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Jupiter Police Arrest Snafu: Town Offers $50,000!

Posted by , May 31, 2012 Print

The home-theater installer who faced 30 years in jail after a 2007 fight with an off-duty Jupiter cop then saw the criminal case against him mysteriously dropped has been offered $50,000 by the town for his pain and suffering, Gossip Extra has learned.

Greg Holzer, with wife Mariana and baby Andrew, offered $50,000 after police snafu

Greg Holzer, with wife Marianna and baby Andrew

Greg Holzer, who claims he was assaulted by a drunk then-Sgt. Reggie Scurry in Abacoa, says he is not happy about yesterday’s tentative settlement in mediation with the town’s administration. He filed a negligence lawsuit in 2011.

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“The cops looked out for each other even though they knew they shouldn’t have arrested me,” Holzer said. “It was a fight. We both were bleeding. But I’m the one who could have gone to prison for 30 years. I deserve at least $500,000!”

Holzer says he hasn’t rejected the offer yet, five years after he encountered the off-duty Scurry in a parking lot early one morning.

Words, and possibly a racial slur, were exchanged and former Jupiter High School football star Scurry jumped him, Holzer said. When Jupiter Police responded to what had turned out to be a free-for-all, Scurry got to go home without as much as a reprimand after refusing to tell his supervisors what happened.

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Holzer, now 32, went home, too.

But within weeks, was charged with felony assault as a hate crime: Scurry was one of a few black policemen in Jupiter!

As reporters started asking questions about the arrest that year, Jupiter Police announced the charge against Holzer would be dropped.

Internal Affairs tried to discipline Scurry, but Chief Frank Kitzerow threw out the rat squad’s findings and promoted Scurry to captain.

Scurry was eventually fired last year after allegedly lying about a domestic violence incident.

“The only satisfaction I’ve had is that Scurry is no longer a cop,” Holzer says. “But I’ll never forget what happened. I’ve got a carrying permit since then, and if there’s a next time, I’ll shoot. That would cause me less of a hassle in this state.”

Town Spokeswoman Kate Moretto confirmed that a $50,000-settlement was reached but had yet to be executed.

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4 Comments

  1. onewhoknows, 11 months ago Reply

    The article left out the following;

    1- Not until Greg was arrested was he EVER told that Scurry was a LEO, nor did Scurry ever ID himself as such during the incident.

    2- After evading depositions for months on end by Greg’s atty, did depositions get scheduled, the State dropped its case BEFORE the depositions were taken.

    3- That night Greg was forced to sign a waiver of pressing charges against Scurry, they told him Scurry had already signed one himself, and that if he didn’t also sign, they’d have to take him to jail. So iows he was conned out of his rights from the very start.

    4- John Banister, the PEOPLE’S HERO, was quoted as saying that that night Scurry told him the fight was his OWN fault. And John then quit over the coverup, among other Jupiter PD crimes.

    5- That the State would so easily and maliciously ruin a person’s life to save one of their reprehensible own, is beyond the pale, and we must end this burgeoning police state before we end up like 30′s Jews in Germany asking, “how did we let this happen, we thought this could never happen here”.

  2. onewhoknows, 11 months ago Reply

    BTW, after repaying his original defense bills, and bail ($5K alone), then his current atty will take his own fees and expenses, Greg will NET a measly $7K of the $50K award, should he sign the dotted line, for the raping of his civil rights by JPD and the State of FL.

    A meat grinding money machine eh?

  3. A 1911 SHOOTER, 11 months ago Reply

    I live in Jupiter, since when do we have black cops ? we don’t even have any black residents, at least not in my part of Jupiter.

    That cop I am sure will have a fine career down at Rivera beach PD if he wants. 80% of that dept has been arrested at one time or another.

  4. steve, 1 month ago Reply

    Is it my imagination or is that a real ugly baby?


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