Post by WaTcHeR on Mar 16, 2006 11:46:40 GMT -5
03/16/2006 - HOUSTON, TEXAS - He's paid to protect and serve. Instead, one Harris County sheriff's deputy is accused of putting the pedal to the metal, driving 100 miles per hour. But he didn't even get a ticket. So we asked authorities why not?
From the JamCam perched at the Beltway and Imperial Valley, you could see police several Houston police cars surrounding a man dressed in white standing next to his red Corvette. That's is off-duty sheriff's deputy Robert Cormier, who was pulled over for driving way too fast Wednesday morning.
We asked Sgt. Dana Wolfe with the Harris County Sheriff's Department if Cormier was traveling faster than 100 miles per hour.
"I know that the HPD officer was said to be traveling over that rate of speed in order to catch up with him because the deputy was weaving in and out of traffic," she told us.
Both the sheriff's department and HPD says there technically was not a chase. But scanner traffic does indicate that officers were keeping a close eye on Cormier's driving.
Once he was pulled over without incident, HPD called a sheriff supervisor and then gave Cormier a warning. He quickly drove off when our cameras got there. But the 12-year veteran who currently works as a detention officer at 701 San Jacinto could face some serious consequences, pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
"He should not have been weaving in and out of traffic," said Sgt. Wolfe. "That was something that was very alarming to our supervisors when they were made aware of this incident and that is why they're launching the investigation, because that was dangerous."
From the JamCam perched at the Beltway and Imperial Valley, you could see police several Houston police cars surrounding a man dressed in white standing next to his red Corvette. That's is off-duty sheriff's deputy Robert Cormier, who was pulled over for driving way too fast Wednesday morning.
We asked Sgt. Dana Wolfe with the Harris County Sheriff's Department if Cormier was traveling faster than 100 miles per hour.
"I know that the HPD officer was said to be traveling over that rate of speed in order to catch up with him because the deputy was weaving in and out of traffic," she told us.
Both the sheriff's department and HPD says there technically was not a chase. But scanner traffic does indicate that officers were keeping a close eye on Cormier's driving.
Once he was pulled over without incident, HPD called a sheriff supervisor and then gave Cormier a warning. He quickly drove off when our cameras got there. But the 12-year veteran who currently works as a detention officer at 701 San Jacinto could face some serious consequences, pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
"He should not have been weaving in and out of traffic," said Sgt. Wolfe. "That was something that was very alarming to our supervisors when they were made aware of this incident and that is why they're launching the investigation, because that was dangerous."