Sheriff's official suspended for disrupting Secret Service efforts to protect VP Joe Biden last year

[Baitball Blogger]

One of Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings top aides has been disciplined for "conduct unbecoming" stemming from an incident during Vice PresidentJoe Biden'svisit to Orlando last year.

Besides trying to get his picture taken with Biden, Maj. Danny Vereen broke so many security rules an unidentified Secret Service agent was told to put Vereen on the ground if he refused to follow orders, an internal affairs investigation found.

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Instead of remaining at an undisclosed command post near the airport for the vice-president's visit, Vereen rode in the motorcade's lead vehicle and approached Biden at the first stop without permission, the investigation found.

"That's like a no-fly zone, Nobody does that," U.S. Secret Service Agent Jim Glendenny told sheriff's Chief Deputy Ken Cox, according to the report. "He just kind of stormed, like kind of between them."



http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-deputy-suspended-biden-secret-service-20120503,0,4035206.story

[Ian David]

1. It sounds like an unrequited man-crush. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

3. In some ways I can relate to the guy.

His excuse is that he's 52 years old. What that tells me is that he remembers a time when things weren't so hardcore, and there were ways to get around the system. As endearing as it sounds, it is also the way to undermine any system. Not good.

[LASlibinSC]

2. I don't understand how this guy is still in law enforcement

Much less in special operations making over 100k . If this had been Cheney, faux news crowd would be howling for Gitmo detention. Just sayin...

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I'm guessing it's because these kind of lax situations are not unheard of in

small towns in Florida. Or big cities in Florida either.

[LASlibinSC]

5. Well...

You're right about that. Still it's hard enough keeping law enforcement in check without having some think the rules don't apply to them.