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Port Richey Mayor arrested after shots fired at SWAT attempting to serve warrant at his home
wfts ^ | Feb. 21, 2019 | WFTS Digital Staff

Posted on 02/21/2019 1:04:59 PM PST by bgill

Shots were fired at the Pasco County Sheriff's Office SWAT team at the home of Port Richey Mayor Dale Massad on Thursday morning and Massad has been arrested on charges of practicing medicine without a license, according to officials...Massad was also arrested on charges of Practicing Medicine without a License. These charges pertain to the search warrant deputies were trying to serve at the time of the shooting. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement received information from the Port Richey Police Department that Massad, whose medical license was relinquished in 1992, was still practicing medicine, according to a press release... removed a fish hook from a "patient"...another "patient" came to Massad for a "surgical procedure" to close a laceration on his left ankle. During that procedure, Massad administered a local anesthetic and gave the "patient" stitches.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcactionnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; mayormassad; portrichey; warrant
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Yikes, if you've got a fish hook in your finger, only a licensed medical doctor is allowed to take it out. Ok, maybe because the guy administered a local anesthetic but still... Arrest him on the domestic charges but those other things are ridiculous. A SWAT team over a fishing hook??? Why is this sounding like that no-knock Houston, TX fiasco?
1 posted on 02/21/2019 1:04:59 PM PST by bgill
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[Why is this sounding like that no-knock Houston, TX fiasco?]


This, at least, is on the up-and-up, even if it appears preposterous, relative to the offense. The Houston thing might have been mounted on the basis of nothing at all. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Harris-County-DA-to-review-1-400-cases-that-13631373.php#


2 posted on 02/21/2019 1:08:50 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Unless there was more going on in his house, meth lab? This is in PILLSco County, yeah this does seem excessive.


3 posted on 02/21/2019 1:08:53 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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Unless there was more going on in his house, meth lab? This is in PILLSco County, yeah this does seem excessive.


4 posted on 02/21/2019 1:08:54 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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Massad, 68, reportedly opened fire on the deputies attempting to serve the search warrant. According to the Pasco Sheriff, Massad will face multiple charges of attempted homicide.

Shooting at the deputies serving a warrant is generally not a good idea.

5 posted on 02/21/2019 1:09:17 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Yikes, if you've got a fish hook in your finger, only a licensed medical doctor is allowed to take it out.

One of my kids got a fish hook in his finger one evening during a family party. My BIL said, let's ice his finger to make it numb, and push it through.

"Good idea," I said, "this isn't worth a hospital trip on a Friday evening. And so we did. But, we didn't advertise "Fish hooks removed" throughout the neighborhood.

How did this guy get "patients?" And SWAT... on the mayor? Why wouldn't he think "home invasion?" What's he going to do... flee town? Flush his fish hook pliers down the toilet? Major crazy all around!

6 posted on 02/21/2019 1:09:48 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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Demonrat?


7 posted on 02/21/2019 1:13:14 PM PST by mplc51
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To: Pearls Before Swine

SWAT on the Mayor’s house indeed.
There has to be something else involved. With all the fake news going around we never hear the full story anymore.


8 posted on 02/21/2019 1:17:23 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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My dog got a fish hook stuck thru his lip.
I removed it.

I’m not a veterinarian..................I broke the law?..............


9 posted on 02/21/2019 1:20:52 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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If it's obvious that they're real cops, and they're serving a lawful warrant in a lawful manner, there's no justification for shooting them. The correct battleground is a courtroom.

Totally different from a bunch of plainclothed yahoos breaking down your door, screaming incomprehensibly, and shooting your dog.

10 posted on 02/21/2019 1:21:45 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Looks to be a lot more to this story. Domestic battery, stolen guns etc...


11 posted on 02/21/2019 1:27:42 PM PST by miliantnutcase
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” Port Richey Mayor arrested after shots fired at SWAT attempting to serve warrant at his home”

That doen’t disqualify a Democrat from serving out his term as mayor does it?


12 posted on 02/21/2019 1:33:08 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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He may have been charging folks?

Interesting to ponder. He might have been better off if he’d never had a medical license to begin with.


13 posted on 02/21/2019 1:54:01 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If you can come up with any reason whatsoever that removing a fish hook warrants a swat team I will accept your assertion that the officers in question gave no indication that they meant any harm to the mayor outside the persuance of law enforcement.

That reason is a non-negotiable requirement, however.

If you cannot produce and successfully defend such a reason then you have defacto supported the militarization of law enforcement to the point (literally) of sending swat teams for unauthorized rendering of first aid.

I don’t want that kind of world, and it seems odd to me that this stuff actually has so many supporters on this site.


14 posted on 02/21/2019 2:08:42 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Red Badger; All
I was Fishing
15 posted on 02/21/2019 2:10:56 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! C ?)
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To: MrEdd

It has always been ironic how many Statist bootlickers there are on a site called Free Republic.


16 posted on 02/21/2019 2:14:33 PM PST by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“let’s ice his finger to make it numb, and push it through.”

So you confess to using local anesthesia without a license? SWAT team! :-)


17 posted on 02/21/2019 2:17:39 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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Shooting at the deputies serving a warrant is generally not a good idea.

Were they uniformed deputies or were they dressed like a drug dealing biker gang?

18 posted on 02/21/2019 2:22:08 PM PST by Drew68
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Does anyone know if this was a no knock raid? Just curious as swat is mentioned.....

I did find something funny in the article...

“I shot one of my smoke detectors because I couldn’t get up there to get it. It wouldn’t go off and it was 3 a.m.,” Massad said.

So, obviously this dude is an idiot, which is probably why he is in politics.


19 posted on 02/21/2019 2:25:49 PM PST by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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Twenty five years ago. I hide behind the statute of limitations.


20 posted on 02/21/2019 2:25:59 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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