SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2010


KLMNO Montgomery police officer charged with assault


Incident prompted second administrative leave in five months


by Dan Morse A Montgomery County police


officer has been charged with as- sault for hitting a suspect on the head with a baton after the sus- pect had fled, officials said Friday. The officer, George Saoutis, was


indicted on a single count of sec- ond-degree assault, a misdemean- or. He has been on the force for three years and previously served as an officer with the Metro Tran- sit Police. His attorney said he will plead not guilty. The case stems from a March 3 incident in which police were called to a building at Evans Drive and Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring for a report of graffiti van- dalism, known as “tagging.” The officers saw seven to 10


people running from the scene. Saoutis chased a 16-year-old, who ignored orders to stop, according


to police. Saoutis eventually took him into custody, and the teen was charged with vandalism. Medics treated the suspect for a


1-inch laceration on the back of his head.


When Saoutis reported the in- cident, his story had discrepan- cies in how the injury occurred, according to police. “We don’t have these kind of is- sues in our department typically,” Chief J. Thomas Manger said Fri- day. “The public can have confi- dence in the result of our in- vestigation.” The department referred its in-


vestigation to county prosecutors. No trial date has been set. “We look forward to his day in


court,” said Saoutis’s attorney, James Shalleck.


Saoutis remains on administra-


tive leave, and his police duties are suspended pending his trial, police said. The case marked the second time in five months that Saoutis was placed on leave. On March 30, he and another


officer tried to stop a silver Honda linked to a shoplifting at the Tar-


Driver complains about treatment in custody


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tody without access to heart, blood pressure and other medi- cations that he said he told police he takes daily. It was no food and very little water on an afternoon that hit 89 degrees that irritated him.


At one point, Pierre passed out in a police van as he was being moved from a local police station in Anacostia to a processing site downtown, he said, and was tak- en to Georgetown University Hospital. He has the emergency room bills to confirm the visit. Pierre recalls being put into


the van in Anacostia with an- other suspect and that his hands were cuffed in front of him with plastic ties as they were driven “some ways.” But he woke up in the emergency room, in metal cuffs, hooked to a gurney, he said. After some tests, police took him to central booking, where he was put in a cell for disabled sus- pects — Pierre relies on a cane to walk — and was not released un- til about 5 a.m. June 5. He had been pulled over at 2:30 p.m. June 4. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier


said Friday that she would need to review the incident before she could comment. Parks, who re- layed a statement through a po- lice spokesman, said, “I am aware of Mr. Pierre’s case but


cannot comment further on it since this is a matter before the courts.” Pierre is a three-tour Viet- nam veteran, a retired Army ser- geant with a Purple Heart who was a criminal investigator for the military, according to written statements from the Veterans Ad- ministration staff who treat him. Pierre also pulled a D.C. police


officer from a burning car wreck and received a 2003 citizens award from former police chief Charles H. Ramsey. A photo of that presen- tation hangs in Pierre’s home of- fice on a wall that also shows his daughter’s graduation photo on the day she joined the Prince George’s sheriff’s department. None of that mattered as Pierre headed to the military exchange at Bolling Air Base and found himself behind Parks’s unmarked car. As told in the police statement about Pierre’s arrest, Parks was driving north on Interstate 295 close to the police training academy when he was passed by the Dodge at “a high rate of speed.” Parks put on lights and a siren, followed the car and noted the speed via speedometer, the police affidavit states. Parks said Pierre failed to immediately yield but came to a stop on a road just off the exit ramp. Sgt. Gerald Anderson, a 23-year


veteran who heard Parks’s radio calls, came to the scene and made the arrest. In a police affidavit, An-


get store in Westfield Wheaton shopping center, police said at the time. The officers tried to stop the car, and Saoutis fired his service weapon. Police looked into why he did so and whether the Honda driver assaulted Saoutis by trying to hit him with the car.


At the time, police said there was no indication the gunshots injured anyone. A police spokes- woman said Friday that the mat- ter was still under investigation. Shalleck declined to comment on the shooting. In 2004, while working for the


Transit Police, Saoutis appre- hended a woman as she was walk- ing into the bus area at the Whea- ton Metro station.


Sakinah Aaron was talking loudly on her cellphone. Saoutis told Aaron, who was five months pregnant, to lower her voice, ac- cording to a Washington Post ac- count of the incident. She told the officer he had no right to tell her how to speak into her cellphone. Their dispute quickly escalated, and Saoutis handcuffed the 23- year-old woman, called for back-


up and took her to a cell. She was charged with two misdemeanors: disorderly manner that disturbed the public peace and resisting ar- rest.


