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Got a call today from a man named Ted Ragan out of Fort Pierce Florida seeking help. Being active in the pro gun community, my name and number gets tossed around. Sometimes good, sometimes not.
Ted asked if I could direct him to some help and relayed the following story.
Ted is a disabled Vietnam Vet. Disabled from land mine explosions while serving his country. In the late ninties, his son, now 31, was operated on for a medical condition and became disabled because of a bad operation.
His son has been on two kinds of pain medication since 1999 and has seizures. He has collapsed numerous times over the years and stopped breathing numerous times. Each time paramedics have brought him back.
Ted has just been waiting till the day they can't bring him back.
In April of this year, he found his son in the bathroom on the floor turning blue and not breathing. He called 911 and reported that his son was passed out on the bathroom floor not breathing.
Paramedics and 6 police officers showed up this time.
The police came in and went to the bathroom looking for something according to Ted. As the paramedics were trying to bring his son back, the police came out of the bathroom with a spoon laughing and calling his son a slang word for a druggie. Ted not knowing what the word meant, asked one officer. The officer made a motion of sticking a needle into his arm. Ted got upset because his son was not an illegal drug taker.
The cop put the spoon on the back of the couch. Ted went over to look at the spoon and was tackled from behind by two cops to the floor. Not knowing what was happening he struggled until he became aware that he was being arrested.
At that time a third officer put a knee into his back and they cuffed him all the while while paramedics are trying to revive his son.
After they got Ted up he asked what they were doing. They said he was being arrested for interfering with a crime scene, assaulting an officer and a third charge he couldn't remember.
Paramedics finally revived his son and rushed him to the hospital and the cops took Ted to jail very upset.
Ted called an attorney and bonded out to go see his son. He couldn't believe what happend to him and tried to get help to fight the charges all the while his son was in the hospital bearly hangin on.
An attorney told him it would cost 30 grand to fight it in court and if he won he could possible sue for what he thought was police misconduct.
Being disabled, he didn't have the money and turned to other sources for help. One of which was the local paper.
The paper asked if the incident invloved guns or drugs and Ted said no.
The paper then said they were not interested in running an exposay if neither of the two were involved.
Ted admitted he was very upset and having a breakdown of sorts because the jist of it in his mind was that the police answered to no one.
A few nights go by after visiting his son in the hospital and Ted comes home only to be as he decribed it, unaware of what he was doing.
He called the paper again trying to get them to print something up and the issue of guns came up. Ted said fine if you want guns, I'm locked and loaded ready to go and hung up the phone.
The paper called the police and about 60 cops with swat showed up for what was an 8 hour standoff during which Ted fired off 6 shots inside his home of which he does not remember.
He surrendered and of course was arrested.
I cringed after he told me that.
Of course his firearms were confiscated and he is deemed a danger to society and is facing possible prison time, among many other things.
Ted was most upset about losing his ability to own firearms for the rest of his life.
What could he do.
Well crap, I am no attorney so I directed him to call Roy Black, a crimminal defense attorney that has handled firearms cases before.
There was not much more I could do.
Even if found not guilty by reason of mental defect, that would get him out of jail but would not allow him to own firearms.
I talked to him a little bit more to calm him down and also suggested trying the ACLU for the first arrest since there was no crime scene in reality and the drug indication was false.
Now this is all a one sided story by Ted. I tried to Google it and came up with a story on him but it was archived and they wanted me to pay to read it.
Sad story of frustration and what not to do to get attention.
No bashing of police please since I don't know what their side of the story is.
Ted asked if I could direct him to some help and relayed the following story.
Ted is a disabled Vietnam Vet. Disabled from land mine explosions while serving his country. In the late ninties, his son, now 31, was operated on for a medical condition and became disabled because of a bad operation.
His son has been on two kinds of pain medication since 1999 and has seizures. He has collapsed numerous times over the years and stopped breathing numerous times. Each time paramedics have brought him back.
Ted has just been waiting till the day they can't bring him back.
In April of this year, he found his son in the bathroom on the floor turning blue and not breathing. He called 911 and reported that his son was passed out on the bathroom floor not breathing.
Paramedics and 6 police officers showed up this time.
The police came in and went to the bathroom looking for something according to Ted. As the paramedics were trying to bring his son back, the police came out of the bathroom with a spoon laughing and calling his son a slang word for a druggie. Ted not knowing what the word meant, asked one officer. The officer made a motion of sticking a needle into his arm. Ted got upset because his son was not an illegal drug taker.
The cop put the spoon on the back of the couch. Ted went over to look at the spoon and was tackled from behind by two cops to the floor. Not knowing what was happening he struggled until he became aware that he was being arrested.
At that time a third officer put a knee into his back and they cuffed him all the while while paramedics are trying to revive his son.
After they got Ted up he asked what they were doing. They said he was being arrested for interfering with a crime scene, assaulting an officer and a third charge he couldn't remember.
Paramedics finally revived his son and rushed him to the hospital and the cops took Ted to jail very upset.
Ted called an attorney and bonded out to go see his son. He couldn't believe what happend to him and tried to get help to fight the charges all the while his son was in the hospital bearly hangin on.
An attorney told him it would cost 30 grand to fight it in court and if he won he could possible sue for what he thought was police misconduct.
Being disabled, he didn't have the money and turned to other sources for help. One of which was the local paper.
The paper asked if the incident invloved guns or drugs and Ted said no.
The paper then said they were not interested in running an exposay if neither of the two were involved.
Ted admitted he was very upset and having a breakdown of sorts because the jist of it in his mind was that the police answered to no one.
A few nights go by after visiting his son in the hospital and Ted comes home only to be as he decribed it, unaware of what he was doing.
He called the paper again trying to get them to print something up and the issue of guns came up. Ted said fine if you want guns, I'm locked and loaded ready to go and hung up the phone.
The paper called the police and about 60 cops with swat showed up for what was an 8 hour standoff during which Ted fired off 6 shots inside his home of which he does not remember.
He surrendered and of course was arrested.
I cringed after he told me that.
Of course his firearms were confiscated and he is deemed a danger to society and is facing possible prison time, among many other things.
Ted was most upset about losing his ability to own firearms for the rest of his life.
What could he do.
Well crap, I am no attorney so I directed him to call Roy Black, a crimminal defense attorney that has handled firearms cases before.
There was not much more I could do.
Even if found not guilty by reason of mental defect, that would get him out of jail but would not allow him to own firearms.
I talked to him a little bit more to calm him down and also suggested trying the ACLU for the first arrest since there was no crime scene in reality and the drug indication was false.
Now this is all a one sided story by Ted. I tried to Google it and came up with a story on him but it was archived and they wanted me to pay to read it.
Sad story of frustration and what not to do to get attention.
No bashing of police please since I don't know what their side of the story is.
), and the assault on Ted is something that ought not be tolerated in a decent society.