The Daytona Beach News Journal – by Patricia G. Balona
A Volusia County sheriff’s deputy is on paid administrative leave after he was arrested for putting his son in a headlock causing him to lose consciousness, an agency spokesman said.
Sgt. Robert Rahn, 50, was charged with one count of domestic battery by strangulation and one count of child abuse without great harm after the physical encounter with his 16-year-old son, said sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant on Sunday.
Deputies were called to Rahn’s home near DeLand at 6:10 p.m. Saturday to reports of an altercation between the sergeant and his son, Gant said.
According to the incident report, the argument started when the son demanded money from his father after picking weeds out of flower beds saying he needed the money to go hang out with his friends.
The teen said a verbal argument escalated when his father did not give him money and pushed him down onto a couch, punched him in the face and put him in a headlock. The son said his father put his hand over his mouth and nose, and he lost consciousness, Gant said.
But the sergeant said it was his son who got angry because he didn’t give him any money for picking weeds, and his son is the one who put his arms around his father’s neck to the point where couldn’t breathe, the report said.
Rahn then punched his son with a closed fist to break his hold and then put him in a headlock, investigators said.
A deputy responding to the call found Rahn with dried blood on his lower lip and redness around his right cheek, the report details.
Rahn told police his son grabbed the bag of weeds and threw it all over the living room, the report states. But the son told investigators his father said he would give him money and that it was his father who kicked the bag of weeds into the living room, deputies said.
The teen provided a video to deputies. Although no one could be seen hitting the other, deputies saw Rahn approaching his son aggressively and had his right arm drawn back. The video then goes black but the teen could be heard gagging telling his father he could not breathe, investigators said.
Rahn was transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail without incident Saturday evening, and has been temporarily placed on paid administrative leave as a result of his arrest, Gant said.
So if the enforcers do this to Joe Anybody while in uniform, they “have not violated any Departmental Policies”; but if they do it at home, they become liable. This says much about the CORPORATE POLICY ENFORCERS and the CONTRACTS they operate under.
It wasn’t over picking weeds, it was over a bag of weed, the one the kid wouldn’t give back to his ol man , you know the hypocrite cant have everyone knowing and exposing him
sounds like a convenient story , as we all know what liars they are
SMOKE THAT PEA PICKIN WEED!