NEWS
April 29, 2012
A Philadelphia man showing off what he thought was an unloaded gun the day before he was to start a job as a security guard accidentally shot a friend in the face and killed her, police said. Sandrea Smith, 35, of the 2900 block of North 26th Street, was shot once in the left cheek and died at the scene, according to police. The shooting occurred about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The incident happened in a bedroom of a home in the 2100 block of East Somerset Street in Kensington.
NEWS
January 14, 1993 | By Jane M. Reynolds, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
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.
NEWS
November 2, 1989 | By Joshua Klein, Special to The Inquirer
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.
NEWS
December 27, 2011 | BY WILLIAM BENDER, benderw@phillynews.com215-854-5255
Tasers: They're not just for zapping crazy Phillies fans anymore. Upper Darby police are searching for two thieves who waltzed into the Marshalls store on 69th Street on Christmas Eve, loaded up on merchandise, then electroshocked their way out the door when a plainclothes security guard tried to stop them. "They're seen stealing hundreds of dollars in clothing and putting it in a large shopping bag," said police Superintendent Michael Chitwood Sr. When the guard stepped in, one of the thieves pulled out a Taser.
SPORTS
October 13, 2000 | by Bill Fleischman, Daily News Sports Writer
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.
NEWS
December 16, 1990 | By Larry King, Inquirer Staff Writer
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.
NEWS
October 12, 1994 | by Dave Racher, Daily News Staff Writer
Anthony "Ant" Washington continued to insist yesterday that he did not kill a security guard while fleeing a holdup last year, but the prosecutor is so sure he did it, he's going to ask for the death penalty. "They have the wrong guy," said Washington, 25, to his lawyer, Jack M. Myers. "It's not me. " A Common Pleas Court jury thought otherwise. It convicted Washington yesterday of first-degree murder in the killing of Tracey Lawson, 29, a father of five, outside a Save-A-Lot market on Kensington Avenue near Cumberland Street, on Jan. 23, 1993.
NEWS
August 11, 1989 | By Dave Racher, Daily News Staff Writer
A private security guard yesterday was ordered to stand trial on murder charges in the beating death of a Frankford woman inside a Mayfair warehouse on July 3. Assistant District Attorney John Carpenter withdrew charges of rape and indecent assault against Ricky Johnson, 29, during a hearing before Municipal Judge Lydia Y. Kirkland. Carpenter said he might seek a rearrest on the sex charges if medical reports confirm that Kimberly Golphin, 29, of Jackson Place near Foulkrod Street, was sexually molested as well as beaten to death inside the warehouse at Frankford Avenue and Glenview Street.
NEWS
August 31, 1994 | By Martha Woodall, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
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.