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ATF Agent Accused of Threatening Teens With Gun
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ATF Agent Accused of Threatening Teens With Gun While Drunk
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
INDIANOLA, Iowa - The head of the Iowa office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was charged with public intoxication and was being investigated on allegations that he threatened some teenagers with a loaded gun.
Jon Carl Petersen, 41, was arrested and taken to the Warren County jail. He was released Tuesday on his promise to appear in court.
Petersen's supervisor, Paul Vido, in Kansas City, Mo., said Petersen will be allowed to carry a weapon and resume his duties while local and federal authorities investigate the allegations.
Petersen was not in his office Wednesday. A spokeswoman declined to comment on whether he would return.
Indianola Police Chief Steve Bonnett said the incident began when nine teenagers drove past Petersen's house, throwing toilet paper onto area trees and homes as part of a homecoming-week prank.
Police said Petersen chased them in his Jeep, a government-owned vehicle equipped with a siren and emergency lights.
Lucas Viers, 15, said the teenagers heard squealing tires and sirens.
"We were laughing about it because we were thinking he was blowing it all out of proportion until he whipped out that gun," Viers said. "We were pretty scared."
Reports showed that police received several calls about a man threatening teenagers with a gun near Emerson Elementary School about 10:40 p.m. One of the callers reported "that a male subject was pointing a gun at another subject's head," according to police reports.
Indianola police officer Kurt Kness said he handcuffed Petersen and found a loaded revolver in the Jeep.
"Mr. Petersen acknowledged that he had stopped the vehicle and that he was armed with the handgun," Kness wrote in his report. "While talking to Mr. Petersen, it became clear that he was intoxicated. His eyes were watery and his speech was confused and rambling."
Kness said Petersen acknowledged he had been drinking wine. Field sobriety tests showed he had a blood alcohol level of 0.22 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving, authorities said.
Police said Petersen refused to take a Breathalyzer test at the jail.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63438,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
INDIANOLA, Iowa - The head of the Iowa office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was charged with public intoxication and was being investigated on allegations that he threatened some teenagers with a loaded gun.
Jon Carl Petersen, 41, was arrested and taken to the Warren County jail. He was released Tuesday on his promise to appear in court.
Petersen's supervisor, Paul Vido, in Kansas City, Mo., said Petersen will be allowed to carry a weapon and resume his duties while local and federal authorities investigate the allegations.
Petersen was not in his office Wednesday. A spokeswoman declined to comment on whether he would return.
Indianola Police Chief Steve Bonnett said the incident began when nine teenagers drove past Petersen's house, throwing toilet paper onto area trees and homes as part of a homecoming-week prank.
Police said Petersen chased them in his Jeep, a government-owned vehicle equipped with a siren and emergency lights.
Lucas Viers, 15, said the teenagers heard squealing tires and sirens.
"We were laughing about it because we were thinking he was blowing it all out of proportion until he whipped out that gun," Viers said. "We were pretty scared."
Reports showed that police received several calls about a man threatening teenagers with a gun near Emerson Elementary School about 10:40 p.m. One of the callers reported "that a male subject was pointing a gun at another subject's head," according to police reports.
Indianola police officer Kurt Kness said he handcuffed Petersen and found a loaded revolver in the Jeep.
"Mr. Petersen acknowledged that he had stopped the vehicle and that he was armed with the handgun," Kness wrote in his report. "While talking to Mr. Petersen, it became clear that he was intoxicated. His eyes were watery and his speech was confused and rambling."
Kness said Petersen acknowledged he had been drinking wine. Field sobriety tests showed he had a blood alcohol level of 0.22 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving, authorities said.
Police said Petersen refused to take a Breathalyzer test at the jail.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63438,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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BEVERLY | A former Glouster policeman held nearly 30 law enforcement officers at bay for six hours before surrendering, authorities said.
David Parker, 45, of Beverly emerged from his estranged wife's home Monday afternoon and was quickly surrounded by members of the special response team of the Washington County sheriff's office.
Parker's wife, Jodi, had fled from the home earlier in the day. The couple's two children were in school.
Authorities said the couple is separated, but not divorced. Jodi Parker obtained a civil protection court order in May that barred her husband from coming within 250 yards of her.
But Parker showed up Monday morning and forced his way into the home, his wife said.
She told officers he chased her upstairs, pulled a shotgun from under a bed and said he was going to kill himself. She said she managed to get away and ran from the house.
Parker barricaded himself in the house and finally was coaxed into surrendering by a sheriff's deputy he knew, police said. Parker was charged with domestic violence, violating a civil protection order and kidnapping.
During the standoff, police evacuated nearby homes.
Beverly is 13 miles from Marietta in southeast Ohio.
http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/daily/0918standoff.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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INDIANOLA, Iowa -- The head of the Iowa office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was charged with public intoxication and was being investigated on allegations that he threatened some teenagers with a loaded gun.
Jon Carl Petersen, 41, was arrested and taken to the Warren County jail. He was released Tuesday on his promise to appear in court.
Petersen's supervisor, Paul Vido, in Kansas City, Mo., said Petersen will be allowed to carry a weapon and resume his duties while local and federal authorities investigate the allegations.
Petersen was not in his office Wednesday. A spokeswoman declined to comment on whether he would return.
Indianola Police Chief Steve Bonnett said the incident began when nine teenagers drove past Petersen's house, throwing toilet paper onto area trees and homes as part of a homecoming-week prank.
Police said Petersen chased them in his Jeep, a government-owned vehicle equipped with a siren and emergency lights.
Lucas Viers, 15, said the teenagers heard squealing tires and sirens.
"We were laughing about it because we were thinking he was blowing it all out of proportion until he whipped out that gun," Viers said. "We were pretty scared."
Reports showed that police received several calls about a man threatening teenagers with a gun near Emerson Elementary School about 10:40 p.m. One of the callers reported "that a male subject was pointing a gun at another subject's head," according to police reports.
Indianola police officer Kurt Kness said he handcuffed Petersen and found a loaded revolver in the Jeep.
"Mr. Petersen acknowledged that he had stopped the vehicle and that he was armed with the handgun," Kness wrote in his report. "While talking to Mr. Petersen, it became clear that he was intoxicated. His eyes were watery and his speech was confused and rambling."
Kness said Petersen acknowledged he had been drinking wine. Field sobriety tests showed he had a blood alcohol level of 0.22 percent, more than twice the legal limit for driving, authorities said.
Police said Petersen refused to take a Breathalyzer test at the jail.
His trial was set for Nov. 1.
Copyright c 2002, The Associated Press
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878