On a hot summer day in June 2024, ex-Goodyear police officer Justin Gaspar decided to give a suspect a taste of his own medicine. The man ended up in the hospital.
Amid one of Phoenix’s hottest summers on record, Gaspar came across an arguing couple whose children had been locked in the car for 15 minutes, even though the temperature reportedly reached about 110 degrees inside the vehicle. Gaspar arrested the father for endangerment after the man refused to provide his keys to let his 4- and 9-year-old children out of the car.
After the arrest, the man’s children were transferred to Phoenix Children’s Hospital. As for the father, Gaspar had another treatment in mind…