Stephen Rios News Today

A woman was held against her will at gunpoint at a home on the 6100 block of Osceoloa Street, early Monday morning. Philadelphia police declared the incident a barricade situation

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As a longtime resident of the San Juan Capistrano neighborhood that bears his family’s name, Stephen Rios has grown accustomed to tawdry tourists and pushy photographers. But over the last few weeks, he’s welcomed a new element that he believes is a much needed response to an unwelcome influx of loitering, vandalism and trespassing: private security, patrolling in golf carts, armed with guns and funded by a private-public partnership. “I appreciate the private security and the cost that c...