LEO Round Table is an internet based law enforcement talk show. This is episode 28, recorded on 03/21/2016, with the following on-air personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host), Luke Lirot (Attorney), Bret Bartlett, Mark Hopper, Dan O’Kelly and Bobby Alsip. We produce two 30 minute shows each week that are normally released on our YouTube channel Tuesdays and Thursdays. In addition to your host, the other panelists (with the exception of Attorney Luke Lirot) are active or retired law enforcement officers as well.
Topic 1 concerns recognition and remembrance of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Deputy John Kotfila who was killed when he used himself as a human shield to protect Sarah Geren from a wrong-way driver. Deputy Kotfila was in his marked patrol car and on the crosstown expressway at the time. Quoted in the story is HCSO Sgt. Jeffery Massaro.
Topic 2 concerns Captain Clay Higgins who was recently forced to retire from St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office (Louisiana). He is now a Reserve Deputy Marshal for the Lafayette City Marshal’s Office (Louisiana). Mentioned in the story is St. Landry Parish Sheriff Guidroz and quoted is Chief Deputy Marshal Phil Conrad.
Topic 3 concerns Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio who is running for his 7th four-year term as sheriff.
Topic 4 concerns a raid in Brussels where police captured the prime suspect (and Europe’s most wanted fugitive) in last year’s Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam.
Topic 5 concerns a Tampa Police Department (Florida) case where Justin D. Murdock was initially arrested for misdemeanor possession of marijuana while in his vehicle with a computer tablet. Eight days later police got a warrant to search the tablet which resulted in Murdock being charged with 100 felony counts of possession of child pornography. Tampa Police officers involved were Off. Jody Farmer, Off. Theodore Rametta and Det. Jeremy Larson. Quoted in the story is Tampa Police Spokesman Steve Hegarty, Attorney Bjorn Brunvand , Attorney Marc Pelletier, Attorney David Little and Murdoc’s Attorney Bret Szematowicz. Also mentioned in the story is Judge Denise Pomponio.
Topic 6 concerns Tampa (Florida) City Council voting to enact a city ordinance that would decriminalize the possession of up to 20 grams of marijuana. Mentioned in the story is Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward and City Councilman Charlie Miranda.
