Piercy had arrested 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson on suspicion of boating while intoxicated. Ellingson was taken into a boat, placed in a life vest and handcuffed behind his back.
Piercy was taking him for a field sobriety test when the incident report indicates Ellingson stood up, stepped to the boat’s edge and fell or jumped overboard. Ellingson’s life vest came off. His body was recovered June 1.
Piercy has been a trooper for 18 years.
The trooper here, and the Missouri State Troopers, could be in heap big trouble here. Cuffing a guy bEHIND HIS BACK and then not putting the PFD on correctly?
Awful awful bit of police work. Criminally negligent IMO.
Did the perp have a Houdini moment?
And he got a paid vacation. It's all good, unless you were Brandon and his family.
No dogs were hurt in the making of this drowning.
>> on suspicion of boating while intoxicated
I’m guessing Ellingson had his beer goggles on.
So are we going to fault LEOs for arrestees that decide to spring from a moving patrol car?