Police Need Help Finding Police Officers Son WANTED for Beating Homeless Man


Justin Collison, 21, surrendered to authorities this afternoon Jan. 03, 2011. The police chief in Sanford, Florida, was ousted Monday following questions about how investigators handled accusations that a police lieutenant’s son punched a homeless man in December. City Manager Tom George said that he had moved up Chief Brian Tooley’s planned retirement date to Monday. “The public’s trust and confidence in the City of Sanford’s Police Department has been brought into question most recently as the result of incidents which occurred in early December that included an attack on a Sanford resident and several fights involving the son of a Sanford police officer,” George said in a statement. SANFORD FLORIDA– The son of a Sanford police officer wanted for the beating of a homeless man caught on tape, remains a free man Saturday despite a warrant out for his arrest. Investigators said they expected Justin Collison to turn himself in after a warrant was issued on Thursday, but so far that hasn’t happened yet. The video was taken Dec. 4, 2010 outside a Sanford Bar. Police said it shows the officer’s son ambushing a homeless man and another man trying to break up the fight. Collison was not arrested that night. Sanford Police Chief Brian Tooley said that was the wrong decision. “I think some decisions were made that night that were not perhaps the best decisions and were not perhaps in keeping with our department policy,” Tooley said. The victim, Sherman Ware, declined to make a