Exclusive: Marine Vet Hired For Riot Security Spends 2 Weeks In Baltimore Prison
Rex Petrey, a Marine veteran, former Air Marshal, former Department of Homeland Security agent, and father of two young boys, was released from Baltimore city jail on Wednesday, more than two weeks after he was arrested on misdemeanor charges and inexplicably denied bail by a district judge.
Petrey, who began working in the private security sector after retiring from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March, was arrested April 28 on two handgun charges and another for impersonating an officer.
The handgun charges carry a maximum three-year jail sentence.
But the 50-year-old Petrey is no violent felon, and he wasn’t roaming the streets of Baltimore wearing a fake cop uniform.
what's amazing about this story is that he has spent his life working for the vary system that decided to lock him up and treat him as a criminal. This should be a lesson to all those who do the governments bidding. You are expendable any time they see fit! just like the rest of us!
Absolutely makes me sick! Judge said she thought he looked “SCARY”! So judges can profile? So if someone looks “SCARY”, is a reason to deny bail and be mistreated? If a cop sees a SCARY looking individual on the street, they can lock them up for that? Sounds like the highest level of discrimination and profiling from the bench!
Good idea to keep a former decorated combat, MARINE SNIPER and Airborne Free Fall Operations (parachuting), Air Marshal, federal Special Agent and FLETC academy Honor Graduate, DHS overseas American hostage rescue operator (recent), ICE Criminal Investigator, with untold arrests of illegal MS13 gang members, and youth football coach, locked up in the most dangerous open population prison on the East Coast. He wasn’t even fed a baloney sandwich for 48 hours and wore the same clothes for a week! Way to go Baltimore!
Thank you Baltimore for giving back to our law enforcement and combat Marine heroes in this very special way! Especially the ones that came in from out of state to help save your city! I guess you deserve more money from Homeland Security, to fund your participation in the Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g), Immigration and Nationality Act (local LE can lock up illegal). You don’t deserve one more dime of it. Let rioting thugs run free and keep our law enforcement and military heroes under lock and key while they do it.
How about some professional courtesy and street discretion and stop making up PC on the fly to justify this bad arrest and detention. How about focusing on those amateur, over zealous officers who spun this up? Everyone on the shift dreads working with officers like this because they are always getting into trouble and making something out of nothing. Those police officers that affected the arrest are not typical by any means and very few and far between.
As a prior Marine and police Sergeant supervising hundreds of officers for many years, I know the type and you know the type. Every department has one or two. When the streets are quiet and nothing going on, the do-nothing officers drum something up to make a name for themselves. These offices want to stand out and be cool for the girls, have their names mentioned in roll call for writing the most tickets, making the most stops, talks the loudest, sucks up to the supervisors and Watch Commander and walk around with illusions of super cop in their own minds. You know who they are. Real police officers can’t stand this type of wannbe and wish management would do something about it. Unfortunately Rex tangoed with this very kind face to face. You have a top notch, elite police department but as everyone knows, you also have a handful of troublemakers unfairly discrediting you. Focus on these few, and fix it. You owe Rex an apology at the very least. Do the right thing.
Man without a country
ReplyDeletewhat's amazing about this story is that he has spent his life working for the vary system that decided to lock him up and treat him as a criminal. This should be a lesson to all those who do the governments bidding. You are expendable any time they see fit! just like the rest of us!
ReplyDeleteIts a power play to keep him from owning firearms. Remember...vets are the goverments biggest threat.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely makes me sick! Judge said she thought he looked “SCARY”! So judges can profile? So if someone looks “SCARY”, is a reason to deny bail and be mistreated? If a cop sees a SCARY looking individual on the street, they can lock them up for that? Sounds like the highest level of discrimination and profiling from the bench!
ReplyDeleteGood idea to keep a former decorated combat, MARINE SNIPER and Airborne Free Fall Operations (parachuting), Air Marshal, federal Special Agent and FLETC academy Honor Graduate, DHS overseas American hostage rescue operator (recent), ICE Criminal Investigator, with untold arrests of illegal MS13 gang members, and youth football coach, locked up in the most dangerous open population prison on the East Coast. He wasn’t even fed a baloney sandwich for 48 hours and wore the same clothes for a week! Way to go Baltimore!
Thank you Baltimore for giving back to our law enforcement and combat Marine heroes in this very special way! Especially the ones that came in from out of state to help save your city! I guess you deserve more money from Homeland Security, to fund your participation in the Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g), Immigration and Nationality Act (local LE can lock up illegal). You don’t deserve one more dime of it. Let rioting thugs run free and keep our law enforcement and military heroes under lock and key while they do it.
How about some professional courtesy and street discretion and stop making up PC on the fly to justify this bad arrest and detention. How about focusing on those amateur, over zealous officers who spun this up? Everyone on the shift dreads working with officers like this because they are always getting into trouble and making something out of nothing. Those police officers that affected the arrest are not typical by any means and very few and far between.
As a prior Marine and police Sergeant supervising hundreds of officers for many years, I know the type and you know the type. Every department has one or two. When the streets are quiet and nothing going on, the do-nothing officers drum something up to make a name for themselves. These offices want to stand out and be cool for the girls, have their names mentioned in roll call for writing the most tickets, making the most stops, talks the loudest, sucks up to the supervisors and Watch Commander and walk around with illusions of super cop in their own minds. You know who they are. Real police officers can’t stand this type of wannbe and wish management would do something about it. Unfortunately Rex tangoed with this very kind face to face. You have a top notch, elite police department but as everyone knows, you also have a handful of troublemakers unfairly discrediting you. Focus on these few, and fix it. You owe Rex an apology at the very least. Do the right thing.