AT DEPUTY AND FLORIDA HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING THE RELEASE
OF VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SHOWING HIM BURGLARIZING THE HOME OF AN
ELDERLY MAN WHO SUFFERED A FATAL INNER JURY DURING THE HURRICANE.
THIS DEPUTY APPARENTLY SHOWED UP TO THE SCENE AFTER THE SONS
OF THIS ELDERLY MAN FOUND THAT HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE
FOLLOWING AN INJURY THAT HE SUFFERED.
HE SHOWS UP WITH A GROUP OF COPS AND REALIZES THAT THIS MAN
IS GOING TO BE RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.
UNFORTUNATELY HE DIED A COUPLE OF HOURS LATER.
90 MINUTES AFTER POLICE HAD INITIALLY SHOWED UP TO THE
SCENE, DEPUTY JASON COOKE CAME BACK TO THE HOME AND
PROCEEDED TO
BURGLARIZE IT.
THE PARAMEDICS SHOWED UP TO THE SCENE INITIALLY.
THE FOOTAGE THAT WERE ABOUT TO SHOW YOU IS FROM A CAMERA THAT
WAS SET UP IN THE HOME BY THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE ELDERLY
MAN WHO TRAGICALLY PASSED AND THEY WANTED TO DO THAT TO
KIND OF KEEP AN EYE ON HIM AND MAKE SURE THAT HE WAS OKAY.
WELL, THEY NOTICED THERE WAS A COP WHO SHOULD'VE TO THE
HOME IN AT FIRST THEY THOUGHT, HE'S TRYING TO HELP OUT,
MAYBE HE'S TRYING TO GET THE MEDICATION FOR HER FATHER
BUT IT TURNED OUT NO, HE WANTED TO STEAL THEIR FATHER'S
MEDICATION IN ADDITION TO CASH AND JEWELRY.
WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT FOOTAGE FOR YOU.
WE WILL SHOW IT WITH OUR MICS UP BECAUSE I WANT TO TALK OVER IT
AND IT JUST SHOWS THIS COP GOING THROUGH ALL OF THE STUFF LIKE
GOING THROUGH THE CABINETS AND GOING THROUGH DRAWERS.
IN ONE PART OF THE FOOTAGE YOU CAN SEE HIM POPPING A PILL
IN HIS MOUTH.
HE LATER GOES INTO THE MASTER BEDROOM AND THAT'S FOR THE
JEWELRY WAS IN THE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE SAYING THE JEWELRY
IS NOW MISSING.
BY THE WAY, IT TOOK THE OTHER COPS FROM THE SAME TOWN
FIVE WEEKS TO ACTUALLY ARREST OF THE SKY.
NOW IF YOU WENT INTO SOMEBODY ELSE'S HOUSE AND THEY HAD
VIDEO OF YOU STEALING THINGS SUPER CLEARLY, DO YOU THINK
IT TAKES FIVE WEEKS TO ARREST YOU?
OR PERHAPS THEY GET TO IT RIGHT AWAY?
AND THEN THEY WERE STILL TRYING TO DEDUCE WHETHER HE DID
DRUGS ON THE JOB.
WE SEE HIM POPPING THE PILL INTO HIS MOUTH IN UNIFORM
WHILE ON THE JOB.
IT'S NOT COMPLICATED.
LATER THEY COME THIS CONFISCATED MORE DRUGS FROM HIS PATROL CAR.
THIS IS NOT A COMPLETED QUESTION AND APPARENTLY HE DID THIS
ALL THE TIME.
THINK ABOUT WHAT A BAD GUY THIS GUY IS BECAUSE AT THAT
TIME, LOOK, IF THE GUY IS DEAD, IT STILL HORRIBLE BUT AT
THE TIME, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE GUYS DAD.
HE'S LIKE OH GOOD, SOMEBODY GOT INJURED.
SOMEONE GOT INJURED AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE HOUSE IS EMPTY, LET ME GO BURGLARIZE IT SO HE IS AT
HIS MOST VULNERABLE AND HIS FAMILY WILL PROBABLY WANT
TO COME FOR HIM TO.
THEY WILL GO TO THE HOSPITAL AND SO WHEN THEY'RE SUFFERING
THE MOST IS WHEN I WILL ROB THEM LINED, BY THE WAY, I'M A
COP GOT TO BE FAIR, THEY DID EVENTUALLY ARREST HIM.
FIVE WEEKS AFTER THE FAMILY MEMBERS GAVE THE COPS THAT
SURVEILLANCE.
JUST TO GIVE YOU THE EXACT DATES.
WHEN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS QUESTIONED ABOUT THAT THEY
RESPONDED BY SAYING THAT THEY WANTED TO ENSURE THAT HE
WOULD GO TO REHAB PRIOR TO HIS ARREST.
BECAUSE THEY CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY
ARREST NORMALLY.
WHEN THEY ARE ARRESTING AFRICAN-AMERICANS
THERE LIKE WAIT A MINUTE, I JUST WANT TO BE REALLY CAREFUL.
ARE YOU GETTING REHAB FIRST?
I GET IT, LOOK THEY LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY ARE
BUDDIES AND NO MATTER, THIS IS IN AN ARGUABLE BAD APPLE, RIGHT?
AND THIS DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH TRAINING OR
ANYTHING THAT WE NORMALLY TALK ABOUT.
THIS IS A GUY WAS A CRIMINAL WHO HAPPENS TO BE A COP AND EVEN
THEN THERE LIKE OKAY, AFTER WE GET THEM INTO REHAB THOUGH.
AND BY THE WAY, HE CLEARLY DOES NEED REHAB AND LOOK, I'M
NOT GONNA TREAT HIM DIFFERENTLY IN REGARD TO HIS DRUG
ADDICTION THAN OTHER PEOPLE.
HE SHOULD GET HELP AND HE ALSO DID SOMETHING CRIMINAL AND
HE DESERVED TO GET ARRESTED.
I'M GLAD IT EVENTUALLY HAPPENED BUT AS WE KNOW, THERE IS A
TWO-TIER JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THEY DO TEND TO LOOK OUT FOR
THEIR OWN AND JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE DETAILS IN REGARD
TO WHAT OFFICERS FOUND IN HIS CAR THROUGH AN
INVESTIGATION HIS PATROL CAR HAD 60 PILLS INCLUDING A
NARCOTIC PAINKILLER, MUSCLE RELAXERS AND OTHER MEDICINE.
IF HE IS TAKING THAT ON THE JOB THAT'S INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS
ESPECIALLY IF HE IS OPERATING A VEHICLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN
HE'S IN POSSESSION OF A DEADLY WEAPON LIKE A GUN DARK
IS INTERACTING WITH PEOPLE IN HIGHLY STRESSFUL SITUATIONS
AND HE'S GOT A GUN ON HIM, THAT IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER SO
LUCKILY HE IS OFF THE STREETS NOW.