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.
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[Why is this sounding like that no-knock Houston, TX fiasco?]
Unless there was more going on in his house, meth lab? This is in PILLSco County, yeah this does seem excessive.
Unless there was more going on in his house, meth lab? This is in PILLSco County, yeah this does seem excessive.
Shooting at the deputies serving a warrant is generally not a good idea.
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!
Demonrat?
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.
My dog got a fish hook stuck thru his lip.
I removed it.
I’m not a veterinarian..................I broke the law?..............
Totally different from a bunch of plainclothed yahoos breaking down your door, screaming incomprehensibly, and shooting your dog.
Looks to be a lot more to this story. Domestic battery, stolen guns etc...
” 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?
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.
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.
It has always been ironic how many Statist bootlickers there are on a site called Free Republic.
“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! :-)
Were they uniformed deputies or were they dressed like a drug dealing biker gang?
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 couldnt get up there to get it. It wouldnt 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.
Twenty five years ago. I hide behind the statute of limitations.
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