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A Broward Sheriff’s deputy, accused assorted times of brutality, will be aback in cloister afresh Monday to face a noncombatant accouterment that accuses him of absolution his badge dog advance a doubtable for up to 20 minutes.

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Deputy Gerald Wengert, accepted as Jerry, became able-bodied accepted aback he and one of his dogs were featured in the accomplished on the TV absoluteness appearance “Unleashed: K-9 Broward County.”

Attorneys for Reginald Chatman are gluttonous $135,000 in advantage and amercement for dog-bite injuries to his larboard hip, knee and leg during a 2014 arrest in Tamarac.

Wengert denies any wrongdoing.

Chatman admits he was aerial on cocaine and Ecstasy aback he blanket about $30 account of items from a CVS and again pushed assembly and ran off aback they approved to catechism him.

Wengert and his badge dog at the time, Diesel, were declared to the arena and begin Chatman ambuscade in a bush.

Handout / Broward Sheriff's Office

Broward Sheriff's Agent Gerald Wengert, accepted as Jerry.

Broward Sheriff's Agent Gerald Wengert, accepted as Jerry. (Handout / Broward Sheriff's Office)

The three-day board trial, which starts Monday in federal cloister in Miami, is focused on one actual attenuated issue: the breadth of time that Wengert accustomed the awful accomplished dog to chaw and latch on to Chatman’s leg.

Chatman says he fabricated it bright that he was surrendering to law administration as anon as Diesel bit him.

“[Wengert used] boundless force aback he maliciously and sadistically appear his K-9 assemblage [dog] on Chatman and accustomed the K-9 assemblage to abide the advance for an atrocious breadth of time,” the accusation alleges.

Chatman says the dog bit him for 15 to 20 account while Wengert says it was alone a amount of seconds, cloister annal show. Chatman concedes he was accurately arrested and that Wengert was advantaged to use the badge dog to bolt him.

Wengert “made no efforts to atmosphere the severity of such a bull response” and accustomed the dog to abide to “attack” Chatman “unfettered for about twenty minutes,” Chatman’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.

Handout / Federal cloister records

Dog-bite injuries Reginald Chatman suffered during his 2014 arrest by Broward sheriff's deputies.

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Dog-bite injuries Reginald Chatman suffered during his 2014 arrest by Broward sheriff's deputies. (Handout / Federal cloister records)

Both abandon are acquisitive to burrow their clients’ alarming pasts from the jury, admitting that advice may still appear out in court, depending on how they testify.

Chatman, now 25, has above-mentioned arrests and is confined a accompaniment bastille book afterwards argumentation accusable to accompanying bent accuse of battery, afraid or obstructing a badge administrator afterwards violence, and petit theft. He will be cutting noncombatant accouterment in the courtroom.

Attorneys for the agent are additionally aggravating to ensure that the board won’t acquisition out about again allegations of delinquency by him.

Wengert, 39, has four noncombatant lawsuits awaiting adjoin him in federal cloister — all involving allegations of boundless force. One involves a blameworthy afterlife accouterment for an on-duty baleful cutting by Wengert.

Prosecutors from the Broward Accompaniment Attorney’s Office accept two accessible bent investigations awaiting apropos Wengert’s accomplishments in the Chatman case and addition adventure with two artery artists. In the artists’ case, Wengert and addition agent are accused of antagonizing a badge dog into advancing two men, doubtable of spray-painting graffiti on bales alternation cars, afterwards they surrendered in January 2014.

Handout / Federal cloister records

Dog-bite injuries Reginald Chatman suffered during his 2014 arrest by Broward sheriff's deputies.

Dog-bite injuries Reginald Chatman suffered during his 2014 arrest by Broward sheriff's deputies. (Handout / Federal cloister records)

Wengert has formed in law administration aback 1999 and for the Broward Sheriff’s Office aback 2004.

In contempo years, Wengert has been begin not accusable afterwards a bent balloon in an different case, served two suspensions and has been austere of atrocity in assorted centralized diplomacy investigations.

In 2012, Wengert was arrested and answerable in a bent complaint by his own agency. He was suspended, afterwards pay, from July 2012 to August 2013 while he waited to go to balloon on bent accuse that he exhausted up a 17-year-old boy. A board begin him not guilty, and he alternate to assignment with added than $63,500 in aback pay.

The Sheriff’s Office has austere Wengert in nine abstracted centralized diplomacy investigations.

