Porno shoots at local fire station
By:Valerie Boey
Tampa, Florida - Tampa’s fire chief fired a high ranking captain and suspended four other firefighters, for allowing pornographic shoots to take place at a local fire station.
Captain Al Suarez was terminated. Firefighters Stephen Johnson, Michael Layton, Michael Campbell and Michael Berwald were suspended for various days from two weeks to one month.
It all started on December of 2004. That’s when the main fire station received an anonymous call saying, some kids were playing in the parking lot of fire station #13. They saw flashing lights and looked in the station window and saw a nude woman in the bay area. Men were taking pictures of her.
While investigators can’t prove that incident happened, they went to a pornographic website. It was there, that they read about a woman named Heather, who talked about taking pictures with a fire truck in Tampa.
With the help of FDLE and Tampa Police, other photographs were obtained and investigators were able to identify Tampa’s fire truck at station #21.
Tampa Fire Rescue interviewed all employees on duty at that time. All of them denied knowing anything occurred. Four people then recanted their testimony. They said Captain Suarez pressured them not to say anything.
According to investigators, Suarez had hired the two women for a bachelor party he threw last year at his home. The women are employed by a strip club called the Doll House.
The firefighters have 10-days to appeal.
Valerie Boey, Tampa Bay's 10 News
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