Demoted Belle Glade deputy brags on Facebook about beating: 'I know the areas that hide the marks well'
Starring Brent Raban
By MICHAEL LaFORGIA
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sgt. Brent Raban wore a badge and carried a gun issued by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, but he didn't think of himself as a crime fighter.
Instead, the seven-year sheriff's office veteran considered himself a punisher on the mean streets of Belle Glade, and he bragged in Internet postings about his prowess in battering the people he arrested, according to an internal investigation released Monday.
Together with two subordinates, Deputies Gregory Lynch and Michael Woodside, Raban would work the streets of the county's western communities, sometimes sporting a camouflage skullcap emblazoned with the word "PUNISHMENT," the investigation determined.
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