Good Apples, Bad Apples… and rotten through and through Apples
Security guards are supposed to make us safer. That’s why they’re called…security guards. They’re supposed to protect property and
citizens and whatnot else, and they’re not supposed to stray from that path. They’re supposed to be checked and vetted and licensed and supervised and responsible. That does not hold true for all security guards, however, and once in a blue moon, a real bad guy (or girl) shows up in those ranks.
The trouble with positions of perceived or real authority is that it is much harder to build that image up than it is to tear it down, and there’s no doubt that scandals like this not only hurt the family of the victims, a hurt which cannot be overstated, but it also hurts the thousands of honest, hard working security officers out there, including law enforcement of every kind.
HOUSTON – A Harris County private security guard is beginning to look more and more like a suspected serial killer, officials say. FOX 26 News was at the sheriff’s office when the department announced more details behind the guard’s arrest on Thursday morning. The body count so far: two women have been murdered and four sexually assaulted — all allegedly at the hands of private security officer Steven Hobbs.
Investigators believe the suspect is responsible for the 2002 murder of Patrician Ann Pyatt.
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In Crosby, Hobbs’ extended family was stunned by the allegations.
“It just literally floored all of us: my wife, me, of course his sister-in-law too,” says James Herman, who’s related to Hobbs by marriage. “It’s just something we would never expect that he would do.”
Now, investigators still haven’t charged Hobbs with the 2011 murder of Wanda Trombley. She was last seen with a man who fits his description. By the way, the 2002 murder and sexual assault victims all knew each other.
HOUSTON – Sheriff’s investigators believe a security guard, accused in the sexual assaults of Houston-area prostitutes, is responsible for the murder of a 41-year-old woman in northeast Houston.
Steven Alexander Hobbs, 40, is charged with capital murder in connection to the death Sara Sanford.
Deputies found Sanford’s body in a wooded area along Beaumont Highway on October 2010, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. She was bound, nude and shot.
A little more than a year later, investigators linked DNA found at the crime scene to Hobbs on Oct. 13.
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