Entertainment staffer won’t be prosecuted in Halloween incident at square

An Entertainment Department staffer will not be prosecuted in connection with a Halloween incident at Brownwood Paddock Square.

The prosecutor’s office issued an announcement earlier this month that the evidence against 43-year-old Brian Joseph Mullany of Ocala is “legally insufficient” to prove his guilt. He had faced two counts of battery.

Mullany, who stands 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 250 pounds, was wearing a white-and-black clown costume and working as a “scare actor” in a haunted house at about 7 p.m. Oct. 23, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department.

A girl who had been in the haunted house told police that she had been shoved by Mullany, who has been working the haunted house for The Villages Entertainment for four years…

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