Inmate Attacks Detention Deputy

On November 2, 2009, at approximately 12:45 p.m. an inmate at the Orient Road Jail brutally attacked a HCSO Detention Deputy. The Detention Deputy was working at his desk inside a jail pod, when Inmate Douglas Burden who is currently in jail on various drug violations, charged the deputy and put him in a choke hold and began strangling the deputy. Other inmates inside the pod who witnessed the attack, rushed to the deputys aid preventing the deputy from being severely injured. During the struggle one inmate took the deputies radio and called for emergency assistance. Deputies responded and restrained the inmate and removed him to administrative confinement.

This incident highlights the extreme danger the men and women working at the Hillsborough County Department of Detention Services face everyday. It also shows that because most inmates know that the deputies inside the pods are not adversaries and are treated fairly and with respect. Due to the overall professionalism and respect that detention deputies display towards the inmates on a daily basis, the inmates came to the deputys aid preventing the deputy from being seriously injured.

The Sheriffs Office Criminal Investigation Division and the Office of the State Attorney conducted the extensive investigation that followed this incident and resulted in the issuance of warrants for these individuals.

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