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On March 13, 2026, a French naval officer known only as "Arthur" went for a morning run on the deck of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. He logged 7 kilometers on his smartwatch. The data uploaded automatically to Strava. His profile was public. By that afternoon, reporters at Le Monde had used his GPS loops — the circular pattern of someone running laps on a moving ship — to pinpoint the 42,000-tonne nuclear-powered vessel to a location roughly 100 kilometers south of

Katherine Blastos March 14, 2026  ·  9 min read Published by Vertex Security Services | March 2026 At approximately 10:49 a.m. on March 12, 2026, Old Dominion University's emergency notification system sent a message to every student, faculty member, and staff employee on campus in Norfolk, Virginia. It read: "Active shooter situation at Constant Hall. Follow Run-Hide-Fight protocols. Emergency personnel are responding." Minutes earlier, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh — a 36-year-old

Katherine Blastos    •   March 9, 2026   •   9 min read   Published by Vertex Security Services | March 2026 On the afternoon of Saturday, March 7, 2026, two young men from Pennsylvania drove to New York City, embedded themselves in a crowd of more than 125 counter-protesters gathered outside Gracie Mansion — the official residence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani — and threw improvised explosive devices at police officers and civilians. One of the devices detonated. No one was killed

Published by Vertex Security Services | March 2026 On February 22, a military operation in Jalisco, Mexico, killed the leader of the most powerful drug cartel in the Western Hemisphere. Within hours, retaliatory violence shut down highways, grounded flights, and trapped thousands of American and Canadian tourists in Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara. The U.S. State Department issued a shelter-in-place order. Airlines canceled flights. Roads burned. Travelers watched burning roa

Published by Vertex Security Services | March 2026 On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and struck nuclear and missile infrastructure across the country. Within hours, Iran's most powerful cartel of proxy forces and sleeper networks received what intelligence analysts describe as the strongest motivation for asymmetric r

Published by Vertex Security Services | February 2026 On Sunday, February 22, the Mexican Army killed Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes — leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and one of the most wanted drug lords on the planet — in a raid on a rural compound in Tapalpa, Jalisco. Within hours, the cartel launched coordinated retaliatory attacks across more than 20 of Mexico's 32 states. Buses were set on fire. Highways were blocked with burning vehicles. Gas statio

Published by Vertex Security Services | February 2026 On Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Christopher Redding was shot in the back and killed at a bus stop in the Bronx after stepping in to protect friends from a group that included a 17-year-old with a gun. A 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were also shot. On Valentine's Day, in La Junta, Colorado, a 17-year-old was shot and killed inside a home just before 2 a.m. An 18-year-old was arrested and charged with second-degree mu

Published by Vertex Security Services | February 2026 In August 2025, Joe LaSorsa and his team at LaSorsa & Associates published their EP Incident Analysis covering the first half of the year — one of the most thorough open-source compilations of security incidents targeting high-profile individuals anywhere in the executive protection industry. The findings were sobering but not surprising to anyone paying attention: steady monthly incident volume across more than 40 countri

Published by Vertex Security Services | February 2026 The arrest of a San Jose middle school assistant principal in a child exploitation sting operation this month has sent shockwaves through communities across the country. Ruben Guzman, a 31-year-old educator at Sunrise Middle School — once honored as a finalist for California Teacher of the Year — was taken into custody on February 3rd after allegedly arranging to meet with someone he believed was a 13-year-old boy for sexu

Published by Vertex Security Services | February 2026 On the afternoon of February 10th, a shooter entered Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in the remote foothills of the British Columbia Rocky Mountains and opened fire. Nine people were killed. Twenty-seven more were injured, including two with life-threatening wounds. Two additional victims were found dead at a nearby residence believed to be connected to the attack. The suspected shooter was found dead at the school from an

Published by Vertex Security Services | February 2026 The recent abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson, Arizona home has shaken families across the country. Nancy, the mother of NBC's Today  show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her residence in the early morning hours of January 31st while she slept. Investigators believe an armed intruder tampered with her doorbell camera, exploiting the fact that the device lacked an active recording subscription