A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit stemming from a 2022 incident that left a man with severe burns over much of his body.
In February 2022, Jean Barreto-Baerga was riding his motorcycle when a traffic stop escalated into a confrontation at a gas station. Deputies, including David Crawford, followed Barreto to the Wawa due to allegations of reckless driving.
A jury found an Osceola County deputy not guilty of culpable negligence, after he used a Taser at a gas station and set a man on fire.
A deputy facing a criminal charge took the stand to tell the jury his account of what happened when the man he was taking into custody caught fire at a gas station.
Prosecutors in the trial of a deputy accused of using a Taser at a gas station and setting a man on fire are expected to rest their case in Orange County court.
The first witnesses in the trial of a deputy accused of using a Taser at a gas station and setting a man ablaze are set to take the stand Tuesday morning in Orange County.
Osceola County Deputy David Crawford is now formally charged stemming from a 2022 arrest in which the deputy is accused of starting a fire with a Taser which left a suspect badly burned across most of his body.
The Osceola County Sheriff's Office released body-camera videos Friday showing an arrest at a gas station that ended with a suspect and a deputy badly burned after a Taser started a gasoline fire.
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office is set to provide an update Thursday afternoon on the incident during which three deputies and a suspect caught fire in an attempted arrest at a gas station months ago.
A new video of an inferno near a gas pump at a Wawa on Central Florida Parkway in Orange County was released by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
