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By Ed Meyer, Beacon Journal staff writer | 08.06.2008
POSTED: 01:38 p.m. EDT, Aug 05, 2008 An independent expert in police training and use of pepper spray concisely identified the type of cannister that prosecutors say caused the 2006 death of Summit County Jail inmate Mark D. McCullaugh Jr. ''It is a one-pound riot container,'' the expert said as the black can was placed before him in the witness box. Edward W. Bogats Jr., chief of police in Bridgeville, Pa., and an instructor in the use of the device for 15 years, testified this morning in the ongoing Common Pleas Court trial of deputy Stephen Krendick, saying the can made by Fox Laboratories should be used only in ''controlled, half-second bursts.'' Krendick, 35, who is charged with one count of murder in the death of McCullaugh, emptied the 16-ounce can while the inmate was in handcuffs and leg shackles in his 11-by-7-foot cell in the jail's mental health unit, prosecutors contend. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Responder |
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