I-TEAM: Security company claims Eastside apartment complex is ‘one of the most dangerous properties’ it ever worked

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A local security company pulled its armed guards out of an Eastside apartment complex because the company said it's too dangerous.

Security officers are breaking their silence with the News4JAX I-TEAM after a weekend homicide at an apartment complex they used to patrol.– Security officers are breaking their silence with the News4JAX I-TEAM after a weekend homicide at an apartment complex they used to patrol.

Saunders tells the I-TEAM that the Downtown East Apartments wasn’t safe, even for his armed security team, so that’s why Excelsior Security pulled its officers from the property last month.Sean Saunders, COO of Excelsior Security, tells the News4JAX I-TEAM's Vic Micolucci his company had to pull its armed guards from the Downtown East Apartments because the complex is too dangerous.

He says the two sides didn’t come to an agreement, and Excelsior canceled its security service in January. Saunders says he believes the killing over the weekend could have been prevented if ownership went with his recommendations for heightened security.For perspective, Saunders says he offered to have two armed guards assigned to the property for eight hours a day for $2,900 a week.

 

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But the landlords raising rent.

Interesting that they know the type that causes and the type that give them cover to cause. Yet nothing is done.

Stop dancing around the problem & address the issue just as you would if it were White Supremacist terrorizing the neighborhood.

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