"Could this be the end of Rico?"
Posted on 07/15/2016 11:40:29 AM PDT by keat
An inmate fighting deputies at the Stanislaus County Jail on Friday morning broke free from them and slammed into third-floor elevator doors, which came off their tracks, allowing the man to fall 10 feet onto the top of the elevator car below, the sheriff said.
The incident happened about 6:50 a.m. The inmate, 36-year-old Manuel Gabriel Rico, was taken to a local hospital with several lacerations, and was examined for other injuries.
Rico was arrested Thursday morning by Riverbank Police Services on two misdemeanor warrants out of Alameda County for resisting arrest, Sheriff Adam Christianson said Friday. He’d been in custody about 24 hours because a day or two typically is how long it takes another agency to retrieve an inmate being held on a warrant.
Rico’s cellmate told deputies there was something wrong with Rico and he wanted him out of the cell, Christianson said. “Deputies noticed he was acting bizarrely, his speech pattern didn’t make sense. They thought he was under the influence. We do our best to keep contraband out of the jail, but the harsh reality is it manages to get in.”
Because Rico is a known gang member, he was classified and housed according to his criminal history, the sheriff said, and was handcuffed to be taken for medical examination. He initially was compliant with deputies, Christianson said, but once out of his cell, “the fight was on.”
The sheriff said he asked specifically if Rico hit the elevator doors while still locked in a struggle with either of the two deputies handling him on the third floor. Had that been the case, he would have expected a deputy also might have fallen.
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I hate when that happens.
si si puede
Just not his day at all! That’s teach him to rabble rouse.
Misleading title for a non-news occurrence.
Not near the happy ending I was hoping for.
Refused a vote for Hillary?
Pulled out an LA Law episode, eh?
Unfortunately he will be muy rico after he sues them. :(
Modesto? Low rise town. Short fall.
Fell 10 feet?
I was hoping for more.
I guess one could say “he got the shaft.”
I knew one of the main guys that maintained many of the elevators for the State of California’s buildings. He would be amused and then mad at the maintenance people.
They say this shaft is a bad mother....
Is that kinda like repeatedly falling down the stairs in Army barracks?
Shut your mouth!
But I’m talking about Shaft.
I guess he’d hit rock bottom
When a convict is yelling “get me my meds” you might want to listen
"Could this be the end of Rico?"
Fall < Sudden stop
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