Joseph Mazagwu
Posted on 08/27/2004 12:57:41 PM PDT by Dubya
MIAMI -- A Florida trainee police officer was arrested today for making a threat to kill President Bush before a visit by Bush to Tampa last month, prosecutors said.
Joseph Chiejina Mazagwu, a 35-year-old Tampa resident, was indicted Thursday on charges of making a threat against the president and making a false statement to a federal agent, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa said.
According to the indictment, Mazagwu made a threat to harm and kill the president on July 15. Bush visited the city the following day.
Mazagwu made remarks to a clerk at a Tampa business and the clerk reported the comments to another police officer the next day, said Laura McElroy, a spokeswoman for the Tampa police department. Police and the Secret Service began investigating.
Mazagwu had completed police academy and had a badge and a gun but was doing field training with a supervising officer. Whether he had made the remarks or not, as a rookie he would not have been involved in presidential security when Bush visited, McElroy said.
Mazagwu was suspended after the incident and is in the process of being fired, she said. He is also charged with making a false statement to a Secret Service agent on July 19. If convicted, he faces five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 on each count.
Did they do a background check on this nut?
FRY HIS ASS!!!
It's Miami..he got hired because he can swim..
Sigh. Why are so many wackos here in Florida?
BTW, one police officer down so far - Naked people against dept (Kerry).
USA!
What a country.
35 year old trainee cop? It would be fascinating to see what this guy did between age 21 and 35 that led him to become a cop this late in life.
People who desperately want to be cops and spend years being turned down by department after department are generally the last people you would ever want as cops.
Thanks for posting this. Things make sense now.
No, it is Tampa. Btw, what did you mean about your swimming comment?
In case Ken doesn't make it back.....
Police academies used to require trainees know how to swim. Someone complained, saying black people are not good swimmers, and had them eliminate that rule because it was racist.
Thanks. Did not know that.
There goes your cop career, Professor Brainiac. Friggin' rocket surgeon.
Any bets that he was born in Africa and may not even be a citizen.
Probably one of Kerry's (augmentation operative's) from those, "Foreign Leaders'." Tampa P.D. must be getting desperate in their recruiting program. The DNC will use any means necessary in an attempt to hurt our President and America. I believe there are many democrats who have terrorist blood running thru their veins. Grampa Dave, he was probably a registered democrat and african citizen. Bush/Cheney 2004
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