Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has placed Deputy Louie Puroll, who made headlines after saying that he was shot by drug smugglers, on administrative leave after Phoenix New Times reporter Paul Rubin writes about an interview that included Puroll mentioning that one of his friends offered to kill Rubin, who has been expressing skepticism about Puroll’s version of events in the shooting.
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.
Just to point out a independent investigation by DPS about the shooting incident with Deputy Puroll did confirm his side of the story.
Ambushed after all? Medical ‘experts’ wrong in shooting case of Pinal County sheriff Deputy Louie Puroll
http://tucsoncitizen.com/rynski/tag/louie-…
So that part of the story is not “strange.”
Now, it seems Mr. Rubin just wants to keep himself in the limelight with this story. Did Deputy Puroll say this information to him? Maybe. However, the Deputy was not the one that said he was going to kill Rubin. It was a crazy rancher and if you ever met a rancher that lives in the middle of nowhere. Many of them are say pretty crazy stuff.
It was unprofessional for Puroll to tell this information to Rubin. However, putting him an administrative leave is bit of an overkill. I hope Deputy Puroll does not lose his job over this incident and learns sometimes crazy crap you hear on a daily basis should be left not said to other people.
“Puroll tells me that representatives of “the Mexican cartel” have approached him four or five times at this restaurant over the years wanting to do business.
“They didn’t want me to sell or buy the stuff, just that they’d make it worth my while to look the other way out in the desert if I bumped into them,” he says.
Puroll says he didn’t arrest any of these men, call for backup, or write reports about the encounters.”
But not doing his job is ok?