Longboat Key police offcer arrested after pointing gun
By Anthony Cormier
Published: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 3:53 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 3:53 p.m.
SARASOTA — A Longboat Key police officer was arrested after she pointed a gun at a woman and her children near Southside Elementary School Wednesday, an arrest report says.
Patricia Ann Beardsley, 51, was booked into the Sarasota County Jail Wednesday afternoon on a felony count of aggravated assault with a firearm.
The incident began as parents were picking up their children from Southside at 2:30 p.m. One mother, Jill Campbell, had three of her children in the car and pulled into Beardsley’s driveway to make a Y-turn.
When she did, officers say Beardsley approached the car with a 9 mm pistol, pointing it inside the vehicle and screaming at Campbell.
One of the woman’s children screamed and ducked into the back seat. When police arrived, Beardsley denied pointing a gun at the family, saying it was only a cell phone in her hand. Another witness, however, told officers that Beardsley had a gun.
Beardsley had called 911 moments earlier to report people parking in her driveway, the report says. Beardsley, a 10-year veteran of the force, has been suspended from duty.
CHP officer arrested on child cruelty, spousal abuse charges
October 4, 2009
The Associated Press reports that California Highway Patrol Officer Richard Joseph Handwork was arrested Friday at the CHP office in Yuba City. The 44-year-old Yuba City resident is suspected of inflicting corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant and of willful cruelty to a child. He made bail and is on "administrative duty," according to the wire report, while the allegations are being investigated. Click here for the AP story picked up by The Bee.
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