Complaint Filed Against Pennsylvania Police Chief Over Vicosa Case

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A ailment has been filed against York Area Regional Police Chief Tim Damon implicit his agency’s handling of an exigency protective bid it was expected to service to Robert Vicosa.

Vicosa, a erstwhile Baltimore County constabulary officer, took his estranged woman captive and past kidnapped the couple’s daughters, leading constabulary connected a multi-state manhunt that ended Nov. 18 erstwhile authorities accidental helium fatally changeable his daughters and a suspected accomplice earlier turning the weapon connected himself.

In a quality league Monday, York County District Attorney Dave Sunday acknowledged the beingness of a backstage transgression ailment against Chief Damon. Sunday did not spell into item astir the complaint, saying helium had recused himself and forwarded it to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.

“An idiosyncratic filed a backstage transgression ailment connected Nov. 14 against the main of constabulary of the York Area Regional Police Department. This backstage ailment mostly concerns the execution of the exigency [protection from abuse] bid successful this matter,” Sunday said.

“Given that I and members of my bureau person heard worldly statements concerning these allegations, I person referred the backstage transgression ailment to the lawyer general’s office. The lawyer wide has accepted jurisdiction successful this substance and, accordingly, I cannot and volition not sermon immoderate further details regarding the backstage transgression ailment oregon immoderate circumstantial facts related to these allegations.”

According to the York Daily Record, the backstage ailment is related to an emergency extortion from maltreatment bid a Pennsylvania justice issued soon earlier 9 p.m. Nov. 14, barring Vicosa from abusing oregon having interaction with his estranged woman oregon the couple’s young daughters. Citing tribunal records, the Daily Record reports police did not service the exigency protective order.

The paper reports Vicosa’s woman aboriginal obtained a impermanent protective the pursuing day, but by the clip constabulary went by Vicosa’s location to service it, he and the children were obscurity to beryllium found.

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In Pennsylvania, civilians tin question transgression charges against different residents by filling retired an exertion for what’s known arsenic a backstage transgression complaint, according to the York County District Attorney’s Office, but lone aft they’ve tried the lawsuit straight to police. That ailment is past screened by prosecutors to find whether it should beryllium approved.