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Md. State Trooper Arrested After Abduction Reporting
Kelly McPherson TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) ―
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Baltimore County Police have arrested a Maryland State trooper for allegedly abducting a man and driving while intoxicated.
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numSlides of totalImages What happened at 3 a.m. Saturday has cost a Maryland State Trooper his job.
Kelly McPherson reports exactly one year after he graduated from the state police academy.
Off-duty State Trooper Bruce Wrzosek, 22, pulled up to the Towson drive-thru and ordered up trouble.
"That's an amazing story I wouldn't have thought of it myself," said Debra Rawlings.
Baltimore County Police say they were called to Taco Bell by employees, saying they were being disturbed by a drunken trooper turning on his siren, and trying to pull people over in the drive-thru lane.
"When our first officer got there, the trooper indicated that he was OK. But the officer didn't suspect that things were OK. Actually, he smelled an odor of alcohol," said Corporal Mike Hill, spokesperson for Baltimore County Police.
Before police got there, Wrzosek had thrown a 20-year-old man into the front seat of his cruiser. That man said while in the drive-thru, the trooper yelled, get the expletive out of the way. And when he drove off from county police he said, "They can't do expletive to me."
"It's awful for him to do something like that," said Tiffany Washington.
County police chased the trooper into this residential area to Tilmont Avenue. The witness inside the trooper car told police it felt like they were going 95 miles per hour during the chase.
Here, in the trooper's neighborhood he failed the heel-to-toe sobreity test and during the test Wrzosek said "That's great, I'm drunk. Then before finishing, he said "I'm done, lock me up."
The county's investigation showed there was no reason for Wrzosek to force the 20-year-old man into his car at the restaurant's parking lot. The trooper is charged with DUI, false imprisonment and eluding police.
State police spokesman Greg Shipley says Wrzosek has been fired. During the incident, police say Wrzosek was dressed in plain clothes but was driving his police car.
"People just get away with anything. Some people are protected by the badge and it's unfortunate," said one person.
The trooper was still within his two year probationary period, so his firing was swift.
"This type of behavior is not part of the Maryland State Police and is in no way condoned; this is completely inappropriate for anyone who wears this uniform," said Greg Shipley, Maryland State Police Spokesperson.
Troopers are allowed to drive 25 miles near home.
Wrzosek is in the Baltimore County jail on $500,000 bond.
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Md. State Trooper Arrested After Abduction Reporting
Kelly McPherson TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) ―
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Baltimore County Police have arrested a Maryland State trooper for allegedly abducting a man and driving while intoxicated.
CBS
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numSlides of totalImages What happened at 3 a.m. Saturday has cost a Maryland State Trooper his job.
Kelly McPherson reports exactly one year after he graduated from the state police academy.
Off-duty State Trooper Bruce Wrzosek, 22, pulled up to the Towson drive-thru and ordered up trouble.
"That's an amazing story I wouldn't have thought of it myself," said Debra Rawlings.
Baltimore County Police say they were called to Taco Bell by employees, saying they were being disturbed by a drunken trooper turning on his siren, and trying to pull people over in the drive-thru lane.
"When our first officer got there, the trooper indicated that he was OK. But the officer didn't suspect that things were OK. Actually, he smelled an odor of alcohol," said Corporal Mike Hill, spokesperson for Baltimore County Police.
Before police got there, Wrzosek had thrown a 20-year-old man into the front seat of his cruiser. That man said while in the drive-thru, the trooper yelled, get the expletive out of the way. And when he drove off from county police he said, "They can't do expletive to me."
"It's awful for him to do something like that," said Tiffany Washington.
County police chased the trooper into this residential area to Tilmont Avenue. The witness inside the trooper car told police it felt like they were going 95 miles per hour during the chase.
Here, in the trooper's neighborhood he failed the heel-to-toe sobreity test and during the test Wrzosek said "That's great, I'm drunk. Then before finishing, he said "I'm done, lock me up."
The county's investigation showed there was no reason for Wrzosek to force the 20-year-old man into his car at the restaurant's parking lot. The trooper is charged with DUI, false imprisonment and eluding police.
State police spokesman Greg Shipley says Wrzosek has been fired. During the incident, police say Wrzosek was dressed in plain clothes but was driving his police car.
"People just get away with anything. Some people are protected by the badge and it's unfortunate," said one person.
The trooper was still within his two year probationary period, so his firing was swift.
"This type of behavior is not part of the Maryland State Police and is in no way condoned; this is completely inappropriate for anyone who wears this uniform," said Greg Shipley, Maryland State Police Spokesperson.
Troopers are allowed to drive 25 miles near home.
Wrzosek is in the Baltimore County jail on $500,000 bond.
(© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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