Highland Police Department Police Report for Incident 17HIO9087 Nature: Disturbance Address: 2816 HIGHWAY Location: H1108 HIGHLAND IN 46322 Offense Codes: Received By: FULLER How Received: Agency: HIPD Responding Of?cers: Responsible Of?cers: PALMER Disposition: CLO 09/14/17 When Reported: 02:05:59 09/14/17 Occurred Betvveen: 02:05:53 09/14/17 and 02:05:53 09/14/17 Complainant: 060N28670 Last: REID First: HEATH Mid: KELLEY Race: Sex: Phone: City: HAMMOND, IN 46323 Responsible Of?cer: PALMER Agency: HIPD Received By: FULLER Last Radio Log: 03:00:59 09/ 14/ 17 How Received: Telephone Clearance: CRO Cleared, Responding Of?cer When Reported: 02:05:59 09/ 14/17 Disposition: CLO Date: 09/14/17 Judicial Status: Occurred between: 02:05:53 09/ 14/ 17 Misc Entry: and: 02:05:53 09/14/17 Narrative REPORT OF A WEAPON BEING PULLED BY AN OFF DUTY OFFICER WHILE INSIDE GROWLERS, 2816 HIGHWAY AV. UPON ARRIVAL OFFICERS WERE MET OUTSIDE GROWLERS BY THE COMPLAINANT HEATH REID WHO STATED THAT HE WAS INSIDE GROWLERS WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO ENTER THE MALE RESTROOM, FINDING THE DOOR BEING HELD SHUT HE STATES HE PUSHED ON IT WITH SOMEONE ON THE OTHER END SHOVING IT BACK AT HIM TO A CLOSED POSITION. REID STATES THAT AT THIS TIME HE PUSHED HARDER FORCING THE DOOR OPEN FINDING A YOUNG MALE HISPANIC, ON THE OTHER END. REID SAYS THAT HE THEN ENTERED THE RESTROOM WHERE HE WAS SHOVED INTO THE WALL WITH THE MALE HISPANIC PULLING A PISTOL AND SHOVING IT INTO HIS FACE. REID THEN STATED THAT HE EXITED THE RESTROOM AND SPOKE WITH SECURITY ABOUT THE INCIDENT WITH THE MALE HISPANIC DEPARTING THE ESTABLISHMENT WITH HIS GROUP. WHILE SPEAKING WITH REID A MALE IDENTIFIED AS EDGAR HUERTA, ECPD #426, STATED THAT HE COULD IDENTIFY THE OFFICER WHO PULLED HIS WEAPON AND THAT HE WITH THAT OFFICER OR HIS GROUP. HUERTA STATED THAT DAVID AGUILAR WAS THE MALE IDENTIFIED BY REID AS THE HISPANIC SUBJECT AND THAT AGUILAR WAS WITH EDWARD FARFAN, A FORMER EAST CHICAGO OFFICER. HUERTA STATED THAT HE WITNESS THE INCIDENT BUT THAT HE KNEW FARFAN AND AGUILAR WERE INSIDE THE RESTROOM AT THE TIME. REID WISHED THAT THE INCIDENT BE DOCUMENTED AND THAT HE WOULD BE SPEAKING WITH EAST CHICAGO PD ADMINISTRATION. #161 THIS OFFICER WAS REQUESTED ON STATION FOR A FOLLOW UP IN THIS REPORT. 05/22/18 Police Report for Incident 17H109087 Page 2 of 3 ONCE ON STATION THIS OFFICER MADE CONTACT WITH MR. AGUILERA WHO WISHED TO REPORT HIS SIDE OF THE INCIDENT. MR. AGUILERA STATED THAT HE AND MR. JAMES SOLORIO WERE INSIDE THE BATHROOM AT LOCATED AT 2816 HIGHWAY AVE ON THE MORNING OF 9/14/17 LOOKING AFTER MR. FARFAN WHO WAS SICK AND THROWING UP. MR. AGUILERA STATED THAT HE HELD THE BATHROOM DOOR CLOSED WHILE MR. SOLORIO HELPED CLEAN UP MR. VOMIT. MR. AGUILERA STATED THAT AS HE WAS HOLDING THE DOOR SHUT HE FELT SOMEONE PUSH ON IT FROM THE OUTSIDE IN WHICH MR. AGUILERA STATED TO THE UNKNOWN PERSON TO ON, WE ARE CLEANING UP REAL MR. AGUILERA THEN STATED THAT THE UNKNOWN SUBJECT THEN PUSHED THE DOOR WITH GREAT ENOUGH FORCE THAT IT PUSHED HIM BACKWARDS INTO THE WALL WHERE HE WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE WALL. MR. AGUILERA STATED THAT THE SUBJECT THEN USED HIS HAND AND GRABBED HIM BY THE FACE AND FORCED HIS HEAD INTO THE WALL CAUSING A CONTUSION. MR. AGUILERA STATED THAT THE SUBJECT CONTINUED TO INCREASE THE FORCE ON THE DOOR AND ON HIS HEAD CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN TO MR. HEAD AND BODY MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO SPEAK AND BREATHE. MR. AGUILERA STATED THAT OUT OF FEAR OF HIS LIFE AND FURTHER HARM HE UN HOLSTERED A PERSONAL OWNED PISTOL AND POINTED IT AT THE SUBJECT IN ORDER FOR HIM TO GET OFF THE DOOR AND REMOVE HIS HAND FROM MR. AGUILERAFS HEAD. THE SUBJECT FINALLY LET GO OF MR. HEAD AND RELIEVED THE PRESSURE FROM THE DOOR AS THE SUBJECT WALKED TOWARDS THE FRONT OF THE BUSINESS. MR. AGUILERA STATED THAT AS SOON AS THE SUBJECT LET GO AND LEFT THE BATHROOM, HE RE HOLSTERED HIS WEAPON. MR. AGUILERA EXITED THE BUSINESS WITH HIS FRIENDS AFTER BEING SENT ON HIS WAY. PECKLER HI216 Police Report for Incident 17H109087 Page 3 of 3 Name Involvements: Complainant 060N28670 Last: REID First: HEATH Mid: KELLEY Race: Sex: Phone: (219)951?7400 City: 05/22/ 18