At the time, Transit Police and some Metro officials said Saoutis was protecting the peace by re- moving a woman who had over- stepped the boundaries of civil be- havior. Aaron acknowledged that she was loud on the phone but said she lobbed a profanity only after Saoutis grabbed her. “I’m walking down the stairs and the transit cop said, ‘You have to lower your voice, ma’am.’ I said, ‘You can’t tell me how loud I can talk.’ He said, ‘I can arrest you,’ and he grabbed my arm. I said: ‘What are you doing? I’m preg- nant!’ ” Aaron said at the time. Aaron sued Saoutis and Metro


after the incident. She lost and was ordered to pay their costs in the action, according to court rec- ords.


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Staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.


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Suspects in deadly D.C. store robbery denied bail


Video shows owner’s son being shot after trying to thwart attacker


by Keith L. Alexander


Prosecutors played a chilling video in court Friday of two men robbing a check-cashing store on Benning Road NE and fatally shooting the store owner’s son af- ter a scuffle. The video, accompanying nar-


ration by a city detective, prompt- ed a D.C. Superior Court judge to order two District men charged in the killing held without bond until trial. Judge Gerald I. Fisher ordered


Gregory Trotter, 58, and Ernest Pee Jr., 49, both of Southeast, held in connection with the shooting death of Prabhjot Singh, 30. Both men are charged with first-degree murder in the June 17 robbery of the Singhs’ check- cashing store in the 2300 block of Benning. During Friday’s hearing, Assis-


tant U.S. Attorney Deborah Sines played a grainy security video that authorities said showed Trotter and Pee following Singh’s father into the store about 10 a.m. Both men were wearing masks and carrying guns. They yelled, “This is a holdup!” witnesses later told police.


Because the video quality was


poor, D.C. homicide Detective Darryl Richmond offered a narra- tive of the scenes. The video showed one suspect,


whom Richmond identified as Trotter, grabbing a male custom- er. Singh ran from behind the counter and tried to intervene. The suspect and Singh wrestled outside the store, and the suspect shot Singh once in the face. During the scuffle, the sus-


pect’s baseball cap and cellphone went flying. Detectives recovered those items, and the phone was traced to Trotter, police said. As Singh’s motionless body lay outside the store, the shooter went back inside. He and the oth- er suspect, whom Richmond identified as Pee, took about $12,000 before fleeing. Singh’s father, who sat quietly in the courtroom with relatives, was severely beaten during the robbery. After the suspects fled, the video showed Singh’s father running outside and throwing himself on top of his son. Trotter and Pee, shackled and wearing prison uniforms, watched the video from the jury box. The men’s attorneys argued


that witnesses who identified their clients did not have an accu- rate account. One witness de- scribed the suspect who police said was Trotter as about 23 years old.


Police said the cellphone and baseball cap belonged to Trotter. Richmond said he could identify the men in the video by the shape of their bodies and the complex- ion of their skin, although the men’s noses and mouths were covered by their masks. alexanderk@washpost.com


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Jean Pierre said an officer on a cellphone was driving slowly and weaving across lanes, which caused him to speed up and pass.


derson said that when Pierre exited his car, “he stated to Chief Parks ‘you were on the cellphone and driving to (sic) slow and I just went around you.’ ” Ander- son said Pierre also said to an of- ficer who was driving the Dodge to the police station, “Watch it, don’t let it get away from you like it did me, because it’s fast.’ ” Pierre said he waited to get off the highway to stop “because I didn’t want to be on the cane on the side of 295 and blocking traf- fic.”


And, he acknowledged, “I did


castigate him about the cell- phone.”


But, he said, he also asked the arresting officer how long it might take to process his arrest,


“because I told them I had multi- ple health issues and take quite a bit of medication that I didn’t have with me.” He said he was told he would be done with book- ing “in a couple of hours for the paperwork.” He felt ill and “terribly hot in


the van, and I woke up in the emergency room.” It was not un- til his release downtown early Saturday, Pierre said, that he was able to reach his wife — and only then because an officer let Pierre use his cellphone.


Pierre faces a September court hearing. “It was the way it was handled


after the arrest that gets to me,” Pierre said. “I don’t want that happening to someone else.”


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