Miami-Dade Prosecutor Accused of Punching Pizza Delivery Woman
A Miami-Dade prosecutor has been suspended after he was accused of punching a late-arriving Domino’s pizza delivery woman who wasn’t able to gain entrance to his gated Miami Beach community.
Lawyer David Ranck was charged with misdemeanor battery in the incident, the Miami Herald reports.
Police said the delivery woman called Ranck’s cell phone when she couldn’t get in his condo complex, spurring him to step out on his balcony and begin yelling. The woman speaks Spanish and could not understand him. Ranck then went downstairs, knocked off the woman’s Domino’s visor, and punched her in the arm, according to a police report of the incident.
Ranck told police he struck the woman after she hit him with her cell phone, and that she had driven her car toward him and tapped him in the thigh.
The Miami Herald says Ranck has a “tumultuous history” with the prosecutor’s office. In 2005 he was disciplined for cursing at a defense lawyer during a murder trial. Last year he posted online an internal memo to Justice Building Blog that questioned whether a police shooting was justified. He sued after he was suspended for 30 days for posting the memo.
“For Miami-Dade County prosecutor David Ranck, a Domino’s pizza accomplished what courtroom outbursts and a whistle-blower lawsuit against his own boss could not: It got him temporarily thrown off the job,” the story says.
Hat tip to Above the Law.
Updated at 4:52 p.m. to include the reference to Justice Building Blog.
