> Deputy in wheelchair case turns herself in
> Woman seen in videotape dumping paralyzed man onto floor
>
> updated 1 hour, 27 minutes ago
>
> TAMPA, Fla. - A Florida sheriff's deputy who was videotaped dumping a
> paralyzed man out of his wheelchair onto a jailhouse floor has turned
> herself in.
>
> Jail records show Charlette Marshall-Jones was booked into the Orient
> Road Jail early this morning.
>
> It is the same jail where Marshall-Jones worked. She is accused of
> tipping 32-year-old Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching
> him on the floor. He had been brought in on a charge of fleeing and
> attempting to elude a police officer after a traffic violation.
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> "It can happen to anybody at any time," said the man in the wheelchair,
> Brian Sterner. He spoke with TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira in New York
> earlier this week. "Hopefully, that's what will come out of this, that
> this negative way of dealing with life and people will change."
>
> The incident, captured on surveillance video and viewed by thousands on
> the Internet, occurred on Jan. 29 when Sterner was being booked in the
> county jail.
>
> The incident came to light only in the past week when Sterner, still
> angry at the treatment he received, called a Tampa television reporter,
> who obtained the tape and broke the story.
>
> The Hillsborough County deputy has been charged with one count of felony
> abuse of a disabled person. She was released after posting $3,500 bail.
> An attorney for Marshall-Jones listed in jail records did not
> immediately return a phone message.
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