5/7/15
Nature: Mental Subject
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Synopsis:
This is a mental subject case that took place at …. The suspect was transported to …because she was a danger to the public and herself.
…I asked medical personnel for a pink sheet. They informed me that there was no need for one and that they would just blue sheet her.
(From my roommate’s perspective the question was, “What do we charge her with?” The answer was: Nothing, this is a medical.)
South Salt Lake Police Department
7/31/16
Incident Description: Mental subject.
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SYNOPSIS:
Female suspect was having a mental episode. The investigation was turned over to the Highway Patrol.
INITIAL CONTACT:
…traveling westbound on U-201 at 12000 West, I observed a female…walking along the side of the road. …and was almost struck by two passing vehicles.
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Trooper XXXX Removed the handcuffs, placed her in the back of his patrol car and said he would driver her to Lake Point. I then proceeded on my way home.
Sun Jul 31 23:18:20 MDT 2016
Today XXXX’s roommate called and wanted to report XXXX was a missing person. I contacted Highway Patrol to find out where they had dropped off XXXX. I was told by their dispatch she had been dropped off at a Maverik located at 2000 North and SR-36. I contacted Tooele County Dispatch to see if they had received any further calls regarding XXXX’s behavior after UHP had dropped her off.
Tooele County Dispatch advised me XXXX had been picked up by Tooele City PD while trying to break into a person’s house in Overlake and was currently in the Tooele County Jail. I provided this information to the roommate.
Tooele City Police Department
7/31/16
Crime Report
…she did not make sense… She was unable/unwilling to give me her name or her address….
Due to the female’s erratic behavior, I asked Sgt. XXXX to transport her to the hospital….
She attempted to walk away several times and I had to hold her shoulder to keep her from leaving the medical bed. While I was doing so the female kicked me in the inner thigh and attempted to kick me several more times. …Due to the female’s aggressive and non-compliant behavior I decided to take her to the jail.
I transported the female to the Tooele County Detention Center and booked her into jail.
Charges:
Criminal Trespassing of a Dwelling
Assault Against Peace Officer
Intoxication
I decided to do a bit of research regarding the responsibility the police have in cases such as mine.
I discovered the following terminology:
“In your care and custody”
(Gary T. Klugiewicz / https://www.policeone.com/suspect-transport/articles/1362257--In-your-care-and-custody-When-police-officers-become-corrections-officers/)
State-Created Danger
(HG.org / https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=38300)
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution
(Nancy Dubler /http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/03/10/ethical-dilemmas-in-prison-and-jail-health-care/)
BTW: If he “booked her into jail” why was I still being kept in a freezing cell with no blanket, pillow or mattress over 48 hours later because I was, in their own words, “unable/unwilling to give me her name or her address”? And why did they fail to produce an OTN number at the arraignment hearing, and the judge made me responsible for coming up with one. I had as much of a notion about what an OTN number was as I did about what it meant to be booked the day they took me to the detention center. OTN number… apparently I needed to be booked, again….