{"id":118574,"date":"2020-11-24T00:33:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/violent-rikers-inmate-took-physician-hostage-for-3-hours-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T00:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:33:42","slug":"violent-rikers-inmate-took-physician-hostage-for-3-hours-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/violent-rikers-inmate-took-physician-hostage-for-3-hours-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"#Violent Rikers inmate took physician hostage for 3 hours: lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Violent Rikers inmate took physician hostage for 3 hours: lawsuit<\/strong>”
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\n A violent Rikers Island inmate awaiting trial for murder kidnapp<\/a>ed and held hostage a physician\u2019s assistant for three hours, threatening to \u201cchew his face off,\u201d according to a new Manhattan federal lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Jorge Villalobos, a 30-year veteran of the notorious Queens jail\u2019s medical clinic, filed the suit Thursday against the city, correction officers and the warden for putting him in the terrifying predicament by allegedly failing to observe basic safety protocols then waiting hours to call for assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Villalobos was held hostage in a locked room, while inmate Rodriguez threatened to kill, assault, bite, \u2018chew his face off,\u2019\u00a0 smash his head in, and otherwise injure him,\u201d attorney Jaehyun Oh wrote in the complaint.<\/p>\n

Villalobos was working at the jail\u2019s clinic Sept. 24, 2019, when he treated Peter Rodriguez, who is charged with stabbing his roommate to death over rent money.<\/p>\n

Despite Rodriguez\u2019s known violent propensities, including allegedly putting a physician in a headlock and sucker-punching another clinic staffer, the correction officers left Villalobos alone with the prisoner who was \u201conly front-cuffed and not chained or shackled,\u201d the suit alleges \u2014 referring to Rodriguez having only bound wrists.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez followed Villalobos, then 58,\u00a0 into a nursing station at about 12 p.m., asked for a glass of water then locked the door behind them.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the two captains assigned to mind Rodriguez were chatting in the examination room and hadn\u2019t noticed that their charge had vanished until \u201cMr. Villalobos started banging on the plexiglass window\u201d of the nursing station for help, the papers say.<\/p>\n

Several DOC officers rushed to the nursing station at about 1 p.m. and unsuccessfully tried to persuade Rodriguez to open the door.<\/p>\n

During the standoff, Rodriguez repeatedly threatened Villalobos with an oxygen tank and asked where the scalpels were stored.<\/p>\n

At one point Rodriguez allegedly told the correction staffers negotiating with him, \u201cI\u2019m going to fuck this n\u2014a up if you don\u2019t give me what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then lifted a tank and said \u201cI\u2019m going to smash this n\u2014a up, it\u2019s going to be on you\u2026I\u2019m going to f\u2013k this guy up\u2026I don\u2019t care if I kill him,\u201d court papers say.<\/p>\n

The physician\u2019s assistant thought he was about to die, the complaint states.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Villalobos kept reciting Hail Marys, asking protection from God and then asking to die quickly,\u201d according to the court filing.<\/p>\n

At 2 p.m. the facility\u2019s warden arrived but was \u201cacting in a nonchalant manner, with her hands in her pockets\u201d as she peered through the nursing station\u2019s plexiglass window then left, the suit says.<\/p>\n

The Emergency Services Unit was finally called in at 3 p.m. and resolved the situation in minutes. They told Rodriguez if he didn\u2019t open the door in 30 seconds, they would bring the door down and he complied.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Villalobos\u2019 entire body was shaking,\u201d the suit says. \u201cHe was unable to speak and short of breath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Villalobos charges that correction personnel \u201crefused to seek\u201d the assistance of emergency services for three hours for fear the incident would be made public. This prolonged the hostage situation and the psychiatric harm to Villalobos, the suit says.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Villalobos suffers from debilitating posttraumatic stress disorder\u201d that has required extensive therapy and has left him too scared to shower with the door closed, the filing states.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the city\u2019s Law Department said it would \u201creview this case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Correction didn\u2019t immedia<\/a>tely return a request for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Violent Rikers inmate took physician hostage for 3 hours: lawsuit” A violent Rikers Island inmate awaiting trial for murder kidnapped and held hostage a physician\u2019s assistant for three hours, threatening to \u201cchew his face off,\u201d according to a new Manhattan federal lawsuit. Jorge Villalobos, a 30-year veteran of the notorious Queens jail\u2019s medical clinic, filed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/rikers-medic-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[81100,75242,73110,72512,70446,75706],"class_list":["post-118574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-23-20","tag-hostages","tag-inmates","tag-kidnappings","tag-lawsuits","tag-rikers-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}