Doc removes bullet from fugative and keeps it. Why?

By at 17 July, 2009, 7:15 am

Dr. David J. Ciesla is an associate professor of surgery at the University of South Florida and is also the head of trauma at Tampa General Hospital. Big time jobs. On April 21, Dr.Ciesla operated on Thomas McCoy, a fugitive wanted in connection with a homicide in DeFuniak Springs. McCoy was shot twice after he fired at the marshals trying to take him into custody, reports the St. Petersburg Times . Ciesla removed one of the bullets during surgery and concealed it under his rubber glove. Ciesla then told the two agents who had waited for the evidence that the bullets could not be

removed from McCoy due to their location in his body. “He’s a doctor, so we take that to be the truth,” Bob Ura, special agent supervisor in Tampa for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. But two surgeons in training were in the operating room. One of them reported Ciesla’s action to supervisors. Why did he steal the bullet and risk his reputation and job? Authorities said the doctor wanted it as a souvenir. Such a trauma drama doc. Photo: St. Petersburg Times More FloriDUH

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Doc removes bullet from fugative and keeps it. Why?

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