four large flat-screen televisions from a Delaware County Walmart over a five-day period, police said Wednesday. Matthew Colleluori, 34, of Wildwood, was spotted by store security at the Marple store Tuesday attempting to leave with an unpaid item. He fled after a struggle with a security guard and drove off at high speed. His vehicle eventually crashed into two police cars as he tried to exit I-95 at Route 420. Empty packets of heroin were found in his car, according to court documents.

SOLVING this "Thriller" was easy as 1, 2, 3 - oh, simple as do, re, mi. A pair of autographed Michael Jackson shoes that were reported stolen from an auction at the Loews Hotel in Center City early Sunday have been returned to their owner. Martino Cartier, a salon owner from Blackwood, N.J., said that he brought the shoes and a jacket belonging to Jackson to be auctioned off at the Hair O' the Dog gala at the hotel Saturday night. The proceeds from the auction were to support his charity, Friends Are By Your Side, which provides wigs to cancer patients.

A security guard at a check-cashing business shot and killed a Camden man who brandished a gun while trying to rob the store early Wednesday, Camden County authorities said. Josean Torres, 19, was shot about 9:30 a.m. at Ben's Check Cashing at Mount Ephraim Avenue and Liberty Street in Camden, according to the Prosecutor's Office. He died at Cooper University Hospital an hour later. Torres and another man allegedly entered the business via a second-floor storage space by knocking a hole through an abandoned building next door.

In her Overbrook bedroom, Denise Williams had 15 shopping bags of presents for her grandchildren, which she planned to give them when they celebrated together the day after Christmas. Williams never got to deliver her gifts. On Thursday, police identified the 54-year-old grandmother of six, who worked as a security guard at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as the fatality in a Christmas night hit-and-run in Kensington. Just after 8, witnesses said, Williams was sprawled on the sidewalk in the driveway of the closed Family Dollar store on Frankford Avenue.