Bulletproof Securities

Several photographs of armed guards dressed in military-style camouflage and combat gear, apparently working for the Arizona-based Bulletproof Securities Force, have appeared on anti-mining blogs in recent days. In one photo, one of the guards, armed with an assault-style rifle, appears to be masked.

Security firms in the Phoenix area are seeing an uptick in business from companies that want to keep their employees safe. Tom Parella, president of Bulletproof Securities Inc., said one of the reasons for the demand is because of workplace violence. “The demand has steadily increased each year for the ...

Bulletproof Securities, the Arizona private security firm that was operating without a license in northern Wisconsin to protect a controversial mine owned by Gogebic Taconite, may have broken the law by misleading regulators when it finally got around to applying for its license. Bulletproof's president, Tom ...

The Department of Safety and Professional Services said it is reviewing the company's applications — and a claim by a Hurley attorney who says that Gogebic and the security firm, Bulletproof Securities, violated state law by proceeding without a license. The harvest camp has been operating since May.

A $5,000 signature bond was set in Iron County Court last Monday for a 26-year-old Stevens Point woman who faces charges related to a heated confrontation at the site of a proposed iron mine. Katie Kloth, 26, is charged with felony robbery and three misdemeanors related to a June 11 disturbance with ...

Insignia sported by the armed personnel matches that of Bulletproof Securities, an Arizona-based private security firm. “It's not often in Wisconsin . . . that we ever see a company needing to post armed guards with machine guns in the woods,” the narrator of the video says. The guards were brought on after ...

Those guards, who first showed up around July 3, were employed by an Arizona-based firm called Bulletproof Securities. It turned out the firm didn't have the proper licensing to provide private security in Wisconsin. The Bulletproof guards were pulled from the site but will return, pending approval of a ...

Tom Parrella is an Arizona-based businessman who dabbles in a mix of real estate, high risk loans and paramilitary security operations. One of Parrella's companies, Bulletproof Securities, is now at the center of a controversy over heavily armed, masked security guards who have upset some locals by ...

Myers writes, “Several photographs of armed guards dressed in military-style camouflage and combat gear, apparently working for the Arizona-based Bulletproof Securities Force, have appeared on anti-mining blogs in recent days. In one photo, one of the guards, armed with an assault-style rifle, appears ...

Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, said Monday the guards are from Bulletproof Securities, an Arizona company that boasts a “no compromises security force.” “I'm appalled,” Jauch said. “There is no evidence to justify their presence.” Jauch said he was especially concerned that the guards are carrying high-powered ...