Wengert alternate to assignment in September 2016 afterwards a paid 15-month abeyance while one of the cases was investigated. Prosecutors beneath to book bent accuse in the declared assault of a doubtable and Wengert was austere by an centralized diplomacy investigation.

Since his acknowledgment to work, Wengert is no best a basset officer; he is assigned to approved alley convoying in Cooper City. His accepted basal bacon is $75,673.

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Diesel is retired and lives with Wengert.

Handout/ Advocate Eric Schwartzreich on account of Agent Wengert.

Diesel, the now-retired badge dog, who lives with Broward Sheriff's Agent Gerald "Jerry" Wengert. Diesel was articular as the badge dog that chastened Reginald Chatman.

Diesel, the now-retired badge dog, who lives with Broward Sheriff's Agent Gerald "Jerry" Wengert. Diesel was articular as the badge dog that chastened Reginald Chatman. (Handout/ Advocate Eric Schwartzreich on account of Agent Wengert.)

Broward Sheriff’s Office backer Veda Coleman-Wright beneath to animadversion on any awaiting litigation. She said the bureau has no “active or pending” centralized diplomacy investigations of Wengert.

Chatman’s attorneys, Gary Pappas and Michael Sloan, beneath to animadversion on the noncombatant suit. Wengert’s advocate in the noncombatant case, Richard Woulfe, did not acknowledge to requests for comment.

Wengert’s badge abutment attorney, Eric Schwartzreich, said Wengert’s administration won’t acquiesce the agent to comment.

Schwartzreich said Wengert’s starring role in the 2011 absoluteness TV show, with addition basset accomplice Bali, fabricated him a ambition for litigation.

“I’ve gotten to apperceive Agent Wengert and he’s a agent that’s above abuse and who does his job by the book,” Schwartzreich said. “I am assured there is no bent atrocity by him and there should not be any noncombatant liability.”

Broward County Sheriff’s Agent Gerald “Jerry” Wengert is adverse boundless force allegations in four federal lawsuits:

GAS STATION ARREST

Kevin Buckler, 21, spent two canicule ailing with a burst face and eyes bloated shut afterwards Wengert arrested him March 26, 2010. The accusation alleges Wengert pummeled Buckler afterwards cheeky him at a Cooper City gas base and again affairs him over beneath than a mile abroad for arrant “excessively loud music.”

Wengert said Buckler was combative, blew smoke in his face, threw his cigarette at him, bootless to accede with orders and fought him.

The accouterment was filed in September 2013.

Status: Pending, balloon set for May 7 in federal cloister in Fort Lauderdale.

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TRAIN CAR GRAFFITI

Behind a loading berth with alternation advance in Pompano Beach, four men spray-painted graffiti on bales cars on Jan. 17, 2014. The men said Wengert and addition agent “antagonized” a badge dog to advance afterwards they had surrendered. According to the lawsuit, the men were taken by ambulance to an emergency allowance with accessible wounds.

The accouterment was filed in March 2015 by two of the men, Humberto Pellegrino, 38, and Pedro Claveria, 37.

The Broward Accompaniment Attorney’s Office is investigating.

Status: Pending, no balloon date.

FATAL ON-DUTY SHOOTING

Wengert faces a blameworthy afterlife accusation for the on-duty killing of Steven Jerold Thompson, 26. Wengert said he was affected to shoot Thompson afterwards Thompson attempt at him on June 5, 2014. The accusation alleges that Thompson was caught and did not fit the description of iPhone robbery suspects the assembly were gluttonous in Pembroke Pines. Thompson was attempt nine times.

A Broward County admirable board disqualified the cutting was a justified use of baleful force. The blameworthy afterlife accouterment was filed in July 2016.

Status: Tentative balloon date set for Jan. 8 in federal cloister in Miami.

DOG-BITE ARREST

After abrogation a CVS abundance in Tamarac, Reginald Chatman and a acquaintance were chock-full on suspicion of petty theft. Chatman, now 25, said he anticipation a agent was extensive for his Taser amaze gun and ran away. Afterwards analytic for about an hour, Wengert and his badge dog, Diesel, begin Chatman ambuscade in a backcountry on Nov. 9, 2014.

Wengert's dog “latched assimilate Chatman's abate and atrociously tore at him for 15 to 20 minutes,” the accouterment alleges. Chatman appropriate abundant stitches and spent a ages in the bastille infirmary, according to the accusation filed in December 2014.

The Broward Accompaniment Attorney’s Office is investigating.

Status: Balloon begins Oct. 23 in federal cloister in Miami

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