Brian Petersen: Texas man’s family sues Montgomery County, city of Conroe over sting operation

More likely police misconduct rather than a real crime:

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Texas man’s family sues Montgomery County, city of Conroe over sting operation

The parents of a Texas gay man caught in a sting operation supposedly targeting pedophiles said this week they are suing the city of Conroe, Montgomery County and others “for false arrest and malicious prosecution” after their son committed suicide. Defendants listed in the lawsuit are Montgomery County; Bridgitt Johnson, EMT; Wellpath Recovery Solutions LLC; Southwest Correctional Medical Group Inc.; the city of Conroe and Detective Darrick Terrail Dunn. Dallas Voice has reached out to Montgomery County and the city of Conroe for comment. We will update this post as we receive their responses. Attorney Randall L. Kallinen announced the ...

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Family of former teacher sues Conroe PD over arrest that 'destroyed his life'

The family of a Montgomery County man is suing the Conroe Police Department for false arrest and malicious prosecution. The case involves former Oak Ridge High School teacher, Brian Petersen, who police accused of online solicitation of a minor. Brian, who was 39 years old, was a member of the LGBTQ+ community. After an interaction on the app Grindr in July and August 2019, Conroe police arrested Petersen. "The Conroe Police Department knew what they were doing was wrong," said Douglas Petersen, Brian's father. "And we are doing it so we can clear his name of any criminal activity." Petersen ...

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Family of former teacher sues Conroe Police Department after claiming arrest ‘destroyed his career and life’

The family of a man who committed suicide after they say he was unjustly arrested and charged with online solicitation of a minor is now suing the Conroe Police Department. Brian Petersen, 39, took his life a few days after being released from the Montgomery County Jail in August 2019. In a five-page suicide note, released by family attorney Randall Kallinen, Petersen, a Conroe ISD teacher, defended himself and said the accusations would ruin his career and his life. “I am deeply angry at law enforcement as they destroyed me and gave me no other solutions,” Petersen wrote. “This is ...

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Conroe teacher's family sues Montgomery County after suicide upon 'false arrest'

A Conroe Independent School District teacher’s family is suing the city and county after the educator died by suicide following what they are describing as a false arrest during a sting by police targeting online predators. Brian Petersen was a 39-year-old Conroe resident who had been teaching full time at the school district for eight years, his father and brother and the family’s lawyer said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle via Zoom. Then, on an adult-only dating app in early August 2019, he was engaged by an undercover Conroe Police detective whose recorded voice he recognized was an ...

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Conroe teacher's family sues Montgomery County after suicide upon 'false arrest'

A Conroe Independent School District teacher’s family is suing the city and county after the educator died by suicide following what they are describing as a false arrest during a sting by police ...

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Conroe teacher's family sues Montgomery County after suicide upon 'false arrest'

A Conroe Independent School District teacher’s family is suing the city and county after the educator died by suicide following what they are describing as a false arrest during a sting by police targeting online predators. Brian Petersen was a 39-year-old Conroe resident who had been teaching full time at the school district for eight years, his father and brother and the family’s lawyer said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle via Zoom. Then, on an adult-only dating app in early August 2019, he was engaged by an undercover Conroe Police detective whose recorded voice he recognized was an ...

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A Teacher Died By Suicide After Being Arrested for Soliciting a Minor. His Family Says the Cops Went Rogue.

On July 31, 2019, Brian Petersen, a 39-year-old school teacher in Texas, went on the gay dating app Grindr and struck up a conversation with a man whose profile name was “Fresh Meat.” He asked how the man’s week was going and if he was “looking for something tonight,” according to a transcript of the chat obtained by The Daily Beast. “You into younger boys,” the man replied, apparently posing the question. When Petersen asked for the man’s age, he said “under 18.” Petersen suggested there was “wriggle room”: In Texas, the age of consent is 17. But after repeated ...

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A Teacher Died By Suicide After Being Arrested for Soliciting a Minor. His Family Says the Cops Went Rogue.

Brian Petersen, a 39-year-old school teacher in Texas, went on the gay dating app Grindr and struck up a conversation with a man whose profile name was “Fresh Meat.”He asked how the man’s week was ...

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Judge dismisses suit against Montgomery County in case of CISD teacher's suicide after arrest

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Conroe Police Department, the City of Conroe and Montgomery County by the family of a Conroe Independent School District teacher who died by suicide following an arrest during an online predator sting. The suit asserted practices by the police department, the city and county led to the 2019 false arrest, illegal search, malicious prosecution and wrongful death of Brian Petersen, a 39-year-old Conroe resident and Peet Junior High teacher. Filed July 31 by the late teacher’s parents, Douglas and Pamela Petersen, the suit was dismissed Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Lynn ...

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Judge dismisses suit against Montgomery County in case of CISD teacher's suicide after arrest

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