Florida mayor scandal widens

(WFLA) A run down looking Dale Massad walked into courtroom 3-A at the Florida’s Pasco County Courthouse Thursday in a jail jumpsuit.

It’s a fall from grace for the former Port Richey mayor removed from office by Governor Ron DeSantis.

Pasco County Sheriff’s Office deputies went to his home in February to arrest him for practicing medicine without a license.

While there, they claim he opened fire.

“He never shot at any officers,” defense attorney Bjorn Brunvand said after Thursday’s hearing. “There were never officers in the path of any bullets. Did he fire bullets? Yes. But not toward anyone,” he said outside the courthouse.

This week more charges were added because authorities explained that Massad made a call from jail to acting Port Richey mayor Terrance Rowe.

In court, the judge said the men appeared to conspire to intimidate a police officer at the center of Massad’s February arrest.

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