Florida man arrested after attacking residential community security officer
Broward County FL January 20 2021
A Parkland resident charged with burglary and battery after entering his community’s guardhouse and striking a security officer.
On January 4, at 1:19 a.m., Joaquin PE Fagundo, 46, of Cascata, had a verbal altercation with the guard employed with Marksman Security Corporation, the provider of security services for the community Fagundo lives in.
Bill Fyfe, director of security for Marksman, said the resident either didn’t have a bar code sticker for access or was inside another vehicle and went through the guest entry gate at 840 Lago Way.
In the video, the guard had possession of Fagundo’s ID card for verification; however, after taking a long amount of time, Fagundo and his wife, Ester Barsali, entered the guardhouse to obtain the ID card after cursing and berating the guard. The guard returned the ID card to Fagundo’s wife and asked them to leave the guardhouse.
The guard closed the guardhouse door behind Fagundo; however, a verbal altercation became physical after Fagundo reentered the guardhouse and struck the guard with an open palm on the back of his head. This caused the guard’s head to hit the glass door, leaving a bruise on the right side of his forehead.
Medical attention was denied, and the guard continued his shift. There was no evidence in the video that the guard threatened the resident or called them names, as Fagundo alleges.
Fagundo was arrested at 3000 Coral Hills Drive in Coral Springs and taken to the Broward County Main Jail. On January 6, he posted a $1,000 bond. Since then, he has retained counsel and pled not guilty.
He has also threatened Parkland Talk with the removal of the article or face legal repercussions. Therefore our publication had no choice but to provide video evidence of the exchange as evidence.
“You wrote an article and blasted it on your Parkland paper with all incorrect facts. It was about me and the incident that occurred a couple of weeks ago with the security guard who threatened me and my family and refused to let us into our community even though he had our license and verbally called me name. Either this information is removed for my own privacy, or I will be pressing charges.” He told the newspaper.
Civil and criminal litigation is pending.
via Parkland Talk News
