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FISHERSVILLE — Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Bluefield man Monday after he reportedly walked into Augusta Medical Center with a sidearm and a ballistics vest underneath his clothing, according to the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.
Dana Pruett, 19, is charged with impersonating a police officer, a misdemeanor.
The sheriff’s office said Pruett was accompanying two elderly relatives when hospital security stopped him 3:36 p.m. Hospital officials told authorities that Pruett identified himself as a sheriff’s deputy from Tazewell, and that he placed the weapon inside a vehicle before returning to the hospital when he could not produce law enforcement ID.
Pruett, who was cooperative, denied that he identified himself as a police officer.
“He basically thought he had a right to carry in a hospital,” said Lt. Dennis Back of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities questioned Pruett at a Stuarts Draft home following the incident. Sheriff’s deputies confiscated a Glock handgun as evidence. The arrest report did not note if the gun was loaded.
Pruett is free on a personal recognizance bond.
http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990519009
FISHERSVILLE — Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Bluefield man Monday after he reportedly walked into Augusta Medical Center with a sidearm and a ballistics vest underneath his clothing, according to the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.
Dana Pruett, 19, is charged with impersonating a police officer, a misdemeanor.
The sheriff’s office said Pruett was accompanying two elderly relatives when hospital security stopped him 3:36 p.m. Hospital officials told authorities that Pruett identified himself as a sheriff’s deputy from Tazewell, and that he placed the weapon inside a vehicle before returning to the hospital when he could not produce law enforcement ID.
Pruett, who was cooperative, denied that he identified himself as a police officer.
“He basically thought he had a right to carry in a hospital,” said Lt. Dennis Back of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities questioned Pruett at a Stuarts Draft home following the incident. Sheriff’s deputies confiscated a Glock handgun as evidence. The arrest report did not note if the gun was loaded.
Pruett is free on a personal recognizance bond.