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No Charges So Far Against Former Arizona Corrections Director After Boozy Standoff with Police
Loaded on April 1, 2022
by Jo Ellen Nott
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2022, page 42
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Police Misconduct,
Alcohol - Prohibition on use of.
Location:
Arizona.
by Jo Ellen Nott
Before an armed standoff with Tempe police on January 6, 2022, former Arizona prisons chief Charles Ryan had been home drinking tequila. A lot of tequila. “Half a large bottle,” according to his wife. Then she heard a gunshot and found Ryan in the bathroom, bloodied ...
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