Tri-Rail security guard arrested for kidnapping www.privateofficer.com

Palm Beach Fla Oct 29 2009
When a Tri-Rail passenger missed the last train at the Lake Worth station, a security guard offered to give her a ride to a station in Fort Lauderdale.
Instead, she told police, the guard assaulted her.
Peter Alan Crumb, 40, of The Acreage, was booked Tuesday evening into the Palm Beach County Jail on a Broward County warrant charging him with kidnapping and attempted sexual battery.
Crumb is being held without bond for transfer to Broward County, the jail said.
According to a Fort Lauderdale police report, the woman said that on Dec. 20, 2008, she’d come up to Crumb at the Lake Worth station, near Lake Worth Road and Interstate 95, and Crumb confirmed she’d missed the last train.
The report doesn’t give the time, but a Tri-Rail official said today the last train that day would have been at 9:02 p.m.
Crumb then offered to give the woman a ride.
She said she agreed after he reassured her he was a former police officer, as is required of all Tri-Rail security officers, the report said.
Tri-Rail spokeswoman Bonnie Arnold today confirmed that all security officers must be former police or military.
According to the report, on the way to Fort Lauderdale, the woman said, the two talked about topics ranging from politics to personal safety.
She said Crumb offered her a business card, saying he had a side business as a bodyguard and offering to conduct a self-defense class for her and her friends.
The part of the police report that says what happened next is blacked out.
“It’s part of active criminal intelligence. It’s what’s going to be presented in court,” Fort Lauderdale police Sgt. Frank Sousa said.
The Florida Attorney General’s Office said today such details are not exempt from public record laws.
The police report did say the woman told police she was attacked in a parking lot just south of the University of Phoenix, a few blocks from the Tri-Rail station near Cypress Creek Road and Interstate 95.
The woman said she did not immediately report the crime but later went to Tri-Rail Dec. 24 after she had trouble sleeping.
On Jan. 15, the report said, police searched Crumb’s car, where the attack is alleged to have taken place, and took samples in an attempt to find DNA.
Crumb worked for Westmoreland Protection Agency, a Broward County firm that’s a subcontractor to Wackenhut, the main security agency for Tri-Rail.
He resigned in January, not long after the two security firms and Fort Lauderdale police began their investigation, Westmoreland Vice President Pam Johnson said today.
She said Crumb cited financial reasons and the need for better health coverage.
“When we called him to speak with him, he spoke with us, and a couple of days later, he resigned,” Johnson said.
She said Crumb, who joined Westmoreland in April 2007, was a former federal air marshal.
“Squeaky clean background. Everything,” Johnson said. “We do a full background and testing. Nothing.”
Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said the agency does not confirm whether someone is or was an air marshal.

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